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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the recent fare changes have resulted in increased costs for passengers living in Skerries and Balbriggan and that this increase in fares is serving to heap further costs on hard pressed commuters in the middle of a cost of living crisis; if he will review this decision and allow Skerries and Balbriggan into the same...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the protection of schoolchildren, all school staff, teachers, support staff and caretakers, and their health and safety, if he is aware of serious harms being caused (and escalating) for several years now by high density, breeding gull colonies in many schools around the country; if she has noted the recent very stark...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in detail the specific "threats to public health and safety" that underpinned the legal justifications of the derogation for removal of nests and eggs of specified gull species in Balbriggan and its districts each of the years 2017 to 2023 inclusive, including i) such threats as were recognised by successive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in the context of his Department's advice to his Ministerial predecessor which resulted in the revocation of the Balbriggan derogation (2017-2023, originally granted due to "a threat to public health and safety") for removal of nests and eggs of specified gull species, will the Minister inform the deputy as to whether the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that he is no doubt aware that the State's Courts have consistently emphasised that protection of the health and safety of citizens is a paramount duty of the State within our legal framework, if he accepts, and if he will ensure, that protection of citizens' health and safety is, therefore, assuredly paramount across...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with reference to the book entitled 'Seabirds Count' a census of breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland (2015-2021), ISBN 9788416728602, (pub. Nov. 2023), and recurring acknowledgements in that book of the 'Lead Partner' role played by his Department/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in the conduct of the census...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with reference to the published book entitled 'Seabirds Count' a census of breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland (2015-2021), which deals with 25 species of seabirds, has the Minister noted that 70+ pages out of 484 pages in the book are given over to the escalating proliferation of high density urban-breeding gull...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the context of the recent and annually recurring very stark warnings in respect of Avian Flu issued by his Department, the Department of Health, the Health Surveillance Protection Centre, the Health and Safety Executive, and indeed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage/National Parks and Wildlife Service...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Health and Safety (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the context of his Department's annually recurring stark warnings to the general public with regard to Avian Flu and appropriate safety precautions and avoidance measures vis. a vis. seabirds, sick/dead birds and faecal waste and nest detritus of wild birds, and the necessary and thorough zonal biosecurity protocols promulgated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 300. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of ongoing delays in processing blind welfare allowance applications throughout the Midlands and Western regions; if she will review this matter and establish the role of the Department of Social Protection in any such delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40097/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Archives (9 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given that his Department previously advised that it was unable to locate the policy files for S.I. No. 254/1986 - European Communities (Wildlife Act 1976) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986, and was/is therefore legally non-compliant with the National Archives Act 1986 (the ’30-year rule’) in these regards, his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the considerable expense that homeowners have to incur to be admitted to the pyrite remediation scheme; if he will provide details of any supports available for homeowners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37120/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 741. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide information on access to full-time residential care for a person (details supplied); if she will provide details of the estimated time to secure this full-time residential accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37673/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 770. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 663 of 14 May 2024, has the position of CHO DNCC changed regarding plans to develop phlebotomy, x-ray or diagnostic services in Balbriggan CHN; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (2 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of increasing community employment, Tús and rural social scheme payments by €1 per week, each year for three years. [36569/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (2 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of doubling the monthly child benefit payment for a year for all recipients of the one family payment and the working family payment. [36570/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (2 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of doubling the monthly child benefit payment for a year for all households with medical card holders. [36571/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (2 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of abolishing the means test applied to foster parents in receipt of the child benefit payment. [36572/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (2 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of increasing the State pension by €1 per week per person. [36573/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (2 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of increasing all working-age social welfare payments (recipients aged 18-65 inclusive) to bring them in line with the minimum essential standards of living. [36574/25]