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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the One Ocean Summit. [11389/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Irish fishing fleet is to be gutted by one third and 60 trawlers are to be scrapped by the Government, which will leave 100 vessels in the fleet. Fishing ports such as Burtonport, An Daingean, Schull, Baltimore, Kilmore Quay and Killybegs will be hit massively. The Irish fishing quota has been slashed from 20% to 15% and the remaining 85% of fish caught in Irish waters will go to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: How is it being policed?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [10079/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I wanted to raise something with the Taoiseach in relation to a report that was delivered by Down Syndrome Ireland, DSI, in the past couple of days. It relates to the fact that services delivered to people with Down's syndrome have radically fallen over the past couple of years. Of those surveyed by DSI, 65% have received no speech and language therapy sessions in the past year, while 44%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [10078/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Currencyhas an article today on its website that indicates it has tracked about €13 billion domiciled in the IFSC by sanctioned Russian firms. The Irish Timeshas stated that about €34 billion is held in opaque Russian-linked shell companies registered in the IFSC. Colm Keena published a report in 2020 that showed a network of bank accounts allowing Russia to funnel money...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: What is happening in Ukraine is an absolute disaster. Watching the ominous pictures of columns of military vehicles heading towards Kyiv is deeply chilling and Ireland should, obviously, do everything it can to help the people of Ukraine. I refer to everything in economic, financial and diplomatic terms to deploy pressure on Russia. I welcome much of what the Government has done and I do...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It did not do us any good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: And the case of the Russian spies in Dublin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There was a delay in the context of Russian planes

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The opposite policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Russian spy issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: What is happening in Ukraine is an absolute disaster. It is a tragedy and an inhumane injustice. Ireland needs to do all it can to help Ukrainians. Bizarrely, dozens of Government Deputies signed a petition to expel the Russian ambassador, yet the Government has said "No" to them. The Deputies, therefore, are in opposition and in government at the same time. It is a strange scenario...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the Russian spies?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach is generalising the successes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am talking about specific salaries.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: At the top.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Robert Watt's salary is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This week alone, my office has received phone calls from single mothers looking for baby food, farmers dealing with spiralling and crippling costs due to the increase of fertiliser, members of the Defence Forces who are sleeping in cars, homeowners in Donegal looking for affordable caravans to rent because their houses are crumbling around them and students who are on a diet of Pot Noodle...