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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons in the State who were killed in road traffic accidents in each of the past ten years who were not wearing seatbelts at the time of the collision or accident. [55555/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of plug-in hybrid buses purchased for the public service obligation fleet in each of the past six years and to date in 2023; and the number of fully electric buses purchased for the fleet in each of the past six years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [55556/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax received on all fuel and energy in the past five years. [55537/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of ongoing missing persons cases in the State. [55542/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons reported missing in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [55543/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children reported missing in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [55544/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the number of children referred to Tusla to date in 2023, by referral type; and the entities from which the referral was made, including teachers, gardaí, the managers of direct provision centres and other categories. [55541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons and families who have taken cases, issued letters of claim and initiated proceedings against the HSE regarding the death of a loved one who died having contracted Covid-19 in a HSE-run nursing home, residential care facility or hospital. [55545/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims made and proceedings initiated against the HSE or hospital groups by persons or groups of persons whose loved ones died after contracting Covid-19 in a hospital setting. [55546/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any increase or perceived increase in the number of persons since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, or any increase or perceived increase in the number of persons diagnosed with stage four cancer since the start of the pandemic; if he will provide any data or statistics held by his Department which detail annual trends...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 222. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons diagnosed with cancer in the State by cancer-type, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form, (details supplied). [55548/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted any research into the reasons the number of Teagasc graduates attaining trained farmer status has been declining in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55429/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Costs (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has been monitoring fluctuation in the cost or price of farm fertiliser; and if he will outline the supports there are to support farmers struggling with the cost of fertiliser. [55428/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Trafficking (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what steps his Department is taking to reduce the rate of child trafficking in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors or separated children currently seeking asylum in the State; and the types of care settings they are in, that is, foster care, residential care, emergency accommodation and so on. [55426/23]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: There are 9,409 adults and 4,105 children accessing emergency accommodation in Ireland right now. On average ten people a month are dying on the streets of Dublin and 60,000 people are currently on housing waiting lists. Eurostat has shown that rents have increased by 100% since Fine Gael came into power in 2011. Houses are literally out of reach and are only for the wealthiest at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance drivers recruited to the National Ambulance Service and the number of ambulance drivers who have left the National Ambulance Service in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1894/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The average ambulance response time in this country has been increasing significantly in the past few years, so much so that one particular and heartbreaking statistic is the number of times a patient was dead when an ambulance reached the person. In 2019 that figure was 700 and in the past year that has increased to at least 900 deaths. This is a very serious statistic that shows lives are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The figures quoted by the Minister are obviously from a baseline in 2015. The Minister will accept that 2015 was probably during the complete collapse of investment, post austerity, into the health service. The figures being taken as a baseline are from the lowest level of staffing within the National Ambulance Service, which obviously will make the Minister's figures improve. It is very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If I may I will add some practical solutions on this. One of the big situations we see on a regular basis is that an ambulance arrives at the accident and emergency department with the patient but due to the jam in the accident and emergency department because of overcrowding, or simply because there are not enough trolleys there, the ambulance has to stay at the entrance to the accident and...