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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amounts paid out in jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker's benefit in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32133/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what social welfare packages can be made available to people who lost their jobs in Tara Mines, County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32134/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I also raise the issue of Tara mines. Tomorrow, representatives of SIPTU, Connect and Unite will be in the AV Room at 2 p.m. I encourage all Deputies to attend and ask the Taoiseach to spend time listening to the union representatives tomorrow. Workers will gather at the gates of Leinster House to protest the manner in which they have been treated. I encourage the people of Meath to stand...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Just not now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [32079/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The reason so many people are angry over the RTÉ scandal, for example, and about the pay rates in certain Government Departments is that those pay scales are eye-watering in comparison with the incomes many families are receiving. There is no doubt that we want to ensure that there is a spark in the economy and that people are paid to a certain level to incentivise hard work, education...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When is the EU reform coming in?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The one on decoupling.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the new State litigation principles announced by the Attorney General on 21 June 2023. [33724/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to raise the issue of CervicalCheck again. I am getting really frustrated with the Government's stonewalling of my questions. The CervicalCheck scandal broke in 2018. It involved among other things smear test slides that were misread. Women sued and received apologies and payments. The Taoiseach issued a State apology. The courts and the Government have conceded that these women...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: These are misread slides.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The courts said they were misread.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: You apologised for it in here. What did you apologise for?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What was the apology for?

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a saying that the past is a foreign country but for many people in Ireland today, this Dáil is becoming a foreign country - a Dáil that they no longer recognise as representing their own views. This Dáil is the most draconian Dáil in generations. Unfortunately, there is an authoritarian streak running through the political establishment in Ireland and it is...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: General Eoin O’Duffy had the same views.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is appalling.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: That is incitement to violence. It is illegal already.