Written answers
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
- Department of An Taoiseach
- State Bodies
1. To ask the Taoiseach if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or semi-State body under the aegis of...
- Departmental Staff
2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department. [6699/25]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- State Bodies
3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain digital and...
- Departmental Expenditure
7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or...
- Overseas Development Aid
8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline his Department’s planned response to the US presidential executive order of 31 January 2025, the effect of which is...
- Flexible Work Practices
13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make a...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Bord na Móna
14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is concerned at the sale of Bord na Móna’s waste collection arm; if he has assessed the impact of this...
- Departmental Expenditure
15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or...
- Cybersecurity Policy
16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a detailed update on the transposition into Irish law of the EU Network and Information Systems...
- Broadband Infrastructure
17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will urgently intervene to ensure a connection issue (details supplied) is repaired in a more timely manner than...
- Renewable Energy Generation
18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the community renewable energy projects that have been energised; the proportion of projects...
- Building Energy Rating
19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of homes retrofitted to a BER B2 standard or higher in each of the Government’s schemes, broken...
- Renewable Energy Generation
20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next renewable electricity support scheme and offshore renewable electricity support scheme auctions will be...
- Bord na Móna
21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the proposed sale of Bord na Móna Recycling; the measures he has taken to ensure that jobs and...
- Departmental Administrative Arrangements
22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the divisions, units or other Departmental structures that have been added to or removed from the brief of the Minister...
- Flexible Work Practices
23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department;...
- Strategic Infrastructure
24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that will be implemented and the level of increased investment proposed to strengthen such infrastructure,...
- Department of Defence
- State Bodies
25. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain digital and IT...
- Ukraine War
29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of all meetings of the Ukraine Contact Defence Group that Ireland has been represented at; who has represented Ireland...
- Departmental Expenditure
30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or semi-State...
- Flexible Work Practices
31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make a...
- Department of Finance
- State Bodies
55. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain digital and IT systems, in...
- Defective Building Materials
59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would consider removing the VAT from building blocks being used to rebuild houses affected by defective blocks to help address rising construction costs;...
- Arts Council
60. To ask the Minister for Finance when his Department was first made aware of the financial problems arising from the Arts Council IT system spend; and to publish any communications between his...
- Tax Exemptions
61. To ask the Minister for Finance whether there is scope to consider increasing the €36,000 tax exemption, taking into account that they have not been updated since 2011; and if he will...
- Departmental Expenditure
62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or semi-State body under...
- Flexible Work Practices
63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Land Issues
64. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the residential zoned land tax (RZLT) applies to a developer who is proceeding to immediately develop lands for an approved housing body and who has...
- Departmental Contracts
65. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 12 February 2025; the total value of all invoices paid to a company (details supplied) in relation to the 24-month...
- Tax Avoidance
66. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 46 to 54 of 6 February 2025; to provide the number of tax avoidance cases that have been timed out or closed as a result...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Flood Relief Schemes
68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail the Government supports being given to Dublin City Council and Dublin South County Council for flood alleviation schemes for...
- Arts Council
69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when his Department was first made aware of the financial problems arising from the Arts Council IT system spend; and to publish any...
- State Bodies
70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the procedure that exists to be followed by State bodies to develop or improve IT systems or websites; if the State has in-house capacity...
- Departmental Expenditure
75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or...
- An Garda Síochána
76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received a request and or a business case from the Minister for Justice and or An Garda Síochána leadership team in...
- Flexible Work Practices
77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make...
- Defective Building Materials
78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the application from the residents of Elm Park, Buncrana to be relocated from the flood plain alongside the Crana river and...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- State Bodies
79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain...
- Business Supports
83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in each that applied for the Power Up grant in each local authority areas; the number of the applications in...
- Departmental Expenditure
84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or...
- Flexible Work Practices
85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration is being given to strengthening the provisions of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023...
- Living Wage
86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans in place to move to a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6584/25]
- Enterprise Policy
87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is planned to reintroduce the Enterprise Ireland online retail scheme in 2025. [6612/25]
- Flexible Work Practices
88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will...
- Corporate Governance
89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will set out a detailed pathway for the transposition of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive into Irish law;...
- Department of Education and Skills
- State Bodies
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain digital and IT...
- School Staff
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the workforce planning currently being carried out by her Department in light of current projections for Ireland's...
- School Admissions
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children and young people who currently do not have a school place in Dublin south central; and the planned course of action is to...
- Departmental Expenditure
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by her Department or by any State or semi-State...
- Energy Conservation
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the schools selected to participate in the energy retrofit pathfinder programme; and the progression of works in each school....
- Special Educational Needs
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes at secondary school level, per county, in tabular form. [6562/25]
- Schools Building Projects
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect repair works to commence as issues are ongoing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6676/25]
- Flexible Work Practices
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in her Department; and if she will make a...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- State Bodies
103. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain...
