Written answers

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Climate Action Plan
      1. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the progress of the annexe of actions contained with each annual climate action plan; to provide a breakdown of which actions are completed, are in...
    • Live Register
      2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people on the live register in County Clare in November of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, by age, gender, occupation, nationality and duration, in tabular...
    • Office of Director of Public Prosecutions
      3. To ask the Taoiseach if in cases of political corruption, members of the public have the right to request a review of a decision by the Director of Public Prosecution in the same manner as is...
    • Live Register
      5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people on the live register in County Clare in November of each year from 2020 to 2024, inclusive, by age, gender, occupation, nationality, and duration, in...
    • Departmental Data
      6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons aged 15 to 89 years in employment in County Clare for each of the years from 2011 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [3377/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      10. To ask the Taoiseach the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career breaks or other forms of leave to...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2769/25]
    • Departmental Data
      13. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons aged 15 to 89 years in employment in County Clare for each of the years from 2011 to 2024, in tabular form. [2963/25]
    • Ministerial Staff
      17. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and-or title held by that special adviser. [3006/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      18. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department or any body under its aegis currently outsources cleaning services and-or service officer or security officer roles to private companies; and the value...
    • Oireachtas Members' Expenses
      20. To ask the Taoiseach the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024, respectively; to provide a breakdown for each year of...
    • Departmental Reports
      22. To ask the Taoiseach if the interdepartmental group on the Dublin City Taskforce has considered the proposed funding mechanism contained within the Dublin City Taskforce report of lifting the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Staff
      23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of requests to his Department that were granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests that have been...
    • Foreign Policy
      24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in relation to Ireland's announced endorsement of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's non-legally binding working...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to open a new consulate general office in Naples, Italy. [2161/25]
    • Foreign Policy
      26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he recognises that the persecution of Christians worldwide is a growing trend internationally; the steps being taken by his Department to...
    • Passport Services
      27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to expedite a passport for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2474/25]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 22 January 2025, to examine the documentation which indicates that the information being sought...
    • Legislative Measures
      29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government’s position on the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; if the Government will impose any...
    • Foreign Policy
      30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make urgent representations to the Indian Prime Minister to convey the serious concern of the Irish people at the ongoing delays...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2761/25]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the nature of refurbishments that were carried out at Irish embassies during 2024; and the nature of refurbishments that are scheduled to be...
    • Official Engagements
      35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he had a bilateral meeting with his German counterpart at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs Council Meeting. [2883/25]
    • Middle East
      36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn the recent comments by US President Donald Trump advocating for the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of...
    • Ministerial Staff
      37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and-or title held by that special...
    • Middle East
      38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to support displaced Palestinian persons and released detainees to return to their homes; the supports being offered...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the humanitarian situation in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3085/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and-or service officer or security officer roles to...
    • Departmental Data
      45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024, respectively; to provide...
    • Departmental Staff
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to his office; whether...
    • Foreign Policy
      47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the move by the US Administration to add the Republic of Cuba to its state sponsors of terrorism list; if he is...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what plans are in place to upgrade the representative office of Ireland in Palestine to full embassy status and to appoint an ambassador, in...
    • Foreign Policy
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of relations and engagement between the State and Western Sahara’s Polisario Front; if the Government recognises the...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Data
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of requests to his Department that have been granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of...
    • National Broadband Plan
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to examine a fibre broadband case in Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3146/25]
    • Energy Policy
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expedite the provision of a liquefied natural gas terminal in north Kerry (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Energy Conservation
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if owners of thatched homes are eligible to apply for retrofitting grants such as solar panel grants; and if he will...
    • Climate Change Policy
      61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a public consultation will be held on the proposed carbon budgets to 2040; the timeframe for a consultation; and if...
    • Climate Action Plan
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected timeline for the publication of the Climate Action Plan 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Environmental Policy
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to address a by-law issue (details supplied) in place in Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2311/25]
    • National Broadband Plan
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expedite the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied) in County Sligo. [2431/25]
    • Energy Policy
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a renewable heat obligation will be established in the context of the National Biomethane Strategy to reduce...
    • Electricity Grid
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration has been given to the widespread undergrounding of the national electricity cable network, in view of...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address the significant delays in the approval and payment of pension increases for retired An Post...
    • Emergency Planning
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that individuals in County Galway were unable to make emergency 999 calls...
    • Environmental Policy
      70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Government's stance on expanding mining activities in protected areas; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a broadband connection will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Telecommunication Services
      76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address the consistently poor mobile phone reception in a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2758/25]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for on update on the transposition into Irish law of the Network and Information Systems Directive II (NIS2) EU...
    • Climate Change Policy
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update of the work of the Climate Action Delivery Board; if there will be any changes in the mandate as...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will be assessing the worst-affected areas from storm Éowyn and ensuring that relevant energy...
    • Just Transition
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the membership of the just transition commission; the mandated duties of the commission; and if he will...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the review of greenhouse gas emissions on a consumption basis; if this will impact Ireland's climate...
    • Energy Conservation
      83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way grants under the national retrofit plan will be revised to increase accessibility, in particular for older...
    • Energy Policy
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures the legislation to accelerate the roll out of district heating systems; the measures this will contain; and...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way his Department is preparing to ensure that Ireland's energy system is better prepared in the face of weather...
    • Energy Conservation
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of spending planned for retrofitting between now and 2030 as part of the revised national development plan...
    • Electricity Grid
      87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts being made by the ESB to ensure that the electricity network is more robust to withstanding disruptions to...
    • Fuel Poverty
      88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures put in place by his Department to alleviate fuel and energy poverty in County Clare, in 2020, 2021, 2022,...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the commitment to reaching 51% reduction in emission on 2018 levels is contingent on achieving a reclassification of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and-or service officer or...
    • Departmental Data
      93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024,...
    • Departmental Staff
      94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to...
    • Electricity Generation
      95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether the Moneypoint plant in County Clare will cease burning coal by the end of 2025 as planned; and if he will make...
    • Environmental Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline, given the risks posed by the discharge of toxic chemicals and the proposed 17-storey mine waste facility in...
    • National Broadband Plan
      97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the lengthy delays experiences by residents in Rolestown in accessing broadband; if he is aware that...
    • Recycling Policy
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in the context of a Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy, if his Department is reviewing the current policy; if...
    • Legislative Measures
      100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the drafting and approval process for the heat Bill, including the expected timeline for its...
    • Waste Management
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the price rises for waste collection services; if he is aware that they price hikes surpass the rate...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to develop offshore renewable energy and green hydrogen potential; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Data
      105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of requests to his Department that have been granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests that were...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      107. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures being taken to protect critical infrastructure in Ireland’s exclusive economic zone and territorial waters; the assistance...
    • Defence Forces
      108. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his targets for attaining an establishment figure of the Defence Forces to that envisaged by Level of Ambition 2 of the Report of the Commission...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      110. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2755/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      111. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of contracts a company (details supplied) had with his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025; the nature of services this company...
    • Defence Forces
      112. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated number of Defence Forces personnel, by rank, that would be required to train a new Army cadetship class consisting of 60 persons....
    • Public Sector Staff
      114. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of public sector workers in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare, per sector (details supplied), in tabular form; and if...
    • Ministerial Staff
      115. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and-or title held by that special...
    • Defence Forces
      116. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if reports (details supplied), despite commitments to the contrary, that Ireland is to purchase military equipment from Israel are accurate; if...
    • Departmental Meetings
      117. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if officials from his Department attended a briefing arranged by the Defence Forces and an organisation in November 2024 (details supplied); the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      118. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and-or service officer or security officer roles to...
    • Departmental Data
      120. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024, respectively; to provide a...
    • Departmental Staff
      121. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to the office; whether they...
    • Public Sector Staff
      122. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of public sector workers in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare under headings (details supplied), in tabular form; and...
    • Defence Forces
      123. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of known unauthorised incursions into Irish territorial waters by military vessels of other States during each of the years 2022,...
    • Naval Service
      128. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the LÉ Aoibhinn has reached full operational capability; the number of crew required for her deployment; whether that complement of...
    • Departmental Offices
      132. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what plans, if any, his Department has for four homes owned by his Department at 17, 18, 23 and 24 Grosvenor Lodge, Rathmines, Dublin 6; if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      133. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career breaks, or other...
    • Road Safety
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review into the road safety along Luffany/Slieverue/Rhu Glenn has taken place, due to the high number of road traffic fatalities on...
    • Public Transport
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of the Local Link services currently available in Meath; and to outline plans for additional routes or an...
    • Public Service Obligation
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give a commitment guaranteeing that the public service obligation will be maintained for the duration of this Government term,...
    • Regional Airports
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to continue the regional airport programme, which expires in 2025, as it ensures the viability of regional airports, such...
    • Road Safety
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the funding provided to county councils for road gritting is restricted solely to regional and national roads. [2183/25]
    • Road Network
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a definitive update on the northern distributor road, Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2192/25]
    • Driver Test
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons for the delays in driver testing centres across the country; the measures being taken to address these delays; the budgetary...
    • Cycling Policy
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the public bike scheme in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2222/25]
    • Road Network
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the project to upgrade the R624 Cobh Road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2249/25]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify the Transport Infrastructure Ireland policy of functioning of lights on the M1 motorway; and the rationale for having so many...
    • Transport Policy
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the inclusion of Drogheda in the Dublin commuter zone; and when commuters living in Drogheda, south Louth and...
    • Bus Services
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding the NTA’s intentions for bus services in Galway city (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Driver Test
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current wait times at driving test centres across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2308/25]
    • Tax Forms
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is possible to retroactively declare a car off the road for tax purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2333/25]
    • Road Network
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide additional funding to Kerry County Council to assist with the unusually high volume of road repairs needed after the snow and...
    • Greenways Provision
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the construction of the greenway from Glanmire, County Cork, to Cork city centre, specifically the section on the L2998...
    • Bus Éireann
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Bus Éireann to revisit the announcement made in 2024 regarding route 370 servicing the village of Bridgetown,...
    • Rail Network
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the consideration of reopening the Rosslare Europort-to-Waterford city rail link; when a decision is likely to be made...
    • Road Projects
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the progress of the Mallow Relief Road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2380/25]
    • Bus Éireann
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of instances in 2024 whereby Bus Éireann's Expressway 32 route did not depart on time from Monaghan town; and if he will...
    • Road Network
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total allocation for roads nationwide for the past five years; and the allocation for 2025. [2442/25]
    • Bus Éireann
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the policy of Bus Éireann to refrain from employing those aged over 70 as school bus drivers; and if he will...
    • Taxi Licences
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of an application for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2467/25]
    • Road Projects
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to prioritise the N17 upgrade between Collooney and Knock as a matter of urgency; when it is expected that the complete N17 upgrade...
    • Rail Network
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 17 October 2024, to provide a definitive timeline for the commencement of construction of...
