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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Communications (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 605. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met formally with the executive director of a theatre (details supplied); when the next meeting with the executive director is scheduled. [48210/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE qualified legal advisors working in his Department in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [48211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 876. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda prisoner transport vans currently in the fleet; if he will provide the same figures as of 1 September 2021, in tabular form. [48202/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 877. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 711 of 15 July 2025, if he has received the necessary information from Garda authorities to answer this question. [48203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of food products, plant products or any other products that were seized by his departmental officials at ports of entry to the State in 2024 and to date in 2025, by ports of entry, type, weight and value of products, in tabular form. [48212/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 1220. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times in the emergency departments of both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin. [48204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 1221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE administrative staff based at Leixlip Health Centre in 2024 and to-date in 2025, by grade, in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48205/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 1222. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that the HSE paid towards covering partial costs of external chiropody services for medical card holders aged over 65 who have a chiropody treatment card within CHO9 in 2024 and to-date in 2025; and the rates that the HSE pay the external chiropodists for this service. [48206/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 1223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant anaesthetists with a special interest in pain management based at Naas General Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [48207/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I will go first if that is okay.

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. There is probably very little I can say that is going be news to the Minister of State at this point. Many Members have covered, quite comprehensively, the structural flaws facing the transport scheme as it stands. It is probably difficult to comprehend any sort of acknowledgement that the scheme is getting better when it is a problem that...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: There are some children who have tickets for buses while their siblings do not. There is a real issue with school places. If children cannot get into their closest schools, they might have to travel 10 km, 15 km or 20 km to get a place in another school. However, they are not eligible for school transport. If we can join matters up, the scheme has the potential to work. Right now,...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (24 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the delays businesses and potential employees experience while applying for work permits. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - To discuss issues with public transport in Wicklow. Deputy Frankie...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (24 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: As we have finished Topical Issues, we will suspend the House.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: What does it say about our State that it cannot ensure every child has an equal, just, flourishing and fun childhood? What does it say about our Government that it refuses to ensure every child has a bed to call their own? What does it say about our Cabinet that it is doubling down on its so-called attention to the issue of child poverty, rather than facing up to the facts before our eyes?...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I look forward to supporting the campaign of Deputy Catherine Connolly, who did get the required signatures. I have spoken to many parents in Kildare about a lack of childcare facilities. I have a question. In many new housing developments in Kildare, we are seeing empty-shell units of childcare facilities. It is no problem if the Minister does not have an answer now because I can...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: This week the Government supported calls for the implementation of curfews on children and young people, for fines for parents and for a mini criminal assets bureau to be established to confiscate PlayStations, Xboxes and mobile phones. It was in a motion in the name of Deputy Gogarty. The Government allowed it through with no amendment. Tonight, RTÉ has a “Prime Time”...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (29 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 665. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 314 and 315 of 24 June 2025, if he will provide revised answers to those questions in the same manner as he did for Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 6 September 2019 (details supplied), which indicates that such a minimum effective tax rate does exist within the Irish personal income tax system, or did within the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 884. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to explain how funding for Microfinance Ireland is accounted for in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025, given that only €1,000 is assigned to MFI while it approves several million euro in loans each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41081/25]