Written answers

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the president of Poland. [36706/24]
    • Climate Action Plan
      20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the 2024 Climate Action Plan progress report published by his Department on 3 September 2024. [36708/24]
    • Cabinet Committees
      26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education and Disability will meet next. [36724/24]
    • Northern Ireland
      34. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of his Department's shared island unit. [36729/24]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Provision
      55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on future plans for the development of cost rental housing units; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Strategic Infrastructure
      59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if data centres, as well as LNGs, will be designated as strategic infrastructure under the Planning and Development Act 2000;...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation, and on how...
    • Rental Sector
      61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a deposit protection scheme could be established to protect renters from having their deposits unlawfully withheld; and if...
    • Defective Building Materials
      68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Government will acknowledge the need for a 100% redress scheme for homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks;...
    • Fire Safety
      71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the interim fire safety scheme for multi-unit developments with defects, including an update on both the...
    • Energy Conservation
      74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans to ensure the retrofitting of all social housing stock by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42940/24]
    • Housing Provision
      75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the provision of affordable housing in Mayo; when the scheme will be extended to all areas in Mayo; and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to introduce legislation to retrospectively apply the latest SCSI square meter costs to house recipients of the...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that, in response to the Taoiseach’s recent comments attributing increased numbers of people in emergency...
    • Housing Policy
      78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered extending the remit of approved housing bodies to include a proportion of homes for affordable purchase;...
    • Legislative Measures
      81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out any updated commencement schedule for the Planning and Development Act 2023, in tabular form. [42862/24]
    • Vacant Properties
      82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant property refurbishment grant applications received to date by each local authority; the number processed...
    • An Ghaeltacht
      83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government maidir leis na Treoirlínte Tithíochta Gaeltachta, cé mhéad cruinniú a bhí ann idir oifigigh...
    • Housing Provision
      84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if action will be taken to increase the delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental housing; and if he will make a...
    • State Properties
      85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the State properties in Dublin 8, 10 and 12 that have been identified by the Land Development Agency to have social, affordable...
    • Defective Building Materials
      87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the defective concrete block remediation scheme in Clare; if he has plans to expand eligibility for the scheme;...
    • Housing Provision
      88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what is being done to ensure the provision of affordable housing in Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Staff
      89. To ask the Taoiseach the current number of staff working in the shared island unit; the full year cost of increasing staffing levels by 5%, 10% 15% and 20%, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      90. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details of all social enterprise organisations or bodies funded by his Department in each year from 2021 to date in 2024; the amount allocated in funding to...
    • Office of Director of Public Prosecutions
      91. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details of the funding allocated to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution in Budgets 2015 to 2025. [42257/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      92. To ask the Taoiseach the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43152/24]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • International Agreements
      93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the integration of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the Pact of the Future agreed at the UN General Assembly...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade noting Ireland’s tradition of human rights advocacy, if the crisis in Sudan has been raised in bilateral meetings with the United...
    • Foreign Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps if the Government proposes to formally recognise the claim of Morocco to sovereignty in Western Sahara. [42469/24]
    • Passport Services
      97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to review a passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42515/24]
    • Defence Forces
      98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with the United Nations to ensure assistance is provided to the coroner in examining the circumstances of the death...
    • Climate Change Policy
      99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role Ireland is playing in international efforts to combat climate change, particularly through its participation in the UN Climate...
    • Consular Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail any recent improvements or plans to expand consular services for Irish citizens, especially in light of increased travel...
    • Passport Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport of a person (details supplied) can be returned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42633/24]
    • Departmental Projects
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform,...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the expenditure on overseas development aid (ODA) in 2024 and allocated expenditure in 2025; how it compares to the 0.7% target of gross...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average full year cost of opening a new mission abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42839/24]
    • Emigrant Support Services
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount allocated to the emigrant support programme in the years 2020 to 2024 and expected expenditure in 2025, in tabular form; the cost...
    • Departmental Funding
      107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the allocation to the reconciliation fund in 2024; the allocated expenditure in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42842/24]
    • Passport Services
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff employed in the Passport Service; the cost of increasing staffing levels by 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%, in tabular form; and...
    • EU Programmes
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail Ireland’s contribution in 2024 to the European Peace Facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42845/24]
    • Passport Services
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) who is having ongoing difficulties obtaining same since their...
    • Foreign Policy
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on relations between Ireland and Kuwait. [43127/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43144/24]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Pension Provisions
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when retired An Post workers will receive the 2% pay increase due to them ten months ago; and if he will make a...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to specify the agreed or provisionally agreed auction contracts under RESS 1, RESS 2, RESS 3 and RESS 4 respectively;...
    • EU Directives
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the ban of polystyrene used for insulation as it is banned under the single use plastics...
    • Waste Management
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that some bin collection companies have raised their collection fees, referring to an increase in the...
    • Departmental Funding
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for the breakdown of the funding provided for community energy grants in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the Government's plans for sustainable energy infrastructure in County Kildare, including support for solar...
    • National Broadband Plan
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress being made with the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan in north Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the issue around legacy ghost estates now being reactivated, where the building work was completed...
    • Waste Management
      125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how car batteries are finally recycled, and what happens to each of their individual parts; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Fuels
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the latest developments in relation the development of synthetic fuel as a possibility to use as a...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high speed fibre broadband will be made available at an address (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Projects
      128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...
    • Post Office Network
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider appointing an ombudsman to deal with issues between An Post and Postmasters; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authorities
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a schedule of public funding provided to each local authority in respect of each year since 2020. [42792/24]
    • Energy Policy
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the costs incurred by his Department in the development, creation and completion of the energy security...
    • Public Sector Staff
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full year costs to increase the number of WTE fisheries officers employed by Inland Fisheries Ireland to...
    • Telecommunications Services
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any plans to introduce legislation to facilitate an SMS scam filter to better protect consumers from mass...
    • Public Sector Staff
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the remuneration package for the chief executive officer of a company (details supplied), the basis for any recent...
    • Vacant Properties
      135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties....
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is the intention of the Minister’s officials in the Inland Fisheries Division and senior management at...
    • Departmental Schemes
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to confirm the date on which the State aid approval for the renewable electricity support scheme will expire; whether...
    • Departmental Data
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of plastic bottles or aluminium cans sold in the State since the introduction of the deposit return scheme...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Functions
      143. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he and his Department are in a position to provide finance to a medical health scheme (details supplied); his views on the scheme; and if he...
    • Defence Forces
      144. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is proposing to review current duty rates in the Defence Forces; the last time these duty rates were reviewed; and if he will make a...
    • Budget 2025
      151. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a breakdown of how the recent €100 million increase in the defence budget for 2025 will be allocated, particularly for...
    • Defence Forces
      153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he is taking to further improve pay and working conditions for lower-ranking Defence Forces personnel, especially given the ongoing...
    • Departmental Projects
      154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in...
    • Departmental Properties
      155. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43139/24]
    • Legislative Programme
      156. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the necessary legislative provisions to implement the working time directive will be enacted with consideration for previous announcements...
