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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Over the weekend many pubs and restaurants desperately seeking to earn a few bob had their businesses washed out. We saw images of people trying to get shelter under awnings and umbrellas. Some pubs have been closed for 450 days. Today the Minister, Deputy Ryan, has said that hospitality may not reopen until possibly the end of August. This crisis has to be debated on the floor of this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Today, 24 people will lose their lives to cancer and 480 people will get cancer. In the past week, I have secured statistics from the HSE, which state that so far in 2021, the number of people referred from GPs to rapid access clinics for cancer is 153% of the figure for the same period last year. It is 126% of the same period in 2019, which is worrying. Consultants have stated that a...

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: We have had dozens of debates in this Chamber on rents and house prices over the past seven years yet, despite the endless Bills and all the legislation, we have seen rents continue to spiral radically. Housing affects everything. There is no doubt in my mind that the lack of Government action over the past seven years especially has pushed many families into significant poverty. This...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of former employees of NAMA who have left and become employees of property development companies; the person or body in relation to same; the companies they have or work for; if his Department or NAMA record such details; and the timeframe required between when a person is an employee of NAMA and when they then take up employment either directly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 466. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of the data breaches experienced by his Department since 2018. [29319/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 546. To ask the Minister for Health if the TAPS fund for nursing homes which is due to expire in June 2021, will be extended for a longer period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29932/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 491. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures made to his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and the nature of the disclosures and or the occupations or area of work of the persons who made protected disclosures to his Department. [29666/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 545. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts paid out in TAPS funding to nursing homes since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic by county. [29931/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the reason numerous applications made by a nursing home (details supplied) for TAPS have been unsuccessful. [29933/21]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: We are delighted to be able to bring this motion to the floor of the Dáil because it is such an important motion. In many ways, rural Ireland has become a box-ticking exercise in the Dáil over the years. We have a situation with regard to rural and regional Ireland in that they are becoming increasingly peripheral to the development of this country. Ireland is developing into a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [34693/21]

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Before Christmas, I held a meeting with the clinical director of CervicalCheck regarding the content of a letter she sent me. In this meeting, and in the letter, CervicalCheck criticised remarks I made in the Dáil on the scandal. I was criticised for suggesting that women had been wronged and for my use of words such as "mistakes" and "misreadings". CervicalCheck stated women had not...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: It is incredible to see the Government railroading legislation of this importance through the Dáil just before the summer recess, especially during a week when most of the country's attention is on the vaccine discrimination Bill. The LPT has the potential to increase the property tax for rural dwellers and those around the country who have been hit by the mica problem. There are a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Therefore, that €155 million has not yet been consumed.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 65. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in intensive care units with Covid-19 who have the delta variant of the virus. [37675/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 159. To ask the Minister for Health when cancer services will be restored to full pre-Covid-19 capacity in the State. [37676/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 175. To ask the Taoiseach the number of legal cases brought against his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37818/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of legal cases brought against his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of legal cases brought against his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37809/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of legal cases brought against his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37820/21]