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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Speech and Language Therapy (8 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 645. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the waiting lists for speech and language therapy in County Wexford for each of the past five years [41505/20]

Mental Health Policy: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome this important motion and praise the Regional Independent Group for bringing it before the Dáil. I would like to give a special mention to Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh, who did massive work in the development of this particular motion. This is a strong motion and, if implemented, would make a radical change to hundreds of thousands of lives around the country. I also welcome the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) aged over 66 who has had their employment impacted by Covid-19, had been making PRSI contributions while in employment and was also in receipt of a contributory widow’s pension is excluded from being eligible to apply for the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: As someone who has had a battle with cancer this year, I thank all of the witnesses very much for the work they do in their professional capacities. It is appreciated. Before I ask my questions, I will add my voice to urge and encourage women to use the CervicalCheck cancer screening. Despite all the media reports and questions around it, the programme plays a valuable role in protecting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank Dr. Russell for that answer but it does not get to the key issue. I fully agree that there is a significant margin of error in the screening and it cannot be any other way. That is inherent in the process. I also understand, however, that the Government has taken responsibility for slides that were read incorrectly and that should have been picked up in the initial reading, and has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The reason I think this is important, and it is probably the reason our engagement initiated in the first instance, relates to a statement I made in the Dáil a couple of weeks ago. We might park the issue of the margin of error to one side because I understand that is a natural part of the process. The State has acknowledged there is another section of women, outside of the margin of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (10 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the second vacancy for the Supreme Court has been left unfilled; and her plans to fill this position before the end of her term as Minister. [40269/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 90. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of the correspondence his Department has received from organisations, charities, volunteer groups and NGOs which warn of an increase in mental health issues and suicide rates since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. [42445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional nurses, midwives and medical practitioners that have been employed by the HSE in 2020 through the use of recruitment agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to resolve the dispute that has arisen in schools in relation to SNAs being asked to use a catheter with certain students that need help with toileting; and when staff with nursing experience will be employed in schools to help certain students' needs as promised. [42561/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (10 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to recent reports in the media that a protected disclosure was made to his Department concerning warnings of issues pertaining to foetal diagnostic testing in 2018, some months before a perfectly healthy unborn baby was misdiagnosed and subsequently aborted in the National Maternity Hospital in 2019. [40270/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the current guidance in relation to attendance at funerals and weddings. [42095/20]

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is an absolute disgrace that the Minister for housing is not in the Chamber.

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that, but this practice has been repeated by Governments and Ministers regularly. At the start of this Dáil the Government introduced a process whereby Opposition Deputies were made to slide down the pecking order when it came to an opportunity to speak in order that the Government could put its Deputies up first. That means that the Minister is not around to listen to...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that, but there is nothing better than listening to the remarks as they are made, as the Minister of State well knows. Deputy Mattie McGrath stated, "Ní neart go cur le chéile". We in Aontú have a similar saying, namely, that we all live under the same sky and we are all responsible for each other. During this pandemic and during the recession, we have an...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. Would it be possible to share with the rest of the Chamber any findings of the study or even the timetable for when it is to be completed? I believe that three actions are necessary in this situation. First, we need to be able to collect information from counties other than Dublin. We need to know how many people are dying in homelessness in each of those counties. If we do not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when universities and colleges will be permitted to reopen. [43308/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who were initially awarded SUSI grants that have since had the grants withdrawn from them by SUSI. [43307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 126. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the current status of a skills audit by the IDA for County Laois; the results of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42948/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 127. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of visits the IDA has carried out in each county in each of the past five years in counties Laois, Offaly and Westmeath in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42949/20]