Dáil Éireann

Written answers

Some recent written answers

Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 November 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire:

405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the tender will be released for the building of a school (details supplied) given the urgent situation facing the school and the potential deadline faced vacating their current temporary accommodation. [65761/25]

Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (25 November 2025)

Joanna Byrne:

428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date for the publishing of the proposed new DEIS Plan; and when her Department intend to communicate with school principals at existing DEIS schools in County Louth regarding the proposed DEIS plus part of this plan. [65943/25]

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (27 November 2025)

Malcolm Byrne:

359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of compulsory purchase orders of derelict or vacant houses made by each of the 31 local authorities, for each year 2020 to 2024 and so far in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66904/25]

Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 November 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl:

449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns of parents who have so far failed to secure infant places in their local village school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66157/25]

Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (20 November 2025)

Sorca Clarke:

566. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children awaiting ASD assessments across the midlands, including a breakdown, by county and the average waiting time for assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64652/25]

Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 November 2025)

Brian Stanley:

897. To ask the Minister for Health if the orthopaedic Department of Tullamore Hospital is currently operating at full capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65806/25]

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 November 2025)

Michael Cahill:

565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to increase the fee paid to a Local Authority for objecting to a planning application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66146/25]

Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (20 November 2025)

Eamon Scanlon:

561. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to regulate the sale of nicotine products for oral consumption; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64167/25]

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Business Supports (20 November 2025)

Grace Boland:

478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the supports available to remote workers and small businesses in towns like Skerries who are still experiencing poor broadband connectivity; whether interim solutions are being considered while full fibre roll out is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52395/25]

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 November 2025)

Mairéad Farrell:

16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide greater detail on how domestic violence is addressed within the Action Plan on Housing Supply and Targeting Homelessness, 2025-2030, including if refuge provision or transitional housing will be provided for domestic violence and abuse survivor-victims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65496/25]

Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 November 2025)

Paul Donnelly:

510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date crime statistics for all crimes for both the Dublin west and Dún Laoghaire areas. [64735/25]

Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (20 November 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett:

179. To ask the Minister for Health the age of all 22 linear accelerators for radiotherapy across public facilities in Ireland; the expected lifetime of each machine;the specific dates by which time new linear accelerators operating past their expected lifetime will be replaced and operational; the projected age of each machine when these replacement dates will be reached; when hiring and training of staff to operate any new machines will begin; and for details of all plans in place to manage the increasing rate machine downtime until such time as older machines have been replaced. [64596/25]

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Ghaeltacht (25 November 2025)

John Connolly:

50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government faoin dul chun cinn atá déanta ina Roinn chun Ráiteas Pleanála Náisiúnta le haghaidh tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht a fhoilsú; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [65847/25]

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 November 2025)

Thomas Gould:

100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for moving to a proactive maintenance approach. [65561/25]

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Security (26 November 2025)

William Aird:

255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out his Department's current assessment of national food security, including risks to the agricultural supply chain; to outline any forthcoming initiatives to strengthen resilience across farming sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66333/25]

Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (27 November 2025)

Ruth Coppinger:

525. To ask the Minister for Health to consider providing funding for free blister packaging for patients from pharmacies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66968/25]

Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 November 2025)

Ken O'Flynn:

884. To ask the Minister for Health the approved whole-time equivalent staffing levels for Arbour House, St Finbarr’s Hospital, for each year 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by role, and the number of posts that remain unfilled in each year. [65758/25]

Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 November 2025)

Donna McGettigan:

196. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the three options outlined by HIQA into urgent and emergency healthcare services in the HSE Midwest region; her plans for their prompt implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64224/25]

Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (25 November 2025)

Michael Murphy:

625. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the IPAS contract for a facility (details supplied); his views that the High Court order quashing the Section 5 Declaration renders the current use of the site as unauthorised development under the Planning and Development Acts; and if he will instruct his Department to terminate the contract immediately given the facility no longer possesses the requisite planning permission to operate as an IPAS accommodation centre. [65360/25]

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (25 November 2025)

Liam Quaide:

37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the work of the multi-stakeholder group under his Department in respect of developer provided wastewater treatment plants in housing estates that are not in the charge of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65853/25]