Results 601-620 of 16,956 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: People find it very difficult to understand how we could be losing 37% of water out of pipes yet proceed with a project to bring water from the Parteen Basin to Dublin, which is earmarked to cost about €6 billion. Given the inflation associated with capital infrastructural projects in this country, it would be very brave to say that the project will come home at €6 billion....

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to welcome the O'Farrell family and thank them. I want to mention two TDs who have done a great deal of work on this over the years for the family, namely, Deputies John McGuinness and Matt Carthy. That deserves recognition. To bury a child is in excruciating pain, one that no parent should ever have to experience. That should have been the limit to the pain the family...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar an gCathaoirleach agus déanaim comhghairdeas léi ar a post. Tá an t-ádh uirthi go bhfuil foireann mhaith aici taobh thiar di freisin. Rinne Aengus Ó Snodaigh jab iontach sa choiste an uair dheireanach. Tá go leor deiseanna chun rudaí praiticiúla a dhéanamh ar son na Gaeilge agus ar son na Gaeltachtaí freisin sa...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá a fhios agam.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Teachta Devlin freisin mar gheall ar a ról mar Chathaoirleach. Is post iontach é. Tá go leor deiseanna ann chun a lán tionchar a imirt ar an Rialtas mar gheall ar cad atá ag titim amach ó Thuaidh agus ó Theas. Le cúnamh Dé, beidh am gníomhach aige mar Chathaoirleach ar aon nós. This is a very...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 59. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [24057/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 78. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing will next meet. [24058/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 128. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of countries where Ireland has a permanent ambassador currently. [27733/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps his Department is taking to ensure the end to the blockade of food and aid in Gaza. [27734/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 412 of 13 May 2025, the number of people in each of the past five years that have failed their driving theory test, by centre; the number of people in the same format that have more than one failure of their driving theory test; the number of people in the same format that have failed their driving...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The problem is that he cannot enforce a culture of accountability to any other elements of the Civil Service at the moment because accountability and the Tánaiste are like oil and water.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Did you lie to the people?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: What does that mean?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Calling it correcting homework is an understatement. I think the Tánaiste knows that, given that we could literally spend a full day with a litany of examples of overspending and waste across the whole range of the delivery of public services. Inertia, waste and blame-shifting are the characteristics of this Government. These are serious issues. Why? It is not only because it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste is directly responsible for the costs and for the fact that this infrastructure is not operating for the children who need it today.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Literally inflammatory.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Your excuse is they are worse. That is hardly an answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I listened to the Tánaiste give Pearse Doherty an answer with regard to the national children's hospital. He was like an under-pressure estate agent furiously trying to sell an overpriced, extortionate and exorbitant hospital to an increasingly angry population at the moment. Nobody is arguing about the quality of the hospital; we are arguing about the price and the length of time it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to increase participation of members of the Travelling community in third level education, and to foster a more welcoming environment in universities for Travellers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25486/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to assist young people who grew up in State care in accessing third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25487/25]