Thomas Gould

A lady contacted me today. She finished work in Cork University Hospital last Friday evening and was waiting in town for the 203 bus. She stood there for an hour before the bus turned up. Two buses were on the app. They never turned up. By the time the bus turned up, over 100 people were waiting to get on at the bus stop. She said trying to get on the bus was like a stampede. Imagine what it is li…

I would advise the Minister of State to go back to the Department now and find out whoever wrote that speech for him because that speech was not worth the paper it was written on. I got all the same excuses and the same promises last year. Here we are now and the Minister of State is being rolled in here to read out the same old claptrap again while the people of Cork cannot get a bus. The Minist…

It is your job. It is your job to make sure people can get to work in the morning. I was contacted by a woman. I am asking you now, as Minister of State-----

-----to go to my Facebook page with the Department of Transport and look at the messages that were left there. A girl was waiting an hour and a half to get a bus home from college on her own.

Is it right that in the pitch black of night girls and women are being left on their own?

It is not good enough and that response was shocking.

Will you meet with Bus Éireann?

Will you meet with them?

You said they are meeting every week. I am saying will you meet with Bus Éireann?

But you are telling me they are meeting. Will you meet with them?

No, but it is all right for people to stand in the cold and the rain-----

-----because you will not take a lesson from me. Is that it?

I know the people of Cork have no bus service. That is what I know.

The people of Cork cannot get a bus.

That is what I know.

How come Fine Gael is not running candidates in the Six Counties?

Why does Fine Gael not run a candidate up there?

Fine Gael could not find it on a map.

Fine Gael is not even up there.

The saying goes "The axe forgets; the tree remembers". We are a colonised people. We understand the hardship, the suffering, the genocide, the starvation and the cruelty of occupying forces. Greta Thunberg said recently: "I’m not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity ...". What an unbelievable young woman that she and others have to lead the way whil…

You went into Government with them.

Child poverty has doubled.

I want to express my sincere condolences to the family of Harvey Morrison Sherratt. While he was failed by this State, he was very lucky to have such loving, strong parents, Gillian and Stephen, who fought and did everything they could to get him the treatment he needed. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late, but they continue to fight for all children like Harvey. Before coming to the House…

You would think he would turn up then.

Where is he gone?