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Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak here tonight on the tillage issue. I spoke to and engaged with the IFA on this matter on a number of occasions prior to the budget. Many of the concerns and challenges relate to the significant structural pressures and extended economic factors the sector faces, including increased importation of grains and elevated input costs. While we...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: I am delighted to speak on this motion, which I fully support. I particularly support the call on the Government to develop and introduce a cost-of-disability payment. We all know that the cost of living with a disability is significantly higher than the cost of living for a non-disabled person, but emotional and psychological costs also have to be borne. They are much more difficult to...

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm deis a bheith agam labhairt ar an mBille seo anocht. Housing and the cost-of-living challenges remain to the forefront of people's concerns. It is, unfortunately, gone beyond an emergency. It is a crisis on steroids and one that is locking thousands of children into near-permanent states of homelessness every day of the week as an indictment of ineffective...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: I wish to raise reimbursement support for continuous glucose monitoring sensors. The scheme is currently only available for people who have type 1 diabetes, so patients with type 2 diabetes are excluded. I am concerned at the increased volume of emails I receive on this issue from my constituents. In particular, I was alarmed by a case where a man was undergoing treatment for cancer who...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to assist in the urgent case of a school (details supplied) waiting for project works to begin that were approved in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54649/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the serious and ongoing concerns being experienced by a school in County Offaly (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54729/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school in which no children with ‘primary care needs’ are enrolled will not receive SNA allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55150/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the NCSE will ensure that the SNA allocation process adequately identifies and supports children whose needs are not immediately visible in the classroom, for example, autistic children who mask their distress, in order that they are not effectively excluded from access to education; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason it is acceptable that level 1 needs, as identified and prescribed by qualified professionals, are not recognised within the new NCSE framework; the reason professional reports are no longer required as part of the process; who will determine the needs of a child has under this system; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the urgent case of a school in County Offaly (details supplied), that has had works approved since 2018 but which has yet to have a contractor appointed. [55302/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support the continuation of the rates subvention paid to Offaly County Council on foot of the closure of the Shannonbridge power station beyond 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55146/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: White Papers (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 715. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 30 November 2023, if he is now in a position to provide an answer to the question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55358/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 826. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene in an urgent case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54730/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (14 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 894. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of all contracts entered into by the HSE for the purchase of property or land in County Offaly from 2021 to date in 2025; the total value of such contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55357/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public works would support and fund the provision of mobility scooters so that those with conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and mobility issue can have access to sites like Emo Park, Lough Boora in County Offaly; if he is aware that such mobility scooters are provided at the entrance Dublin Zoo for just...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (9 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidance provided to planning authorities and An Coimisiún Pleanála to ensure wind turbine noise is properly managed to protect public health (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54499/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider placing a pause on all wind energy developments until the new wind energy guidelines are published; when he expects the revised guidelines to be published and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52740/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: Communities have been waiting for many years for the publication of the revised wind farm guidelines. Will the Minister pause all wind farm developments until the guidelines are published? When will we see these guidelines published?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: I am disappointed that more has not been done in terms of protecting the rights of communities. We are awaiting revised guidelines. The current guidelines give too much leeway to wind energy companies, which do not respect many communities. I commend everyone involved in the campaign relating to Mongan bog, which is a heritage site in my constituency of Offaly. This heritage site has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2025)

Carol Nolan: I know the Minister of State mentioned public consultation but many people do not take that seriously because their experience of public consultations is that they have not been respected. Constituents from north Offaly where there are issues with sound have contacted me. They have to move livestock in their fields. These people feel they are not listened to. If we are talking about...