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Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. I understand that the Bill addresses many of the issues that extend beyond addiction and these have been well addressed by Deputy Daly. As the Sinn Féin spokesman on addiction, recovery and well-being, I feel it is vitally important to speak for those in the sector who are actively experiencing the harmful impacts of addiction -...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Right now, my wife is in a primary care centre and she cannot get an appointment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Right now she is there. She is on to me now. She is in a primary care in Gurranabraher and she cannot get an appointment for our sick child.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: So do not tell me about it. She is up there now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Talking about primary care centres. I have a sick child at home and cannot get a GP appointment and you tell me about primary care.

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

Thomas Gould: I would like to come in on my Question No. 104

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

Thomas Gould: I will take the 60 seconds, if you do not mind.

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

Thomas Gould: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role his Department takes in monitoring air quality [3382/24]

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...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will just finish with this. Some 25,000 people have been murdered. If that is not genocide, what is? I implore the Taoiseach, from my heart, to please lead this Government and the Irish people. We will support him if he stands up in respect of this matter.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Just over two minutes is not enough time to do justice to the need to discuss the atrocities taking place in Palestine. As children wake up without parents, mothers lose their entire families and worlds, and communities get wiped out, this Government has an important role to play. Israel is creating an entire generation of parentless children and childless parents. It is not killing its...

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...

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....