Results 1-20 of 63 for going forward speaker:Peadar Tóibín

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

Peadar Tóibín: ...is an incredible situation. There are 60,000 people on local authority waiting lists in the State. Eurostat has found that there has been a 100% increase in rents since Fine Gael was elected to government in 2011. House prices are out of reach for all but the wealthiest in society. It was reported today that the combined earnings of a nurse and a garda would not buy a three-bedroom...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...people into this Chamber and to debate them respectfully. People want a properly managed system of migration in Ireland. They also want a sustainable system. Unfortunately, that is not what is happening so I am going to focus my debate on the Government's actions regarding migration policy. First, there is little or no consultation within local communities and we have raised this over...

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I know of codes and I know of guidelines that are going to be produced. The Minister made the point that this Bill will not tackle the whole problem of pornography being pushed to children. If we cannot fix all of it, we will fix none of it. That seems to be the instinct here but that is rubbish. To be honest, Deputies and governments can only make marginal changes to society but those...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...are being forced into emergency accommodation, with all of the negative aspects that entails. For a youngster growing up in emergency accommodation, their whole ability to socialise and study, for good nutrition and all those elements of their life are radically restricted by the housing crisis. It is leading to hundreds of thousands of people being in housing distress, either having...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Maths Paper 1, with one school principal complaining in the "strongest terms" about the difficulty level of the paper; if she will address this issue and if she has a plan for these students going forward (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34136/23]

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...of a functional democracy is the competition of ideas. People can challenge and debate issues respectfully without fear or favour. The best ideas are then selected as solutions to problems and as the way forward. However if debate is shut down, censored and a chilling effect is created, the competition of ideas is prevented. In fact, the debate is pushed below ground. People who have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Leo the slowcoach, but Leo the slowcoach is well known in County Meath. People in Meath have been waiting for more than 20 years for a rail line to be built. More workers, left Meath today to go to work than stayed in the county, and that happens in no other county. Meath people travel longer and farther distances than people in any other county. They are in a commuter hell. We have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This week the Government received advice from the Attorney General. Let us be clear: litigation by the Government against vulnerable people is a political choice. The Government also has a responsibility to do right by citizens. The truth of the matter is that, right now, most people, when in battle with the State, have to fight tooth and nail for justice, and many have to fight right up...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: .... Luke Silke, who hails from Tuam and who has put a lot of work into drafting these amendments that seek to write the wrongs and injustices that are clear in this legislation. I sincerely hope the Government and Minister will listen to the debate and that he meant what he said when he told me he would listen to and take into consideration what we have to say. An amendment pertaining...

Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the representatives of the dentists to the Gallery to listen to the debate. It is frustrating to hear the response of the Government to what has been put forward by the Opposition. For years the dental sector in this country has been on the brink of collapse. We know it is at breaking point across the country, which is staggering, given the importance of dental care to so many...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...that each decade that has passed since then, we have seen a repeat of such cases. Survivors of what happened in Blackrock and Spiritans schools have displayed enormous courage in coming forward and shedding light on these horrendous crimes. I give the solidarity and support of my party to those survivors and I pay tribute to them for coming forward. It is a fact that the effects of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill and the UK Government's Plans around the Human Rights Act: Amnesty International UK (10 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...case in the European Court of Human Rights if this legislation progresses fully through the British Houses of Parliament. If we take an action like that today and if that leads to the Minister going on the public record that this is what the Minister will do, that would be a positive step forward for the cases of all of these families. Many of the questions have been discussed and...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Many people have indicated to me that it is similar to having a brain injury in terms of loss of cognition, chronic fatigue, heart palpitations and other cardiac issues. People are unable to work and go about their daily lives. Memory is severely affected. It also leads to depression as people try to deal with the illness. As the Minister of State is aware, it is estimated that up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is possible that those in the two tiers could have a different experience going forward. Mr. Barnes mentioned that there is positive feedback between the foreign direct investment sector and indigenous sector. It is possible that the indigenous sector could suffer while the overall picture would be better. I have a number of questions to finish on. We hear in political discourse that...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...for rent in towns and cities in this State are for short-term rent by tourists. We have an incredibly ludicrous situation whereby families are staying in hotels and tourists are staying in homes. Aontú brought forward a Bill that would ban short-term rents in towns and cities of populations of more than 10,000 people. Again, however, the Government refuses to act in respect of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Is deas an rud é an Taoiseach a fheiceáil iomlán folláin. Guím gach rath ar cheannaire nua an Lucht Oibre freisin. It is hard to remember any time since the Good Friday Agreement when the political infrastructure in the North of Ireland was in such chaos. In the North today, there are 44,000 people on housing waiting lists and 250,000 people have been on health...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...institutions as one and the same. Therefore, we should be talking about 850 babies, not 800. Nobody seems to know where those 50-plus babies who died in Glenamaddy are buried. This is something the Government must also look into. I want to mention Kate Lynskey and Christopher King in particular who died 100 years ago this month in the Glenamaddy mother and baby home. Kate was ten...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...and businesses. Inflation is another issue. Approximately €3 billion in business taxes is being warehoused as businesses have not been able to pay them. That cohort of businesses is in a precarious situation going forward. How will they be helped?

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...do not know if any other political party has mentioned the fact that these two issues are significantly related. We now have the Taoiseach's comments and the Tánaiste, who was on Newstalk this morning, said he will go to the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, to discuss whether to extend the restrictions. I was told, and it was reported in the media, that NPHET was going...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: In fairness, this is related to small businesses, which are at the heart of this crisis and the target of much of what is in this Bill, if the truth be told. There has to be a solution brought forward. That solution has to follow what the likes of Denmark and Finland did in their countries. They looked at the science, made decisions and have opened up safely for more than two months now. ...