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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention or that of his Department has been drawn to reports of worms found in food served in Kinsale direct provision centre in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37485/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention or that of his Department has been drawn to reports of the deaths of persons in the Mosney direct provision centre in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37486/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to correspondence he received from this Deputy (details supplied), if he will consider introducing a system whereby the number of deaths within the direct provision system is recorded and published on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the last time a HIQA inspection was carried out in each direct provision centre in the country in tabular form. [37487/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department currently has contracts with a company (details supplied); if so, the purpose and nature of these contracts; the number of contracts with the company; the costs associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention or that of his Department has been drawn to reports of cockroach infestations in direct provision centres since he took office; and if so, if he will provide detail on these incidents. [37489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention or that of his Department has been drawn to reports or instances of mice or rat infestations in direct provision centres since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention or that of his Department has been drawn to reports or instances of hunger strikes in direct provision centres since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of legal cases brought against his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37805/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of legal cases brought against his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37812/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of GSOC investigations launched in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [37803/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of legal cases brought against her Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37814/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37856/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 632. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of legal cases brought against his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37804/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 645. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of legal cases brought against her Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he will provide details on the nature of these cases. [37816/21]

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Before Christmas, I held a meeting with the clinical director of CervicalCheck regarding the content of a letter she sent me. In this meeting, and in the letter, CervicalCheck criticised remarks I made in the Dáil on the scandal. I was criticised for suggesting that women had been wronged and for my use of words such as "mistakes" and "misreadings". CervicalCheck stated women had not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [34693/21]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: We are delighted to be able to bring this motion to the floor of the Dáil because it is such an important motion. In many ways, rural Ireland has become a box-ticking exercise in the Dáil over the years. We have a situation with regard to rural and regional Ireland in that they are becoming increasingly peripheral to the development of this country. Ireland is developing into a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am delighted the Minister is sitting more comfortably now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The issue of vacant properties that Senator Higgins raised is a really important one. I take the point that this will give Revenue a proper opportunity to analyse and quantify the situation, but we know that roughly one in 33 houses is empty, which adds up to about 250,000. About 60,000 of those are holiday homes. We also know we are in a housing crisis like no other. Any levers that...