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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (14 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1194. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress on the proposed transport support scheme that is due to replace the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant, which both ceased to exist in February 2013; when the scheme will be finalised; if he plans to work with the Departments of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and Transport, Tourism and Sport to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of active pathologists in light of the fact that there has been a shortage of pathologists in some regions, with post-mortem procedures taking up to five days in some counties; if there was planning for an increased demand on pathologists due to Covid-19; if there is provision for increased counselling and bereavement services for families due...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Inquiries (14 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under way; when each will conclude; the cost to date of each; and the estimated cost of each at completion. [16135/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Age Action is a wonderful organisation. In response to the Covid crisis, it developed a hardship fund for older people throughout the country who are finding it impossible to make ends meet. Some 21,000 older people applied to the fund, but there was only enough money for 1,000 grants. It is interesting that Fine Gael Deputies and councillors throughout the country tweeted about the fund...

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

Peadar Tóibín: The number of Covid deaths in nursing homes in this country is absolutely shocking and it is wrong. I am always amazed that when a Government is confronted with these figures, the answer is that it counts those deaths better than any other country is counting them. How the deaths are counted is not something to be proud of. Preventing them is the important issue. Regarding childcare...

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

Peadar Tóibín: The measure of a country is how it values its vulnerable. This can be ascertained by how we treat the people who look after the most vulnerable. Older people in nursing homes have been treated abysmally during the lockdown. They have been treated as an afterthought. When decisions were made, they had disastrous consequences for them. As a result, Ireland has one of the highest rates of...

Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (9 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: An féidir liom ceist ar bith a chur ar an Aire?

Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (9 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Is ceist an-sciobtha é. Tá fadhb ann i gContae na Mí mar gheall ar thithíocht nua atá á tógáil i Ráth Chairn. Tá An Bord Pleanála tar éis iarratas pleanála a fhaomhadh a scriosfaidh Gaeltacht Ráth Chairn ina iomláine. Tá an fhadhb sin ag teacht chun cinn arís agus arís i ngach Gaeltachtaí eile....

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Bhí mé chun mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil don Taoiseach, ach tá sé imithe anois is trua. An economic tidal wave is starting to hit the State. There is likely to be a budget deficit of approximately €30 billion this year and a continuing deficit over the coming years. Tens of thousands of individual businesses are in significant danger of closing. Hundreds...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Not at all. That is absolutely not what I am doing.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Self-determination is a valid idea.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: On the points the Taoiseach made on the moneys allocated for tribunals, a sum of €4.2 million is allocated in the Revised Estimates by the Taoiseach's office. There are serious concerns with regard to the expenditure of taxpayers' money with negligible oversight and controls. Only last week, I got a response from the Taoiseach's office in which it admitted there are no controls over...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: I refer to nursing homes and the shocking case that happened to a constituent of mine, who died in a nursing home in Meath quite recently. The facts of the death are quite shocking. The Taoiseach might have read them in the paper. The individual had an open wound due to tumours on his face-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: -----and had to be brought into hospital. There needs to be an investigation into what has happened in nursing homes in general during this Covid crisis. So far in respect of this individual, the family has not got an investigation from HIQA, the HSE or the Department of Health. Will the Taoiseach commit to having an investigation?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the direction organisations (details supplied) received with regard to the spending of their 2020 budget; if this direction has been made from his Department or Sports Ireland; the details of the distribution of high performance funding between Paralympic sport and Olympic sports; if his attention has been drawn to the fact the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 708. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure there is a full and independent investigation into the alleged illegal abortion that took place in the National Maternity Hospital in March 2019 (details supplied); the reason the medical reports for the abortions that took place in the National Maternity Hospital in March 2019 are still termed as draft; if he will meet with the family...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 714. To ask the Minister for Health the closures of mental health facilities by county in the past 20 years; and the amount returned from mental health budgets by county to the HSE since 2010. [13944/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred by the Commission of Investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to date by category; the purpose for which the funding was spent in each case; and the beneficiaries in each case. [12844/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jun 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planned location for a permanent school premises (details supplied); the capacity it is planned to increase the school to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12794/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Jun 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial assistance available to private school bus operators that have suffered a loss of income as result of Covid-19 and that will not be able to resume services, leaving up to 90,000 students without school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13105/20]