    • Defence Forces
      157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to confirm that the agreed time-off-in-lieu measures and overseas reunion flights, approved by him in February 2024 under the working time...
    • Pension Provisions
      158. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will advocate for the introduction of an occupational supplementary pension for post 2013 Defence Forces personnel, to bridge the four...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Regional Airports
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that Donegal Airport will not be subject to any reduction in flights as a result of passenger caps; if he has met with the...
    • Rail Network
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any plans to have works carried out at Mallow train station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why people are not allowed to use the toilet facilities on new buses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rail Network
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any plans to install toilet and shelter facilities at the Red Cow Luas stop; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what further progress has been made on the Mallow relief road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42378/24]
    • Traffic Management
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if enactment of the national speed review for local roads can be postponed until further guidelines are received by local authorities...
    • Regional Airports
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the impact that the lack of extra flights in Dublin Airport will have on the economy in County Kerry if Kerry Airport loses...
    • Electric Vehicles
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider an independent review of the risks posed by e-scooters considering they are not banned in many EU countries; and if...
    • Airport Policy
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the challenge which the cap on flights poses to charters to attend major sporting events over the coming months, both...
    • Public Transport
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide first and full-year costs for the free public transport scheme to children aged 15 and under. [42538/24]
    • Transport Policy
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the development of transport infrastructure in Kildare, particularly in relation to plans to upgrade the M7...
    • Cycling Facilities
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve cycling infrastructure in north Kildare to encourage more sustainable modes of transport; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on plans to electrify the rail line between Kildare town and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to increase funding for rural transport links in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42574/24]
    • Active Travel
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on funding and timelines for the development of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure as part of the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the ten-year rule for taxis not covered by the existing extension, starting with 151-registered vehicles,...
    • Bus Services
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will change the 167 route to serve Drumconrath, County Meath (details provided); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason why the wheelchair accessible grant scheme 2024 from the NTA is closed to applications; and the steps his Department is taking...
    • Taxi Regulations
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 18 September 2024, when a response will issue to this Deputy from the NTA. [42664/24]
    • National Car Test
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected by the national car testing authority in testing and retesting fees from 2021 to date; how much of this related to...
    • Active Travel
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on an active travel project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42673/24]
    • Driver Licences
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that no verification of non-EEA driver licenses is required by the foreign driving license authority to exchange the license...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...
    • Military Aircraft
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of international media reports that a company (details supplied) have illegally transported munitions of war from the US to...
    • Regional Airports
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of investment provided for Ireland West Airport Knock since 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42774/24]
    • Driver Test
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the waiting time for driving tests in Castlebar, Ballina, and Tuam; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Active Travel
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on active travel projects in Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42776/24]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any planned pension increases for those on a CIÉ widowers pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42781/24]
    • Public Transport
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when free travel for children under nine years of age, announced in Budget 2025, will come into effect; and if he will make a statement...
    • Regional Airports
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 7 February 2024, if his Department makes a formal distinction between receipt of a digital...
    • Road Network
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the long term planning in respect of the N25/M25 road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42808/24]
    • Cycling Facilities
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what schemes are available for schools and sports clubs to apply for funding for bicycle stands and shelters. [42816/24]
    • Dublin Bus
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if every effort can be made to increase the capacity to the C Spine route from Dublin city centre at peak times, with particular...
    • Forestry Sector
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the number of landowners across the country who have trees which are non-commercial plantations impacted by ash dieback...
    • Bus Éireann
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new bus drivers recruited by Bus Éireann in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the number of bus drivers who left Bus...
    • Bus Services
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding required to fully implement the remaining parts of the BusConnects Dublin Programme. [42909/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide for several areas and categories (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which his Department has provided...
    • Road Projects
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of community involvement scheme roads repaired in each Cork county municipal district in each of the years 2021 to 2023 and to...
    • Public Transport
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether there have been any feasibility studies on the use of bilevel rail cars on Irish Rail services; and if he will make a statement...
    • Transport Policy
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Cork city northern transport project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42982/24]
    • Road Signage
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason stop signs which are positioned at the side of roads and printed onto the road itself, in Gaeltacht areas in County Donegal...
    • Bus Services
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of the new bus shelter recently constructed in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to capital projects in Bishopstown, Wilton, Glasheen and Model Farm Road area of Cork, from his...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the position regarding potential changes to the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme; when it can be implemented through a new...
    • Departmental Properties
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43154/24]
    • Departmental Bodies
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the work of the sustainable aviation fuel task force; the recommendations it has provided; the date for the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the approximate roll-out time of charging infrastructure at depot sites, as announced in Budget 2025, as...
    • Rail Network
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will carry out a feasibility study into the proposed M1 rail line between Drogheda and Clongriffin stations, as...
    • Active Travel
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is the case that funding has been withdrawn for the pedestrian and cycling scheme in Ratoath, County Meath; the level of funding...
    • Air Services
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding his support of connectivity and air access to the whole island, if he will please provide an account of the number of...
    • Driver Licences
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 9 September 2024, if the review for a driving licence exchange agreement with the Canadian...
  • Department of Finance
    • Ukraine War
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance Ireland’s contribution to the Ukraine Facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42846/24]
    • Fuel Prices
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the likelihood of Ireland having the most expensive diesel in Europe once the carbon tax increase is levied on 1 October 2024; his plans to...
    • Tax Code
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance how the move to decarbonise Ireland’s economy will necessitate a change in the country’s taxation model; if he is in favour of the establishment...
    • Illicit Trade
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the sale of illicit tobacco products online; and to clarify if social media platforms can be mandated to delete profiles engaging in this...
    • Tax Collection
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct Revenue to remove interest on a repayment from a school (details supplied). [42407/24]
    • Banking Sector
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance about the provision of assistance to individuals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42419/24]
    • Tax Code
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the review of Ireland’s ETF investor taxation regime announced by his predecessor and due to be completed by Summer 2024; and...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance what is being done to deal with the exorbitant interest rates being charged by vulture funds to mortgagees, which is causing a great deal of stress for many...
    • Tax Data
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the full year cost of reducing capital gains tax to 30%, 28% and to 25%. [42501/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to increasing tax relief on medical expenses currently set at the standard rate of tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm that the VAT applicable to an NCT test and retest is 23%; if he can reduce this VAT rate, and if he will do so; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Credit Unions
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will engage with the Central Bank to ensure that community groups are not inadvertently prevented from holding an account with credit unions (details...
    • Universal Social Charge
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance where people have worked for a number of years and are now on a pension and continue to pay the USC on their pensions and on their new employment in recent...
    • Tax Exemptions
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first- and full-year cost of changing the treatment of payments to craft apprentices by education and training boards so that they are not...
    • Departmental Projects
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of...
