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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 614. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the MIDOC in Birr, County Offaly closed; if there are plans for it to reopen; if there is an assessment of accessibility of primary care in Birr; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18735/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 770. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on the current review of CLÁR designated areas within her Department, and when the review will conclude; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18829/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It is interesting there is such a disparity between the numbers the Minister has quoted, which are correct according to the census, and the number of people who are declaring as farmers. Fewer people are declaring as farmers because they must have another occupation when they cannot make enough money from their farms. In the census, they declare they are not farmers but are something else....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister's answer is, to an extent, an admission that farming, in comparison with other income streams, is falling. He said that because the income in farming is now lower than in much of the rest of the economy, people are getting out of farming. Why is income lower in farming? Why do we have a food sector that is phenomenally profitable but where the profit lands in the factory and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister supported that legislation when he was in opposition.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: May I come back at that? That is a shocking thing to say.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms in Ireland in each of the past ten years. [17665/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: In 2011, 73,000 people declared their occupation to be farmers. In 2016, this had fallen to approximately 69,000 people who declared their occupation to be farmers. In the 2022 census, this had fallen again to 61,000 people who declared their occupation to be farmers. This is an 11% decrease and an acceleration in the number of people who are no longer self-identifying as a farmer because...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: These are shocking figures. The Minister basically said that since she was elected, approximately 40,000 people with disabilities have applied for disability allowance, been refused, had to appeal the decision and were then successful. She is saying that, for the big chunk of those cases, the initial refusal of the application by the Department was incorrect. These are people with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Department is blocking people from getting assistance. That is what a refusal is. It is a block. Up to 40,000 people, which is equivalent to the populations of Athlone and Portlaoise combined, have been refused by the Department and then been granted the allowance subsequently. The Minister might blame the people for not having all the information first or not being able to fill the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Scrap the means test.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who, having been refused the disability allowance, were successful in their appeals of her Department’s decision to refuse in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [17667/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: People with disabilities are among the people most discriminated against in Ireland. People with disabilities battle daily just to achieve basic services from the State. A few weeks ago this Government played the part of champions of carers and people with disabilities, but that zeal has disappeared for some reason after the referendum results. People with disabilities regularly tell me...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister is a fan.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: No border.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: No border.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times an individual in receipt of carer’s allowance had their allowance stopped, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024; and to provide a sample of reasons that carer’s allowance may be withdrawn from carers. [17668/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Further and Higher Education (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department collates statistics on the number of persons who obtain a green certificate qualification; and, if so, if he will provide a year-by-year breakdown of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17666/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail the pension entitlements for An Taoiseach. [17660/24]