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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This time last year, in advance of the general election, the Government injected a sugar rush of once-off measures into the Irish economy, including a double payment for long-term social welfare individuals; €300 for fuel allowance on 4 November; €400 for working family payment on 4 November; €400 for disability invalidity pension and blind pension on 4 November; two...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned today----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I will leave it at that. Go raibh maith agat.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Budget 2026 is remarkably flat. It is a budget without vision. It is absent of ideas and innovation. The budget looks like it was written by a senior civil servant just looking to keep the system ticking over. I imagine maybe that is what happened because the Minister, Deputy Chambers, was too busy. He was involved in the omnishambles of the presidential election campaign.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not mentioning any candidates in the election at all.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important because we had an individual whose job it was to be the director of elections of that campaign and who was also at the time expected to produce a budget. That individual, and the truth be known, went through a serious crisis while trying to introduce a budget. That is a mistake. It is a mistake in relation to making sure that this issue of budgetary development is so...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----and this year they will retrench on it. One of the major problems with this Government is that it is focusing on the actual cycle itself. Post-election budget hammers the middle-income earners. Instead of the promised tax cuts the Government mentioned, for middle Ireland there is a tax increase today. It is an incredible situation. Instead of the cuts to student fees, there is a fee...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: A cost to rural Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason only a small amount of the total balance of the market cap fund has been spent; what the currently distributed funds have been spent on; the plans to distribute the remainder of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the dates/occasions upon which each hospital in the country entered surge escalation, over the past twelve months; and the number of patients in surge beds during each of those occasions, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for a mammogram in each county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53271/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 694. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the gaps in health outcomes that are widening between the North and South of Ireland each year. [53761/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of southern patients that have been treated in the North of Ireland in each of the past ten years; and the number of northern patients that have been treated in the south of Ireland in each of the past ten years. [53762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any systematic research carried out by her Department into health services that are available in the South of Ireland and not in the north, and vice versa. [53763/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I add my condemnation to the horrendous attacks that have happened outside the synagogue in Manchester. As the Tánaiste knows, the world has looked on at the horror that has happened for the last two years in Gaza and the fact that over 60,000 men, women and children have been murdered. Dozens of men, women and children are being murdered daily. Bombs are being dropped on schools,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a couple of questions. Will the Tánaiste give a date for the occupied territories Bill? He mentioned the complexities in relation to Israeli arms flights over Ireland. There is a danger that people can hide behind complexities. The Ditch has reported that the Irish State authorities in the last two months have assisted FedEx flights flying through Irish territory as they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the scoliosis waiting list for surgery at CHI hospitals at present; and the steps she is taking to reduce waiting lists. [51548/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is now eight years since the Minister's predecessor, Simon Harris, said that no child would be left waiting for longer than four months for a scoliosis operation. This time last year I asked him how many children had been taken off operation waiting lists without their parents knowing. He stated he would find out. However, as yet, there is no evidence that he has found out and let us...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister must admit it is quite shocking that it will take 14 months for a question asked in September 2024, about how many children have been taken off waiting lists without their parents knowing, to be answered. It points again to the dysfunction. I welcome that the Minister has met with parents about this. That is a good thing. The Minister mentioned money going into this section....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that the case? The Minister might answer that.