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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Dillon proved my point in thanking the Government for giving refurbishment grants for a post office and a Garda station it closed. The point is the Government is closing key public services in these types of towns. Those buildings are becoming derelict and now the Government is coming back with a few bob to do up the windows and the roof a little bit. This is why so many of these...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I worked on its reopening.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I worked on that too.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I campaigned for that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I campaigned for all three of those projects.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: How much money has been drawn down and spent by the Minister's Department in making sure that vacancy is transformed into use?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome these funds and schemes but they are tackling the symptoms of the problems. The problems themselves are not being tackled. Why are so many towns and villages in this country trending towards vacancy? Why is that the case? At the heart of that is an economic model that is basically making commuter and dormitory towns of these places, where they have become hollow husks and empty...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what steps her Department is taking to tackle dereliction and vacancy in rural towns and villages. [3978/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The issues of dereliction is a blight upon many towns across the country and the moment. There are many cases where buildings are dangerous and are falling apart. There are other cases where those buildings are centres of antisocial behaviour, drug-taking and potentially fires as well. There are also cases where businesses are significantly devalued as a result of being next to vacant...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: At least 26,637 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza so far. Some 65,387 people have been wounded since the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023. The number of people dead is the equivalent of every man, woman and child in the city of Kilkenny being completely eliminated. Those are absolutely horrendous figures. Schools and hospitals have been vaporised. The rules of war have...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Most people want to help and to do the right thing for people who are fleeing war and violence. They also want a system that is fair and sustainable. Most people want a compassionate approach from the Government but also want common sense. The Minister's system has so far been a common sense-free zone. That is the truth. We have a Government whose policy has to date significantly...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It was in a written reply to a parliamentary question in the last month. It is an incredible situation.

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: At the heart of this problem is that we have a situation whereby there is no consideration of, or planning around, the Government's policy to find accommodation. If we are real, the Government's policy to find accommodation is lastminute.com. It is a Yellow Pack situation to find anybody who will give accommodation. What that means is there is no planning around the resources that are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: We are talking about the current housing crisis that is affecting so many people across the country but I am still working with a large number of individuals who are hammered due to the last housing crash. Believe it or not, these individuals are still before the courts trying to unwind the complex legal mess that exists with regard to the housing crash in 2009. The banks are still pursuing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The general practitioner sector was one of the last elements of the health service that functioned properly. Now are seeing incredible two- or three-week delays for a simple first appointment with doctors throughout the country. That is if doctors will take people onto their lists. Many thousands of people now cannot even get on a doctor's list, which means that they are locked out of GP...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [3974/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [3975/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 51. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the investigation into a matter (details supplied). [2774/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 91. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the €50 million community recognition fund, announced in May 2023, that has been spent to date; the projects on which it was spent; the counties in which the money was spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 175. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the restrictions he intends placing on Defence Forces representative associations; the reason he believes that a Defence Forces representative association or a representative of such association should be prohibited in law from making a public statement or comment concerning a political matter [or question or express...