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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Air Quality (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of grants that were allocated for indoor ventilation and mobile HEPA air filtration systems since 2020 to schools; and if she will provide details of each of these grants, in monetary value and geographical area, in tabular form. [52199/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the developing school post at a school (details supplied) in County Meath is retained, the loss of which would result in the amalgamation of classes and increase class ratio size in a town which has a growing population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52309/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of indications received by his office in recent weeks, from early childcare providers, stating that they will have to close their business in the next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52200/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mental Health Policy (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the mental health survey carried out by an organisation (details supplied); if so, if he will provide details of the findings of the survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will respond to correspondence from this Deputy’s office dated to August 2022; and the reason that he has not responded to date (details supplied). [52202/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the conditions of a building with broken windows and caged windows to the rear of a building (details supplied) which is operating as a direct provision centre; if asylum seekers are currently living in the building; if they were ever living in the building; if so, the date...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the entity that is responsible for the physical maintenance of direct provision centres. [52203/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will seek a proper debate in Dáil Éireann on the topic of historical child abuse within the foster care system. [52206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Investigation (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected that the Farrelly Commission of Investigation will produce its final report. [52207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide statistics of the death rate among persons under 18 years in Ireland; and the death rate among persons aged under 18 years who are in State care, both residential and fostering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52208/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that he is taking to reduce the death rate among children in State care, in both residential care and fostering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52211/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he is undertaking to reduce the death rate among asylum seekers within the Internal Protection Accommodation Service. [52209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that his Department is taking to reduce child poverty and child homelessness. [52210/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Traveller Community (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider issuing a State apology to members of the Travelling community regarding the systematic abuse, racism and discrimination that they have endured for decades under successive governments, particularly in the form of legislation which sought to prevent Travellers from travelling; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cybersecurity Policy (19 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the total cybersecurity structures currently in place within the health service; the number of persons who are employed in cybersecurity in Ireland; and the annual budget. [52158/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome that this group will be considered a priority group and that there will be proposed analysis of their pathway through third level, etc. Subject to assessment, care leavers are entitled to aftercare from the age of 18, when their foster or residential placements end, until the age of 21. Aftercare supports can be extended to the age of 23 if the young person goes to further or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I, too, recognise the great work done by EPIC. According to EUROSTAT figures, 80% of people aged between 16 and 29 in this country are still living at home with their parents. In every town and village in the country, young adults are living with their parents due to the crisis-of-living crisis and other spiralling pressures such as rents. The age of 18 is very young for a person to leave...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken by his Department to assist young people in aftercare, that is persons who have left Tusla residential or foster care placements at the age of 18 years, who are in further or higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51338/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Children or teenagers in State care are sometimes very vulnerable people with complex and sometimes very difficult experiences. It is vital the Government seeks to assist them as they progress through what is referred to as aftercare, which is a period immediately after they leave foster care placements or residential care. What is the Department doing to assist people with aftercare?

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This energy crisis is devastating families and communities throughout the country at present. We are months into the crisis and what we have seen from the Government so far is inertia and glacial steps. The Government's response has been incredibly slow. At the beginning of this month we saw energy prices increase again. Electric Ireland increased prices for the third time this year and...