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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times that Tusla has issued apologies to persons or groups of persons in each of the past ten years (details supplied); if a list of dates upon which these apologies took place will be provided; and the general details of each case in tabular form. [38190/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 459. To ask the Minister for Health if any capacity and demand analysis in relation to bed numbers has been carried out on the supply of emergency and critical care at University Hospital Limerick as recommended by the Health Information and Quality Authority in 2009; if so, the number of studies and analyses that have been conducted; and the findings of those studies. [38148/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 460. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that University Hospital Limerick never received extra beds despite a higher number being deemed the necessary number of beds to provide safe emergency and critical care, following the closure of Nenagh Hospital. [38149/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 461. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional beds introduced in University Hospital Limerick by bed type by year in each of the past 15 years, in tabular form. [38150/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh agus míle buíochas le gach duine a tháinig isteach agus as a gcur i láthair freisin. I have a couple of points. It is quite incredible that the Government has not fully costed the costs of climate change or Sláintecare outside the current year, particularly as these are two large aspects I imagine are going to hoover up a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Barnes mentioned that the level of debt is comparatively high historically, and internationally among countries of a similar size. What I understand from Mr. Barnes is that, given all the knowledge we have, we are not going to be returning to a situation where our interest rates will be decided on the basis of our ability to be able to repay debt, which was the major factor in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank Mr. Barnes for that. The big question floating around relates to corporation taxes and how best to use them. Mr. Barnes mentioned the rainy day fund, paying down national debt and, potentially, reviving the National Pensions Reserve Fund. Are large capital projects not a good use of corporation taxes, given that they are typically once off, and they have a big return in the long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We are in a bit of a difficulty here because our capital investment has been incredibly low historically. For about ten or 15 years we were probably investing the second lowest in terms of GDP in the EU. Depreciation has hit our capital stock quite significantly over that period. The second element, which Mr. Barnes mentioned a number of times, is the danger of overheating. What...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It strikes me that the Government ring-fenced the carbon tax for the purpose of deep retrofitting of homes. It is breaking that fence because it does not seem to have the capacity to be able to deliver on that particular job. It also strikes me that Ireland is very much a country with a two-tier economy. We have a very robust foreign direct investment sector, but we do not have the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is possible that those in the two tiers could have a different experience going forward. Mr. Barnes mentioned that there is positive feedback between the foreign direct investment sector and indigenous sector. It is possible that the indigenous sector could suffer while the overall picture would be better. I have a number of questions to finish on. We hear in political discourse that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Sin é. I thank the witnesses for their time; I greatly appreciate it.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the work of the Raise the Roof campaign and I was delighted to attend its launch in Meath not so long ago. From Phil Hogan, to Deputies Kelly and Coveney, Eoghan Murphy and now the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, we have been told that there is no overnight fix to the housing crisis we are in. However, it is now more than a decade since we first heard that excuse being...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We have a record-breaking Government but for all the wrong reasons. We have record housing prices. Some 15 years after Fianna Fáil generated the last property bubble, we have the same Celtic tiger house prices. The price of a three-bedroom home is increasing by €100 every day in this State. We have record rents. Rents are more than €254 per month higher than they were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I asked three questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I asked the Taoiseach three questions. The first was when the investigation would be complete, the second was whether he knows who leaked it and the third was to indicate to what the other leak was related. I only have one answer, which was "I don't know", and I do not know what it related to.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: When will the investigation be completed?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. [32076/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In January 2021, parts of the final report of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation were leaked to the media prior to the survivors being furnished with the information. This was an enormous slap in the face to many survivors of those mother and baby homes. The Taoiseach verified the leak by giving a comment to the same journalist who ran the particular story. An internal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims notified or the proceedings that have been issued against CervicalCheck regarding the alleged misreading of smear tests in each of the past five years and to date in 2022 (details supplied); the number of claims which came from women affected by the scandal; the number which were from the families surviving women who died allegedly as a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (12 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity on the future of the accident and emergency department in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan. [37588/22]