Written answers

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Child Poverty
      42. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [5805/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      53. To ask the Taoiseach if he has plans to establish a cabinet sub-committee on the delivery of Metrolink. [6425/25]
    • Climate Action Plan
      94. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on plans to establish a climate investment clearing house. [10544/25]
    • Statutory Instruments
      95. To ask the Taoiseach the statutory instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      96. To ask the Taoiseach if there are plans to appoint a Minister of State for Traveller accommodation within the lifetime of the Thirty-fourth Dáil. [11064/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      97. To ask the Taoiseach if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they are employed by his Department and...
    • Departmental Data
      98. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of adults living with a disability in each of the years since 2011, in tabular form. [11244/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      100. To ask the Taoiseach for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11527/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      101. To ask the Taoiseach the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to date in 2025, by mileage claim and...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      102. To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Department has used any of the same IT services providers as the Arts Council (details supplied)...
    • Natural Gas Imports
      103. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed LNG imports with the US Administration during his recent visit to Washington. [12136/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      104. To ask the Taoiseach the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the years 2020 to 2025, in...
    • Trade Data
      108. To ask the Taoiseach the volume of alcohol imported into the State in 2024; and the monetary value of these alcohol imports. [12256/25]
    • Alcohol Sales
      109. To ask the Taoiseach the volume of alcohol exported from the State in 2024; and the monetary value of these alcohol exports. [12257/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      110. To ask the Taoiseach to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the aegis of his Department. [12928/25]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) will receive a passport card, which was due on 26 February; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of, and his views on, the total amount of taxpayers' money allocated to overseas aid with provision for 'reproductive rights'...
    • Foreign Policy
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent engagements with the United States Secretary of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11059/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they are...
    • Citizenship Applications
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11109/25]
    • Military Neutrality
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to ensure Irish neutrality will be adequately safeguarded in ReArm Europe plans recently announced by Ursula von der...
    • Foreign Policy
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take action at an Irish and European level in response to news that Israeli organisations supported by the EU or its Member...
    • Departmental Contracts
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11519/25]
    • United Nations
      120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if UN peace resolution 1325 has been raised with European partners surrounding peace negotiations in Ukraine; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to date...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade aon bhuntáistí, idir chinn dhíreacha (poist arna gcruthú sna Forais Eorpacha, srl) agus chinn indíreacha a...
    • Presidential Elections
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposals to extend voting rights for the Presidential election to persons living in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • State Bodies
      124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT services providers...
    • European Council
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position Ireland intends to take at the European Council regarding the proposed ReArm Europe package from the European Commission; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      128. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to confirm that for each year between 2020 and 2025 in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of his Department, at least one...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo; if he will instruct his Department to work with international...
    • Economic Sanctions
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the suspension of economic sanctions by the European Union on Syria is appropriate given the latest instances of...
    • Official Engagements
      132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the correspondence or discussions he has had with representatives of the Republic of Lithuania in relation to that country’s formal...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in the aftermath of the legalisation of abortion here, any policy change took place with regard to the funding of overseas abortions; if...
    • Abortion Services
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department or any branch of Government liaised with any aid organisations, philanthropic organisations or governments between 2014...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Telecommunications Services
      136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding any research carried out by the Shared Island Unit into the merits of creating a single...
    • Data Centres
      139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to review, revise or update the Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland’s...
    • Waste Management
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the European Parliament and Council recent agreement on new measures to prevent and reduce waste from food...
    • National Broadband Plan
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to include an area (details supplied) in the intervention (amber) area for fibre broadband; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 11 June 2024, if he will report on matters previously raised (details...
    • Climate Action Plan
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment about the reports of the climate action delivery board; where can these reports be accessed; when he expects the next...
    • Energy Policy
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected total capital cost of the strategic gas reserve; the estimated annual operating cost; to outline the...
    • Energy Usage
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total volume of natural gas used in Ireland in each year since 2016, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown of the...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated additional volume requirement of natural gas for electricity generation and data centres for each of the...
    • Telecommunications Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagements with the Commission for Communications Regulation regarding the use of inflation-linked mid-contract...
    • Departmental Staff
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully...
    • Departmental Schemes
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any changes to the better energy warmer homes scheme carried out by SEAI following the signing of the...
    • Energy Policy
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the work concerning the energy security review that was ongoing at the end of the last Government’s...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how much natural gas was used respectively by data centres and large industrial processes respectively in 2024; and if...
    • Electricity Grid
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of electricity storage available on the grid; the plan to add more over the next five years; if he will...
