Written answers
Thursday, 27 February 2025
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her Department’s rollout of reading classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8475/25]
- Schools Building Projects
12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the move of school building for children in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6634/25]
- After-School Support Services
16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures are being taken to identify primary schools for after-school childcare services; the up-to-date position on review of the guidelines...
- School Transport
18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider examining a joint scheme with the Minister for Transport for safety works outside of schools, to make them safe, to lessen...
- School Enrolments
19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the implementation of a common application process for secondary schools in Dublin 15. [8503/25]
- Schools Building Projects
21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a request for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deliver on the Programme for Government objective to hire additional special education teachers and special needs assistants, to...
- School Textbooks
23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the post-primary schoolbooks scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8597/25]
- Special Educational Needs
24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline plans for the creation of additional autism places at primary and secondary schools in County Louth for the next academic year, 25/26;...
- School Enrolments
25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the need to address long waiting lists for students and the stress they cause for families in securing places in secondary...
- Curaclam Scoile
26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aici moltaí na tuarascála a rinne Comhchoiste Oireachtais na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na...
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills Chun a fhiafraí den Aire Oideachais an bhfuil sé i gceist aici a chinntiú go gcloífear leis an ngeallúint do dhaltaí...
- School Facilities
28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children within the education system on a waiting list for vital therapies. [7725/25]
- Schools Building Projects
29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a progress report on the school campus promised at a location (details supplied); and if she will confirm all the schools that...
- Special Educational Needs
30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what steps have been taken to address the shortage of additional need services at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- School Enrolments
31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the issue of the shortage of school places in Kildare. [6505/25]
- School Costs
32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to help primary and secondary school parents to cope with school costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8427/25]
- Educational Disadvantage
33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the concerns of staff and the local community will be listened to; if she will reverse the decision to relocate the Donegal Education Centre...
- School Curriculum
34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she has met with organisations (details supplied) to discuss the concerns of teachers regarding the proposed Leaving Certificate Senior...
- Schools Building Projects
35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on extensions to schools in Kerry. [8645/25]
- Special Educational Needs
36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals she has to roll out a national therapy service in education for special schools and special classes; and if she will make a...
- School Staff
37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a review of the incremental credit award to teachers returning to Ireland who have gained experience working in...
- Schools Building Projects
38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the summer works scheme 2025 will be open for applications; whether the categories of works covered in previous years will continue to be...
- School Transport
39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school transport scheme in County Mayo; if the service from Derryfadda and Boleyglass to Crossmolina, which...
- School Curriculum
40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will cease the promotion of transgender ideology in primary and secondary school curricula, given the extensive research from comprehensive...
- School Staff
41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the counselling in primary schools pilot; the counselling hours delivered to date and the number of children to benefit;...
- Special Educational Needs
42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what resources are allocated to ensure that teachers working in special schools are adequately trained; if there are professional learning...
- School Accommodation
43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to address the concerns of the management of a school (details supplied) regarding their existing prefab accommodation...
- School Transport
45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to introduce changes to the school transport scheme in advance of the next school year. [5749/25]
- School Enrolments
46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure every child and young person seeking a school place in County Kildare will be offered same in 2025/2026 and 2026/2027 academic...
- School Patronage
47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that there is provision of a multigendered and multidenominational secondary school in the Ashtown and Pelletstown areas of...
- Schools Building Projects
48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be included in the school capital buildings programme, considering its seriously inadequate school...
- Special Educational Needs
51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposed school for special education in County Monaghan; the number of children that are expected to be enrolled upon the...
- School Transport
52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures to improve access to school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8534/25]
- Special Educational Needs
53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her efforts to accommodate students with special educational needs in Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8533/25]
- Educational Disadvantage
55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce an enhanced "DEIS Plus" programme for schools in areas of high deprivation. [8371/25]
- Special Educational Needs
56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans for a special school in the Youghal and wider east Cork area to alleviate the long waiting lists; if her Department...
- School Transport
59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her Department's report "School Transport 2030"; the number of pilot bus schemes now in operation; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase the number of special education teachers, special needs assistants, and special classes to ensure that every child with...
