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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Properties (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will list all the empty or unused buildings owned by her Department; and if he will detail their locations. [49413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans his Department has to reduce the risk of flooding nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the disparity between Bus Éireann drivers with regard to illness pay (details supplied). [49780/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Group on National Coastal Change Management Strategy which was recently published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49284/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 594. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will assign a GP to a person (details supplied) where all local GPs are fully subscribed. [49907/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Inquiries (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 630. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been underway; when each will conclude; the cost to date of each; and the estimated cost of each at completion. [44814/23]

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The gross injustices that are unfolding at the moment in Gaza are an indictment against Israel but also against the international community. The international community is standing idly by in respect of what is happening in Gaza at the moment. It is an incredible issue on which many people have spoken very well here today. The fact is that more than 11,000 citizens, non-combatants, and at...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This week, a large number of Deputies in the Chamber decried efforts made by some British politicians to stop protests in Britain against the horrific war in Gaza. Many of those speakers rightly said that in no circumstance should the democratic right to protest be prevented and that protest was the foundation stone of a democracy. I, as an Irish republican, will always point to the North...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Outside of the political and media bubble, where many people live in towns and villages without the safety of Garda resources, they will ask themselves what is happening. That we are looking to take further Garda resources and reduce the level of peaceful and respectful protest in the country is wrong.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: We are.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine an application for special education transport (details supplied). [50096/23]

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: “That the Bill be now read a Second Time.” As the Minister will be aware, Ireland has become a very violent place in recent times. Sexual violence is increasing at a shocking rate and lives are being destroyed day in, day out, in Irish society. In 2011, 1,958 sexual offences were recorded whereas that figure had increased by 75% to 3,433 in 2021. In 2011, 447 rapes...

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When Homer Simpson ran for mayor, he ran on a motto of "Why can't somebody else do it?" That motto is all over the speech the Minister has just made. Instead of taking this serious issue and delivering on it, she stated it had been outsourced to Coimisiún na Meán, which is to create codes and guides in the future. When we try to work out what those codes or guides are, it is...

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: We have one Deputy in the Dáil but when we have more, we will be able to do more.

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The other point I would like to make-----

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister may be feeling a little bit uncomfortable with what I am saying and I can understand that.

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I fully understand the discomfort the Minister feels in the circumstances. If I were sitting in her position, as a member of a Government that has done so little in relation to this, I would be equally uncomfortable.

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Again, the Minister is interrupting me.

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: At no point, as of yet, have we seen any definitive material action points on how this material is going to be blocked so that children cannot consume it.

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I have read the Bill. I have read large chunks of the Bill.