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

Peadar Tóibín: Every Deputy is smiling at the fact-----

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

Peadar Tóibín: -----that the two Ministers get more money for their counties rather regularly.

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

Peadar Tóibín: I think he should be Minister now.

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

Peadar Tóibín: Why is he not a Minister any more?

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

Peadar Tóibín: I fought for it.

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

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding drawn down from the rural regeneration and development fund in each month since she took office. [19222/23]

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

Peadar Tóibín: I have to inject some level of reality into this debate today. Rural Ireland is on its knees.

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

Peadar Tóibín: It is suffering significant population decline, predominantly concentrated in the west and midlands of Ireland. That continues apace. It is calculated that in the last 40 years, 800 electoral divisions have lost population or significantly lost population. There has been a lopsided spatial policy which has put hundreds of thousands of young people into the Dublin area, in particular. The...

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

Peadar Tóibín: I do not think the Minister is getting to the nub of the question at all. The issue is that the EU has downgraded the north-west region as a lagging region. The EU has said that as a result of falling GDP per capitain those areas compared with the rest of the country, places like Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan and Mayo face increasing challenges. That is happening...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Like Cavan.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Interest rates are at the highest level since 2019. By any reasonable projection we are going to see that spiral increase over the next while. The ECB has increased its lending rate six times since January 2022 and more increases are coming in the next week. Increasing the interest rate is a good tool commonly used to deal with inflation, and in fairness it often works in the case of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach again has failed to answer the question. If the Taoiseach does not see a link between corruption and the economy, there is a serious problem in this regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Corruption is a threat to investment. It is a threat to business and it is a threat to society.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The fact that so many within the Government parties have been silent on the issues of corruption in the past has given licence to it. All I am asking is whether the Taoiseach, accepting what happened in this potential case of corruption, thinks it is good enough that we have this system continue?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I want an answer to the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: A Chathaoirligh, it is unbelievable that the Taoiseach will not answer a question on this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Do you not think, a Chathaoirligh, that it is unfair for the Taoiseach to ignore this question and not give an answer, given the gravity of the question and the public interest in it and given the clear link between corruption in the history of the State and the distortion of society and unfairness?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There was a question on a judge-led inquiry into the cyberattack. Where was the criminal investigation into that attack?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: No accountability.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [17706/23]