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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 4 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39689/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 63. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 3 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39688/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Mr. O'Brien for being so succinct and pragmatic in his initial paper and his responses. It helps me to remind myself from time to time why we are here. We are here because of the catastrophe taking place. We are also here because the Irish people are insisting the Government, and ourselves in the Houses of the Oireachtas, are seen to do something. What they want us to do is enact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Would business people accept that if this is enacted with services covered, there would need to be some sort of a State regime initially to assist businesses in processing the necessary documentation around the area of services? Is this something that could work or could assist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: One of the most upsetting aspects of the evidence we heard yesterday was that some people do not accept that the occupied territories are illegally occupied. From IBEC's dealings with American businesses and companies, does it think they will discriminate between Israel per se and the occupied territories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Mr. O'Brien has made clear that the real, big challenge is the anti-boycotting legislation in the United States. I am conscious that we are therefore not only talking about US jurisprudence; we are talking about the US judicial system that seems to be subject more than ever before to political influence. Does that bother IBEC? Would it see that coming into play or could it see this going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Okay. Are we more likely to provoke reaction in the United States if services are included?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Mr. O'Brien's organisation has a fine reputation and I congratulate him on that. If this legislation is enacted to include goods and services, can we be assured that the membership of IBEC will be supportive of the implementation of the legislation?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Investigations (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of an internal audit investigation into an incident (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 200. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the strategy to ensure services, care and accommodation for disabled people does not move in large measure to the private-for-profit sector as has happened with elder care services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Question Heading for question(s) 201 (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 201. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a service (details supplied) does not have a single service level agreement with the HSE but rather numerous agreements with individual CHOs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39821/25]

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if she will carry out a full assessment of the financial impact of heart failure on patients with recommendations on appropriate actions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39813/25]

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 239. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to alleviate high levels of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by heart failure patients by increasing access to psychological support which only a fraction of heart failure patients can currently access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39814/25]

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 240. To ask the Minister for Health if she will seek a reduction in waiting lists of up to two years for cardiac rehabilitation programmes, which reduce death from heart disease by at least 20%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39815/25]

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking towards the removal of barriers preventing cardiac and stroke patients from returning to work on a phased basis without losing their social welfare entitlements; if he will encourage equal treatment in terms of benefits for people living with other lifelong conditions and disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is rather hard to know where to start on something that is so deeply felt and so emotional. Ms Hausdorff talked about people who truly care, and Rabbi Wieder correctly referenced the Jewish people's care for the people who are being slaughtered in this war. In being here and enacting this legislation, we are responding to an Irish people who truly care, who have been concerned about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I discussed the settlement issue with no less a person than Sulaiman Abu Ghaith several years ago. He said quite clearly to us that the Israelis would be content to talk about a two-state solution for decades while at the same time building the settlements. Everyone here has tried to highlight the utter importance of that. I have two very quick questions. What about unity in Palestine?...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to the Central Bank's second Quarterly Bulletin of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39244/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Provision (15 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the third review of Home Building Finance Ireland, which he published recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39243/25]