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Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It is disgraceful.

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This is very important, a Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: There were 2,300 deaths.

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I too welcome members of the campaign group to the Gallery tonight. I thank them for all the work they have over the years on this. The fact they have had to do it shows that this building and the people who have been in this building for the past five decades have simply not done their jobs. It is the responsibility of the political establishment. It is the responsibility of the...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that but I ask the Minister of State to meet her again to give that apology to her. It is important for her that that happens. The whole situation around the Covid-19 crisis and nursing homes was incredible: 2,323 people died and 27% of all deaths during Covid happened in the nursing homes. They were the ground zero of Covid. The Government moved thousands of people from...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Mary Bartley-Meehan lost her son and husband to Covid-19 in Kilbrew Nursing Home within just six weeks of each other. Ultan had dementia. He had carcinoma cancer, which resulted in tumorous wounds on his face and head. He had been a resident in the nursing home since 2019. Mary was shown a video of her husband before he died and it was quite horrific. The side of Ultan's face was...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 38. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent conversation with the British Prime Minister. [20539/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will next meet. [17657/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I had a chance to visit Midleton recently and I spoke to many of the people living in the area. It is important for people outside Cork to remember how life-threatening this event was. It was not just damaging to homes, properties and businesses. Lives were in the balance. I know of an elderly man who now works as a human water gauge, as it were. When the rainfall is heavy he stays up,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there a date for the planning application?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Two Departments seem to be under significant pressure at the moment, namely, the Departments of Justice and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. They are under strain with the current issue of the migrant numbers coming into the country. There was an important story in yesterday's edition of the Irish Daily Mail in regard to two asylum seekers who were successful in court...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The judge in this case, Ms Justice Siobhán Phelan, stated that the information in regard to the applicant's conviction has been in the Minister for Justice agent's possession since October 2021, without telling the applicant of his obligation to register as a sex offender. The judge went on to say that she was troubled by the fact that this has not come to light. She said this was in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list the occasions over the past 18 months on which Government Departments have requested additional funds from his Department; the purposes of these requests; which requests were granted; and which were refused. [18661/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: We know that over Christmas the Minister and the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, had a ferocious argument over the health budget. We also know there are significant tensions currently between the Minister's Department and other Departments. Some of these tensions concern overspends by those other Departments. Can the Minister give us information about where these difficulties...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have put in a freedom of information request to all local authorities seeking the number of vacant local authority properties that exist. Incredibly, the information I have got shows that there are 3,500 empty local authority homes at the moment. The State is the biggest hoarder of empty homes in the country. We have done more digging into this and have found that, on average, it takes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15074/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17659/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the basic tenets of management is to measure what is happening. If we cannot measure what is happening, we cannot manage the situation. If I were to open a sweet shop on Main Street in Bray, I would need to know what is happening within that sweet shop or it would go bust. Despite myself and others trying to get the Minister to focus on measuring what is happening, there was a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have replies to 15 parliamentary questions that say the opposite.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Are they enforceable?