Peadar Tóibín

Some €100 million.

Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. Tá spreagadh an-tábhachtach don Ghaeilge. Is é an rud is tábhachtaí mar gheall ar chur chun cinn na Gaeilge sa todhchaí. Ba mhaith liom labhairt mar gheall ar fhear darb ainm Séamus Ó Fianghusa. Is as na Stáit Aontaithe é agus chaith sé a shaol iomlán ann. Throid sé ar son arm na Stát Aontaithe san Iaráic agus san Afganastáin. Ba as Dún na nGall a…

24. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [5804/25]

Today, Aontú received information from Tusla showing that during the first nine months of last year 70,000 children were referred to Tusla. That means that for the whole year it is likely 94,000 children were referred to Tusla, which is the highest figure on record. It is 30,000 more children than sat the leaving certificate last year. It is equivalent to all the children in Meath and Westmeath be…

In the first nine months of last year.

Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. Ar dtús, cuirim fáilte roimh an rún ó Shinn Féin. Caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuil go leor oibre déanta le fada an lá ag an Teachta Ó Snodaigh mar gheall ar an teanga. Is mian liom freisin smaoineamh ar a athair, a bhí ina ghníomhaire teanga le fada an lá, a fuair bás le déanaí. Déanaim comhbhrón leis an Teachta Ó Snodaigh.

Is mian liom míle buíochas agus fáilte a ghabháil le muintir Chonradh na Gaeilge agus na gníomhairí Gaeilge eile atá thuas sa Ghailearaí as an méid oibre atá déanta acu le fada an lá, le níos mó ná 100 bliain sa tír seo. Gan iad, bheadh an teanga i bhfad níos laige timpeall na tíre gan dabht. Is linne an Ghaeilge. Is seoid í an Ghaeilge. Tá ár n-ainmneacha agus logainmneacha scríofa i nGaeilge. I…

Nach bhfuil seacht nóiméad fágtha agam? Tá brón orm.

Tá 20 soicind eile de dhíth orm. Tá fadhb ann mar gheall ar na scoileanna. Tá 25% de na tuismitheoirí sa tír seo ag éileamh Gaelscolaíochta. Níl ach 6% ag fáil Gaeloideachais sa tír seo. Bíonn daoine ag caint faoi Ghaeilge éigeantach, ach leis an fhírinne a rá, tá an Béarla éigeantach ar go leor daoine. Táthar ag brú an Bhéarla síos scornaí na bpáistí sa tír seo. Ba cheart go mbeadh an Rialtas ag …

1. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the number of persons in employment in County Meath for each of the past ten years. [4460/25]

Ar dtús, gabhaim comhghairdeachas leis an Aire Stáit ar a post nua. Is bean láidir í agus guím gach rath uirthi sa phost nua.

There is a problem with the spatial development of the country. The main driver of spatial development currently is the system whereby young people who go to college cannot get a job other than in Dublin. The reality is most young people cannot afford to live in Dublin. What happens then is that they live 30 km, 40 km or 50 km from Dublin and they join the commuter belt. Evidence of this is that t…

3. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach for an update on the legislative programme. [7685/25]

I want to briefly focus on the lack of committees. That is a massive point. It is significant that we currently have a pinch point in terms of the Opposition and the Government and how speaking time is allocated in this Chamber. As a result, that is slowing down the development of committees, which are a major tool of oversight of Government activities and also necessary for the delivery of the le…

I, too, welcome the visitors from Ukraine to the Public Gallery. The war in Ukraine is first and foremost a human disaster. More than 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers are thought to have been killed in the war so far. It is estimated that 12,000 civilians have been killed also. It is estimated that 116,000 people fighting for the Russian military are also dead in the fourth year of this war. That is a de…

So it is someone else's job.

The Oireachtas spent €808,000 on a printer that could not fit into the print room. It then spent €230,000 fixing that room in order that it could be fitted in. It also spent €12,000 to store the printer until it could be installed in the print room. The Government spent €22 million on ventilators that never worked and a further €50,000 on storing them. One hundred electric buses were bought but di…

Outsourced the responsibility here.

The Taoiseach is outsourcing it.

2019.

The Government spent €5 million on the National Cyber Security Centre-----

-----while you spent €15 million on PR.

Personal responsibility is the engine of accountability and we do not have too far to look for where personal responsibility exists. In the private sector, in tens of thousands of businesses every day, people in their own work have to work to a certain standard. They have to work to ensure that they do not waste money and they have to meet the objectives of their particular business. If they do no…

-----to this absolute disgusting waste of money happening in our country-----

-----but it will not. It will spend its time blaming everybody else but itself.