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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 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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (15 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases that have come before the DPP in relation to sexual offences involving children, in each of the past three years; the number of those that came before court; the number which resulted in a custodial sentence; the number who secured a conviction but where a custodial sentence was not received; if those...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (14 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of pets which have been brought to Ireland from Ukraine in each month since the invasion; and the cost to the State in relation to this in each of those months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21715/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on a dental waiting list at the end of each of the last ten years, and if a breakdown, by county, can be provided on this figure. [21709/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will next meet. [17657/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of private residential properties currently rented by IPAS in each county; the rental cost for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20456/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Freedom of Information (8 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 463. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason why a freedom of information request (details supplied) has not yet received a decision; if he will detail when a decision will be made on the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20600/24]

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...

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]

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]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (30 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the occasions upon which he has met with or corresponded with the CEO of Tusla since he took office. [18650/24]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 563. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the number of persons from Ukraine under beneficiaries of temporary protection, and the number of international protection applicants respectively, who have been housed within each local authority nationally as of 22 April 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 291. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 18 April 2024, the numbers in State-provided accommodation, to include private accommodation who been living in full-board circumstances, half-board and self-catering, of those in the IPAS system and beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine, respectively,...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ..., in terms of its support of carers, seems to have disappeared completely. We still see child care facilities closing on a weekly basis. We see nursing homes closing around the country. We still see children being put into unregulated care with unvetted staff, and dozens of these children go missing on a monthly basis. In some cases, according to UCD research, some of those children...

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

Peadar Tóibín: ...asked to send an email, etc. Alternatively, they can get in contact by phone. In other words, the service is there. When you want to access it, however, it is not. We know that the majority of children and adolescents in Ireland with autism, for example, have stated that they have not received in the past year the services they need. Over 74% said that one more service that was...

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

Peadar Tóibín: ...first of all in being able to access teachers in general because of a shortage of teachers in a number of different areas, but my understanding is that this is particularly acute in the context of children with additional needs and special needs within schools. I have an example of a school in my constituency that is renowned for its work in terms of inclusion and providing services...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (24 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of school OT staff who exist for each of the past five years; and the number of school speech therapist staff who exist for each of the past five years. [18165/24]