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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the report in relation to the difficulties experienced by a person (details supplied) in a prison will be published; if the Director General of the Irish Prison Service has issued recommendations on the basis of the report; if she actioned these recommendations; if so, the recommendations actioned; and the actions that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the protected disclosures that have been made in relation to Portlaoise Prison and the Irish Prison Service; and if she will meet the author of the protected disclosure. [7951/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 730. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 275, 276, 283 and 284 of 16 December 2020, if the situation (details supplied) will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1023. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will end the 30-month rule, the 70-day residency rule, the four-movement rule and break the cartel oligopoly in the beef sector. [8652/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1024. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent on the testing for and the eradication of TB in agriculture for each of the past ten years; the number of animals that have been killed as a result of TB for each of the past ten years; the number of these animals that were subsequently found to have TB or lesions for each of the past ten years; the reason it has...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the sale of cattle dosing products will not be taken off the agricultural merchants; and if he has estimated the economic damage to agricultural merchants of this proposed step in terms of jobs and turnover. [8654/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the proposed food ombudsman office will be established and operational; the number of staff the food ombudsman office will have; the enforcement ability this office will have; and if this office will tackle the cartel that exists in the beef sector. [8655/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Tax Yield (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1027. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the carbon tax being charged on agriculture is being spent (details supplied); and if he will ensure that farmers have an alternative in order to reduce exposure to carbon taxes,as otherwise the tax is purely punitive. [8656/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that CAP payments are focused on productive farmers rather than non-active landowners. [8657/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the revised REPS scheme reflects the value today of the initial scheme that existed in 1994; and if he will include reseeding for beef farms in this scheme. [8658/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that any financial aid to the beef sector does not have the outcome of reducing the price to the farmer (details supplied). [8659/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that will be put in place to ensure there is targeted help for suckler farmers. [8660/21]

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Táim buíoch don deis labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo. Covid-19 has radically impacted on the health and well-being of people around the country. Many families have lost loved ones in tragic circumstances and many families listening to this debate are in bereavement or serious grief. The country needs to do everything it can to make sure we reduce the incidence of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Nursing homes have been the ground zero of the Covid crisis. A total of 1,543 people have died in nursing homes since the start of the crisis and 369 people have died in nursing homes with Covid just in the last month; and my deepest sympathy goes to each and every one of those families. I am not aware of so many people dying so quickly in any other institutions in the history of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Tánaiste wants to contradict the medical professionals I have spoken to in some of these nursing homes with regard to the timing of delivery of vaccines into those nursing homes, he can, but timing is key, and every single nursing home that is experiencing the wave at the moment will tell him that timing has been absolutely shocking. Things could not have been worse with regard...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance the current length of time for processing each of the main tax reliefs and in the case of a person (details supplied) in tabular form. [6105/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 will be extended beyond the end of 2021; if so, when they will expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6155/21]

Reappointment of the Ombudsman for Children: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This State has carried out very important and good work in the past number of years in investigating and researching how previous generations have treated young children and mothers. Some of the findings that have been published so far are shocking and heartbreaking. It is important that this generation does not overlook the many young children who are in very difficult straits at this...

Oireachtas Members (Economic Justice) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: May I raise a point of order?