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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1926. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding disparity in pay for apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12246/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I congratulate the Minister on his return to the Department of Finance. I raise a matter related to that raised by Deputy Duncan Smith. We have heard a lot in recent years about the fact that the planet's poorest people have suffered as a result of the ravages of climate change but the geopolitical situation that we find ourselves in now has rejuvenated and turbocharged the arms race. As...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to schools, or other bodies under the aegis of his Department, who are providing educational support to women and girls in Afghanistan suffering under the Taliban regime which limits females access to education; if this is an area where more can be done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9706/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the supports Ireland can give either unilaterally, or working with European partners, to help women and girls in Afghanistan who are suffering under the rule of the Taliban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9708/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland can take, acting unilaterally or in tandem with European partners, to support the democracy building work of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the Belarussian opposition leader living in exile in Lithuania; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9698/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 225. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide the establishment figures for the permanent Defence Forces in each of the years 2000 to 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 226. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of bed spaces available in the Defence Forces system; the number currently occupied; the number not in regular use; the number capable of being made useable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9696/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of car parking spaces available at Kildare town train station prior to the current refurbishment of the car park; the number that will be available after the works are completed; what plans Irish Rail has to meet the additional demand that will arise from its being included in the new Dublin commuter zone; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position regarding the interaction between his Department and Kildare County Council with regard to the need to provide a new bridge across the River Liffey in the vicinity of Newbridge (Droichead Nua) in order to alleviate the severe traffic congestion in this rapidly growing town; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the precise arrangements in place within her Department to ensure effective engagement, on an ongoing basis, between her forward planning unit and each local authority in order to ensure that her Department can meet the demands arising from new residential developments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9692/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all funds owing have been recouped to Kildare County Council in respect of private serviced sites which they have developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9652/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail the directions given by his Department to local authorities whereby it is guaranteed that regular communication takes place between each local government planning department and the forward planning unit within the Department of Education to meet developing needs; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline directions given by his Department to the HSE in respect of engagement with each planning authority having regard to the need to monitor adequate medical services in local areas, including, for example, GP, dental and community care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the reason nurses working for the Irish Blood Transfusion Service were not included in the pandemic special recognition payment, nurses, who were at risk during the pandemic and worked right through it and if there are any plans to reconsider service to be included in any of the four cohorts for the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid per patient to opticians who are contracted to see medical card patients; her views on whether there should be a difference in the amount paid to an optician versus an ophthalmic surgeon, where in the case of the ophthalmic surgeon, who is also contracted by the HSE to see medical card patients, does extra by dilating the patient and doing a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Mar 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 691. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Mental Health Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 17. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the Institute for Peace Support and Leadership training in the Curragh proposed in the 2015 White Paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6068/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans in place for the residential units in the Curragh Camp; if he is aware that some of them are semi-derelict; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6067/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The peace-loving international community has been transfixed in recent years by the sheer horror of what we have seen happening in Palestine and in Ukraine. However, there are many other places in the world where all is also not well. Has our Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs and, indeed, our Department of foreign affairs in consultation with our European partners, been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: When the Cabinet committee on health next meets, I ask that it discuss the situation regarding the national child development centre at Kildare town, which stands partially constructed but abandoned following a decision by the Department of Justice to withhold funding committed under the immigrant investor programme, IIP, system. This is run by Sensational Kids, an organisation that...