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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons registering at the IPO in Dublin for each of the past five years and for each month this year; if she will provide a breakdown of the routes immigrants are taking into the country; and the proportion of persons who came through these routes in the past five years. [17164/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers who have come from Britain through the North of Ireland to the South of Ireland in the past five years and for each month this year. [17165/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminals who have changed their name by deed poll over the past ten years; her plans to stop sex offenders and violent criminals changing their names by deed poll; and the number of non-Irish citizens who have changed their name by deed poll over each of the past ten years. [17186/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (18 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on IPAS accommodation for each of the past ten years; the amount spent on direct provision for each of the past ten years; the amount spent on the provision of accommodation for Ukrainian citizens for each of the past three years; and the average cost of accommodation per night per person for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 287. To ask the Minister for Health the longest duration any patient has spent on a hospital trolley in each public hospital nationwide in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17130/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if levels of public expenditure here are adequately proofed to ensure best outcome for the Exchequer and taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17650/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The country is cursed with a number of scandals in relation to overspends on public projects. Aontú is fully in support of public project. We believe in public delivery, but the biggest threat to the confidence in public delivery has been a Government that has allowed such glacial movement in terms of infrastructural projects but also massive costs in terms of the delivery. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a list of projects that have gone over budget but I will use them in the second part.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a list of projects that I will tell the Minister about in my own time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned accountability. I am not aware of anybody in the senior levels of the Civil Service who has ever lost his or her job because a project went over budget. I am not aware of anybody who has even been moved sideways. I will give a couple of examples. We had a farce here where €2 million was spent on a Dáil printer nobody could fit in the door. We have the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú want to give people confidence in the delivery of public infrastructure. This confidence has been radically eroded by the lack of Government prudence and the lack of Government ability to hold the system to account. A Minister tasked a civil servant with creating a tender for the national children's hospital. There are people who are responsible for the spending disaster that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: A person would lose their job-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If it was a private company there would be loss of jobs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Deflect.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Ones that would have worked.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: But not accountability.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The State does things. The Government is not doing it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding allocated for flood relief schemes; and the amount actually drawn down or spent in each of the past five years and to date in 2024. [17649/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This again relates to flood defences. It is a very serious issue. I was down with Mona Stromsoe, who is the chair of the Midleton flood defence campaign, last Friday. I got to visit the location where floods did enormous damage. The water literally pulled cars out of driveways, knocked walls and did enormous damage. That town is still living with a significant fear of those floods...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot overstate the damage that has been done in Midleton and how this is a threat to human lives. I saw the buildings children were being lifted out of and the flow was so strong people could not stand in those situations, so this is very serious. The Minister mentioned earlier there are things outside of the Government's control and mentioned planning and the courts system. The...