Results 61-80 of 17,211 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 163. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to reduce the cost of childcare in the State. [61894/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child Protection (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 175. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to reduce the rate of child trafficking in the State. [61893/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who wish to travel from Dublin to Trim in County Meath via rail from Connolly to the M3 Parkway stop, and use the bus for the remainder of the journey must walk 2km on a stretch of road which does not have a footpath between the M3 Parkway train stop and the 111 bus stop (Athboy...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 427. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 608 of 8 September 2025, the reason a response has not issued from the OPW. [61999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turf Cutting (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will respond to an email (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61300/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Presidential Elections (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government plans to hold a referendum to change the constitution to reduce the threshold required for the nomination of presidential election candidates. [61861/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there was a commitment given to citizens who were on invalidity pensions or other welfare payments that they could go back to work during the Covid crisis and retain their payments. [60982/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 856. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a press release issued by an organisation (details supplied) articulating a crisis in the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61313/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 900. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review the current means tests for the national childcare scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62095/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out during 2024 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, by gestation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61331/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 1045. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 333 of 15 October and 173 of 22 October 2025, the number and location of sites sought in the original questions. [61718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (12 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 1119. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Children’s Health Ireland has not yet published its 2024 annual report; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, according to the last annual report, it was sitting on €42 million and is currently marked as red by the Charities Regulator for having not filed its report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62228/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (6 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance the process for customs approvals for perishable goods coming via air freight into Dublin Airport; the required timeframe/target from passing through customs to informing carrier agents; the work being done to limit delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60587/25]

Decriminalisation of People Who Use Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: One of my first political experiences was canvassing in a block of flats in Dublin. As I walked up the stairwell in the block of flats, I noticed, first, a pair of women's tights on the stairwell. When I got higher, I noticed a discoloured spoon near the top of the stairwell and when I got to the very top, there was a 17-year-old boy lying on the ground, practically unconscious, foaming at...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (5 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I think it would be a brave TD who would suggest a nuclear power plant for their constituency. We should probably look at it but I am not in favour of nuclear power in Ireland. We should be available to research it, at least to be able to put a decision in a report to state we have looked at it. I would say not to agree with it yet.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (5 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We should be an evidence-based committee, so while I would have a negative attitude towards this, I think it is no harm to research it.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Private Sector Construction in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht anseo inniu. This is one of the biggest discussions happening in the country at the moment. It is affecting every single element of life. It is absolutely shocking that we have a situation where there is no clear pipeline for construction companies here, even though we have a massive gap in infrastructure. It took me two hours to...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Private Sector Construction in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It was mentioned earlier that there is serviced land that is not necessarily zoned for residential. Is there a map where, per county, we can see lands that are serviced, let us say, that are not zoned for the residential, that is, the low-hanging fruit that was mentioned? Is that map available?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Private Sector Construction in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We would have to go from authority to authority to-----