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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: On the last day of the Dáil, many around the country will look to mark the Government's report card, so let us have a look at it. The attendance record has been atrocious so far. It is 230 days since the general election and the Government has turned up to the Dáil for 59 of those. That is 75% of the time that has elapsed since the election in which the Government has not come to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: According to a reply I received today to a parliamentary question,-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----707 prisoners were unlawfully away from prison last year and there were still 131 missing from the prison system at the end of the year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it not the case that, in the last seven months, the Government has been floundering?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: No, it is not just increased reporting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The increase in domestic violence statistics are not down to increased reporting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: They are down to increased domestic violence. To hide that fact is actually dangerous as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Let us talk about the health service, which the Tánaiste mentioned. Billions of euros have been poured into the HSE and we are getting less and less in return. The national children's hospital, which the Tánaiste signed for, is still mired in cost overruns and delays. There have been 500,000 adverse incidents in hospitals just in the last five years and 3,142 people died as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----and are hardwired to increase for the next five years. The Government is hurting people at the moment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There has never been a Government with as much access to cash, but there has never been a Government that has done so little with it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This is too serious.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot believe the Tánaiste spent any time on that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government cannot agree either.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the chairperson of an organisation (details supplied) will meet with another organisation to explain the reason current costings, for example, beef price and meal price, are not being applied to algorithms determining breeding recommendations and also changing breeding bull star ratings. [40213/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 525. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours being charged to the HSE by an organisation (details supplied); the number of hours actually delivered to clients on an weekly basis; the reason the organisation is funded by disability services in CHO9 only; the total funding from the state to the organisation on an annual basis. [40266/25]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact that the Minister is looking to tie financial support for the HSE to its performance. It is something that I have made an argument for over the past number of years. I firmly believe that we need to reach a situation where the HSE is paid for the work it does for patients and the benefits it brings to patients. We would probably go further than this and tie funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently with the scope section of the Department; and the number of these appeals that have run over one year. [39778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals with the scope section of the Department with regard to State and semi-State body pensions; the average time they are ongoing; and the longest ongoing appeal. [39779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently with the scope section of the Department with regards to a dispute over the modified rate of insurance governed by either paragraph 81, 82, 83 or 84 of S.I No. 312 of 1996, Social Welfare (Consolidated Contributions and Insurability) Regulations, 1996. [39780/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners that have been unlawfully at large from prison in each of the past ten years. [39839/25]