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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated level of staffing, funding and resources that would need to be mobilised to allow for PCR testing centres to operate on a 24-hour basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59160/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum testing capacity for PCR testing and antigen testing of the health service; and if there are plans to expand this capacity. [59161/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if a timeline for Covid-19 booster jabs for each age group has been approved; and if so, the timeline for booster jabs. [59158/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for cancer patients to qualify for a medical card; and if there are plans to amend the criteria to expand eligibility for cancer patients. [59159/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which dentists are blanket refusing to see medical card patients; and the efforts his Department is undertaking to solve this problem. [59162/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that pre-legislative scrutiny has been waived in relation to Covid-19 related legislation; the legislation for which this waiver was requested; and the reason for each requested waiver for pre-legislative scrutiny [59172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for rewilding and wilding of land; and the current level of take-up for these supports in tabular form. [59177/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he has undertaken to reinstate the European Commission derogation for Ireland in relation to weigh fish once they have been transported to the factory. [59178/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of fish caught in Irish waters from 2016 to 2021 by species of fish and by the nationality of fishing trawlers in tabular form. [59179/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of cross-Border agriculture trade in 2020 and 2021; and the measures being considered to boost cross-Border agricultural trade both to and from the North of Ireland. [59180/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: What list are you on?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach is running at €600,000 raffle with a licence that is meant for a charity. Is it not cynical and extreme that Fianna Fáil, a party that reaped €3.4 million from the State last year, is now applying specifically under a charities licence to raise funds? A charities licence is for people who are in real need. You could not make this up. I ask the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: For a maximum of €10. It is a maximum of €10, but if it is a charity, it goes to €20.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I put in an amendment on the particular point I am going to address but unfortunately I, like many others, was restricting my movements during Committee Stage of this Bill and was not able to attend from outside the precincts. Therefore we were not able to put this amendment on today's paper but it relates to the amendment being discussed at the moment as it concerns VAT on fuel. This is a...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The first question is whether mandatory quarantine works. Mandatory quarantine was introduced at a time when people were talking about zero Covid and when there was a strong belief, at the start of the whole process, that it was possible to put a fence around the country and protect it from incoming viruses and variants. I do not think anybody would agree that zero Covid could possibly work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 168. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any perceived increase in cancer diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic. [59768/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commissions of Investigation (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of commissions of investigation currently ongoing; the duration of each commission of investigation; the deadline for each commission of investigation; and the actual and projected cost of each commission of investigation. [54098/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the advertising of abortion services and the My Options HSE number that provides free and confidential information and counselling to persons experiencing an unplanned pregnancy subsequent to the enactment of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and the person or body that has received this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of volunteers working at HSE vaccination and testing centres; if the €7 subsidised meal allowance was withdrawn from these volunteers by the HSE; and the amount the HSE saved from the withdrawal of the allowance. [59653/21]

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I think it is incredible that a Bill that is supposed to be about the saving of lives has seemingly turned into a debate about the ending of other individual human beings' lives. Many people watching the debate will be quite confused. On Government powers, if you give Government powers, as sure as night follows day, the Government will use those powers. That has been the way of every...