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Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I have carried out a good bit of research over the last number of months on funding for Traveller accommodation. The responses I received to my parliamentary questions are absolutely shocking. Unbelievable information has come back in the last couple of weeks. In 2017, local authorities drew down €4.8 million from an allocation of €9 million. In 2018, local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason pubs and restaurants are not reopening for indoor dining at the same time that hotels are reopening for indoor dining. [29369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports he will give to enterprises who have difficulties reopening after lockdown. [29370/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cybersecurity Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts being made in relation to strengthening the security of data within her Department. [29395/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Donegal County Council is rejecting the recommendations of the structural engineer professionals and laboratory scientists on MICA despite spending roughly €6,000 to engage their expertise. [30283/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times he met with persons or representatives of persons whose properties have been affected by the MICA issue in County Donegal since he assumed office. [30284/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Representatives of the Ballymurphy Families (25 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Tá fáilte roimh gach éinne go dtí an cruinniú anseo. I extend a special welcome to all of the witnesses. We greatly appreciate their attendance. I have followed this campaign for the past two decades. I am still absolutely dumbfounded that it has taken 50 years for justice to be recognised by the State in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Representatives of the Ballymurphy Families (25 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Can I come in there, briefly? I made a proposal earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Representatives of the Ballymurphy Families (25 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: My proposal was that the committee seeks legal advice on what options exist in international law for the Government to force Britain to adhere to international agreements it has signed and prevent it from blocking the pathways of families to achieving justice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Representatives of the Ballymurphy Families (25 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: We could either send it to the Oireachtas legal advisers or use a budget within the committee, if there is one. I would be happy either way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Many of the questions I intended to put have been asked but the issue that is obviously occupying people's minds in this regard is that on one level there is phenomenal largesse in terms of the payment of elites while on another level there is an attitude that student nurses should not get paid or individuals who are working at the coalface just have to carry on regardless and suffer because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I have. There are 3,000 people in the public service who are earning less than €22,000. Compared with the salary that was granted to the Secretary General, the ratio is 12:1, which is enormous. In Nordic countries, for example, the ratio between the top salary and the bottom salary is 3:1, 4:1 or possibly 7:1. Why was an increase of €80,000 selected rather than one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Why would that information not have been provided to the Cabinet in paper form in advance of the meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I take it that the Cabinet is not a confidential space then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: If only the Cabinet were to receive a document in paper form and if there is, under the law, Cabinet confidentiality, one would imagine that such a paper document would have sufficed, would it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Can I ask one brief question and then I will finish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Can the scoring mechanism used for the selection of the candidate be made available to the committee?