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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: There is an alarming increase in the number of small businesses being forced to close. The owners of these businesses, who have invested blood, sweat and tears to make them function, are being hammered with massive costs. In fact, we have a two-tier economy. We have a very strong foreign direct investment sector but a comparatively weak indigenous business sector. The businesses to which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [55422/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The fishing industry was mentioned. It has been brought to my attention that the Minister for agriculture was offered a quota from the Danes of 3,000 tonnes of fish, but the Minister seems to have done the reverse of the loaves and fishes miracle and returned to Ireland with 1,500 tonnes of fish. It seems that the Minister is also in negotiations with Iceland about allowing its fishing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Tara Mines is the biggest lead and zinc mine in Europe. It is one of the largest employers in Meath and its closure has been one of the biggest economic blows to the east midlands area for a long period of time. A key element of the closure was the fact that electricity prices in this country are the highest in Europe. Tara Mines management has given a plan to workers. That plan is a race...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: We need to have a discussion about the Government's mismanagement of immigration policy. The absence of resources when it comes to accommodation is startling at the moment. The Government promised 700 rapid-build units back in June 2022. The majority of those have not been built. The Minister promised a community dividend of €53 million, but only €3 million has actually been...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 89. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of times members of the Defence Forces have been involved in drug seizures or intercepting vessels containing drugs in each of the past ten years. [2781/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors or separated children currently seeking asylum in the State; and the types of care settings they are in, that is foster care, residential care, emergency accommodation, and so on. [2882/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently in State care who are in special emergency accommodation; the number who were in such settings at the end of each week for the past two years; and if a breakdown can be provided on the number of whom are separated children/unaccompanied minors and those who are not, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of special emergency accommodation companies that have been set up, or contracted by Tusla in Ireland in each of the past ten years, for the purposes of accommodating children in State care; the names of such companies; and the amounts paid to each company, per child per year, in each of the past ten...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [2885/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla last year 2023, and if a breakdown can be provided on the referral reason; and the occupation of the person who made the referral. [2886/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of Tusla beds occupied in residential centres; for a breakdown on this figure, to show the number of beds occupied in special care centres, voluntary centres, private centres and centres for separated children seeking international protection. [2932/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I 100% acknowledge the work that the staff and medical professionals within hospitals are involved in. My critique is of the lack of Government investment and the lack of reform in the HSE. The newspapers are full of this. Today'sIrish Examiner states, "A woman has told how she watched as her husband tried to resuscitate their 21-year-old daughter after she collapsed at home just hours...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Tógfaidh mé cúpla soicind. There are serious problems and they are not arising independently of Government. Government is making decisions on funding and recruitment freezes. I know of a nurse who returned to Ireland two months ago but who was unable to get back into her old job because of the recruitment freeze here. Lives depend on the ability of doctors and nurses to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died while waiting to be seen in emergency departments in the State in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1893/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: On that previous issue, in the context of HSE-funded home care, there is a refusal to bring older people for walks. Where people have dementia, they are being allowed to leave the house unaccompanied because of this refusal to bring people for walks. This is an extremely dangerous decision by the HSE. Turning to the issue of hospitals now, the crisis there really bubbled up over...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance drivers recruited to the National Ambulance Service and the number of ambulance drivers who have left the National Ambulance Service in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1894/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The average ambulance response time in this country has been increasing significantly in the past few years, so much so that one particular and heartbreaking statistic is the number of times a patient was dead when an ambulance reached the person. In 2019 that figure was 700 and in the past year that has increased to at least 900 deaths. This is a very serious statistic that shows lives are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The figures quoted by the Minister are obviously from a baseline in 2015. The Minister will accept that 2015 was probably during the complete collapse of investment, post austerity, into the health service. The figures being taken as a baseline are from the lowest level of staffing within the National Ambulance Service, which obviously will make the Minister's figures improve. It is very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If I may I will add some practical solutions on this. One of the big situations we see on a regular basis is that an ambulance arrives at the accident and emergency department with the patient but due to the jam in the accident and emergency department because of overcrowding, or simply because there are not enough trolleys there, the ambulance has to stay at the entrance to the accident and...