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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is nothing new in the table.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The review was announced last August.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I have raised this very serious issue with the Taoiseach before. Small-scale childcare and ECCE services throughout the country are in serious trouble as a result of the core funding plan by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman. They are going out of business. They are getting loans to pay for staff over Christmas. They are letting their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I support the request by Deputies Bacik and McDonald in respect of abuse in the past, but I also ask the Taoiseach, in the interest of balance, if the State has ever made any effort to quantify the positive contribution by the churches in this State. I think of the Covid crisis, for example, and, when many people were dying on their own and isolated from their families, the support they got...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach did it before.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: He banned it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It would help farmers significantly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a major problem with the market structure in farming at the moment in this State. There are three main elements to that market structure. There are farmers, then, typically, factories, and then there are supermarkets. What is happening across a number of product ranges is that the factories and the supermarkets are an oligopoly, which means that they have massive buyer-power and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [60881/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture will next meet. [60882/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In the Taoiseach's term of office, there have been a number of internal investigations in his Department into leaking to the media. One related to the report on mother and baby homes. It was alleged by some that it might have been the Taoiseach himself who leaked that document. It is nearly two years since the start of that investigation and there is still no result. Will there ever be a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 124. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department monitors the number of persons entering various college courses or apprenticeships in order to evaluate potential future labour surges or shortages in certain sectors. [61736/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Labour Market (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 137. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on employment rates. [61737/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 548. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of healthcare workers who have taken the Covid-19 booster in the past six months. [61733/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (8 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has provided the resources to the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, that were identified in the HSE review of the closure of the emergency department at Navan hospital; and if the review will be published. [61088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 42. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations of rapid review by a person (details supplied) into the CervicalCheck Report 2019 have been implemented in full; the number of the 4,088 women affected by the IT issues in the diagnostic company, that have since been diagnosed with cancer, pre-cancer or other conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (8 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 95. To ask the Minister for Health if he will cancel the planned closure of the emergency department at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan given the pressure within the health service; and if a feasibility study will be carried out to identify the financial and human resources necessary to allow the emergency department at the hospital to operate safely for both patients and staff and to play...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 108. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with or meet constituents in County Meath regarding the future of Navan hospital. [60796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 337. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [61568/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the research that his Department has undertaken on the number of ambulances needed just to make up the shortfall of ambulances as they wait at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital accident and emergency department, Drogheda. [61569/22]