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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (15 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department or IPAS plans to accommodate persons, other than those currently being accommodated in a location (details supplied); and if so, if any additional persons to be accommodated there will be police vetted. [41219/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (15 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date upon which a hotel (details supplied) will cease to be used as accommodation for those seeking international protection; if attempts are being made to source a more suitable facility for the families currently accommodated there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41220/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (15 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason non-EU applicants to the HSCP MSc ultrasound programme in UCD were initially offered a place on the course with a fee exemption; the reason they were subsequently informed they must pay the non-EU fee in full after being offered a place with written confirmation of a fee exemption; if there were any terms and conditions and disclaimers provided...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (15 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sonographers employed within each public hospital; the number required to provide adequate staff levels within each hospital; and the duration of any unfilled posts for sonographers within each hospital where such exists, in tabular form. [41484/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 680. To ask the Minister for Health if the health service tests for Lyme disease for all blood transfusions; the accuracy of the test for Lyme disease in these tests; and if there is a danger that a person in receipt of a blood transfusion with Lyme disease could acquire the disease. [41547/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will develop a campaign of awareness surrounding Lyme disease. [41549/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Very serious allegations have been made against a Member of the Oireachtas, including that he or she is being used as an intelligence asset by the Russian Government. That any Oireachtas Member elected to represent the interests of the Irish people would allow himself or herself to be manipulated to work in the interests of a foreign government is scandalous. It is actually treacherous....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: You get national security briefings.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If the election does not get in the way.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It is quite serious.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe agus gabhaim buíochas leo as na cuir i láthair. There are a couple of issues. First of all, Mr. Makhlouf mentioned the potential inflationary impact of the budget and of spending yet the European Central Bank, ECB, reduced interest rates. On one level, obviously, there is too much money going into the economy according to the constraints...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Therefore, it is fair to say that the Irish economy's cycle is not in sync with the other European economies, so while the reduction of interest rates is favourable for the other European economies, it is not actually favourable for the Irish economy at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Central Bank push back against the decisions of the ECB in terms of the experience of the Irish economy around interest rates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It just strikes me that one of the key components of the big housing crash we had a number of years ago was the fact that interest rates were made low for the German economy's sake and our economy was obviously overheating at a significant rate. The lever the Central Bank would have pulled, in monetary policy, had it had interest rates at the time would have been to cool down the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that there were lots of reasons the housing crisis happened. It would be my view that the ECB would have a closer eye to Germany's needs economically in setting the interest rate than it would in respect of Ireland. That is a another day's discussion but that is strongly my view. There are constraints within the Irish economy. If investment goes in that is too large in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Given that housing is probably one of the biggest constraints within the economy, would it not be logical for the Government to really focus on increasing the labour supply in terms of housing? Hundreds of thousands of Irish construction workers left for Australia and Canada just after the last crash. If a concerted effort was made to bring home a significant number of those workers, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Is waste inflationary? One of the big issues in this country is the level of waste that is happening. I refer to the overexpenditure on capital projects and budgets running wild, etc. That has an inflationary impact on society. Has the Central Bank quantified whether inefficiencies in capital provision are causing overheating of the economy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. I would like to ask about the exposures of the Irish economy at the moment. I understand that if we stripped out corporation taxes, there would be a budget deficit this year to the tune of €5 billion, which is a significant exposure. One of the people involved in the election that will take place in the United States in a couple of weeks has stated that he wants to introduce a...