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Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (3 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The North is in the middle of an horrendous economic crisis at the moment. Poverty levels are increasing, at 300,000 people. Hospital waiting lists are increasing, at nearly 450,000 people, and the number of people homeless, without a house, is increasing at 45,000 people. The collateral damage to families by the undemocratic Democratic Unionist Party's boycott of Stormont is absolutely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (3 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: People have been celebrating the Good Friday Agreement for the past number of weeks. It was a phenomenal international agreement which has created peace for 25 years. It is not a living document, however; it is defunct. The Assembly is on the floor. The Executive is broken. The North-South Ministerial Council is AWOL at the moment. There is no urgency in terms of the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (3 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) should have to take another NCT on the same vehicle three months after passing the previous test as a result of lengthy waiting times for a test, and where the certificate will have expired three months later in the same year; and the rationale as to why a car would be required to be tested twice within...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (3 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being made to address the issue of foster carers having no access to PRSI contributions being paid while fostering a child (details supplied). [20426/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (27 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps his Department is taking to condemn and seek an end to human rights abuses in China. [19705/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (27 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts that have been made by his Department to restore Stormont. [19706/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to studies showing that Government policies to tackle climate change are causing a mental health crisis among farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale behind the virement of €1.5 million in Just Transition funding to support climate finance activities of the United Nations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19713/23]

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: For the last few weeks, the political establishment, North and South, has been celebrating the Good Friday Agreement. For sure, the Good Friday Agreement was a landmark agreement which brought to an end decades of horror and violence. Thousands of people are alive today as a result of the Good Friday Agreement. We must celebrate it for happening. It was amazing that it happened. In my...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Many people will be shocked by the abortion review report released today. The Government persuaded many thousands of people to vote for the abortion referendum on the basis there would be some safeguards for children, yet five years later, it looks like the Government is going to wash away the remaining safeguards. Last year, there was an enormous jump in the number of abortions that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cybersecurity Policy (26 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 170. To ask the Minister for Health further to commentary made by the Secretary General of his Department at a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on 19 April 2023, if his laptop or mobile devices have ever been hacked; if so, the dates upon which the hacks took place; if he notified the Taoiseach of the hack; if confidential...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If I represented a county that was downgraded to a lagging area by the EU, I would be furious with the approach the Government is involved in.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The second issue is the average age now in many towns and villages along the west coast is ten years older than it is in towns such as Ballbriggan, Naas and Navan. The reason is young people in this State, on average, who go to university and get university jobs cannot get jobs in the regions. They try to get jobs in Dublin but cannot afford to live there and so are forced to live 20, 30,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: -----even though it accounts for 2.5% of the population.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: While it might suit the narrative for our local constituents to be able to say that, the truth of the matter is every county should be getting a fair shot at it. Strangely, Dublin got investment for 63 rural hubs through Our Rural Future, even though the likes of Mayo and other counties get far less. That is a strange question as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it a coincidence that the two last Ministers-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: -----always get the most money?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it a coincidence? You know it is not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Everybody-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: You are shouting me down now. Every Deputy is smiling-----