    • Budget 2025
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an exhaustive list of all Budget 2025 submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42728/24]
    • Regional Development
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail any information on the role of the 213 FY2022 ISIF investments in advancing balanced regional development, and a broad commentary on whether the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of social enterprise representatives that are on departmental committees or advisory groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42891/24]
    • Tax Rebates
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the circumstances under which certain drivers are entitled to a refund of VRT due to disability; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any plans to prevent non-regulated entities from directing online financial services and investment advertising at Irish consumers; and if he...
    • Public Sector Staff
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of WTE tax specialists employed by the Revenue Commissioners, at the grade of HEO, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [43124/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43143/24]
    • Tax Yield
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated from fuel taxation from 2019 to the present; the proportion of the overall tax take this comprises; the expected revenue from...
    • Official Engagements
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he has met with a group (details supplied) since being appointed to his position; if not, when he intends to meet the group; and if he will make a...
    • Financial Services
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance the average wait times for complaints with the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman to be actioned and a decision reached for each year since 2020, in...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule in respect of the number of instances in which the Revenue Commissioners placed tracking devices on vehicles as part of...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a reply will issue to correspondence regarding lodges in the Phoenix Park (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Flood Risk Management
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when works will be carried out at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42373/24]
    • Data Protection
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or his officials have met with the commissioners or senior staff of the Standards In Public Office Commission to discuss data...
    • Traffic Management
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures being taken to address the enforcement of speed limits in areas with high pedestrian traffic, such as the Phoenix Park; and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the spending on constructing and refurbishing Garda stations and offices in each year between 2016 and 2024 inclusive, in...
    • Flood Risk Management
      264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if flood prevention measures will be expanded in areas of County Kildare prone to flooding, such as Maynooth and Sallins; and if he will...
    • Office of Public Works
      266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the dwellings and habitable structures in the Phoenix Park under the ownership of the Office of Public...
    • Departmental Projects
      267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the details of costings provided to his Department, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review...
    • Office of Public Works
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 98 and 99 of 20 June 2024, when a reply will issue; the criteria by which contractors are removed...
    • Regional Assemblies
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the balanced regional development agenda is mainly advanced in the National Development Plan through the highly concentrated...
    • Regional Development
      270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 26 October 2023, to provide a detailed schedule, as complete as his Department has available...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are any plans or projects within his Department to improve the level of detail made public with respect to capital expenditure...
    • Regional Development
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail the NUTS3 regional economic evaluation and analysis his Department uses in its evaluations. [42813/24]
    • Office of Public Works
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to put out a tender for the provision of mobile coffee and light snack dock at a location (details supplied). [42900/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43149/24]
    • Public Sector Staff
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is any provision for an ex section 38 staff member to bring their grade and pension with them when taking up a post in a...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Employment Rights
      277. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person is entitled to pay for bank holidays and public holidays accrued whilst receiving illness benefit. [42374/24]
    • Departmental Bodies
      278. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the work of the retail forum; the number of times the forum has met to date; and if he will make a statement...
    • Business Supports
      279. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on changes of funding eligibility for digital grants and consultancy to ensure more simplified, accessible, and broadly...
    • Departmental Schemes
      280. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount being allocated to the seed and venture capital scheme in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42454/24]
    • Job Creation
      281. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how his Department is supporting job creation in Kildare, especially in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Museum Projects
      282. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department conceived the proposal to commission the delivery of a children’s museum/interactive science centre;...
    • Departmental Projects
      283. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...
    • Public Sector Staff
      284. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE forensic accountants employed by IDA Ireland in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [42897/24]
    • Business Supports
      286. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration could be given to the introduction of a grant to aid disabled entrepreneurs in hiring appropriate assistance, in...
    • Departmental Budgets
      287. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of the €644 million allocation in 2025 for capital expenditure under the jobs and enterprise programme...
    • Work Permits
      291. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the case of an individual (details supplied) who has secured employment in Ireland and is currently waiting for a...
    • Climate Action Plan
      292. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to the €300 million to drive the decarbonisation of manufacturing sectors that he announced in June 2024, the...
    • Departmental Properties
      293. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43141/24]
    • Energy Policy
      294. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he agrees that energy policy is currently too widely dispersed across various Government departments; whether he agrees with...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available to schools to build sensory rooms for children with autism and ADHD that does not have an autism unit. [42916/24]
    • School Staff
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many students must be in a secondary school in order for the school to qualify for a second secretary; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Funding
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an estimate of the first- and full-year cost of increasing school capitation rates by 10, 20 and 30%, respectively. [42386/24]
    • School Enrolments
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm the number of classes in Ireland with more than 30 students enrolled, and where there is no partial or full-team teacher allocated to...
    • Home Schooling
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm the number of post-primary schools currently operating without a home school liaison co-ordinator; and the estimated first- and...
    • School Staff
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of employing one additional administrative officer. [42389/24]
    • Third Level Education
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first- and full- year cost of increasing the number of educational psychology students to include ten more students. [42391/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first- and full-year cost of expanding the active school flag programme to include ten more primary and post-primary schools, respectively....
    • School Staff
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional teaching posts which will be in schools from September 2025, relative to the 2019/2020 school year. [42397/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that will be provided to Music Generation by her Department in 2024. [42398/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many additional special classes will be required in primary and post-primary schools, respectively, over the next five years. [42401/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of establishing an additional early intervention class. [42402/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update of the transfer of a plot of land in a school (details supplied) from her Department and the Dublin Education and Training Board to...
    • School Transport
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide school bus escorts with any updates on their pay and conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42406/24]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expanding the north east inner city multidisciplinary teams model to include five more schools. [42409/24]
    • Education Policy
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expanding the in-school counselling pilot to include five more schools. [42410/24]
    • School Staff
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expanding the support teacher model to include five more schools. [42411/24]
    • Capitation Grants
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make representations to the Minister for Finance and the Revenue on behalf of a school (details supplied), requesting that no...
    • Schools Building Projects
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a building project for a school (details supplied); the stage the project is at; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Junior Certificate T1 Irish course is marked harder than the T2 Irish course (details supplied); to detail the statistical...
    • Departmental Programmes
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current plans for the Donegal Education Support Centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42441/24]
    • State Examinations
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider allowing extra time in State exams for young people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties; and if she will make a...
    • School Admissions
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to indicate if and when a school place will be found for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42450/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the schools which have accommodated special need classes since 2021 for the areas Dublin 6w, Dublin 12, Dublin 24, Dublin 16 and Dublin...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if enrolment spouses and the children's pension scheme operated by her Department is mandatory (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Funding
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for educational equipment and supplies for a school (details supplied); where applications can be submitted; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to funding the expansion of primary and secondary schools in Celbridge to cope with increasing enrolment numbers; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a permanent site for additional special education needs in south Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Admissions
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to provide additional school places in County Kildare to meet future demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42573/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building refurbishments and new builds that have commenced and have subsequently been completed since 2016; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on school transport for routes which are still not operational since the start of the new school term (details supplied);...
    • School Facilities
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the urgent need for improved physical education facilities at a school in Offaly (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why the period for 'further information' to Meath County Council was extended to January 2025 in the case of a school building (details...