    • Energy Conservation
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount allocated for retrofitting, by county, in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [11297/25]
    • Energy Policy
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the revenue that was raised via the cap on market revenues; how this compares to the original projected revenue; and if...
    • Air and Water Pollution
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to furnish a copy of the investigation report by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council into the compliance of coal...
    • Departmental Schemes
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the targeted solar PV scheme for medically vulnerable persons is currently in operation; if he will provide details...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline in 2025 for the consultation and development of the new national cybersecurity strategy. [11477/25]
    • Legislative Programme
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the proposed National Cyber Security Bill. [11478/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department [11517/25]
    • Pension Provisions
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is scope to expedite the consent process required from a Minister to enact the pension increase received by An...
    • International Agreements
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the State has entered into arbitration with a company (details supplied), or any other companies under the dispute...
    • Departmental Schemes
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of contracting companies that are currently contracted to carry out the works under the warmer homes scheme;...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average time it is taking for the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority to assess and validate maritime area consent...
    • Pension Provisions
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a copy of the authorisation given to An Post on 26 May 1989 to award increases in pensions to retired staff;...
    • National Broadband Plan
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 4 March 2025, for a timeline on the expected start of the building process...
    • Postal Services
      196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the case of a company (details supplied); for an update on the provision of an Eircode; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Staff
      197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since...
    • Departmental Properties
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which his Department owns or is leasing, and...
    • Departmental Funding
      199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide financial support and utilise the objectives of Sustainable Killarney 2030 as a pilot scheme whereby it will...
    • Waste Management
      200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the consideration and research that has taken place in his Department on the incidence of medical or homecare waste in...
    • Emergency Planning
      201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of Ireland’s preparedness for a nuclear event that meaningfully impacts this; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Policy
      202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on private wires policy; to provide a timeline for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the use of mixed technologies as a transitional measure for households; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the average cost to retrofit a home to a BER B2 or higher standard from 2019 to 2024 and to date in...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11964/25]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider revising the mandate of GNI in order that it be aligned with the Climate Action and Low Carbon...
    • Departmental Bodies
      214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting...
    • Departmental Schemes
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the solar panel scheme for medically vulnerable persons; if he understands that persons added to the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline his ministerial brief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12331/25]
    • Public Sector Staff
      220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to list the functions, roles and services that were carried out and delivered by civil service or State agency workers;...
    • National Broadband Plan
      221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on any improvements in speed of the national broadband roll out in Castletown Geoghegan. [12477/25]
    • Emergency Planning
      222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment who hosted and who attended the recent war room exercise reported as ‘Exercise Cathal’; and if he will...
    • Pension Provisions
      223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the proposed 4% pension increase for members of the ESB defined benefit pension scheme,...
    • Electricity Grid
      224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with Electric Ireland on poor communication levels with businesses regarding power outage; and if he...
    • Water Services
      225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with Uisce Éireann on poor communication levels with businesses regarding water outages; and if...
    • Departmental Bodies
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements he has had with EirGrid since September 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12825/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Staff
      228. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they are...
    • Defence Forces
      229. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the unmanned naval or air drones for patrolling Irish territorial airspace or waters that are available to the Defence Forces; if a procurement...
    • Legislative Programme
      230. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he will publish the draft heads of Bill for the Defence (Amendment)(No.2) Bill; if he will provide a copy of the proposed draft...
    • Defence Forces
      231. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the advice he has received on the crime of aggression and the risk to Irish troops on peacekeeping missions without a UN mandate; and if he will...
    • United Nations
      233. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline each UN peacekeeping mission the Defence Forces have served on since 1960; the UN mandate that sanctioned each; the number of...
    • Defence Forces
      234. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current force strength of the permanent Defence Forces; the breakdown of the current number of serving members in the Naval Service, Army...
    • Naval Service
      235. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of ships in the Naval Service fleet; the current number that can put to sea; the level of staffing needed for each; the number of...
    • Air Corps
      236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline, given that according to the European Commission 17 large-capacity power generators were delivered to Ireland from EU...
    • Defence Forces
      237. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the procedure for former members of the Defence Forces to get access to their full military record; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      238. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it remains the case that Ireland will not be procuring military equipment or defence equipment or contracts with Israeli entities (details...
    • Defence Forces
      240. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rationale for not paying flying pay to date to a person; and if he will examine a case file (details supplied) and expedite payment. [11648/25]
    • Ministerial Staff
      242. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to date in...
    • Departmental Properties
      243. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which his Department owns or is leasing, and have been identified as...
    • Defence Forces
      244. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the last time the stables at the Defence Forces Equitation School were refurbished; when those stables are next scheduled to be refurbished....