- An Teanga Gaeilge
107. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil teoireann ann ar an méid gur féidir le duine tuilleadh faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge; agus...
- Departmental Expenditure
108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any...
- Flexible Work Practices
109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he...
- Arts Council
110. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an off-the-shelf IT solution an option as part of the tender for the Arts Council IT scheme or if bespoke solutions were the...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Energy Conservation
115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is planning to exempt external wall insulation from planning permission, like it did with solar panels, to...
- Vacant Properties
116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant property refurbishment grants drawn down in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any...
- Wastewater Treatment
118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the progress of the proposed sewerage schemes for Broadford and Cooraclare, County Clare; when the schemes will be...
- Housing Schemes
119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if generators could be considered for inclusion in housing adaptation grants for people with disabilities and older people for...
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders carried out by local authorities on derelict properties, per county, in tabular form....
- Vacant Properties
124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant and derelict properties, in each local authority area, in tabular form. [6565/25]
- Approved Housing Bodies
125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy rationale for the Payment and Availability (P&A)-Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) related to the...
- Flexible Work Practices
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Weather Events
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a framework for compensating individuals for losses, such as spoiled food, due to electricity outages during...
- Legislative Measures
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the amended social welfare...
- School Meals Programme
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the costing for hot school meals, per child, per school; and to identify the providers of the service, in...
- Social Welfare Appeals
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing times for social welfare appeals by scheme between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024; and if he will...
- School Meals Programme
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of students in receipt of the school meals scheme in counties Offaly and Laois for each of the years 2020 to date;...
- Departmental Expenditure
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any...
- School Meals Programme
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools per county in receipt of the hot meals scheme, in tabular form. [6560/25]
- Budget 2025
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if they will outline the once-off additional payments announced under Budget 2025; if the Department has made available any...
- Pension Provisions
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to introduce new legislation to further recognise and support homemakers in relation to non-contributory...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for the working family payment; and if he will make a...
- Flexible Work Practices
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if...
- International Protection
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide the number of international protection applicants who received a clothing allowance for each year from 2021 to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the wage subsidy scheme is restricted to employees that have been employed for less than 12 months; the supports...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 842 of 22 January 2025, if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Visa Applications
147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the serious issues in visa applications for Ireland from South Africa, including issues with recommended steps to...
- Family Reunification
148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the family reunification policy; if income thresholds will be considered as part of this process;...
- Departmental Expenditure
149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any...
- An Garda Síochána
150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have been redeployed or retired from the Clare-Tipperary Garda...
- Flexible Work Practices
154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if...
- Domestic Violence
155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify if there are any state funded accommodation based domestic violence refuges for biological males in the state; and...
- Citizenship Applications
156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application and when it is likely that same will be completed, in view that it is over 25 months...
- Coroners Service
157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline, given that the recent Coroners (Amendment) Act 2024 designated coroners in Dublin as civil servants, the grade...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- State Bodies
158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain...
- Child Protection
162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considers it a child protection issue that a 17-year-old boy was permitted to train a racing greyhound to provide a betting...
- Departmental Expenditure
163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State...
- Agriculture Schemes
164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the leadership practices inventory actions for the co-operation areas under ACRES will be finalised; and the reason for the...
- Animal Breeding
166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding his Department has provided to an organisation (details supplied) for linear profile training since it was introduced in...
- Greyhound Industry
167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal minimum age for a person in Ireland to obtain a licence to train a greyhound to race; and if he will make a statement on...
- Flexible Work Practices
178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will...
- Livestock Issues
179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify that he does formally endorse, sign or otherwise support the Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- State Bodies
180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to...
- Assisted Decision-Making
184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of enduring powers of attorney that have been created since the commencement of the Assistant...
- Direct Provision System
185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the subpar conditions experienced by people in direct provision (details supplied); the...
- International Protection
186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the accommodation recognition payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Disabilities Assessments
187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can detail for each year between 2020 to date in 2025 the total number of High Court, Court of Appeal or...
- Disability Services
188. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can detail for each year between 2020 to date in 2025, by reference to each discipline and network team,...
- Departmental Expenditure
189. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by her...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
190. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on a waiting list for assessment of need appointments, by county and length of time...
- Disability Services
191. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies in the children's disability network teams in north and south Louth; if each vacancy is...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
192. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to offer grants and subsidies to the small and medium childcare and early-years education...
- Health Strategies
193. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to act upon the recommendations of the report entitled “PLACES/ Pregnancy Loss (under 24 weeks)...
- Disability Services
194. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children’s disability network teams which are in place; the number yet to be established;...
- International Protection
195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she plans to extend the accommodation recognition payment scheme beyond 31 March 2025; and if she will make a...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average annual staff turnover rate in early learning and care services from 2022 to 2023, nationally and on...
- Flexible Work Practices
200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in her...
- Disability Diagnoses
201. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if and when endometriosis will be recognised as a 'disability' for those sufferers unable to work and seeking...
