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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (9 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have applied for asylum in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [53288/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to increase recruitment to An Garda Síochána. [53287/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 353. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 2223, 2224, 2225 and 2227 of 8 September 2025, the number of staff working the unit who are HSE staff; the total amount of funding given toward the project; the amount of funding received for the MRI unit each year since it opened; the total number of medical card patients seen in the MRI unit each year to date; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 354. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the increasing payments being requested by most nursing homes outside of the fair deal payment (details supplied); if a solution to this issue will be found; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54501/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This time last year, in advance of the general election, the Government injected a sugar rush of once-off measures into the Irish economy, including a double payment for long-term social welfare individuals; €300 for fuel allowance on 4 November; €400 for working family payment on 4 November; €400 for disability invalidity pension and blind pension on 4 November; two...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to increase the number of long-term private rental houses across the country. [53286/25]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes built in the State in each of the past five years and to date in 2025. [53285/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned today----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I will leave it at that. Go raibh maith agat.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Budget 2026 is remarkably flat. It is a budget without vision. It is absent of ideas and innovation. The budget looks like it was written by a senior civil servant just looking to keep the system ticking over. I imagine maybe that is what happened because the Minister, Deputy Chambers, was too busy. He was involved in the omnishambles of the presidential election campaign.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not mentioning any candidates in the election at all.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important because we had an individual whose job it was to be the director of elections of that campaign and who was also at the time expected to produce a budget. That individual, and the truth be known, went through a serious crisis while trying to introduce a budget. That is a mistake. It is a mistake in relation to making sure that this issue of budgetary development is so...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----and this year they will retrench on it. One of the major problems with this Government is that it is focusing on the actual cycle itself. Post-election budget hammers the middle-income earners. Instead of the promised tax cuts the Government mentioned, for middle Ireland there is a tax increase today. It is an incredible situation. Instead of the cuts to student fees, there is a fee...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: A cost to rural Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason only a small amount of the total balance of the market cap fund has been spent; what the currently distributed funds have been spent on; the plans to distribute the remainder of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the dates/occasions upon which each hospital in the country entered surge escalation, over the past twelve months; and the number of patients in surge beds during each of those occasions, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for a mammogram in each county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53271/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 694. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the gaps in health outcomes that are widening between the North and South of Ireland each year. [53761/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of southern patients that have been treated in the North of Ireland in each of the past ten years; and the number of northern patients that have been treated in the south of Ireland in each of the past ten years. [53762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Oct 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any systematic research carried out by her Department into health services that are available in the South of Ireland and not in the north, and vice versa. [53763/25]