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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is €250,000 in the Department each year for special advisers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Apologies.

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is shocking to say that in 2022 Ireland is still not a place of equality for people with disabilities. There is an ocean of window dressing in this State when it comes to inclusivity but the truth is that hundreds of thousands of citizens are excluded from life in this country daily. Given the assessment waiting lists, lack of access to services and transport, and young people trapped in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Ashling Murphy. It has been a while since her death. It is horrendous that when Deputies discuss this shocking event they bring into question the role of the education system in this country. They bring into question the role of the curriculum, the teachers and the people who have been delivering education in this country. There is no link...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: For the last three months, Aontú has been calling for a decrease in excise duties and VAT on fuel. The reduction of VAT and excise duties would drastically reduce the cost of fuel immediately. Many other countries have done it, yet this Government appears not to have even asked the European Union if it can do it. Also, with regard to OPEC, what pressure is this country and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a practical question for the Taoiseach. How many employees of Departments are currently working remotely, in percentage terms or in real terms? Every time I, one of my staff or even a constituent picks up a phone to seek to talk to somebody within a Department, we are met with an answering machine. Strangely, many of these answering machines actually declare the messages will not be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: What about PR staff?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Civil Service Management Board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, will next meet. [11390/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the universities that he has visited since he assumed office. [12781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 131. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by his Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in his Department. [12473/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by his Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in his Department. [12474/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by his Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in his Department. [12486/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 202. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by his Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in his Department. [12475/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by his Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in his Department. [12481/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff currently employed by her Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by her Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in her Department. [12485/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by his Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in his Department. [12479/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a situation in Ratoath, County Meath in which a large supply of houses cannot be released into the housing market due to a shortage in water supply; if this is an issue being experienced in other counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of days in each of the past five years for which boil water notices were in place in Navan, Trim, Kells, Ratoath, Ashbourne, Enfield, Kilcock, Dunboyne, Laytown and Bettystown, County Meath in tabular form [12498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of days in each of the past five years for which hose pipe bans and garden watering bans were in place in Navan, Trim, Kells, Ratoath, Ashbourne, Enfield, Kilcock, Dunboyne, Laytown and Bettystown, County Meath in tabular form [12499/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of days in each of the past five years for which water was unavailable in Navan, Trim, Kells, Ratoath, Ashbourne, Enfield, Kilcock, Dunboyne, Laytown and Bettystown, County Meath in tabular form. [12500/22]