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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Gan dabht.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: I invite a presentation on programme D, if there is one, or questions.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not my desire to put competing interests against one another with regard to funding but this goes back to my point on the Irish language and how poorly it is funded. Waterways Ireland receives €24 million for 2018, which it should, but Foras na Gaeilge has funding of €13 million, which is considerably less. As such, the Irish language is the poor relation. I guarantee...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom míle buíochas a rá leis an Aire agus an Aire Stáit as teacht isteach anseo agus na ceisteanna seo a fhreagairt. We will deal briefly in private session with any other business.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Message to Dáil (28 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Under Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has considered the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2018: Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (28 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the reason technicians in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, have stated that they could not stand over the quality of the outputs from the echocardiogram machine in the hospital; if this is affecting the ability of doctors to make the quality diagnosis; when the funding application for a new replacement machine was made; when it was finally replaced; the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Data (27 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 328. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visas granted to non-EU workers on film and television productions in receipt of State funding in each of the years 2007 to 2017. [13961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (27 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were receiving Versatis on the drug payment scheme and the medical card in November 2017; the number of persons removed and still receiving Versatis on these two schemes respectively; and his plans to ensure the return of this drug to persons on these schemes. [13523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local and Community Development Programme Expenditure (27 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 574. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent on the Local and Community Development Programme in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and the allocated spend for 2018, by county in tabular form. [14038/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (27 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to prevent a company (details supplied), whose appeal against An Bord Pleanála's ruling that this company must now must carry out environmental impact assessments, EIAs, in order to secure planning permission for extracting and milling peat was rejected by the High Court last month, from the ongoing and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (27 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason carers who are in receipt of carers' allowance are not allowed to have their allowance income included in the assessment for the Rebuilding Ireland loan (details supplied); and his plans to address the matter. [14120/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: I refer to page 108 of the programme for Government. Lyme disease is the world's fastest growing vector-borne infection. People all over the country, many of whom are radically debilitated and incapacitated as a result, are suffering from it. According to experts, some GPs have a poor level of awareness of the disease and its symptoms, as a result of which the disease is overlooked and...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: It is semi-detached government.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been going on for the past seven years.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Irish citizens.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (21 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there are no registered solicitors on the free legal aid list for County Meath. [13004/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Sinn Féin believes the eighth amendment should be repealed and that abortion services should be made available in certain cases such as where there is a life-limiting disability, in cases of rape and incest and where there is a threat to the health of the mother. I thank my party for giving me the opportunity to speak to the Bill, despite the fact that I hold a different view from that...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: That is completely untrue. The Taoiseach is putting them into that position.

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: That is an alternative theory

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The functioning of the relationship between politicians and civil servants is extremely important for a healthy and transparent democracy and each has a separate role in the formulation and delivery of policy. The separateness of functions is critical and it is not the responsibility of a civil servant to be a partisan arm of a political party in Government. Today, the Irish Examinerreports...