Results 101-120 of 4,176 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It suits Fine Gael and Sinn Féin to make this about those two political parties. There are other political parties here. This is one of the few times I get a chance to ask a question and it is an important question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Last week, the Taoiseach made a full commitment to supporting Ukraine's sovereignty. In the same week, he made an argument for Ireland to cede sovereignty to the European Union in the EU migration pact. Sovereignty is no small thing. It means that the people of this country can self-determine the laws that govern us, they can influence the elected representatives and hold them to account....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: We do but we do not want to cede any more sovereignty.

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Information released to Aontú following a parliamentary question shows that only three people have been convicted of human trafficking out of 1,000 cases that have come before the courts in the past decade. I have never seen a conviction rate as low as that in any other sector of crime in this country. It is incredibly poor and means we are not on top of this issue in this country. ...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Simon Harris will break a few records today. A man who took his seat on the 15th count, and a member of a political party that came third in the last general election, will become Taoiseach today. The Taoiseach carousel continues in this political bubble where the people of this Republic are continuously locked out of the decision-making process. There is no doubt that Simon Harris is very...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: -----where establishment TDs talk to themselves and the NGOs and ignore the people. I do not believe he is a man of convictions. I believe his motto is, "There go my people, I must find out which way they are going and then I will lead them". Simon Harris has a record which I believe has cost this country dearly. He threatened striking nurses with financial penalties. He announced...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Throughout the referendum campaign, Aontú said that the care amendment was designed by the Department of Finance. We said the wording proposed in the referendum was designed to protect budgets. A leak of the Attorney General's advice and responses to freedom of information, FOI, requests that have subsequently been published by the Department of Finance basically give credibility and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: What about leak investigations?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The scale of the rejection of the Government's referendum proposals was colossal. It was absolutely incredible to see the most significant referendum losses happen to this Government. There is no doubt in my mind that trust in this Government is on the floor now. There is a political bubble in Ireland between the political establishment, many of the NGOs and some of the media. At the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Except this election.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This is no way to run a country. The position of Taoiseach is being passed around by the Government like snuff at a wake. Highly-paid Ministers do not know what is happening from one day to the next. The Administration of this country is clearly in a state of instability and chaos. We have seen ten Fine Gael TDs vote with their feet a lack of confidence in the future of this Government....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [8795/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [8796/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (29 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The regulated sector says the Minister is not meeting them.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Some more than others.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (29 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 80. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of companies contracted by Tusla to provide special emergency accommodation for children in care; and the amount paid to each company in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [8789/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (29 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister’s Department has admitted to me through replies to parliamentary questions that it is placing children in special emergency accommodation that is unregulated, staffed by third party providers and rented. How much is the Department paying these companies?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (29 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that €90 million has been spent by the Department so far on special emergency arrangements. Last month alone, 22 children went missing from State care. Previously, a 14-year-old girl who had been abducted by a criminal gang within minutes of being placed with Tusla was found one year later locked in a brothel. I try to raise these matters with the Minister, but he does...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (29 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have in my hand a document showing that the owner of the company being investigated for the alleged falsifying of vetting documents, which received millions of euro from the State for the unregulated care of vulnerable children, was on the same committee as the Minister back when the Minister was a councillor in his constituency. The Minister and Mr. Paul Reid, who went on to become the...