Results 21-40 of 17,211 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: For the Minister who could not count Covids, he is now in charge of the Department of Finance. Instead of accountability, we see promotion under this Government. In fairness to the Tánaiste, he was only in justice for six months. Incredibly, Helen McEntee was in that Department for far longer. We now have the Minister who, after the Dublin riots, walked while flanked by gardaí...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: She is now in charge of the safety of the skies, the seas and everything below it.

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This is a jaded Government, a tired Government and it is time for it to go.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of toll bridges in the State; and if he will outline when each was built; and the cost to the State. [63521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to improve public transport systems in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63520/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to reduce the economic burden being experienced by people who commute long distances to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63790/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average age of those taking the driving test for each of the past five years; the average age of those failing the driving test for each of the past five years; the gender of those taking the driving test for each of the past five years; the gender of those failing the driving test for each of the past years; the nationality of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied), who created an alias to avoid deportation and used it falsely to claim social welfare, has been allowed to remain in Ireland; the number of persons who have broken the law while in the IPAS application system that have been allowed to stay in the State, for each of the past five years;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 781. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to enter into a contract for an IPAS centre, or any other accommodation centre, at a location (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63431/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has undertaken any study or analysis of the child mortality rate in direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61895/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 935. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a response will issue to important correspondence issued to Tusla (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63633/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 983. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for an operation will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [62861/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Sarah Costello from Trim in County Meath was treated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, in a hospital in Belfast for endometriosis. Her surgery went horribly wrong. She had to have an emergency bypass to save her life. She had a cardiac arrest and needed 15 litres of blood. She was left disastrously injured by the operation. Today, she is in bad health and in pain. When...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is still too slow. It is not meeting the targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is quite incredible that if a farmer is building a slatted shed in Cavan, a person in Cork can submit an objection in respect of it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We have a Bill that would bring that to an end. There is a massive issue with serviced land and serviced zoned land that has been ignored over the past while. The Government talks about an audit of that land. Is it not startling that the Government does not know how much zoned land there is in the country or how much serviced zoned land there is? The Tánaiste is saying that there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There are different voices in the Opposition.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This Government is a record breaking Government for all the wrong reasons. There have been record rents, record house prices and record numbers of people who are homeless. The average price of a residential property sold in 2025 was €426,000. I could not believe the figure when I saw it. It is eight times the average income at the moment. The average rent for a two-bedroom...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been refused the disability allowance in each of the past ten years; the numbers of whom were successful in their appeal against the refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Weather Events (13 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who were initially refused the humanitarian assistance payment in response to storm Éowyn but were subsequently granted payment following appeal of his Department’s decision. [61982/25]