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Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday New Zealand admitted zero-Covid was not workable. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was big enough to admit she was wrong. Here, the supporters of zero-Covid have so far remained completely silent. The Social Democrats, People Before Profit-Solidarity, the Labour Party and even Sinn Féin, at some stage, were ardent supporters of the idea of zero-Covid. The Social Democrats went...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance will be extended to those in receipt of illness benefit experiencing fuel poverty who are unable to work due to illness or ongoing medical treatment. [48187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if former prisoners (details supplied) had been given extra money by the prison to help them re-enter society; if this extra money was used to buy drugs; and the steps taken to ensure that such funds do not get spent on drugs. [47591/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Investigations (5 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the case of a person (details supplied). [47592/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prison Service (5 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 544. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) on remand will be transferred to another facility. [48174/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prison Service (5 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 545. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners currently waiting to be transferred to the Central Mental Hospital; and the current bed capacity and waiting times. [48175/21]

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am sharing time with Deputy Canney, but I am not sure if he is present. People are quite shocked at the approach of the Green Party on this. I have a lot of time for many of the Green Party activists who are elected representatives. I believe that many of them have approached their time in Dáil Éireann with the best of objectives and sincere values in trying to fix the climate...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount his Department has spent on a hand sanitiser (details supplied) before its manufacturer recalled the product in October 2020; and if the State has been reimbursed for these costs. [46896/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The response the Minister of State provided does not mention the words "accident and emergency" at all. I cannot find those words in the entire script that was written for her by the Department. The hospital in Navan is the most important piece of infrastructure we have in County Meath. Nothing surpasses it. There are thousands of people walking around the county today who would not be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The policy is to close it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Exactly.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: In fairness, the policy states that it will close it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: It is written in the small hospitals framework document.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: For ten years, the Government's stated policy has been to close the accident and emergency department in Navan hospital. The hospital was put on the list in the small hospital framework document. It was to be moved to a level 2 hospital. It was on the HIQA hit list of ten hospitals that were to have accident and emergency departments removed. Navan hospital is the only one of those ten...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I reiterate what other Deputies have said about it being a disgrace that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has not stayed to listen to the debate. This has happened in large part because Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin have changed the way in which the Dáil operates, meaning that now most of those due to speak for those three parties have spoken...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Tom McHugh worked as an assistant chief officer, ACO, in Portlaoise Prison. In October 2018, a prisoner came to the governor of that prison and said that other officers were constantly coming to his cell and, in his words, wanting him to cut up Tom HcHugh. This is just one of example of what an ACO in our prisons has experienced. He was vindicated by the Naughton report. There was a Garda...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 185. To ask the Taoiseach the number of businesses that have closed either temporarily or permanently in total and separately due to Covid-19 in 2020 and to date in 2021. [46478/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a feed-in tariff will be provided for the microgeneration of sustainable energy in Ireland; the number of solar farms currently plugged into the national grid; and the number of houses that have been deep retrofitted in each of the past five years. [46297/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Water Supply (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out research on water wells running dry in the Robinstown Shambo, County Meath; if the excavations carried out by a company (details supplied) are impacting on the water source of these wells; if the company has a licence to pump underground water from the mines into the Boyne river; if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fully electric buses and separately plug-in electric buses that have been purchased by the State in each of the past five years. [46297/21]