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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1720. To ask the Minister for Health the number persons who have retired from the National Ambulance Service in each of the past five years; and the number of new persons employed by the National Ambulance Service in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [1531/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with addiction to drugs or alcohol in each of the past ten years. [1532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons to contact the HSE's drug and alcohol helplines in each of the past ten years. [1533/24]

Gender Recognition (Amendment) (Prisons) Bill 2023: First Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Gender Recognition (Amendment) (Prisons) Bill 2023: First Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Gender Recognition Act 2015 to make provision for single-sex accommodation in prisons; and to provide for related matters. I thank The Countess, especially Laoise de Brún and those in the Gallery, for their help on the Bill and the other women’s rights campaigners who have been working on this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted any research into the reasons the number of Teagasc graduates attaining trained farmer status has been declining in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55429/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Costs (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has been monitoring fluctuation in the cost or price of farm fertiliser; and if he will outline the supports there are to support farmers struggling with the cost of fertiliser. [55428/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Trafficking (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what steps his Department is taking to reduce the rate of child trafficking in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors or separated children currently seeking asylum in the State; and the types of care settings they are in, that is, foster care, residential care, emergency accommodation and so on. [55426/23]

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Ceann Comhairle. Words matter; they matter a lot. Words can cast light, they can educate, they can build up, they can get to the truth, they can hold people to account and they can inspire. Words can obviously do the opposite in many ways. They can be the vehicles of hate and they can be used for good and bad. There is no doubt about it. Aontú is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the most frustrating elements of this Government is its inability to deliver capital projects. We are in the middle of a housing crisis at the moment, with hundreds of thousands of people in housing distress. We also have 130,000 empty homes in this State. The Government created a refurbishment grant scheme in July 2022 and since then just 70 people have drawn down a grant under...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Applied-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There were 22 this year.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There were 22.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Applications are different to grants.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: More than 700 people were murdered by the British Army and their loyalist death squads in Ireland during the Troubles. I am thinking about people such as Denise Mullen, a former Aontú councillor in east Tyrone. At four years of age, she witnessed the murder of her father Denis by the Glenanne gang. The killer was a member of the British territorial army. He pumped 17 bullets into her...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Every victim in the North of Ireland is absolutely entitled to justice. Let us not forget the purpose of the Act in question. The Tories have admitted in Westminster that the purpose of the Act is to stop cases being taken against the British military. That is the objective behind the Act. It is important that we understand that context. The Taoiseach referred to timelines. Before...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It did not work.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of solar farms currently plugged into the national grid; and the number of houses that have been deep retrofitted in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [55540/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the body that operates profits from the toll bridges on the M50 motorway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55549/23]