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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Investigations (9 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This is unusual because, in 2003, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in the North of Ireland introduced a farm management nutrients scheme in accordance with the European Parliament legislation to prevent farm pollution. Some 4,000 farmers participated in the scheme and the specifications set out for the scheme involved the construction of new, impermeable slurry...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Investigations (9 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I will not mention them. I appreciate that this matter may not have come across the Minister's desk so far. This is why I am raising it with him today. This crisis in the North could be as big as the cash for ash scandal. Some 4,000 farmers were told that they built correctly and £121 million of grant funding was given. A total of £212 million was spent on these tanks. If they...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commissions of Investigation (9 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of commissions of investigation currently ongoing under the remit of his Department; 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 Education and Skills: Third Level Examinations (9 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request that a person (details supplied) be permitted to sit university exams online given the exceptional circumstances in the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61001/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have received certificates that they have had Covid-19 to date; the number that are still valid; and if these numbers are included in the numbers counted as vaccinated. [61011/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress of the Strategy Statement 2021-2023 of his Department. [61415/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I also want to raise the case of the Women of Honour. They have been battling for justice after their experience in the armed forces for a number of years and not just in recent times. Their particular case has become centre stage due to the work of the Katie Hannon documentary a number of months ago. Their allegations are with regard to sexual abuse, bullying and discrimination and that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The women have said it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This day last week, the Taoiseach stated that only 93,000 of 180,000 people showed up for their booster appointments. He suggested there was not the same urgency for boosters as there was for the first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Does he stand by that statement? Is it still correct? Was it even correct last week? My office and those of other Deputies are getting calls from people who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Was anything I said incorrect?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Was anything I said incorrect?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the idea of this being centralised?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Sunday Independentreported that 300,000 jobs are being supported and approximately 25,000 businesses are under pressure as a result of Covid and the restrictions that have been implemented. IBEC has stated that in hospitality, there will be 40,000 fewer jobs in 2022 than in 2019, an incredible figure. The majority of these jobs will be lost by women and the second greatest proportion of...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Many of us on this side of the Chamber expected the Green Party to play, to some extent, a sort of a watchdog role within the Government. We believed that, given its election manifesto and its long-held objectives in regard to housing and many other issues, the party would ensure it put pressure on both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to make them do right by key issues such as housing. I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number or percentage of households and premises which have yet to receive high speed fibre power broadband; and if he will provide an update on the roll-out of broadband across the country. [61414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the State is on track to meet the carbon reduction targets set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61413/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commissions of Investigation (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of commissions of investigation currently ongoing under the remit of his Department; 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 Education and Skills: Weather Events (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body that made the decision to close schools in County Meath due to a Met Éireann orange warning; the number of orange warnings that have been issued by Met Éireann in each of the past five years; and the number of times in the past the Minister for Education has closed schools on orange warnings. [61243/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists currently employed at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan; the staffing level for occupational therapists at the hospital; if there is a vacancy for a line manager in the occupational therapy department at the hospital; the length of time this position has remained vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons since the start of 2021 in hospital with Covid-19 who were fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated and unvaccinated by week. [61629/21]