Results 101-120 of 16,197 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 1066. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role QQI play in the designation of institutions as higher education institutions by the HEA and if QQI can recommend institutions for higher education designation. [17104/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 1067. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a statement on the eligibility criteria for funding under the national training fund (NTF); if funding will be restricted to higher education institutions, and if so why; and when institutions can apply for funding under the NTF. [17105/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 1093. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17061/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of properties sold by the OPW in each of the past ten years; and the cost of each, in tabular form. [15633/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The might also mention the Midleton flood defences, which have been mooted since 2017. My understanding is that the planning application has still not been processed. It is a real life and death issue for the people of Midleton. Vacant property during a housing crisis is one of the biggest problems I have with this Government. This and the previous Governments are the biggest hoarders...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the sales of those properties. That is a good thing, but the Minister must admit that on a day when 15,600 people are homeless, the idea that one Department would have 45 vacant properties is absolutely wrong. The OPW is involved in a total of 450 lease agreements which concern approximately 374 properties. We have seen the OPW lease property from Larry Goodman where someone...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú put in freedom of information, FOI, requests to each of the local authorities and found there were 4,000 empty local authority homes in the country. If those 4,000 empty local authority homes were brought back into use, they would be enough to house the total 15,600 people who are currently homeless. We found that it is taking on average eight months to get those local authority...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Bureaucracy does not create accountability. Accountability is an issue that is created if there is a cost to an individual for making a mistake over and over again that costs the State. I very clearly asked what the total overruns in public infrastructure projects were. The accountability to the Dáil has not achieved an answer on that here and now. I also asked what overruns were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The buses did not move for 18 months.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: No quibble with the public servants. It is the Government we have a quibble with.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total overruns in public infrastructural projects in each of the past five years. [15639/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The previous Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments had a reputation for incinerating public money through wastefulness in public projects. We have numerous examples, from the Gucci bicycle shed to the WRC wall, to the national children's hospital, to the ventilators that never worked. The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, does not have that reputation and I think he could bring change...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The process is clearly not working because we are coming down with cost overruns left, right and centre. One of the reasons for this is that the Government is allergic to accountability and has been for a long time. Even when answering a simple question here on the actual cost overruns over the past five years, this level of accountability is refused. The Minister has not even answered the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Obviously, this is bad news for Ireland - there is no doubt about that. While the pharma sector seems to have been given a reprieve for the moment, which is a blessing, the secondary effect of tariffs internationally will be a dampening effect on the world economy. We are a small, open economy and will be very sensitive to that. That will have a significant effect on our tax take - both on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in tax on fuel in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s economic modelling in relation to the threatened tariff war. [15631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of properties owned by the OPW which are currently vacant. [15634/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (3 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail the cost of all State rental contracts of private property in the past year. [15640/25]

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The nature of policing is radically changing in this country. There is absolutely no doubt about that. That relationship between citizens and the Garda is actually crumbling. Much of the Garda's authority over decades has been the fact that gardaí have been able to work in partnership with positive relationships with local communities. That has meant the level of difficulties that...