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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Travel (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total costs of accommodation and travel expenses associated with his recent foreign trip, or foreign trips by Ministers for State at his Department, for St. Patrick’s Day; and if a breakdown can be provided on travel costs, accommodation costs, country or state visited, number of departmental staff accompanying...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current backlog of the number of marriage vias appeals; and the timeframe by which an appeal (details supplied) would expect to be processed. [14767/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 625. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any differential in survival rates for cancer between persons who were diagnosed in a public versus private hospital or clinic; and if a breakdown can be provided based on cancer type and survival rates in years, in tabular form. [14708/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 629. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1156 of 18 January 2023, if further details can be provided on bed-capacity analysis for Galway University Hospital; in terms of the figure of 222, what this addition would bring the capacity to; and if details can be provided on the requirement for an extra 24 beds in Portiuncula hospital; and if he will clarify...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all procurement competitions, if any, in which companies (details supplied) won contracts from his Department since 2016. [14726/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Travel (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the total costs of accommodation and travel expenses associated with his recent foreign trip, or foreign trips by Ministers for State at his Department, for St Patrick’s Day; and if a breakdown can be provided on travel costs, accommodation costs, country/state visited, number of departmental staff accompanying him, and the duration of the trip, in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of all procurement competitions, if any, in which companies (details supplied) won contracts from his Department since 2016. [14717/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Official Travel (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total costs of accommodation and travel expenses associated with his recent foreign trip, or foreign trips by Ministers for State at his Department, for St Patrick’s Day; and if a breakdown can be provided on travel costs, accommodation costs, country/state visited, number of departmental staff accompanying him, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 788. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide details of all procurement competitions, if any, in which companies (details supplied) won contracts from her Department since 2016. [14730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Official Travel (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 789. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total costs of accommodation and travel expenses associated with her recent foreign trip, or foreign trips by Ministers for State at her Department, for St Patrick’s Day; and if a breakdown can be provided on travel costs, accommodation costs, country/state visited, number of departmental staff accompanying her, and the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a massive crisis in the education system. While the Department of Education seems to be more interested in culture wars against the will of the majority of parents in the country, most parents just want schools built in their local areas. Thousands of children are currently going to inefficient, rotten, cold school prefabs. In some cases, the second generation of the same family...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Will they be resolved this year?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Will all of those-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the objectives of the Department should be, first and foremost, to listen to teachers. Teachers have a deep understanding of how different students learn and what their needs are, and most polling of teachers in this circumstance shows that they are pretty much unanimously opposed to the Government's deletion of foundation level mathematics. A recent poll showed that 87% of teachers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I would suggest to the Minister that we front-load research in terms of the decision-making process. I welcome that there is a review but my worry is that this process will be slow and that many children will have to go through the current system with regard to foundation level mathematics and that will cause major difficulties for thousands of students around the country. If we start...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has undertaken a study to determine if the increase in those failing ordinary level maths is attributable to the removal of foundation levels maths from the junior cycle. [13576/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is growing frustration among many parents around the country that the Department is focusing on ideological battles, against the will of parents, rather than focusing on the bread and butter issues of the education system. Most parents would rather that the Department focuses on having school buildings that are operational, yet the Government has paused the building of new builds at...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Union (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Government decision to participate in an EU battlegroup erodes Irish neutrality. [13944/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps his Department is taking to address the retention and recruitment crisis within the Defence Forces. [13943/23]