    • Road Network
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to encourage and provide dedicated parking at motor way junctions along the M9 and M7 in County Kildare to allow commuters park...
    • Taxi Licences
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that there is a new licence in place for taxis to operate in rural Ireland. [2496/25]
    • Rail Network
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress, if any, made on the 2022 plans to introduce a flexi tax saver ticket for train users of Irish Rail; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Driver Licence Service will provide digital driving licences, as has been done in Australian states, France and...
    • National Transport Authority
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria for being successful in an NTA wheelchair accessible vehicle taxi grant application; the number of applications made in 2024...
    • Road Projects
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a coordinated plan to oversee the building of road projects such as the Adare and Macroom bypasses, to ensure adjacent county...
    • Driver Test
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce driving test waiting times, in particular in the Finglas test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Electric Vehicles
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider liaising to introduce a grant scheme to support accommodation providers such as hoteliers, guest house proprietors,...
    • National Transport Authority
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) grant scheme to ensure that applicants purchasing wheelchair-accessible taxis...
    • Transport Policy
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if current budgetary allocations for the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS) 2040 are sufficient to proceed with the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider an extension to the maximum permissible age of taxis under the Taxi Regulation (Small Public Service Vehicle)...
    • Road Projects
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the plans to support the development and construction of the Maynooth outer orbital route over the duration of his term; and...
    • Rail Network
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and-or his officials have liaised with the NTA and or Irish Rail in respect of the delivery DART+ West to include an extension to...
    • Road Projects
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a special allocation of funding could be made for the N72 Rathmore-to-Mallow road due to the deleterious condition of the road arising...
    • Dublin Bus
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the current campaign to reinstate the 145 bus route, which recently ceased; if his Department has plans to further...
    • Transport Policy
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for details of the technology platform that has been identified for use in the roll-out of shared mobility hubs. [2719/25]
    • Electric Vehicles
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the expected timeline for the planned development of a new national EV infrastructure strategy, as proposed in the Programme...
    • Driver Test
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date on plans to expand and alternate the driving test routes at the Finglas test centre; and if he will make a statement...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of flights through sovereign Irish airspace which have occurred in breach of Irish legislation since October 2023; the dates...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2771/25]
    • Road Projects
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of specific improvement grant funding provided and drawn down by Kerry County Council from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and...
    • Public Transport
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the plan to increase buses on Cork city routes including the 220 and 223. [2847/25]
    • Road Network
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the upgrade of Mathew Hill in Togher, Cork. [2848/25]
    • Road Projects
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the status of the future plan to upgrade Ballinrea Cross in Carrigaline, County Cork. [2850/25]
    • Public Transport
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extra costs that would be required to extend security personnel on the Dublin Bus fleet until the end of 2025. [2884/25]
    • Coast Guard Service
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of capital investment undertaken at each Coast Guard station nationwide in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [2885/25]
    • Public Transport
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all new DART carriages coming into the fleet over the next few years will have overhead luggage space to be able to hold small...
    • Ports Policy
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparedness of Ireland's ports for the development of offshore wind; the way he plans to increase the number of ports that are ready...
    • Ministerial Staff
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a schedule of special advisors attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that...
    • Coast Guard Service
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the contract for search and rescue services will expire; if any consideration will be given to bring search and rescue back under...
    • Electric Vehicles
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current situation with respect to planning permission for the installation of EV chargers in public places; the efforts being made by...
    • Public Transport
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the difficulties that public transport users are having with the S6 bus route as operated by a company (details...
    • Road Projects
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to make sure that funding is finally provided for the construction of the long-awaited relief road (N80) for Mountmellick town; and if he...
    • Greenways Provision
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update as of January 2025 on the Mallow-to-Dungarvan Greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3108/25]
    • Road Projects
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update as of January 2025 on the Cork-Limerick N/M20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3109/25]
    • School Transport
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if those over 70 years of age with satisfactory medical reports will be allowed to drive school busses given that currently this is not...
    • Road Projects
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the progress of the Northern Ring Road in Cork city, and the funding that would be forthcoming; and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether a safety audit has been conducted of the blanket lowering of speed limits across the country, given that lower speeds will in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer roles to...
    • Departmental Funding
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he would consider allocating increased funding under the CIS scheme for rural roads, especially in local authorities with a...
    • Public Transport
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the proposal to remove Balbriggan and Skerries from the short hop zone for train passengers; if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to...
    • Departmental Staff
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to the office; whether...
    • Road Safety
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has carried out a safe route access plan for the pupils of a school (details supplied) for their new daily commute to...
    • Public Transport
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any ongoing issues with the 39A service that are contributing to frequent cancellations (details supplied); and the...
    • Road Projects
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a status and timeline on the development of the new bridge in Celbridge. [3444/25]
    • Public Transport
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a commencement date for the extension of DART+ from Maynooth to Kilcock. [3445/25]
    • Active Travel
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ask the NTA to engage at an early stage with a company (details supplied) that has been appointed to design the Sandymount...
    • Airport Policy
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to make a decision regarding State investment to develop the runway development at Waterford Airport; and if he will make...
    • Public Transport
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will work with the NTA and TFI local link to reinstate the local link Waterford route 361, which was altered in December 2023...
    • Driver Licences
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether an agreement exists with the driver licensing authority of the Australian state of Western Australia regarding mutual recognition...
    • Road Safety
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advocate for urgent safety upgrades to the N25, including works to improve dangerous junctions and accident blackspots across...
    • Rail Network
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that Irish Rail has spent on maintenance and refurbishment to Waterford Plunkett station in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025....
    • Taxi Regulations
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to implement the Programme for Government commitment to “extend the ten-year vehicle limit for taxis registered in...
    • Public Transport
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a catering trolley will be installed on the Tralee-Dublin train services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3548/25]
    • Rail Network
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the works on the plaza in the Tralee train station will begin; when he anticipates they will be completed; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the consultation on the N22 Farranfore to Killarney Project; if this project will go ahead; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Transport
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to increase the frequency and reliability of buses, trains, and trams, particularly in Dublin; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career breaks,...
  • Department of Finance
    • Customs and Excise
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the measures his Department is taking to tackle the importation and sale of illegal tobacco products in the State; the number of fines issued by...
    • Rental Sector
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that will be introduced to reduce taxation on rental income to encourage more landlords to remain in the market; and if he will make a statement...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance whether there is a backlog of pension declarations with the Revenue Commissioners owing to difficulties in accepting pension files from private companies; if...
    • Tax Code
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reducing the VAT for beauty services along with hairdressers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2254/25]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a particular reason as to why the child support payment is taxable for those in receipt of invalidity pension but not on other payments such as...
    • Tax Code
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the lack of investing options for parents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2294/25]
    • Insurance Coverage
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans, if any, to provide affordable house insurance for thatched cottage owners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2299/25]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to set a maximum interest rate which credit servicing firms can charge mortgage holders; if such a maximum interest rate would be aligned with the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance to urgently address the current situation whereby apprentices and recently qualified tradespeople are finding it almost impossible to get van insurance...
    • Tax Code
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the current thresholds for inheritance tax; and if he will index link same to keep in line with inflation. [2535/25]
    • Tax Data
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the full list of bilateral double tax treaties that Ireland shares with other jurisdictions, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance if a new special savings incentive account will be considered to encourage improved savings habits and to help boost the economy during downturns; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider changing the VAT rate for boarding kennels and catteries as the rate is currently 23%, whereas the rate for groomers and veterinary work is 13.5%;...
    • Tax Reliefs
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance if, as part of the planned review of the cycle-to-work scheme, he will consider extending tax relief to commuters to use urban bike-share schemes for their...
    • Policing Co-operation
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the ongoing cooperation between the Revenue Commissioners, An Garda Síochána, the PSNI and HMRC in tackling serious crime, including...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the Ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2760/25]
    • Tax Code
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that are being taken to ensure a level playing field in relation to the hair and beauty service industry and the vast numbers of people working for...
    • Departmental Data
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance to report on the work his Department is carrying out on climate finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2928/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a schedule of special advisors attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that special advisor. [2997/25]
    • EU Directives
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance the Government’s position in relation to the draft EU Directive for preventing the misuse of shell entities ATAD III; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Avoidance
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for not including PRSI, excise and customs duties under general anti-avoidance rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3050/25]
    • Sovereign Debt
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a breakdown of ownership of Irish sovereign debt including detail of the amount held by any central bank; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • European Central Bank
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount received in European Central Bank distributions since 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3054/25]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance the total staffing levels and annual budget for the Revenue Commissioners each year since 2004, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of both individuals and companies that made use of 541C TCA 1997, known as carried interest, for the most recent year that data is available;...
    • Departmental Data
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance the total direct taxation raised from the investments funds sector in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3057/25]
    • Tax Data
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units who may have either underpayments or overpayments for the 2022, 2023 and 2024 tax years respectively; the number who have not yet...
    • Legislative Reviews
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance when he intends to consolidate the Central Bank Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3060/25]
    • Pension Provisions
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 137 of 25 September 2018, the status of the review of the area of pension transfers abroad; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Credits
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the planned duration of the extension of the landlord tax credit as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Code
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated share of projected corporation tax that is anticipated to come from multinational corporations subject to the 15% corporate tax rate; and if he...
    • Departmental Reviews
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the review of the Register of Beneficial Ownership and access to same; and if he will provide an update on the work completed...
    • Pension Provisions
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes that have been brought in that use the tax-free allowance of a pensioner on their State pension first, rather than any private pension they may...
    • State Assets
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide information on the Insurance Investment Fund; the way the fund is stored and accounted for by the Central Bank; the annual revenue into the fund...
    • Departmental Schemes
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide information on the Motor Insurers Insolvency Compensation Fund (MIICF); the annual revenue into the MIICF since 2018; the rate applied each year...
    • Insurance Levy
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reviewing the application of the 1% life insurance levy on people with a life-long disabilities, particularly in cases where they rely...
    • Tax Data
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline all taxes including levies and stamp duty on life insurance policies; the amount raised through each tax measure in the most recent year for which...
    • Motor Industry
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the practice of car dealers receiving commission from motor finance lenders; the current legal framework regarding such commissions; and if...
    • Financial Instruments
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the total spend on the information collected by the Central Bank on financial vehicle corporations (FVC) (details supplied) by all FVCs for...
    • Departmental Contracts
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer roles to private companies; the...
    • Tax Code
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward measures to change the tax treatment of exchange traded funds in view of the funds review published by his Department in October...
    • Departmental Data
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to provide a breakdown for...
    • Departmental Staff
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their office; whether they are located...
    • Tax Reliefs
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the tax relief on private health insurance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3484/25]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Data
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of requests to his Department that have granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests that have...
    • Departmental Funding
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a start date has been agreed for the commencement of remedial works on Cairn T at the Loughcrew heritage site near Oldcastle, County...
