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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Good Friday Agreement and how it underpins Stormont needs to be reformed. We cannot have an ongoing situation where one party can pull down the Administration in the North of Ireland. I want to focus on another aspect of this. Denise Mullen is an Aontú councillor in Mid Ulster. Forty-six years ago, the Glenanne gang murdered her father in her family home. Denise was just four...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach gave no answer on the updates into the investigation into the leaking. That is a deafening silence. He gave no answer, even, on an update as to where that investigation is, or when that investigation will be publicised. No information has been imparted to us on the basis of that question. As of yet, there are no consequences for the individuals who leaked that and for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation final report earlier in 2021. [37869/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This question reflects the contents of the previous one, to a certain extent. I know, from speaking to many survivors of mother and baby homes, that the actions of the Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, around the time of the report's publication were deeply hurtful. Many of those people are elderly and some are, obviously, very vulnerable at the moment. I spoke to people, for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Earlier this week, RTÉ broadcast the testimony of a number of extremely brave women who, in the service of the armed forces, suffered decades of sexual abuse, bullying and discrimination. These women have sought justice from within the Defence Forces but they said they met with systemic resistance every step of the way. In 2017, a protected disclosure that detailed bullying, sexual...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Confidentiality (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 153. To ask the Taoiseach if an investigation has been undertaken into the leak at Cabinet (details supplied); if so, the stage this investigation is at; if it has concluded; if not, when it will conclude; and if the results of same have been referred to An Garda Síochána. [43570/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 376. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason that he chose not to act when it was brought to his attention in January 2017 through a protected disclosure that a captain was bullied, sexually abused, victimised and discriminated against in the Defence Forces and that he informed the person that their protected disclosure was subjective. [43573/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 377. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason he accepted an Ombudsman of the Defence Forces report which ruled that a person (details supplied) was discriminated against given it was later determined by the Workplace Relations Commission that they were discriminated against; and if he has confidence in the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces given the contradiction in the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 378. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or his Department have ensured that an independent or external investigation was carried out into sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination within the Defence Forces in Ireland to date; and if not, the reason. [43575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 379. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or his Department will ensure that an independent and external investigation of sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination carried out within the Defence Forces in Ireland to date is carried out. [43576/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 380. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the research and investigation that his Department carried out into sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination carried out within the Defence Forces in Ireland to date. [43577/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 381. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether there a systemic or institutional difficulty within the Defence Forces in dealing with sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination. [43578/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 385. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider allowing those who have suffered sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination in the Defence Forces the right to access the gardaí and the civil courts in terms of the crimes that they have suffered. [43582/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 382. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of complaints, allegations and protected disclosures that have been brought to his attention and the attention of his Department in relation to sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination by serving or former personnel of the Defence Forces in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43579/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 383. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has ever met with representatives of those who have suffered sexual abuse, harassment and or discrimination within the Defence Forces; and if not, the reason why such a meeting has not taken place. [43580/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 384. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider an amnesty to be afforded to all those who have suffered sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination in the Defence Forces in order for them to tell their stories anonymously. [43581/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 643. To ask the Minister for Health if ICU beds were closed or taken out of use at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in the past six months; if so, when these ICU beds were closed or taken out of use; the reason for same; and the number of fatalities that occurred in the emergency department at the hospital in each month over the past year. [43490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by his Department and by the board of the HSE to close the emergency department at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan for any hours overnight; the opening times the emergency department would have if the decision was implemented; when the Ireland East Group plan to implement this decision given that Drogheda Hospital and Connolly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (15 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer deaths in each month for the past five years; and the cancer services that are fully operational or in which scanning, diagnostic and treatment services remain closed or partially closed, respectively. [43618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (9 Sep 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles that passed through the toll on the M4 between junction 8 and Junction 10 in each of the past five years and to date in 2021, by vehicle type; the amount of profit that was generated by the toll operator in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41495/21]