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Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to mention a tangential issue, namely, the crisis affecting nursing homes at present. The Ministers of State will be aware that nursing homes are closing right across the country and that many are blaming what they call fair deal discrimination. These nursing homes claim funding is insufficient to meet their spiralling inflation costs and the figures bear this out. Recently...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is still less than the increase.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The reduction in excise duty on fuel is due to lapse in two days' time. This will put an extra 5 cent on diesel and an extra 6 cent on petrol, which is a significant jump. It will hit families extremely hard. Hiking excise duty when so many families are in poverty and so many families are in arrears on energy bills is the opposite of what must be done at the moment. Figures released to me...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [25788/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number, and cost, of ongoing commissions and investigations under the remit of his Department. [22558/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach will have to agree that the commission of investigation system in Ireland is broken and is in need of major reform. Investigations are never-ending vehicles that receive extension after extension and cost the taxpayer millions of euro. They produce reports that often end up on dusty shelves with very little consequences for those who are implicated in the reports. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When the Taoiseach was Minister for Health he said that short of an asteroid hitting the planet, the national children's hospital would be built for €700 million by 2020. It is currently double the cost; it could end up at €2 billion and it will not have its doors open until 2025. The national children's hospital is just one of a long list of public capital projects that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The figures in the Farming Independentsupplement of the Irish Independentshowing that 200,000 cattle are to be culled by 2025, which is just in a year and a half, points to an incredible threat to the farming sector. It will be at a cost of about €600 million. A full 25% of the beef being imported to the European Union comes from Brazil. How is it environmentally friendly to fell...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 58. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors currently in State care; the number of unaccompanied minors who have gone missing from State care in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Trafficking (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department is taking to reduce instances of child trafficking in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25793/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person (details supplied) will receive payment and expenses in their role as chair of the consultative forum on international security policy. [25584/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a breakdown in tabular form for each of the past five years the total cost and expenditure for operating each Irish Embassy abroad as incurred by his Department. [25986/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Foreign Policy (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 170. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) will receive payment and expenses in their role as chair of the consultative forum on international security policy. [25585/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment uses a child development model; and if so, if she will name the specific model or models. [25777/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of determinations by the Residential Tenancies Board which have been appealed to both the Residential Tenancies Board and the High Court in each of the past ten years; how many of such determinations were appealed by a landlord, property owner or agent acting on behalf of the property owner; how many were appealed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of complaints made to the Residential Tenancies Board regarding each approved housing body for each of the past ten years; the number of such RTB determinations that ruled in favour of the complainant; the number that ruled in favour of the approved housing body; the number of such determinations that have been...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people arrested for fraud offences in each county in the State in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [25778/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people arrested for firearm offences or possession of firearms in each county in the State in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [25779/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people arrested for burglaries in each county in the State in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [25780/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people arrested for drug offences in each county in the State in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [25781/23]