Results 1-20 of 10,490 for and speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 24 April 2024, if she will reply to an email submitted to her office (details supplied) regarding school transport in County Meath; and the actions taken to secure school transport for the students concerned commencing from September 2024. [24171/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to alleviate the crisis of prisoner overcrowding for prisoners and staff where there has been a substantial increase in the prison population in all prisons countrywide, and in view of the plans for Thornton Hall to be used for IPAS, which was originally intended as a site for a new prison; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of male and female prisoners in each prison; the number of prison rooms per each prison; and the number occupying each prison room in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [23344/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the only party that opposed the referendums, stated clearly that the Government was misleading the people in respect of the tax elements that would affect the people, what was meant by durable relationships and how the courts would see it, and what was meant by the immigration elements. Since the referendums, we have found that the Attorney General agreed with us and stated there would be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If anybody has a thesaurus I can use that will give the understanding that the Government did not tell the truth, I will use a different word, if necessary. It is important that the Government takes responsibility, investigates why Ministers were misleading the people and comes clean and apologies to the people of Ireland for the information it shared at that key moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: They were advised in one way and gave advice in the other direction.

Education (Smartphones in Primary Schools) Bill 2024: First Stage (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to promote the welfare and education of children by prohibiting use of smartphones by students in primary schools; and to provide for related matters. I am delighted to introduce the Education (Smartphones in Primary Schools) Bill 2024. This Bill is key to child protection. Powerful technology has been developed in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of operations conducted under Operation Sonnet from 2023 to date; the number people sent back across the Border; the number of personnel working in the GNIB that have been involved in these operations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23126/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the sentences that has been repeated to me a lot over the past week is that the Government seems not to understand that there is a country outside of the Dublin area. There is a real divide in this country. It is really important to recognise the economic situation, especially in the midlands and north west, which is now a lagging area with lower incomes than the European average....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...information, was not asking the questions or could not extract the information from the data. We are spending a great deal of money on an expensive process to differentiate between those who need help and those who do not. Those who do not need help are getting deportation orders, but 85% of those are voluntary deportations. According to a parliamentary reply that I have just received...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that have been purchased in each local authority where tenants had received a notice to quit in each year. [22470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that have been purchased with the use of a local authority home loan in each local authority in each year. [22471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the core targets for each local authority in terms of house building; and the number that have been built in each local authority to date. [22472/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason core targets for house building are being enforced as caps. [22483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that applied for asylum in each of the past ten years who gained entry to the country by way of a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa. [22463/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that applied for a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa for each of the past ten years; and the breakdown of the top 15 countries in each cohort. [22464/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the method her Department uses to confirm that a person visiting Ireland on a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa has left the country. [22465/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number, county location and cost of land purchases made by the Government in order to provide accommodation for asylum seekers and people from Ukraine in each of the past ten years. [22466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of additional funding his Department has given to charities since December 2023 for the purpose of providing tents and sleeping bags to homeless asylum seekers (details supplied). [22841/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Qualifications (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places for medical students in Irish universities for each of the past ten years; and how many of these are used for international students. [22467/24]