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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the IFSC?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: What research is happening?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of officials, persons and companies from Russia or Belarus currently sanctioned by the Government in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. [15159/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Billions in Russian roubles are reportedly sloshing around the IFSC. Those funds are reportedly being used to circumvent sanctions. We have reports from thecurrency.newsabout €13 billion of domiciled money in the IFSC and from The Irish Times showing that €34 billion is held by opaque Russian-linked shell companies registered in the IFSC, while Colm Keena has done work...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Who is answering the questions here?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 31. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to reports that a woman (details supplied) lay dead for days in the direct provision system before their body was discovered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 61. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the core funding proposals for the childcare sector and any delays in the publication of those proposals. [14269/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government supports the decision by the European Parliament to financially sanction Poland and Hungary in the midst of the 1.5 million refugees Poland has taken in in two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15158/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 195. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 8 February 2022, if she has conducted up-to-date research and analysis of the current levels of employment and unemployment across the various occupational categories in the Irish film industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Investigation (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 299. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 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. [12559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 307. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of families who are eligible for the after-school childcare scheme; the number of families who are currently supported by the after-school childcare scheme; and the number of persons under the after-school childcare scheme for the past five years. [15110/22]

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I also thank Deputy Paul Murphy for adding his personal story to the debate. I wish him and his partner the best of luck in their endeavours. The issues at the heart of this Bill are incredibly important and significant. They range from the families which desperately seek to have a child but cannot to the rights of the child to have a family and know their mother and father to the rights...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Programmes (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons enrolled in the activation and family support programme; and the amount of funding allocated to the scheme for 2022. [15140/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on child benefit since 2017 by year ; the number of recipients of child benefit since 2017 by year; and the effect means testing child benefit would have on the amount allocated to child benefit and the number in receipt of child benefit in tabular form. [15141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the Hungarian policy of the grandparent's childcare fee (details supplied); if his Department plans to introduce such a scheme here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15111/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools participating in the schools meals scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the total amount of funding made available for the scheme per year. [15139/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The amount of money being allocated to the school meals programme has been increasing year on year. That sounds like a good thing, but when one examines the situation, the number of schools availing of the programme has been reducing. This means that a small number of children are getting those school meals. It could be because of an increase in the cost of the programme, etc. What is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: If I am correct, it is still the case that the amount of money being given to the programme is increasing but the number of children or, at least, schools receiving it is falling or remaining static, depending on which section of it one is looking at. We very properly debate in the House the cost of living increasing throughout the State. There is an issue with inflation in the inputs into...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: For more than a year, the Meath food bank was operating out of my office in Trim because it was without any other location from which to operate. It was shockingly sad to see young children and their parents queuing daily outside the Aontú office in Trim for food. The fact that food banks even exist in Ireland in today's world is incredible. Many of them sprung up during the previous...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021, broken down by Minister in tabular form. [11393/22]