Results 201-220 of 17,087 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who qualified for the carer’s allowance, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025; and the number of persons who applied for carer’s allowance but were refused in each of those years. [49655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for job seekers allowance or job seekers benefit who listed their previous employment as agriculture, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [49654/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (25 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the devices purchasing framework for schools contract with a company (details supplied), if devices are being used to replace free schoolbooks in schools; the cost to parents for devices under the contract; and the way in which this meets the commitment of lowering the cost of school resources for parents. [50985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consultation that took place with parents prior to the issuing of the NSCE Guidelines for the Review of SNA Allocations 2025/2026; the reason support for emotional regulation or social skills have been excluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50994/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of delays being experienced by former An Post employees in their applications for pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51087/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (24 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that are in place to stop any landlords raising management charges to effectively raise the rent of their tenants outside of the RPZ mechanism. [50620/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (24 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his Department’s processes in terms of purchasing Irish produce for schools under the national procurement thresholds; and to outline the economic value of Irish beef purchased by schools through his Department in the past five years. [50621/25]

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree with Deputy O'Flynn. I talk to people who say they are a timing belt issue away from not being able to pay their bills. They tell me that if something goes wrong in their lives, they will be on the edge. People are lying awake at night wondering what bills they will be able to pay. That is an incredible situation. The frustration I have is that the Government is acting like...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: As sure as every summer holiday finishes and as sure as the kids go back to school, there is a school bus crisis. It is incredible that there is a crisis every single year. Every TD in this House has been chasing their tail and chasing around the country to find solutions in individual cases. Let me outline the issue that really frustrates me. The Government's stated objective is to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the dates upon which she spoke to the CEO of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49647/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 25. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department holds any statistics on the average cost of childcare in each of the past ten years; and the steps her Department is taking to reduce the cost of childcare. [49649/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 54. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will detail the function and purpose of the National Review Panel, which conducts reviews into the deaths of children in State care. [49648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 55. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of community disability network teams not fully staffed in the State; the number which are fully staffed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49650/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports offered to birth mothers of children in State care; the ways through which they are supported through the process of taking their children into care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49651/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the work that has taken place to achieve the extension of the runway at Waterford airport, and to introduce commercial flights to an international carrier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50295/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of Irish produced beef the Office of Government Procurement have procured in the past five years; the plans to increase this; and if his Department has considered how EU public procurement rules can protect the use of Irish beef in public procurement. [50296/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus tickets issued to children nationwide for the 2025/2026 school year for which no corresponding bus service was available. [50428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus tickets issued to children in County Meath for the 2025/2026 school year for which no corresponding bus service was available. [50429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the time it takes to reactivate the PPS numbers for returning Irish emigrants, compared with the timescale involved in creating PPS numbers for the first time. [50294/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the impending closure of an animal rehabilitation centre (details supplied); if his Department has plans for the building, stables and lands which was used by the centre given its importance to the local community as well as its regional work; and if he will work with the organisation to determine if funding will...