Written answers

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [21363/24]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there have been any recent discussions with the United States authorities in relation to immigration reform, with particular reference to...
    • Passport Services
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to examine an issue regarding a passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23151/24]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times in 2023 and to-date in 2024 the Irish Consulate General based in Sydney has met with the premier of North South Wales,...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan
      37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) will be connected under the National Broadband Plan with high-speed broadband. [23106/24]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Airport Policy
      38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rules that are in place for airlines using Irish airports to ensure specialised mobility and health aids are carried on aircraft...
    • Driver Licences
      43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include driver’s licences issued in the United States among those that can be exchanged for an Irish driver’s...
    • Departmental Regulations
      45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline all current regulations around rickshaws and tuk-tuks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23164/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the new laws introduced governing the use of e-scooters. [23204/24]
    • Greenways Provision
      47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what funding is in place for the development of the Sligo, Leitrim, northern counties railway greenway; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if TII will install a zebra crossing at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Services
      49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of installing an electronic timetable with real time arrival times at bus stops that currently only have a sign. [23244/24]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of contracts tendered to public transport companies to cover routes previously covered by private transport companies from 2020...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      51. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify what measures are to be taken to ensure there is not a discrepancy between higher and lower paid workers as a result of a higher BIK being made...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      52. To ask the Minister for Finance when the VRT rules were last changed for crew carrier vehicles that can carry over five passengers; if he is aware of the implications of this extra cost on...
    • Tax Code
      53. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the bands for inheritance tax in Budget 2025 (details supplied). [23205/24]
    • Tax Exemptions
      55. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider exempting psychotherapists and counsellors from the 13.5% VAT rate, in order to improve access to mental health services; and if he will...
    • Tax Yield
      56. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount generated by the local property tax, per local authority area, in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23298/24]
    • Tax Code
      59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider plans to reintroduce further excise increases on fuel later this year; if tax receipts from fuel are ahead of schedule to date in 2024;...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Management
      60. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if repairs to a breach in the river bank at a location in County Kerry (details supplied) will be carried out; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has been consulted with and provided observations on proposals to raise the legal age for smoking, particularly...
    • Departmental Priorities
      62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 18 April 2024, for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of...
    • Work Permits
      63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the up-to-date position on the introduction of a single permit system for work permits and visas; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Business Supports
      64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if supports are being considered for SMEs in the use of AI technologies for their businesses; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Creation
      65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures being considered in increasing the current number of IDA-supported jobs for the mid Cork region; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are any legislative measures in existence or planned to provide for employment rights for contract workers within the film...
    • Immigration Policy
      68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is proposing any measures in relation to enhanced enforcement of immigration compliance in the workplace to minimise...
    • Departmental Data
      69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department collates data regarding the number of businesses found to be employing foreign nationals illegally; if so, if he...
    • Employment Rights
      70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will formally confirm the terms of a registered employment agreement variation order (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Work Permits
      71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a decision has been made on an application for an employment permit by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Funding
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the monetary contribution from her Department of €96 per primary school pupil will be maintained for the 2024-2025 academic year; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional autism classes attached to mainstream primary schools that will be opened for the 2024-2025 academic year in the Fingal...
    • School Funding
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the monetary contribution from her Department will be paid to schools for junior cycle post-primary pupils for the 2024-2025 academic year;...
    • School Accommodation
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills provide an update and her views on an outstanding payment due to a school (details supplied). [23044/24]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to the OECD review of the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Programme; the engagements she or her Department...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how citizens who qualified as a secondary school teacher prior to, when a Hons Degree and H.Dip were sufficient to qualify and register as a...
    • School Staff
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal on behalf of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be allowed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23121/24]
    • School Accommodation
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of concerns regarding school accommodation in a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23130/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of each of the 400 new special classes sanctioned for September 2024 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to an application for a new school bus route in County Roscommon (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Funding
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to the inflexibility of the free solar panel roll-out for schools scheme; if a higher than 6...
    • Special Educational Needs
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second ASD unit will be in place in a school (details supplied) for the 2024-2025 school year. [23212/24]
    • School Transport
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 5 March 2024, to provide an update and expected timeline for the review into the school transport...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • State Bodies
      91. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of financial sponsorship provided by Fáilte Ireland to events and conferences in each of the years 2021, 2022,...
    • Sports Funding
      92. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any other funding streams are open to a sports club (details supplied) considering the sports capital grants are now closed; and...
    • Traveller Community
      95. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a funding stream is available to assist in engaging children from the Travelling community in GAA. [23267/24]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Local Authorities
      96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount contributed to the local government fund, per local authority area, in 2023; the amount received, per local...
    • Building Energy Rating
      97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to the retrofitting of social housing, the number of heat pumps installed in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in...
