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Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish the Minister of State well in his role. It is not an easy role but it is a vital one. It is also important to say that he should grab this opportunity and treat it like the opportunity of a lifetime. His actions could radically alter the lives of hundreds and thousands of people in towns and villages throughout the country. Drugs are affecting nearly every walk of life....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 205. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 23 October 2018, the input provided for neurorehabilitation and allied neuroclinical services in County Meath; the budget allocation for such services for 2021 in line with the documents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23045/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 206. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 2 October 2018, the number of persons with disabilities (details supplied) in County Meath; and the number of persons with neurodisability in County Meath waiting for neuro-rehabilitation services [23046/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 207. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 336 of 2 October 2018, if the funding has been provided year on year since 2018; if so, the services that have been provided as a result of the funds in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23047/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that the HSE provides backup services for clinical staff such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapists in cases in which a clinician is absent for most of their tenure and are allocated but not available and staff are on leave, for example, if a staff member takes paternal leave for a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no neuropsychology service for persons with acquired brain injury (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23049/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 210. To ask the Minister for Health when a day service for persons with acquired brain injury will be established in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23050/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 211. To ask the Minister for Health when staff will be returned to their regular positions providing services to persons with disabilities in the community teams in which clinicians that normally provide services have been redeployed due to Covid-19 related work; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the situation has had a detrimental impact on the well-being and health of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I will give the Taoiseach another example if I can. The National Suicide Research Foundation collects data on self-harm presentation from emergency departments throughout the country. These important data were suspended in the vast majority of these hospitals until the end of June. Even today, self-harm data are still not being collected in all of the emergency departments throughout the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I received a message from a doctor in the past couple of days. He stated: I have luckily had no patients who have died of coronavirus. I have had at least three though who have had delayed cancer diagnoses due to the shutdown of services and the delay in services. These will almost certainly die. I have others who are desperate to be seen by specialists but are hitting a brick wall in...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome and fully support this motion. One of the biggest mistakes of this whole pandemic has been that so many key, life and death services have been stopped by the previous Government and have been kept closed by this Government. For the past number of months we in Aontú have consistently called for the reopening of the health services. We have said over and over again that these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 818. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 127 unborn children placed on the child protection notification system of Tusla over the past eighteen months by county; and the reason the children were placed on the system. [21939/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 866. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of emails his Department received concerning students that had issues with their SUSI grant application and grant refusal. [21935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Garda Investigations (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1279. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is cooperating with the investigation by An Garda Síochána into the death of a person (details supplied). [21937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1280. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn to clusters of Covid-19 in Letterkenny, County Donegal in late August 2020 which was referred to by a local general practitioner (details supplied) on social media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21938/20]

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

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Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Accountability is an extremely important part of any democracy. If this country has suffered in the past, it is because of lack of accountability. The Government has all the cards in its hands. It has its offices and the human resources to be able to push through so much of its political agenda. One of the major elements of accountability is the ability of Opposition parties, especially...

Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I add my voice to many of the other voices from the Opposition. Legislation is an incredibly important element of what we do here and of the lives of the people outside the House. People live and die by legislation that is created in this House. We are discussing legislation here that has very far-reaching effects in Irish society. Obviously, vulture funds are a negative element of Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for school reopening in August and September 2020; when schools and teachers will be informed; and when the information in relation to same will be published. [19299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that consumers are not out of pocket due to postponed or cancelled flights as a result of Covid-19 in cases in which travel insurance companies are refusing to reimburse them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19810/20]