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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There have been 221 reported cases of sexual abuse of children in State care in the past ten years. That is a very dark figure. The other information I have received shows that, at the moment, there are 37 children missing from Tusla care, which is disastrous. Since 2021, Tusla has made referrals to the Garda of 161 children who are suspected of being victims of child sexual exploitation,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a pity we have so little time because there actually are so many important things here for both of us to discuss. I will quickly refer to the story on RTÉ today on the Grace report. That particular story on RTÉ reported that legal officials responsible for the affairs of the woman known as Grace claim that extensive submissions made to the commission by lawyers representing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in State care who have reported being sexually abused in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025. [20961/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: A series of documents and emails that were exchanged between the Minister and the CEO of Tusla have been released to me under freedom of information legislation. They paint a very bleak picture of what is happening with the welfare of children in State care. How many children in care have been reported to have been sexually abused in recent years?

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is absolutely phenomenal that we have two separate unpublished reports into two separate scandals involving CHI at the moment yet, despite that, the Government is still backing the board of CHI. We know that in one case children were subjected to unnecessary surgeries, where they did not meet the threshold for surgery. Separately, we know that poorly sourced springs or coils made from...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: In fact, they do.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is employing a new housing tzar with a salary of €430,000, which is an incredible figure. Because of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents, that may well be the salary someone needs to buy a home in many parts of this country at the moment. We have a record breaking Government for all the wrong reasons. We have record house prices, rents and numbers of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [20955/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children reported missing from State care in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025, and the total number of those who have never been located. [20958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in State care currently in special emergency arrangements in the State. [20959/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of money paid by the State to the providers of special emergency arrangements for accommodating children in State care, in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025. [20960/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Bus Éireann (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will review the current access policy at the Bus Éireann depot in Drogheda, County Louth, which currently prohibits taxi access; if he is aware that the depot is located at the junction of two main roads and requires passengers including elderly individuals and those with mobility issues to cross at least one of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Driver Test (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 501. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the long wait times in Navan for an invitation to complete a driving test (details supplied); the measures being taken to address this issue; and the reason there is such a difference in timelines from Navan. [20600/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 578. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the hierarchy in the thresholds in relation to the tax-free threshold for capital acquisition tax and the treatment of childless individuals under its terms; how it is equitable that childless individuals are treated in such contrasting terms to those who have children and seeking to pass on assets to them; if he will publish any...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 579. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make joining a private pension scheme more advantageous to the ordinary worker and that relief is not only on PAYE but also on PRSI and USC for employee pension contributions and that age related thresholds are revisited so that younger employees can be encouraged to join. [19284/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 580. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have carried out, or have plans to carry out a study into the increase of the small gifts exemption; and the estimated costs and the number of people who may avail or benefit from the increase. [19285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 581. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will allow taxpayers with children in their care to use all their spouses’ tax-free allowance if their spouse does not work or the remainder if their spouse earns less than the threshold to ease the burden on working families and to make it financially more viable for one parent to stay at home if they so wish. [19286/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many children have been expelled from school in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025, in national and secondary school, in tabular form; and how many of these had a mental ill health diagnosis or disability. [18906/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many children have been suspended from school in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025, in national and secondary schools, in tabular form, and how many of these had a mental ill health diagnosis or disability. [18907/25]