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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: It seems to me from what we saw in the budget yesterday that the Government does not recognise the pressures that many of our working families and working individuals are facing at this time. Examples provided by the Government in its budget documentation yesterday tell us that a married couple with two children on a modest income of €55,000 a year will be down €50 on their...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (7 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received a business case (details supplied); when a decision on this will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53223/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 521. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she can provide a location and date of closure for the 759 childcare providers within the State who have closed their doors over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53306/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 522. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any sports clubs or sports organisations that have applied for and are in receipt of core funding; their names, and the date they received any such funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 523. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to reduce the qualifying age for the AIM programme run by her Department from two years and nine months to the age of two, given the importance of early intervention for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 355. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 894 of 30 September 2025, if she will consider including a test for prostate cancer in the annual blood test for those men aged 66 years and over; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54524/25]

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion on the cost of disability payment. I welcome the fact the Minister is in the Chamber for the debate. I will begin with an email that was sent by a constituent who has multiple sclerosis, in response to budget 2026. She writes that she cannot work and her husband's wage is above the disability threshold. She has a son in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline the new RAPID programme announced in budget 2026; and when he expects the programme to be operational by. [55400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when works to Athy train station will be completed; the scope and detail of the works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55390/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if works for the provision of additional public lighting and a pedestrian crossing to the car park at Athy Train Station will be completed; the plans if any to complete the works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55391/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if works for the provision of public toilets at Newbridge train station are complete; the scope of the works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55392/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to extend the Local Link service in County Kildare; the routes under review for expansion; the timeframes involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to extend the Leap card to further stations in County Kildare (details supplied) the timeframe involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify a matter regarding school transport for a person (details supplied) in Kildare south; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55123/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she plans to implement changes to the ‘nearest school’ rule as contained in the School Transport 2030 Review of the School Transport Scheme report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55124/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 515 of 30 September 2025, if she will consider a request for a Remote Area Grant based on (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55444/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 798. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the work being conducted by her Department on a national policy on the administration of medical cannabis and other medicines which are not licensed for use in Ireland, following the recommendations of an inquest (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: 875. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive the exam needed to practise in the medical profession here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55128/25]

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Mark Wall: I welcome our witnesses today. I understand from their introduction that nobody wants a target for child poverty but that there is a target and I get that the Minister is working towards getting rid of child poverty. How much does the Department think it will to cost to get to zero child poverty or to the target the Minister has set and how many years will it take to get there? The...