Peadar Tóibín

What does that mean?

Calling it correcting homework is an understatement. I think the Tánaiste knows that, given that we could literally spend a full day with a litany of examples of overspending and waste across the whole range of the delivery of public services. Inertia, waste and blame-shifting are the characteristics of this Government. These are serious issues. Why? It is not only because it is incinerating taxpa…

The Tánaiste is directly responsible for the costs and for the fact that this infrastructure is not operating for the children who need it today.

Literally inflammatory.

Your excuse is they are worse. That is hardly an answer.

I welcome this motion from Independent Ireland. It is very well written and if implemented would make a significant difference to carers and people who are cared for. Care is the most valuable service delivered in Ireland now. First and most significant, it is most valuable in human terms. The relationships we have with people are actually the most important things that exist. When we strip everyt…

Israel and its government have murdered 53,000 people. The grim horror of that sentence is still incredible when you think about it. Hamas has murdered 1,700 people, is a terrorist organisation and must release all hostages. However, Israel is killing 51 people for every person Hamas has killed. My colleague, Deputy Collins, is right that it is not about numbers, but it is about proportion and 51 …

This is one of the areas where there is a large chasm between where the people of Ireland are and where the political establishment in Leinster House sits. Most people want to be able to provide shelter for those who are fleeing war and violence and to be able to help people, especially from Ukraine, given the horrendous war happening there. However, most people want a level of fairness in the sys…

I welcome the transfer of some powers and funding away from the Department of children to the Department of Justice. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth had a lot on its plate with Tusla, childcare, mother and baby homes, Green Party leadership and failed Government referendums in the previous Government. There is no doubt about that. There were huge problems in…

Yes. It is both ways.

The Taoiseach is injecting confusion into the hip operation scandal. Yesterday in the Dáil, I asked him about the letters that were sent to parents covering a period as far back as 15 years ago. I asked on what basis those parents were being sent the letters if they were not part of the two-year audit. In his answer, the Taoiseach gave a number of contradictory statements. He said first of all tha…

There are multiple different reasons for these letters being sent out to the parents and they are contradictory.

Incompetence is the defining characteristic of this Government, which has displayed a complete inability to deliver services. In many areas, the USSR did a better job of delivering services than this Government. Right now, delivery of a whole range of services is grinding to a halt across the country. There are places in this country where you cannot get clean water from the taps. The electricity…

I, too, offer my deepest sympathies and the sympathies of Aontú to the family of Kevin Flatley. This is a disaster for Kevin's family and friends. It is also a disaster that 90 gardaí have lost their lives in the line of duty since the foundation of the State. Many families fear when their parent or loved one goes out to work that they might not see them come back. Yet, those people still commit t…

-----sure this never happens again, surely there is an urgency in seeing to it that the audit is completed as soon as possible. When will parents know what happened to their children?

There are major problems in the health service that the Government can act on now that have led, in part, to the difficulties we are suffering. There is not proper data collection in our health service at the moment. There is not a proper digital patient number in the health service. We do not have a good register of information in the health service. The capture of outcomes is not valued in the h…

It is not getting to the front line.

Not what is necessary.

Some 50,000 operations were cancelled-----

I have a Bill if all the leaders of the parties want to sign it.

Revenge for 2010.

Can I put on the record of the Dáil that I have sent an email to the leaders of all political parties to ask them to sign a Bill that would look for voting rights for Irish citizens in the North of Ireland? It is an issue bigger than any political party and we should not put party first in relation to it. We received a parliamentary reply showing Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Ministers have quashed o…

Yes, a ten-year period.

There are 140 that have been quashed this year so far.

It is 140 this year.