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Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Almost one in four taxi drivers currently are over the age of 66 and they are being denied income support from the State. They are told it is because they are over the qualifying age. That is incredibly wrong. Anybody whose income has been reduced by such a level should have a situation where the State should be able to help them. There should not be discrimination between different...

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is incredible. There is a door outside.

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I have great respect for the Deputies who are making the noise at the moment but telephones are going off in this Chamber regularly. Conversations such as this cause difficulty when people are trying to focus on representing the taxi sector. I was surprised by how reasonable the demands of the taxi sector were. The taxi drivers know the State is in chaos at the moment. They know that...

Housing (Temporary Provisions regarding Short-term Lettings) Bill 2020: First Stage (16 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to temporarily suspend the provision of short-term lettings in certain cases, with the objective of increasing the number of dwellings available for rent; and to provide for related matters. We do not get too much speaking time here and I ask that maybe we could have the full attention of the Minister of State, Deputy...

Housing (Temporary Provisions regarding Short-term Lettings) Bill 2020: First Stage (16 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Tá súil agam go bhfuil sé go maith. Obviously, climate change is very real and we have seen ten of the warmest years on record happen since 1998. We have seen the CO2 of hundreds of millions of years of organic growth stored in the ground literally being put into the environment in the space of approximately 100 years, radically changing the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Is a Minister available to deal with my issue?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I was hoping for the senior Minister for Health. Some 18 months ago, a family was told that their unborn child had a fatal foetal abnormality by a member of staff at the National Maternity Hospital. This was not the case and it was not a mistake. The false diagnosis was given to the child's mother without fulfilling the necessary guidelines or adhering to the law. The couple claims that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The little boy's name was Christopher and 18 months ago his life was ended in that hospital. The Minister of State said it is not appropriate for the details of that case to be mentioned here in the Dáil but it is not appropriate that, 18 months after this happened, there has been no effort to seek justice for that family. No truth has been given to them and no one at all has been held...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Assistance Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next review of housing assistance payments will take place for County Meath in view of the fact the current limits were introduced on 1 March 2017 and since then the cost of renting private rented accommodation has increased significantly leaving many persons on the HAP scheme struggling to pay the shortfall; and if...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: A significant theme is crystallising around how the Government is tackling the Covid-19 crisis. It is a tale of two countries. The Covid-19 restrictions are hitting low and middle income workers far more than any other element of society. Instead of reducing that impact, the Government is rubbing the noses of people in those incomes in it. There are pay rises for Deputies at the same time...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach agus leis an Aire freisin mar gheall ar an am a thabhairt dom ag an bpointe seo. The Defence (Amendment) Bill before the Dáil today is uncontroversial and in a way is full of formality rather than substance. Thousands of members of the Defence Forces have served this country bravely at home and abroad in numerous conflicts and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Mary Bartley Meehan lost her son and husband to Covid-19 in Kilbrew nursing home within six weeks of each other. She was recently shown a video of her husband before he died. The side of Ultan's face was discoloured with black, congealed blood. His nails were long and black as he had, unknown to himself, been picking his facial tumours and as a result, his face had become infected....

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: With two of them.

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (24 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is incredible that an Opposition group is getting to speak after 20 Government Deputies have spoken. The latter have access to their Ministers at their parliamentary party meetings, yet we are pushed so far back in these discussions. An trí rud is dainséaraí amuigh: éadan tairbh, deireadh staile, focail Shasanaigh. The three most dangerous things in life are the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I will add my voice to the points on NPHET. It is the most powerful organisation in this State currently and the decisions it is making are having a significant impact on hundreds of thousands of people around the country, yet Deputies have not had an opportunity to tease those questions out and hold NPHET to account. I know of Deputies who have asked journalists to ask NPHET questions,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach's parliamentary party meetings-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The O'Rahilly was the only leader from the 1916 battle to die in battle. His home in Herbert Park, Dublin was the location of much planning and development during that revolutionary period. Indeed, the Asgardgunrunning was organised there, as were many of the events of the 1916 Rising. Cumman na mBan was founded there. Today, the building lies in rubble in a shocking act of cultural...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (29 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will create a new Ireland forum to bring together civil and political society to start to work towards further all-Ireland integration and unity. [25415/20]