    • Departmental Budgets
      100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the recommendation made in the Parliamentary Budget Office’s Publication 24 of 2024 are included...
    • Planning Issues
      101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23100/24]
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised guidance note on approved housing body submissions for the revised cost rental equity loan, currently being...
    • Departmental Reports
      103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing Commission Report will be published before the Dáil summer recess in July. [23110/24]
    • Housing Policy
      104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that persons such as pensioners who are eligible to purchase their dwellings under the tenant purchase...
    • Building Regulations
      105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any regulations which require that a multi-unit residential building should have adaptations made to make access...
    • National Parks
      106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the roadside fence at the new Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara Ciarraí in Inch (details supplied) will be...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Public Services Card
      107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any restrictions on a service (details supplied) that would result in public service card users only being...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection who will be responsible for the review into payments for migrants both from Ukraine and elsewhere; the Departments or State...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the backlog of cases at the social welfare appeals office where appellants are being told that this office...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) was refused; the reason this has taken nine...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the entitlement to illness benefit for those who are self employed. [23163/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of each time her Department enlisted the services of consultants in 2023 and to-date in 2024; and the purpose and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the household benefit package can be made available to all persons once they reach State pension age of 66 years; and if...
    • State Pensions
      114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he plans changes to the pension provision for people who because of the nature of their work have earlier retirement...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Policies
      115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to raise the age for purchasing alcohol, similar to her plans to raise the age for smoking, noting that according...
    • Work Permits
      116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision has been made on an application for an employment permit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Immigration Policy
      117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for justice the current Government policy regarding the status of those who have fled war in Ukraine following the lapse of the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the Irish motor insurance database application to be rolled out to all Garda members on their mobility...
    • Departmental Policies
      120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason forensic psychologists are not hired instead of clinical psychologists (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Crime Prevention
      121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to the operation of the neighbourhood watch schemes, particularly in DMR south, south central and...
    • Youth Services
      122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to the operation of Dublin city south and DÁN Garda youth diversion projects; and if she will...
    • Legislative Process
      123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the proposed timeline for the passing of the sale of alcohol and intoxicating liquor Bills; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Prison Service
      124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 14 May 2024, the number of prisoners eligible for these programmes for each year...
    • Departmental Funding
      125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a response in relation to the provision of funding for a therapy worker who was specifically named as a priority by...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding, if any, her Department has provided to Cork County Council to fund community-based CCTV security systems; if so,...
    • Departmental Programmes
      127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an application (details supplied) was withdrawn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23206/24]
    • Legislative Process
      128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the commencement of S27-47 (Part 5) of the Criminal Justice Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of houses, caravans and jet skis that have been seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau and are still under their remit...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Live Exports
      132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ban the live export of livestock for slaughter to non-EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23032/24]
    • Animal Welfare
      133. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can clarify whether all animal organisations are treated equally in terms of information being sought from them (details...
    • Grant Payments
      134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update with regard to a lime spreading grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23120/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) was not included in the Shannon Callows scheme even though they are within the Shannon SPA;...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if she has engaged with Coillte on the issue of gravel cycling events on their lands; the reason Coillte is not allowing gravel...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the plans to develop new residential places for persons with a severe disability; and if, in...
    • International Protection
      140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the planned IP accommodation provision in Longford town (details supplied). [23050/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 8 May 2024, to provide a breakdown of the capital and current...
    • International Protection
      146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the legal basis for the expenditure of Exchequer funds on the provision of international protection applicants...
    • Departmental Contracts
      149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of each time his Department enlisted the services of consultants in 2023 and to-date in 2024; and...
    • Irish Sign Language
      150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the response of his Department to a legal case where a deaf person was effectively refused...
  • Department of Health
    • Mental Health Services
      151. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing provision, per grade, of psychologists for the north Lee, south Lee, north Cork and west Cork primary care child/adolescent psychology...
    • Eating Disorders
      153. To ask the Minister for Health the work his Department is undertaking to improve inpatient access for patients diagnosed with an eating disorder; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      156. To ask the Minister for Health if the general scheme of proposed new legislation on raising the legal age for smoking will be published for public consultation and considered by the...
    • Primary Care Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the chiropody service at Shamrock Plaza Carlow has been withdrawn; if he is aware of the negative impact of same especially on diabetics in the...
    • Medicinal Products
      158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide specific information on the current status of the pricing and reimbursement application for dostarlimab (jemperli) indicated as monotherapy...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) at Galway University Hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23108/24]
    • Dental Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to address the scarcity of dentists who accept the medical card scheme which is particularly distressing and detrimental for...
