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Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has bullied through a new hybrid speaking system into this Dáil. The Government created a speaking system with another designation and it wants to control that designation as well. It already has a majority in this Dáil, but it wants the majority of the designations as well. Incredibly, in the new Standing Orders, the Chief Whip of the Government will be able to...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We are 123 days since the general election and this Dáil has sat for 21 days.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There is not a committee functioning in this Dáil at the moment. No wonder we cannot build a hospital in this country without the prices ballooning out of control. No wonder there is not a house for a young person, and that young people have to emigrate to actually get a house. It is beyond time that we cop on to ourselves in this Chamber and see can we work to fix those issues. This...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Guirke spoke for one hour last year in the whole year.

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The nature of policing is radically changing in this country. There is absolutely no doubt about that. That relationship between citizens and the Garda is actually crumbling. Much of the Garda's authority over decades has been the fact that gardaí have been able to work in partnership with positive relationships with local communities. That has meant the level of difficulties that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Obviously, this is bad news for Ireland - there is no doubt about that. While the pharma sector seems to have been given a reprieve for the moment, which is a blessing, the secondary effect of tariffs internationally will be a dampening effect on the world economy. We are a small, open economy and will be very sensitive to that. That will have a significant effect on our tax take - both on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total overruns in public infrastructural projects in each of the past five years. [15639/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The previous Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments had a reputation for incinerating public money through wastefulness in public projects. We have numerous examples, from the Gucci bicycle shed to the WRC wall, to the national children's hospital, to the ventilators that never worked. The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, does not have that reputation and I think he could bring change...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The process is clearly not working because we are coming down with cost overruns left, right and centre. One of the reasons for this is that the Government is allergic to accountability and has been for a long time. Even when answering a simple question here on the actual cost overruns over the past five years, this level of accountability is refused. The Minister has not even answered the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Bureaucracy does not create accountability. Accountability is an issue that is created if there is a cost to an individual for making a mistake over and over again that costs the State. I very clearly asked what the total overruns in public infrastructure projects were. The accountability to the Dáil has not achieved an answer on that here and now. I also asked what overruns were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The buses did not move for 18 months.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: No quibble with the public servants. It is the Government we have a quibble with.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of properties sold by the OPW in each of the past ten years; and the cost of each, in tabular form. [15633/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The might also mention the Midleton flood defences, which have been mooted since 2017. My understanding is that the planning application has still not been processed. It is a real life and death issue for the people of Midleton. Vacant property during a housing crisis is one of the biggest problems I have with this Government. This and the previous Governments are the biggest hoarders...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the sales of those properties. That is a good thing, but the Minister must admit that on a day when 15,600 people are homeless, the idea that one Department would have 45 vacant properties is absolutely wrong. The OPW is involved in a total of 450 lease agreements which concern approximately 374 properties. We have seen the OPW lease property from Larry Goodman where someone...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú put in freedom of information, FOI, requests to each of the local authorities and found there were 4,000 empty local authority homes in the country. If those 4,000 empty local authority homes were brought back into use, they would be enough to house the total 15,600 people who are currently homeless. We found that it is taking on average eight months to get those local authority...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 69. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing will next meet. [9293/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 101. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with social affairs and public services last met. [7688/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Civil Service (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 106. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [9294/25]