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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We support safe harbour. It is a moral and international responsibility when people are fleeing war, violence or famine to stand up and give them shelter when it is needed. Nobody is arguing that point. We are simply saying there must be equality in the delivery of services in this State. The only baseline we are asking for in this situation is one from which everybody who is resident in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Other places have.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: They have.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Thus, modular homes will not be used for housing.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will elaborate on his interpretation of rapid build technology being used to tackle Ireland's housing shortage. [57518/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The issue of rapid building technology in dealing with the housing crisis was raised several years ago and has been raised again recently in the context of how we deal with the pressures on the system as a result of the refugee crisis in the country at present. Many Ministers have said the technology will be part of the plan to house refugees and it will be part of the plan to build homes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In relation to refugees and asylum seekers, most people want to be generous and to be the Good Samaritan. The way the Government has handled this, with the lack of consultation with communities, has created division in large number of areas. Consultation is very important, for example, in the building of wind turbines, pylons, hotels and such things. People should have a role in the future...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: With all the figures, plans and language, if we are to boil this down we have record house prices, record rents and record homelessness. We are at the worst point so far of the housing crisis over the past ten years. Last year the Government missed its target by 5,000. It had a target of 28,000 builds and it built 23,000. This year's target is smaller than last year's target of 28,000...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister is the fifth holder of the office to read roughly the same script into the Chamber-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The language is a single transferable speech over a decade at this stage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The key issue is that a construction company in Navan that was building for the council went bust very recently. We need to know why builders cannot build and make a profit. They are scared of the risk that exists in the market and, therefore, they are not getting involved in it. The costs are not being mitigated at some level by the Government, such as through a reduction of taxation on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not want to get into the rhetoric.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage rate at which new housing starts are reducing; the steps his Department is taking to tackle the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58972/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Only 390 applications have been made to the Croí Cónaithe initiative so far, according to a reply to parliamentary question I received only in the past week.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not looking to ask this particular question in a combative manner because there is a crisis and the Minister has an interest in trying to fix it, but I still believe we are not focusing on the builder-level reason homes are not being built. When I talk to dozens of builders in my constituency, they tell me they are not building and they have not built in years. We have to get to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plays any role in the protection of buildings from demolition which are of cultural significance in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeowners who have applied for the vacant property refurbishment grant, in each county; the number of applications which have been refused; and the number which have been successful in tabular form. [58971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department intends to calculate or record the number of students from ethnic minority groups such as the Travelling community who are entering further or higher education per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58974/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department collates data on the number of students who drop out of third level education each year; and if so, if the data will be provided in tabular form. [58973/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the average accident and emergency waiting time in each accident and emergency in the country for the month of November 2022; the number of patients that have been placed on trolleys and chairs in each accident and emergency in the country during November 2022. [60140/22]