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Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not viable for the small businesses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [51564/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been announced today that elections will take place on 15 December in the North of Ireland if the October deadline is not met. Ten days before Christmas, the people of the North will be going to the polls again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It was announced today by the electoral commission in the North of Ireland I understand. If the deadline is not met in October, this will be the election day. This is what I understand has been announced.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the information that has come through from the electoral commission. I am open to correction if it is not the case. The election will be a sham if we do not have reform of the processes by which the elections and the assembly function. 4 o’clock If the DUP comes back and blocks the Executive from running again, we will be in the same stalemate we are in today, which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We have been articulating this for the past two years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú was the first party to articulate it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: But what if the next election is on 15 December?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The electoral commission has written to political parties.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to raise a couple of points with the Minister in regard to tourism in Ireland and this Bill. First, there is a lot of development that has to happen to increase the benefits to communities and counties with regard to the heritage and tourism sites that they have. To give an example, in Meath most tourism is currently on the basis of a coach bus out of a Dublin hotel that hits...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This energy crisis is devastating families and communities throughout the country at present. We are months into the crisis and what we have seen from the Government so far is inertia and glacial steps. The Government's response has been incredibly slow. At the beginning of this month we saw energy prices increase again. Electric Ireland increased prices for the third time this year and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken by his Department to assist young people in aftercare, that is persons who have left Tusla residential or foster care placements at the age of 18 years, who are in further or higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51338/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Children or teenagers in State care are sometimes very vulnerable people with complex and sometimes very difficult experiences. It is vital the Government seeks to assist them as they progress through what is referred to as aftercare, which is a period immediately after they leave foster care placements or residential care. What is the Department doing to assist people with aftercare?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome that this group will be considered a priority group and that there will be proposed analysis of their pathway through third level, etc. Subject to assessment, care leavers are entitled to aftercare from the age of 18, when their foster or residential placements end, until the age of 21. Aftercare supports can be extended to the age of 23 if the young person goes to further or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I, too, recognise the great work done by EPIC. According to EUROSTAT figures, 80% of people aged between 16 and 29 in this country are still living at home with their parents. In every town and village in the country, young adults are living with their parents due to the crisis-of-living crisis and other spiralling pressures such as rents. The age of 18 is very young for a person to leave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh for giving me the opportunity. I want to address two very important issues. There is a reality gap between what a Government says and how we implement the policy. On councils, for example, there is a difficulty as regards sexual assault that happened with regard to councillors, how that is dealt with by the council itself, and how it is dealt with by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This is a matter of a very serious case that affects all councillors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I do understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am speaking about the general scenario. I will not speak to the individual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It would be very unfortunate if, given the experience of councillors which is leading to people being prevented from accessing public services in terms of councillors, at least 30 seconds was not provided to air that particular issue. All political parties have a responsibility to reform how we govern ourselves, to ensure that councillors, first of all, are heard if they suffer a sexual...