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

Peadar Tóibín: I have received some incredible answers from different Ministers to parliamentary questions in respect of what happened during Covid. The Minister for Health confirmed to me that there were 10% fewer cancers diagnosed in 2020 than would have been expected for that year by the National Cancer Registry Ireland. That is an alarming revelation. In 2020, 60,000 fewer women were screened by...

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

Peadar Tóibín: The only country in Europe.

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

Peadar Tóibín: We were an outlier.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when he last met with church leaders in Ireland. [55133/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Religious leaders of all faiths are working overtime in this country at the moment. They do enormous work in helping the vulnerable, members of the Travelling community, victims of human trafficking, those in prison, those who are homeless, those with addictions, those who are grieving and so on, and in terms of integration and working with many in our migrant communities. They must,...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: In Gaza, 25,000 individual human beings have been murdered since the horrendous attacks by Hamas on 7 October. This is the equivalent of every man, woman and child in a large Irish town such as Tralee being killed. More than 10,000 children have been killed in those attacks. That is the equivalent of 416 classrooms of innocent children murdered in that time. Women and children have been...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: There are 9,409 adults currently homeless in the State, and 4,105 children are accessing emergency accommodation. That is equivalent to the full population of the town of Midleton in Cork. It is a significant number of Irish citizens who are currently in a state of homelessness. There is the equivalent of 117 classrooms of children homeless at the moment. It is an incredible situation....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he met with the Women of Honour group before the terms of reference for the tribunal of inquiry into the Defence Forces handling of bullying, harassment and sexual assault allegations were agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2780/24]

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to pay tribute to the Women of Honour, many of whom are here tonight, who have courageously brought to light the shocking litany of abuse and bullying that has been experienced by men and women in the Defence Forces over the decades. I had the opportunity to raise their case for the first time in the Dáil. At that time, I stated that if we wanted to achieve justice, we had to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent visit of the Chinese Premier to Ireland; and if human rights concerns were raised with the Premier during his visit. [2941/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Last week the Taoiseach and the Chinese Premier met. There was the result of a fantastic decision on behalf of Irish farmers that access for Irish beef was reestablished into the Chinese market. However, there are major issues with China. We have millions of people in the Xinjiang province who are being treated barbarically by the Chinese regime. We have democracy within Hong Kong being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It is difficult to overstate the human rights crisis in China. It is estimated that more than 1 million Uyghurs have been put into re-education camps in China since 2014. Subjects there suffer torture, women are forcibly sterilised, women have forced birth control and forced abortions, and products are being made in slave situations, with many such products finding their way into western...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that another diplomat, when he heard a report that the issue of human rights was mentioned, wondered how he had missed it because he had not noticed it at the meetings. The two pieces of evidence we have heard today are in contradiction. The US has moved to ban imports from Xinjiang and to stop slave labour products made by Uyghurs from being sold in the US. The EU proposed...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 89. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of times members of the Defence Forces have been involved in drug seizures or intercepting vessels containing drugs in each of the past ten years. [2781/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 534. 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. [2882/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently in State care who are in special emergency accommodation; the number who were in such settings at the end of each week for the past two years; and if a breakdown can be provided on the number of whom are separated children/unaccompanied minors and those who are not, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of special emergency accommodation companies that have been set up, or contracted by Tusla in Ireland in each of the past ten years, for the purposes of accommodating children in State care; the names of such companies; and the amounts paid to each company, per child per year, in each of the past ten...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [2885/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla last year 2023, and if a breakdown can be provided on the referral reason; and the occupation of the person who made the referral. [2886/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of Tusla beds occupied in residential centres; for a breakdown on this figure, to show the number of beds occupied in special care centres, voluntary centres, private centres and centres for separated children seeking international protection. [2932/24]