- School Enrolments
63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had any discussion on the need for a secondary school in Newcastle, County Dublin, given the enrolment pressure in the surrounding...
- School Curriculum
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to increase access to, and participation in, transition year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8489/25]
- School Funding
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase investment in education per student to at least a level equal to OECD average; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what engagement she has had with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in relation to pensions for...
- Schools Building Projects
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new school building will be provided for a school (details supplied); what stage of the development process the project is at; when...
- State Examinations
68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is planning to introduce extra time in examinations for Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate students with dyslexia; and...
- School Accommodation
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the expected timeline for delivery of the additional school accommodation scheme project and the review of the...
- Teacher Training
70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the level of training which teachers in mainstream classes receive in the Junior Cycle Level 2 Learning program...
- Schools Building Projects
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the extent to which defective concrete blocks were used in the construction of school buildings across the State; the impact of...
- School Staff
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant teaching posts that exist within the primary school system and in the Gaelscoil sector. [7724/25]
- Irish Language
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow a school (details supplied) to adopt a blended Irish-English approach instead of a solely Irish-language approach, enabling the...
- Schools Building Projects
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to re-introduce the summer works scheme in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5538/25]
- Special Educational Needs
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress of the Dublin 15 taskforce on special education places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8536/25]
- School Transport
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will authorise a school bus service for children in the Rathcore area of County Meath attending second level schools in Trim, in accordance...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Eligibility
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the programme for Government's commitment to significantly increase the income disregards for carer’s...
- Community Welfare Services
96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the humanitarian assistance available to those impacted by Storm Éowyn in Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Benefits
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have been made to parents in Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Payments
98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person currently receiving carer’s allowance and a child increase for two children will now be dropped...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans he has in place to expand the eligibility criteria for the free travel pass; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have been made to parents in Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he has taken to ensure storm readiness and to support those impacted by storms given the recent issues that...
- Social Welfare Benefits
103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the newborn baby grants scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- State Pensions
104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the draft Bill will be finalised to advance the entitlement of unmarried cohabitants to the widows, widowers or...
- School Meals Programme
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the quality and nutritional value of some of the food provided under...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider front-loading the promised removal of the means test for carers in order that the means test is entirely...
- Public Services Card
108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the renewal of public services cards needs to be done in person and no longer via phone or online; if he will...
- Social Welfare Fraud
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out in fraudulent pandemic unemployment payment payments since the start of the Covid pandemic. [7722/25]
- Social Welfare Schemes
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the reasonable accommodation fund and the disability awareness support scheme; if there are...
- Social Welfare Benefits
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have now been made to parents in Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he plans to deal with the very slow delivery of reimbursements from the humanitarian assistance scheme despite saying at...
- Social Welfare Appeals
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the number of appeals in relation to disability payments compares to appeals for other social protection payments; and if...
- School Meals Programme
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans for the further extension of hot school meals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8385/25]
- Social Welfare Schemes
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts the Government is taking to assist victims of recent extreme weather events in Kerry, such as the extreme...
- Social Welfare Payments
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an individual who is currently receiving carer’s allowance and a child increase for two children will now...
- Community Employment Schemes
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether consideration is being given to doubling the training and development grant associated for each community employment...
- School Meals Programme
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to roll out hot school meals to all secondary schools; when the...
- Rural Schemes
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when changes to the rural social scheme will be enacted to enable participants of the scheme to sign contracts for three...
- Social Welfare Benefits
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications in total for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) made in 2024; the number granted at first instance;...
- Community Welfare Services
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has considered additional staffing given increased applications for additional needs payments. [8364/25]
- Social Welfare Payments
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the interdepartmental working group to examine and review the system of means testing for...
- Children in Care
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give consideration to the provision of foster carers with a State pension as per the Programme for Government...
- Social Welfare Schemes
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on a reformed scheme to give effect to all nine recommendations outlined in the review of the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a timeline for the implementation of the Programme for Government commitment to “Explore a targeted Child...
