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Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the policy of a given society. The truth is that the history of censorship has never ended well. It has been used throughout history as a tool of dictators who have stained the earth with the blood of millions of people. Censorship is authoritarian. It deletes the liberty of citizens to have that competition of ideas and reduces the ability of people to challenge and test the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...about the funding mechanism of the North of Ireland and obviously we have a situation there where budgets are experiencing massive holes. The Northern Minister for Education, Michelle McIlveen, indicated that there was a €750 million hole in the education budget, which, given the circumstances, means cutbacks to that level. The focus is on where those holes are and what costs they...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...system. This is incredible because for the majority of the year this Dáil is consumed with the disaster happening in the public services. We talk about CAMHS, Tusla, and the health service where about a million people are waiting on the lists. Yet, on budget day we seem to forget all of these issues. There is little in this budget about workplace planning. We hear from Irish...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Is €5 million from farmers rank populism?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The reduction in excise duty on fuel is due to lapse in two days' time. This will put an extra 5 cent on diesel and an extra 6 cent on petrol, which is a significant jump. It will hit families extremely hard. Hiking excise duty when so many families are in poverty and so many families are in arrears on energy bills is the opposite of what must be done at the moment. Figures released to me...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is estimated that the attack on the cybersystem in this country will cost €100 million. We do not know what the human cost is. We know that hundreds of thousands of people did not get the treatment they needed following the cyberattack because of the collapse of the systems, so there could very well be people who have died and have suffered serious morbidity as a result. Ireland...

Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...treatment being necessary and it being far more costly to the State in the long run. There is no logic there. There are 13,000 children awaiting orthodontic treatment for grade 4 and grade 5 eligibility criteria. There are 100,000 children on the waiting list for public dental appointments, and there is a six-year waiting list for orthodontic treatment. It is scandalous that we would...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...with the Garda. There needs to be a situation where people are held to account for the actions that they have taken. What happened in Siteserv was extraordinary. There was a write-down of €119 million, much of which came from the pockets of taxpayers and citizens. Siteserv gave €5 million to shareholders at the time of the write-down, which was extraordinary. Arthur Cox...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...happened at Siteserv? That is the major question that is not being answered in any of our debates. It is incredible that the Siteserv sale by the IBRC included a significant write-down of €119 million to Millington, a firm controlled by Denis O'Brien. That money was to come out of the taxpayers' pocket. This happened at the same time that Siteserv was giving €5 million to...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...waters. Cybersecurity is brought up on a regular basis. If we were serious about this, we would invest in our own defences. Two years ago, the National Cyber Security Centre had a budget of €5 million. The PR spend for the Department of the Taoiseach in the same year was €15 million. One Department spent three times the amount of money on PR than the country spent on its...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...that were cancelled known? Have the delays in the delivery of health services been quantified? Before the attack, the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, was funded to the tune of €5 million. To put that in context, the Taoiseach's Department spent three times that amount on PR during that period. As a result of the queue of crises that have developed in the State over recent...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...ability to live. This Government has shown by this budget that it still does not understand the magnitude and urgency of the crisis that is engulfing up to half the population. Approximately 1 million people in this State are in some form of housing distress, either grappling with spiralling rents, on housing lists, priced out of the market or potentially still in mortgage distress...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...The person who was head of the HSE in recent times is saying that the Government is spending a quarter of what it should be spending on cybersecurity. The NCSC has been given a budget of just €5 million. Let us think about that. Last year, the Department of the Taoiseach spent €16.5 million on PR alone. The NCSC has a staff of 25, with no dedicated premises or director...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: ...in housing for people with disability. Meath County Council has 173 people with physical disabilities on the housing list, with 26 new applications this year. Many houses need adaptations. Some €70 million is provided annually for such adaptations and I welcome that, but there are 31 local authorities in the State and, unfortunately, that money does not end up doing a whole heap...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: ...about. The practice of religion is a significant element in people's lives. Some 100,000 people in this State do as Deputy Alan Kelly's mother does and go to mass on a daily basis. Well over 1 million attend religious services weekly. I got a phone call from a 93-year-old woman today who said that her physical and mental health are significantly deteriorating due to her lack of access...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: ...was committed to by the Government. I pay credit to Aontú representative, Paul Lawless, who has been leading the fight on this issue. A shocking figure has come to light today, namely, that half a million people are now unemployed in this State. That does not take into consideration the people who are on wage subsidy schemes, who number in the tens of thousands. These people...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: On the points the Taoiseach made on the moneys allocated for tribunals, a sum of €4.2 million is allocated in the Revised Estimates by the Taoiseach's office. There are serious concerns with regard to the expenditure of taxpayers' money with negligible oversight and controls. Only last week, I got a response from the Taoiseach's office in which it admitted there are no controls over...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: ...cycle at the moment. How is the Government getting its message out there? By any measure, this is a failure. The political karma of Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, getting tripped up by his own €5 million spin factory is lost on no one.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: ...% of the wealth and this is happening under the Government led by the Minister of State's party. We regularly hear about the squeezed middle. The squeezed middle has as much wealth as the richest 5%. Is the Minister of State happy with this? Is he happy to preside in a state in which a very small number of people are exceedingly rich, while the middle and lower deciles of the...

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: ...amount to the passing of laws which will lead to standards that cannot be maintained. If the Minister was serious about this, she would put money into the National Archives. I appreciate that €8 million is to be put towards the development of a building which will house the archives, but this is a capital investment in necessary infrastructure and is not related to providing the...