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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Car Parks (31 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 947. To ask the Minister for Health the total receipts for hospital car parking charges in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, nationally, by county and by hospital. [16653/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1062. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken a study to investigate the impact of Covid-19 and lockdowns on the provision of mental health services. [17012/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1063. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken a study to investigate the impact of Covid-19 and lockdowns on people's mental health; and, if so, if he will provide the details. [17013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (31 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments for cancer screening, diagnostics, treatments or routine and follow-up appointments that have been cancelled or postponed since March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17014/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate the Cathaoirleach giving me an opportunity to ask a question. I thank our guests for the presentation and for the information they have provided. Today is the 198th day of workplace closure in this State. If one compares and contrasts the number of days and the length of time and the severity of our lockdowns, they are significantly higher than in any other European country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: France closed schools for three weeks around Easter but schools here could have remained open since the start of September last year up until this particular break. While workplace closures here are, according to Reuters, for example, far longer than in other European countries, there is little difference between morbidity and mortality rates between countries such as Germany and Ireland. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: On cancer services-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I apologise. I thought I was going to get to ask a couple of questions. I have not had the opportunity to ask any questions. We do not have the time. I need to finish up the meeting. Apologies to end on a negative note. First, on behalf of the committee, I thank our guests and apologise again for the technical issues we had today. The witnesses have passed on some really good...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Aire as an gcur i láthair. In terms of the last discussion, a heavily dependent foreign direct investment, FDI, strategy is known as a transition strategy for Third World countries to migrate to first world status. This country has, unfortunately, never really moved out of that heavily dependent FDI strategy. It has done so on a basis of a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I studied economics in UCD and I am a postgraduate of the Michael Smurfit School of Business. It was understood in our analysis at the time of enterprise development in countries, that countries aim to develop a much larger and scaled-up indigenous sector. The SME sector in this country is not scaled up to size comparatively with other European economies and it is a great weakness. It is a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not what I am looking to do, Minister.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not asking the Minister to tell any company what to do. I am asking him, as a Government Minister, to create an economic environment where companies can flourish. In this country, we have had this occurrence within the banking sector. One of the ways in which the market structure can be improved in any environment is to increase the number of suppliers. Right now, because there is a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I join in the comments on the response the committee got from the Secretary General. It is clear he is not getting paid by the number of words he writes because it was an incredibly curt response to a committee and it added no light. It did not reflect the level of stress and concern that people understand the recruitment process to have caused. I want to ask about the extraordinary...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: With all due respect to the Minister, he did not deal with the issue of the tools with which the Government will tackle the debt. It would be normal to expect that currently it is planning specific policy actions that will have an effect on that deficit. I am not just talking about the rolling back of the PUP, etc. The rolling back of that type of expenditure will not close the deficit gap...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I hope the Minister is right that when the tide of this illness recedes, most of Ireland will be as it was. However, my worry is that when the tide of this illness recedes, there will be serious collateral damage within small and medium-sized businesses. Many such businesses will not reopen as a result of the economic damage that has been done in the past year. On the issue of the capacity...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The health service was not able to run cancer services as well.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Today is 21 April and the Dáil has sat for two full days in the month of April. That is outrageous. The Dáil is sitting two days a week now which means that for the whole of 2021, we have only two days a week to represent our constituents. In the middle of an economic, health and societal crisis, we have a part-time Dáil. That is no longer good enough. It is time that the...

Hospital Parking Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for parking free of charge for persons attending outpatient services in public hospitals; and to provide for related matters. I thank Deputy Berry for co-signing the Bill. Since 2012, hospital car parks have taken more than €100 million from patients, through either parking charges or clamping fees....

Hospital Parking Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are looking to build 409 pylons throughout Meath, Cavan and Monaghan, and then on into Armagh and Tyrone. They will be up to 51 m high and carry 400,000 volts, in some cases only 13 m from people's homes. In the communities along the curtilage of this interconnector there is widespread fear and opposition with concerns over health and the costs to homes,...