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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: When the Tánaiste talks about increases in the building of houses and increases in the building of social homes, he is talking about increases from a floor of the worst housing collapse in the history of the State. He is talking about a figure of literally zero in terms of those increases. On getting these figures wrong and duplications, you cannot be on two social housing waiting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Let us talk about the figure-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We will get to the homeless one. The Tánaiste is understating his figures. The official figures are understated by a population of 16,676. That is extraordinary. Either that is incompetence and an inability to count the number of people who are on waiting lists at the moment-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----or it is an attempt to hide the fact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The reason I think the Tánaiste is misleading the people is that he has previous on this. Right up to the jaws of the last general election, the Government was determined to give the impression to the people of Ireland that 40,000 homes would be built that year. As soon as that election was finished, the information became very clear and that statement from the Government, a number of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That is why everybody is laughing over there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: They are inaccurate. Here are the FOIs. I am giving them to the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: These are public servants.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: These are public servants.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The council FOIs are not conspiracy theories.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Today marks another dark day for the Government's housing record. The original target for 2025 of 41,000 new builds has been binned. The Minister, Deputy Browne, has cut the official target by 20%, stating that possibly only 34,000 homes will be built this year. Last year, only 30,000 homes were built, again far short of the Government's target of 40,000. This Government is in reverse in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of SMEs which have closed in the State in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32561/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people who have had the carer’s allowance removed from them in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the carers allowance at year end for each of the past ten years; and the current total number in receipt of the allowance. [32430/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 333. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on an application for disablement benefit made in October 2023; if he will outline the reason the decision has taken so long and engage with Tusla on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33339/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unserved prison sentences in the State last year, and each of the last five years; the number that were given unserved time on occasions; the reason unserved time is offered to persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33345/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (19 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet received a retrospective ill health retirement package from Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33340/25]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The past ten days have been a time of deep frustration and nearly depression among people. The omnishambles of the Government's approach to the RPZs in the past ten days has really frustrated people at home. Fianna Fáil obviously has a history in terms of the housing crisis. The Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, was a Minister in the Government that created the first bubble, a...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: If I might just have the Minister's attention for this, I believe he who wants to do his best in his role on this issue.

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I genuinely do. Now, I will say that there are hundreds of thousands of people in this country living in a commuter hell. These are people with little or no access to public transport who are forced to use cars every day and who spend maybe two or three hours getting to work back and forth. Meath is a prime example. Meath is the biggest commuter county in the country. The majority of...