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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider engaging with management of local authorities to examine the extent of uncompleted housing estates with infrastructural deficits beyond the resources of the local authority and available bonds; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are people living in unfinished housing estates with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: 642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to examine the implications of the new regulations (details supplied) to be introduced in March 2026 whereby smaller landlords with three or fewer tenancies can terminate a new rolling six-year tenancy on the grounds of intending to sell at the end of the 6-year period. [55468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: 643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that small landlords in rural areas (like the North West) are leaving the market in anticipation of the new regulations, reducing the amount of available rental properties putting further pressure on an existing limited market; if he has engaged with stake holders including auctioneers and letting agents to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (14 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will issue a statement to person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54918/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: Last Sunday night, 400 premises in the south Leitrim region were without electricity after Storm Amy. Power was restored more quickly this time but only because other regions were less affected, allowing manpower to be redirected there. People living in the area, with its considerable proliferation of forestry through which electricity lines run, realise this is the reason for the problem....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: Mr. Friel, Mr. Nolan, Mr. O'Mahony and Mr. Gavan all very welcome. It is great to see Mr. Gavan here again. When his beloved Spurs won the Europa League this year, I was thinking of him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: I was delighted for him and for Spurs. I apologise for being late. The British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly will meet in London this weekend. We will bring together politicians from Stormont, the Oireachtas, the House of Commons, Scotland, Wales and the devolved areas. It will involve a lot of good work. I was off with officials and all my colleagues to be briefed. I am sorry to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Frank Feighan: We can do that. The Co-Chair of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, Deputy Brendan Smith, can ask the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (30 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide clarification on the payment under the hot meals suppliers programme to specific schools (details supplied) in counties Leitrim and Roscommon. [51933/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (30 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 682. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the modern, state of the art courtroom and facilities at Castlerea prison continue to lie idle and unused, resulting in prison staff and prisoners having to regularly undertake a 5-hour round-trip to attend Letterkenny district court instead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51385/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: The witnesses are very welcome. I thank them for the great work they are doing. We are very proud of the advances they have made over the past number of years across the country. Two of my colleagues from TUS and the ATU, Mr. McGarvey and Professor Cunnane, are present. ATU was the first university north of the Dublin-Galway line since the formation of the State. For me and many others,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider setting up a funding mechanism within his Department to deal with the challenge of unfinished housing estates, where the existing or exhausted cash or insurance bonds fall well short of the required funds to deal with structural, sewerage and water deficits (details supplied). [50912/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Laboratories (25 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the regional veterinary laboratory redevelopment plan (details supplied), specifically with regards to the existing Sligo site; if the development of a new laboratory in Sligo is still planned for phase two; when is phase two due to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50856/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services (24 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: The radiotherapy bus, known as the "cancer bus", provides a daily service for patients travelling from Sligo to Galway University Hospital for radiotherapy treatment. The current bus is not fit for purpose as there is no wheelchair access and no toilet facility. Wheelchair access goes without saying, really. It is a bus providing a service for people who are ill and should surely have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services (24 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I am happy that more than 80% of the funding required for the bus has been secured. I really thank the local charity for raising €50,000 through fundraising efforts. This has gone on far too long. The Department is committing to ongoing engagement with the HSE and partners to find a solution that works for patients. This is going on for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding the provision of an autism unit and extension in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50724/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (23 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the waiting times for applications under the SEAI warmer homes scheme (details supplied); and his views on whether these delays are acceptable. [49718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Local Authorities (23 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of local authorities that own land liable to residential zoned land tax; the amount of revenue raised through local authorities since the introduction of the tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49582/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who will receive an increase in their carer's allowance payment when the changes to the means test takes effect in July 2025, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50466/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Sep 2025)

Frank Feighan: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families who have benefitted from the newborn baby grant since it was introduced, by county; if he has any plans to review the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50467/25]