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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute mental health units in Dublin that are closed due to outbreaks of Covid-19; and the number of units that are full due to the increased pressure on the remaining units. [5711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 823. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity regarding suicidal persons or persons with mental illness who require psychiatric admission in the Dublin area; and if such persons are being admitted to hospital. [5712/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 824. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatric beds available in the Dublin region. [5713/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 825. To ask the Minister for Health the average and expected wait time for a psychiatric bed in the Dublin region in the week of 25 to 31 January 2021; and the contingency plans that have been put in place to deal with the crisis. [5714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have successfully sued the HSE in relation to cervical cancer screening in each of the years since 2018. [5741/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 843. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider using ivermectin and colchicine in the treatment of Covid-19 [5803/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: People understand the logic that the salary of a person who holds such massive responsibility will be commensurate with that responsibility. People's jaws dropped right across the country when the figures that we are discussing today were publicised. The Minister mentioned the fact that we are competing internationally on this, but the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the USA earns...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The people working in the healthcare service currently will note the key difference between the Minister's approach to them and his approach to this particular position. His approach to increasing the salaries of those within the health service is in the future tense, while his approach to this particular salary is in the present tense. That is a world of difference for the lives lived by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: On that point, there has been very little talk to date about what the next two to four years will hold but there is no doubt that our budget deficit will have to be dramatically reduced. Historical evidence suggests that under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, much of that reduction will take the form of tax increases for low and middle income earners and cuts to public service investment....

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Last Friday, a 69-year-old man known as Iggy, who was originally from Poland, was found dead in a laneway off Little Catherine Street in Limerick city. Pauline Casey and Sarah Beasley, an Aontú representative and homeless activist in Limerick, knew Iggy from their work in helping the homeless. They spoke to Iggy on the night he died. This was especially poignant for Pauline because...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I also raised at that time the fact that homeless people who were not from Dublin and who were presenting to homeless facilities were being turned away and told to go back to their own counties. This was despite the fact that another arm of the State was telling them not to travel because of the Covid-19 restrictions. Months after I raised that issue, the Minister appeared on the "RTÉ...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: People listening to this debate will think that it is absolutely scandalous and flabbergasting that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage does not know the number of people who die in homelessness in 25 of the 26 counties which this State, that there is no process to collect information in this regard or collate it centrally and that such information is not at his...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: When Covid-19 first flared in Ireland last year, I asked the Tánaiste, who was then the Taoiseach, to stop the flights which were coming in from northern Italy. He said "No", and when I asked why he said that the European Centre for Disease Control, ECDC, was advising against it. I asked what was the ECDC's rationale for advising against it and the Tánaiste said that he did not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the high level homeless taskforce established by his Department. [4838/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a policy will be introduced within his Department to provide a fair resolution to builders who purchase zoned land and due to the lack of adequate infrastructure such as sewage services they make the necessary investment to provide infrastructure only to have the land dezoned due to a change on policy either nationally or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school profiling will form part of grading for 2021 leaving certificate students. [4836/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans in place to offer a counselling structure for students after they receive their leaving certificate results. [4837/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting psychiatric appointments in Letterkenny University Hospital. [4835/21]

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am glad that the First Stage of my Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021 passed here in Leinster House. I am glad to get another opportunity to discuss this important issue with the tabling of this amending legislation today as well. Obviously, pets are very much members of people's families. Anybody who has lost a pet or anybody who has had a pet die,...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021: First Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences )Act 2001 to make specific provision for sentencing for certain offences in relation to pets; and to provide for related matters. I thank my colleagues Deputies Canney and Verona Murphy for co-signing this Bill. In the past year, the issue of pet theft has come into...