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Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I have carried out a good bit of research over the last number of months on funding for Traveller accommodation. The responses I received to my parliamentary questions are absolutely shocking. Unbelievable information has come back in the last couple of weeks. In 2017, local authorities drew down €4.8 million from an allocation of €9 million. In 2018, local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason pubs and restaurants are not reopening for indoor dining at the same time that hotels are reopening for indoor dining. [29369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports he will give to enterprises who have difficulties reopening after lockdown. [29370/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cybersecurity Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts being made in relation to strengthening the security of data within her Department. [29395/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Donegal County Council is rejecting the recommendations of the structural engineer professionals and laboratory scientists on MICA despite spending roughly €6,000 to engage their expertise. [30283/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times he met with persons or representatives of persons whose properties have been affected by the MICA issue in County Donegal since he assumed office. [30284/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I will do my best to get to the points fast. Today, we see the Government guillotining this Bill. The act of guillotining a Bill is in itself a phenomenally undemocratic act. It cuts out the Opposition's ability to push and challenge the Government to make sure that the laws it is introducing are actually correct. It is a guarantee that the law will not be tested properly before it is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount in funding Ireland contributed to the United Nations in each of the years 2000 and 2020 by United Nations agency or body. [29893/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland's contributions to UNWRA have been found to have funded anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and or fundamentalist content. [29894/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any of Ireland's contributions to international organisations or foreign aid to other countries is conditional upon certain criteria being met; and if so, the details of same. [29895/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the official position of Ireland on the actions of the Chinese Communist Party towards the Muslim Uighur population. [29897/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the motions passed by the Canadian and Dutch Parliaments that the actions of the Chinese government towards its Uighur population constitutes genocide. [29898/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made in relation to the continued detention of a person (details supplied) by Chinese authorities. [29899/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the process and criteria for expelling an ambassador; if he has considered expelling any nation's ambassador since 2010; and if so, the details of same. [29900/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Programmes (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Ireland provides funding to EU defence initiatives and schemes; if so, the amount Ireland has contributed to same; and when these contributions commenced. [29896/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Transfer of Service (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the service record of a person (details supplied) has been transferred from the Louth-Meath Education and Training Board to her Department; the reason for the delay in transferring the documentation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29922/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Many of the questions I intended to put have been asked but the issue that is obviously occupying people's minds in this regard is that on one level there is phenomenal largesse in terms of the payment of elites while on another level there is an attitude that student nurses should not get paid or individuals who are working at the coalface just have to carry on regardless and suffer because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I have. There are 3,000 people in the public service who are earning less than €22,000. Compared with the salary that was granted to the Secretary General, the ratio is 12:1, which is enormous. In Nordic countries, for example, the ratio between the top salary and the bottom salary is 3:1, 4:1 or possibly 7:1. Why was an increase of €80,000 selected rather than one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Why would that information not have been provided to the Cabinet in paper form in advance of the meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I take it that the Cabinet is not a confidential space then?