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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Tógfaidh mé cúpla soicind. There are serious problems and they are not arising independently of Government. Government is making decisions on funding and recruitment freezes. I know of a nurse who returned to Ireland two months ago but who was unable to get back into her old job because of the recruitment freeze here. Lives depend on the ability of doctors and nurses to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died while waiting to be seen in emergency departments in the State in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1893/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: On that previous issue, in the context of HSE-funded home care, there is a refusal to bring older people for walks. Where people have dementia, they are being allowed to leave the house unaccompanied because of this refusal to bring people for walks. This is an extremely dangerous decision by the HSE. Turning to the issue of hospitals now, the crisis there really bubbled up over...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance drivers recruited to the National Ambulance Service and the number of ambulance drivers who have left the National Ambulance Service in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1894/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The average ambulance response time in this country has been increasing significantly in the past few years, so much so that one particular and heartbreaking statistic is the number of times a patient was dead when an ambulance reached the person. In 2019 that figure was 700 and in the past year that has increased to at least 900 deaths. This is a very serious statistic that shows lives are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The figures quoted by the Minister are obviously from a baseline in 2015. The Minister will accept that 2015 was probably during the complete collapse of investment, post austerity, into the health service. The figures being taken as a baseline are from the lowest level of staffing within the National Ambulance Service, which obviously will make the Minister's figures improve. It is very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If I may I will add some practical solutions on this. One of the big situations we see on a regular basis is that an ambulance arrives at the accident and emergency department with the patient but due to the jam in the accident and emergency department because of overcrowding, or simply because there are not enough trolleys there, the ambulance has to stay at the entrance to the accident and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have graduated as nurses in the State in each of the past ten years. [1895/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what steps his Department is taking to increase uptake of third level education among those who previously attended a DEIS school, care leavers, those who have a disability, single parents and among members of the Travelling community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1896/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many vehicles, trucks and containers have been searched for each of the past five years at each port for potential smuggled migrants. [2137/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many asylum applicants have gone missing from State services in each of the past ten years; the number that have been pursued by State authorities; and how many will have been recovered by State authorities in each of the past five years. [2138/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the decision was taken not to pursue the eight migrants who entered the country in a container at Rosslare and fled. [2139/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: There are 9,409 adults and 4,105 children accessing emergency accommodation in Ireland right now. On average ten people a month are dying on the streets of Dublin and 60,000 people are currently on housing waiting lists. Eurostat has shown that rents have increased by 100% since Fine Gael came into power in 2011. Houses are literally out of reach and are only for the wealthiest at the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government received legal advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs or from the Attorney General on whether Israel's war in Gaza constitutes genocide, considering that Ireland is a signatory to the Genocide Convention and has legal obligations to fulfil, the Government needs to seek an urgent legal opinion on the matter; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 162. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how many members of the Defence Forces have requested voluntary retirement, by rank; the number that have been granted and refused, respectively in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [1219/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the East-West Link which includes a risk-based analysis for the east-west route between Dundalk and Cavan and the requirement for the necessary funding to made available for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57386/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fatal car accidents in each county, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1521/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 407. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the planning permission for the flood defences for Midleton will be submitted; and what interim measures will be put in place to protect citizens and their property in the East Cork area. [2005/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to parents who home school their children in cases in which there is a knowledge gap and external assistance may be needed to cover a specific subject required by the curriculum to an appropriate standard as in the case of a student (details supplied). [57002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will rescind the ban on school bus drivers driving school buses when they reach 70 years of age; her views on whether fitness to drive a school bus should be individually assessed for men and women between the age of 70 and 75 years. [1924/24]