    • Legislative Measures
      245. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the proposed changes to the triple lock will apply only to peacekeeping missions or will also apply to peace-enforcement missions; and if he...
    • State Bodies
      246. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT services providers as...
    • Departmental Policies
      247. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps his Department is taking to implement the Curragh Plains Conversation Management Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Bodies
      249. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the...
    • Defence Forces
      253. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of refurbishment works to Collins Barracks, Cork, in each of the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [12238/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      254. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the air ambulance will be returning to the Athlone base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12298/25]
    • United Nations
      255. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail any instances in the past twenty years of a UN peacekeeping mission in which Ireland was to partake, being blocked or not proceeding...
    • Departmental Projects
      256. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware that illegal encampments on the Curragh Plains have resumed; the measures that his Department is taking to bring this situation...
    • Departmental Properties
      257. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of habitable residential units under the control of his Department; the location of these units; if they are occupied or unoccupied,...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      260. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the aegis...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Departmental Reports
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce Report, specifically the...
    • Parking Provision
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provision that is made for special parking rights and allowance for passengers with autism, similar to the blue badge issued by an...
    • Bus Services
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeline for an increased provision of bus services for the Millers Glen estate in Swords; and if he will make a statement...
    • Transport Costs
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the price of a train ticket from Cork to Dublin is double that of a train ticket from Galway to Dublin, despite...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update regarding pension increases for retired CIÉ workers under the 1951 scheme who have received no increases to their...
    • Aviation Industry
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timeline for his Department to publish its policy framework on commercial drone regulation; and if he will make a...
    • Coast Guard Service
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what progress has been made to date regarding the procurement of a new site to construct a fit-for-purpose Coast Guard station in...
    • Road Network
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the crisis situation regarding the condition of County Wexford’s local, secondary and tertiary roads network,...
    • Transport Policy
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been progress made on any capital projects such as the MetroLink or the Galway bypass since the formation of this...
    • Driver Test
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures put in place to reduce current waiting times for driving tests (details supplied). [10741/25]
    • Bus Services
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to address issues in relation to the 11 and 11B bus service, which replaced the 46A earlier this year (details supplied). [10763/25]
    • Public Transport
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what steps are being taken to improve the reliability of the public transport system and reduce the stress and inconvenience faced by...
    • Rail Network
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct Irish Rail to expedite a phased project of gate keeper crossing automation on the Nenagh Branch line. [10788/25]
    • Bus Services
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of cases of bus drivers refusing passengers with foldable bikes from their routes, as foldable bikes are permitted on...
    • Insurance Industry
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all motor insurers and brokers will have access to his Departments driver file database from 31 March 2025, to validate driver numbers...
    • Bus Services
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine the case for additional services on a bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10814/25]
    • Rail Network
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the consistent delays on the Irish Rail service between Woodlawn and Galway, with trains frequently running at least...
    • Bus Services
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the poor performance of the 33 and 33A buses; if he and the National Transport Authority will ensure a better, more...
    • Transport Policy
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the transport projects planned for Cork North Central over the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority intends on removing the bus stop in Fanore, County Clare, preventing local residents from...
    • Insurance Coverage
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is intended to update the requirement to have an insurance disc printed in colour displayed on a vehicle considering the advances...
    • Coast Guard Service
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason 24-hour search and rescue services are not operational from Shannon Airport; the action that can be taken to rectify this; and...
    • Road Projects
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if work is under way within Irish Rail to provide a design to facilitate progression of the Athenry relief road project; and if he will...
    • Rail Network
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail is sourcing additional carriages to increase capacity on existing rail services in and out of Galway train station given...
    • Heritage Sites
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will provide support to Galway County Council to purchase Dunguaire Castle; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on Cork’s light rail project; the date at which he intends to publish the preferred route and hold public...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has adopted a policy or guidelines regarding the approval of applications for the transport of munitions of war on...
    • Departmental Appointments
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all persons recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they are...
    • Greenways Provision
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the trailhead on a section of greenway (details supplied) is not finished; the reason it is not fully opened; and if he will...
    • Transport Costs
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the 50% fare reduction for young adult and student Leap card holders to students who travel cross-Border to...
    • Taxi Regulations
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to regulate taxi apps (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11100/25]
    • Coast Guard Service
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of leasing five helicopters for the Coast Guard from a company (details supplied) over a ten-year period; and if he will make a...
    • Road Tolls
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process for late payments for M50 toll users; if his Department will negotiate leniency for elderly drivers who do not pay on time;...
    • Public Transport
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a more suitable time schedule will be provided, based on customer feedback, for the TFI route which services Moneenroe to Carlow and...
