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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the review underway into matters in Letterkenny University Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48770/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 48. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of hospitals he has visited over the past 12 months. [48771/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money paid out under the vacant property refurbishment grant since it was established; and if he will provide details in relation to the qualification criteria for the grant. [48725/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any study to determine what the average turnaround time is for reletting when a local authority house is vacated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48724/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 19 October 2023, if she will provide a status update on the contract for a special education bus; and if she will provide a timeline as to when she expects it to be operational. [49124/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has examined the tourism potential of Dowth Hall, Slane, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44819/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Inquiries (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under way; when each will conclude; the cost to date of each; and the estimated cost of each at completion. [44814/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dialysis patients from Meath travelling to hospitals located outside the county, by hospital, for each of the past five years, in tabular form; the number of those who were transported to each hospital arranged through the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49131/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Last week saw the conviction of Jozef Puska for the murder of Ashling Murphy. This horrific murder shocked the nation and our deepest sympathies and solidarity are with the Murphy family. It is quite clear that we have reached a dangerous tipping point in terms of crime and antisocial behaviour in towns and villages across the country. In recent years under the Government, Ireland has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: According to the Minister's response in the past week, Garda recruitment and is at one third of what was pre Covid. The Minister opposite should not use the figures from the pandemic as his baseline to show so-called improvements. He just admitted that Covid distorted the figures significantly. The other point is that for every year the Minister for Justice has been in office, the number...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The number of resignations and retirements is greater than that of recruitments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Without enforcement.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been reported that the main hospital in Gaza is burying patients in a mass grave. A doctor in the hospital said that bodies are littered around the hospital complex and there is no longer any electricity for the morgues. He stated that 7 babies and 29 patients who were in intensive care are among the dead. This is an indictment of the war Israel is waging. It is also an indictment...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: No effort.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no plan by the Government.

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: More than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since 7 October. Some 1,400 people were killed in Israel on 7 October and 200 Israelis remain as hostages. Approximately 4,000 children have been killed in Gaza, now at a rate of one child being killed every 15 minutes. We have seen 90 UN workers and 40 journalists killed so far. Aid has been reduced to a trickle on purpose. Gaza was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá mé buíoch de na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach. On Deputy Conway-Walsh’s point, has anybody ever got fired from the senior level of the public services for overspending or delaying a capital project in the history of the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is interesting. In the private sector, if an individual staff member were to overspend by €1.4 billion and delay a project by six years, the terms and conditions of their contract would be measured against their output. I imagine there would be a negative outcome in terms of that person's job in that scenario. I am getting at the idea of accountability and responsibility at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What happens when that does not happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no higher censure than being brought before the Committee of Public Accounts.