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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has given the go-ahead for an increase in the cost of tolls from Saturday next. Transport Infrastructure Ireland has stated that motorists are highly likely to suffer another increase in the cost of tolls within six months. That is absolutely outrageous. The Government is hiking up the cost of tolls during the most serious cost-of-living crisis in living memory. It is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: How can tolls be hiked up?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: That was too late.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland has the highest cost of electricity in the whole of Europe. The per unit price is double the average being charged in Europe at the moment. The Minister is not correct in saying that the Government has been active in significantly reducing the cost of energy. There is no contractual obligation on the Government in the context of the M50. The M50 is owned by the State. The truth...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the M50?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government took more in VAT and excise than that.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is falling now.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There are some wind superpowers in this Chamber at the best of times. We are finally discussing the windfall tax on 29 June 2023, as we approach the close of the first half of the year. After months and months of promises about the windfall tax, we are actually finally debating it. In the first instance we were told that it could not be done, then we were told that it was a competency of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Mining Industry (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has sought to develop a solution, in partnership with the management of a company (details supplied) for the continuation of the mines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30825/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to increase the number of Gaelscoileanna in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31847/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of times taoisigh have issued State apologies in the past decade. [30823/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the State apologies issued by his Department in each of the past ten years. [30866/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The more I reflect on the various State apologies issued, the more I become convinced that the Government does not mean a word of it. Tomorrow we debate the amendments to the mother and baby homes Bill. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, snuck in a number of amendments in the Seanad. In my reading, amendments Nos. 4, 5 and 6 would exclude countless women from the redress scheme who were sent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to raise the issue of emergency call answering service, ECAS, operators in Navan. Emergency call answering services are critical services. This is a front-line health service. These operators deal professionally with people who are often in the worst crises of their lives. It is a stressful job of great importance. The ECAS workers in Meath have been involved in a longstanding...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Let us take the first step first.

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le Sinn Féin mar gheall ar an rún seo a thabhairt os comhair na Dála inniu. Is rún uafásach tábhachtach é. Tá sé dochreidte go bhfuil muid ag fanacht an méid seo ama le haghaidh an bhóthair seo agus tá sé dochreidte go bhfuil an méid sin daoine tar éis a mbeatha a...

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have gone missing from State care in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a study (details supplied) which expressed concerns over the sexual exploitation of children in care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32081/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Small and Medium Enterprises (4 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 129. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department collates statistics on the number of SMEs which close each year; and if so, if he will furnish this Deputy with statistics pertaining to each of the past ten years. [30824/23]