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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The former Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, previously furnished me with data that showed the number of people diagnosed with cancer was increasing every year until 2020 when the pandemic hit. Then it went significantly down. This suggests that people's cancers went undiagnosed when significant elements of the health services were closed down in 2020. To what extent did this happen?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I look forward to the Minister sending the figures to me. In those figures we know there was a fall of 4,000 in the number of cancer diagnoses in 2020. These are the figures that were given to us by the previous Minister for Health. That fall in cancer diagnoses happened because the Government shut down significant elements of the health service. It stopped the cancer screening processes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister is right that Covid killed many people, for sure. Cancer also killed many people, for sure. We have not had a Covid inquiry yet so we do not know the effectiveness or net benefit in terms of saving people's lives of shutting down hospital services and stopping cancer patients getting treatment. The Minister mentioned survival rates. The National Cancer Registry shows Ireland...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland is facing a significant economic storm. The threatened tariff war with the United States could do immense damage to the current Irish economic model. Proposed changes to the US corporation tax could be catastrophic in terms of the Irish economy. Successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments have put all our economic eggs in bargain basement corporation taxes. For sure, FDI...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That is hardly enough in this regard.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I am asking the Minister what engagement he has had with the senior US Administration? What engagement have the Taoiseach and Tánaiste had with the US Administration-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----with regard to trying to mitigate against the damage of a tariff war?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister answer the question that I asked today, not the question I asked two months ago, please?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a point of amusement that the Minister's instinct is to get tribal every time an Opposition TD puts him under pressure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is incredible, when a straight question is asked regarding the engagement the Minister, the Minister for Justice, the Tánaiste or the Taoiseach have had with senior elements of the US Administration, in what is possibly one of the biggest existential economic threats to Ireland at the moment, that in the three or four minutes the Minister had to answer that, the summation of his...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I ask the Minister to leave the tribalism aside for one minute and answer the question directly if possible.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: With the US.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I said FDI in Ireland is good. I said FDI is positive.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister is arguing a point that nobody has made.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister is arguing a point that nobody has made.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person can be reviewed and assistance provided (details supplied). [9864/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 156. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person can be reviewed and assistance provided (details supplied). [9865/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (5 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE have plans to close or reduce services in any way in Navan accident and emergency in the next 12 months; and if so, if he will detail the plans and when will they be implemented. [9915/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10090/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of a company (details supplied) for processing Navan Hospital bloods tests is a temporary contract; and if so, the length of the contract. [10091/25]