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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts and Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an bhfinné as sin. Bhí sé an-shuimiúil ar fad. The elected representatives have been chomping at the bit to get in. I know Senator Warfield has to be in the Seanad shortly, so if it were possible, we might let him go first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts and Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Deputy have another question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts and Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The next speaker is Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell who I should have brought in earlier as she has been one of the key drivers of this particular part of our research.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts and Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Does Mr. Carney wish to continue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts and Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Ms O'Donoghue is looking to come in.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (20 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review and change the criteria under which a person (details supplied) can apply for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers (tax concessions) scheme. [8489/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps the Revenue Commissioners has taken to ensure that much of the self employment within the film industry is not bogus self employment; and the investigations the Revenue Commissioners has made in the past five years to ensure that those registered self employed are actually self employed. [8496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (20 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a place for a person (details supplied) in the special care unit of a school in September 2018 will be assured. [8321/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (20 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the genetically modified products imported here; the genetically modified animal feeds imported here and entering the food chain; the volume of these imports; his views on whether these genetically modified products in the food chain will have a negative impact on Ireland's green food brand; his further views on whether genetically...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Film Industry (20 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken by Scope to ensure that much of the self-employment in the film industry is not bogus self-employment; and the investigations Scope has made in the past five years to ensure that those registered as self-employed are actually self-employed. [8674/18]

Topical Issue Debate: School Patronage (21 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The need for diversity and pluralism within the education system is critically important. Parents and children should have a right to access education that reflects their ethos and value system. It is a healthy society that provides and embraces that level of diversity and that diversity is a threat to nobody. At this stage in our development as a society, nobody opposes diversity and...

Topical Issue Debate: School Patronage (21 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: There is some confusion here. Obviously the decision was made to create diversity in the town of Trim with the addition of another option for parents and children. Some level of demographic research must have informed that decision. The Minister mentions the idea of demographic research as though it is a new thing. He speaks as though it struck the Department in the last few weeks that it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (21 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 21 January 2018, when works on an upgrade between the Rath roundabout and Kilmoon Cross on the N2 are expected to commence and conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8851/18]

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Minister was strangled by a mortgage in distress he would be scared.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The State has been rudderless for the past 16 years. It has had no development plan whatever. The absence of a plan, combined with the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil policy of no investment, has led to the sloppy, haphazard urban sprawl which radiates from Dublin into towns located in south Ulster and Connaught. It has emptied swathes of the country. Even the Minister's county has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE bus service has ceased collecting persons from St. Joseph's Hospital, Trim, County Meath, to attend Dublin hospitals; and when this service will resume. [9356/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (27 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 783. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the appointment of a chair of the implementation group of arts in education charter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9276/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cistiúchán Roinne (28 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí sásta leis an méid maoinithe a fuair sí don Ghaeilge sa bhuiséad deireanach; cén próiseas a bhí i gceist chun an maoiniú sin a éileamh; an bhfuil sí sásta go bhfuil an Rialtas ag éisteacht le mianta phobal na Gaeilge; an bhfuil sí chun breis...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cistiúchán Roinne (28 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Is iontach an rud é gur tháinig an tAire Stáit ar sledge ó Dhún na nGall inniu. Tá sneachta anseo ach is lá breá earraigh é i nDún na nGall. Sa ghéarchéim, ní raibh gearradh siar níos mó ar aon earnáil eile sa tír ná an gearradh siar a tharla san earnáil Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta agus é seo in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cistiúchán Roinne (28 Feb 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Is é an fhadhb atá agam ná gur chuir an tAire Stáit fáilte arís roimh an méid airgid a fuair sé sa cháinaisnéis in ainneoin go bhfuair an Roinn níos lú ná leath den mhéid mhaoinithe a bhí á lorg. I mí Dheireadh Fómhair, dúirt an tAire Stáit go raibh an Rialtas dírithe ar theacht leis an...