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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 363. To ask the Minister for Health when and the way that children with underlying health conditions aged between 5 and 11 years of age can avail of a Covid-19 vaccine. [4138/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas le gach uile dhuine a tháinig anseo. I thank Mr. Osborne for his wonderful presentation. I greatly appreciate it. Without a shadow of a doubt, it is quite clear that integrated education is excellent education. It is a very important sector in the education system. It is a sector that I want to see increase and grow in the North of Ireland over the next number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: To clarify, is Ms Merron saying here is an inertia that is at the heart of the Department of Education which is, in part, militating against changes to a more diverse system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I imagine that there are many Muslim students and students from a Polish, Lithuanian and other backgrounds in those Catholic schools and control schools in the North of Ireland. Would that reflect roughly the same level of international or religious diversity, and outside of Catholic and Protestant students, that exists in integrated schools? Do integrated schools tend to exhibit more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Society in the North of Ireland has had a radically different experience from society in the South for a large number of reasons, which I will not go into today. In the South, in general children are sent to schools on the basis that they are Catholic or Protestant schools as well. The selection of schools will be exactly the same in both the South and the North. Is that the view of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It seems to be another day with another promise broken by the Government. There was a specific promise by the Government to investigate a specific leak of a major report on the experience of men and women who have been let down and treated badly and shockingly by the State, from the day they were born in many cases. It is so frustrating to see that damage being done again. Why did the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Who made the decision to change the investigation?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday the Minister with responsibility for children responded to Aontú on a shocking case we raised with regard to Tusla recording untruths about a mother in its files. Tusla incorrectly stated the mother, along with other things, was an alcoholic. It said it was a copying and pasting error and has apologised since. For months we have had a back and forth with the Minister to try...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: -----where he actually did become aware of it in October 2020.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important that we find out-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: -----as soon as possible the prevalence of this crisis among families throughout the country.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The biggest Internet database in the EU relating to the cost of living ranks Ireland as the sixth most expensive country in Europe in which to live. We are ranked the most expensive for the cost of rent, with only Switzerland and Luxembourg being more expensive than this State. The more frequently updated website, Expatistan, ranks Dublin as the fourth most expensive city in Europe, with...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Aire as teacht isteach agus as a chur i láthair freisin. He opened his presentation with increased pay allocation. There has been a significant debate over the last number of months on the enormous increase in the cost of living. That relates very clearly to pay allocations right across the public service, in his own Department and obviously in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the Minister. Obviously, most people will have felt in their pocket the significant increase in the price of petrol, diesel and electricity. Farmers are seeing their fertiliser costs triple and the cost of foodstuffs has increased. The Minister would present himself as a fiscally-responsible Minster during this period of time. Is it fiscally responsible to give a civil servant an...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Briefly, the restrictions path that this Government has taken over the last two years was an outlier restriction path. It was not followed by any other European country. That led to significant damage to supply chains in the State. I mentioned to the Minister earlier today that we were the only country in the whole of the European Union that closed building sites for four months last year,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Finally, by the time we come to vote on next year's Estimates, there will be no doubt, as sure as night follows day, that there will be a raft of public sector pay demands due to the fact that income is reducing in real terms at the moment. We will see pay demands, as well as increases in pay, happening right across society, unless the Government ameliorates the sources of these cost...

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The leaving certificate year of 2022 did not have a normal two-year preparation for the leaving certificate examination. As a result, it is not fair to ask the students to sit a normal leaving certificate examination. The leaving certificate examination is specifically designed to allow for two years of preparation for it, and this obviously did not happen. Many students have lost at least...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Did the Government ask the European Union?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I refer to the European Union in general.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Change the rules.