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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I would suggest to the Minister that we front-load research in terms of the decision-making process. I welcome that there is a review but my worry is that this process will be slow and that many children will have to go through the current system with regard to foundation level mathematics and that will cause major difficulties for thousands of students around the country. If we start...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has undertaken a study to determine if the increase in those failing ordinary level maths is attributable to the removal of foundation levels maths from the junior cycle. [13576/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is growing frustration among many parents around the country that the Department is focusing on ideological battles, against the will of parents, rather than focusing on the bread and butter issues of the education system. Most parents would rather that the Department focuses on having school buildings that are operational, yet the Government has paused the building of new builds at...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Union (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Government decision to participate in an EU battlegroup erodes Irish neutrality. [13944/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps his Department is taking to address the retention and recruitment crisis within the Defence Forces. [13943/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will proceed with the Government's plan to teach primary school children about transgenderism against the wishes of parents. [13573/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the research she or her Department have undertaken into the impact on primary school children as young as nine or ten years of age of teaching them about what it means to be transgender [13572/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the building plans of many schools are being put on hold. [13574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that four in five secondary teachers say the new junior cycle is not preparing students adequately for progression to Leaving Certificate study according to a report by an organisation (details supplied). [13575/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Security (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has considered banning an application (details supplied) from the phones of Ministers and civil servants, in line with Britain, the USA and the European Commission; if he has discussed the matter with any social media companies or experts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14419/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Social Media (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had any engagement with representatives of a social media application (details supplied); if so, if he will detail the dates upon which such correspondence or engagements took place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has considered banning an application (details supplied) from the phones of Ministers and civil servants, in line with Britain, the USA and the European Commission; if he has discussed the matter with his foreign counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14418/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that has been taken by his Department regarding a disclosure made to him by email from this Deputy's office on 18 October 2022, regarding the Garda vetting system; and if he will meet with this Deputy to discuss the content of the disclosure. [14427/23]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome any efforts made by the Government to reduce the costs on families in accessing healthcare. There is no doubt that health has a significant cost to many people and that it is a barrier for many people in accessing healthcare. The level of ill-health is far higher among people who live in lower socioeconomic groups, and people's life expectancy is far lower in those areas too....

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Given that there is less than ten votes between the two sides, the gravity of this particular issue, and the fact that this amendment simply seeks to protect people with disabilities, people with very young families, older people, and people with terminal illnesses from eviction in ten days' time, under Standing Order 83(3)(b), I ask that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 5: To insert the following after "increased capacity in the construction sector": "calls on the Government to make provisions to ensure that no person can be evicted if they fulfil any of the following criteria: — if the tenant or a member of their family living in the relevant accommodation has a disability; — if the tenant or a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Court of Human Rights (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take the British Government to the European Court of Human Rights if it proceeds with the North of Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill. [13999/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will seek reform of Stormont to prevent the Executive being held to ransom in the future. [14000/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the last time that each hospital group, excluding the Saolta group (details supplied) conducted a bed capacity analysis for each hospital in the country; the findings of those analyses; the recommendations of those analyses; if he will provide details of any capacity targets that were identified in these processes; if the analyses generated a report or...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú has found through parliamentary questions and freedom of information requests that almost 400 people have died in homelessness on the streets of Dublin in the last five years. That is an incredible figure. The shocking thing is that the national figure is far higher but the Government refused to collect the data in any other county outside of Dublin. The figures I give today do...