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Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact that the Minister is looking to tie financial support for the HSE to its performance. It is something that I have made an argument for over the past number of years. I firmly believe that we need to reach a situation where the HSE is paid for the work it does for patients and the benefits it brings to patients. We would probably go further than this and tie funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently with the scope section of the Department; and the number of these appeals that have run over one year. [39778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals with the scope section of the Department with regard to State and semi-State body pensions; the average time they are ongoing; and the longest ongoing appeal. [39779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently with the scope section of the Department with regards to a dispute over the modified rate of insurance governed by either paragraph 81, 82, 83 or 84 of S.I No. 312 of 1996, Social Welfare (Consolidated Contributions and Insurability) Regulations, 1996. [39780/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners that have been unlawfully at large from prison in each of the past ten years. [39839/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 232. To ask the Minister for Health if bereavement suites and a bereavement champion are available 24/7 in each maternity hospital in the State; and if not, will she detail which maternity hospital does not have either in view of the fact mothers who tragically lose their baby just before birth or just after often have to endure the cries of healthy babies in the maternity hospital which can...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to create an overarching framework for cross-Border cancer care that would ensure that citizens on both side of the Border can get timely local cancer care (details supplied). [39883/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have presented to Crosslanes Drogheda psychiatric unit each month for the past 12 months from Navan Hospital or accident and emergency department; and the number of patients that have presented from Drogheda Hospital or accident and emergency department in each of the past 12 months. [39912/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of Crosslanes Drogheda unit. [39913/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 256. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people turned away from Crosslanes Drogheda psychiatric unit in each of the past 12 months. [39914/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have been in Crosslanes Drogheda Psychiatric Unit for more than one month, three months and six months, in the past year, in tabular form. [39915/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact that there is going to be an investigation into the handling of child sexual abuse in schools over many years. Many lives have been destroyed as a result of the abuse people suffered in schools in this State. I have a number of issues with the terms of reference of the commission. The definition of "child sexual abuse" provided is problematic. How that wording is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I asked a question in relation to accommodation and the different groups of people in Ireland. Some people are paying for accommodation and others are not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It is in terms of asylum seekers. There is a question-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: So, will there be a change in the approach?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: According to information we in Aontú have received, 49% of people in emergency accommodation in the State have come from outside Ireland. That is a significant figure and there is no doubt it is putting pressure on the housing sector. Currently, 80,000 people net are coming to Ireland each year. If we include the population growth of the State, that is the equivalent of adding the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: You crashed the economy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [34037/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 33. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [39165/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: How come there was no meeting with the delegation?