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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (24 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who arrived at each airport and ferry port for each of the last five years with no travel documents. [43682/24]

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the amendments that have deleted the censorship elements of the Bill. I have no doubt they are being ditched because of the groundswell of opposition against the Bill in its former state. I have no doubt that Simon Harris is better at reading opinion polls than Leo Varadkar. That is probably one of the reasons we have seen this significant change in recent times. In truth,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Care in this country is met with rhetoric rather than resources. At the start of this year we had the care referendum, when the Government promised a new era, but when we look at the delivery of care, including children in State care which I mentioned earlier, nursing home care and childcare, we see that resources are not nearly enough to deliver what should be a decent level of care in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will next meet [37628/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The issue of Government waste is creating great frustration and fury among the general public, from the children's hospital to the Gucci bike shed. The most recent revelation is that the vacant distillery building in Smithfield has cost the State €12 million and has not had people using it. When the Taoiseach was Minister for Health, his Department measured a building incorrectly and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the issue of Government waste, which is a massive topic, I understand. Those ventilators are still being stored. What is going to happen to those ventilators that cost €100,000, that do not work and that are still being stored? Will the Government use them somewhere as a national monument to Government waste, to be able to celebrate what the Government has done?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Flippant?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not the case. You know I am not saying that. The Taoiseach is twisting the question in a horrendous fashion.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I am talking about waste. I am not talking about the treatment of Covid, and the Taoiseach knows that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach is out of order.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: You are answering a different question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: What is going to happen to the ventilators? The question was about the ventilators.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Kyran Durnin case has shocked the country to the core. This is a tragic and dark case that asks serious questions of the State. How can a vulnerable child go missing for two years? How can a vulnerable child just disappear for two years? How broken is the State care system that we are not talking about an intervention here but we are talking about the potential murder of a child. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach has not addressed the question I asked regarding this case-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Many of these deaths are as a result of a failure of State care. I will give him other examples. The Government is using special emergency arrangements at the moment to accommodate children. These are often unregulated, rented accommodations provided by third-parties with questionable vetting standards. Children are going missing every month and these children are being exposed to sexual...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: -----it is the polar opposite of that. It is really important that we get to the heart of the fatal dysfunction that exists in our childcare system currently in this country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Taoiseach ask for the Minister, Tusla and CAMHS to be brought before the children's committee to focus on this fatal dysfunction?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach can ask, like any TD here can.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on traditional and online advertising in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2024. [37629/24]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any study to determine the rate of homelessness among students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40067/24]