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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Willie O'Dea: In the programme for Government, the Government has committed itself to improving the situation in relation to income tax, disability, education, justice, etc. In order to bring about that improvement, it has committed to do these things over a five-year period. It was quite wrong for the speaker who has just left to say that the Government broke its promise in not getting rid of carer's...

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

Willie O'Dea: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to revise the first home scheme house value limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53577/25]

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

Willie O'Dea: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussion he has had with local authorities regarding the vacant housing turnaround times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to an application (details supplied) for disability allowance to be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54023/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (2 Oct 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to open more primary care centres and expedite the delivery of the existing pipeline to construction. [52384/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Oct 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures that have been carried out in Northern Ireland under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52383/25]

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Willie O'Dea: Like everybody else, I welcome the efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. I hope the present peace agreement takes hold. I am very disturbed by reports that the Israeli Prime Minister has unilaterally sought to change certain fundamental aspects of that agreement. If so, he is acting in very bad faith. The Israelis say they have achieved their war aims but I am not entirely sure what...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Willie O'Dea: During the week, the HIQA report on the inadequate accident and emergency services at University Hospital Limerick was published after HIQA had considered the matter for 16 months - it took 16 months to produce the report. The report told us what we had already been telling the Government for several years. It refers to a significant inpatient bed deficit in University Hospital Limerick and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding a jobseekers application which was submitted in June 2025 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51400/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to reform the disability allowance payment and remove anomalies in the current means test for the payment. [50675/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Development Plan (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the additional funding provided to his Department under the recent National Development Plan review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a new mid-west regional enterprise plan will be published soon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50465/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the proposed annual cost of the disability support payment. [50674/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing funding to an organisation (details supplied) who provide trained therapy dogs to schools, resulting in improved attendance and literacy levels for children with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider offering all persons in receipt of transitional jobseeker's allowance the choice to have their payment paid directly into their bank account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 329. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider providing funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51077/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 355. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to deal with the delays in completing coronial autopsies caused by the severe shortage of pathologists in the mid-west; her plans to deal with the proposed withdrawal of coronial autopsies from the end of 2025 in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51082/25]

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: I apologise, as I have a frog in my throat. I come here today to bring something to the Minister's attention and, more importantly, to the attention of workers who have not yet been signed up to a company pension scheme. It has come to my attention that there are a number of brokers and pension providers who are approaching companies, particularly small ones, to advise them that they can...

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Sep 2025)

Willie O'Dea: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason job sharing teachers who apply for carer's benefit are being refused as they are deemed not to work enough hours, even though they work well beyond their timetabled hours, including for the substitution and supervision scheme, yard duty and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50688/25]