    • Health Services
      162. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23127/24]
    • Hospital Inspections
      163. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 9 May 2024, the findings of the HIQA inspections carried out at St. James’s Hospital, Tallaght Hospital and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      164. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) can be rescheduled to a local clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23149/24]
    • Health Services
      166. To ask the Minister for Health can the Minister urgently enquire into the matter of a person (details supplied). [23154/24]
    • Medical Cards
      167. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 24 April 2024, to provide clarification on the matter (details supplied). [23156/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      168. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 10 April 2024, how private nursing homes are expected to fund access to private occupational therapy services for...
    • Health Service Executive
      169. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for the future purpose or use for the HSE building in Monasterevin, which currently houses the public health nurse services, when that service is...
    • Home Help Service
      170. To ask the Minister for Health the protocol in place for paying approved home care providers when home care visits are cancelled by the client; if consideration has been made to pay...
    • Health Services Staff
      171. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in advancing recommendation ten of the Cross-Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group, to develop a competency framework that...
    • Home Help Service
      172. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in CHO7 for those approved for home support and waiting for services to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23161/24]
    • Dental Services
      174. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of dentists in Wicklow declining to see patients on medical cards (details supplied); what the obligation is to provide dental practices when it...
    • Hospital Charges
      175. To ask the Minister for Health the amount generated through parking charges at public car parks within Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [23182/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      176. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget allocation to Mercy University Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [23183/24]
    • Primary Care Services
      178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE physiotherapist roles currently within children's primary care services in CHO5. [23185/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons and orthopaedic registrars based at Roscommon University Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in...
    • Departmental Data
      181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of violations of the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014 in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [23188/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      182. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [23189/24]
    • Emergency Departments
      183. To ask the Minister for Health the number of major treatment bays and resuscitation bays within the accident and emergency department of Portlaoise Regional Hospital in the years of 2023 and...
    • Hospital Facilities
      184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded ICU beds at Galway University Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [23191/24]
    • Primary Care Centres
      185. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO6 that currently have an audiology clinic based within PCC; the number of WTE audiologists based in each primary care centre...
    • Disability Services
      186. To ask the Minister for Health if the CHO2 adult ADHD clinic is fully staffed; the number of vacancies, if any, that exist in CHO2 adult ADHD services; and the current caseload of the team...
    • Hospital Staff
      187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in foetal medicine at the Rotunda maternity hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [23194/24]
    • Home Help Service
      188. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to each external agency within CHO9 to provide home help services on behalf of the HSE in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Hospital Staff
      189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologists based at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Emergency Services
      190. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE rapid response vehicles based in Limerick on a 24-7 basis in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024. [23197/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric interventional radiologists based at CHI Temple Street in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Facilities
      192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded and staffed critical care beds at University Hospital Waterford in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [23199/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      193. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant anaesthetists based in Naas General Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [23200/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      196. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE recruitment embargo will be lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23207/24]
    • Disease Management
      197. To ask the Minister for Health what procedures and expert advice are available and in place to a person whose child has been diagnosed with sprix (details supplied); what effects the...
    • Patient Transport
      198. To ask the Minister for Health if a bus pick-up will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23231/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychiatrists based in each primary care centre within CHO7 in 2023 and to-date, in 2024, in tabular form. [23246/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmic surgeons attached to each hospital part of the RCSI Hospital Group in the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in...
    • Primary Care Services
      201. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO9 that currently provide phlebotomy services, in tabular form. [23248/24]
    • Departmental Programmes
      202. To ask the Minister for Health the locations currently where the Pathfinder Programme is currently available; and the plans to increase this number of locations where the Pathfinder...
    • Mental Health Services
      203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to the north Lee, south Lee, north Cork and west Cork primary care child/adolescent psychology services between 1 May 2023 and 1 May...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 27 February 2024 (details supplied), if he can confirm how much of the €67 million in...
    • Employment Rights
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adult literacy tutors that opt not to convert to adult educator under the terms of the new contract being offered by the Department will...
    • Education Policy
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had directly with secondary schools in promoting traditional trades and apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Student Accommodation
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to ensure sufficient supply of student accommodation for third level students for 2024/2025; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an increase in funding to third level institutions under the student assistance fund; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of an anomaly with regard to staff employed at a location (details supplied) regarding apprenticeship education; if he accepts...
    • Grant Payments
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 701 of 23 April 2024, to provide further detail in relation to the upcoming roll-out of the SUSI grant...
    • Education and Training Boards
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many instructors are employed by Dublin-Dún Laoghaire Education Training Board to conduct cybersecurity associate level 6 apprenticeship...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 2023 and 2024 Capital Budget allocation to the Higher Education Authority for works projects under the higher education capacity building...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Tidy Towns
      218. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department will consider delaying adjudication of the Tidy Towns competition until after the removal of election posters, that...