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

Eamon Scanlon: This is a significant budget. It represents a critical investment for the future, with a total expenditure of almost €117 billion, alongside an additional package of €9.4 billion. These are substantial figures that reflect the Government's commitment to enhancing services and supporting those in need. I particularly welcome the emphasis on increasing the number of residential...

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I will take this opportunity to appeal to the Minister of State to extend the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme to County Leitrim. In Leitrim, there are numerous homeowners grappling with the devastating impact of mica. Families are facing immense financial burdens and emotional stress as they watch their homes crumble before...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: I thank the Minister of State. I urge the Department to actively support a Local Link service along the route I outlined. It is essential we engage with the NTA and Local Link to conduct an engagement survey and take any necessary steps to advance this initiative. The current public transport options for students attending ATU Sligo are simply inadequate. Those students are left without a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: I am grateful for the opportunity to address a matter of great importance to my community, which is the urgent need for a Local Link service along the N17 corridor from Bellahy to Sligo. The commitment outlined in the programme for Government to increase Local Link services in rural areas to better connect villages, towns and cities underscores the Government recognition of our need for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the scheme will open for landowners to apply for funding to replant ground damaged as a result of storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54901/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the N17 Collooney to Knock road project is included in the National Development Plan 2026-2035; if phases 3 and 4 of the project will be completed by the end of 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to approve urgent funding for Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Sligo County Council to implement essential traffic calming measures in the village of Ballinacarrow, County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55094/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 349 of 17 July 2025, the status of an additional needs application from a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; the status regarding the delivery of a new toilet block; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to increase the availability of affordable housing in Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54769/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to increase the availability of affordable housing in Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54770/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions being taken to ensure that additional land is zoned for housing in Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54771/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 783. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding opportunities available under her Department's remit to secure permanent funding for a play therapist at a family resource centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55107/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 892. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the construction and delivery of a new renal dialysis unit at Sligo University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 906. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the phase 3 development at Nazareth House, Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55445/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 907. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the new primary care centre in Tubbercurry, County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55446/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 908. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the business case for Collooney primary care centre, County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55447/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 909. To ask the Minister for Health when all healthcare facilities in Sligo, including Sligo University Hospital, will use digitised health records, as set out under the digital health strategy, ’Digital for Care: A Digital Health Framework for Ireland 2024-2030’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55448/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (14 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: 910. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the urgent need for a dedicated MS Ireland community worker to serve more than 300 people living with multiple sclerosis in Sligo and Leitrim; if she is aware that counties Sligo and Leitrim are the only counties in the State without a dedicated MS Ireland community worker; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55449/25]

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the European Committee of the Regions (8 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: I never had the honour of being on the European Committee of the Regions. I offer a warm welcome to Ms Tütt and the other witnesses and thank them for appearing before the committee. I agree with Deputy Lahart. We are all out there to grab as much money as we can but where this money is coming from is not generally known by the general public. It is important that this message is...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the European Committee of the Regions (8 Oct 2025)

Eamon Scanlon: Absolutely.