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Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The HSE confirmed to me in recent days that approximately 750 people who caught the virus while in hospital have died. We know that 2,000 people who also died of Covid-19 in the State were nursing home residents. These are truly shocking statistics. When we add those two figures together, we learn that 56% of all the people who died of Covid in this State did so in either hospitals or...

Dáíl (All-Ireland Representation) Bill 2021: First Stage (19 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Dáíl (All-Ireland Representation) Bill 2021: First Stage (19 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to enable Members of the Parliament of Britain and the north of Ireland elected in respect of any part of the north of Ireland to sit, pose questions and speak in the Dáil; and to provide for related matters. Two and a half years ago, I had a conversation with Francie Brolly about building a new all-Ireland movement....

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: First, I want to give full credit to the Regional Group and Ms Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh for developing and bringing this really important Private Members' motion to the Dáil. Water is a building block of life and the provision of adequate water infrastructure is the building block of a functional society. Waste water treatment services are vital for nearly every part of Irish...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Monaghan people are also fairly commonsensical. I will broaden the question slightly while I have the Minister's ear here. In my own county, St. Mary's Special School was given a community employment, CE, scheme for the past number of years that enabled the school to give their students a hot meal every day. Some of those students were coming on buses at 7 a.m. in the morning and probably...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This is an important question. The Department of Social Protection has just withdrawn that because it is outside the remit of that Department. Can the scheme be extended until the Department of Education takes over the responsibility? Sometimes Departments operate in silos sand they drop the ball for people who really need it. These are people with severe disabilities, many of whom are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment; and the monthly breakdown of spending on the payment since the start of the pandemic. [26146/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned figures indicating improvements in income inequality and poverty in recent years. That is all about to change. Hundreds of thousands of people are being pushed into unemployment. Hundreds of thousands of workers and business people have been pushed into poverty in recent months. Many of the Covid restrictions have wreaked unbelievable damage economically and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The damage that was caused to the country over the past year is eye watering. The damage is happening in hundreds of thousands of families. At hundreds of thousands of dinner tables, the stress and the strain of living with Covid is being experienced. It must also be said that this Government relied on lockdown far more than any other Government in Europe. No other government comes near...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte ollmhór roimh an mbreithiúnas ón ionchoisne an tseachtain seo caite a d'aithin go raibh na daoine a maraíodh i mBaile uí Mhurchú go hiomlán neamhchiontach. While I wholeheartedly welcome the decision made by the inquest in the North that the people in Ballymurphy who were murdered by the British army were completely innocent, I am still...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: It is reported that the Dáil is sitting here at a cost of €25,000 per day. That is a shockingly high figure considering what is happening throughout the country. It is no longer acceptable, if it ever was. A special school in my constituency no longer has the funding to provide hot meals to its children while the Dáil is spending €5,000 on a Members' restaurant here...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I prefaced my statement by saying where the responsibility lies for this attack. It lies with the criminals who were involved but the Government has a duty of care and responsibility to the patients of this country for the delivery of healthcare and protection of their data. Its duty of care is far more to this country, given that this is an island of data. Right now we have hospitals...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not cybersecurity funding; it is ICT.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The recent cyberattacks on the HSE and the Department of Health are monstrous crimes. They are attacks on the most vulnerable in Irish society. Patients are already struggling with never-ending waiting lists that have been worsened by Covid and ongoing restrictions but shockingly, on top of this, key life and death treatment is again put on hold due to this odious crime. The Government has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of a carer’s allowance payment; and the breakdown of the number in each of the past five years. [26147/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 157. To ask the Taoiseach the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26107/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Protection (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26096/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount the NGO and charity sector receive in funding from his Department per annum. [26622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a record will be provided of the annual funding received by the NGO and charity sector from his Department in each of the years 2000 to 2020. [26642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated to each NGO and charity in each of the years 2010 to 2020 by his Department. [26655/21]