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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Right now, the answer feels unspecific and nebulous. In the interest of our being able to test those protocols, you should identify them to us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: No. A person who is paid €300,000 per year and is making decisions like this should be able to reference the protocols on which the decision is based.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Will you be specific as to the source of the guidance in terms of protocols on this and identify them clearly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Watt, you are not providing any detail on those protocols, where they are located or what the names are. That is a major hole in the evidence you are giving today, on the basis you are saying you did not breach any protocols. That is a weakness. There are major difficulties here. There is no doubt, right now, that there is a fracture in the governance of this State. There is a major...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I am happy I am giving a fair summation of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has sought to ascertain the reason there has been a 26% increase in abortions undertaken in Ireland in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17710/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 68. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to reduce the CAMHS waiting list. [17711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mental Health Policy (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to studies showing that Government policies to tackle climate change are causing a mental health crisis among farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17708/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average wait time for driving tests category B, in each test centre in the State. [18711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a process of geographical prioritisation for persons waiting for driving tests in category B, for example, those resident in the county where they are seeking a test versus those resident in another county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18712/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will furnish a list of driving test centres which have opened in the State in each of the past ten years; and if he will provide a list of those which have closed within the same period. [18713/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current longest length of time anyone has been left waiting for a driving test category B, in each test centre in the country, in tabular form. [18714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) can expect to sit their driving test, which they applied for in February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 212. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a person (details supplied) will receive a determination on their application for a critical skills employment permit; and if it might be possible to speed up the process given the exceptional circumstances in this case. [18758/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The OECD stated earlier today that Irish households experienced a massive drop in living standards last year. Under the Government, people have got poorer in the past 12 months. The amount of money that workers earn, adjusting for inflation, fell last year. Of course, people did not need the OECD to tell them this. Many of them have felt it as a result of their own bitter experience of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach can argue with the OECD about the facts on whether incomes are falling. Incomes are falling, and that is what it is saying. The question to be asked is why the Government has allowed the highest electricity prices in Europe to exist in this State. Why is it that the Government has allowed some of the highest gas prices in the whole European Union to exist in this State? Why...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach has said this for months.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If it is down to international factors, why is the cost of electricity higher here than in another country?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is estimated that the attack on the cybersystem in this country will cost €100 million. We do not know what the human cost is. We know that hundreds of thousands of people did not get the treatment they needed following the cyberattack because of the collapse of the systems, so there could very well be people who have died and have suffered serious morbidity as a result. Ireland...