    • Flood Risk Management
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will take in charge an embankment that protects a property from flooding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if An Garda Síochána is still using a building (details supplied) or whether it has instead been transferred to another...
    • Tree Remediation
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when tree cutting along a river (details supplied) will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2443/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on plans for a Garda station at Clongriffin, north Dublin; when it is expected this Garda station will be complete; and if...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Graiguenamanagh and Thomastown flood relief schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2536/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if eligibility for the individual property protection scheme for east Cork will be extended to include property owners who narrowly...
    • Departmental Staff
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the general operative band 3 (Rural) panels, details supplied, if there are plans to open a new panel; if that is the case, if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm the Department, agency or authority that can deem a property to be in a location where there is a risk of flooding;...
    • Freedom of Information
      323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are any plans that housing organisations which are listed on the approved housing bodies register be prescribed as bodies which...
    • Departmental Schemes
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to examine the case of a property in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2711/25]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish the Ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2766/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount raised in revenue from third parties taking a leased fixing on a Garda communications mast in 2024 and to date in 2025, by...
    • Public Sector Staff
      329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public sector workers in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare, per sector (details supplied), in tabular...
    • Ministerial Staff
      330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a schedule of special advisors attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      331. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of all public sector occupational pensions that are invested rather than operating on the pay-as-you-go; and if he...
    • Office of Public Works
      332. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to respond to the request by an organisation (details supplied) to have the remains of the five executed Invincibles exhumed form the...
    • Departmental Reports
      333. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish, when completed, the full report by the ecological consultant, as appointed on 5 June 2024 to carry out a high-level...
    • Office of Public Works
      334. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail all of the construction projects currently tendered by the OPW throughout the State and to break down the cost and quantities...
    • Departmental Projects
      335. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how long the wall on the Hill of Tara has been under construction, the quantities involved and the cost to date. [3112/25]
    • EU Funding
      344. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps Ireland will take, and argue for at EU level, in simplifying access to EU funds over the coming period; and if he will make a...
    • Office of Public Works
      346. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the OPW’s total staff complement by its six business units, project management services, property management...
    • Coast Guard Service
      347. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail the size in square metres of the new Mayo Coast Guard station being built in Westport; the details of the bill of quantities...
    • Departmental Contracts
      348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and-or service officer or security officer roles...
    • Ministerial Staff
      350. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an updated copy of the "Instructions to HR Managers on the Staffing of Ministerial Office" produced for the incoming...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      352. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to...
    • Departmental Staff
      353. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their office;...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      355. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware that over seven years since the devastating floods at Burnfoot, County Donegal, in August 2017 planning permission has...
    • Flood Risk Management
      356. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans, schemes or supports he and the Office of Public Works have to ensure that the flooding that took place in Tallow, County...
    • An Garda Síochána
      357. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the up-to-date position regarding the building of a new Garda divisional headquarters in Northern Cross, Dublin 17; and when this...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      358. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he can detail the ongoing role of the Office of Public Works in relation to the Sandymount flood relief scheme now that a company...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      359. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to examine the case of pension arrears affecting a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3556/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career breaks,...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      362. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he intends to attend the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on 10 and 11 February 2025; the level of Government...
    • Trade Agreements
      363. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for details on his discussions with other EU Member States which oppose the Mercosur deal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Enterprise Policy
      365. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the actions being taken by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to support new businesses and jobs in County Meath. [2164/25]
    • Departmental Meetings
      366. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to urgently seek a meeting with the CEO and the board of management of a company (details supplied) and the I.D.A. to clarify the...
    • Business Supports
      367. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider accepting late applications to the Power Up scheme for an eligible business that missed the last deadline; and if...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      368. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the current and potential impact of artificial intelligence on the creative industries; the actions being taken by his...
    • Departmental Policies
      369. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans, if any, to update the critical skills list with the inclusion of hairdressing as meeting the criteria; and if he will make...
    • Industrial Development
      370. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits the IDA has carried out to Kildare towns and locations over the past five years; the locations and dates of...
    • Departmental Data
      371. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland-supported jobs in Kilkenny and Carlow, at the end of 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      372. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied), benefitting from State and semi-State contracts, has...
    • Business Supports
      373. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of a report (details supplied) highlighting the challenges faced by businesses in Tipperary due to severe storms, snow...
    • Legislative Reviews
      375. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider amending the legislation to extend the definition of ‘casual trading’ to include the provision of...
    • Trade Agreements
      376. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland’s ratification of the CETA trade agreement now falls to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Industrial Development
      377. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a detailed list of all the IDA grants given to a company (details supplied), from 2020 to date in 2025, including the sub heading...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      383. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2757/25]
    • Business Supports
      384. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reasons for the reclassification of certain business in relation to the power up scheme where businesses successfully received...
    • EU Directives
      386. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the transposition into Irish law of the Platform Work EU Directive; when this is likely to take place; and if he will...
    • Departmental Meetings
      388. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the CEO or other senior officials from major companies he spoke with during the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. [2891/25]
    • Weather Events
      389. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if financial assistance is available to businesses such as restaurants that lost perishable stock during storm Éowyn; and if he...
    • Ministerial Staff
      390. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that...
    • Post Office Network
      391. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason privately owned post offices are ineligible to receive his Department’s increased cost of business and Power Up...
    • Weather Events
      392. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if additional supports will be given to businesses that have had to close due to the effects of storm Éowyn; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Contracts
      393. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and-or service officer or security officer...
    • Oireachtas Members' Expenses
      395. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024, respectively; to...
    • Departmental Staff
      396. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to the office;...
    • Departmental Bodies
      397. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions an agency under his aegis (details supplied) plans to take in relation to a matter; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tourism Policy
      398. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he supports the introduction or enforcement of levies such as a tourist tax as set out in the Dublin City Taskforce as a measure...
    • Redundancy Payments
      399. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a company (details supplied) has notified him of redundancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3492/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      400. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when approval will issue to local authorities to issue payments to the remainder of outstanding applications under the 2024 increased...
    • Business Supports
      401. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are being offered to small businesses to promote local economic growth and job creation; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      402. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if measures will be introduced to encourage consumers to shop locally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3605/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      403. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career...
    • School Accommodation
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the emergency works application of a school (details supplied). [2167/25]
    • School Staff
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an SNA post for a school (details supplied) will be filled as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2181/25]
    • Weather Events
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post primary schools in north Offaly that were forced to close during the severe cold weather the country experienced...
    • Special Educational Needs
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the third special class at a school (details supplied). [2190/25]
    • School Accommodation
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the new school (details supplied) where children, staff and teachers are finding it difficult to continue using prefabs...
    • School Admissions
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a child (details supplied) has a secondary school place in September 2025. [2271/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 15 October 2024, when a person (details supplied) will receive an assessment for dyslexia; the...
    • Education Policy
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position on single-sex primary and post-primary schools; if she is taking steps to encourage single-sex schools to become co-educational...
    • School Transport
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the planned phasing out of the ‘nearest school’ rule for the school transport scheme; a timeline for its...
    • Child Protection
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her attention has been drawn to the calls from organisations (details supplied) for an urgent review of the reporting mechanism for the...
    • School Staff
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the position in relation to school caretakers; the timeframe for offers to be made to school caretakers; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned extension for a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; the projected timescale for construction to start; and if...
    • Teacher Training
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind the relocation of the Donegal Education Centre to Letterkenny. [2366/25]
    • School Staff
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills about the steps being taken to ensure that school secretaries receive equal treatment in accessing public service pension schemes. [2367/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building project (details supplied); the timeline for progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2429/25]
    • School Facilities
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department has had regarding the transfer of a site (details supplied) in County Sligo; and the expected date of completion....
    • Schools Building Projects
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans being put in place for a new school (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [2433/25]
    • School Admissions
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a suitable school place will be found for a child (details supplied). [2437/25]
    • School Accommodation
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of planning applications there have been in relation to the new school building for a school (details supplied) since it was...
    • School Transport
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance or a grant can be given to provide transport (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2444/25]
    • School Funding
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the role of her Department in promoting the delivery of sport in primary and secondary schools as well as in further and higher...
    • School Transport
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the cases of children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2501/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the location for the new special school in Nenagh has been decided on. [2504/25]
    • School Equipment
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding stream available to a school (details supplied) to apply for an AED defibrillator, or if the Department of Health will provide one....
    • Special Educational Needs
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to collecting data on the educational outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing students. [2512/25]
    • School Staff
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to give retiring school secretaries access to public service pension schemes, and other leave schemes, in view...
    • Special Educational Needs
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reconsider the decision to refuse an ASD class at a school (details supplied) given that there is a waiting list for such...
    • Education Policy
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a policy for Irish in the education system from early childhood education to third level has been developed based on the Common European...
    • School Facilities
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the timeline for the delivery of the modular building required for the ASD special class at a school (details...
    • School Transport
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a grant payment will issue to a school (details supplied) for bus escorts for the 2023/2024 school year; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2621/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the lack of provisions at secondary-school level for deaf pupils (details supplied) will be urgently addressed; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the permanent site plan for a school (details supplied), which was approved in 2020 and is due to expire in November 2025; when...
    • School Patronage
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she will fulfil the pledge of achieving 400 multidenominational schools by 2030. [2656/25]
    • Education Schemes
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she will develop the national therapy service in education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2657/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school building projects in north Kildare as of end-January 2025, in tabular form. [2658/25]
    • School Staff
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to address the teacher recruitment and retention crisis. [2659/25]
    • Weather Events
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she plans for schools to recover the school days missed in the academic year 2024/2025 following adverse weather conditions; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a place in a local secondary school will be available for a child (details supplied) who requires a place in a mainstream school with SNA...
    • Schools Building Projects
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress of a second modular building as a SEN base to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Inspections
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position regarding the findings of any reports commissioned by, or otherwise furnished to, her or her Department regarding defects at a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a new school application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2729/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to assist a school in south Kerry (details supplied) with the setting up of a special classroom for children with specific needs and autism; and...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the Ministerial brief she received following the recent formation of the Government. [2756/25]
    • School Accommodation
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2782/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on progress made since May 2024 regarding the development of the permanent buildings for a community college (details...
    • School Enrolments
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is working with secondary schools in Galway city to ensure that all students in sixth class will have a school place in September 2025;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building project (details supplied); when the school will receive written confirmation of approved design; and if she...
    • Education and Training Provision
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to open an education centre in County Cavan; if she will outline her considerations and plans in relation to same; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which special education hours are allocated to a school; the format of an assessment or pre-assessment; the training provided; and...
    • School Costs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism by which schools are financially supported regarding costs associated with oil, electricity, and insurance; and if she will make a...
