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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...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We are 123 days since the general election and this Dáil has sat for 21 days.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There is not a committee functioning in this Dáil at the moment. No wonder we cannot build a hospital in this country without the prices ballooning out of control. No wonder there is not a house for a young person, and that young people have to emigrate to actually get a house. It is beyond time that we cop on to ourselves in this Chamber and see can we work to fix those issues. This...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Guirke spoke for one hour last year in the whole year.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has bullied through a new hybrid speaking system into this Dáil. The Government created a speaking system with another designation and it wants to control that designation as well. It already has a majority in this Dáil, but it wants the majority of the designations as well. Incredibly, in the new Standing Orders, the Chief Whip of the Government will be able to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The impending tariff war with the US is the biggest existential economic threat to this country in generations. Yet shockingly, it has been practically eclipsed by Dáil dysfunction over the past couple of weeks. Billions of euro worth of Irish trade and corporation tax are under threat. Both the future intake of tax and public spending are in the balance. I am struggling see any...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 69. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing will next meet. [9293/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 101. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with social affairs and public services last met. [7688/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Civil Service (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 106. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [9294/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 107. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on office furnishings, fittings and technology in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [9296/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 114. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US president. [12128/25]