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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: I do understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: I am speaking about the general scenario. I will not speak to the individual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: It would be very unfortunate if, given the experience of councillors which is leading to people being prevented from accessing public services in terms of councillors, at least 30 seconds was not provided to air that particular issue. All political parties have a responsibility to reform how we govern ourselves, to ensure that councillors, first of all, are heard if they suffer a sexual...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: I would like the Taoiseach to focus on the issue of how political parties respond to these issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: Finally, on the issue of Women of Honour, over a year ago the Women of Honour raised the issue of abuse and sexual assaults that are actually happening in the Defence Forces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: They were promised by the Minister that there would be a proper investigation and that they would have influence-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: -----over the terms of reference. They had no influence over the terms of reference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: They are not engaging with the investigation because they have no confidence in it. Only 44 people have joined the Defence Forces in the past year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: Only 44 women have joined the Defence Forces in the past year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: We are not getting to the bottom of these barriers to access to public services-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: -----or the Defence Forces in relation to women, if we do not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: -----deal with these crises. I have concluded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: It is an awful thing that the rights of citizens cannot be vindicated by Deputies in a public assembly like this.
- Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: The next number of months will be some of the harshest many people will ever have experienced. For many families, utility bills are already out of reach before the winter starts. A large number of families are living from overdraft to overdraft, if they are lucky enough to have an overdraft, and many others will be reliant on moneylenders because that is the only way they have right now to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: Was the River Boyne in that response?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [50011/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: Dawn Meats was given permission by Meath County Council to install a 7.2 km pipeline that would pump treated effluent in the Boyne river, a special area of conservation. The pipeline would dispose of 400,000 l of wastewater into that historic river daily. The Save the Boyne campaign was founded to protect against this. Its spokesperson, Peter Whelan, has stated that the river is the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: Who is going to be held to account for what happened in the sale of Siteserv? Most people feel at this stage that this report is going to end up on a dusty shelf somewhere and that nothing is going to happen when it comes to the actions that were not taken in regard to the sale of Siteserv. There is a major frustration out there that this particular crisis was politically shelved by a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: The key question is who will be held to account.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)
Peadar Tóibín: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate students currently waiting for their exam results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50002/22]