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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister must admit it is quite shocking that it will take 14 months for a question asked in September 2024, about how many children have been taken off waiting lists without their parents knowing, to be answered. It points again to the dysfunction. I welcome that the Minister has met with parents about this. That is a good thing. The Minister mentioned money going into this section....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that the case? The Minister might answer that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I think the Minister understands this perfectly well. Given that it has been so hard to get information from CHI over the last number of years, anything less than a statutory inquiry into the lack of care for children on scoliosis waiting lists is not going to get to the truth. The fact that there has been no information forthcoming from the individuals involved means that if we cannot...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons in receipt of the basic income for the arts payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times she has visited hospitals in Meath and Louth since she took office; if she will list the hospitals she has visited in those counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51549/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 222. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rationale for removing the training/attendance allowance for members of the Reserve Defence Forces when undergoing training; the allowances that are now available to members of the Reserve Defence Forces; and the number of new members that have signed up in the past year, by month. [52655/25]

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This time last year, Aontú proposed a motion in this Chamber seeking the ending of the means test for the carer's allowance. That motion was co-signed by Seán Canney and Noel Grealish who are now junior Ministers in this Government and it had a timeframe of 2027 for the complete abolition of the means test. It is very clear that there is absolutely no will in the Government to...

Global Sumud Flotilla: Motion (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Some 66,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel's bloody war on the people of Gaza. Dozens of men, women and children are being killed on a daily basis. Hospitals, schools, refugee centres and churches are being bombed by the IDF. Bombs are literally atomising families in tents. We have never before seen this number of journalists, doctors, nurses and UN staff being killed in large...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the announcement that there will be an inquiry into the care of spina bifida and scoliosis patients by CHI. It is good news and I give credit to Stephen and Gillian and the advocacy groups for achieving this. It is really important that it be a statutory public inquiry. Any inquiry without the power to compel people or papers will not get to the truth in relation to this. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----it is important that we get to a situation where we have a permanent office of inquiry to make sure-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----these inquiries can be delivered efficiently and speedily.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health last met. [49645/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Míle buíochas leis na finnéithe as a gcuir i láthair inniu. The institute has 20 staff. Is there a cap on that? InterTradeIreland has a cap on its staff. Foras na Gaeilge is having difficulties with funding, so there seems to be, in some cross-Border structures, a limit to their development. In terms of staff and funding, how has it changed since 1998?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. In the witnesses' opening statement, they mentioned North-South health co-operation. People were obviously delighted with a whole lot of services that were made nearly all-island in 1998. I am thinking of Altnagelvin, children's cancer care, etc. Is there any quantitative information regarding how that has developed, or what are the figures on the number of people who are treated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----from the information I have, there was a spike of co-operation in the early days after the Good Friday Agreement but things have remained pretty static since then with regard to new services coming on board that could be used by people North and South. This may not be the witnesses' area but there is a differential between services delivered North and South. There is a woman by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I looked at the all-Ireland economy a few years ago and did a report on it. Everybody I spoke to, from all different backgrounds, was of the view that if we planned, funded and delivered together, there would be better services that would be more efficiently delivered. I do not know whether any of that is still happening. Is planning strategically together, as Ms Costello said, or funding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a final question. There are obviously different methodologies North and South, and a whole lot of differentials that make data collection difficult. Is there any systemic resistance to sharing data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: If we could get those figures, it would be great. It might not be the institute's specific area but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the institute have any information on the differentials between North and South in public health? My understanding is that length of life, for example, is currently lengthening in the South of Ireland. In the North of Ireland, life expectancy is not as high and is actually falling. Have any good studies been done on what may be the widening gap in public health between North and South...