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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú has supported the scheme from the outset. The reason we have done so is that, unfortunately, poverty and the arts are often synonymous. People who work in the arts probably have the most precarious work that exists in the country. Their lived experience is often the direct opposite of people's understanding of the glamour of the arts. The difficulty I have with this is that we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has undertaken any analysis of the effectiveness of the basic income for the arts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34056/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: First of all, it is interesting that we do not know the net cost. We know the cost but many of these recipients were on social welfare previously. I ask the Minister to speak to the other aspect of this, namely, the impact it is having on the creative sector at present. Much of the study, and the information, has been on the 2,000 recipients but there is a control group of 6,000...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the difficulties is that for many, in reality, being an artist is synonymous with poverty. While now and again on the news or in the newspapers we see people who do economically well from their art, they are a tiny minority of that group. Historically, we know of artists who died as paupers only to have their art appreciated after their deaths. It is important that there is an...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department plans to expand the basic income for the arts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34053/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I was sorry to hear about the Minister's ill health recently and I wish him the best of luck with it in future too. The basic income for the arts scheme is an initiative we in Aontú have supported for many years. Many artists live in poverty and deprivation and have lives full of economic anxiety. The basic income for the arts scheme is designed to reduce that deprivation and to help...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 37. To ask the Minister for Health the current average ambulance response time; the average ambulance response time in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34063/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who left emergency departments without being seen in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34062/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Artists' Remuneration (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons currently availing of the basic income for the arts scheme. [34054/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Census of Population (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department plans to make the 1926 census of Ireland available to view publicly online; if so, the timeframe for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34055/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the nurse to patient ratio in Ireland, broken down by hospital. [35042/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the doctor to patient ratio in Irish hospitals, broken down by hospital. [35043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the consultant to patient ratio in Irish hospitals, broken down by hospital. [35044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if she was aware of a pilot scheme in operation in Navan Hospital currently running that has reduced the visiting hours for families (details supplied); the reasoning for such a measure; and if she will consider that many relatives are elderly and would consider this time late to travel to the town. [35046/25]

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The plan for flood defences in Midleton was promised in 2017. The planning permission is not even written yet. We need to know the whole timescale, not just for construction.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The committee asked the Department of Transport representatives to provide a comparative analysis of regulation in other jurisdictions and they said they would. It would be great to get that back before the report is complete. Regulations are one of the big challenges we have in this country, and planning.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That is great.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: To summarise what we have learned, basically.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: IBEC Report on Infrastructure Ambition for a Competitive, Productive and Resilient Economy: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Obviously, infrastructure is the biggest problem in the country now. Recently, I looked at figures that showed the cost of congestion in Dublin now is €336 million and is expected to be €1.5 billion in 2040. The average speeds in Dublin are now less than they were in the 19th century during the horse-and-cart period because infrastructure is becoming so congested. The figure...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: IBEC Report on Infrastructure Ambition for a Competitive, Productive and Resilient Economy: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Very good.