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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: An unborn child is a living individual human being. He or she is as human as the Minister of State, as alive as him and as individual as him, and that is according to science. Under the Government, however, late-term abortions are being carried out on unborn children and pain relief is not being used. On any level, humanitarian basis and understanding of society, how can the Minister of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State is reading a script but he has an individual responsibility over what he says in this Chamber and what is happening. The hundreds of words that he spoke add up to nothing. They mean business as usual. It means that a boy or girl who survives abortion, who is a citizen of this country at this stage, is allowed to expire, potentially, with no palliative care whatsoever...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment. [40081/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of the funding issued through the restart grant plus scheme which has been sought back; and if there have been other instances in which her Department has retrospectively sought the return of funding issued through various grant schemes. [40080/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to open additional direct provision centres in the country; and the planned geographical location of such centres. [40885/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 256. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department is planning to open accommodation for asylum seekers in Letterkenny, County Donegal; the number of asylum seekers the centre will accommodate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40887/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Before asking my question, I take this opportunity to encourage women to use the CervicalCheck cancer screening service. CervicalCheck saves many lives every year. On 11 November, I asked the Minister for Health how many legal cases have been issued to date in respect of CervicalCheck. He replied that there had been 164 cases as of that date. That is an incredibly high figure. Each of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It was the clinical director of CervicalCheck.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The fact that we are talking about the tribunal in the future tense at this stage is incredible. The Patricia Carrick case struck me in a number of ways. How could a Government fight her in the courts, practically up to the end of her life? It was incredible. She was not the only person who has been in that situation. It also struck me that she had taken a number of smear tests before...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: What if the court cases find there is a problem?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: We know this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a margin of error, but the problem is the court cases are finding that there are also mistakes beyond the margin of error.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú is a party of fiscal and social responsibility and these two policies are often presented by the Government as opposites, but they are not. One can be fiscally responsible and socially responsible at the same time. It is possible for a country to provide for housing, health, education, transport, communications and the environment and yet be fiscally responsible. This simply...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Maybe so. The Government, in fiscal terms, took the wrong decision in the level of stringency it pursued on the lockdown. This country was the sixth most strictly locked down country on the planet. Some 96% of all countries on the planet decided to have a less stringent strategy. This was despite the fact that we had the second lowest level of Covid-19 in Europe. One will say, correctly,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by taxes on advertisements on social media platforms (details supplied). [41494/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 232. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will engage with organisations (details supplied) to allow them to operate under levels 3 and 4 Covid-19 restrictions provided they follow all the relevant HSE guidelines, practise social distancing in classes and employ a pod system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41257/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons with Down's syndrome are eligible to use the EmployAbility service. [41877/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if audits are conducted annually for each EmployAbility service; if an audit has been conducted for each service annually for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41878/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost per placement for each jobseeker successfully placed in employment by the EmployAbility service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of funding for each EmployAbility service; and the funding of the programme nationally. [41880/20]