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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 667. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of a breach of Covid-19 guidelines and restrictions at a residential care facility (details supplied) in County Cork, which has allegedly resulted in a cluster of cases arising from the event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5230/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting appointments under the National Counselling Service in County Laois; the waiting times for each service for choice and partnership approach, CAPA, counselling in primary care, CIPC, and counselling for former residents of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5378/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting appointments under the National Counselling Service in County Meath; the waiting times for each service for the choice and partnership approach, CAPA, counselling in primary care, CIPC, and counselling for former residents of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5379/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if a plan exists for dealing with residents in nursing homes who were away from their nursing home on the day the other residents received their first dose of the vaccine. [5555/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if hospital staff who have been deemed close contacts of those who have tested positive for Covid-19 are being tested; the number of hospital staff nationwide who are close contacts currently awaiting tests; and the average wait time for same. [5556/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute mental health units in Dublin that are closed due to outbreaks of Covid-19; and the number of units that are full due to the increased pressure on the remaining units. [5711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 823. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity regarding suicidal persons or persons with mental illness who require psychiatric admission in the Dublin area; and if such persons are being admitted to hospital. [5712/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 824. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatric beds available in the Dublin region. [5713/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 825. To ask the Minister for Health the average and expected wait time for a psychiatric bed in the Dublin region in the week of 25 to 31 January 2021; and the contingency plans that have been put in place to deal with the crisis. [5714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have successfully sued the HSE in relation to cervical cancer screening in each of the years since 2018. [5741/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 843. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider using ivermectin and colchicine in the treatment of Covid-19 [5803/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Nursing homes have been the ground zero of the Covid crisis. A total of 1,543 people have died in nursing homes since the start of the crisis and 369 people have died in nursing homes with Covid just in the last month; and my deepest sympathy goes to each and every one of those families. I am not aware of so many people dying so quickly in any other institutions in the history of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Tánaiste wants to contradict the medical professionals I have spoken to in some of these nursing homes with regard to the timing of delivery of vaccines into those nursing homes, he can, but timing is key, and every single nursing home that is experiencing the wave at the moment will tell him that timing has been absolutely shocking. Things could not have been worse with regard...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance the current length of time for processing each of the main tax reliefs and in the case of a person (details supplied) in tabular form. [6105/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 will be extended beyond the end of 2021; if so, when they will expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6155/21]

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Táim buíoch don deis labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo. Covid-19 has radically impacted on the health and well-being of people around the country. Many families have lost loved ones in tragic circumstances and many families listening to this debate are in bereavement or serious grief. The country needs to do everything it can to make sure we reduce the incidence of...

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: For how long have we been talking about insurance in Leinster House and the Dáil? How many years have passed in which Private Members' Bills, motions, discussions, questions and hot air have been produced en masseon the issue of insurance in Ireland? What level of actual reform has happened in the intervening time? One of the most frustrating things about being an elected...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Accountability and democracy should not be victims of Covid. They are more important now in this crisis than they ever were. Ministers are being insulated from accountability within this Chamber due to the lack of opportunity available to the Opposition to debate the crisis in areas such as nursing homes, vaccines roll-out, education and housing. I appeal to the Government to support a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Two weeks ago, people gathered for the 29th anniversary of a gun attack on the Ormeau Road in 1992 in which people were murdered by loyalist paramilitaries. The PSNI descended on that gathering in an extremely heavy-handed manner. Its officers came down on the families affected by and survivors of that loyalist atrocity like a ton of bricks. One police officer has been suspended and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Did the Taoiseach raise the matter with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland?