Results 81-100 of 16,956 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 54. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will detail the function and purpose of the National Review Panel, which conducts reviews into the deaths of children in State care. [49648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 55. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of community disability network teams not fully staffed in the State; the number which are fully staffed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49650/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports offered to birth mothers of children in State care; the ways through which they are supported through the process of taking their children into care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49651/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the work that has taken place to achieve the extension of the runway at Waterford airport, and to introduce commercial flights to an international carrier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50295/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of Irish produced beef the Office of Government Procurement have procured in the past five years; the plans to increase this; and if his Department has considered how EU public procurement rules can protect the use of Irish beef in public procurement. [50296/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus tickets issued to children nationwide for the 2025/2026 school year for which no corresponding bus service was available. [50428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus tickets issued to children in County Meath for the 2025/2026 school year for which no corresponding bus service was available. [50429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the time it takes to reactivate the PPS numbers for returning Irish emigrants, compared with the timescale involved in creating PPS numbers for the first time. [50294/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the impending closure of an animal rehabilitation centre (details supplied); if his Department has plans for the building, stables and lands which was used by the centre given its importance to the local community as well as its regional work; and if he will work with the organisation to determine if funding will...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Daniel Aruebose's remains were found in Donabate yesterday. He had been in State care but he was returned to his family and it appears that there were no follow-up checks. It is absolutely heartbreaking to see such a young boy lose his life. Since 2014, 239 children in State care or known to State care have died. Ten of those were murdered and 51 died as a result of drug overdoses or...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Funding (18 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 65. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Ireland intends to make use of the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) EU financial instrument; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (18 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to reduce the cost of electricity. [49292/25]

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte roimh an rún seo agus roimh an iarracht rochtain a fháil ar oideachas le haghaidh gach uile pháiste sa tír. Is é an t-oideachas ceann de na cearta is tábhachtaí sa tír seo. One of the key objectives of the Proclamation of the Republic is to cherish all the children of the nation equally. An education is one of the most important...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: At the moment, this is no country for young children and for many people who have disabilities. This day last year I raised with the then Taoiseach, Deputy Simon Harris, the case of Harvey Morrison Sherratt. I raised the facts that he had been taken off a waiting list unbeknownst to his family, had been left in excruciating pain for his condition to develop and never had the necessary...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: If we are to make sure children get the assessments of need that are necessary and if therapists are going to be recruited, then they need to know it is happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We should know whether it has been researched or investigated.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I accept that he was not tracked by State care.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I accept that his case was closed-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There needs to be a structure to investigate these cases. The ombudsman says there is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The ombudsman said there is not a statutory organisation to get the facts. That is a damning statement.