    • Residential Institutions
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42632/24]
    • School Equipment
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to expand the current pilot project in Munster for students with visual impairment to receive ongoing orientation and mobility supports...
    • School Transport
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount provided through the interim special transport grant to parents or individuals who have to access private school transport from 2021...
    • Schools Building Projects
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was refused funding for roof repairs. [42675/24]
    • School Equipment
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student in County Kerry (details supplied) will be provided with a replacement assisted technology laptop; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding accommodations for dyslexic students; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Projects
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in...
    • Home Schooling
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of costs incurred for home schooling of a student (details supplied); the measures in place to ensure that children with...
    • School Admissions
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reply to correspondence regarding a lack of school places in Portlaoise (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reply to correspondence regarding bus escorts (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42730/24]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason she has not replied to a known survivor campaigner (details supplied), who has been in regular communication since 1 September prior...
    • School Staff
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address ongoing concerns raised by a school in Offaly (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42732/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional time will be provided to students with dyslexia sitting second level exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42747/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to support the call by Education Equality for the Government to compel schools to confine religious faith formation and worship to a...
    • School Staff
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the situation whereby school secretaries are not in a position to apply for paid bereavement leave; if there are plans to...
    • School Accommodation
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional school accommodation; the stage of the process the application is at (details supplied); and if...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for funding for emergency works for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 15 October 2024, if she will review a child's school transport needs (details supplied); and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce extra time in second level exams for dyslexic students; her views in the context of the State Examinations Commission...
    • School Staff
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of "posts of responsibility" in primary schools and post-primary schools respectively in 2008 compared to the number in 2024; and the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects that have received funding from her Department since 2020,...
    • School Management
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will develop child-safe guidelines for school trips, including guidance not to visit orphanages; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Funding
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there was no provision for the upgrade, restocking and construction of school laboratories outlined in the education budget for 2025,...
    • Departmental Communications
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the Irish Science Teachers’ Association. [42957/24]
    • Teagasc na Gaeilge
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an ndeanfaidh sí athbhreithniú ar an gcóras grádála atá á chur i bhfeidhm ar an gcúrsa Gaeilge i...
    • School Enrolments
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what analysis has been undertaken by her Department in relation to progressing plans for a secondary school in an area (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Funding
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to capital projects in Bishopstown, Wilton, Glasheen and Model Farm Road area of Cork, from her Department for...
    • School Accommodation
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to seek an urgent review of the additional accommodation request by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Curriculum
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the number of sraithpictiúir 5th years must learn for the Leaving Certificate Irish Oral examination. [43055/24]
    • Scoileanna DEIS
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 10 October, when it is envisaged that her Department’s consideration of the HP Deprivation...
    • School Enrolments
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a local secondary school place can be facilitated in the case of the daughter of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new school buildings delivered from 2020 to date in 2024 in Dún Laoghaire; the number of new schools established from 2020 to...
    • School Accommodation
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the provision of two additional classrooms for a school (details supplied). [43095/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline what the €2 million allocated in budget 2024 for “attendance and retention – measures for implementation”...
    • Child Abuse
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 24 September, where she stated the matter was dealt with in "accordance with the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications currently with the emergency works grant scheme as of 15 October; and the value of those works within the...
    • School Transport
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills details of the current policy regarding maximum commute times for special needs children availing of school transport services; the way in which...
    • Departmental Properties
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43140/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that bus escorts for children have not had a pay increase since 2020; if she will engage with this group of workers (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43165/24]
    • Departmental Data
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a newly qualified teacher (details supplied) will receive payment in view of having worked since 29 August 2024 and receiving no payment to...
    • Scoileanna DEIS
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider instating a further DEIS band (details supplied) for students in generationally disadvantaged areas; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Policies
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered providing teacher allocations and-or funding to schools to resource trauma-informed approaches; and if she will...
    • School Funding
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will adjust the ancillary grant at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43196/24]
    • State Examinations
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can confirm receipt of correspondence in respect of a student’s Leaving Certificate results in 2023 (details supplied); the manner...
    • School Admissions
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently intervene in the case of a child who is without a secondary school place in Limerick (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training that is provided to schools for the use of epi-pens; the regulations in place for the training of staff to ensure that a staff...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Culture Policy
      395. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the work of the night time economy taskforce; the number of times the forum has met to date; and if she...
    • Arts Policy
      396. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the basic income for arts scheme; if she proposes to reopen the scheme for applications; if the scheme is...
    • Arts Council
      397. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown of the funding provided to the Arts Council in 2016 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      398. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown of the funding provided to Sport Ireland in 2016 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Irish Language
      399. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown of the funding provided to the Gaeltacht and the Irish language in 2016 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if...
    • Tourism Funding
      400. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown of the funding provided by her Department to the tourism sector in 2016 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if...
    • Sports Funding
      401. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that a club (details supplied) was unsuccessful in its application for the recent round of sports facilities grants;...
    • Tourism Promotion
      402. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how her Department is promoting tourism in County Kildare, particularly heritage sites like Kildare town; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Projects
      403. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery...
    • Swimming Pools
      404. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a schedule of each swimming pool in receipt of public funding since 2020. [42789/24]
    • Culture Policy
      406. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the administrative processes under the current public spending code that would operate in respect of any potential...
    • Arts Policy
      407. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she last met the chairperson and or the executive director of the Abbey Theatre; the issues discussed at the meeting; and...
    • Sports Funding
      408. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all individual projects that have been approved for sports...
    • Film Industry
      409. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the funding provided to the sound and vision scheme in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Media Sector
      410. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects the national counter disinformation strategy to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Facilities
      411. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the projected costs of the completion of the National Sports Campus in Blanchardstown; and if she will make a statement...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      415. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cathain a bheidh toghchán Bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta ar siúl; cad iad téarmaí agus...
    • Road Signage
      416. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason stop signs which are positioned at the side of roads and printed onto the road itself, in Gaeltacht areas in County...
    • Sports Funding
      417. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of money granted to sporting facilities under both the sports capital grant and the large-scale sport infrastructure...
    • Vacant Properties
      418. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43153/24]
    • Air Services
      419. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht regarding her support of connectivity and air access to the whole island, if she will please provide an account of the number of...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Regional Development
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the definition and conceptualisation of balanced regional development currently used to interpret and deliver the...
    • Fire Service
      421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details for all capital plans for the development of fire services in Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Schemes
      424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a substantive reply has issued to a constituent in Donegal to his email communication of 30 September 2024 (details...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support available for Kildare’s Draft Traveller Accommodation Programme 2025-2029, particularly how it will address...
    • Rental Sector
      430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the rules to allow an exemption for landlords in rent pressure zones that have been introduced to vary the...
    • Waterways Ireland
      432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide on update on the new proposed River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canal and Barrow Navigation bye-laws; if...
    • Departmental Projects
      433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...
    • Rental Sector
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the tenant in situ scheme targets for each local authority for 2025, in tabular form. [42768/24]
    • Legislative Programme
      435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate for the Dublin Bay Bill 2021. [42821/24]
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current position regarding publication of the final management plan for an area (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE fire advisors and senior fire advisors employed by his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Departmental Funding
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which his Department has...
