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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Apology (4 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 41. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the State apologies issued by Taoisigh in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [42621/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase capacity on Irish trains. [42632/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (5 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has undertaken any study to determine if car use on roads has been increasing or decreasing since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42633/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (5 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount taken in by the Government in fuel tax in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, by fuel type, and in monetary value. [42634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (5 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has undertaken any study to determine the merit of a public banking system. [42635/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 256 of 20 September 2023, to provide the data for school transport for 2023-24 as available on 1 September, 2023, and to provide a breakdown in tabular form, by county, of the numbers of each of the cohorts separately. by each category which automatically qualified for free school transport without having...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This is a cynical budget. It is a short-term budget that seeks to rebuild the fortunes of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green party, rather than rebuilding the State and its public services. It is a south Dublin budget that hurts many people living in regional and rural Ireland. I will address that last issue first. This Government speaks with measured tones, with deep sympathy,...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a serious disconnect between this Government and the average citizen in this country at the moment. The cost-of-living crisis is currently consuming most families. We have a situation where 650,000 people are in poverty in this State. A total of 280,000 people are in arrears on electricity bills while 165,000 are in arrears on their gas bills. People are losing sleep at night...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 462. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there is sufficient provision for ring-fenced funding in budget 2024 to cover the running costs of meals-on-wheels services. [43481/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 535. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Irish National Accreditation Board accreditation was not obtained before opening the new cervical screening laboratory in December 2022; the reason the laboratory was shut in March 2023; and if he will provide an update on the current status of the project. [43838/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 536. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of women screened by CervicalCheck in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [43839/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 537. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of CervicalCheck slides sent abroad to foreign laboratories in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [43840/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) which was issued to him, following a motion by Cavan County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (11 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will regulate the Narconon’s residential drug rehabilitation centres to ensure that clients are safe. [44360/23]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Five people have died on the roads just over the last weekend and 150 people have died on the roads this year. That is 35 more than this time last year and driver behaviour is radically disimproving. Information that Aontú has received from the Courts Service today shows that the number of people before the courts for dangerous driving has increased significantly, the number of people...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I, too, welcome the family of Shane O'Farrell to the Gallery. I again extend my deepest condolences to Shane's family. Shane O'Farrell's family have travelled a torturous journey since the death of their son. The loss of a child to any parent is probably the toughest experience that parent will go through. As parents, we are all wired to try to do the best we can and to protect our...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable. It is 22 years since the Supreme Court ruled that the son of Kathy Sinnott, who had autism and an intellectual disability, was not eligible for schooling past the age of 18. One of the most striking headlines I ever read in a newspaper was that by Victoria White in the Irish Examinerto the effect: "Happy 18th Tom, the State has...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú has been raising serious concerns over excess mortality for two years. There has been a prolonged period, month after month, where mortality figures have been far in excess of the normal in this State. We have been doing so through debates here, through parliamentary questions and in the media. It is deeply frustrating that the Government has not taken this issue seriously at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vocational schools which have closed in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44811/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (17 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of gaelscoileanna which have opened, and the number which have closed, in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [44810/23]