Results 12,641-12,660 of 17,092 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications and the number of unsuccessful applications per each local authority area for the first-home scheme since its introduction; the last time that property price ceilings were reviewed for each local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the last time that the property price ceiling was reviewed for County Meath under the first-home scheme; if he will consider reviewing the price ceiling under the scheme to reflect current market value property prices in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5539/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 293. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Tusla's CEO will engage with or meet with a person (details supplied) who has requested a meeting; if he will respond to correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5947/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1208 of 19 January 2021, if the visa immigration arrangement is still in place for international contracted circus artists working for Irish traditional circuses (details supplied); if any such review of the arrangement involved consultation with traditional circus owners where the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has rented accommodation at a location (details supplied); the amount paid; the way the building was selected; the person or body that received the rental money; and for how long the payments were made. [5608/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of excess deaths that occurred over and above the five-year pre-Covid average death rate in each of the past 12 months; if he will institute an independent investigation of the large increase in excess deaths that are occurring; the measures that the Government has taken to determine the cause of the spike in excess deaths; and if he will outline...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with an address in the North of Ireland who have used hospital services in each of the past five years. [5865/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 505. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of fines that have been issued for controlled breeds of dogs for being in breach of regulations in each county for the past five years. [5607/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Media (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 509. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her attention has been drawn to any instances where the public relations unit and or press office of her Department undertook to create social media accounts under false names, which were operated in order to further the messaging or communications of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4876/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Advertising (8 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 510. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent by her Department on online advertising in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if she will provide details in relation to this spending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4858/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Many people will be familiar with Thomas the Tank Engine but not so many will be familiar with Leo the slowcoach, but Leo the slowcoach is well known in County Meath. People in Meath have been waiting for more than 20 years for a rail line to be built. More workers, left Meath today to go to work than stayed in the county, and that happens in no other county. Meath people travel longer and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It was built in three years with picks and shovels.

Commission of Investigation (Collusion of British State Forces) Bill 2023: First Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for a public inquiry into collusion between British State forces and other persons, between 1968 and 1998, to commit, assist, or prevent prosecution of, offences, including murder, in the island of Ireland. We in Aontú are happy to be able to move this Bill in the Dáil. It is an important Bill for a...

Commission of Investigation (Collusion of British State Forces) Bill 2023: First Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The issue of migration is sensitive and we all should be careful in the way we speak about it. It is important that we do not call one another names. We must speak respectfully on the issue without labelling people with certain names. Both extremes of the political spectrum seem to be ramping up tensions in this regard. Middle Ireland wants to help people who are fleeing war, violence and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [6736/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: According to Daft.ie, new rents in the past three months of 2022 were 13.7% higher than in the same period in 2021. Rents have increased to an average of €1,733 compared with an average rent in 2011 of €765. It is incredible that since Fine Gael took office in 2011, we have seen an increase in rents of 126%. The Taoiseach, his Government and his party have left a massive...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When is the vacant property tax going to be implemented?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: They are still searching for vacant homes, by the looks of things.

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Last year, the Government took more in VAT on fuel and energy than in any previous year. That is an incredible fact. Statistics we in Aontú have through parliamentary questions have shown the Government is quids in and making massive amounts in VAT on energy. VAT on electricity last year reached a record level of €381 million, up 40% on 2021. VAT on petrol, diesel, solid fuels...