- Social Welfare Schemes
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a variation in the manner in which HAS1 forms received since storm Éowyn have been dealt with in different...
- Social Welfare Payments
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the establishment of a working age payment as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he...
- Social Welfare Schemes
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for humanitarian assistance that have been received by his Department in the wake of storm...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the situation whereby a carer claiming maternity leave can no longer claim carer’s payments; and if...
- Community Employment Schemes
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of community employment scheme supervisor remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will offer rapid intervention on an urgent case of a person (details supplied) whose mobile home was entirely destroyed...
- Social Welfare Benefits
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he plans to strengthen the safety net for our older citizens, improving their quality of life and promoting dignity and...
- State Pensions
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to examine what modifications or changes may be made to support women who currently fall outside the existing...
- Social Welfare Appeals
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average current waiting time for a social welfare appeal in the State; how waiting times for a decision vary across...
- Social Welfare Schemes
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to report on his Department’s humanitarian assistance for those impacted by storm Éowyn in Galway; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Appeals
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the current timeframe for social welfare appeals; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to a system whereby those who on carer’s allowance, and who are working, are able to...
- Social Welfare Schemes
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the HAS1 forms are means tested since Storm Éowyn; if payment will issue in cases where frozen food had to be...
- Social Welfare Payments
147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce an annual cost of disability support payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8430/25]
- Social Welfare Appeals
148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason social welfare applicants who have submitted appeals are having to wait up to eight months for a decision; and if...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will be reviewing the criteria for providing the fuel allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8263/25]
- Social Welfare Schemes
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration could be given to the provision of free transport to those in emergency accommodation. [8363/25]
- Social Welfare Benefits
154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have now been made to parents in Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Child Poverty
155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new child poverty target will be set; the future process to establish that new figure; and if he will make a...
- School Meals Programme
156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will investigate the reasons for a funding change in the food grant given to a school (details supplied);...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports that have been revoked for each of the past ten years. [8655/25]
- Departmental Administrative Arrangements
159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the divisions and units that operate within his Department; the bodies that operate under his aegis; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Waste Management
160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the processed deposit return scheme materials that go to licensed facilities in Ireland, the...
- Pension Provisions
161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the increases in pension payments that have been approved or are pending for former An Post employees; if he is...
- Energy Conservation
162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes in Clare that have applied for the warmer homes scheme, broken down by year; and the number that...
- National Broadband Plan
165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of that residents in parts of Portmarnock are without access to broadband; what engagement his...
- Fuel Poverty
166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the Government defines energy poverty; the measures being taken to tackle energy poverty; the number of persons...
- Environmental Policy
167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update in relation to plans for a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Waste Management
168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has enforced new weight limits on waste bin collections, or if these increases are being put in place...
- Energy Policy
170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a detailed update on the development of the “National Hydrogen Programme”, a key part of the...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
171. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to review the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8683/25]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Parking Provision
172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application regarding a disabled parking disc for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Irish Rail
173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine the case of a person (details supplied) regarding the indirect discrimination in Irish Rail’s ticketing policy; and if...
- Driver Test
174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current wait times at driving test centres, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8689/25]
- Road Tolls
176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason drivers cannot recoup VAT on the M50 and Port Tunnel tolls. [8698/25]
- Bus Services
177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has had contact with the National Transport Authority regarding the replacement of the 145 bus; and if there are plans...
- Public Transport
178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the implementation of the short hop zone; and if there are any delays to the project. [8714/25]
- Speed Cameras
179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the roll-out of speed camera warning signs for the new static speed cameras that have been installed, particularly on...
- Public Transport
180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of providing the 50% reduction in fares for 19–25 year olds with a young adult leap card in 2025 as per the...
- Departmental Funding
181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of continuing to provide the 50% reduction in fares for 19–25 year olds with a young adult leap card in 2026;...
- Departmental Policies
182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of abolishing fares for 19–25 year olds with a young adult leap card in 2026; and if he will make a statement...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the Transport Infrastructure Ireland and if he will furnish information about the number of accidents at the...