    • Property Registration
      439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Tailte Éireann can refuse to release details of a folio to a party when that party had an interest registered on that...
    • Disability Services
      442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement a review of how the HMD form is working across councils to ascertain whether it places too heavy a load...
    • Housing Schemes
      443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the affordable housing scheme to ensure that these houses are actually affordable, regardless of location;...
    • Housing Provision
      444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to implement the recommendations of the Housing Commission report; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Water Supply
      446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on group water schemes in County Mayo. [41435/24]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to capital projects in Bishopstown, Wilton, Glasheen and Model Farm Road area of Cork, from...
    • Environmental Schemes
      451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department can provide any additional funding to a conservation grant award to a person (details supplied) as the grant...
    • Local Authorities
      452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will address the discrepancies in pay for local authority workers (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a development (details supplied) will be given to a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43080/24]
    • Local Authorities
      456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the total number of full-time equivalent staff funded by his Department working in each local authority planning...
    • Departmental Properties
      457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43147/24]
    • Budget 2025
      458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding allocated for the capital assistance scheme in Budget 2025. [43155/24]
    • Grant Payments
      459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding allocated for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability, and for...
    • Local Authorities
      460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding allocated to support adaptation works on local authority social homes in Budget 2025. [43157/24]
    • Housing Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the additional funding allocated to support the implementation of the ‘Housing Strategy for Disabled People...
    • Horticulture Sector
      464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagements he has had with his Cabinet colleagues regarding the extraction of horticultural peat for use in the domestic...
    • Local Authorities
      465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average time taken to process Rebuilding Ireland-local authority loans by each local authority in each of the past six...
    • Heritage Projects
      466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and location of heritage projects currently in hand or proposed, with particular reference to potentially at risk...
    • Housing Provision
      467. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he remains satisfied that investment funds are not impeding the provision of affordable housing throughout...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      468. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in the upgrading of various group water schemes throughout the country, by county; the number needs and...
    • House Prices
      469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which his Department continues to monitor house price inflation; the action is hand or likely to be taken to...
    • Housing Policy
      473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent, if any, to which further flexibility can be incorporated in the Housing For All programme, with particular...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Funding
      474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending the hot school meals programme to all second-level schools; and the number of primary and post-primary...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of the carer’s allowance; and her best estimate of the number of these...
    • Disability Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the duration of the Tús programme for people with disabilities (details supplied). [40502/24]
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for disability allowance will be expedited and approved for a person (details supplied). [42522/24]
    • Employment Support Services
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how her Department plans to address long-term unemployment in County Kildare, especially among younger residents; and if she...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional supports that are being made available to families living in long-term emergency accommodation in Kildare,...
    • Disability Services
      480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection If disability allowance will continue to be paid to a person (details supplied). [42596/24]
    • Care Services
      481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list all the achievements that have been made to benefit and improve outcomes for carers since this Government took...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that has been given to reforming the means test for carer’s allowance so that the carer is...
    • Departmental Budgets
      484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide the full-year cost of increasing the income disregards for single and couples for carer’s allowance by...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any financial supports are available from her Department to those who are considered young carers; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of the free travel scheme, and the projected expenditure on the scheme out to 2030; and if she will make a...
    • Citizens Information Services
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 29 September 2020, if she has had sight of correspondence dated 19 September...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who has been in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for the past two months, and was previously in receipt of...
    • Employment Rights
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she accepts that on 2 December 2001, she wrote to the Privileges Committee as follows: ‘in rare and very limited...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a disability allowance review and appeal (details supplied). [42670/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if a positive decision will be expedited....
    • Departmental Projects
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the State pension non-contributory, now under review for a person (details supplied) will be expedited...
    • Departmental Staff
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff working in the social welfare appeals office; the grades of these staff members; and the average time...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carer’s support grant by a person in County Kerry (details...
    • Social Welfare Code
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce the payment of illness benefit for the self-employed in view of the fact that they find themselves in...
    • Pension Provisions
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first and full-year cost of the impact of introducing legislation to give the entitlement of an unmarried cohabitant to a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the living alone allowance by €3, €5, €7, €10 and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment changes made to the treatment benefit scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024 [42907/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal for domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a carer’s allowance application; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension appeal (details supplied); when a decision will be likely to be reached in this case,...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if or when child benefit might be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43038/24]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing the telephone support allowance to €5 and making it an additional entitlement on the...
    • Employment Schemes
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the work activation measures that are currently under the remit of her Department; the full-year cost of each of...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full year cost of extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to those in receipt of the working family payment; and if...
    • Rural Schemes
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the main recommendation of the review of the rural social scheme published in July 2024; the plans to implement any...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the qualifying conditions for the newborn baby grant announced in budget 2025; if children born in November 2024...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an application for working family payment in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a decision on a disability allowance appeal has taken so long (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews of disability allowance carried out in 2023 and 2024 to date; the number of people who had their...
    • Departmental Properties
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43151/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in County Cork (details supplied) is entitled to the fuel allowance. [43190/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether persons ineligible for the auto-enrolment retirement savings scheme due to be introduced in 2025 because they already...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a working family payment application by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if...
    • Grant Payments
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grants her Department has provided to social enterprise representative bodies since October 2023, in tabular form; and if...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Visa Applications
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite an application for an Irish visa for a person (details supplied). [43292/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the application process for the Garda Reserves will be reopened. [42418/24]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to indicate the progress to date in determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 725 of 16 April 2024, the position regarding the approved donors for a facility (details...
    • Citizenship Applications
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application for citizenship for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Gambling Sector
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the incoming Gambling Regulation Act 2004 or the regulator Údarás Rialála Cearrbhachais na hÉireann will...
    • An Garda Síochána
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 511 of 18 September 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Citizenship Applications
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied). [42506/24]
    • Immigration Status
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on lengthy waiting lists for Irish residence permits (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the number of Garda vehicles purchased in each year between 2016 and 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Domestic Violence
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the number of refuge spaces available across the country in each year between 2016 and 2024 inclusive, in tabular...
    • Deportation Orders
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the number of people, subject to a deportation order, who were removed from the State in each year between 2016 and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the value of the Garda vote in Budgets 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for naturalisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing timelines for work permits for international protection applicants; the number of applications from IPAS...
    • Departmental Projects
      567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...
    • International Protection
      568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application (details supplied) for leave to remain under the international protection programme; and if she...
    • Visa Applications
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will issue in respect of a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Residency Permits
      570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • An Garda Síochána
      571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 524 of 18 September 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Visa Applications
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of join family (spouse of Irish citizen and category B) visa applications received by her Department in 2021, 2022...
    • Prison Service
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the progression unit in Mountjoy prison; the number of cells in the unit in total; and the number of...
    • Legislative Measures
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to introduce regulations to facilitate an industry shared fraud database; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Staff
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether section 39 workers funded by her Department can expect to receive the pay increases negotiated at the Workplace...
