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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 182. To ask the Taoiseach when the disability unit that was to be established in the Department of An Taoiseach will be put into operation. [21139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 551. To ask the Minister for Finance when a review of the inheritance tax threshold will be initiated to include those persons deceased who do not have children and wish to leave their estate to a person to ensure there is no discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the requirement for professionals who wish to extend their registration with the Teaching Council in order to provide home tuition, to undertake additional courses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19815/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the requirement for professionals in fields such as occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and psychologists to be registered with the Teaching Council in order to work as home tutors (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19816/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason qualified professionals are required to register with the Training Council; the reason home tutors working under the home tuition grant scheme for her Department need to register with an outside body such as the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if 30,000 student visas will be given out this year to international students; and the requirements to access these visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19922/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in light of the housing crisis, whether it is prudent to give 30,000 student visas to international students who will be requiring accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19923/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum applications in system under appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18647/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum applications in courts being appealed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current timeframe for initial application to final appeal from a safe country, and an unsafe country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18650/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the longest timeframe a person seeking asylum and started with application and is in courts appealing in the current cases that have not been finished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18651/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of legal aid regarding asylum applications in courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18649/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise, following many promises to the forgotten farmers, when the scheme for the forgotten farmers will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21121/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Inquiries (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2308. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the data regulations have yet to be signed off on which would finally enable the formal commencement of the Inquiry that was given Cabinet approval to establish an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate in Ireland after many years of delay on the part of successive Governments despite the various assurances...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2230. To ask the Minister for Health if a brother-in-law of a person receiving long-term care in a nursing home can be named as a family successor (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19814/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (8 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the roll-out of brown bins by waste management companies will be mandatory for households in rural areas, in line with the waste action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16638/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 376 and 584 of 5 November 2024, with the report in relation to the extra funding requested for the foundations having been sent into the Department, the status of this application; when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17336/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to a breeding grant fund (details supplied), which is funded by this Department and administered by Horse Sport Ireland, if the new requirement for applications is to provide a complete insurance policy before any funds can be accessed, and whether this has been stipulated by the Department directly; and if he will make...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Taoiseach has spoken about building 300,000 houses over the next few years and I wish him luck in that. The facts are at the moment that 85% of the towns of Ireland do not have capacity to provide extra water for new housing. We know the budget that Irish Water is working with. Its ten-year plan is to bring the network up to specification under EU regulations and is based on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The facts are that of the €10 billion that is proposed, €5 billion is to comply with EU legislation. It is to bring plants that are not compliant at the moment into compliance. Another €3 billion of it is for the Shannon project. What the Government is saying, then, is that the Government has €2 billion over five years to produce an additional 30,000 houses...