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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she or her Department have tried to quantify the number of Irish speakers in the State; if she has identified any increase or decrease in the figures since she took office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22659/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the work that is being undertaken by her Department to promote the Boyne Valley as a tourism destination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken a study to determine the impact the lifting of the eviction ban has had on homelessness numbers. [22657/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken a study to determine the impact building cost inflation is having on the construction of houses. [22656/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Bodies (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 4 May 2023, the national processes to which he refers by which the Chair of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy was appointed; the number of other persons who were considered in appointing a Chair to the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy; and who made the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Bodies (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of stakeholders that will take part in the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy; when details of the speakers and participants will be made public in advance of the forum; where a list of such stakeholders can be viewed by members of the public; the number of spaces that are reserved for members of the public to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the Government’s consideration of joining a NATO subsea group would breach Ireland’s neutrality as reported (details supplied); and the estimated cost to the State to finance membership of the NATO subsea group. [23946/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 193. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether the Government’s consideration of joining a NATO subsea group would breach Ireland’s neutrality as reported (details supplied); and the estimated cost to the State to finance membership of the NATO subsea group. [23947/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 237. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of fines that have been enforced for each year of the existence of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission's existence; and the total euro value for fines enforced by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for each year of its existence. [23891/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The figures in the Farming Independentsupplement of the Irish Independentshowing that 200,000 cattle are to be culled by 2025, which is just in a year and a half, points to an incredible threat to the farming sector. It will be at a cost of about €600 million. A full 25% of the beef being imported to the European Union comes from Brazil. How is it environmentally friendly to fell...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When the Taoiseach was Minister for Health he said that short of an asteroid hitting the planet, the national children's hospital would be built for €700 million by 2020. It is currently double the cost; it could end up at €2 billion and it will not have its doors open until 2025. The national children's hospital is just one of a long list of public capital projects that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number, and cost, of ongoing commissions and investigations under the remit of his Department. [22558/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach will have to agree that the commission of investigation system in Ireland is broken and is in need of major reform. Investigations are never-ending vehicles that receive extension after extension and cost the taxpayer millions of euro. They produce reports that often end up on dusty shelves with very little consequences for those who are implicated in the reports. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [25788/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The reduction in excise duty on fuel is due to lapse in two days' time. This will put an extra 5 cent on diesel and an extra 6 cent on petrol, which is a significant jump. It will hit families extremely hard. Hiking excise duty when so many families are in poverty and so many families are in arrears on energy bills is the opposite of what must be done at the moment. Figures released to me...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is still less than the increase.

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to mention a tangential issue, namely, the crisis affecting nursing homes at present. The Ministers of State will be aware that nursing homes are closing right across the country and that many are blaming what they call fair deal discrimination. These nursing homes claim funding is insufficient to meet their spiralling inflation costs and the figures bear this out. Recently...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach's trip to Washington this year was defined by a number of gaffes. I was particularly alarmed by the statement he made on the topic of human trafficking, when he said, "It's not a particular issue for us in Ireland because our seas are so vast that people can't get there on small boats". I had to read this twice when I saw it reported from Washington. It may have come as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach inniu.. I have spoken to many people who voted on both sides of the referendum with regard to this particular review. The issue which raised the most eyebrows is around the three-day wait period. What people find hard to understand is how such a concrete recommendation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that not a major absence from this? In the evidence which we have heard today, many people have been spoken to with regard to this key element of her proposal, and the group of is maybe up to 2,000 or 3,000 women, given the figures which we know. Yet nobody has spoken to them and asked them if that three-day period was beneficial in being able to weigh up this enormous decision.