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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (8 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 188. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service ships in day-to-day use; the number docked due to understaffing; and the current location of these ships. [17270/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the pause in insourcing, but we have to ask why this is happening. I spoke to staff in a hospital in the midlands today. They told me they had a red escalation over the bank holiday weekend, which is unheard of in the middle of summer. It is something that usually happens in December and January. They have been told to get patients out of the hospital and free up operations and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I have been told by people working within the health service that there are senior healthcare professionals at the moment, including some consultants, who are creating their own private companies and diverting patients from public waiting lists to their newly created private companies. It has been alleged in one case that a consultant, who created a private firm to read scans, used the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (1 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered setting up a rainy day fund which may be used in the event of a trade war to support struggling businesses. [20965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (1 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of how electricity costs are impacting SMEs across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20964/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (1 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have appealed the Department's decision to refuse them the humanitarian assistance payment in light of Storm Éowyn; the number of these appeals which have been successful; if his attention has been drawn to any cases where there were two applicants with identical applications and circumstances...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 May 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has plans to alter, abolish or change the means test on the carer's allowance; and if so, the date upon which these changes will come into effect. [20967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports that will be available to special needs assistants as part of the redeployment scheme for special needs assistants should their redeployment take place a distance away from their previous post. [21625/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is pay, terms and conditions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of community disability network teams across the country which are fully staffed and the number which are not. [20957/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: In recent days I have received significant information that there is an independent review of the children's disability network team service model. It has been obvious to most people that this system is completely broken around the country. Will the Minister today confirm to the Dáil that the entire CDNT service model is being independently reviewed?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: My information indicates that the independent review has been commenced by the National Disability Authority. The Minister of State might confirm in her answer if that is the case. The figures I have seen as to what is happening in the CDNTs are absolutely shocking. They are unbelievable. In 2023 there were 817 vacancies in CDNTs across the country. In CHO 1 there has been a drop-off of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I indicated the massive figures of absences and vacancies in the sector but I want to drill down to what this means for an individual child. I have been contacted by a constituent who is a foster mother of a child. She has worked tirelessly to help her young boy. The boy presents with significant complex behavioural problems and has been expelled from two preschools and four times already...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There have been 221 reported cases of sexual abuse of children in State care in the past ten years. That is a very dark figure. The other information I have received shows that, at the moment, there are 37 children missing from Tusla care, which is disastrous. Since 2021, Tusla has made referrals to the Garda of 161 children who are suspected of being victims of child sexual exploitation,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a pity we have so little time because there actually are so many important things here for both of us to discuss. I will quickly refer to the story on RTÉ today on the Grace report. That particular story on RTÉ reported that legal officials responsible for the affairs of the woman known as Grace claim that extensive submissions made to the commission by lawyers representing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in State care who have reported being sexually abused in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025. [20961/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: A series of documents and emails that were exchanged between the Minister and the CEO of Tusla have been released to me under freedom of information legislation. They paint a very bleak picture of what is happening with the welfare of children in State care. How many children in care have been reported to have been sexually abused in recent years?

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is absolutely phenomenal that we have two separate unpublished reports into two separate scandals involving CHI at the moment yet, despite that, the Government is still backing the board of CHI. We know that in one case children were subjected to unnecessary surgeries, where they did not meet the threshold for surgery. Separately, we know that poorly sourced springs or coils made from...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: In fact, they do.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is employing a new housing tzar with a salary of €430,000, which is an incredible figure. Because of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents, that may well be the salary someone needs to buy a home in many parts of this country at the moment. We have a record breaking Government for all the wrong reasons. We have record house prices, rents and numbers of...