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Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The reason this has been raised so often is because of the damage that it is doing to the country. Ireland has had the longest and most severe lockdown of any country in Europe. According to Reuters a couple of weeks ago, Ireland had 163 days of workplace closures and that compared to Germany, which had 34 days of workplace closures. The reason for the length and severity of the lockdown...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This is my final point. I asked Deputy Stephen Donnelly last week in a parliamentary question what actions he had taken to procure additional vaccines outside of the European supply chain. The Minister said none.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his dialogue and meetings with faith leaders. [43328/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with faith leaders. [13193/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The death of a family member is one of the most raw and emotional times anybody will experience. Funerals are very difficult at any time but during Covid-19, for many, they have been a complete disaster. At the moment, attendance at funerals can be a lottery for family members. We have reports from around the country of local priests refusing access to a church to family members on the...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Housing is a basic need. Without housing, all aspects of life become radically more difficult. Physical and mental health starts to deteriorate and a family's ability to provide even simple nutrition falls apart. Education and work life are next to impossible without a home, and the human condition disintegrates if a person does not have a house. Ireland is suffering from a prolonged...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent dialogues with the Government and President of the United States of America. [43329/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a tax on single use plastics. [13196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 281. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended given that the private construction sector has been restricted due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12783/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment by each of the four payment rates by age, gender and occupation in County Wexford from 16 October 2020 to date in tabular form. [13441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the terms of reference for the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation omitted to cover illegal birth registrations.. [13756/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 639. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason persons whose births were illegally registered, incorrectly registered or who were illegally adopted were excluded from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.. [12633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Registration of Births (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 636. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the review into incorrect birth registrations commissioned by his Department in May 2018 generated a report; and if so, when such a report will be published. [12630/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Registration of Births (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 637. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details regarding the independent review into incorrect birth registrations; if private nursing homes or persons were included in this review; the nature of the review process; if interviews were conducted; if testimony was audio compiled; and the status of any such testimony of audio files. [12631/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Inquiry (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 638. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the fact that the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the sale of children and sexual exploitation of children, Ms Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, has twice called for a full-scale inquiry into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions that occurred in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Authority of Ireland (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 651. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if correspondence will be made available which was forwarded to his Department in 1996 by the Adoption Authority of Ireland after the Department inquired from adoption authorities if they had been made aware of or involved in cases of illegal birth registration. [13208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the engagement process with social and healthcare course providers and regulatory bodies on the challenges for students required to undertake placements during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12798/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a situation in National University of Ireland Galway in which a student fails to pay the student levy fee of €224 by 31 December 2020 in any given academic year, the fee is automatically doubled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 24 February 2021, if SUSI is seeking repayment from the 743 students that were initially awarded SUSI grants but subsequently had the grants withdrawn upon review. [13210/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 771. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown on vaccine administration by county. [12634/21]