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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Could I----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Could I take those five minutes at this point?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Nothing is more important than this one but I have to get to another committee meeting.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Government is seeking a slogan for the next election then it should choose "in the next few weeks" because when we ask about the windfall tax we are told "in the next few weeks". Everything seems to be horizon politics. The promised land is on the horizon but when we get to that moment in time it still seems to be further on, unfortunately. On cross-Border issues and the crisis in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the work of the Assembly?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [11112/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Aontú councillor, Ms Denise Mullen, recently met Mr. Jon Boutcher who is investigating a large number of murders of Irish people as a result of British collusion. Mr. Boutcher stated that his investigation team requested important and relevant documentation on a large number of murders from the Garda. These murders include, for example, the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and numerous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The recent elections in the Netherlands have sent shockwaves through its political establishment. Hundreds of thousands of citizens broke with all expectations and voted for the farmers' party in protest against their political establishment. We have a similar disconnect between many people in regional and rural Ireland and the political bubble that exists in this country. The majority of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Farmers in Ireland are suffering big style currently. One third of farmers are currently making a loss. They are not even making a living out of their farms. Another one third of farmers currently have to work off the farm to make a living. Only a third of existing farmers are making a living out of their farms. Many of them are living in fear. They want to do the right thing on climate...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The cost-of-living crisis is burning away in communities throughout Ireland. It is having a material effect on the lives of so many in terms of nutrition and mental health. It is even resulting in people, especially older people, being forced to go to hospital because they do not have proper food or heating. It has been a particularly difficult experience in rural and regional Ireland,...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú has found through parliamentary questions and freedom of information requests that almost 400 people have died in homelessness on the streets of Dublin in the last five years. That is an incredible figure. The shocking thing is that the national figure is far higher but the Government refused to collect the data in any other county outside of Dublin. The figures I give today do...

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 5: To insert the following after "increased capacity in the construction sector": "calls on the Government to make provisions to ensure that no person can be evicted if they fulfil any of the following criteria: — if the tenant or a member of their family living in the relevant accommodation has a disability; — if the tenant or a...

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Given that there is less than ten votes between the two sides, the gravity of this particular issue, and the fact that this amendment simply seeks to protect people with disabilities, people with very young families, older people, and people with terminal illnesses from eviction in ten days' time, under Standing Order 83(3)(b), I ask that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome any efforts made by the Government to reduce the costs on families in accessing healthcare. There is no doubt that health has a significant cost to many people and that it is a barrier for many people in accessing healthcare. The level of ill-health is far higher among people who live in lower socioeconomic groups, and people's life expectancy is far lower in those areas too....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Court of Human Rights (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take the British Government to the European Court of Human Rights if it proceeds with the North of Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill. [13999/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will seek reform of Stormont to prevent the Executive being held to ransom in the future. [14000/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (22 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the last time that each hospital group, excluding the Saolta group (details supplied) conducted a bed capacity analysis for each hospital in the country; the findings of those analyses; the recommendations of those analyses; if he will provide details of any capacity targets that were identified in these processes; if the analyses generated a report or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has undertaken a study to determine if the increase in those failing ordinary level maths is attributable to the removal of foundation levels maths from the junior cycle. [13576/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is growing frustration among many parents around the country that the Department is focusing on ideological battles, against the will of parents, rather than focusing on the bread and butter issues of the education system. Most parents would rather that the Department focuses on having school buildings that are operational, yet the Government has paused the building of new builds at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the objectives of the Department should be, first and foremost, to listen to teachers. Teachers have a deep understanding of how different students learn and what their needs are, and most polling of teachers in this circumstance shows that they are pretty much unanimously opposed to the Government's deletion of foundation level mathematics. A recent poll showed that 87% of teachers...