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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (8 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1247. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned with the elevated death rate that exists in 2022 in Ireland (details supplied); if he has investigated the reason for this; if so, if he will share the results of that investigation; and his plans to tackle this. [55643/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Sanctions (8 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Irish companies are allowed to import fertiliser from an organisation (details supplied). [54207/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This week, Aontú broke the news that 40,000 tonnes of fertiliser were imported from Russia to Waterford port. It is estimated this is worth approximately €40 million. It is alleged that the supplier of the fertiliser is a sanctioned Russian oligarch. This is an incredible situation. The Government plans to train Ukrainian military personnel in Ireland, which is clearly in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Not to Russian oligarchs. It is the payment to the Russian oligarch that is the point here.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I ask the Minister to address the fact that these two areas have been downgraded to lagging region status. She should ignore the core performance indicator of her Government. It is not just or fair to citizens living in the counties in the western and northern parts of this country that we are having this conversation. The Minister is not going to admit that the European Union has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a fact that people cannot get their kids into a school and they are stuck in traffic for hours every day. The driving force is that there is no quality of living because the city has become overheated; it is not that the Government is throwing a few bob here and there to the peasants in order that they can open a community centre or this, that or the other. That is the wrong way to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government's policy is insulting.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister should address the issue of the lagging regions. I asked a question on that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I ask the Minister to address the issue of the lagging regions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not want to be rude, but can the Minister answer the question I asked?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister release the document?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: That should be-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister’s policy is completely wrong. The Government is like a rich city government, chucking a few pennies up into the air and seeing rural communities scramble around to pick up the money. It is a recipe for parish pump politics and we can see Deputies smile and smirk regarding the grants that they have been involved in doling out to people. We need to make rural areas...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputies are smirking and smiling here about money that everybody has handed out to their people.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Where is the viability?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: They are not viable.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Young people are moving out of rural Ireland.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: You made process for them to assess-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: They want viable communities.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I will give the Minister one on the next question.