Results 101-120 of 550 for long speaker:Peadar Tóibín

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is long past time that we had an organisational overhaul of our approach to national parks and the wildlife of the State. The natural beauty of this landscape is not being protected and has not been historically. What could have been a great ecological and economic resource has lacked the care and maintenance it desperately needs. The health of our biodiversity is the key to our...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...is the patient to doctor ratio, the patient to nurse ratio, and the patient to consultant ratio? How many babies are in the neonatal intensive care units relative to the actual capacity of the units? How long does it take to cross the city of Dublin from Holles Street to St. Vincent's Hospital in an ambulance on an international rugby match Saturday, if a mother is suffering a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...court. Ireland is becoming a harsher and more violent place, and it seems we have built in, accepted or tolerated some level of violence and murder in our society. It seems that outrage lasts as long as the media cycle. What steps is the Government taking to ensure we embed respect for life in society?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...if he will consider the inclusion of self-build homes under the first home scheme and the reintroduction of the local authority rural cottage scheme minus the value of the site to alleviate long waiting lists for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22127/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...is not shared by the vast majority of people in the country. There are two big questions here. This is not the first time we have seen this in the context of the Government. It is the latest in a long list of similar occurrences. The Zappone affair was another example of it in recent times. There is so much power vested in those who are unelected that many people feel what is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ukraine War (7 Apr 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the employment options available to Ukrainian refugees in Ireland on a short, medium and long-term basis; and if his attention has been drawn to any delays in the issuing of work permits. [18420/22]

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...housing refugees coming here. There are many old schools, convents and buildings in this country and I know some in my constituency that are in the hands of the church or the State that have been empty for long periods. We need to get those buildings back into use to ensure we can accommodate refugees. Many of the steps necessary to house the many people already searching for homes in...

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: I welcome the Bill. Ireland has a long history of neutrality which goes back centuries, to the days of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell and James Connolly, who all advocated neutrality for Ireland as a way of protecting the common good and preventing militarism. Historically, small countries have always been sceptical of the intentions of military blocs. In general, historically,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (30 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the long-term future plans for an Intreo centre and social welfare office (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17100/22]

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...whole discussion. Wherever the balance lies with the competing rights, we need to ensure that the full rights of the child are protected. In relation to what the previous speaker said, we have a long and difficult history in relation to children struggling to find who their biological parents are. I am not comparing assisted human reproduction to what happened in the mother and baby...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 3 March 2022, the number of incidents reported to the National Incident Management System in each of the past five years which resulted in death, suffering, long-term incapacity or injury in tabular form. [14044/22]

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...list for an assessment of needs has been indicated as well. I raised just last week the case of Kifca McNamee, a woman in her 40s with a disability who has been trapped in a nursing home since long before Christmas and who simply cannot get a home care package that would allow her to get out. I raised this with Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte in addition to Minister of State, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the Department. I was told the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, has a PR adviser on a salary of more than €93,000 per year. We have been talking about largesse in Civil Service wages for a long time. That salary is incredible because this particular role does not provide anything whatsoever of benefit to citizens. Does the Taoiseach have any PR consultants? What wages are...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: .... It takes hatred to strike a match in that regard. What happened was utterly shameful. I commend Deputy Ó Cuív, who stood up very strongly against that hatred and stood with the Delaney family. I do not have long left to speak but I wish to remember a friend of mine, Michael McDonagh, who died recently. Michael was a tireless advocate of Travellers' rights. He was a...

Hospital Parking Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...that they should not be carrying. Unfortunately what we have got from the Government is a nebulous maybe; they might have a look into it, review the situation, think about it for a little bit longer. On one side of the scales we have a crisis in many people's lives who are suffering a life and death situation; on the other we have a Government with no real intent to do anything about...

Hospital Parking Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to be able to bring this important Bill on hospital car parking charges to the Dáil on Second Stage. Aontú has been developing this Bill for a long time. We want to see it pass through the Oireachtas as fast as possible. Car parking charges are having a critical effect on families across the country. Anybody who has had a...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: .... If the cost of living goes out of control with runaway inflation rates in this State, what you will see is our inability to compete with other European countries and other locations internationally for jobs and investment in the future. It is working against our long-term economic interests as well. The issue is certainly getting worse. The problem I have is that the Government...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I will not take long with this. We are talking about an approximate €100,000 increase in salary over a period of a year for one individual with no process or international benchmarks. Last week the Minister said this was an isolated incident that will not affect other salaries but how can we say to people seeking wage increases in the next year due to cost of living hikes that wage...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...prudence. It regularly tells people to lower their expectations with regard to pay rises. Whole sectors of the public service, such as the Defence Forces, have been waiting for pay rises for a long period and have been refused them. Yet we have this significant largesse at this critical level of the Civil Service. Is the wage performance-related?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...frustrating to see that damage being done again. Why did the specific investigation transition into a generalised investigation of leaks by the Government? Who made the decision to do that? How long does it take to carry out an investigation to establish who leaked a document to a journalist? How can it take a year to do that? It smacks of a Government that is trying to dissolve the...