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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 733. To ask the Minister for Health if responses, policies or initiatives have been implemented by his Department to reduce the number of miscarriages by Irish women; if so, the details of same; and the success of same. [40193/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to investigate the death of a person (details supplied) by his Department or the organisations that report to his Department. [40374/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 766. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 25 November 2020, if all 100 of the ministerial notifications received by his Department of terminations carried out here under section 11 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in the year 2019 contained signatures from two medics as required by the Act (details supplied). [40422/20]

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister's response contradicts the behaviour of the Chief Justice and other Supreme Court judges previously who have gone to the Government demanding that it fill positions within the Judiciary. It is not feasible for the Minister to say that she was not asked to fill a role. The Minister is driving the Department. It is the Minister's decision and responsibly to fill that role and...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: We are not being given any qualitative criteria because there are none. It is as simple as that. It is not difficult to understand at all. How many candidates did the Minister consider for the role?

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: There were three lists. I wanted to ask how many candidates the Minister considered for the role because we want to bring transparency to this process and if we do not know how many candidates were considered, it is not transparent. The Minister mentioned people who expressed an interest. Outside of them, there was another list of judges who are available and have the experience to do the...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not practice to have clarity on this process and one of the reasons we are here is to change that practice. The Minister said on our local radio station recently that she was only asked to fill one Supreme Court position. Who asked her to do that?

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Chief Justice asked the Minister to only fill one particular role on the court. Is that correct? Given that there are thousands of cases in the system, increasing by the year, and that the courts system is underpowered as regards judges, it is very hard to understand why, with multiple applicants and access to different lists, the Minister would not fill more than one position on the...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Everybody listening to this debate at home will be familiar with the recruitment process for a job and most will have been through some type of recruitment process in their own work. Everybody understands that a recruitment process should be fair, open and transparent and that the person with the best knowledge, experience, character and skill should be selected for the job. We live in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider offering psychological supports and counselling to women who have had abortions and to doctors and medics who have performed abortions, given the findings of a study (details supplied). [38952/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ministerial notifications he has received under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if all ministerial notifications that identify the termination of pregnancy as having taken place under section 11 of the Act had, at the time of receipt by him, been signed off by two medical practitioners. [38953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has been contacted by doctors or medics who have expressed concerns regarding failed, botched or unsuccessful abortions; and if so, if he will detail the nature of that correspondence. [38955/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have been contacted by doctors or medics who have expressed a concern regarding conscientious objection; the details of these concerns; and the quantity of correspondence received on this matter since the rollout of abortion in January 2019. [38956/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to each local authority and to approved housing bodies to construct social housing for persons with disabilities; and the amount provided to each local authority for each of the past five years. [38636/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: People with disabilities are more than twice as likely to face discrimination relating to housing and they are 1.6 times more likely to live in poor conditions. They live in damp housing and housing that lacks central heating and they also live in areas with significant problems. A total of 25% of people forced to live homeless on our streets have a disability. This is a rate far higher...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important to look at the facts. Between 2,000 and 4,000 people with disabilities are living in congregated settings with ten or more people. This is before we look at the hidden homeless, who are people with disabilities living in the homes of family or friends. Many of them have no expectation of independent living because of the fact those homes may not be suitable for them. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact there has been an increase in funding over recent years. Typically in recent years when Governments have quoted increases, they have come from a phenomenally low base. These budgets were slashed significantly after 2011 and stayed extremely low until 2013 and 2014. Independent Living Movement Ireland has assessed local authorities on a sliding scale with regard to how...

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland is the sixth most restricted country in the world and this is despite the fact that we have the second lowest level of Covid in Europe. This means that 97% of all the countries in the world have chosen strategies that are less restricted than Ireland. Ireland is a significant outlier in international terms and this has given rise to a massive human cost. The WHO has stated that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: By his refusal to allow for questions to be asked in an open and transparent fashion, the Taoiseach is giving the impression to the general public that there is something to hide. That will be the impression with regard to his Government if he continues to stonewall on the opportunity for the Opposition to ask questions. The Taoiseach actually has an opportunity to change the culture of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The recruitment process for all positions in the State should be completely transparent, none more so than that of a judge on the Supreme Court. The idea that political horse trading plays any part in this is the biggest threat to the separation of powers. There were two vacancies on the Supreme Court in July. Only one was filled. Questions are now being asked in public about why the...