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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...

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

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Taoiseach not think overcrowding affects it?

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

Peadar Tóibín: Medical technology and medical science.

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

Peadar Tóibín: Nobody is arguing against it.

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

Peadar Tóibín: Nobody has a problem with it.

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

Peadar Tóibín: I am happy; I accept that-----

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

Peadar Tóibín: -----but not the new one.

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

Peadar Tóibín: It feels that we have a parallel Leaders' Questions here because we put a question forward and a parallel question is answered. The Taoiseach is hiding behind the issue of patient safety when it comes to Navan's accident and emergency department. However, this is the HSE that created a warzone in University Hospital Limerick by closing the accident and emergency departments in Nenagh and...

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

Peadar Tóibín: They just wait in the other hospital.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school building projects approved for a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59673/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Meetings (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet the residents and committee that have organised the recent protests in the East Wall area of Dublin. [59592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will commit to real engagement and consultations with local people before refugees and asylum seekers are placed in their community; and if he will develop a community dividend for communities to ensure that enough doctors, school places, transportation facilities, housing units and supports are in place...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees and asylum seekers who have been located in each local authority area; the number of modular homes that have been built; and the timeframe for the delivery of same over the next few months. [59594/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of the 500 public buildings that were identified for use in the housing of refugees in April 2022 that are currently in use; and the number of the homes and rooms in private homes that were pledged for use to house refugees that have been activated. [59595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of buildings that have been purchased by his Department in the past two years to house asylum seekers and refugees; the number of these that are currently in use; and the number of empty buildings and vacant sites that are in the ownership of or that are being rented out by his Department. [59596/22]

Toll Charge Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome Sinn Féin's motion and thank them for taking the lead from Aontú, which raised this issue last May and again on 17 November. The State right now is involved in highway robbery across this country. It is an incredible situation that it is shaking down commuters who are living in commuter hell at the moment right around the State. Families are hammered with the cost of...