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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE-funded home care providers have stopped taking physically well older people for walks; and if a risk assessment has been undertaken by him in relation to the danger posed by HSE-funded home care providers allowing physically well older people with dementia leave their homes on their own without accompanying them for a walk. [1365/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1712. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of ambulances that were over one hour awaiting handover in hospital, including percentage, in each of the past ten years. [1523/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 999 calls nationally and by division, where the patient was deceased by the time an ambulance reached the scene, in each of the past ten years. [1525/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1715. To ask the Minister for Health the top ten longest lengths of time a person was left waiting for an ambulance in the State in each of the past ten years. [1526/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1716. To ask the Minister for Health the longest length of time a person was left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in each of the past ten years, by ambulance station and dispatch point. [1527/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1717. To ask the Minister for Health the longest length of time a person was left waiting for an ambulance to dispatch to them, perhaps due to a lack of available ambulances, in each of the past ten years, by ambulance station and dispatch point. [1528/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1718. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance response time per region, per year, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1529/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1713. To ask the Minister for Health the location(s) for ambulance stations; the number of emergency ambulances assigned to each station; and the number of WTE assigned to each station. [1524/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 1719. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any differential in survival rates for cancer, between persons diagnosed in a public hospital/clinic and those diagnosed in a private hospital/clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1530/24]

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...