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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 384. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider an amnesty to be afforded to all those who have suffered sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination in the Defence Forces in order for them to tell their stories anonymously. [43581/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 643. To ask the Minister for Health if ICU beds were closed or taken out of use at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in the past six months; if so, when these ICU beds were closed or taken out of use; the reason for same; and the number of fatalities that occurred in the emergency department at the hospital in each month over the past year. [43490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by his Department and by the board of the HSE to close the emergency department at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan for any hours overnight; the opening times the emergency department would have if the decision was implemented; when the Ireland East Group plan to implement this decision given that Drogheda Hospital and Connolly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer deaths in each month for the past five years; and the cancer services that are fully operational or in which scanning, diagnostic and treatment services remain closed or partially closed, respectively. [43618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications that have been made for phenylketonuria; and the number of applications that have been rejected in each of the past five years. [44284/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services (16 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing a residential placement for a person (details supplied); the steps being taken to resolve the situation; and when a placement will become available further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 18 February 2021. [44327/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The depth of the housing crisis over the past ten years has been incredible. It is having the effect of gutting families and putting enormous pressure and stresses on families across the country. It is a humanitarian crisis. The idea that the word "crisis" could be so long-term is unbelievable. It shows a real inability on the part of the Government to focus on policy that will resolve...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding Ireland is set to receive from the EU recovery fund; his views on the amount of funding Ireland is set to receive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45183/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The total cost of the Government's handling of Covid, when the taxation measures, wage subsidies, grant supports and liquidity schemes, etc., are taken into consideration, for 2020 and 2021 was €41.3 billion, which is a phenomenal figure. The Comptroller and Auditor General's estimated cost of the banking bailout was €41.7 billion. These are two figures which are very similar....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister tell us why this amount is so low and how we can improve on it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Covid is obviously a real illness and we needed to be careful regarding the management of that illness. However, Ireland took a role which was an extreme outlier role compared with every other European country. No other European country's restrictions were as severe or as long as those introduced by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. In financial terms, for example, our annual spending in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: It reminds me of Ireland's instincts during the banking crisis when we were seen to be the best boy in the class. We do not shout loud enough for what we need.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Sometimes we are very insular and inward looking in this country. We handled this crisis in a radically different manner from every other European country. Yes, we had a crisis here. The majority of people who died of Covid caught it in a nursing home or hospital, which were the epicentre of the Covid crisis in this country. This area was radically mismanaged by the Government and we need...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I raised the question of antigen testing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Denmark, Germany and every other European country opened in a manner-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: On 22 October 2019, the Tánaiste apologised for the humiliation, disrespect and deceit shown by the State to the more than 1,000 women in the cervical cancer scandal. In May 2018, he stood up in this Chamber and made a promise to the women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy that they would not have to go to court in order to get justice. Patricia Carrick from Galway sadly passed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister for Health promised the 221+ group he would pause the process of the tribunal until there was an agreement reached on how it would work. That did not happen. In fact, the 221+ group found out in the media that it was going ahead. I raised the case of Patricia Carrick in the Dáil last year and, after I raised it, the clinical director of CervicalCheck wrote a letter to me...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: They are being ignored wholesale.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his recent meeting with his European counterparts in Croatia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45213/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2022 (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his most recent engagements or correspondences with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, particularly in advance of Budget 2022. [45258/21]