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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There was a question on a judge-led inquiry into the cyberattack. Where was the criminal investigation into that attack?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: No accountability.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [17706/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: In 2006, the solicitor representing Deputy Niall Collins's wife wrote to the council seeking to purchase land. A month later, the Deputy was one of seven councillors who voted in favour of the selling of that land. Freedom of information documents released to The Ditchshow Mrs. Collins was the only person to inquire about the purchasing of that land prior to the vote. She made an offer on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach again has failed to answer the question. If the Taoiseach does not see a link between corruption and the economy, there is a serious problem in this regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Corruption is a threat to investment. It is a threat to business and it is a threat to society.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The fact that so many within the Government parties have been silent on the issues of corruption in the past has given licence to it. All I am asking is whether the Taoiseach, accepting what happened in this potential case of corruption, thinks it is good enough that we have this system continue?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I want an answer to the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: A Chathaoirligh, it is unbelievable that the Taoiseach will not answer a question on this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Do you not think, a Chathaoirligh, that it is unfair for the Taoiseach to ignore this question and not give an answer, given the gravity of the question and the public interest in it and given the clear link between corruption in the history of the State and the distortion of society and unfairness?

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Interest rates are at the highest level since 2019. By any reasonable projection we are going to see that spiral increase over the next while. The ECB has increased its lending rate six times since January 2022 and more increases are coming in the next week. Increasing the interest rate is a good tool commonly used to deal with inflation, and in fairness it often works in the case of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Like Cavan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding drawn down from the rural regeneration and development fund in each month since she took office. [19222/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I have to inject some level of reality into this debate today. Rural Ireland is on its knees.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is suffering significant population decline, predominantly concentrated in the west and midlands of Ireland. That continues apace. It is calculated that in the last 40 years, 800 electoral divisions have lost population or significantly lost population. There has been a lopsided spatial policy which has put hundreds of thousands of young people into the Dublin area, in particular. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not think the Minister is getting to the nub of the question at all. The issue is that the EU has downgraded the north-west region as a lagging region. The EU has said that as a result of falling GDP per capitain those areas compared with the rest of the country, places like Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan and Mayo face increasing challenges. That is happening...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If I represented a county that was downgraded to a lagging area by the EU, I would be furious with the approach the Government is involved in.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The second issue is the average age now in many towns and villages along the west coast is ten years older than it is in towns such as Ballbriggan, Naas and Navan. The reason is young people in this State, on average, who go to university and get university jobs cannot get jobs in the regions. They try to get jobs in Dublin but cannot afford to live there and so are forced to live 20, 30,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: -----even though it accounts for 2.5% of the population.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: While it might suit the narrative for our local constituents to be able to say that, the truth of the matter is every county should be getting a fair shot at it. Strangely, Dublin got investment for 63 rural hubs through Our Rural Future, even though the likes of Mayo and other counties get far less. That is a strange question as well.