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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pharmaceutical Sector (10 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: Should I not wait for the Minister for Health?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pharmaceutical Sector (10 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the Minister of State for coming along to take this Topical Issue debate. Non-aligned Deputies do not get any guaranteed speaking rights at all in this Chamber. As any speaking rights that we get are purely on the basis of a lottery, when we manage to get a lottery question or Topical Issue addressed to the Minister for Health, it would be very useful for that Minister to be in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pharmaceutical Sector (10 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: This is one of the reasons why I made the complaint at the outset. I asked specific questions and the Minister of State has a script which does not deal with any of the questions that I asked. We are unfortunately talking at cross-purposes. There is no commitment with regard to the threatened cuts of €40 million or the unwinding of FEMPI. The Government and HSE have pointed out...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to place barbers and hairdressers on the list of eligible staff for work permits; if she has carried out an audit of the number of persons here with the necessary skills and the demand in the industry; and her plans with regard to training in the sector. [51178/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Information and Communications Technology (10 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the problems that exist regarding the printing of documents from the information technology system in the health service; the number of persons affected by the inability to print documents; the cost of the system; the steps required to fix same; the estimated cost of the fix; and when it will be fixed. [51722/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach has stated he will defend the interests of Irish citizens in the North of Ireland. Thousands of people from across the country have asked him to put those words into actions. Some 100 years ago, Members of Parliament, north and south, refused to attend Westminster and they came here to create our Dáil as a 32-county Parliament at the time. Yesterday, I submitted a Bill...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive a new building. [49810/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was informed that they should check themselves out of Drogheda hospital, make their own way up to Beaumont Hospital and be reassessed there for surgery. [49968/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for and the detail of the significant variance between waiting time for surgery under the care of different consultants; and the variance from the mean in this regard. [49971/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (3 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 501. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider rerouting the Nos. 190 and 109b bus services through the village of Robinstown, County Meath (details supplied). [49806/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister can legislate.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday, I raised the issue that the average beef farmer is earning €8,000 per year. Today I want to raise the fact that salaries in RTÉ are as high as €0.5 million per year. One RTÉ presenter earns 61 times the average wage of a beef farmer, and €1,500 per broadcast hour. That presenter earns more weekly than the average beef farmer earns in a year. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: The courts are being ignored.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: One would think that the Government would pull them up on it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is making the investment decisions that are leading to these problems.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: The average annual income for farmers at the moment is €8,000, which is below the State pension and below jobseeker's payment. It works out at about €4 an hour. Teagasc estimates that about a third of farmers make a living from the farm, another third of farmers are only making a living because they are working off the farm, and a third of farmers are fully in poverty and in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: The injunctions are a form of intimidation.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: To get involved.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not nearly enough.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Nov 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for ASD units not existing in any post-primary school in Navan, County Meath for children with autism. [43107/19]