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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1687. To ask the Minister for Health where management for hospitals formerly in the Ireland East Group will come from; if Our Lady’s Hospital Navan will have a representative on the board of the RCSI while it is being managed by the RCSI; what effect management by the RCSI of Our Lady’s Hospital Navan will have on the future of the accident and emergency department at Navan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE-funded home care providers have stopped taking physically well older people for walks; and if a risk assessment has been undertaken by him in relation to the danger posed by HSE-funded home care providers allowing physically well older people with dementia leave their homes on their own without accompanying them for a walk. [1365/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1712. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of ambulances that were over one hour awaiting handover in hospital, including percentage, in each of the past ten years. [1523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 999 calls nationally and by division, where the patient was deceased by the time an ambulance reached the scene, in each of the past ten years. [1525/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1715. To ask the Minister for Health the top ten longest lengths of time a person was left waiting for an ambulance in the State in each of the past ten years. [1526/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1716. To ask the Minister for Health the longest length of time a person was left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in each of the past ten years, by ambulance station and dispatch point. [1527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1717. To ask the Minister for Health the longest length of time a person was left waiting for an ambulance to dispatch to them, perhaps due to a lack of available ambulances, in each of the past ten years, by ambulance station and dispatch point. [1528/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1718. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance response time per region, per year, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1529/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1713. To ask the Minister for Health the location(s) for ambulance stations; the number of emergency ambulances assigned to each station; and the number of WTE assigned to each station. [1524/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1719. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any differential in survival rates for cancer, between persons diagnosed in a public hospital/clinic and those diagnosed in a private hospital/clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1530/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1720. To ask the Minister for Health the number persons who have retired from the National Ambulance Service in each of the past five years; and the number of new persons employed by the National Ambulance Service in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [1531/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with addiction to drugs or alcohol in each of the past ten years. [1532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons to contact the HSE's drug and alcohol helplines in each of the past ten years. [1533/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: We need to have a discussion about the Government's mismanagement of immigration policy. The absence of resources when it comes to accommodation is startling at the moment. The Government promised 700 rapid-build units back in June 2022. The majority of those have not been built. The Minister promised a community dividend of €53 million, but only €3 million has actually been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Tara Mines is the biggest lead and zinc mine in Europe. It is one of the largest employers in Meath and its closure has been one of the biggest economic blows to the east midlands area for a long period of time. A key element of the closure was the fact that electricity prices in this country are the highest in Europe. Tara Mines management has given a plan to workers. That plan is a race...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The fishing industry was mentioned. It has been brought to my attention that the Minister for agriculture was offered a quota from the Danes of 3,000 tonnes of fish, but the Minister seems to have done the reverse of the loaves and fishes miracle and returned to Ireland with 1,500 tonnes of fish. It seems that the Minister is also in negotiations with Iceland about allowing its fishing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [55422/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: There is an alarming increase in the number of small businesses being forced to close. The owners of these businesses, who have invested blood, sweat and tears to make them function, are being hammered with massive costs. In fact, we have a two-tier economy. We have a very strong foreign direct investment sector but a comparatively weak indigenous business sector. The businesses to which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the terms of reference for the inquiry into Covid-19 in Ireland will be produced. [55131/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 10. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the need for an inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland. [2773/24]