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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That is important. Finally, there has been a massive increase, but it is not just because of An Coimisiún Pleanála either. It is also in part because of the SHD process. That is now being replaced by the large-scale residential development, LRD, process, I understand. It looks like the SHD process has turbo-boosted the number of judicial reviews coming into place.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The judicial review focuses on legality or fairness in a court process. If more judicial reviews are happening, does that mean more mistakes are happening in the court process?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I am finished now, but maybe at a later date we could get the staffing over the past five years for us to compare and contrast.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That would be great.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of excess deaths in Ireland for each of the past five years. [38010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the funding for the Pacáiste Tacaíochta Teaghlaigh initiative cancelled for families living outside of the Gaeltacht (details supplied); and if the Minister will reverse this decision. [38176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of leaving certificate holders who accepted a university place in each of the past ten years; the number of persons who graduated from university in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37510/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); the assistance his Department is giving to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37357/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the ongoing housing crisis and the need to support families in mortgage-to-rent schemes in meeting their financial and social needs, if his Department has considered reviewing or amending current legislation and tenancy agreements to allow such tenants to sublet one or two rooms in their homes, provided that any such...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown on age, nationality, employment status of those in emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland; if his Department stores data on the number of whom suffer from substance abuse or drug addiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37782/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 622. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount the State has paid to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the nature of the contract the State has with the organisation; if the State is leasing buildings from the organisation; if these are homes subject to a section-5 referral; if the organisation is purchasing homes to provide to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 670. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the quantity, by weight and the economic street value, of cocaine seized by Gardaí in each of the past ten years, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37760/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have claimed asylum in Ireland having arrived from Sweden in each of the past 10 years; if a breakdown on country of origin is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37780/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Less than a year ago the Government made a U-turn on hate speech. The Tánaiste, Deputy Harris, overruled the former Minister for justice and made a pragmatic decision. Unlike this House, the majority of Irish people oppose any censorship laws. There was some sniggering in the Chamber a little while ago when a speaker suggested that hate speech could be turned against political parties...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is really important that the Government gives a strong answer. The European Union has given the Government just until Monday to comply with European law when it comes to hate speech. That is only four or five days away.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: What is the Government's answer to the European Union in terms of complying with that law?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have taken early retirement in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36230/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Meetings (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will list the occasions when he met with the Garda Commissioner since he took office. [36229/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address matters concerning changes made to the warmer homes scheme that forbid the funding within the scheme of minor alterations to existing gas, oil or solid fuel heating systems to facilitate the insulation of homes (details supplied). [36728/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Levy (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance the length of time the pension levy for Aer Lingus pensioners has been in place; and the amount collected each year since the pension levy on Aer Lingus pensioners was put in place. [36694/25]