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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I apologise for coming back at the witnesses again. I get the sense that the witnesses are working hard, getting the train back on track and are making progress, but I do not get the sense that they understand the urgency we feel, given that we are dealing daily with people who are homeless. While the figures have improved and look as though they will continue to improve, they are still too...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I was in time on the last one but I noticed everybody else was over their time.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Everyone else was over their time, so I followed other members' lead.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Could I get a quick answer about concentric developments?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Let us match regulation to need.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree, but what is driving development at the moment is not spatial planning, but the fact that no builder can make a profit building a house in the likes of County Leitrim. Builders can only make a profit building a house in counties Meath, Louth, Dublin or the mid-east.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The spatial planning is out the window at the moment. It is purely market forces driving the location of housing.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Swimming Pools (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps Galway County Council should take to secure funding for a swimming pool in Loughrea, County Galway. [36259/25]

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "restoration and conservation of the National Monument at 14-17 Moore Street": "; and commits to: — respecting the heritage and legacy of the leaders of 1916; — ending the destruction of key National Monuments such as the O'Rahilly Home and Moore Street; — implementing the Moore Street...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has had four years to produce a review of the 2004 Act, and God knows how much it has cost. Ultimately, it tells us what we already know. The problem is that the review of this Act is now telling us to review another Act, the Disability Act 2005. It is an incredible situation. The Government talks about the need for a legal, rights-based, inclusive education system but...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: What is the point of having the CSO provide figures and details regarding the population across the country if the Government keeps ignoring those figures when it comes to the delivery of key services? The CSO tells us how many older people we have, but we are not providing enough nursing home beds for them. The CSO tells us the number of younger people, but we are not providing enough...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to an exchange during Leaders’ Questions on 21 May 2024, the timeframe set out in the Climate Action Plan 2024 for when the revised wind guidelines will be published and the review into the 2006 wind energy development guidelines completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Rail Network (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that the Navan to Dublin rail line is included for designated funding in the review of the National Development Plan (details supplied). [36044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the summer camp services in a school (details supplied) have not been run in the past number of years. [35830/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the free bus service to school drops for over-18-year-olds with disabilities who are still in education have ceased (details supplied). [35831/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 422. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of people employed at management level in An Post, for each of the of the past 20 years. [35686/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times he has met with representatives from An Bord Pleanála since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36231/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to reduce the rate of vacancy among social houses across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36232/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 654. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the necessary works will be carried out at the Saoirse Centre in Athboy for the adult services; if the centre will be well secured with fencing prior to doors opening (details supplied). [35828/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols in place to review and adjust thyroid medication dosages for women following childbirth, particularly where the dosage was increased during pregnancy; in the absence of protocols, the measures that will be taken to ensure that postnatal thyroid treatment is appropriately monitored to avoid adverse effects such as depression and suicidal...