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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Covid-19 was obviously the biggest health threat to the island of Ireland over the past two years. Again this may be outside CAWT's mandate, but there were two separate approaches to restrictions and two separate vaccination programmes. Everything was disjointed between North and South. There were times when illness raged in the North and was lower in the South, yet we saw when Derry was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there any institutional investigation happening in the North on the delivery of policies against Covid-19? Other countries are having investigations or reviews. Is that happening in the North?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the delegation for the information it has provided. I greatly look forward to some of those quantitative responses. It will provide food for thought for all of us on this committee.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (16 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of national debt servicing currently; the refinancing schedule for the next five years; the interest rate projections for the next five years; and the estimated amount interest rate increases will cost the Exchequer. [8542/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (16 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance the total level of private debt in the State currently, by each sector of Irish society; the level of debt arrears currently within the State by each sector in Irish society; the number of persons and businesses that are in debt arrears in the State by each financial institution; and the effect that the projected increase in interest will have on servicing...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There are 1.4 million houses in the State in need of insulation and, according to the Construction Industry Federation, 130,000 non-residential buildings in need of same. In 2012, I detailed a costed plan that would have seen the deep retrofit of these homes. It would have cost €14 billion in 2012 to do so. It would have brought the energy efficiency up to a C1 rating. At the time,...

Hospital Parking Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to be able to bring this important Bill on hospital car parking charges to the Dáil on Second Stage. Aontú has been developing this Bill for a long time. We want to see it pass through the Oireachtas as fast as possible. Car parking charges are having a critical effect on families across the country. Anybody...

Hospital Parking Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is an awareness and agreement, at least among the contributors, that there is a significant problem here. Citizens who can least afford it are carrying a significant burden that they should not be carrying. Unfortunately what we have got from the Government is a nebulous maybe; they might have a look into it, review the situation, think about it for a little bit longer. On one side...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (15 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 901. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will issue guidance in relation to the abortion of unborn children in cases in which life-limiting conditions are suspected to exist in view of the case of a child (details supplied). [8402/22]

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Utility bills are going through the roof right across the country. People are seeing gas bills coming through the door of €600 and €700. People are paying well over €1,000 to fill their oil tanks at the moment. These are eye-watering figures. These are amounts of money that people simply do not have. Many people are going into debt to try to cover these costs. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of wage subsidies provided in 2020 and 2021. [6406/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government imposed the longest and most severe Covid restrictions in the EU. It shut schools, businesses, building sites, healthcare facilities and society for longer than any other country in the EU. In many ways, the scars of the shutdown are only becoming apparent. My question is to find out the total value of the wage subsidies provided between 2020 and 2021.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree that the funds provided by the Government have been absolutely necessary. There is no question about that. If a government is going to shut down a business and prevent its owner from making a living, it has to provide an income to that owner so he or she can live. If a government is going to tell workers they are not allowed to work, it has a responsibility to provide them with an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We sought the use of antigen testing when the Government pooh-poohed it and refused to use it. We, like many other countries, knew antigen testing was a better way of stopping Covid from entering the hospitality sector and that the sector could be kept open through its use. We sought air filters in schools and extra hospital capacity so people's lives would be protected without having to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: A quarter of a trillion euro.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: That is utter rubbish.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It has stabilised at a quarter of a trillion euro.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: A quarter of a trillion euro has a phenomenally significant impact within society. That money is owed as a State, in large part because of the decisions that have been made. On another related issue, what efforts is the Government making to recoup wage subsidies and supports that were paid to firms that made profits and paid dividends in this period of time? Again, all of this money comes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: No.