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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person can be put on a local authority housing list in Ireland if they have a house in another EU Member State; and if local authorities check this fact. [50325/23]

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: We are.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Outside of the political and media bubble, where many people live in towns and villages without the safety of Garda resources, they will ask themselves what is happening. That we are looking to take further Garda resources and reduce the level of peaceful and respectful protest in the country is wrong.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This week, a large number of Deputies in the Chamber decried efforts made by some British politicians to stop protests in Britain against the horrific war in Gaza. Many of those speakers rightly said that in no circumstance should the democratic right to protest be prevented and that protest was the foundation stone of a democracy. I, as an Irish republican, will always point to the North...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The gross injustices that are unfolding at the moment in Gaza are an indictment against Israel but also against the international community. The international community is standing idly by in respect of what is happening in Gaza at the moment. It is an incredible issue on which many people have spoken very well here today. The fact is that more than 11,000 citizens, non-combatants, and at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine an application for special education transport (details supplied). [50096/23]

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: More than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since 7 October. Some 1,400 people were killed in Israel on 7 October and 200 Israelis remain as hostages. Approximately 4,000 children have been killed in Gaza, now at a rate of one child being killed every 15 minutes. We have seen 90 UN workers and 40 journalists killed so far. Aid has been reduced to a trickle on purpose. Gaza was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: No effort.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no plan by the Government.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been reported that the main hospital in Gaza is burying patients in a mass grave. A doctor in the hospital said that bodies are littered around the hospital complex and there is no longer any electricity for the morgues. He stated that 7 babies and 29 patients who were in intensive care are among the dead. This is an indictment of the war Israel is waging. It is also an indictment...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Without enforcement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: According to the Minister's response in the past week, Garda recruitment and is at one third of what was pre Covid. The Minister opposite should not use the figures from the pandemic as his baseline to show so-called improvements. He just admitted that Covid distorted the figures significantly. The other point is that for every year the Minister for Justice has been in office, the number...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The number of resignations and retirements is greater than that of recruitments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Last week saw the conviction of Jozef Puska for the murder of Ashling Murphy. This horrific murder shocked the nation and our deepest sympathies and solidarity are with the Murphy family. It is quite clear that we have reached a dangerous tipping point in terms of crime and antisocial behaviour in towns and villages across the country. In recent years under the Government, Ireland has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá mé buíoch de na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach. On Deputy Conway-Walsh’s point, has anybody ever got fired from the senior level of the public services for overspending or delaying a capital project in the history of the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is interesting. In the private sector, if an individual staff member were to overspend by €1.4 billion and delay a project by six years, the terms and conditions of their contract would be measured against their output. I imagine there would be a negative outcome in terms of that person's job in that scenario. I am getting at the idea of accountability and responsibility at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What happens when that does not happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no higher censure than being brought before the Committee of Public Accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: They do not do it, obviously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: On the capacity of the health service at present, in the last five years there have been 500,000 adverse incidents in the HSE. Some 500,000 people have been injured as a result of an action taken in the HSE. In that five years, approximately 3,150 people have been killed in the HSE as a result of some kind of accident or something that was done wrong in the HSE. The previous Minister for...