- Irish Rail
185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when catering services on the Sligo-Dublin Irish Rail service will be fully reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Bus Services
186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the Ennis town bus service to start; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8803/25]
- Road Safety
190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the extremely dangerous single lane Listry Bridge, County Kerry (details supplied) will be replaced, as it is a major health and...
- Departmental Policies
191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider in conjunction with the Minister for Transport introducing a small grant for example of €60 per km for...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to encourage and provide dedicated parking at motorway junctions along the M9 in counties Kilkenny and Carlow to allow...
- Irish Rail
194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the ongoing severe overcrowding on the morning train services from Athenry to Galway city; if he will engage with...
- Bus Services
195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on plans for a bus service between Athenry and Galway city; the reason the National Transport Authority has...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to proceed with the footpath and road realignment project on the N70 Ring of Kerry road from Laune Bridge out to the new hub (details...
- Bus Services
197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to increase the number of Local Link buses on the Ring of Kerry road and support this popular and successful hop-on, hop-off service; and...
- Air Services
198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether Rescue 118 will maintain its 24-hour coverage once transferred to a company (details supplied), or whether it will be reduced to...
- Departmental Bodies
202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding any ongoing engagement his Department is having with an organisation (details supplied) regarding their pension...
- Departmental Funding
203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to Cavan County Council for the purpose of maintenance and upgrades of local, regional and national roads in the...
- Programme for Government
205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the roll out of contactless fare payments on all public transport as committed to in the Programme for Government;...
- Bus Services
206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the L58 bus which runs between River Forest and Hazelhatch Station; and his views on why the service has...
- Irish Rail
207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider building an overflow carpark for the Sallins and Naas train station, which now is causing issues to commuters who...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 20 February 2025, if he will inform Dublin Port, and ask the National Transport Authority...
- Department of Finance
- Revenue Commissioners
209. To ask the Minister for Finance if urgent consideration will be given to the re-opening of the office of the Revenue Commissioners, Cranmore, Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Departmental Schemes
210. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on Ireland's preparedness for the introduction of the digital euro; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8740/25]
- Revenue Commissioners
211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will liaise with the Revenue Commissioners with a view to alerting taxpayers when a significant tax deduction which heretofore had not been taken by...
- Financial Services
212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the review of the primary medical certification and appeal schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8870/25]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Arts Council
216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will identify any positions relating to IT which the Arts Council sought to establish or fill since 2018 and required clearance...
- Office of Public Works
219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will provide funding for essential repair works at Bunratty Castle; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electoral Commission
220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public sector workers in each of the local electoral areas in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, per sector, in tabular form...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Arts Council
221. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the recent legal action threatened by the Design and Crafts Council Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
- Enterprise Policy
222. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts that are being made by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to find new business or industrial investment for the former Roche...
- Departmental Schemes
223. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applications Fingal County Council received for the Power Up grant in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
226. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the need for cross departmental coordination with the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the in-school therapy supports pilot programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8965/25]
- Schools Building Projects
229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and categories of schools, at both primary and second level, identified by her Department as requiring emergency works; the criteria...
- School Curriculum
230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the programme of work to be undertaken to implement the Programme for Government’s commitment to ‘Increase the number...
- Special Educational Needs
231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine delays in implementing the new model of front-loading SNA support which was announced back in 2020; the reason it has not...
- Period Poverty
233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available for schools to assist them in addressing the issue of period poverty amongst their students; and if she will make a...
- School Costs
235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) paid out over €173,000 in a period between 2016 and 2022 to remedy defects arising from...
- Schools Building Projects
236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future plans for the temporary school build, currently being used by a college (details supplied); if she envisages it remaining in the...
- School Curriculum
237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to teach the history of Ireland’s Traveller community through the school curriculum to build on this State’s recognition...
- Schools Building Projects
238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of a new special school to be opened on Cork’s northside in 2025; when applications will open for same; and the number of...
- School Funding
239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to schools regarding the heating of school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8769/25]
- Special Educational Needs
240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding matters raised in correspondence on special education teaching allocation in a school in Waterford (details supplied); and...