    • An Garda Síochána
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dates on which it is expected to admit the next three batches of Garda trainee recruits to stage one of the training; and...
    • Departmental Properties
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43148/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she can provide figures for the number of community Gardaí in the Drogheda district in each of the years 2022, 2023 and...
    • Visa Applications
      584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision has been made on an Irish visa application appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Fishing Industry
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when approval from the European Commission and/or his Department will be obtained for the hundreds of applications for funding under...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for clarification of matters in relation to the CAP budget (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42405/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the complementary income support for young farmers scheme is limited to one recipient per herd number; whether a spouse who is a...
    • Animal Welfare
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of his Department’s investigation following the pig farm footage given by an anonymous tip-off on 5 March 2023....
    • Horse Racing Industry
      592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the delays by Horse Sport Ireland in issuing passports can be investigated, as this issue has lingered on for years, and...
    • Fishing Industry
      593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what he proposes to help to stop the activity of pair trawling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Supports
      594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for Kildare farmers struggling with rising costs and climate-related challenges; and if he will make a...
    • Organic Farming
      595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his department has plans to support organic farming initiatives in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42566/24]
    • Tillage Sector
      596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an update on the food vision tillage group report will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42634/24]
    • Greyhound Industry
      597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department carries out random auditing checks of the CC t/a Micro Dog ID database to ensure that owners are informing the...
    • Departmental Projects
      598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...
    • Animal Culls
      599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether, as requested previously, he has moved to include the Glenasmole Valley in south county Dublin on the border with Wicklow in...
    • Animal Welfare
      600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a record of all investigations, sanctions or convictions in respect of a company (details supplied) by his Department to...
    • Departmental Data
      601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of food products seized by his officials at both Dublin Airport and Dublin Port, to date in 2024. [43130/24]
    • Teagasc Activities
      602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who attained a Green Cert qualification in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [43136/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43137/24]
    • Agriculture Supports
      604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person in County Cork (details supplied) has not yet received his ANC payment. [43191/24]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Communications
      605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to provide dedicated services for functional neurological disorder (FND) patients; if his...
    • Disability Services
      606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if HSE funding can be made available to ensure assisted living accommodation for a person (details supplied);...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      607. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessments of need that are completed every month in the Blanchardstown and Castleknock area...
    • Special Educational Needs
      608. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he would consider introducing SNAs into preschools, especially in preschools that cannot secure an AIM...
    • Departmental Data
      609. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the number of children awaiting essential therapies, in tabular form, by CHO. [42448/24]
    • Disability Services
      610. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that a whistleblower revealed details of elaborate spending at a charity (details supplied) as...
    • Ukraine War
      611. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he could clarify the exact details of what the total payout of €7.6 million by the Government to a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide additional resources for early childhood education in rural parts of County Kildare; and if...
    • Youth Services
      613. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional funding will be allocated to support youth centres in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      614. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of male early years educators employed across the State; the European Union targets for male...
    • Disability Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of an underpayment of core funding (details supplied); if the shortfall can be made good; and if...
    • Health Service Executive
      617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that all entitlements due to the retired staff at an organisation (details supplied) are paid...
    • National Development Plan
      618. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National...
    • International Protection
      619. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 565 of 15 October 2024, the costs paid to the service provider before his...
    • Departmental Schemes
      621. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rationale behind the roll-out of a scheme nationwide (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      622. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 567 of 15 October 2024, whether the €3.1 million mentioned is to...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      623. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42855/24]
    • Departmental Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of investment in neurorehabilitation services in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024,...
    • Departmental Funding
      625. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all individual projects that have received...
    • Childcare Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently sponsored under the national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      627. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the annual budget of AIM; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42928/24]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting an initial CNDT appointment in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department and the HSE have taken to improve the CDNT wait times in CHO9; and if he will make a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      635. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount his Department has spent outsourcing AON assessments to private contractors in each of the years 2022...
    • Children in Care
      636. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work of his Department to improve foster care services and enhance the support provided to foster parents...
    • Disability Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department can provide grants or funding assistance for the construction of a specialised care home for...
    • Ukraine War
      638. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth why Ukrainian nationals in receipt of accommodation under the temporary protection arrangements afforded to such...
    • International Protection
      639. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 9 October 2024, to provide a breakdown of the €21.552...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      641. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in the State currently awaiting an assessment of need; the number who have been waiting...
    • Disability Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of respite hours provided to disabled adults in County Cavan and County Monaghan in 2020, 2021,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      644. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost to the State of assuming the current wage bill for early years educators, lead educators, graduate lead...
    • International Protection
      645. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an address is registered with IPAS as an accommodation centre (details supplied); if IPAS is inquiring into...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      646. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review correspondence (details supplied); if he can provide further clarity on this issue; and if he will...
    • Disability Services
      647. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if decisions has been made in relation to Donegal projects under the children’s disability service grant...
    • Child and Family Agency
      648. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a company (details supplied) is still being used by Tusla at present, and if so, when this service resumed....
    • Disability Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current percentage vacancy rate among staff in each CDNT based in County Kildare. [43125/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      651. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      652. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital funding available from his Department for the delivery of new child and family centres that receive...
    • International Protection
      653. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of work to develop a new migrant integration strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that children who have transitioned from children's disability services to adult services and are...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      655. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views with regard to improving early years and school age care (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      656. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish the ECCE Review Report, given that the Dáil was informed in April that the review was...
    • International Protection
      657. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will set out precisely the number of international protection applicants and the number of people fleeing...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      659. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the full-year cost of increasing the NCS to €2.50 per hour; and if he will make...
    • Childcare Services
      668. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the work of the unit within his Department examining what a nationalised childcare model...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the cost of extending the AIM programme supports to all children with a disability...
  • Department of Health
    • Medical Cards
      673. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of over 70’s medical card holders (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42975/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      674. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of retiree’s being pursued for overpayments (details supplied); if he regards this as fair treatment for retired workers who...
    • Departmental Data
      675. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an estimate of the total cost to the exchequer of dealing with alcohol-related issues per annum, including, but not limited to, costs incurred by...
    • General Practitioner Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the fact there will no longer be a doctor available in Prosperous, County Kildare, following the retirement of the previous doctor; whether there...
    • Hospital Charges
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost to the Exchequer of implementing a cap on all remaining hospital car parking charges that exceed €10 per day. [42413/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      678. To ask the Minister for Health for details on the pay and numbers strategy, which Connolly Hospital healthcare workers say will add an additional six months to recruitment processes and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if a neurology appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42451/24]
    • Medical Cards
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card in the name of a person (details supplied); and if approval will be expedited. [42470/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if a wheelchair replacement can be urgently provided in the case of the mother of a person (details supplied); if they can be assisted urgently in this matter;...
    • Nursing Homes
      682. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update in the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for assistance via the fair deal scheme; whether any information is...
