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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider expanding the distance limit to the nearest school for the school transport scheme to within 5 km (details supplied). [15613/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (30 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who died, either while in State care or while known to child protection services, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [14889/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Trafficking (30 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 49. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department is taking to combat child trafficking in the State. [14888/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government undertakes any analysis of the number of people from the Traveller community who enter third-level education per year; and if so, if he will provide data on same. [15230/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (30 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons that availed of the third-level access course in each year since it was established. [15229/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Construction Industry (30 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to ensure there is a sufficient number of construction workers to meet demand. [11119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (30 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 297. To ask the Minister for Health what flame retardant specification is being used for materials such as fabric, flooring and fixtures and fittings that are being used in the new children’s hospital; and if he is confident that a higher specification is being used than the cigarette and match test for materials in the new children’s hospital and elsewhere in the health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States. [15128/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to encourage young people into the agricultural sector. [17709/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important that we inject some reality into this debate today. The Government's policy towards agriculture is one of managed decline. That is the truth.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Every year, there are more farmers leaving the farming sector than there were the year before. Only 5% of farmers are aged 35 or under. This is an incredibly small cohort of people. The Minister must know that there is an explosion of anger in rural Ireland about the approach of the Fianna Fáil-Green Party-Fine Gael Government towards agriculture. What is the Government doing to get...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The farmer’s life cycle is dependent on the price of the product and the cost of producing it. That is the most important factor in this whole process. Every grant the Government gives does not make up for the fact that every year, farmers are getting less and less from the supply chain in farming. Most of the profit ends with the factory or supermarket. The Government is refusing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Fianna Fáil supported that Bill-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: -----in opposition.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Peddling a pig in a poke - that is incredible. Fianna Fáil supported the Aontú Bill in opposition and then went against it in government. One could not get a better definition of that turn of phrase than that. If the Minister wants examples of where the Government is letting down farmers, he should look at the Brexit adjustment reserve fund. Aontú found out that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The trips produced 180 tonnes of CO2emissions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the Brexit adjustment reserve fund?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the just transition fund?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The secondment package created for Tony Holohan continues to shine a light on the dysfunction of this Government. Robert Watt signed a letter in which he committed to €20 million from the budget for that particular role. This was done without Government oversight. It also comes on the heel of the gold-plated package created for Katherine Zappone. Yesterday, Robert Watt, in reality,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The report states protocols were breached.