Peadar Tóibín

Okay. At the meeting the Minister had with the families along with Simon Harris, it was understood that the 16 weeks were going to come to an end roughly now and that is what the families understand, which is a problem. In 2014, Temple Street said it had 500 children with spina bifida in its care. Now CHI has 254 children in its care. I want the Minister to outline why that is the case. I do not …

The cost of filling a car with petrol at the moment is €100. It is €19 above what was just five years ago. Some 60% of the cost of a litre of diesel is now tax, and 65% of the cost of a litre of petrol is now tax. This breaks down as follows: 54 cent in excise; 2 cent on the National Oil Reserve Agency, NORA; 16 cent on carbon tax; 8 cent on better energy tax; and 32 cent on VAT. Out of the €1.73 …

I have not said anything like that. The Taoiseach is arguing with someone else.

The Taoiseach is having a pretend discussion.

The Taoiseach often answers questions nobody has asked in this situation on weekly basis. It is like a pretend debate where he answers questions that nobody has actually posed to him at all and he ignores the questions that are specifically posed to him. We are not looking to decrease the tax base. We are asking him to stop increasing the carbon tax base. That is what the actual question was. Righ…

All I am asking the Taoiseach to do is to put a limit on carbon increases during this crisis.

I did, yes.

I need patience.

Three hundred thousand-----

It is still the most expensive in Europe.

In May 2018, Leo Varadkar stood in this Chamber and promised no woman affected by CervicalCheck would be forced to go to court to get justice. In 2019, he apologised for the disrespect, humiliation and deceit shown by the State to the women affected by the CervicalCheck scandal. In September 2021, I said in this Chamber, and a number of times since, that the tribunal would not work. Indeed, it ha…

11. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the first meeting of the delivery and monitoring committee for the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030, which he chaired on 8 December 2025. [14303/26]

27. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the well-being framework published by his Department. [14304/26]

I ndáiríre, níl scéal iontach ag titim amach sa tír seo mar gheall ar an nGaeilge. Tá sé ag éirí níos measa bliain i ndiaidh bliana mar gheall ar na príomhrudaí atá i gceist. Táim ag caint faoin líon daoine atá ag caint na Gaeilge go laethúil sa Ghaeltacht. I mo thuairim, is é sin an príomhchuspóir gur cheart a bheith ag aon rialtas. Tá líon na ndaoine atá ag caint na Gaeilge go laethúil ag titim …

Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin as an mBille tábhachtach seo a thabhairt os comhair na Dála. Is í an Ghaeltacht tobar na Gaeilge agus gan í ní bheidh todhchaí ag an nGaeilge ar chor ar bith i ndáiríre. Má táimid dáiríre faoin nGaeilge, ceann de na chéad rudaí atá tábhachtach ná go mbeadh clann in ann a cuid pháistí a thógáil sa Ghaeltacht. Muna bhfuilimid in ann clann a thógáil sa Ghaeltacht ní bhei…

Fágfaidh mé ansin é mar sin.

Cut VAT.

It is to increase rent.

The Office of the Confidential Recipient was founded in 2014 as a result of the Áras Attracta scandal. That scandal was exposed by RTÉ in a documentary called "Inside Bungalow 3". Disturbing undercover footage showed vulnerable adults being mistreated by some staff within that HSE-funded service. It showed inhumane and degrading treatment to residents and several people with intellectual disabilit…

What is happening here at the moment is a serious scandal. This country has a really bad record in terms of standing up for people with disabilities and learning difficulties. Many of them have been abandoned for a long period of time. State bodies have a history of defending their institutions against those individuals who have been wronged. That is a record that is peppered right throughout the …

The idea that in some way getting rid of independence and putting another individual of the HSE in control of an office for investigations that are to happen in the HSE is backwards. It is giving the power to investigate to the organisation that is accused of the wrongdoing.

That never works. Will the Tánaiste seek a reversal of this?

It is a radical move.

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The homeless crisis in Ireland has reached a historic and harrowing breaking point for so many families. The figures currently show that 16,734 people are trapped in emergency accommodation. That is a record-shattering figure, representing a 12% increase year on year. However, it is actually only a fraction of the truth if we add in rough sleepers and the 290,000 hidden homeless - the families who…