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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (5 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of supplementary pension entitlements for post-1995 retirees within the Civil Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34393/20]

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I am sharing time with Deputy Fitzpatrick. At first glance, the Finance Bill looks like legislation for the ultimate Ross O'Carroll Kelly budget. When one looks more closely, it is clear that a phenomenal number of sectors have been left out of its provisions. In the case of older people, for example, who are most vulnerable and exposed in this particular crisis, there is not even a tenner...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (4 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of the Traveller community that have applied to become members of An Garda Síochána; and the number of members of the Traveller community that have graduated as a member of An Garda Síochána. [34013/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (4 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Shelta or Cant language can meet the requirement of a second language within the Garda recruitment application process in circumstances in which a person is applying to become a member of An Garda Síochána has an exemption in the secondary school system from other languages except English. [34014/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the reason student nurses have not been paid for the front-line placements in which they have taken part during the pandemic despite suggestions to the contrary. [31370/20]

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, this is irrelevant.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The reason I say the act of distributing this confidential document was secret is that the Tánaiste never told the then Minister who was charged with negotiating and developing the contract about it. He never told anybody about it. That is startling. Nobody was told about this particular action. Did the Tánaiste include a cover letter with the document that was posted?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste left no paper trail whatsoever. There was no cover letter and he told absolutely nobody. He sent the document, breaching the confidence of those participants in the contract, to a friend. He said that there was no material benefit involved, but of course there was; knowledge is power. When an individual gives confidential information to someone, it increases his or her...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I am referring to the secrecy element. I am not asking about the Taoiseach's motivation for briefing a rival organisation to the IMO. Such a briefing could have been carried out publicly, formally or even in a published document. I am asking the Tánaiste about his motivation for doing so in secret.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste is asking us to believe that Dr. Ó Tuathail's judgment on the document would be materially affected by receiving it in a secret fashion rather than a formal or public fashion. How would his understanding of that document have been in any way affected by the method in which it was received?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I am sorry but that is not believable to anybody in this Chamber, not least those on the Tánaiste's own benches. Has the Tánaiste ever leaked confidential Cabinet information?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I asked whether the Tánaiste had ever leaked confidential Cabinet information. I would like that question addressed.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Many people will be taken by, and disappointed by, the long pause before the Tánaiste's initial answer to that question. This is a very serious issue. The reason it is so serious and important is that if the very head of a government is involved in actions of this kind, it gives license to everybody else in government to act in the same way. It gives license to everybody else, at all...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is clear that the Tánaiste's conduct and actions have been unethical, underhand and deceitful. His actions may also have been illegal. Indeed, I believe the Garda has been notified on two occasions regarding what the Tánaiste has been involved in. I am amazed that he is even seeking to create confusion here because the facts are obviously clear that this is a confidential...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Was it a public document or a confidential document?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: If this was a confidential document, there were other parties to the document and to the agreement that was being made in confidence. Was their confidence not broken when the Tánaiste released the document to a third party without their permission?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste has agreed here today that it was a confidential document, it was understood as a confidential document by the parties to the document, and that he broke that confidence. Is it not a very serious issue that the Taoiseach of the day broke the confidence of major parties with which the Government was negotiating? Every time the Tánaiste was asked why he did not do this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: We can say we know of six occasions since the election in February where the Taoiseach of the South has been in contact with the First Minister of the North. Dr. Gabriel Scally, who I am sure is held in high regard on all sides of this Chamber, has said that "if this was an animal disease ... there would be an integrated effort North and South". When he was asked if he felt there was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings and phone calls between his Department and the offices of the First Minister and deputy First Minister in the Executive in Northern Ireland since the election in February 2020. [31373/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Am I right in saying there were four communications between the Taoiseach and the First Minister and deputy First Minister of the North of Ireland since the start of September? It would be useful to detail the meetings before that as well. The question says "since the election in February", and the Taoiseach has so far detailed four occasions when he was in contact with the First Minister...