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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to alleviate the crisis of prisoner overcrowding for prisoners and staff where there has been a substantial increase in the prison population in all prisons countrywide, and in view of the plans for Thornton Hall to be used for IPAS, which was originally intended as a site for a new prison; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of male and female prisoners in each prison; the number of prison rooms per each prison; and the number occupying each prison room in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [23344/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Two months ago, the Government disastrously lost two referendums. It spent €23 million to run the referendums. At the time, we in Aontú, the only party that opposed the referendums, stated clearly that the Government was misleading the people in respect of the tax elements that would affect the people, what was meant by durable relationships and how the courts would see it, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If anybody has a thesaurus I can use that will give the understanding that the Government did not tell the truth, I will use a different word, if necessary. It is important that the Government takes responsibility, investigates why Ministers were misleading the people and comes clean and apologies to the people of Ireland for the information it shared at that key moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: They were advised in one way and gave advice in the other direction.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not the case all the time. I have heard the Minister say the opposite at times.

Education (Smartphones in Primary Schools) Bill 2024: First Stage (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to promote the welfare and education of children by prohibiting use of smartphones by students in primary schools; and to provide for related matters. I am delighted to introduce the Education (Smartphones in Primary Schools) Bill 2024. This Bill is key to child protection. Powerful technology has been developed in...

Education (Smartphones in Primary Schools) Bill 2024: First Stage (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Will you not be in it?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of operations conducted under Operation Sonnet from 2023 to date; the number people sent back across the Border; the number of personnel working in the GNIB that have been involved in these operations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23126/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the sentences that has been repeated to me a lot over the past week is that the Government seems not to understand that there is a country outside of the Dublin area. There is a real divide in this country. It is really important to recognise the economic situation, especially in the midlands and north west, which is now a lagging area with lower incomes than the European average....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the main problems with the migration issue is the chaos of the Government’s approach to it. The Government does not know what is happening. The answers to many of my parliamentary questions show that the Minister for Justice either did not know the information, was not asking the questions or could not extract the information from the data. We are spending a great deal of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the 1,000 deportation orders?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have given the Taoiseach the details.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that have been purchased in each local authority where tenants had received a notice to quit in each year. [22470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that have been purchased with the use of a local authority home loan in each local authority in each year. [22471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the core targets for each local authority in terms of house building; and the number that have been built in each local authority to date. [22472/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason core targets for house building are being enforced as caps. [22483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that applied for asylum in each of the past ten years who gained entry to the country by way of a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa. [22463/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that applied for a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa for each of the past ten years; and the breakdown of the top 15 countries in each cohort. [22464/24]