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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the current level of employment in the State as a percentage of pre-pandemic levels of employment. [45259/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance the study he or his Department undertook before he concluded that Ireland’s employment levels will be back to pre-pandemic levels by 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45260/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 551. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate funding in budget 2022 to voluntary mental health and suicide prevention charities not already in receipt of funding from his Department given the increased demand for such services due to the Covid-19 pandemic. [44566/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Mental Health Services (21 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 703. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to increase funding in Budget 2022 for voluntary mental health and suicide prevention charities due to extra demand for such services arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic. [44577/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not what IFAC says.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: For more than ten years, Fine Gael has been looking to shut the accident and emergency department in Our Lady's Hospital in Navan. For ten years, the people of Meath have been marching in their tens of thousands to keep it open. Shockingly, in March 2020, the Government went public with the decision to close the accident and emergency department for 12 hours overnight. Covid-19 happened...

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I have listened to many of the speakers. There are a lot of good ideas and conversations happening on this issue but what is required is action from the Government. I will give a couple of examples of where the Government is seriously breaking down and where the weight is being left in this crisis. A couple of years ago, the Meath Food Bank was without a home. I offered those who run it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the witnesses very much for coming in and for all the work they have done for the State and the people over the years. It is greatly appreciated. I have been listening intently to the evidence they have been giving. I have experience of working with people who have produced and submitted protected disclosures. The organisations involved were everything the National Museum of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: What also struck me about this is that sending a protected disclosure to a Department that could have been involved, or could have an overview of the difficulties that have arisen, is in itself problematic. Everybody knows if you ask an organisation to investigate itself, it will not do an independent job. An external investigation is the best way to make sure things are investigated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree with Mr. McGree. My point is that the whole process should be taken out of the Departments' hands. The terms of reference should be in the hands of a separate organisation within the State whose job it is to do this. I do not want to cast any aspersions over external organisations, but the person who pays any organisation will exert some level of influence over it whether it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Absolutely. There is no doubt that creating massive time spans with regard to these investigations is a form of denial of justice. Regarding protected disclosures, we have experienced instances where they have not worked. Are there any examples where they have worked or where we have seen people achieving justice for themselves, in addition to significant reform within their workplaces?...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with Bus Éireann regarding bus ticket shortages in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Louth; if she will detail the types of engagement she has had with Bus Éireann; and the dates in which this engagement took place. [45191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (23 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions his Department is taking to address the recent re-arrests of Christians in Eritrea (details supplied) who were previously imprisoned in violation of their right to freedom of religion and belief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45815/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (23 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the assessment her Department has made of Ireland being ranked as a tier two watchlist country in the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (details supplied); the action she is taking to combat human trafficking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45816/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Tom McHugh worked as an assistant chief officer, ACO, in Portlaoise Prison. In October 2018, a prisoner came to the governor of that prison and said that other officers were constantly coming to his cell and, in his words, wanting him to cut up Tom HcHugh. This is just one of example of what an ACO in our prisons has experienced. He was vindicated by the Naughton report. There was a Garda...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I reiterate what other Deputies have said about it being a disgrace that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has not stayed to listen to the debate. This has happened in large part because Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin have changed the way in which the Dáil operates, meaning that now most of those due to speak for those three parties have spoken...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: For ten years, the Government's stated policy has been to close the accident and emergency department in Navan hospital. The hospital was put on the list in the small hospital framework document. It was to be moved to a level 2 hospital. It was on the HIQA hit list of ten hospitals that were to have accident and emergency departments removed. Navan hospital is the only one of those ten...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The response the Minister of State provided does not mention the words "accident and emergency" at all. I cannot find those words in the entire script that was written for her by the Department. The hospital in Navan is the most important piece of infrastructure we have in County Meath. Nothing surpasses it. There are thousands of people walking around the county today who would not be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The policy is to close it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Exactly.