    • School Equipment
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to schools regarding the purchase and installation of solar panels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2816/25]
    • School Staff
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a person (details supplied) pending service history confirmation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2820/25]
    • School Enrolments
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are being provided by her Department to national schools under the threat of closure due to low enrolment numbers. [2870/25]
    • School Accommodation
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports and guidance given to national schools in regards to the leasing of sections of their premises to pre-schools. [2871/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current collaboration between the Department of Children, Disability and Equality and her Department in terms of signposting the level of...
    • School Facilities
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available to carry out necessary works in a special school (details supplied) given the poor and unsafe conditions. [2876/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the proposed expansion works at a school (details supplied). [2906/25]
    • School Transport
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to meet with representatives of a school bus campaign (details supplied). [2908/25]
    • Schools Administration
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she would consider the idea, as exists in social housing, of a mutual transfer facility for students with neurological challenges who...
    • State Examinations
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the current Junior Certificate grading system; if she would consider reviewing to bring in line with the Leaving...
    • Departmental Policies
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she intends to ensure that the voices of students and young people will influence Department policy; what mechanisms are and will be put in...
    • Public Sector Staff
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of public sector workers in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare, per sector (details supplied), in tabular form; and if...
    • Ministerial Staff
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to her, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that special...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3069/25]
    • School Accommodation
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give the go-ahead for the provision of two modular classrooms which are urgently required for a school (details supplied); to address this...
    • Schools Building Projects
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has approved an extension to an existing school (details supplied), which is to meet the needs of children on the autism...
    • School Curriculum
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when information will be published about changes to senior cycle subjects, which can be used to help 5th year students pick their final year...
    • Schools Building Projects
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the new building for a school (details supplied), including overall student intake and the timings and phases for construction...
    • Special Educational Needs
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for any details on the general location of an additional special school in Dublin north; the projected student intake; and if she will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans, if any, to consider a school (details supplied) for the DEIS programme, similar to the national school in the same area; and if she...
    • Departmental Contracts
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer roles to private...
    • School Management
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can clarify when they first have records of a school (details supplied). [3228/25]
    • Departmental Communications
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will accept the invitation to visit a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3230/25]
    • School Patronage
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the planned national survey of parental preferences relating to school ethos, gender mix and education through English or Irish will be...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to her Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to provide a...
    • Ministerial Staff
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the composition of her private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their office; whether they...
    • School Accommodation
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has any plans to expand Irish-medium second level school provision in Dublin Rathdown; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the severe supply shortage of teachers currently impacting primary and post primary education; the steps that...
    • School Textbooks
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that only strictly age-appropriate teaching material is communicated to pupils at primary level; if she is...
    • Special Educational Needs
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of each new special school to be established in 2025; the enrolment for each school and the waiting lists for each place; and if she...
    • School Staff
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the number of vacant teaching posts in primary and secondary schools in the Dublin south west constituency; how...
    • Special Educational Needs
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of schools in Kildare north that are on the waiting list for an ASD unit; and the length of these waiting lists. [3443/25]
    • School Admissions
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision for new primary and second level school places in Kildare north, with reference to the rapidly expanding population [3447/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what plans, if any, her Department has for a new school building for a secondary school in Dublin 2, 4 or 6; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Curriculum
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to reduce the number of exemptions from studying Irish at second level; the number of special assistant teachers that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status on the new development at a school (details supplied); when it is due to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school inclusion model; the name and number of schools involved; the progress to date and future plans for expansion; and if...
    • School Accommodation
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent and estimated cost of damage to school buildings across the State resulting from storm Éowyn; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Staff
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to address the staffing crisis in secondary schools as identified in a survey (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the indicative timeline for works on a new building at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3566/25]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand and improve the DEIS scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3567/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on plans to move children from the special care unit at a school (details supplied); to detail the healthcare and teaching staff...
    • School Enrolments
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of spaces available for incoming first year students in mainstream secondary schools within the school planning area of Ashbourne,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to address the shortage of special needs assistants, particularly for students with autism; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans are in place to increase access to Gaelscoileanna in response to growing parental demand; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be allocated to school-based mental health services to support students experiencing anxiety and depression; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 23 October 2024, to provide an update on the large-scale project for a school (details supplied)...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Staff
      528. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of requests to his Department that were granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests...
    • Departmental Funding
      529. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projects that received funding from the recent tranche of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund which were not the...
    • Social Media
      533. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on actions taken by his Department in response to the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and...
    • Media Sector
      534. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on actions taken by his Department in response to the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and...
    • Culture Policy
      535. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider introducing legislation to establish the annual Rose of Tralee Festival on a legally enshrined status, to...
    • Sports Facilities
      536. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a funding scheme for the provision of paddle courts in towns and villages across County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      537. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current status of an application by a club (details supplied); when a decision on the appeal will be made; and if he will make...
    • Programme for Government
      539. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will publish the Ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2770/25]
    • Sports Funding
      540. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to review the case of an appeal on a sports grant for a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Commemorative Events
      541. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when details of the 2025 National Famine Commemoration will be announced. [2819/25]
    • Swimming Pools
      542. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the Gus Healy Swimming Pool Nursery Drive, Ballinlough, Cork city, on refurbishment of the pool and any future...
    • Arts Policy
      543. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the capital funding schemes available for the renovation or rebuild of theatres or performance and rehearsal spaces; and if he...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      544. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on funding for public service broadcasting; his further views on whether independent broadcasters should be permitted to...
    • Ministerial Staff
      545. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that...
    • Departmental Contracts
      546. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer...
    • Oireachtas Members' Remuneration
      548. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024, respectively;...
    • Departmental Staff
      549. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their...
    • Sports Funding
      550. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will carry out an urgent review of the decision by his Department late in 2024 not to provide funding to a centre (details...
    • Sports Events
      551. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he intends to list the Six Nations tournament as a designated event that must be carried free to air; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Language
      552. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional supports will be provided to promote the Irish language in schools and public life; and if he will make a statement...
    • Sports Facilities
      553. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for community sports facilities and recreational spaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3607/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career...
    • Mining Industry
      556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what contacts have been made with his Department by the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure in relation to...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the work of his Department in progressing national guidelines for the development of solar farms; and if he will...
    • Public Sector Staff
      558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of public sector workers in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare, per sector (details supplied), in...
    • Housing Schemes
      563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people in receipt of the housing assistance payment in County Clare for each of the years from 2020 to 2024,...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what measures he is taking to address invasive species in Killarney National Park (details supplied). [2134/25]
    • Housing Policy
      568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanisms, if any, available for cost rental tenants to transfer property to another cost rental unit; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to abolish the means testing for the housing adaptation grant for disabled persons, the mobility aids grant, and the housing...
    • Local Authorities
      570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to Offaly County Council on an annual basis from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [2183/25]
    • Weather Events
      571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedures in place for county councils to apply for additional funding during severe weather; and if he will make a...
    • Architectural Heritage
      572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to offer additional support to preserve thatched roofs, given the additional costs associated with keeping up...
    • Planning Issues
      573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the implementation of the Ministerial Action Plan on Planning Resources; if each of the five working groups...
    • Housing Provision
      574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities currently using choice-based letting to make social housing allocations. [2239/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the housing supports that are available to persons suffering from mental health issues; and if he will make a...
    • Register of Electors
      577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the issue of voter registration will be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2306/25]
    • Rental Sector
      578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to urgently address the situation whereby old-age pensioners have seen their council rents increase, by the same amount as...
    • Local Authorities
      579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with Cork County Council on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2341/25]
    • Wastewater Treatment
      580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has engaged with Uisce Eireann in regard to the need for a wastewater treatment plant in Shannonvale, County Cork;...
    • Defective Building Materials
      582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department is considering special considerations to the enhanced defective concrete block scheme such as...
    • Housing Provision
      584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of and estimated timing for a decision on properties (details supplied). [2397/25]
    • Rental Sector
      585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord can enter into a HAP agreement with a tenant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Language
      586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to sanction an allocation of a full-time Irish language officer at a county council (details supplied)....
    • Construction Industry
      587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the statutory register for architectural technologists to give them recognition alongside other sector...
    • Heritage Projects
      588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update with regard to the books of Innisfallen potentially being relocated to Ireland (details supplied); and if...
    • Housing Schemes
      589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility requirements for a property to avail of the vacant property refurbishment grant scheme of croí...
    • Planning Issues
      590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new homes granted planning permission in Dublin city in each of the years 2020-2024 inclusive, by local...
    • Housing Provision
      591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new home completions in Dublin city in each of the years 2020-2024 inclusive, by local electoral area and type...
    • Planning Issues
      592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a controlled derogation of planning permission law can be introduced during the term of this Government, to allow for an...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates on which a newly established steering group between Dublin local authorities and his Department will meet to prepare...
    • Local Authorities
      594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current situation in relation to the purchase of local authority houses by tenants; if he plans to review this situation;...
    • Housing Policy
      595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 710 of 22 January 2025, to confirm that no circular has been issued to local authorities...
    • Energy Conservation
      596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand the scope of the local authority energy efficiency retrofit scheme by including windows and doors, heat...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on marine protected area legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2700/25]
    • Housing Policy
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the proliferation of log cabin/wooden residential structures for on sites, in back yards and gardens...
    • Housing Schemes
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce a scheme of affordable housing and low-cost sites for towns and villages with a population of less than...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2764/25]
    • Defective Building Materials
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will bring forward an amendment to the Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022, allowing the increase in the cap to be...
    • European Union
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his engagements with his European counterparts, and the European Union, regarding assistance to alleviate...
    • Housing Policy
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is in favour of tiny homes being built in Ireland; if he plans to update planning policy and planning legislation to...
    • Housing Schemes
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people that have applied to Cork County Council for the tenant-in-situ scheme and the tenant (incremental)...
    • Vacant Properties
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding available for the renovation or renewal of vacant commercial premises; if none exists, whether he is intending to...
    • Ministerial Staff
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by...
    • Rental Sector
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of properties registered with each local authority for short-term rentals; the total number of applications...
    • Defective Building Materials
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for delivering on the commitment in the Programme for Government to extend the eligibility for the pyrite...
    • Local Authorities
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering additional funding to local authorities such as South Dublin County Council, to enable the council to...
    • Commercial Rates
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rate reviews that have taken place in Cork County Council in the past decade; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Derelict Sites
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of derelict properties in Meath in the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Policy
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any new programmes planned, or being implemented, in Meath to address the current level of homelessness; and if...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports available to people who lost their home due to storm Éowyn and now have to find alternative accommodation...
    • Departmental Contracts
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer...
    • Departmental Staff
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently directly employs cleaners and/or service officers; if so, the number...
    • Departmental Transport
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024...
    • Departmental Staff
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their...
    • Water Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports available to urban communities in establishing group sewerage schemes to replace failed shared sewers in older...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received responses from the four Dublin local authorities to his letter of 18 October 2024 regarding...
    • Housing Schemes
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the body that provides the letter required as part of the application confirming that the applicant is a first-time buyer in...
    • Departmental Reviews
      626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the review of the existing suite of engineering qualifications in the local government sector commenced by the previous...
