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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Would it be less if it was a terraced house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have a few other questions. I will not spend too long on that because I am caught for time. Mr. Coleman mentioned earlier that there is a property next to the former St. Kevin's Asylum development called Atkins Hall, half of which was developed privately and the other half of which was not developed. Did the LDA consider bringing that in as part of the development of the St. Kevin's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I would make the point, that was the old mental hospital building. One half of it is kitted out and people are living there. The building is there for the other half. St. Kevin's is right beside it. When you look at the scale and the cost of developing a site, the LDA should consider looking at that site. That site is on the derelict sites register. It should be purchased with a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: These are the facts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Government has not built houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: We will build houses.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The question referenced the expansion of apprenticeship places. I ask the Minister, and I have already asked for this, for a purpose-built apprentice centre in Cork under the heading of either Munster Technological University or the ETB. The northside would be the ideal location for that. We need multiple campuses. I once again ask the Minister to look at that. It is an area that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister made a point about people who might not get the points and who might go through a different avenue. I dealt with a case this year of a girl who went through Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa and got the maximum results there. The problem was about getting into University College Cork, UCC, to become part of the physical education, PE, programme and become a PE teacher. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister quoted figures on people taking up apprenticeships and stated it was a high number. I will give the Minister a figure that was recently released to me. There are only 83 apprentices who are at phase 7 in Cork. There are 14 electricians and 16 plumbers. Cork needs 39,105 houses by 2028 but there will be 16 plumbers and 14 electricians, if that is what we are turning out....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: No, Minister. These are parliamentary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: You cannot stand there now. These are parliamentary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: In phase 7 there are only 83 people.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is the final phase.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will send on my response to you so you can have it as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: There is no incentive there. Obviously, you do not-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is because hundreds of thousands went away after the financial crash. The Minister is including those people.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 18. To ask the Minister for Health the current deficit in addiction rehabilitation, detox and step-down beds. [2024/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 22. To ask the Minister for Health for a timeline for the delivery of primary care centres in Blarney, Mayfield and Glanmire. [2025/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether consideration has been given to a purpose built apprenticeship centre on the northside of Cork city. [2023/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether he is aware that there are only 83 apprentices in final phase in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2022/24]