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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The language is a single transferable speech over a decade at this stage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The key issue is that a construction company in Navan that was building for the council went bust very recently. We need to know why builders cannot build and make a profit. They are scared of the risk that exists in the market and, therefore, they are not getting involved in it. The costs are not being mitigated at some level by the Government, such as through a reduction of taxation on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not want to get into the rhetoric.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage rate at which new housing starts are reducing; the steps his Department is taking to tackle the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58972/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Only 390 applications have been made to the Croí Cónaithe initiative so far, according to a reply to parliamentary question I received only in the past week.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not looking to ask this particular question in a combative manner because there is a crisis and the Minister has an interest in trying to fix it, but I still believe we are not focusing on the builder-level reason homes are not being built. When I talk to dozens of builders in my constituency, they tell me they are not building and they have not built in years. We have to get to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plays any role in the protection of buildings from demolition which are of cultural significance in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeowners who have applied for the vacant property refurbishment grant, in each county; the number of applications which have been refused; and the number which have been successful in tabular form. [58971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department intends to calculate or record the number of students from ethnic minority groups such as the Travelling community who are entering further or higher education per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58974/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department collates data on the number of students who drop out of third level education each year; and if so, if the data will be provided in tabular form. [58973/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (1 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the average accident and emergency waiting time in each accident and emergency in the country for the month of November 2022; the number of patients that have been placed on trolleys and chairs in each accident and emergency in the country during November 2022. [60140/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is moving ahead.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It will be an empty anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement if there is no Executive in place.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I was in Westminster a couple of weeks ago with the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Westminster is pushing ahead with its Troubles legacy Bill, which will give amnesty for the murder of Irish people. Before the Taoiseach leaves office, will he say to the British Government that the Irish Government will take it to the European Court of Human Rights if it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes, the MacCraith report recommended that there would be communication with the 4,088 women who were affected by the glitch, but many were not contacted and we do not know what is happening there, three and a half years later. The Tánaiste did say the Minister for Health would come back to me but he never came back to me.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: When the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, offered free CervicalCheck screening, after the CervicalCheck scandal broke, 4,088 women received inaccurate test results or experienced delays in the issuing of letters as the result of an IT glitch at Quest Diagnostics. This week, three years and three months after the recommendation was made by the MacCraith report, the HSE has confirmed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [58941/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is the result of the HSE trying to close it. Why would one try to get a job in a place that is going to close?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not trolleys and it is not on waiting lists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is estimated that every year in this State, there are 360 excess deaths as a result of accident and emergency department overcrowding. That is to say double the population of this Dáil die every year as a result of overcrowding in accident and emergency departments. However, new research in Britain has shown that this is likely to be an underestimate. The Emergency Medicine...