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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 626. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place a support service for male victims of domestic abuse in the greater Dublin area in which 1.5 million persons reside but which has no service. [38537/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 627. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to remedy the disparity in funding for services for male victims which amounted to less than 2% of total funding in 2017 although males comprise at least one third of all victims; and if an organisation (details supplied) will be designated the national support service. [38538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that applied for a SUSI grant in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of students that were granted and refused a grant in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38742/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of letters and emails received regarding students that had issues with their SUSI grant applications in each of the past five years. [38743/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 764. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent study (details supplied) in which a series of interviews with doctors carrying out abortions in Ireland reveals that babies born alive after failed abortions have been left to die; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38951/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 765. To ask the Minister for Health when he proposes to set a date for the mandatory three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. [38954/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 775. To ask the Minister for Health if a mental health day hospital will be included in the new primary care unit (details supplied) in County Meath ; if so, if it will it be an admissions unit; and when the proposed new primary care centre in Navan will be built. [37820/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 922. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the backlog in processing pensions in each Health Service Executive region for retired HSE employees; the actions he is taking to speed up the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38676/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Leave (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 954. To ask the Minister for Health the research the HSE has conducted for women who are at least 28 weeks pregnant who work in close contact professions in which social distancing is not possible and health and safety leave is advised at 28 weeks of pregnancy by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal College of Midwives and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider offering psychological supports and counselling to women who have had abortions and to doctors and medics who have performed abortions, given the findings of a study (details supplied). [38952/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ministerial notifications he has received under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if all ministerial notifications that identify the termination of pregnancy as having taken place under section 11 of the Act had, at the time of receipt by him, been signed off by two medical practitioners. [38953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has been contacted by doctors or medics who have expressed concerns regarding failed, botched or unsuccessful abortions; and if so, if he will detail the nature of that correspondence. [38955/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have been contacted by doctors or medics who have expressed a concern regarding conscientious objection; the details of these concerns; and the quantity of correspondence received on this matter since the rollout of abortion in January 2019. [38956/20]

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Everybody listening to this debate at home will be familiar with the recruitment process for a job and most will have been through some type of recruitment process in their own work. Everybody understands that a recruitment process should be fair, open and transparent and that the person with the best knowledge, experience, character and skill should be selected for the job. We live in a...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: We are not being given any qualitative criteria because there are none. It is as simple as that. It is not difficult to understand at all. How many candidates did the Minister consider for the role?

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: There were three lists. I wanted to ask how many candidates the Minister considered for the role because we want to bring transparency to this process and if we do not know how many candidates were considered, it is not transparent. The Minister mentioned people who expressed an interest. Outside of them, there was another list of judges who are available and have the experience to do the...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not practice to have clarity on this process and one of the reasons we are here is to change that practice. The Minister said on our local radio station recently that she was only asked to fill one Supreme Court position. Who asked her to do that?

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Chief Justice asked the Minister to only fill one particular role on the court. Is that correct? Given that there are thousands of cases in the system, increasing by the year, and that the courts system is underpowered as regards judges, it is very hard to understand why, with multiple applicants and access to different lists, the Minister would not fill more than one position on the...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister's response contradicts the behaviour of the Chief Justice and other Supreme Court judges previously who have gone to the Government demanding that it fill positions within the Judiciary. It is not feasible for the Minister to say that she was not asked to fill a role. The Minister is driving the Department. It is the Minister's decision and responsibly to fill that role and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I have no doubt that this is a serious issue, but every week, hundreds of serious issues are brought to this Chamber in promised legislation. For weeks, they have got no airing at all because all of promised legislation's time is being taken up by these battles. There has to be a system by which Deputies can bring questions on promised legislation to the floor of the Dáil on the weekly...