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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that can be taken to address the frequent cancellation often at short notice of the Bus Eireann Expressway No. 2 service that links Dublin with counties Wicklow and Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34074/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to improve the quality and comfort of the rail carriages on the Dublin to Rosslare rail line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34073/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average annual cost of keeping a person in prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 818. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time CORU takes to recognise professional qualifications for each of the professions it regulates where those qualifications are from outside the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 819. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the application for CORU recognition of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 820. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the total number of individuals, by grade and/or profession, employed by the HSE for each of the years 2015 to 2024, in tabular form. [34049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Trials (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 821. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in increasing the number of clinical trials across the health sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 822. To ask the Minister for Health the financial cost to date of the May 2021 cyberattack on the HSE; the measures now in place to address the exposed vulnerabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34051/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the witnesses. The last point is very important. I realise there are disputes but we should be very proud, generally, of the postal service we have in Ireland. They are provided by postmasters and postmistresses, postmen and postwomen. It is important to start by acknowledging that. There is a bigger picture around the challenges in many of our communities, particularly but not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The social role, bigger picture thing is broader than just postal deliveries. The question is who meets that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The New Zealand model is a broader social model that could be considered. Has An Post thought about it?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the witnesses for their work and contribution. Their objective is clearly to move Ireland away from fossil fuels. For that to happen, we need to have a sufficient number of renewable energy sources. My view is that we need an abundance of energy to be able to meet all of the needs of the country going into the future. Do the witnesses think as a State that we are moving quickly...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: When does Ms Donnelly reckon we might actually reach those targets if we continue going as we are at present?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Ms Donnelly is saying that we will not meet the targets by 2030. If we are to meet the onshore targets by 2032, and I still hope we can meet the offshore targets by 2032, what are the three things that Government needs to do and prioritise?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Why in Ms Donnelly's opinion are we not meeting our offshore targets?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Does Ms Donnelly think that we can still make some of those targets and by when?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: To follow on from the point regarding looking at future budgets and trying to project into the 2030s, that will be critical as we experience both a green revolution and a tech revolution, which are not mutually exclusive. On the private wires policy, it might be useful for the committee to write to the Minister to ask about the status of that policy to inform us. There are a couple of...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I appreciate that but it can be a challenge to deliver all sorts of projects on time and on budget, not just in the energy space. It is about the principle. We have to create an abundance of energy. That is the principle. We need clean energy to do everything we need to do. It is the principle of Ireland possibly using nuclear energy in the future. We have talked about offshore...