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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1514. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 29 March 2022, if a marketing company (details supplied) has submitted a pricing and reimbursement application; and if it will be made available to medical card holders if medically indicated by a doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the assessment of need for a child (details supplied) who will be unable to access their right to education through an ASD unit within a school setting without a formal diagnosis and intervention supports and who is not eligible for the domiciliary care allowance. [29727/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to give credit to all the various community organisations and groups, including churches and State organisations, that have so far made resources available to people from Ukraine who have come to this country. There has been an enormous amount of work. It is important to give credit and recognition to those who have offered the céad míle fáilte to people fleeing what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Can the Minister give us some information on the number of pledges by the general public of accommodation for people from Ukraine and the number of pledges that have been accepted in this regard? Has the Minister any information on the number of vacant homes repurposed to allow Ukrainian refugees to live in them? The issue of vacant homes has been a serious bugbear of mine for a long...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has any protocols or structures in place for dealing with persons who contact it and who have made retrospective abuse allegations or disclosures relating to their time as children in State care. [27576/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We are all familiar with the horrific detail that came to light in the Grace case, specifically with regard to the State's response to the allegations and the abuse suffered by the person known as Grace. Are there any other cases that the Minister is aware of which are similar in nature to that of Grace?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: With respect, the Minister has not answered my question at all. Since the establishment of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in 2014, some 13 internal case reviews have been carried out by it. My parliamentary assistant has been handed two of these reports by two women who suffered sexual abuse as children. The reports are deeply upsetting to read. In the 1990s, gardaí and social...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The content of these reports is deeply shocking. I want to know what happens to these reports. Where is the oversight and accountability in respect of them within the Department? Can the Minister confirm to me, if somebody comes forward to report retrospective child abuse pertaining to a period when they were in State care or in foster care, whether all other adults who were previously in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian nationals who have entered the direct provision system in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022. [27575/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the first time in the 11 years I have been in the House that there has been no other Deputy present to ask a Minister a parliamentary question. The Minister will agree with me that the direct provision system has been a disaster. In a country that looks back continuously at wrongs the State has done, the fact that the direct provision system is currently still functioning is a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has informed himself or conducted any research in relation to the number of the road fatalities out of the total number and percentage of fatalities that involve motorcycles in each of the past five years including to date 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28622/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 306. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees from Afghanistan who are currently being hosted in the homes of Irish families in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16009/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 307. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees resettled in Ireland from Greece under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (details supplied) in each year since 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (1 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the areas in which the money that is raised through tolls on the M50 is spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28279/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff who are operating the Houses of the Oireachtas passport helpline for elected members; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number is constantly engaged; his views on whether it is acceptable for elected representatives and their office staff to be expected to make up to 20 queries per day relating to...

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Today, families around the country are being hammered. Hundreds of thousands of families are living from overdraft to overdraft and many others are completely maxed out. Families are going without food and heat. Energy prices are sky-rocketing. It is incredible that people are spending time awake at night trying to work out what bill they can afford to pay and how they will make ends...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle as an deis teacht ar ais. I wish to address a couple of issues I believe are important in this debate. We do have a wonderful electoral system in this State. The PR-STV system does provide for very clear representation within the political institutions, which is very important. When we have a system whereby various minority voices are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if she plans to include drugs found in the car of a driver as a reason to impose a driving ban on a driver. [27585/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Drug Dealing (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 322. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government has issued passports to members of an organisation (details supplied) who are banned from entering the United States of America; and if he plans to withhold passports from citizens convicted of international drug dealing and serial criminality. [27589/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of roadside drug tests that were carried out by An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years; the number of these tests that were positive in that period; the number of drivers who received a driving ban as a result of these tests; the number of driver drug tests that were carried out in total for...