- Educational Disadvantage
241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 370 of 18 February 2025, to clarify the data used in determining educational disadvantage; if numbers of...
- Teaching Qualifications
242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed timebound provision for teachers who qualify outside the Republic of Ireland (details supplied) will be introduced; and if she...
- School Transport
243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned phasing out of the nearest school rule for the school transport scheme; the timeline for the abolishment of the rule;...
- School Accommodation
244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the urgent health and safety concerns at a school (details supplied); if she will provide funding for the installation of...
- School Patronage
246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the completion of the reconfiguration survey among parents regarding their preferences on education and school patronage; if he...
- Schools Building Projects
247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of school infrastructure projects ongoing within Dublin Rathdown, or that have been devolved for completion to an alternative...
- School Curriculum
248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her policy on the need for primary and post-primary schools to establish classes or workshops for students on recognising misinformation and...
- Special Educational Needs
249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of times section 37a of the Education Act 1998 was used; the reasoning for its use, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details, by reference to building works of autism units and special schools scheduled for completion between June 2025 to September...
- Special Educational Needs
253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to sanctioning and funding an SLD reading classes in the Artane area of north Dublin; the steps that are being...
- Schools Building Projects
254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in a case in which two ASD classrooms for a school have been approved, one earlier than the other, if the work on both classrooms could take...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Tourism Industry
255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the data sources his Department has used to estimate the availability of 10,000 properties currently available in the short-term...
- Arts Council
260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will offer his full support to the Arts Council’s efforts to recoup costs incurred by the IT project through legal...
- Departmental Correspondence
265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will publish in full all correspondence between the Arts Council and his Department in relation to the IT project and its...
- Departmental Data
266. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details of the divisions and units that operate within the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Bodies
267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the bodies which operate under their aegis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8781/25]
- Departmental Funding
268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department can provide funding to support Clare County Council and an organisation (details supplied) in their pursuit to...
- Sports Funding
269. 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 counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Schemes
270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the assistance available to help a family in County Kerry with renovating the family home (details...
- Defective Building Materials
271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will release the necessary funding to local authorities in Donegal and other affected counties to remediate their...
- Local Authorities
272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planners employed by each local authority on 1 February 2025. [8741/25]
- Departmental Expenditure
273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total spend to date in implementing the Youth Homelessness Strategy 2023-2025; to provide for cost for each measure that...
- Housing Provision
274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 584 of 5 February 2025, if he will provide an update on when an approval notice will be...
- Weather Events
276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the funding that can be provided to Clare County Council to help offset costs incurred during Storm Éowyn; and...
- Waterways Ireland
277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has examined Waterways Ireland’s proposed bylaws (namely the draft Shannon Navigation Bye Laws 2024; Draft Canals...
- Departmental Data
278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authorities have furnished details on the total number of derelict properties currently on their registers; if...
- Housing Schemes
279. 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...
- Departmental Reviews
280. 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 in April 2024, has...
- Departmental Data
281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the number of appeals submitted to An Board Pleanála via decisions made by Carlow and...
- Housing Schemes
282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of homes sold in the State under the affordable purchase scheme in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, by county, in...
- Defective Building Materials
283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses in County Meath now being considered for inclusion in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; when a...
- Water Services
284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to introduce a scheme of constructed wetlands to all unsewered villages in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will...
- Housing Provision
285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) requiring exceptional approval; and if he will make a statement on...
- Housing Schemes
286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding has been allocated to local authorities in 2025 to continue the acquisition of properties under the tenant-in-situ...
- Departmental Consultations
287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to advertise the Transboundary Consultation about the proposed goldmine in the Sperrins area of outstanding...
- Housing Policy
288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address an issue for social housing applicants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Schemes
290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an application by a person (details supplied) was rejected; if the application could be reviewed; and if he will...
- Housing Policy
291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 398 of 5 February 2025 and 183 of 20 February 2025, his views in respect of a tourism...