    • Heritage Projects
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date for the announcement of the Community Monuments Fund 2025; if funding will be granted towards Coolbane Mill,...
    • Housing Provision
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that are being taken to ensure the delivery of 60,000 homes annually, including the increased use of modular...
    • Rental Sector
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if measures will be introduced to strengthen renters’ rights, including increasing RTB powers; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if reforms to planning regulations will be considered to facilitate the conversion of derelict buildings and vacant spaces...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Departmental Staff
      633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of requests to his Department that have granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such...
    • Poverty Data
      634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the level of consistent poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon,...
    • Social Welfare Code
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on his officials' engagement with the Office of the Attorney General and the office of the Parliamentary...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider reviewing the criteria for illness benefit, to enable those who are self-employed and paying an S Class PRSI...
    • Pensions Reform
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the budget increase of €12 for contributory and non-contributory pensions has been reached each year; if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on an application for a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied). [2402/25]
    • Social Welfare Code
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for when the means test will be abolished for the carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Citizens Information Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will re-establish the independent and impartial County Tipperary Citizens Information Service (details supplied); if he...
    • Social Welfare Code
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the supplementary welfare allowance can be used to replace gas boilers for those who do not have the means to pay to...
    • School Meals Programme
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to address an issue over the hot lunch programme affecting a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance appeal decision will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social welfare recipients can be refused an additional needs payment to help cover the increased cost of fuel or heating...
    • Social Welfare Code
      668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason domiciliary care allowance ceases at 16 years of age; if he will increase the age limit in line with child benefit...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a carer’s allowance application (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Public Services Card
      672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the renewal of a public service card needs to be done in person and no longer via phone or online,...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of illness benefit payments to a person (details supplied). [2668/25]
    • Septic Tanks
      675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision can be made under the additional needs payment to fund the emptying of septic tank systems until power is...
    • School Meals Programme
      676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if parents are entitled to have information regarding where the ingredients are sourced for the school meals recently rolled...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will publish the Ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2768/25]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a review of the invalidity pension application of a person (details supplied). [2783/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider expanding the humanitarian assistance scheme to cover commercial, agricultural and small businesses who have...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal against a refusal of disability allowance (details supplied); and if he...
    • School Meals Programme
      684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools under the hot meal programme currently; and the number of schools which have registered complaints with...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when he expects a decision will be made on an appeal for a domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied) who...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disability allowance will be approved immediately for a person (details supplied); if an oral hearing will be arranged...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial assistance is available to persons who rely on medical devices powered by electricity to purchase electricity...
    • Ministerial Staff
      690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a schedule of special advisors attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the decision to revoke the free travel scheme for a person (details supplied). [3013/25]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of farm assist in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a...
    • School Meals Programme
      716. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of students who benefit from the school meals scheme in the county of Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the working family payment in County Clare, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection about the case of a person (details supplied) who, having applied for and being refused an invalidity pension, appealed this...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to a carer’s allowance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Community Welfare Services
      722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers per county; the number for the past three years per county, in tabular form; and if...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is considering any changes to the back-to-education allowance to allow PhD students or those studying a course that is...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if individuals whose local post office has been closed due to storm Éowyn and who have not been able to attend a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security...
    • Departmental Data
      729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024...
    • Departmental Staff
      730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to the...
    • Legislative Programme
      731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether the social welfare (bereaved partner's pension) Bill, which completed pre-legislative scrutiny in the Thirty-third...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the working family payment in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive;...
    • State Pensions
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the State pension, non-contributory, in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail, for 2020 inclusive to date in 2025, in tabular form, the total number of applications for the domiciliary care...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      762. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the purchase of diesel for the purpose of running a generator falls within the scope of the humanitarian assistance...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of back payments to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3516/25]
    • State Pensions
      764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a State pension which has been declined due to insufficient contributions; if an application...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a second-tier child benefit payment will be introduced for low-income families in response to the high levels of child...
    • Social Welfare Code
      766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional supports that are being considered to improve employment opportunities and social welfare provisions for...
    • Departmental Staff
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or...
    • Freedom of Speech
      769. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with citizens who are the target of strategic lawsuits against public participation on environmental issues....
    • Departmental Inquiries
      770. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that have been put in place to ensure full co-operation by the State with the Omagh bombing inquiry; and if she...
    • Prison Service
      771. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports available to persons who are newly released from prison; and to provide a list of the agencies responsible for...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      773. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-scooters that have been confiscated by Gardaí nationwide in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular...
    • An Garda Síochána
      775. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí waiting on transfer requests (D19 applications) in An Garda Síochána. [2151/25]
    • Juvenile Offenders
      778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile liaison officers based in the Meath division as of 15 January 2025. [2166/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to each Garda station in County Donegal, per electoral area, in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and...
    • Domestic Violence
      787. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refuge spaces in the years 2019 to date; the number of refuge spaces per county in the years 2019 to date; the...
    • Drug Dealing
      788. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the Programme for Government and the commitment to explore the possibility of requiring social media...
    • Prison Service
      789. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he will take to expand prison capacity such as alternatives to prison; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sentencing Policy
      790. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to the formation of a special, expert committee to consult on the delivery of sentencing...
    • Programme for Government
      792. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the commitment to tackle retail defamation in the Programme for Government, to outline how retail defamation is...
    • Visa Applications
      793. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made regarding an application to the immigrant investor programme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Probate Applications
      794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update from the Courts Service on the progress of the e-probate project under the Courts Modernisation Programme; and if...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Ballymun Implementation Board which was announced in February 2024; whether there have been any changes to...
    • Visa Applications
      796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a visitor visa application for a person (details supplied). [2403/25]
    • Family Reunification
      797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a family reunification application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [2404/25]
    • Citizenship Applications
      799. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if the application will be expedited. [2406/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      801. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to each Garda station in south Kildare, by rank; the opening hours of each of those...
    • Legal Aid
      802. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department sets the fees for solicitors on the Legal Aid Board's private panels or only sets out the overall budget....
    • Legal Services Regulation
      803. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when barristers can expect their fees to be fully restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2514/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      804. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Dublin station, in each month, over the past year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      806. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 987 of 22 January 2025, the number of sex offender management and intelligence unit...
    • Domestic Violence
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of emergency calls to An Garda Síochána reporting domestic abuse, by county and-or Garda district, in...
    • Online Safety
      808. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will implement measures in the first 100 days of Government as requested by an organisation (details supplied). [2579/25]
    • Citizenship Applications
      809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2622/25]
    • International Terrorism
      811. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of German media reports that a terror threat against Ireland was posted earlier in January which has since been...
    • Departmental Data
      812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2765/25]
    • Stardust Fire
      813. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce a compensation scheme for survivors of the Stardust tragedy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile liaison officers based in Clare Garda division in the years of 2023 and 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      815. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on purchasing baton guns for armed gardaí in 2023 and 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [2887/25]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      816. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed penalty notices, FPNs, that gardaí issued for parking on a footpath in 2024; and if An Garda...
    • Citizenship Applications
      817. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the status of a citizenship application (details supplied); when it is likely that a decision will be reached...
    • An Garda Síochána
      820. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to list the number of members of An Garda Síochána in each of the local electoral areas of the county of Clare, by...
    • Departmental Staff
      822. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by...
    • An Garda Síochána
      823. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of Gardaí, by rank, in the organisation; the number of Garda reservists; and...
    • Court Accommodation
      825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to ensure that funding is finally provided for the construction of the new courthouse on the site acquired in Portlaoise; and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí, by rank, attached to the Garda band, as of 29 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • European Court of Justice
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline how Ireland engages with and interacts with the European Public Prosecutor’s Office; his plans to evolve this...
    • An Garda Síochána
      828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí in Meath as of January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3162/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      829. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer...
    • Departmental Data
      831. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024...
    • Departmental Staff
      832. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their...
    • Prison Service
      833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners currently slopping out in Irish prisons, by prison, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Regulations
      836. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps a person (details supplied) can take to register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3337/25]
    • Penalty Points System
      839. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed penalty notices that Gardaí issued for parking on double yellow lines on Newbrook Road, Dublin 13 in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars and vans attached to Waterford Garda division as of 27 January 2025; If he will provide same figures...
    • Policing Co-operation
      841. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to consider reinstating the joint policing committees (JPCs) that have been replaced by community safety partnerships, or...
    • An Garda Síochána
      843. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many Garda recruits who completed their training in 2023 and 2024 are still awaiting a start date; the average wait time...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      844. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Government intends to introduce the conveyancer profession, in line with recommendations for improving access to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      846. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are being introduced to increase the Garda presence in Dublin city centre and address crime and anti-social...
    • Crime Prevention
      847. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that are being taken to combat drug-related crime and gang activity in north Dublin; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Data
      852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of requests to his Department that have been granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests...
    • Insurance Coverage
      853. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider a scheme to provide financial support to farmers and small businesses that have suffered damage in recent storms in...
    • Environmental Policy
      854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is taking to protect Irish woodlands and their biodiversity moving forward from the effects of storms...
    • Water Quality
      855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will support the expansion of oyster farms as a means of improving water quality; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Supports
      856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the introduction of a farm retirement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2189/25]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed date of payment of the Cooley flood damage relief measure. [2262/25]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on an ACRES payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2313/25]
    • Agriculture Supports
      860. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the aquaculture assistance package that was mentioned in December 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      861. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the size and location of Coillte-owned lands in Kildare South; the plans to provide public walks in these locations; the access...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      862. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in Kerry waiting for GLAS and ACRES payments. [2515/25]
    • Animal Welfare
      863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the ongoing abuse of horses throughout the country with some horses left malnourished, abandoned, and suffering in...
    • Development Contributions
      864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to assist the local community with extension works to both the pontoon and slip at Portmagee Pier, County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payments under the acres scheme; the number of farmers impacted, by county; when the issue will be...
    • Greyhound Industry
      866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on his Department's consultation on surgical artificial insemination in greyhounds; when he will publish the outcomes...
    • Weather Events
      867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make emergency relief funding available to organic farmers and growers following damage to their polytunnels during Storm...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      869. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the Ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2753/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      871. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of contracts a company (details supplied) had with his Department in 2024 and to-date in 2025; the nature of services this...
    • Animal Diseases
      872. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2907/25]
    • Tree Remediation
      873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider banning the importation and planting of leylandii cypress trees given how susceptible these are to damage and...
    • European Council
      874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the EU Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 27 January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2917/25]
    • Weather Events
      876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider implementing a scheme to provide financial assistance to support farmers in purchasing back-up electricity...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      877. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2961/25]
    • Ministerial Staff
      878. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that...
    • Departmental Contracts
      879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer roles...
    • Departmental Staff
      880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently directly employs cleaners and/or service officers; if so, the number of...
    • Official Travel
      881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to...
