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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: All of it has been in the Department's hands for weeks.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no more information there than a Google search would have provided.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We have.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: My parliamentary assistant, Mr. Luke Silke, was in contact with the Department of Justice regarding the flaws within the Garda vetting system. I understand, however, it is not investigating the disclosures made by Aontú because of that Department's interpretation of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act. In recent months, I was contacted by an individual who alleged that she and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 10. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the National Outdoor Recreation Strategy. [61830/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications that have been made for grants under the Community Support Fund. [61829/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of grants allocated under the national retrofitting scheme. [61734/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grants that are available to support individuals, businesses, public organisations and community groups to install solar panels. [61735/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (14 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if licences for drilling at a mine (details supplied) have been suspended; if it is the case that new licences are not being issued from 29 December 2022; and if this will lead to job losses at the location. [62617/22]

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In recent days, I spoke to the family of an elderly man who went to a GP with a respiratory illness. He went to the GP centre to look for an appointment with the doctor and was told to come back in January. Yesterday, I spoke to 79-year-old woman who has an infection. She rang the GP and was told to come back in January. Last night she rang the doctor on call but there was no answer from...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I listened to the Taoiseach's speech and he excelled himself in his last week. Before he died the theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, wrote about the possibility of there being a parallel universe. The Taoiseach's speech represented a parallel universe to the experience of most people living in this country. It is clear that the measure of success or failure for a Minister for Housing,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is nothing new in the table.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The review was announced last August.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I have raised this very serious issue with the Taoiseach before. Small-scale childcare and ECCE services throughout the country are in serious trouble as a result of the core funding plan by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman. They are going out of business. They are getting loans to pay for staff over Christmas. They are letting their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I support the request by Deputies Bacik and McDonald in respect of abuse in the past, but I also ask the Taoiseach, in the interest of balance, if the State has ever made any effort to quantify the positive contribution by the churches in this State. I think of the Covid crisis, for example, and, when many people were dying on their own and isolated from their families, the support they got...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach did it before.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: He banned it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It would help farmers significantly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a major problem with the market structure in farming at the moment in this State. There are three main elements to that market structure. There are farmers, then, typically, factories, and then there are supermarkets. What is happening across a number of product ranges is that the factories and the supermarkets are an oligopoly, which means that they have massive buyer-power and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [60881/22]