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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (10 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 242. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department in 2020 and 2021, broken down by Minister in tabular form. [11393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Investigations (10 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 243. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of his Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission to date; and the projected costs of each in tabular form. [12559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Staff (10 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021, broken down by Minister in tabular form. [11393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commissions of Investigation (10 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of her Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission to date; and the projected costs of each in tabular form. [12559/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools participating in the schools meals scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the total amount of funding made available for the scheme per year. [15139/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The amount of money being allocated to the school meals programme has been increasing year on year. That sounds like a good thing, but when one examines the situation, the number of schools availing of the programme has been reducing. This means that a small number of children are getting those school meals. It could be because of an increase in the cost of the programme, etc. What is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: If I am correct, it is still the case that the amount of money being given to the programme is increasing but the number of children or, at least, schools receiving it is falling or remaining static, depending on which section of it one is looking at. We very properly debate in the House the cost of living increasing throughout the State. There is an issue with inflation in the inputs into...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: For more than a year, the Meath food bank was operating out of my office in Trim because it was without any other location from which to operate. It was shockingly sad to see young children and their parents queuing daily outside the Aontú office in Trim for food. The fact that food banks even exist in Ireland in today's world is incredible. Many of them sprung up during the previous...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I also thank Deputy Paul Murphy for adding his personal story to the debate. I wish him and his partner the best of luck in their endeavours. The issues at the heart of this Bill are incredibly important and significant. They range from the families which desperately seek to have a child but cannot to the rights of the child to have a family and know their mother and father to the rights...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021, broken down by Minister in tabular form. [11393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commissions of Investigation (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of her Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission to date; and the projected costs of each in tabular form. [12559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans the Government has in place to protect persons living in Ireland from the fallout from a nuclear disaster if a nuclear power plant is damaged in an attack in Ukraine. [13997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is mandatory to have a government services card to apply for a driver licence; and if he will reverse the policy and allow citizens apply for a driver licence online without the government services card. [14069/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 442. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the technical pay agreement agreed with the Defence Forces in July 2019 has been implemented; if so, when it was implemented; if not, the reason for the delay in implementation; and when the agreement will be implemented. [13864/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the services and licences whereby a citizen must have a Government services card. [14070/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 664. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who died while in juvenile detention in each of the past ten years; and the breakdown of the causes of death, in tabular form. [14048/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 665. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently in juvenile detention. [14049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Juvenile Offenders (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 666. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of reported assaults on persons in juvenile detention in each of the past ten years. [14050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 667. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Tusla employees sacked or dismissed in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [14056/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 694. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No.552 of 1 March 2022, the number of the 115 young adults to whom Tusla is providing after-care supports who were received into Tusla's care as children seeking international protection are currently residing in direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the...