    • Departmental Staff
      882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to the office;...
    • Farm Safety
      883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration has been given to the introduction of a safe pass style system for all farms; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings the high-level implementation committee has held monitoring the implementation of the Food Vision 2030...
    • Forestry Sector
      886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when guidelines and details of grant aid will issue to farmers whose forestry plantations have been damaged by storm Éowyn; if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress of a Garda investigation into a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3493/25]
    • Land Issues
      888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 336 of 7 November 2024, if further consideration will be given to the introduction of supports...
    • Departmental Staff
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Data
      890. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of requests to her Department that have granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      891. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to extend the ARP scheme to allow householders to accommodate migrants from countries other than...
    • Departmental Policies
      892. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider putting forward a proposal to introduce paid miscarriage leave as a specific payment, for a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      893. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the continuation of the accommodation recognition payment (ARP) for Ukrainian refugees (details...
    • After-School Support Services
      894. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people in receipt of the after school childcare scheme in County Clare, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023...
    • Departmental Funding
      896. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the midlands is one of only two regions of the country which still has not been funded for a...
    • Disability Services
      897. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive permanent respite; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Psychological Assessments
      898. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an autism assessment will be provided for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Executive
      899. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions she will take to remedy the situation for section 39 workers in Mallow, County Cork (details...
    • Childcare Services
      900. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare places currently available in Louth. [2229/25]
    • Disability Services
      905. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the care plan, including transport, being put in place for a person (details supplied)...
    • International Protection
      906. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of properties in County Monaghan being used for the purpose of State-supported accommodation...
    • Youth Services
      909. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if equipment funding is available for youth clubs to apply for; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      910. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether she will consider a sensitive excavation of the suspected burial grounds at Sean Ross Abbey; whether...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      912. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting time for a child to receive an assessment of need in the period after they have received an...
    • Disability Services
      914. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting time for a child to receive a therapy or other support appointment in the period after they...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      916. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an appointment will be made for a child (details supplied) for an autism assessment; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      917. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a place in an ASD class will be facilitated for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Child and Family Agency
      918. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the recent news article regarding scandals surrounding a company (details...
    • Childcare Services
      919. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parents can expect the €200 cap on childcare fees to be in place. [2413/25]
    • International Protection
      920. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in IPAS accommodation centres, by month, in the years 2023 to date; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      923. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the fact that under the Child Care Act 2024, childminders are not permitted...
    • Disability Services
      924. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts being made to recruit staff and reduce waiting lists for the children’s disability network...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      926. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department can provide an update on an assessment of need for a child (details supplied). [2495/25]
    • Disability Services
      927. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a respite care facility (details supplied) has closed; when the facility will reopen; and if she will...
    • Childcare Services
      929. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the national childcare scheme policies which are restricting after school...
    • Departmental Funding
      930. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide funding for a project in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      931. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current staffing levels within Longford CDNT within each discipline; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      932. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of professional staff vacancies within the Phoenix Centre/Longford Primary Care Centre; and...
    • Disability Services
      933. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of professional staff vacancies within the Longford CDNT; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Primary Care Centres
      935. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work her Department has undertaken to recruit medical professionals for the Phoenix Centre/Longford Primary...
    • Disability Services
      936. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting their initial speech and language appointment through the Phoenix...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      944. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting their assessment of needs in Longford; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      948. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding that has been allocated to Longford to improve the service delivery for children with disabilities;...
    • Youth Work Supports
      950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether she agrees that multi-annual funding should be introduced for the youth work sector in order to enable...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      958. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will consider a temporary pause on the decision to move the beneficiaries of temporary protection...
    • Childcare Services
      960. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which she intends lower the cost of childcare to €200 a month over the lifetime of this...
    • Asylum Seekers
      962. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the nature of accommodation for asylum seekers, Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection and residents in...
    • Disability Services
      965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the home support and respite hours being allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when these...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on her Department's work to draft policy around the provision of leave for parents of children...
    • International Protection
      967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the accommodation recognition payment...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      969. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will publish the Ministerial brief she received following the recent formation of the Government. [2754/25]
    • Statutory Leave Entitlements
      970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will commit to expanding statutory leave entitlements to those who experience pregnancy loss under 24...
    • Departmental Strategies
      971. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the development of the next national strategy for women and girls; the timeline she is working...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      972. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of legal actions taken against her Department due to a child not receiving an assessment of need...
    • Disability Services
      974. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of permanent residency spaces currently available for persons with disabilities in Cork and Kerry;...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      975. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the options for the parent of a child who has been unable to secure an ECCE placement (details...
    • Disability Services
      976. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the staff numbers and grade in each CDNT within Clare, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
    • International Protection
      977. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to extend the accommodation recognition payment beyond the current end date of 31 March 2025;...
    • Disability Services
      978. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide the current wait lists for assessments of needs for each local health area, including the...
    • Children in Care
      981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the issue where vulnerable children are left at risk as the courts are...
    • Child Protection
      983. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address systemic child protection issues, as outlined by the courts, in particular the...
    • International Protection
      984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to ensure that international protection applicants who avail of temporary accommodation as part of...
    • Childcare Services
      985. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to address the lack of childcare facilities in Youghal, County Cork; her plans to build and or...
    • Ministerial Staff
      986. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a schedule of special advisors attached to her, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or...
    • Disability Services
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the speech and language therapy appointment for a child (details supplied). [3126/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      988. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the special schools pilot providing delivery of in-school therapy supports to children in...
    • International Protection
      989. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for clarity on the accommodation recognition payment available to those providing accommodation to people who...
    • Departmental Contracts
      990. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service...
    • Departmental Staff
      991. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department, or any body under its aegis, currently directly employs cleaners and/or service officers; if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      992. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to her Department in 2023 and...
    • Ministerial Staff
      993. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list the composition of her private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant...
    • Disability Services
      994. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of respite hours for children provided to families in CHO6 in each of the past six months, in...
    • Heritage Sites
      996. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the findings of the chief archaeologist in reviewing the survey of land adjacent to the known burial ground in...
    • Planning Issues
      997. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the use of a private residential dwelling home as a residential care home for children in the care of the...
    • Disability Services
      998. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need, by CHO, age category and...
    • Childcare Services
      1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that will be taken to replace a cut in service hours in a childcare facility (details supplied)...
    • Disability Services
      1007. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams, by...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1010. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline her Department’s policy on the charging of non-refundable registration fees by early learning...
    • Childcare Services
      1011. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she will take the stop the closure of the afternoon session of an organisation (details supplied), a...
    • Disability Services
      1012. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the improvements that are being made to disability services, including personal assistant hours and respite...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way delays in disability assessments for children are being addressed; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Immigration Support Services
      1014. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if structured planning in relation to immigration will be improved, including investment in infrastructure to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1015. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures her Department is taking to encourage civil servants in her Department to take or avail of special...
  • Department of Health
    • Care Services
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health the additional respite care available to family members while their carer is on maternity leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3178/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in each general hospital nationwide; the number of medical beds, surgical beds, maternity beds, beds in accident and emergency, intensive...
    • Hospital Staff
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants employed in each hospital nationwide, by speciality, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2138/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute psychiatric beds available nationwide; the location of each; her plans to increase this number; the proposed location of any additional...
    • Hospital Staff
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses employed in each hospital nationwide, by specialty, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2140/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health the plans going forward for the approval of the psychiatric medication lumateperone (details supplied) for the treatment of bipolar disorder as part of the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the psychology appointment for a child (details supplied). [2156/25]
    • Health Services
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to cohorts (details supplied) to ensure essential medical care can be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2157/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) can be included on the drugs repayment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2158/25]
    • Hospital Charges
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health the extra revenue that would be generated if patient charges in HSE-funded hospitals for single-occupancy rooms increased by a further 20% based on 2024...
    • Ambulance Service
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health to implement a significant increase in ambulance cover for the residents of County Kerry and the tens of thousands of annual visitors to the county (details...
    • Health Services
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite the implementation of the business plan submitted by an organisation (details supplied) for the patients who attend a day service in...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the issue of mixed wards in hospitals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2182/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the crisis in neurological care in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2187/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reports of adverse effects, including suicidality, that the HPRA has received for doxcycline over the past 20 years; and the number of reports...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health how the HPRA is funded. [2196/25]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health to meet with persons (details supplied) concerning the death of a person. [2197/25]
    • Cancer Services
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to establish the way and the reason a woman (details supplied) failed to have her cancer diagnosed in a timely manner; and if she will...
    • Ambulance Service
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in CHO 4 who have left the National Ambulance Service; and the number of exit interviews conducted. [2206/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health when lumateperone will be added to the reimbursable list under the drugs payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2212/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE ambulances based in County Clare on a 24/7 basis in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE-employed smoking cessation officers based in CHO3 in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment could be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2227/25]
    • Dental Services
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the dental services provided under the medical card scheme; if all dentists throughout the country have signed up to the scheme; to outline, where...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the current number of children on waiting lists for a first outpatient appointment across all specialties in CHO 8; and the number who have...
    • Dental Services
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently awaiting a public dental assessment in Louth; the number that have been waiting for six months, twelve months, and for...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown for children currently waiting to access psychology services for CHO 8 and specifically for County Louth; the number of these children who have...
    • Mental Health Services
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown for children currently awaiting access to CAMHS services for CHO8 and specifically for County Louth; the number of these children who have been...
    • Departmental Properties
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health that the HSE arrange for a site inspection of the Weir Home for Nurses at Cork Street to potential interested parties, to facilitate a comprehensive...
    • Medicinal Products
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider adding the drug lumateperone a vital medication for bipolar depression to the drugs repayment scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently in hand awaiting processing by the HSE in CHO 8; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the primary healthcare centre in Dundalk at the former Carroll Village Shopping Centre, The Long Walk, Demesne, Dundalk,...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the policies in place to address repeated cancellations of surgeries for patients and provide information on when these patients will expect to...
    • Cancer Services
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that any woman at risk of breast cancer receives a correct diagnosis in a timely and efficient manner regardless of her age,...
    • Hospital Services
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of late payment fines paid out by CHO 8 hospitals in 2023 and 2024. [2273/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for assessment and treatment, respectively at the pain clinic in University Hospital Galway; the number of persons waiting for treatment; the...
    • Patient Transfers
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be transferred to Navan Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2289/25]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1073. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration was given under the commencement of outstanding provisions in the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023 in relation...
    • Mental Health Services
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review and reverse the planned changes to mental health services at Fertha View day centre, Cahersiveen, County Kerry, as these services are...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the freestyle libre monitoring device for free; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2301/25]
    • Medical Qualifications
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health if she has had any discussions with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science regarding recognition of clinical...
