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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (8 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he acknowledges that there is significant variation across local authorities in the way they enforce vacant sites legislation; the steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities apply the legislation in a uniform manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53904/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the public consultation for review of exempted development received submissions advocating for the introduction of a statutory exemption from planning permission for the installation of electric vehicle charging arms on public footpaths (details supplied); his views on applying such a planning permission exemption if the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54505/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered expanding the student Leap card (details supplied) to those enrolled in online colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54506/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Programmes (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the publication of the National Clustering Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54502/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline any plans to reform the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund evaluation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider a community media fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54504/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I will follow on from the Chair's line of questioning. Am I to take it from what Ms Duggan said that the reason Tusla has not reached the target of 110 special care beds is because there is a new obligation in respect of 528 children in IPAS accommodation?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I appreciate that Ms Duggan is going to put on notice, in respect of all the four parties, her intent to provide to this committee the court orders in those four cases. That is if I understand what has been said here correctly. Ms Duggan mentioned the 15 cases that were settled this year. In passing, she said they were not to staff. Am I to take it that what she meant is that the four...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: So they relate to staff members in Tusla. In terms of the decision not to disclose anything related to these four cases, who looked for that? Was it in Tusla's interest or in the interests of the claimants not to disclose anything to do with these cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: There was one other thing Ms Duggan said that really surprised me. She said that they managed to mediate the costs effectively in the end. Is Ms Duggan really saying that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: But given the €49,999, and when balanced against €800,000 in legal costs and a €400,000 report, how could anyone say that the process was mediated successfully?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Why did it take Ms Duggan to come in to make the decision? What went wrong here? How did Tusla allow this to go on for seven years to the point where over €1.2 million was spent on lawyers dealing with something that when Ms Duggan came in as CEO she said "Ah lads, we have got to sort this out, let us get this done"? Were there rows going on at a senior level about this? What were...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: There are very few cases, and one could probably count them on one hand, where the amount of damages awarded would be €50,000 and the legal costs associated with the case will be €800,000. It is very few. Something terrible went wrong here. It is very regrettable. The witness mentioned transparency at the outset and it is very regrettable from our perspective, and that of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: On that issue, the witnesses said earlier that there are 534 separated children in IPAS.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Ms Duggan said there is at least one child that has been missing under her definition since 2023 and another two or three in 2024. She was going back and forth about how the new system is that Tusla treats them like a child in a mainstream setting and do not take them for their word that they might be going over to the UK. I presume the kids are around 15- or 16-years-old.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: They are obviously not 18 because they would not be with the agency if they were.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: That is not really your job.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: The Department of justice has the facilities, the capacity and the Internet to allow it to look through it.