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National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: People are asking that clinically inappropriate decisions would be made in hospitals.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: As a State, we need to make sure the highest standard of science and medical knowledge is at the heart of the decisions we make. The truth of the matter is the doctors and healthcare professionals I have spoken to are really frustrated with the language that has been used about their ability to provide services. If one goes to anybody in the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street or St....

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: From the outset I want to reiterate that the Aontú policy is to build public hospitals on public land. We believe that both the children's hospital and the maternity hospital should have been tri-located with a hospital on the periphery of the M50. It is a big mistake for both of these hospitals to be located on the sites chosen. We also believe that these hospitals should be run by...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 51. To ask the Taoiseach if a person from his Department is currently seconded to the university or third-level education sector. [22903/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Investigations (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 52. To ask the Taoiseach the number of internal investigations ongoing in his Department into instances in which documents were leaked to the media. [22904/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the local schools in an area can between them accommodate all pupils who are seeking a school place given that it is her responsibility to ensure same; and if she will ensure that a school placement is identified for a student (details supplied) with special needs who requires a school transfer. [24438/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 604. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when two persons (details supplied) who are living in Pakistan but who are Afghanistan citizens can expect a decision on their application for visas to stay with their siblings in Ireland; and the other schemes or mechanisms by which they can seek admission to the State. [24445/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when two persons (details supplied) can expect a decision on an application for visas to come to stay with their siblings in Ireland and if there are any other scheme or mechanism which the two individuals could use to seek admission to this State. [24488/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if ambulances are bringing patients to the accident and emergency department of Navan Hospital; if ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals for any reason; and if patients are being picked up in County Meath who could be treated in Navan but are being brought elsewhere. [24537/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 708. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 806 of 10 May 2022, if his attention has been drawn to incidents in which abortions have taken place after an unborn baby has been misdiagnosed as being terminally ill; and if so, the number of incidents to which his attention was drawn (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24558/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 727. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the health of mothers for each year the building of the new Maternity Hospital is delayed; the number of wards that are operating at over capacity; the level of over capacity use in each of these wards; the capacity of the hospital; the number of patients in the hospital at any one time; the patient to doctor ratio; the patient to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cybersecurity Policy (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 728. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs of the cyber-attack in terms of lives lost, incapacity and serious illness; and the research that has been carried out into the negative health effects of the cyber-attack he has undertaken to date. [24755/22]

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security: Statements (12 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Food security is dependent on economically viable farms. If there is anything to be taken away from this debate it should be that point. Food security is also dependent on economically viable fishermen. There was talk earlier about the need for signs to go up in people's offices. If that sign was in the Minister's office and he delivered on his job when it comes to that sentence alone, he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [21868/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: At the start of the year we were told that the shocking and tragic murder of Ashling Murphy would be a watershed. Yesterday, however, a mother of two, Lisa Thompson, was found murdered in her Ballymun home. Last month the country was shocked by the violent murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee in Sligo. Tom Niland was also attacked in his Sligo home last month. Those are just a few...

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: As of December 2021, Social Justice Ireland recorded that there were 661,000 people in this State who are trapped in poverty and more than 210,000 of these people are children. It is scandal in our time that we have hundreds of thousands of children being born into poverty and living their youth in poverty. What that means for each one of those children is that they will have radically...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commissions of Investigation (11 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of his Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission to date; and the projected costs of each in tabular form. [23592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (11 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions of motorists in each of the past five years for failure to make progress and drive at the appropriate speed limit for the road and their vehicle under the rules of the road; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23543/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: My apologies. I am seeking to quantify the total number of extra personnel. The Minister may be able to assist me in that regard. There is no doubt that the challenges faced by the Security Council and by Ireland are enormous. Ireland is a small country and we have to be realistic in respect of the impact it can make through the Security Council. In fairness, however, it is right that...