    • Home Help Service
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in Donegal (details supplied) will receive home help; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2307/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no ADHD clinic is available to adults in south Tipperary CHO 5; the plans to provide an ADHD clinic to adults in south Tipperary who require...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position in relation to a medical centre in County Tipperary (details supplied) following the retirement of a doctor; and if she will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all orphan medicines reimbursed in 2024; to confirm the date of the HSE executive management team’s decision; the date on which a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2323/25]
    • Asylum Seekers
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide therapeutic support for child asylum seekers and refugees coming from war zones including Gaza. [2326/25]
    • Patient Transfers
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient (details supplied) from County Donegal in Sligo University Hospital can be transferred to another hospital for a second opinion; and if she will...
    • Medicinal Products
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national plan to make hormone replacement therapy free to all women, which was due to be introduced on 1 January 2025, has not been...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs operating across County Mayo each year from 2020 to 2025; if she is aware of the serious shortage of GPs in Mayo; if a GP can refuse to...
    • Medical Cards
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health what the enhanced medical card covers for people in receipt of same, that is, the professional services such as physiotherapy, chiropody, ophthalmic and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the reason an appointment for a scan has been cancelled on four occasions; if the appointment...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of the diabetes sensor simplera (details supplied) for type 1 diabetics; when she expects this sensor to be available to Irish...
    • Mental Health Services
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to provide additional funding to meet a surge in demand for youth mental health services in County Leitrim. [2364/25]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address overcrowding at Beaumont Hospital in light of a recent report on inspections undertaken at the hospital in late 2024 (details...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements, if any, she has had with an organisation (details supplied) in 2024 and 2025 regarding the organisation’s concerns on the future of...
    • Medicinal Products
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure that a person (details supplied) receives their much-needed medication. [2372/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a full medical card was refused for a person (details supplied). [2373/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons inpatient step-down bed occupancy rates in Monaghan Hospital have been so low in recent months, falling to 66% on some occasions; and if she will...
    • Mental Health Services
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the mental health funding in the HSE National Service Plan (details supplied); to account for the savings of €19 million; the way...
    • Health Service Executive
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to keep the births, deaths and marriages office in Buncrana operational into the future should any staff there retire. [2395/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and the timeline for a person (details supplied) to access CAMHS as an urgent referral; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2398/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate steps she will take to address a shortage of public health nurses in Drumcondra and Glasnevin (details supplied). [2410/25]
    • Health Services
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she will take to ensure that preventative healthcare services, such as sufficient provision of public health nurses, are adequately resourced to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on plans to establish a vaccine solidarity scheme, to cover adverse events arising from State-provided vaccine programmes. [2415/25]
    • Health Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of respite beds in the Dingle-Tralee area of County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cancer Services
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the fact that there is currently no national screening for prostate cancer, which can be performed with a simple blood test; to commit to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a change since 2022 to the criteria required to deem a person incapable on medical grounds of regular and effective service, which would...
    • Medical Cards
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that many procedures are not covered by the medical card; and to commit to expanding access for all necessary medical procedures, including...
    • Health Services
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health if an agency (details supplied) is funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004. [2435/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2440/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the shortage of beds in University Hospital Limerick, in view of the fact that a person (details supplied) had a planned procedure cancelled on...
    • Health Services Staff
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health when the recruitment process will commence to fill two vacant speech and language therapy posts with Sligo/Leitrim primary care services. [2453/25]
    • Misuse of Drugs
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on any proposals in relation to legislating for the regulation of hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) for sale for human consumption that is, vaping in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2466/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to include the medication lumateperone (which is for the treatment of bipolar depression) onto the drugs repayment scheme; and if she will...
    • Nursing Homes
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently allow for a transfer of a person (details supplied) from their nursing home in County Cork to a nursing home in County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Dental Services
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health to outline any provisions available for a person with a medical card to be seen by a dentist in their locality; if the treatment of replacement dentures will...
    • Health Services
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health whether she plans to reopen an HSE clinic (details supplied); and, if not, the plans for that building. [2486/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health the steps persons should take in cases where they cannot access a general practitioner service in their own town (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available or planned, to provide consultation and assessment clinics for adults with ADHD in the Cavan/Monaghan area; and if she will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health the funding stream available to a school (details supplied) to apply for an AED defibrillator, or if the Department of Health will provide one. [2508/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs in Westport, County Mayo; if she plans to provide more training places for doctors; and if she will incentivise them to live and work in...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health if a plan is now in place to ensure staffing levels in Ballyboden primary care centre, in particular OTs and physiotherapists; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health if plans are in place to recruit additional public health nurses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2522/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the primary care centre in Graiguenamanag; when she expects this centre to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health how plans are progressing in relation to the new local injuries unit in Carlow; when she expects this unit to be available; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent investment will be made to improve waiting lists and bed accommodation numbers, availability and accident and emergency overcrowding and waiting...
    • Home Help Service
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care support hours provided for older people in the Kilkenny and Carlow area in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2539/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on legislation banning the sale of disposable nicotine inhaling products or vapes, banning the sale of flavoured nicotine inhaling products and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a case of a person in County Kerry (details supplied); if she will provide assistance in resolving the issue; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Care Services
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health to address a crisis in respect of a person (details supplied) by providing a permanent bed in Dingle Community Hospital as a matter of extreme urgency; and if...
    • Home Care Packages
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health to fully review the national home care waiting list with a view to correcting the urban-rural imbalance which shows a quarter of the waiting list is based in...
    • Medical Cards
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card renewal application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2570/25]
    • Health Services
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health the services and supports that will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2573/25]
    • Dental Services
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health her views on reports in a newspaper (details supplied) on 26 January 2025, that a dentist who is currently under inquiry by the UK’s General Dental...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the Covid guidelines for staff of hospitals during the period of January to July 2022, in particular returning to work, course of action if showing...
    • Health Services
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of palliative care services nationally, by regional health area, with an outline of the type and duration of service offered,...
    • Eating Disorders
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of eating disorders services, including regional team staffing levels and inpatient bed numbers, in the south west regional...
    • Mental Health Services
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychology posts advertised within the south west regional health area primary care services since 1 July 2024; the contract type (fixed-term or...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of professional staff vacancies within the Phoenix Centre-Longford Primary Care Centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health when a child in Cork (details supplied) will receive the support he needs from the child and adolescent mental health services; and if she will make a...
    • Dental Services
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health when orthodontic treatment can be provided to a child (details supplied) in County Cork, particularly in light of their medical history and circumstances; and...
    • Health Services
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the chiropody services available in the public health system, including to those with a medical card; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the funding approval for the development of the health centre in Ballyhale, County Kilkenny; and the timeline for the delivery of the project....
    • Medical Cards
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the medical card application for a person (details supplied). [2673/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons removed from waiting lists through the outpatient waiting list management protocol in 2022, 2023, and 2024, respectively; the number of...
    • Medicinal Products
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to make a drug (details supplied) free; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2694/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the medical card application of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2710/25]
    • Health Services
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons an organisation (details supplied) was not granted funding for a 2023-24 pilot scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2731/25]
    • Dental Services
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health if a dental assessment will be arranged immediately for a child (details supplied); and if the treatment required can be procured in the private sector. [2738/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment from a CAMHS-ID specialist (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish the ministerial brief she received following the recent formation of the Government. [2763/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to include lumateperone within the drugs payment scheme; the status of any considerations; the timeframe in which it may be included; and if she...
    • Cancer Services
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which persons over 69 years are excluded from bowel cancer screening; if she has considered facilitating screening for those aged over 69 years;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health if a dietician has been hired for Éist Linn in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2777/25]
    • Health Services
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) to ensure they are granted access to dietetic support. [2784/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health to consider the immediate issuance of a temporary medical card for a two to three month period to any citizen receiving a cancer diagnosis, covering the time...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health the grant aid and funding available from her Department to a community group to assist in the provision and installation of a defibrillator in a public space....
    • Healthcare Policy
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to recognise polycystic ovary syndrome as a chronic condition under the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to cover medications like Ozempic under the drug payment scheme for polycystic ovary syndrome, due to insulin resistance being a core symptom of the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the current status of the free HRT scheme roll-out; an updated timeline for the roll-out of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health whether a person with a serious medical condition (details supplied) could be provided with a GP in the town they have lived in for seven years (details...
    • Health Strategies
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the new national sexual health strategy; the timeline she is working towards for its publication; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to improve sexual health services in Cork; if increased resources will be provided to expand the opening hours of existing sexual health clinics and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to include screening for HSV1 and HSV2 in the HSE’s free home STI test kits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2828/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2829/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of communications received by HSE MyOptions from women in unplanned pregnancies in 2020-24, inclusive, by category, by month, in tabular form; and...
    • Legislative Process
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the drafting, publication and introduction of the proposed nicotine inhaling products Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections carried out by the HSE environmental health service of each of manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers of e-cigarettes...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health the number of test purchase inspections of the sale of tobacco and vaping products carried out in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2835/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand the age cohorts included under the free contraception scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2837/25]
    • Dental Services
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists based in Cork north central that have left the dental treatment service scheme since 2020; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dual diagnosis teams across the State; the number that are operational; the catchment areas they serve; the number that are fully staffed; and...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the status of progress in development of a primary care centre in Douglas, Cork. [2851/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the current status of the former HSE health centre and future plans for the building in Passage West, County Cork. [2852/25]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the availability of beds for the provision of detox services for alcohol and drug addiction in County Cork. [2853/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists based at Ennis Mental Health Day Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE medical social workers based in Ennis General Hospital, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres currently in use at Limerick Maternity Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2859/25]
    • Abortion Services
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health whether any independent research has been undertaken into the impact and effect of telemedicine abortion in Ireland since its introduction in the spring of...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, for a new primary care facility in Dungloe, County Donegal; if her attention has been drawn to the urgent need for one; and if she will...
    • Hospital Staff
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE midwives based in each of the three maternity hospitals within Dublin as of 28 January 2025; and if she will provide the corresponding...
    • Health Services Staff
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE stop smoking advisors employed by the HSE currently within CHO9; the length of time each of those posts has been vacant since; and...
    • Nursing Homes
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2902/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) diagnosed with functional neurologic disorder (FND) can be funded in these exceptional circumstances by the HSE to attend a...
    • Hospital Services
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health to address the chronic situation that exists at University Hospital Kerry accident and emergency department by providing a new 96 bed block in addition to the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health to provide as a matter of priority a permanent oncology-haematology build at University Hospital Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health to return as a matter of extreme urgency, staffing levels at University Hospital Kerry to December 2023 levels across all disciplines, with occupational...
    • Hospital Services
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health if ENT services will be retained at University Hospital Kerry where the ENT consultant is due to retire in May 2025 (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to provide additional parking for staff at University Hospital Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2937/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to provide additional office accommodation at University Hospital Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2938/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of the population of County Clare with a medical card or GP visit card for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practising GPs in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2978/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly employed community nurses in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-term residential care centres and long-term residential care beds in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and...
