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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday, under freedom of information, FOI, a document was released to me from the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. The document was an email, which was issued to nursing homes by the contract manager of the NTPF shortly before 10 a.m. on 12 March 2020. I have already furnished the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Mary Butler, with a copy of this email, which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Irish or EU supports or grants that are available to Irish beekeepers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38166/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fuel Prices (15 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted a study on the impact of fuel prices or taxes on the agricultural sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38167/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 95. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the types of enterprises that may apply for the newly announced Covid-19 supports funding (details supplied) under the Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025. [38323/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Youth Emigration (15 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 111. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has undertaken studies on the impact of youth emigration on rural Ireland. [38322/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 429. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 22 April 2021, if he will again seek a response from the Health Service Executive in relation to the lack of a general practitioner service in Enfield, County Meath; and if the reply will issue as a matter of urgency. [32958/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (15 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 434. To ask the Minister for Health when the commencement of the medicinal cannabis access programme will happen in a practical sense; when this medicine will be available to eligible epilepsy patients by prescription who are in urgent need of this medicine; if this medicine will be covered by the long-term illness card and medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32976/21]

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: It is very interesting that we are having this debate in regard to the hospitality industry when the fact is that most people who have died thus far from Covid in the State died in either a nursing home or a hospital, two settings that are either run, owned or managed by the Government. In the past hour, I gave the Minister's colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, a document...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome this Bill and commend the Minister of State on it. I also applaud the civil servants and the previous Ministers who completed some of the groundwork for this legislation. Maura Canning has also done enormous work on this issue. I have spoken previously on this legislation and I am aware that Sinn Féin tabled a motion yesterday on nursing homes. I will outline a number of...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This is a very important document that has been released into my hands today.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: It is relevant to Report Stage of this Bill. I believe if the Minister of State does not contemplate-----

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Ceann Comhairle will just give me one minute, I will complete my statement.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat. Did the Department of Health instruct the NTPF to put money in front of nursing homes and instruct them to make way for a large surge in hospital transfers? Was there a concerted effort by the Department and the HSE in March last year to clear hospitals of elderly people and put them into nursing homes?

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: It is very important.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the last opportunity-----

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the last opportunity I will get to raise this very important issue.

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá Aontú go hiomlán in aghaidh an Bhille seo. Má chuirfear an Bille seo i bhfeidhm, beidh cead ag an Stát idirdhealú a dhéanamh, le haghaidh an chéad uair riamh, go dlíthiúil. Beidh an t-idirdhealú sin dírithe ar dhaoine óga, daoine le hailléirgí agus daoine atá faiteach mar gheall ar an vacsaín seo agus...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: In many ways, the Border is a man-made barrier to enterprise and economic development. A couple of years ago, I undertook the authoring of a report on the all-Ireland economy on behalf of the enterprise committee. It was the first report of its kind undertaken by the Oireachtas in this State since partition, which is incredible. I interviewed hundreds of people from all different...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Last night, there was an interesting debate about the fact that certain local authorities are being funded on an historic basis that does not represent their populations anymore. That is the case with the number of gardaí who are being assigned to counties. Counties such as my county of Meath, which has seen its population radically increase in the last ten to 20 years, have not seen...