- State Properties
292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to revoke S.I. No. 376/2023 in light of the Programme for Government’s commitment to utilise State...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to reform the application form for domiciliary care allowance; if he is aware of the concerns of support...
- Social Welfare Code
294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will abolish means testing for carer’s allowance, as per the Programme for Government, at the earliest possible...
- Social Welfare Appeals
295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal by a person (details supplied) for disability allowance; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to carer's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8658/25]
- Social Welfare Payments
297. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost for each of the past ten years for the weekly social welfare payment given to international protection...
- State Pensions
299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a pro-rata contributory State pension submitted by a person (details supplied); and if he...
- Social Welfare Benefits
300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) that is currently in receipt of illness benefit should apply for a disability allowance or an...
- Departmental Schemes
301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the Government plans to support employers in explaining the auto-enrolment scheme to their employees, or if there is a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied) that was submitted in August...
- Departmental Offices
303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8739/25]
- Maternity Leave
304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exception can be made in regard to an individual who does not meet the 39 contributions in the 12 months prior to...
- Social Welfare Appeals
305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an urgent decision will be made on a disability allowance appeal for a person (details supplied). [8758/25]
- Social Welfare Rates
306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons under 25 years that are in receipt of a rate of a jobseekers' allowance other than €153.70 and...
- Social Welfare Schemes
309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of abolishing the reduced rate of jobseeker’s allowance for persons under 25 years in 2026; and if...
- Social Welfare Appeals
310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to support and expedite a carers benefit appeal in respect of a person from County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will...
- Social Welfare Schemes
311. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding paid to applicants to 21 February 2025 under the current humanitarian scheme (section 1) in the...
- Departmental Reviews
312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review a partial capacity benefit appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Pension Provisions
313. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine a contributory pension in respect of a person (details supplied) and address any discrepancies; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Code
314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he recognises the anomaly in the social welfare system which means that people in receipt of widow’s pension, and...
- Social Welfare Schemes
315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the need for cross-departmental co-ordination with the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth...
- Departmental Policies
316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means testing for carer’s allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8961/25]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- EU Bodies
317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the information that EURODAC provides; if EURODAC provides information on criminal records, police checks or convictions; if...
- Immigration Policy
318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if DNA is used to prove family relationships with all family reunification applications; if not, the system that is used; and...
- Departmental Bodies
319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied), who was convicted for rape and attempted murder in Sligo, was granted asylum on appeal...
- Departmental Data
320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sham marriages that have happened in Ireland for each of the past five years; the proportion of these sham...
- Immigration Policy
323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the immigration penalties that are enforced on those that apply for asylum under false pretences. [8656/25]
- Naturalisation Applications
324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the security checks that are carried out before the issuance of an Irish passport in the case of a person who comes...
- An Garda Síochána
326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 555, 556, 557 and 583 of 18 February 2025, if he can provide additional clarification...
- Departmental Communications
327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or his Department were informed by the Garda Commissioner in July 2021 that the Garda National Technical Bureau unearthed...
- Legislative Reviews
328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are still proposals to legislate for “Jennie’s Law”; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Visa Applications
329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite a visa application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- An Garda Síochána
330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, respectively in 2022, 2023 and 2024. [8850/25]
- Legislative Reviews
333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the independent review of part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, announced in July 2020 and due...
- Legislative Measures
334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the commencement date of the new Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Animal Welfare
335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will strengthen the enforcement of existing animal protection laws to ensure real consequences for neglect and abuse; if he...
- Animal Diseases
336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures currently in place to protect poultry flocks from an outbreak of avian flu; the measures that will be put in place...
- Animal Welfare
337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government intends to provide increased funding for animal welfare groups to provide them with the resources to intervene and...
- Departmental Strategies
342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the development of the National Biomethane Strategy, its progress to date; if there are any revised timelines that may now...
- Grant Payments
343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid will be provided to farmers, particularly small-scale landholders whose outhouses/farm buildings were damaged during...
- Agriculture Schemes
344. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 876 of 5 February 2025, if eligibility for back-up power take-off generators applies to all...
