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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]

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

Peadar Tóibín: ...a little bit. She said that it was not possible to extract that information from the data. It is astonishing that we have such a system when so many people are coming into the country. They are applying to the International Protection Office, but the staff of the Minister for Justice are not asking them how they came into the State. It is not the only question that was not asked....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: These are shocking figures. The Minister basically said that since she was elected, approximately 40,000 people with disabilities have applied for disability allowance, been refused, had to appeal the decision and were then successful. She is saying that, for the big chunk of those cases, the initial refusal of the application by the Department was incorrect. These are people with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Minister's responsibility to make a document that is accessible to people with disabilities. Some 69% of the refusals were overturned. Imagine the number of people who were refused but did not apply for a review of the decision. There could be thousands of people who honestly, fairly and justly applied, were refused by the Department, did not make an appeal and could have got it. That...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...played the part of champions of carers and people with disabilities, but that zeal has disappeared for some reason after the referendum results. People with disabilities regularly tell me they apply for disability allowance and are initially unsuccessful with their application, but when they appeal, they get their application. This seems to be happening a lot and I think it is important...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...are having these services taken away. This is having an enormous impact on those children. When they go to appeal the reduction in service, it is so onerous that it is nearly a full-time job to apply. I know from my experience that Departments can be inordinately bureaucratic in respect of these issues. Schools say they do not need diagnoses in respect of the children, but then they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...them. The Minister of State is new in this role, but he might be able to answer this. Cork County Council identified four engineers it was going to assign to look over the job in Midleton. It applied for funding from the OPW and the Minister of State's predecessor refused to fund that. Will the Minister of State reverse that and fund these engineers to ensure this gets built?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give equal status to medical graduates who received funding from the State to study in Northern Ireland when applying for an internship programme within the HSE who are currently classed as tier 2 applicants; if he will review the current process for internship placement allocation to enable such graduates to continue speciality training and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Minister for Education and Skills the details of the newly released scheme to support children leaving State care with free accommodation when going into third level education; the procedure for applying; and the rules of the scheme. [9069/24]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...is another example. Not only is there dysfunction in the provision and its location but it is also in the asylum process itself. I asked a parliamentary question that found that 76% of asylum applicants in this country are applying in the IPO office and the Government is not asking them how they came into the country. We do not know how they came into the country. We also know that...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...been in contact with senior US politicians to put pressure on them to stop this? How many times has the Government reached out in any way to the US Administration to communicate our shock and apply as much pressure as we can to get the Americans to becomes doves instead of hawks?

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...in the Defence Forces stated that the complaints procedure "is now held to be a meaningless ritual with little or no hope of ... redress". The report also refers to the perception that if a person applies for that redress, that they will get special treatment. The report states that the procedure has lost all credibility. The Workplace Climate in the Defence Forces study from 2016 also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for job seekers allowance/job seekers benefit, who identified themselves as former farmers in each of the past ten years. [1544/24]

Gender Recognition (Amendment) (Prisons) Bill 2023: First Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...ú Bill simply seeks to prevent male-born criminals being placed into women's prisons. Our Bill provides that a gender recognition certificate does not affect whether a person is deemed male or female for the purpose of applying the existing rule as to single-sex accommodation in prisons.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the scale or structure of the late payment penalties applied to persons who fail to pay their toll charge on the M50 before 8 pm the following day; if the penalties increase as time passes; and if so, the rate of this increase. [55552/23]

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...them to have travel documents to get on those flights but the Government is not tightening up on this particular issue either. Another important issue on which the Government is not focusing is that 76% of people who are applying for asylum in this State at the moment are not doing it at the airports or at the ports; they are applying at the International Protection Office. This means...

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: .... If we use a filter on the search function in daft.ieto specify private rentals costing less than €2,500 monthly, only 1,150 such homes are shown to be available in the whole State. When we apply a filter of €1,500 monthly or less, we find there are only 623 homes available. In my town of Navan, which has a population of 35,000, only eight homes are available to rent. If...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether a person who applied for disability allowance before Christmas, but will not receive a decision until after Christmas, will be entitled to back payments to the date of application; and whether these back payments will also include the Christmas bonuses, lump sums and fuel allowance entitlements which accompany the...