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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: 533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth why subsistence payments have not been paid to registered intellectual disability nurses in Cork through the Cope Foundation. [10515/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: Great stuff, I thank Ms Hayes. In relation to Cork City Council, how many people utilising emergency accommodation in Cork city last year passed away?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I appreciate that, Chair. Going back to Cork City Council, and the Dublin Region Homeless Executive might respond, how many tenants were refused in 2023 by Cork City Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: There was a facility in Cork specifically for survivors of institutional abuse. Unfortunately, that is also being used now to accommodate people in emergency accommodation. That was specifically for people who were victims of institutional abuse. Is it possible that that would be returned to that category of person? Does the Dublin Region Homeless Executive have a similar facility or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I want to go back to Cork City Council and the DRHE with regard to people in recovery. I am concerned that issues in the past prevent from accessing emergency accommodation people who come out of treatment and are in recovery. Is this something the witnesses are looking at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank Ms O’Brien. Mr. Ó Donnabháin mentioned there were 103 homeless families in the Cork and Kerry region, with 55 of them in Cork. This means there are 48 homeless families in Kerry. Is this correct? Are all of the homeless families in Cork included in the 55?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: There are 48 between Cork county and Kerry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...pupils who are very good in school but whom they have seen go backwards because their families have entered emergency accommodation. One of the teachers asked me what is being done and whether Cork City Council is looking to keep families as close to their communities and schools as possible. Whether it is schools, GAA clubs or soccer clubs, children are suffering from anxiety,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: How many does Cork City Council have available now? Is there a figure it tries to get each month?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I want to go back to the repair and lease scheme. It has gone from €60,000 to €80,000. The numbers in Cork are quite small. Is this because it is more expensive in Cork to repair and lease these properties? Excellent work was done in Waterford and the people there should be commended on it. Why has this not been done in Cork? Is it because Cork is more expensive? What is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have a question on Dublin Region Homeless Executive, the work it does and how it is co-ordinated. I would love to see co-ordination like that in Munster, with Cork as the lead, perhaps, and Limerick and Waterford and all the other counties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...has really come to the fore now. The witnesses' statistics really show that. I refer to the one-parent family. Like the witnesses, I have serious concerns, which I raised earlier with the DRHE, Cork City Council and the Department. People are now coming to me. Two primary school teachers in Cork contacted me to say they are seriously worried about children who had been doing very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...homeless. While it is great there is emergency accommodation where families can be put, he said the trauma affecting children going into it, including anxiety and depression, is just shocking. Cork Simon does great work. I commend all the groups on their work, but there is an amount of homelessness in Cork. A point was made regarding the number of people using Cork Simon Community's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have a few questions for the representatives of Cork Simon Community. Its opening statement referred to the fact that, tragically, 17 people died in emergency accommodation last year in Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank Dr. Kavanagh for that response. Representatives of Cork City Council earlier gave a figure of eight people who tragically died in emergency accommodation. Are these eight people represented in the 17 people referred to by Cork Simon or are these an additional eight deaths?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is what I was leading into. On the figures, do we know how many people died last year in Cork city either in emergency accommodation or in accommodation that Cork Simon was providing? Cork Simon Community said the figure was 17 people, while Cork City Council said it was eight. I know there is probably a crossover in the figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: There is a stark figure of 15 people now sleeping rough every night in Cork city. This increased from six the previous year. What has happened? What has gone wrong that there has been such a dramatic increase in rough sleepers in Cork city?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: Cork City has an outreach worker going out at night. Cork Simon Community probably also has outreach workers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: I know people will not use Cork Simon Community's night light service, even though it is a brilliant one, because women and people in recovery feel vulnerable. They feel they are going into situations that might trigger them and lead them back into addiction. There is a huge need for more accommodation for women and families but also for people in recovery. People are telling me that it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (29 Feb 2024)

Thomas Gould: 72. To ask the Minister for Health the current stage of the elective hospital in Cork. [9636/24]