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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: With respect, that is the theory. The practice, unfortunately, is different. I understand that Ministers will be told by their senior civil servants that everything is grand, but the fact is that we are being told by people on the ground that it is not grand. I will give an example of the theory and the practice colliding. A principal sent me a letter they received from the National...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Education is the great leveller. Education should be an opportunity to give every child the ability to reach his or her potential. It is so important that, as a country, we make sure we have equality within the education system for pupils themselves and for parents. The information that I am getting back from a large number of schools at the moment is that there is a crisis first of all in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This is characteristic of the Fine Gael part of the Government. It promises a wall and then, when people ask where it is, it says that three blocks of the wall are in place. The people then say they were told they would get a wall but that there is no wall at the moment. The Minister of State mentioned 2,000 homes being protected by flood defences. There was a report in 2021 which stated...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú want to give people confidence in the delivery of public infrastructure. This confidence has been radically eroded by the lack of Government prudence and the lack of Government ability to hold the system to account. A Minister tasked a civil servant with creating a tender for the national children's hospital. There are people who are responsible for the spending disaster that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: A person would lose their job-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If it was a private company there would be loss of jobs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Deflect.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Ones that would have worked.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: But not accountability.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The State does things. The Government is not doing it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding allocated for flood relief schemes; and the amount actually drawn down or spent in each of the past five years and to date in 2024. [17649/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This again relates to flood defences. It is a very serious issue. I was down with Mona Stromsoe, who is the chair of the Midleton flood defence campaign, last Friday. I got to visit the location where floods did enormous damage. The water literally pulled cars out of driveways, knocked walls and did enormous damage. That town is still living with a significant fear of those floods...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot overstate the damage that has been done in Midleton and how this is a threat to human lives. I saw the buildings children were being lifted out of and the flow was so strong people could not stand in those situations, so this is very serious. The Minister mentioned earlier there are things outside of the Government's control and mentioned planning and the courts system. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Twice.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if levels of public expenditure here are adequately proofed to ensure best outcome for the Exchequer and taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17650/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The country is cursed with a number of scandals in relation to overspends on public projects. Aontú is fully in support of public project. We believe in public delivery, but the biggest threat to the confidence in public delivery has been a Government that has allowed such glacial movement in terms of infrastructural projects but also massive costs in terms of the delivery. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a list of projects that have gone over budget but I will use them in the second part.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a list of projects that I will tell the Minister about in my own time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned accountability. I am not aware of anybody in the senior levels of the Civil Service who has ever lost his or her job because a project went over budget. I am not aware of anybody who has even been moved sideways. I will give a couple of examples. We had a farce here where €2 million was spent on a Dáil printer nobody could fit in the door. We have the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The number of gardaí has fallen every year since the Minster for Justice, Deputy McEntee, has been in office. Gardaí have been retiring and resigning in bigger numbers than ever before. They are being attacked every day. Recruitment is on the floor. Rape, sexual assault, violent crime and domestic violence are all increasing significantly. The number of gardaí in the...