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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I will give the Taoiseach another example if I can. The National Suicide Research Foundation collects data on self-harm presentation from emergency departments throughout the country. These important data were suspended in the vast majority of these hospitals until the end of June. Even today, self-harm data are still not being collected in all of the emergency departments throughout the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I received a message from a doctor in the past couple of days. He stated: I have luckily had no patients who have died of coronavirus. I have had at least three though who have had delayed cancer diagnoses due to the shutdown of services and the delay in services. These will almost certainly die. I have others who are desperate to be seen by specialists but are hitting a brick wall in...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome and fully support this motion. One of the biggest mistakes of this whole pandemic has been that so many key, life and death services have been stopped by the previous Government and have been kept closed by this Government. For the past number of months we in Aontú have consistently called for the reopening of the health services. We have said over and over again that these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 818. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 127 unborn children placed on the child protection notification system of Tusla over the past eighteen months by county; and the reason the children were placed on the system. [21939/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 866. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of emails his Department received concerning students that had issues with their SUSI grant application and grant refusal. [21935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Garda Investigations (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1279. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is cooperating with the investigation by An Garda Síochána into the death of a person (details supplied). [21937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1280. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn to clusters of Covid-19 in Letterkenny, County Donegal in late August 2020 which was referred to by a local general practitioner (details supplied) on social media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21938/20]

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

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Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Accountability is an extremely important part of any democracy. If this country has suffered in the past, it is because of lack of accountability. The Government has all the cards in its hands. It has its offices and the human resources to be able to push through so much of its political agenda. One of the major elements of accountability is the ability of Opposition parties, especially...

Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I add my voice to many of the other voices from the Opposition. Legislation is an incredibly important element of what we do here and of the lives of the people outside the House. People live and die by legislation that is created in this House. We are discussing legislation here that has very far-reaching effects in Irish society. Obviously, vulture funds are a negative element of Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for school reopening in August and September 2020; when schools and teachers will be informed; and when the information in relation to same will be published. [19299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that consumers are not out of pocket due to postponed or cancelled flights as a result of Covid-19 in cases in which travel insurance companies are refusing to reimburse them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19810/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if leaving certificate points awarded in 2020 based on calculated points can be used in future years if a student opts to defer applying to third-level college for a year or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19785/20]

Perjury and Related Offences Bill [Seanad] 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá cúig nóiméad agam agus táim ag roinnt an ama sin leis an Teachta Naughten. Gabhaim míle buíochas le mo chomhghleacaithe sa Ghrúpa Réigiúnach as an mBille seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an iarSheanadóir, Pádraig Ó Céidigh, a chum an Bille seo, agus le Cáit Nic Amhlaidh as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child who must remain at home and partake in remote learning during the 2020/2021 year due to Covid-19 health concerns and has had access to an SNA for the past number of years will lose their SNA allocation if they cannot attend school; if they will have to reapply for an SNA allocation in the following school year; if not, if they will...

Ministers and Ministers of State (Successors) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ensure the prompt appointment of successors to Ministers and Ministers of State who have as a result of a general election ceased to be members of the Oireachtas; and to provide for related matters. This Bill comes on the back of the incredibly long negotiations required to form a Government at the start of this year....

Ministers and Ministers of State (Successors) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

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

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I lend my voice to the rake of tour bus operators around the country whose overheads have not reduced, but whose income has been radically reduced. Tour guide operators, which are not bus operators themselves, are also suffering massively. They are saying that loans are not enough and that they need grants to get them through the situation they are in.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: This is an absolutely disastrous deal for Ireland. Ireland is one of the most heavily indebted nations on the planet. We currently have a higher debt per capitathan Greece. Our debt is well north of €200 billion, and after the next five years of the Covid-19 crisis, it is likely that will be added to significantly. It shocks me that these types of major decisions made in the EU are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (21 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital budget allocation to the OPW in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [16729/20]