    • National Children's Hospital
      683. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to new children’s hospital, when the national oversight group has met; at which meetings was the matter of the naming of the hospital on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on a request for an update on a CAMHS review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42483/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reply to the attached correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42493/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      688. To ask the Minister for Health if respite and physiotherapy will be provided for a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [42502/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      689. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a claim made by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42539/24]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      690. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed plan on addressing hospital overcrowding in Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42543/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the significant waiting times for mental health services in County Kildare, particularly for young people; and if he will make a statement...
    • General Practitioner Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the availability of GP services in rural areas of Kildare, particularly addressing any shortages in Monasterevin and surrounding areas; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce waiting lists for outpatient services at Naas General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42565/24]
    • Vaccination Programme
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if the Novavax JN.1 Covid-19 booster will be made available to people who cannot tolerate mRNA or prefer non-mRNA vaccines; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cancer Services
      696. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that gene immunotherapy will be made available free of charge to cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42586/24]
    • Insurance Coverage
      697. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that gene immunotherapy is covered by health insurers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42587/24]
    • Medical Cards
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discretionary medical cards issued to multiple myeloma cancer patients in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the number of refusals for patients...
    • Medicinal Products
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make the drug fenfluramine (Fintepla), used in the treatment of Dravet syndrome, available for reimbursement through the HSE in line with the...
    • Medical Cards
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing a lifelong medical card for everyone born with a congenital condition, eliminating the biennial review. [42604/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      701. To ask the Minister for Health how an organisation (details supplied) accesses the funding for a number of its services from his Department or the HSE as it is its first occasion to be...
    • Eating Disorders
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons being treated for eating disorders in Donegal in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42623/24]
    • Hospital Procedures
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments that were cancelled at University Hospital Limerick during the period 8 August 2024 to 29 August 2024; and if he will...
    • Health Service Executive
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Mid West Community Healthcare and University Hospital Limerick Group with a company (details supplied) during the years 2020 to 2024; and...
    • Health Strategies
      705. To ask the Minister for Health when Eve’s Protocols, named after a person (details supplied), will be rolled out across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed staffing complement for the adult mental health service in Tuam primary care service, County Galway; the current staffing levels; the plans for...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if he can ensure that the HSE takes urgent action in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42638/24]
    • Health Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied) who was refused treatment for ASD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42640/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the diamond ward in Monaghan Hospital has been closed for the past number of months; when it is expected to reopen; and if he will make a statement...
    • Healthcare Policy
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts, and timing of, funds which have allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in the 2025 health budget; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the average and median time that elapses between the receipt of a complaint by the Medical Council and the making of an initial...
    • Patient Transport
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if CHO9 will be provided with funding for patient transport to hospital appointments or respite services in cases in which the patient is bed bound and...
    • Health Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no standard diagnostic policies or guidelines for diagnosing or treating children with an organisation (details supplied); the steps being...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if a scan appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42672/24]
    • Health Services
      718. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the availability of an annual cervical check; and if he will make a...
    • Cancer Services
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a differential in survival rates for breast cancer between those diagnosed in a public hospital, private hospital or...
    • Ambulance Service
      721. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the current shortage of ambulance service managers in the north west, including the specific number of vacancies at assistant chief...
    • Hospital Staff
      722. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacancy for an ophthalmologist in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, will be filled (details supplied). [42689/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      723. To ask the Minister for Health why an assessment for CAMHS was refused in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42697/24]
    • Dental Services
      724. To ask the Minister for Health when a teenager in County Kerry (details supplied) will receive an appointment for braces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42707/24]
    • Home Help Service
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help packages and hours of support that have been provided to persons in County Donegal, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Projects
      726. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of...
    • Health Services
      727. To ask the Minister for Health to consider requesting the HSE and the Department of Social Protection to designate a professional wig clinic to each region as the NHS have done in Ulster,...
    • Medicinal Products
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical cannabis access programme will be extended to patients with fibromyalgia. [42737/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      729. To ask the Minister for Health to give a timeline in respect of the appointment of a chief pharmacist in the Department of Health in view of the vast amounts being paid by the taxpayer for...
    • Hospital Charges
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied), who is a medical card holder, will be charged for a MRI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42741/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for MRI scans in Letterkenny University Hospital for urgent and non-urgent referrals, per calendar month, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,...
    • Health Services
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if gene therapy is available for persons diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; if there are plans to make it available, as per the situation in the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on each outpatient waiting list in Cavan General Hospital, in tabular form. [42750/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      735. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the number of staff working in the emergency department of Cavan General Hospital in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Dental Services
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Mayo available under the dental treatment services scheme; the total number of dentists in County Mayo, in tabular form; and...
    • Health Services
      750. To ask the Minister for Health in light of the opening of a step-down facility in Nenagh by the HSE in August, with a contract of only one year before it reverts to its intended purpose as a...
    • Departmental Data
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out by the Children's Health Ireland hospital group in each of the last five years in leasing the buildings used as CHI Temple Street; and to...
    • Medicinal Products
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the continued failure of the HSE and the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics to reconsider and approve the reimbursement of palforzia for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      753. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue regarding adding the enhanced influenza vaccine to the HSE adult immunisation programme for the 2025-26 winter flu season, with...
    • National Children's Hospital
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a crèche at the new national children’s hospital. [42822/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      755. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the waiting time to see a physiotherapist (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42824/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      756. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year running cost of an injury unit; and the average capital cost required. [42847/24]
    • Health Strategies
      757. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year cost to implement the strategic plan for critical care; and the number of additional beds that would open. [42848/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      758. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year cost of employing one consultant in emergency medicine. [42849/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      759. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year cost of employing one advanced nurse practitioner. [42850/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      760. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year cost, and to provide details of the Departments' projections of, the increase in the number of practising GPs between now...
    • Health Services Staff
      761. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year cost of employing a health and social care professional to the HSE. [42852/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      762. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year cost of employing a public-only consultant. [42853/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that no health, clinical or social policymaking, or implementation of policy, from his Department will be informed by the Cass review while...
    • Health Services Staff
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE public health nurses in each primary care centre within CHO 9 in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [42902/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults currently on the waiting list for spinal surgery at the Mater hospital. [42904/24]
    • Care Services
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to have a dedicated Alzheimer's disease day care centre within CHO 9 for people with Alzheimer’s disease. [42905/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes that had unannounced HIQA inspections after hours or on weekends in 2023 and to date in 2024. [42906/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      769. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which his Department has provided funding since 2020, under the...
    • Departmental Funding
      770. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide in respect of several areas (details supplied), the overall level of health investment, by year, since 2020, in tabular form. [42926/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a prescription is required for melatonin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42944/24]
    • Primary Care Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for primary care speech and language therapy in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42947/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for an appointment with CAMHS in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42950/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      776. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 782 of 18 September 2024, if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for ignoring the public opinion expressed in the public consultation, conducted by his Department, on increasing the minimum legal purchase age...
    • Medicinal Products
      779. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the application for pricing and reimbursement of fenfluramine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42981/24]
    • Noise Pollution
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the number of wind farm noise complaints for counties Mayo, Offaly and Tipperary, categorised by wind farm name, number of complaints, number of complaints to...
