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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland is becoming a more violent place. The rates of domestic violence, sexual violence and rape are all increasing. The society we have created over the past number of decades has led to Ireland becoming more violent for women. Day in, day out, lives are being destroyed. In 2011,1,958 sexual offences were recorded. In 2021, this figure had increased by 75%, to 3,433. In 2011, 447...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Catherine Sherry was 42 years old when she died of lymphoma cancer. She lived with her husband and young children just across the Border, in Newry. The special treatment she needed was not available in the North of Ireland but was available just one hour away in Dublin. Her heartbroken husband, Fergal, said she was forced to travel to London for that treatment and that travel significantly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I am critical of that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree there should be rules and checks. Nobody has said that more in this Chamber than me probably in recent years. However, I have also said it needs to be compassionate. That is something the Tánaiste has said too and that there should be a strict system and compassionate response. There are dozens of children unaccompanied coming to this country annually at the moment anyway....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: While the Tánaiste has been stronger than many of his European counterparts in standing up for the people of Palestine, and I grant that is the case, the European Union is still very cold in how it is dealing with Gaza. Ursula von der Leyen strode the world’s stage stating that she would underwrite the IDF’s actions at the start of this process. I believe she distorted...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the number of times he has met with the Palestinian ambassador to Ireland since he took office. [37514/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The slaughter in Gaza is one of the biggest stains on the international community. The killing of 57,700 people in Gaza is a war crime of massive proportions. It is happening in large part because it is underwritten by the West. It is underwritten by the US and many countries in the European Union. The approach of the West to the war in Ukraine and the war in Palestine could not be more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We do not have centres of excellence in many places; we have centres of waiting lists. Today, the Irish Cancer Society said that we have centres of bare adequacy. Those are the words it used. The Taoiseach mentioned extra resources but these do not keep up with inflation, with population increases or with the ageing population of the country and, in many areas of the HSE, they are not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: People are dying as a result of that geographic difference.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: So has the number of patients.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Some 13,000 nurses have left.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: What about Letterkenny?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Where one lives in Ireland is a significant determinant of whether one will survive cancer or die from it. In Ireland today counties and postcodes should have Government health warnings. When a cancer diagnosis happens in a family, a dark cloud descends. While there obviously is hope in terms of treatment, there is no doubt that for serious cancers, every moment of the day is consumed with...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland is the second-most expensive country in Europe. It is quite incredible we have a situation where parents are lying awake at night not knowing how they are going to pay certain bills. I know parents who, as soon as their monthly wages drop in, go into another overdraft to keep them going until the wages next come in. The Barnardos report yesterday was absolutely shocking. For some...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Less than a year ago the Government made a U-turn on hate speech. The Tánaiste, Deputy Harris, overruled the former Minister for justice and made a pragmatic decision. Unlike this House, the majority of Irish people oppose any censorship laws. There was some sniggering in the Chamber a little while ago when a speaker suggested that hate speech could be turned against political parties...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is really important that the Government gives a strong answer. The European Union has given the Government just until Monday to comply with European law when it comes to hate speech. That is only four or five days away.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: What is the Government's answer to the European Union in terms of complying with that law?