- Suicide Prevention
347. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the strategy to develop a suicide prevention intervention for farmers in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
- Forestry Sector
348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when compensation measures will be introduced for farmers whose forestry plantations were badly damaged in storm Éowyn; and if...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Expenditure
349. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department provides monetary supports to an organisation (details supplied); and if she is aware of their...
- Care Services
350. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding residential care; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Consultations
351. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will engage with the HSE to identify ways to alleviate the recruitment and retention crisis regarding...
- Departmental Data
352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of providers currently accessing the Core funding steam for early childhood and education services;...
- Childcare Services
353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to grandparents that look after their grandchildren on a full-time basis; if she is...
- Departmental Funding
354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated to Enable Ireland in the years 2023 to date; the purpose thereof, by year, in tabular...
- Grant Payments
356. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify the office in the HSE is responsible for an organisation’s section 39 grant agreement (details...
- Departmental Funding
357. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a funding mechanism exists that allows local authorities, or community organisations, to fund the development...
- Departmental Policies
358. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss their priorities for the youth work sector and...
- Departmental Staff
360. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to urgently address the shortage of clinical staff resources at the assessment of need...
- Disabilities Assessments
361. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the actions that will be taken to deal with the HSE’s failure to comply with the Disability...
- Disability Services
363. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when she expects the national disability strategy to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to increase the number of early years education places; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Childcare Services
367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 322 of 20 February 2025, if she will highlight by reference to the...
- Disabilities Assessments
368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 19 February 2025, if the Health Service Executive could respond to...
- Disability Services
369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 19 February 2025, if the Health Service Executive could respond to...
- Department of Health
- Health Services Staff
370. To ask the Minister for Health the new measures she will implement to urgently address the chronic shortage of clinical staff resources across Dublin northside and the wider country. [8937/25]
- Primary Care Services
371. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider making available a PCRS-funded primary care scheme, whereby appropriately trained GP teams and community pharmacies would be enabled to...
- Medicinal Products
372. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to implement a regulatory framework that limits the acquisition and administration of dermal fillers to qualified doctors and dentists; and if she...
- Emergency Accommodation
373. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the range of specific financial supports or grant aid the HSE provides to not-for-profit organisations that operate emergency...
- Health Services Staff
374. To ask the Minister for Health if she or her Department are aware of the advertisement of speech and language therapy jobs during the recruitment embargo; and if she will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
375. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for those with long Covid; if there is any additional budget within her Department going to long Covid research and supports; and if she...
- Meals-on-Wheels Services
376. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the contract for the manufacturing of meals on wheels for the Athy area was advertised; the cost to the HSE prior to the outsourcing this per...
- Hospital Facilities
377. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the day care centre in St. Vincent’s Hospital. [8712/25]
- Legislative Measures
378. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the health (amendment) Bill, heads of which were approved in 2021; when the Bill will be published; when she expects to bring the Bill before the...
- Legislative Process
381. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill; when the Bill will be published; when she expects to bring the Bill before the Houses of the...
- Departmental Programmes
389. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the decision to close down the HSE’s heartwatch programme was taken; if she is aware that the programme’s closure is having a...
- Departmental Data
390. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for psychology, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy in primary care, by county; and the corresponding waiting...
- Departmental Licences
391. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of efforts to licence the drug concerta, in its liquid form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8755/25]
- Departmental Schemes
392. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the free HRT scheme announced under Budget 2025 is delayed; the timeframe in which she intends for it to be in place; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Budgets
393. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total cost, and cost per year, to implement the HSE Child and Youth Mental Health Office Action Plan 2024-2027; and if she will make a statement...
- Medical Cards
394. To ask the Minister for Health if she will increase the medical card eligibility threshold from €427 for those working with disabilities so that people can maintain their employment...
- Departmental Policies
395. To ask the Minister for Health : for clarification on the decision that off-duty paramedics are no longer able to bring their work vehicles home; if this is a permanent decision; and if she...
