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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: How would you know? You were not listening.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his Department officials have analysed the possibility of introducing a statutory ten-week wait time for the RSA to provide driving tests, such as what exists for the NCT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34069/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will start discussions with the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment regarding the possibility of adding bus mechanics to the critical skills VISA list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34071/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the coordinated actions that are being taken between his Department, the Department of the Climate, Energy and the Environment, and EirGrid to ensure that energy infrastructure keeps pace with the electrification of public transport in the greater Dublin area and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34072/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with the NTA and Iarnród Éireann to discuss introducing a quieter carriage on all intercity rail services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34070/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the plans to introduce a metro in Waterford, Limerick and Galway, respectively; the timeline for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34068/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the NTA prior to the renewal of a service contract for a company (details supplied) to discuss performance-related provisions in the contract terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider putting in place a common enrolment process for students in the Greystones area before the 2026-2027 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33569/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 752. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the details of funding being allocated to each cancer support service (as announced by her predecessor in October 2024), by county, in 2025; to specify whether this funding is recurrent; when each service will receive this funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33570/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (24 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 756. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE have considered implementing a standard procedure where GP practices and medical centres are in direct contact with health insurance providers so that there is no requirement for the patient to contact their health insurance provider to seek a reimbursement for the cost of their medical treatment; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The building of 106 social homes in Blessington was halted recently, which makes no sense to me during a housing crisis, where money is apparently not an issue in this case and the homes had planning permission. Will the Tánaiste explain exactly what happened with these homes and when building will start? There is no clarity as to whether or when building will start.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: GP services around the country are at breaking point. They are oversubscribed and understaffed. It can often take two or three weeks before people get to see their doctors. I spoke to a 90-year-old woman recently. She has to wait three weeks when she needs an appointment. She has a history of dizziness and falls. Oftentimes, she ends up in accident and emergency, which sends her back to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The name of the programme in question was GP Care for All. Unfortunately, last year they had to come to the Dáil to campaign to be kept open. Clearly, that small proportion of GP services that follow the model we want, and that was agreed under Sláintecare, have to fight to stay open because the Government has not been supporting them sufficiently. I will give the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown, by centre, of the average driving test waiting list times; to provide a breakdown of the number of applicants waiting to sit their driving test; the number of driving testers employed; the number of testers on part-time versus full-time contracts in each driving test centre, in tabular form; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a progress report on the battery-operated DART to Wicklow town; the timeline for its operation; the actions that have to be taken before that date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32992/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (18 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide updated figures on the installation of heat pumps in new homes, from 2021 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32924/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers impacted by the delay in payments under ACRES for 2024, by county; when the issue will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32991/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Yes, the Government is taking decisions, but it is taking all the wrong decisions. That is the problem and that is what we are saying to it. It needs to completely rethink its policy and needs to start prioritising people who want to be homeowners, people who want to be able to afford the rent rather than the investors. That is the crux of the problem. The Government's policies are being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is because successive governments did nothing for 20 years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: There are record house prices and record homelessness.