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Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: I welcome the infrastructure cross-departmental committee, the housing activation office and the child poverty unit - tús maith leath na hoibre. I think we can do better and can aim higher. We owe that to the people of this country after their endurance and forbearance over the last five years. Several times at the Business Committee, I have raised the topic of migration, something...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: Go raibh maith agat. The Irish people have endured an incredible amount in the last five years. Every virtue has been tested in some extremely positive ways and, sadly, some negative ways. Lives have been changed irrevocably. To advance, we must reflect, review and learn. We must rethink our duty to future generations. First, we had two intense years of SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: We are absolutely united in the spirit of getting this project progressed. Again, I would push the case in this instance based on the financial implications and the history of the project. There is no doubt of the intention in the programme for Government, where the intention is to communicate, collaborate and encourage more interdepartmental and intradepartmental collaboration. That is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the single-phase delivery of the new campus for Dunboyne College of Further Education and Training, Dunboyne, County Meath, to be funded from as many relevant streams as possible, including but not limited to SOLAS, sports capital and national training funding. [26525/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: I wish to ask both the Minister and the Minister of State the timeline for the single-phase delivery of the new campus for Dunboyne College of Further Education and Training, Dunboyne, County Meath, to be funded from as many relevant streams as possible, including but not limited to SOLAS, sports capital funding, national training funding and national development plan funding. This college...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the Minister of State for the updated information. I reiterate that this college is delivering. At various times in this Chamber, we have discussed the need for occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and the development of apprenticeship programmes, as well as construction studies. LMETB colleges can deliver that. This process began in 2015, when Dunboyne was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a policy for corporate sponsorship of further and higher education campuses; if so, the frequency with which it is reviewed; and the stakeholder consultation for same. [26526/25]

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: As a teenager, I was angered, interested and repulsed by the atrocities of the Second World War, as experienced through history classes, documentaries, Anne Frank's diaries and, in later years, exacerbated by visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau and Treblinka. Surely this would not and could not happen again. An end to man's inhumanity to man, morality and Maslow would ensure that we had...

Common Agricultural Policy and Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan: Statements (15 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: I hope so. Gabhaim búiochas leis an gCeann Comhairle agus an Aire. I intend to share time with my colleague and therefore I have cut my cloth appropriately, so indulge me. My background is in healthcare, and a maxim of healthcare is "Let food be your medicine". In these times, food production and security, farm families and appropriate balanced land use are of paramount importance...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit. Again, on this subject, we have unity in the House. We have a shambolic and an extortionate process that must change as a matter of urgency. I will ask a few questions as to why. Is there a problem with testers? Are there human resource issues? Is it population increase related? Is it a symptom of a public transport deficit? If we do...

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire agus leis an Aire Stáit. I should stick to the title of economic enabler, but the social care benefits to be gained from the power of further and higher education cannot be ignored. Not a day goes by in this Chamber or in our communities that we do not discuss the plight of children with additional needs and special abilities. We get briefings...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (8 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific mechanisms through which the Secretary General, and other senior Department officials, exercise oversight of Dublin Airport Authority, regarding its operational and developmental obligations at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23070/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (8 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a list of departmental personnel with responsibility for the oversight of Dublin Airport operations, to include planning compliance, environmental impact, public accountability, along with details of their relevant experience and qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23071/25]

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: In the case of the Farrelly commission report, the phrase "Man's inhumanity to man" springs to mind. Ordinarily, that is reserved for mistreatment during warfare, but it is very relevant in this instance. The value that we have placed on people, that was placed on Grace, the social care teams and the members of those teams who came forward in a whistleblowing capacity and the tenet of...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: To celebrate unity and long-term peace with the objectives of integration and democratic co-operation were the objectives of Europe Day and of Robert Schuman in particular with his declaration in 1950. These are very noble objectives which are essential to underpin the coalescence and co-operation of European countries over the past 75 years. A bugbear of mine is the focus on, and at times...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Gillian Toole: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as a bheith anseo um thráthnóna. I welcome the updated draft of the NPF. There are several opportunities here to correct the mistakes of the tiger times. I speak as somebody from east Meath, a commuter county which has been seriously impacted. I sincerely hope the concerns of residents will be listened to and opportunities that...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Gillian Toole: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach agus leis an Aire as a bheith anseo inniu. I will be brief, in case my colleague comes in. There is agreement and unity across the House on this most serious and life-changing issue for the youngest in our population. I will confine my comments to suggestions of things that are already working in communities in Meath East and...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Gillian Toole: Hear, hear.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Gillian Toole: Gabhaim buíochas leis na hAirí as ucht bheith anseo um thráthnóna. In relation to CHI, I concur with everything I have heard since coming to the Chamber and in the snatches I heard throughout the afternoon when I was no in attendance. Rather than repeat what has been said by colleagues, I will focus on a few areas that I would like to see prioritised. One of them...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Bodies (29 Apr 2025)

Gillian Toole: 1071. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the recently-published National Counter Disinformation Strategy includes provisions to address the dissemination of misleading or inaccurate information by State agencies or State-owned companies; and if not, how the Government intends to ensure that organs of the State are held to the same standards of truth, transparency...