- Department of Health
- Health Services Staff
202. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will be issuing an exemption for educational, counselling and clinical psychology trainees from current recruitment controls for the next college...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects his Department is engaged in with the HSE; the status of each project, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Investigations
204. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each phase of the review into the use of surgical implants in CHI; the terms of reference for which was published by HIQA on 17 November 2023,...
- Eating Disorders
206. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to address the acute lack of beds for anorexia patients in the mid-west region (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Medicinal Products
207. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug vamorolone is currently being considered for approved use by the HSE. [6471/25]
- Health Services Staff
208. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the resourcing and staffing for public health nurse for developmental checks in Drimnagh, Dublin 12. [6474/25]
- Medicinal Products
209. To ask the Minister for Health when it is intended to provide free hormone replacement therapy; if people who have been charged will be reimbursed for this cost in January and February due...
- Health Services Staff
210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists designated in a full-time capacity to the Carrigaline primary care centre; if there are locums; and the plans to recruit further in...
- Mental Health Services
211. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists designated in a full-time capacity for the south Lee area, broken down by adult primary care, child primary care, adolescent and...
- Home Help Service
212. To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will urgently be put in place for a person (details supplied). [6508/25]
- Health Service Executive
213. To ask the Minister for Health if the companies from which the HSE buy services are obliged to be audited even if they are not-for-profit companies; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
214. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by her Department or by any State or semi-State body under...
- Tobacco Control Measures
215. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will be introducing of a proposed licensing fee for retailers to sell tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products from 2 February 2026;...
- Hospital Facilities
216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of closed beds at HSE community hospitals in County Clare, by bed type and hospital location in January 2024 and January 2025, in tabular form. [6538/25]
- Hospital Staff
219. To ask the Minister for Health the current national deficit in consultant posts across the country, specifically in relation to vascular surgery; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on waiting lists for specialist vascular surgery care nationwide, including those awaiting initial consultation in outpatient...
- Hospital Procedures
221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled procedures in Our lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [6556/25]
- Medicinal Products
222. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug givinostat is being considered for approval for use by the HSE. [6585/25]
- Gender Recognition
223. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated wait time for new referrals for a first appointment with the National Gender Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6588/25]
- Medical Cards
235. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements of British state pension recipients ordinarily resident in this country to apply for a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Ambulance Service
236. To ask the Minister for Health if paramedics can no longer keep response cars at their home location as it is considered a benefit-in-kind; if so, if she will intervene to overhaul the new...
- Flexible Work Practices
237. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Strategies
238. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE Elective Hospitals Programme Demand Model; the work completed to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6722/25]
- Disease Management
239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff that have required to implement the National Endometriosis Framework; the number of posts already filled; the number remaining...
- Cancer Services
242. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure the regular (monthly or quarterly) publication of figures relating to cancer care from all hospitals, in consistent machine readable...
- Health Strategies
243. To ask the Minister for Health the investment in genetics testing that has been spent in Children's Health Ireland Crumlin since 2019; if the investment is considered to have kept pace with...
- Health Services Staff
245. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine a process where section 38 and section 39 staff could transfer to be employees of the HSE; the cost factors associated with same; and if...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
246. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects being undertaken by the HSE nationally that are in excess of €200 million; the status of each project, in tabular form;...
- Departmental Consultations
247. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects that consultancy houses are giving advice on currently; the spend per project to each consultancy house, in tabular form; and if...
- Health Services Staff
248. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of staff and clinicians allocated to cleft lip and palate services in Cork and Dublin respectively; the associated support services needed for same;...
- Ambulance Service
249. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of staff in receipt of the advanced paramedic allowance in the National Ambulance Service, region by region, and by grade code from the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Education
250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide radiation therapy students with a payment and travel allowances during their final-year internship in line with supports...
- Departmental Expenditure
251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or semi-State...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no movement on apprentices (details supplied) waiting on their next phase of training. [6575/25]
- Third Level Education
253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had any meetings, engagements or correspondence with any third parties on the potential of providing third-level courses in either...
- Flexible Work Practices
254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make a...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- State Bodies
255. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain...
- Community Development Projects
259. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the second tranche of funding under the community recognition funding will be announced. [6441/25]
- Departmental Expenditure
261. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or...
- Social Enterprise Sector
262. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contact he has had with a social enterprise (details supplied) regarding its inability to renew public sector contracts due to the...
- Rural Schemes
263. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding the quantity of herd numbers required when applying for the local improvement scheme (details supplied); and if...
- Rights of Way
264. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he has considered introducing financial incentives for landowners to maintain rights of way and mass paths, similar to...
- Community Development Projects
265. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding opportunities available this year through his Department to assist local women’s sheds; if he will provide any...
- Men's Sheds
266. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding annual funding to men’s sheds groups; if the intention is to maintain the same level of funding that was...
- Flexible Work Practices
267. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will...