- Departmental Projects
396. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the elective hospital planned for the Connolly Hospital campus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8813/25]
- Departmental Funding
399. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding allocated to the HSE alcohol programme in 2023 and 2024; and the amount being made available in 2025, in tabular form. [8826/25]
- Departmental Data
400. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing alcohol related health interventions in each of the years 2023, 2024, and 2025, in tabular form. [8827/25]
- Addiction Treatment Services
401. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding allocated for alcohol addiction services by HSE Addiction Services and HSE section 39 services in 2023 and 2024; and the amount being made...
- Mental Health Services
405. 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 counties Carlow and Kilkenny, respectively;...
- Hospital Facilities
406. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide additional parking for staff and visitors at St. Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8854/25]
- Medical Cards
407. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of the population of counties Carlow and Kilkenny with a medical card or GP visit card, for each year from 2020 to 2024, in tabular...
- Hospital Services
408. To ask the Minister for Health if she will make provision for psychology services at St Luke's Hospial in Kilkenny, to help individuals and families who have been diagnosed with a type 1...
- Health Service Executive
409. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects her Department is engaged in with the HSE; the status of each project, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Suicide Prevention
410. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the strategy to develop a suicide prevention intervention for farmers in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8862/25]
- Medicinal Products
411. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for implementing the proposed changes to governance and safety regulations in the field of aesthetic medicine, with specific regard to dermal...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
412. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for when the HSE will make omnipod insulin pumps available to patients in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8888/25]
- Hospital Services
413. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to increase capacity for training parents of children with type 1 diabetes who are receiving an insulin pump at Temple Street...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
414. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide statistics on the allocation by the HSE of insulin pumps to children in Dublin between 2020 and 2024 and to date in 2025, including: the...
- Vaccination Programme
415. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the vaccine damage scheme for Covid-vaccine injury; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8891/25]
- Hospital Staff
416. To ask the Minister for Health when a paediatric ophthalmologist will be appointed to UHL; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8903/25]
- Departmental Legal Services
417. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid in legal costs to each of the top ten legal firms representing plaintiffs in medical negligence cases in to date in 2023, 2024 and to date in...
- State Claims Agency
418. To ask the Minister for Health the overall legal bill to the State Claims Agency in medical negligence cases in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [8906/25]
- Departmental Legal Services
419. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out in legal costs to each of the top ten named legal firms representing the agency in medical negligence cases in 2023, 2024 and to date in...
- State Claims Agency
420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims ongoing by the State Claims Agency in relation to late diagnosis and missed diagnosis in relation to failings in the CervicalCheck...
- Health Services Staff
421. To ask the Minister for Health to address a year-to-year decline in the national ophthalmology workforce between December 2023 and December 2024, in both acute and community services; if...
- Primary Care Centres
422. To ask the Minister for Health if she will engage with the HSE to ensure that Kildare North is future-proofed with regard to its provision of primary care centres, particularly in relation...
- Health Service Executive
423. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a rationale for the HSE expending approximately €2 million on non-emergency vehicles in 2024, if she will examine same in the...
- Vaccination Programme
424. To ask the Minister for Health if the Novavax vaccine will be made available in Ireland as an alternative to mRNA vaccines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8957/25]
- Mental Health Services
425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS teams around the country that have no psychologist; and to detail where these CAMHS teams are located. [8958/25]
- Health Service Executive
426. To ask the Minister for Health if she could ask the HSE to identify, by reference to name, address and eircode, all buildings or land owned by the HSE located in Dublin 2, 4 and 6, in...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Departmental Budgets
427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the budget allocated for free sanitary products for higher education facilities since its launch in 2022; the details of the...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the supports available to those undertaking apprenticeships; if any specific support is available to assist with the purchase...
- Third Level Fees
429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of continuing the €1000 reduction in the student contribution fee for undergraduates for the 2025-26 academic year; and...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Projects
432. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update in regards to planned works at Rosscarbery playground, County Cork (details supplied); when it is expected to receive a...
- Departmental Funding
433. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department can provide funding to support Clare County Council and an organisation (details supplied) in their pursuit to...