    • Medical Records
      781. To ask the Minister for Health the number of case files pertaining to wind turbine shadow flicker for counties Mayo, Offaly and Tipperary, categorised by wind farm name, in each year from...
    • Hospital Facilities
      782. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received any business case to improve car parking capacity at University Hospital Waterford. [43000/24]
    • Dental Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists currently operating in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43002/24]
    • Wind Energy Generation
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the number of wind farm noise complaints for counties Mayo, Offaly and Tipperary, categorised by wind farm name, number of complaints, number of complaints to...
    • Health Services
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will commit to consulting the trans community before any clinical or funding decisions are made related to their healthcare; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      789. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to capital projects in Bishopstown, Wilton, Glasheen and the Model Farm Road area of Cork, from his Department for the years...
    • Dental Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Cavan and County Monaghan; and the average waiting times for appointments in...
    • Mental Health Services
      797. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the CAMHS waiting list in County Cavan and County Monaghan; and the average waiting time in each county 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to...
    • Home Care Packages
      798. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awarded home care support in County Cavan and County Monaghan but who are still awaiting this service to begin due to staff shortage....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting colonoscopy in County Cavan and County Monaghan in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [43046/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      802. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the number of vacancies at Cavan General Hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of the vacancy, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Cavan and County Monaghan; and the average waiting time for appointment in each...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      804. To ask the Minister for Health to provide waiting lists, by both absolute numbers and waiting time on the list, for Kerry for occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a mental health charity (details supplied) does not receive any State funding in Cavan and Monaghan; what sources of funding are available to it for...
    • Health Services Staff
      806. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 26 September 2024, to report on a submission regarding section 39 workers (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Medicinal Products
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients receiving biologics medicines for severe asthma; and the specific biologic medicines included, in tabular form. [43072/24]
    • Primary Care Centres
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary healthcare centres in CHO 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43085/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      810. To ask the Minister for Health if he will accept the recommendations of the National Radiation Therapist Review Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43086/24]
    • Hospital Charges
      811. To ask the Minister for Health whether the case for a refund for a person (details supplied) can be re-examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43087/24]
    • Health Services
      812. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow patients suffering from long Covid access to hyperbaric oxygenation therapy, where their consultant confirms that this treatment can assist in...
    • Mental Health Services
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to transition a young person who is under CAMHS when they reach the age of 18 years and are turned over to the adult mental health...
    • Medical Cards
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reviews of medical cards carried out in 2023 and 2024 to date, respectively; the number of people who had medical cards removed from them in each...
    • Hospital Charges
      815. To ask the Minister for Health to review a case (details supplied); if he can outline any financial supports or mechanisms in place to assist this person; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff
      816. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 493 of 24 September 2024, for a breakdown of how the clinical lead for transgender services has spent his time since...
    • Hospital Services
      817. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2034 of 23 July 2024, how the transgender clinic in University Hospital Galway uses weight when reviewing oestradiol and...
    • Hospital Staff
      818. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE sonographers working in St Vincent's University Hospital, by grade, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [43122/24]
    • Departmental Properties
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43146/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      821. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify whether Paxlovid will be reimbursed in future; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43159/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      822. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE issued a scoping report for several planning applications (date issued) with confirmation if a pre-planning scoping meeting was held (date of...
    • Health and Safety
      824. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the most recent wind energy SID planning application received to the environmental health service for Galway and Clare. [43172/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if he would consider extending access to the FreeStyle Libre device on the medical card to persons with type 2 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      826. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Cork waiting for the insertion of spinal cord stimulators; the patient waiting time for each hospital in Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      827. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in part-time employment in Waterford and the south east, for each year 2020-24, in tabular form. [43201/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      828. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will make fenfluramine available for the treatment of Dravet syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43214/24]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      829. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter raised by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Substance Misuse
      830. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of hospital presentations associated with alcohol consumption in 2023 and in 2024 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      832. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that community prison link workers did not receive pay increases at a rate of similar roles in the HSE or section 39 workers. [43239/24]
    • Emergency Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the working practices of first responders in Donegal have changed in relation to first responder vehicles now having to be based at ambulance...
    • Medicinal Products
      834. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration could now be given for the drug Saxenda to be included on the drugs payment scheme for patients who have been prescribed the medication; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      835. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) for rheumatology at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Admissions
      836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost to the Exchequer of doubling the number of healthcare college places in nursing, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is working to resolve outstanding issues whereby an existing adult literacy tutor with ten years or less of service left will...
    • Third Level Fees
      838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reply to the attached correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42497/24]
    • Third Level Staff
      839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of discussions between a union (details supplied) and officials from his Department on the alignment of the Youthreach calendar year...
    • Budget 2025
      841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the number and cost of the additional places across veterinary, medicine and other healthcare disciplines announced as...
    • Departmental Budgets
      842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in the...
    • Grant Payments
      844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify if an applicant’s income from part-time work can be disregarded as part of reckonable income assessed for SUSI grants. [42778/24]
    • Public Private Partnerships
      845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the public private partnership bundle 2 will be completed before the completion of the current National Development Plan 2018-2027. [42793/24]
    • Student Accommodation
      846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the provisional supply and demand analysis for purpose-built student accommodation and private rented accommodation with respect...
    • Technological Universities
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an overall assessment of the likelihood of a borrowing framework for the technological sector to be in place before March 2025. [42795/24]
    • Institutes of Technology
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the annual payments in respect of the loans provided to IT Tralee and Waterford IT since the loan was provided; and if he will...
    • Technological Universities
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the capital expenditure within each of the technological universities since their creation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Accommodation
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the public funding with respect to each of the universities, technological universities and colleges for the provision of...
    • Third Level Education
      854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for his and his Department’s assessment of the feasibility of the South East Technological University, Strategic Plan, Connecting for...
    • Third Level Staff
      856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of instructors employed by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to conduct cybersecurity associate level 6 apprenticeship...
    • Departmental Properties
      857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant properties owned by his Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43145/24]
    • Third Level Education
      858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made at present regarding the development of a training college at the Killarney proposed campus; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Fees
      859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration would be given to altering the requirements Irish citizens need to fulfil in order to qualify for Irish or EU fee rates in...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Control of Dogs
      860. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm the amount of funding in total received by each local authority for dog control since 2023. [42474/24]
    • Community Development Projects
      863. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding will be made available to support community development projects in smaller towns like Athy and Monasterevin;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      864. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports available for local authorities like Kildare County Council, in developing 'Town Centre First Plans'; how these plans...
    • Departmental Schemes
      865. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she can confirm if funding will be made available to support the necessary infrastructural improvements for projects such as the...
    • Departmental Projects
      868. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...
    • Departmental Funding
      869. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which her Department has provided...
    • Departmental Schemes
      870. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of local improvement scheme roads repaired in each Cork county municipal district in each of the years 2021 to 2023 and to...
    • Departmental Properties
      873. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43150/24]