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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I had a chance to visit Midleton recently and I spoke to many of the people living in the area. It is important for people outside Cork to remember how life-threatening this event was. It was not just damaging to homes, properties and businesses. Lives were in the balance. I know of an elderly man who now works as a human water gauge, as it were. When the rainfall is heavy he stays up,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there a date for the planning application?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Two Departments seem to be under significant pressure at the moment, namely, the Departments of Justice and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. They are under strain with the current issue of the migrant numbers coming into the country. There was an important story in yesterday's edition of the Irish Daily Mail in regard to two asylum seekers who were successful in court...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The judge in this case, Ms Justice Siobhán Phelan, stated that the information in regard to the applicant's conviction has been in the Minister for Justice agent's possession since October 2021, without telling the applicant of his obligation to register as a sex offender. The judge went on to say that she was troubled by the fact that this has not come to light. She said this was in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list the occasions over the past 18 months on which Government Departments have requested additional funds from his Department; the purposes of these requests; which requests were granted; and which were refused. [18661/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: We know that over Christmas the Minister and the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, had a ferocious argument over the health budget. We also know there are significant tensions currently between the Minister's Department and other Departments. Some of these tensions concern overspends by those other Departments. Can the Minister give us information about where these difficulties...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 26. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list the hospitals he has visited since he took office. [18647/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 46. To ask the Minister for Health the longest length of time any child has been waiting for scoliosis or spinal surgery in Temple Street or Crumlin Children’s Hospitals. [18648/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (2 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of publicly-funded contracts awarded to a company (details supplied) by his Department in each of the past ten years; the cost of each contract; and the purpose for which each contract was awarded. [18662/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have put in a freedom of information request to all local authorities seeking the number of vacant local authority properties that exist. Incredibly, the information I have got shows that there are 3,500 empty local authority homes at the moment. The State is the biggest hoarder of empty homes in the country. We have done more digging into this and have found that, on average, it takes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15074/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17659/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the basic tenets of management is to measure what is happening. If we cannot measure what is happening, we cannot manage the situation. If I were to open a sweet shop on Main Street in Bray, I would need to know what is happening within that sweet shop or it would go bust. Despite myself and others trying to get the Minister to focus on measuring what is happening, there was a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have replies to 15 parliamentary questions that say the opposite.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Are they enforceable?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: How is it enforced?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: In July 2023, I asked the Minister for Justice how many asylum seekers were coming from Britain through the North of Ireland into the South of Ireland over the past five years. At that stage, approximately 66% of those were making applications to the International Protection Office. The Minister stated in her reply to the parliamentary question that the question about what routes they used...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the disparity among home schooled children and children in mainstream education with regard to access to assistive technology (details supplied). [19682/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [17658/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children in special emergency accommodation at the end of each of the past 52 weeks. [18649/24]