    • Home Care Packages
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of publicly financed home care hours per person by age for County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a schedule of special advisors attached to her, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that special advisor. [3000/25]
    • Health Services
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health if breastfeeding support groups in Carrigtwohill primary care centre, County Cork, will be recommenced this year by the HSE; if so, the date they will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3070/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case and expedite a review of an ambulance base (details supplied) in need of upgrading; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3073/25]
    • Health Services
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who having undergone cataract surgeries at Kingsbridge Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast in 2019 has been...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      1242. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical evacuations to Ireland of Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank to date; her plans for future evacuations; and if she will make a...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health if a regulatory impact assessment and/or the SME test were carried out in advance of the signing of Statutory Instrument No. 736 of 2024; if she intends to...
    • Hospital Services
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Mallow General Hospital is being used to facilitate an overflow of medical patients from Cork University Hospital; to provide a definite date when...
    • Health Services
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the blood transfusion service has transferred to Cork University Hospital; the number of staff that have been relocated because of the change; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health how many staff vacancies arose during the HSE recruitment freeze; how many of those vacancies have been filled since the lifting of the freeze; and if she...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in Cork (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3099/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health to prioritise the funding required for the construction of a primary care centre in Portlaoise town, given the town and surrounding area does not have one;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an inpatient appointment at Galway University Hospital in advance of a major operation; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      1253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dietitians working in CHO5 primary care services in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1254. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget allocated to St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3122/25]
    • Departmental Properties
      1255. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant and or derelict buildings in the ownership of the HSE and or her Department; the details of how her Department is addressing these vacant...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1256. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the decision not to include the shingles vaccine in the national immunisation programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Emergency Departments
      1259. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate her intentions and outline her plans to retain and upgrade services at Navan Hospital accident and emergency; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1260. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to assist Irish physiotherapists with qualifications from European Union Member States such as the Netherlands in completing CORU...
    • Medicinal Products
      1261. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration could be given to approving all patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus to qualify for reimbursement for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1263. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer roles to private companies; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department, or any body under its aegis, currently directly employs cleaners and/or service officers; if so, the number of staff employed in each role;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health when the freeze on public health nurses conducting developmental checks for all children in the Killester/Millmount area in Dublin will end; what steps are...
    • Departmental Data
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to her Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to provide a breakdown for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health to list the composition of her private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their office; whether they are located...
    • Health and Safety
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health to examine issues affecting family homes and a special area of conservation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3280/25]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health the number of routine hospital treatments between September 2024 and December 2024 that were delayed as a result of high flu and respiratory cases in...
    • Ambulance Service
      1271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advanced paramedics on call each day between September 2024 and December 2024, by CHO, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health when the free hormone replacement therapy scheme announced under budget 2025 will come into effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3292/25]
    • Disability Services
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an up-to-date list of the full range of respite services available in County Donegal for children and adults with disabilities and their families....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to progress a surgical hub at Letterkenny, County Donegal to reduce waiting lists for patients in the county and to attract and retain...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for physiotherapy, by CHO, and age category and time waiting, in tabular form. [3319/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on an acute hospital waiting list, by age category, hospital, speciality and time waiting, in tabular form. [3328/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the strategic review of general practice; the timeline for completion of the final report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3329/25]
    • Home Care Packages
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form. [3330/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1292. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges, by category and hospital, in tabular form. [3332/25]
    • Home Help Service
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce a statutory right to homecare; the timeline she is working towards in publishing the legislation; the status of her...
    • Health Services Staff
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a position has remained vacant in a PrEP clinic since 2023 (details supplied); if recruitment has begun; the timeline being worked towards; and if...
    • Public Sector Staff
      1295. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public sector workers in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare under headings (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1296. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practising GPs in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3381/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1299. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly employed community nurses in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1306. To ask the Minister for Health all the section 38 agencies that operate in County Clare; the type of service provided by each; the total grant received by each agency for each of the years...
    • Medical Cards
      1309. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage and number of the population with a medical card who are receiving a prescription for a chronic health condition in County Clare for each of...
    • Health Services
      1310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-term residential care centres and long-term residential care beds in County Clare for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and...
    • Home Care Packages
      1311. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of publicly financed home care hours, per person, by age for County Clare, for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Fuel Poverty
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health the measures put in place by her Department to alleviate fuel and energy poverty in County Clare from 2020 to 2024; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1313. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that access to CAMHS is delayed for a child (details supplied) for a minimum of 13 months, when this person is on a priority list for the service;...
    • Hospital Services
      1314. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding the provision of a new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; and when this project will move to the next...
    • Health Services
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health whether the case for a refund for a person (details supplied) will be re-examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3440/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1316. To ask the Minister for Health when the free HRT scheme, which was announced in budget 2025, will become available; and if there is a timeframe for the roll-out of the scheme. [3441/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1318. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients for each quarter of each of the years 2019 to 2024, Statewide...
    • Ambulance Service
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health further to the programme for Government commitment, if she will ensure the full implementation of the recommendations of the HSE/Dublin City Council Joint...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health for an update in relation to the proposed HSE primary health care centres in Rathmines, Baggot Street and Terenure; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities for each quarter for each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form. [3487/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health for a comparison of the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO and clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes...
    • Hospital Services
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed transfers of care for each quarter of 2019 to 2024; the number of delayed discharges and the number as a percentage of all discharges;...
    • Health Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, for December of each year 2019, 2023, and 2024 and for...
    • Mental Health Services
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on CAMHS waiting lists, by CHO and length of wait, at the end of each quarter of each year 2019 to 2024, in tabular form. [3508/25]
    • Abortion Services
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the Report of the Review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; if she is taking steps to implement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1347. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department supports the policy of conscientious objection in the Irish health service; if her Department has engaged with the HSE or any of the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of each quarter of 2022 to 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3521/25]
    • Dental Services
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists on the dental treatment services scheme at the end of each quarter for each year 2019-2024 and at end January 2025 by LHO in tabular...
    • Health Service Executive
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for each year, 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; the amount paid to each individual...
    • Hospital Staff
      1352. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by each of the section 39 voluntary hospitals on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for each year, 2019-2024, in tabular form; and the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on management consultants and external professional services, by type, for each year, 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; the amount paid to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1354. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by each of the section 39 voluntary hospitals on management consultants and external professional services, by type, for each year, 2019-2024, in...
    • Health Service Executive
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of medical negligence litigation against the HSE and her Department in each of the years from 2014 to 2024, including awards made in the...
    • Home Care Packages
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved home care hours in CHO 5 that were not delivered during 2024 due to lack of available personnel, by county, in tabular form; the...
    • Medical Cards
      1357. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which eligibility for a full medical card is reckoned for an applicant, who is an adult dependent on their spouse’s pension, when their...
    • Mental Health Services
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health if she and the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health will work together to advance the application for a Jigsaw youth mental health service...
    • Dental Services
      1360. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations with the Irish Dental Association regarding the dental services treatment scheme; when a new contract will be agreed; and if she is...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the shortage of GPs in the County Waterford area; the impact this is having on both medical card and non-medical card patients in accessing...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed tribunal to deal with cases of people who have been injured as a result of taking the Covid vaccines will be established; and if she will...
    • Health Services Staff
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent vacancies across ophthalmology in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3581/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to expand access to mental health services given the high rates of mental illness in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline to reduce the waiting list for children requiring urgent scoliosis surgeries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3583/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1367. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be allocated to Beaumont Hospital, St. Francis Hospice, and St. Joseph’s Hospital, Raheny; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1368. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3608/25]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Staff
      1369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests to his Department that have granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests that have been...
    • European Union
      1370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when contact was made with the European Commission seeking assistance through the European Social Fund to help deal with difficulties arising...
    • Student Accommodation
      1371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently address the shortfall in student accommodation countrywide and ensure that all available student accommodation is being used for...
    • Grant Payments
      1372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to allow for mortgage repayments to be disregarded when assessing the income threshold for the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to allow for students on apprenticeships to do the college segments of their programme in the nearest college to their home as possible (details...
    • Education Costs
      1374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the students included in the €1,000 one-off reduction for the student contribution fee will also include those students that complete...
    • Research and Development
      1375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, given his sponsorship of the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2018, the plans he has to...
    • Education Costs
      1376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some online full-time courses (details supplied) are no longer eligible for the €1,000 subsidy for student contribution fees,...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2762/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that special...
    • Education Policy
      1380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a conversion programme for graduates who have completed an intellectual disability nursing programme and wish to transfer to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department, or any body under its aegis, currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer roles to private...
    • Departmental Data
      1383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Minister of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to provide a...
    • Departmental Staff
      1384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to the office; whether they...
    • Disability Services
      1385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the programme for Government commitment, if he will provide details as to how his Department will examine the provision of the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career breaks, or other...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Data
      1387. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of requests to his Department that have been granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests...
    • Rural Schemes
      1388. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans that are in place to tackle the chronic depopulation continually occurring in rural Kerry and as highlighted in a recent...
    • Community Development Projects
      1389. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he can provide any assurances that men's and women's sheds will not be impacted by the change away from the sustainability grant...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1390. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each individual project approved under the town and village renewal scheme in County Clare in 2024; the grant approved...
    • Museum Projects
      1391. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the up-to-date position with a construction project in County Kildare (details supplied); the expected opening date; and if he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1393. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will allocate a major increase in local improvement scheme funding to County Carlow and County Kilkenny and all other local...
    • Control of Dogs
      1394. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a plan in relation to the steps that will be taken with XL bullies which cannot be rehomed by 1 February 2025; if so, the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1395. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to introduce a grants scheme to enhance shop fronts in towns and villages across the country that will also cover a significant...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1397. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will publish the Ministerial brief he received following the recent formation of the Government. [2767/25]
    • Community Development Projects
      1398. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grant aid and funding available from her Department to a community group to assist in the provision and installation of a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1400. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of contracts a company (details supplied) had with his Department in 2024 and to-date in 2025; the nature of services this...
    • Child Poverty
      1401. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to list the level of child poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in County...
    • Departmental Data
      1403. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to list the deprivation rates in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in County Clare...
    • Departmental Staff
      1405. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a schedule of special advisers attached to him, as of 29 January 2025; and the official grade and or title held by that...
    • Departmental Funding
      1406. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the projects in counties Carlow and Kilkenny that were funded from the most recent CLÁR programme, 2023 and 2024, in tabular...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1407. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department or any body under its aegis currently outsources cleaning services and/or service officer/security officer roles to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1409. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he plans to make an allocation of funding to local authorities under the LIS scheme in 2025; and if he will seek match funding...
    • Departmental Transport
      1410. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total value of the annual mileage claims for each Ministers of State assigned to his Department in 2023 and 2024 respectively; to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1411. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to list the composition of his private office, inclusive of the grade and increment of each civil servant assigned to their office;...
    • Poverty Data
      1412. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of consistent poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, in County Clare,...
    • Departmental Staff
      1418. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career...

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