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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the motions passed by the Canadian and Dutch Parliaments that the actions of the Chinese government towards its Uighur population constitutes genocide. [29898/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made in relation to the continued detention of a person (details supplied) by Chinese authorities. [29899/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the process and criteria for expelling an ambassador; if he has considered expelling any nation's ambassador since 2010; and if so, the details of same. [29900/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Programmes (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Ireland provides funding to EU defence initiatives and schemes; if so, the amount Ireland has contributed to same; and when these contributions commenced. [29896/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Transfer of Service (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the service record of a person (details supplied) has been transferred from the Louth-Meath Education and Training Board to her Department; the reason for the delay in transferring the documentation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29922/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Many of the questions I intended to put have been asked but the issue that is obviously occupying people's minds in this regard is that on one level there is phenomenal largesse in terms of the payment of elites while on another level there is an attitude that student nurses should not get paid or individuals who are working at the coalface just have to carry on regardless and suffer because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I have. There are 3,000 people in the public service who are earning less than €22,000. Compared with the salary that was granted to the Secretary General, the ratio is 12:1, which is enormous. In Nordic countries, for example, the ratio between the top salary and the bottom salary is 3:1, 4:1 or possibly 7:1. Why was an increase of €80,000 selected rather than one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Why would that information not have been provided to the Cabinet in paper form in advance of the meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I take it that the Cabinet is not a confidential space then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: If only the Cabinet were to receive a document in paper form and if there is, under the law, Cabinet confidentiality, one would imagine that such a paper document would have sufficed, would it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Regarding the selection of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Can I ask one brief question and then I will finish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Can the scoring mechanism used for the selection of the candidate be made available to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am just looking for the scoring mechanism-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: -----because this whole process is opaque.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The members of the interview board must score each candidate interviewed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The process within the Department to decide on this figure seems to be akin to something written on the back of an envelope. An international firm or a recruitment organisation seeking to put forward a package to select individuals who are the best people to do the job might go a little bit beyond a back of an envelope calculation with regard to the best way to attract those individuals....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This weekend an enormous number of young people have been literally hammered from on high over their congregation in a number of public spaces in Dublin. It stands to reason this has happened because the public spaces where they would normally congregate have closed so people have been corralled into smaller spaces.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: If pubs and restaurants were open during that time, people would have had a chance for people to socialise in a structured fashion-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Taoiseach see to it that those pubs can open outside before the weekend so we do not have the same situation at the weekend?