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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) can be examined; if a school transport ticket can be issued in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53219/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 23 September 2025, if she will confirm the length of time families ordinarily expect to wait before receiving an update following an inspector’s review; if she will clarity the process and time frame for assessment of school transport pick-up points by local Bus Éireann inspectors; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a procedure for a person (details supplied) will be expedited as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53275/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 665. To ask the Minister for Health to review issues in correspondence (details supplied) specifically in relation to Cavan Monaghan; the steps her Department has taken to fill this vacant position since January 2024; if she will provide a timeframe for recruitment of this much needed counsellor; if she will review the shortfalls in funding and numerous business cases submitted particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) who has been left waiting indefinitely for necessary orthognathic surgery, despite being placed on a priority list; the steps she is taking to address the absence of an orthodontic consultant in Dundalk since 2022; if she will arrange for this patient to be treated in another HSE facility,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (7 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who has appealed the decision regarding their SUSI grant to the Student Appeal Board; if he will provide an update on the status of this appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53442/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (2 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: The recently published Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity – a commitment in the Programme for Government – is a whole-of-government strategic response to the challenges that Ireland is facing. A key focus of the Action Plan is improving Ireland’s regulatory environment under the theme ‘Regulating for Growth and Controlling Costs.’ Measures...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (2 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: Current staffing numbers for the CEA are set out in the following table. - C.S. - Permanent C.S. - Temporary AGS Total No. of Sanctioned Positions 72 1 16 89 *Number of persons in situ 64 1 8 73 Number of vacancies 9 0 8 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (1 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a PME student (details supplied) who completed all required course work and school placements in 2024, but whose formal award was not issued until early 2025; if such cases can be deemed eligible for the PME refund scheme for 2024, given that the requirements were fully completed within that year; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (1 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review correspondence (details supplied) regarding wastewater treatment plants; and if he'll provide clarity on this matter for the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52312/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (1 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the situation regarding an applicant for an EU1 treaty rights application whose Irish residence permit has expired and whose application is currently under review; if such a person is permitted to travel to their country of origin on holiday while awaiting a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52311/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting on knee surgery in Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52201/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (1 Oct 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person will be reviewed (details supplied) whose home help supports ceased when she was admitted to hospital; the reason the service has not been reinstated since her discharge; if she will address concerns that the HSE has indicated the service is “out of tender”, with no provider yet allocated; if she will ensure that urgent...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (30 Sep 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will address the concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51510/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Rights (30 Sep 2025)

Niamh Smyth: I propose to take Questions Nos. 367, 368, 375 and 376 together. Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 prohibits the placing and making available of products made with forced labour on the EU market, as well as their export from the EU, regardless of the origin, sector, or company involved. The Regulation entered into force in December 2024 and will apply from December 2027. Ireland is fully...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (30 Sep 2025)

Niamh Smyth: The Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process, known as SCARP, has been designed to allow viable small and micro companies experiencing temporary financial problems to restructure with the agreement of creditors. The Process has limited court involvement where creditors are engaged and are positively disposed to a rescue plan. It mirrors elements of examinership but in a simplified...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (30 Sep 2025)

Niamh Smyth: The effective implementation of the EU AI Act in Ireland is critical to ensure that the guardrails are in place to ensure the transparent and ethically adoption of AI and also to drive innovation, competitiveness and productivity in delivering products and services for our economy and society. As the Deputy is aware a distributed model for implementation building on Ireland’s strong...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (30 Sep 2025)

Niamh Smyth: The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) produces guidance for consumers on a wide range of consumer matters. This guidance includes information on buying from businesses outside of the EU and buying online, including informing consumers how to check where a business is based, and advising consumers to check the policies of businesses outside of the EU. The information is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Rights (30 Sep 2025)

Niamh Smyth: My Department’s work in relation to the broader Circular Economy can be seen in the transposition and embedding of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulations, which are the cornerstone of the EU Commission’s approach to more environmentally sustainable and circular products. My Department is also working on the transposition of the both the Green Transition and the Right...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Niamh Smyth: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a case (details supplied); if he will take into account that the school in question is the only girls-only school available to them in the area; if, in view of these exceptional circumstances, he will allow tickets to be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51522/25]