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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I, too, recognise the great work done by EPIC. According to EUROSTAT figures, 80% of people aged between 16 and 29 in this country are still living at home with their parents. In every town and village in the country, young adults are living with their parents due to the crisis-of-living crisis and other spiralling pressures such as rents. The age of 18 is very young for a person to leave...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken by his Department to assist young people in aftercare, that is persons who have left Tusla residential or foster care placements at the age of 18 years, who are in further or higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51338/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Children or teenagers in State care are sometimes very vulnerable people with complex and sometimes very difficult experiences. It is vital the Government seeks to assist them as they progress through what is referred to as aftercare, which is a period immediately after they leave foster care placements or residential care. What is the Department doing to assist people with aftercare?

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This energy crisis is devastating families and communities throughout the country at present. We are months into the crisis and what we have seen from the Government so far is inertia and glacial steps. The Government's response has been incredibly slow. At the beginning of this month we saw energy prices increase again. Electric Ireland increased prices for the third time this year and...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to raise a couple of points with the Minister in regard to tourism in Ireland and this Bill. First, there is a lot of development that has to happen to increase the benefits to communities and counties with regard to the heritage and tourism sites that they have. To give an example, in Meath most tourism is currently on the basis of a coach bus out of a Dublin hotel that hits...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We have been articulating this for the past two years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú was the first party to articulate it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: But what if the next election is on 15 December?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The electoral commission has written to political parties.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not viable for the small businesses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [51564/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been announced today that elections will take place on 15 December in the North of Ireland if the October deadline is not met. Ten days before Christmas, the people of the North will be going to the polls again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It was announced today by the electoral commission in the North of Ireland I understand. If the deadline is not met in October, this will be the election day. This is what I understand has been announced.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the information that has come through from the electoral commission. I am open to correction if it is not the case. The election will be a sham if we do not have reform of the processes by which the elections and the assembly function. 4 o’clock If the DUP comes back and blocks the Executive from running again, we will be in the same stalemate we are in today, which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We are on the precipice of collapse in childcare and the early childhood care and education, ECCE, sector. I cannot overstate the severity and seriousness of this problem. It is not happening by accident. There were 77 net closures in 2019, 70 net closures in 2020, 62 net closures in 2021 and in this year so far there have been 80 net closures. It is estimated there will be 226 net...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Today, there was a school bus protest in Ballivor, County Meath. I joined with students and parents who walked 15 km on winding, foggy country roads to the schools in Trim. They were forced to do so by the broken promise of the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley. Three months ago, she promised with much fanfare that, due to the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis, free school...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [50010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons that have qualified for a SUSI grant this year; the number of persons whose applications for a SUSI grant have been rejected and the number of students for whom a decision has yet to be reached on their grant application. [51337/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase the number of buses that are placed on the Navan NX route (details supplied). [51454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is taking a minimum of 19 weeks in County Meath to get an invitation to book a driving test (details supplied); if he has plans to resolve this issue; and if he will fill any and all vacancies in the section given that the delays are due to a staff shortage. [51926/22]