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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 293. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43141/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Junior Certificate T1 Irish course is marked harder than the T2 Irish course (details supplied); to detail the statistical distribution of all grades in all languages, including the T1 and T2 Irish Junior Certificate tests; the statistical distribution for results for native speakers of all other languages in those languages;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (22 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline what the €2 million allocated in budget 2024 for “attendance and retention – measures for implementation” relates to; what it has been allocated for and used for; the amount of it which has been spent to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43109/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43140/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Vacant Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 418. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43153/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43147/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Kyran Durnin case has shocked the country to the core. This is a tragic and dark case that asks serious questions of the State. How can a vulnerable child go missing for two years? How can a vulnerable child just disappear for two years? How broken is the State care system that we are not talking about an intervention here but we are talking about the potential murder of a child. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach has not addressed the question I asked regarding this case-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Many of these deaths are as a result of a failure of State care. I will give him other examples. The Government is using special emergency arrangements at the moment to accommodate children. These are often unregulated, rented accommodations provided by third-parties with questionable vetting standards. Children are going missing every month and these children are being exposed to sexual...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: -----it is the polar opposite of that. It is really important that we get to the heart of the fatal dysfunction that exists in our childcare system currently in this country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Taoiseach ask for the Minister, Tusla and CAMHS to be brought before the children's committee to focus on this fatal dysfunction?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach can ask, like any TD here can.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The issue of Government waste is creating great frustration and fury among the general public, from the children's hospital to the Gucci bike shed. The most recent revelation is that the vacant distillery building in Smithfield has cost the State €12 million and has not had people using it. When the Taoiseach was Minister for Health, his Department measured a building incorrectly and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the issue of Government waste, which is a massive topic, I understand. Those ventilators are still being stored. What is going to happen to those ventilators that cost €100,000, that do not work and that are still being stored? Will the Government use them somewhere as a national monument to Government waste, to be able to celebrate what the Government has done?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Flippant?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not the case. You know I am not saying that. The Taoiseach is twisting the question in a horrendous fashion.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I am talking about waste. I am not talking about the treatment of Covid, and the Taoiseach knows that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach is out of order.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: You are answering a different question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: What is going to happen to the ventilators? The question was about the ventilators.