Results 161-180 of 1,335 for cork speaker:Thomas Gould

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (31 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 171. To ask the Minister for Health when the Westfield Integrated Care Centre in Ballincollig County Cork will be operational. [4461/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Functions (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last night we saw an initiative in Cork City Council called the clean air night. While it is a good idea and perhaps a good initiative in getting people aware about reducing air pollution, there are only three air quality monitors on the northside of Cork, in Montenotte, Mallow and Gurranabraher. There are six on the southside. I do not think six are enough on the southside, but certainly...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last year, 88 families and 166 children entered emergency accommodation in Cork city. In April, after the Government cruelly lifted the eviction ban, 32 children were forced to leave their homes and to sleep in a hotel, almost double the number in March. Cork city Accommodation Placement Service saw a 26% increase in the number of presentations, and a total of 938 individuals. It saw a 49%...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last February, it was confirmed to me by the Minister with responsibility for housing that Cork City Council was considering a regeneration park for the Tarry Path in Mayfield. In December, it was confirmed to me that there has been no update on this. The Mayfield area is in desperate need of regeneration. We have heard today about the impact on people of mould and damp in Oliver Bond...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric emergency beds currently available in Cork; and the number that will be available after facilities have moved to CUH. [2892/24]

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: On the LDA website, it announced that the first homes on the St. Kevin's Hospital site in Cork would be available in 2023. The latest update we got last year was that the first homes would now not be available until 2025. This is a two-year delay in one of the LDA's flagship projects. What has caused this delay and will the homes be delivered in 2025?

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: ...is being done on it now. There were at least three major fires there. It will probably cost tens of thousands of euro to do work that should have been done at the time. Between the Government, Cork City Council and the HSE, it was a wanton disgrace that the building was left the way it was and that it collapsed. Now the LDA is picking up the pieces. When the site is delivered, how...

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: We see new housing developments in Cork. There is one on the Old Mallow Road but there is no bus service. We are talking about global warming and climate change but we are building housing estates where families will be forced to have multiple cars. That is why I am really anxious to have sustainable transport corridors and services at the St. Kevin's site. My other point is on the...

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: .... It should be purchased with a compulsory purchase order, CPO, and turned into social and affordable or cost-rental housing. I ask the LDA to look at it. I will return to the docklands in Cork that we discussed earlier. One of the main components needed to open the docklands is the Tivoli bridge. The Tivoli docks site does not seem to be progressing. Mr. Coleman spoke about...

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: ...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 course was oversubscribed, there had to be a lottery and she did not make it. The problem...

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

Thomas Gould: ...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. These are the facts, because...

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]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Not down in Cork.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: We need a date. I do not think it is unreasonable to look for a date for when we will have clean drinking water in Cork.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...complaints about dirty, discoloured water. Before Christmas I put out a call asking people to contact me or my office if they have issues with discoloured and dirty water. Hundreds of people in Cork contacted me to say that they have had discoloured and dirty water for months, on and off. Before Christmas I met with Uisce Éireann. I was disappointed that no Government Deputy was...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...funds. We are pro-people. We are pro-ordinary workers and families. What is the Green Party and Fianna Fáil doing while Fine Gael is doing this to ordinary people? I was contacted by a lady in Cork. She wanted to get the new vacant home grant that we hear so much about. Four months she was waiting to get a surveyor to come in because the Government has not given Cork City...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Just before Christmas, I had a meeting with Bus Éireann in Cork to discuss major problems there with the bus service. People have been contacting me about buses being late, delayed or not turning up, and there are major problems with the app not being accurate and people waiting at bus stops. I have been contacted by a bus driver who has given us proof that last week, 14 bus services...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: How can we get them out of their cars if they cannot get a bus? The last point I will make is to ask whether the Minister will provide funding to Bus Éireann in Cork to take on additional drivers, because otherwise this service will be a laughing stock.