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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: On the last day of the Dáil, many around the country will look to mark the Government's report card, so let us have a look at it. The attendance record has been atrocious so far. It is 230 days since the general election and the Government has turned up to the Dáil for 59 of those. That is 75% of the time that has elapsed since the election in which the Government has not come to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: According to a reply I received today to a parliamentary question,-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----707 prisoners were unlawfully away from prison last year and there were still 131 missing from the prison system at the end of the year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it not the case that, in the last seven months, the Government has been floundering?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: No, it is not just increased reporting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The increase in domestic violence statistics are not down to increased reporting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: They are down to increased domestic violence. To hide that fact is actually dangerous as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Let us talk about the health service, which the Tánaiste mentioned. Billions of euros have been poured into the HSE and we are getting less and less in return. The national children's hospital, which the Tánaiste signed for, is still mired in cost overruns and delays. There have been 500,000 adverse incidents in hospitals just in the last five years and 3,142 people died as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----and are hardwired to increase for the next five years. The Government is hurting people at the moment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: There has never been a Government with as much access to cash, but there has never been a Government that has done so little with it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This is too serious.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot believe the Tánaiste spent any time on that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government cannot agree either.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact that the Minister is looking to tie financial support for the HSE to its performance. It is something that I have made an argument for over the past number of years. I firmly believe that we need to reach a situation where the HSE is paid for the work it does for patients and the benefits it brings to patients. We would probably go further than this and tie funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently with the scope section of the Department; and the number of these appeals that have run over one year. [39778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals with the scope section of the Department with regard to State and semi-State body pensions; the average time they are ongoing; and the longest ongoing appeal. [39779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently with the scope section of the Department with regards to a dispute over the modified rate of insurance governed by either paragraph 81, 82, 83 or 84 of S.I No. 312 of 1996, Social Welfare (Consolidated Contributions and Insurability) Regulations, 1996. [39780/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners that have been unlawfully at large from prison in each of the past ten years. [39839/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 232. To ask the Minister for Health if bereavement suites and a bereavement champion are available 24/7 in each maternity hospital in the State; and if not, will she detail which maternity hospital does not have either in view of the fact mothers who tragically lose their baby just before birth or just after often have to endure the cries of healthy babies in the maternity hospital which can...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to create an overarching framework for cross-Border cancer care that would ensure that citizens on both side of the Border can get timely local cancer care (details supplied). [39883/25]