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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has consulted with Uisce Éireann, An Bord Pleanála and local authorities with regard to sufficient water capacity throughout the national water supply system to meet both current demand and new connections for future housing development construction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of applications for the long-term carer contributions scheme; the number of successful and unsuccessful applications since the commencement of the scheme; and the current waiting time for applications to be assessed, in tabular form. [19428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 563. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the number of persons from Ukraine under beneficiaries of temporary protection, and the number of international protection applicants respectively, who have been housed within each local authority nationally as of 22 April 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 614. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the MIDOC in Birr, County Offaly closed; if there are plans for it to reopen; if there is an assessment of accessibility of primary care in Birr; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18735/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 770. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on the current review of CLÁR designated areas within her Department, and when the review will conclude; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18829/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the basic tenets of management is to measure what is happening. If we cannot measure what is happening, we cannot manage the situation. If I were to open a sweet shop on Main Street in Bray, I would need to know what is happening within that sweet shop or it would go bust. Despite myself and others trying to get the Minister to focus on measuring what is happening, there was a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have replies to 15 parliamentary questions that say the opposite.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Are they enforceable?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: How is it enforced?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15074/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17659/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have put in a freedom of information request to all local authorities seeking the number of vacant local authority properties that exist. Incredibly, the information I have got shows that there are 3,500 empty local authority homes at the moment. The State is the biggest hoarder of empty homes in the country. We have done more digging into this and have found that, on average, it takes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list the occasions over the past 18 months on which Government Departments have requested additional funds from his Department; the purposes of these requests; which requests were granted; and which were refused. [18661/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: We know that over Christmas the Minister and the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, had a ferocious argument over the health budget. We also know there are significant tensions currently between the Minister's Department and other Departments. Some of these tensions concern overspends by those other Departments. Can the Minister give us information about where these difficulties...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Two Departments seem to be under significant pressure at the moment, namely, the Departments of Justice and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. They are under strain with the current issue of the migrant numbers coming into the country. There was an important story in yesterday's edition of the Irish Daily Mail in regard to two asylum seekers who were successful in court...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The judge in this case, Ms Justice Siobhán Phelan, stated that the information in regard to the applicant's conviction has been in the Minister for Justice agent's possession since October 2021, without telling the applicant of his obligation to register as a sex offender. The judge went on to say that she was troubled by the fact that this has not come to light. She said this was in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I had a chance to visit Midleton recently and I spoke to many of the people living in the area. It is important for people outside Cork to remember how life-threatening this event was. It was not just damaging to homes, properties and businesses. Lives were in the balance. I know of an elderly man who now works as a human water gauge, as it were. When the rainfall is heavy he stays up,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there a date for the planning application?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the disparity among home schooled children and children in mainstream education with regard to access to assistive technology (details supplied). [19682/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 26. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list the hospitals he has visited since he took office. [18647/24]