Results 121-140 of 17,158 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: On the Government.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is about accountability.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We have heard a lot of nonsense today from the Government about the timing of this debate. This is the Government's motion. We in Aontú promised in August, after the death of Harvey Morrison Sherratt, that we would bring a motion of no confidence at the earliest opportunity. Next week is our earliest opportunity to do that. If the death of a child, the continuous, painful suffering...

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This is what we are talking about here.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This is your motion. Ours is next week.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: No, I did not.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Fact-free sentence.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Immune from facts.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That is rubbish. I never said that.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: No.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We have had no time.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the first time I have been able to do so.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I could not have brought it in earlier.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Our Private Members' business is next week.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is next week, not today. The Government is using today's time for its motion.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is the first time since 1976 that a motion has been brought forward by one week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday, the Scoliosis Advocacy Network and the families of children affected by the scoliosis crisis gave a presentation in the audiovisual room. Mothers told of the deaths of their children and of the continuous extreme pain many children felt and others told of lungs and stomachs being crushed and their children being disabled for the lack of treatment. Images were shown of rods that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Taoiseach tell these children and parents they will no longer have to wait for this life-and-death treatment?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I asked Simon Harris 13 months ago how many children were taken off the waiting list for scoliosis treatment. Some 13 months later, Simon Harris does not know the answer to that question. That is an incredible situation. The Taoiseach spoke about the folding of CHI into the HSE. I welcome that. It is something we pushed for. I had this debate with the Taoiseach. The truth of the matter...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is 15 years of Fine Gael in the Department.