    • Rail Network
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be additional train services between Heuston Station and Fonthill, Kishoge and Adamstown stations; if train services will...
    • Driver Test
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving tests conducted on a listed daily basis at Tallaght driving test centre from 1 September 2024 to 5 March 2025; and...
    • Transport Costs
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he would consider introducing free public transport to people under the age of 18; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Active Travel
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be provided to expand active travel projects in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any additional funding will be provided to expand Local Link services in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional 2025 funding will be provided to Meath County Council for the repair of local and regional roads due to damage caused by...
    • Taxi Licences
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the National Transport Authority regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the national change of speed limits from 50 km/h to 30 km/h; and if it applies to all public and private residential...
    • Transport Policy
      316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the interdepartmental alternative fuels for transport working group is currently sitting; when it last met; when it is next scheduled...
    • Public Transport
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress achieved by the end of 2024 on the targets to deliver at least 500,000 additional daily active travel and public transport...
    • Electric Vehicles
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average time taken for grid connections to be provided for new public EV charging points; the number of public EV charging points...
    • Bus Services
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of new passenger buses which were registered or taxed for the first time in each of the past five years, by power...
    • Cycling Facilities
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the dangers cyclists frequently face when using cycle lanes; if he will consider launching a public information...
    • Parking Provision
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the number of car parking spaces and bicycle parking spaces available to commuters at Sallins train station. [11507/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11529/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 6 March 2025, his Departments capital underspend in each year from 2021 to 2024, in tabular...
    • Rail Network
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the increasing overcrowding on commuter trains along the northern line, serving the towns of Rush, Lusk, Balbriggan,...
    • Electric Vehicles
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the misuse of e-scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11592/25]
    • Greenways Provision
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the funding for the Mallow to Dungarvan Greenway; what this funding will achieve; if this project is still feasible...
    • Road Projects
      329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position on a piece of infrastructure project in County Kildare (details supplied); if he will outline the meetings and...
    • Transport Costs
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position on rail fares in Kildare South through the Dublin commuter zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      331. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite as a matter of extreme urgency the N22 Killarney-to-Farranfore bypass and take into consideration that the town of...
    • Airport Policy
      332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new regional airport programme will be released given the current programme expires in 2025; the steps his Department is taking...
    • Departmental Staff
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to...
    • Departmental Funding
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a breakdown of the schemes submitted by Dublin City Council to the Greenways and National Roads Active Travel Infrastructure fund for...
    • Road Safety
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering funding a pilot red-light camera initiative in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to improve the service of the 215 bus in Cork city, following numerous complaints of the bus arriving late, or not at...
    • Taxi Licences
      337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of registered taxis and hackney drivers in operation in each county in each of the years 2019, 2023, and 2024, in tabular...
    • Road Safety
      338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been increased or decreased to municipal districts in relation to low-cost road safety measures; if additional funding is...
    • Road Projects
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way his Department has employed the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets; how ongoing and future projects align with these...
    • Public Transport
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to increase fares on public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11986/25]
    • Climate Change Policy
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to reduce transport emissions; if he anticipates there will be a reduction this year; and if he will make a...
    • Vehicle Clamping
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that a company (details supplied) has a payment method that accepts cash as a payment option; and if he will make a...
    • Cycling Policy
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans any regulations requiring cyclists and scooterists to wear a high-vis jacket at night-time; and if he will make a statement...
    • Transport Policy
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the authority responsible for the regulation of commercial drone food delivery services, particularly regarding their impact on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Department have used any of the same IT services providers as the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each...
    • Driver Licences
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to instruct his Department to make the driving licence renewal process easier and more transparent due to the trouble certain Irish...
    • Road Safety
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he envisions a speed limit reduction in urban areas from 50 km/h to 30 km/h; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12281/25]
    • Driver Test
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if individuals are notified in advance by the Road Safety Authority of their approaching need for re-testing; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline his ministerial brief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12330/25]
    • Bus Services
      358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be provided to expand Local Link services in counties Kilkenny and Carlow; and if he will make a statement on...
    • EU Directives
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Irish and EU legislation regulating the use of heavy goods vehicles and more specifically, the legislation relevant to load securing;...
    • Noise Pollution
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding to local authorities to implement noise mitigation action plans on major roads such as the M7 and M20...
    • Rail Network
      361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the deadline for a decision on DART Coastal from An Bord Pleanála has been pushed back from February 2025 to October...
    • Public Sector Staff
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to list the functions, roles and services carried out and delivered by Civil Service or State agency workers; the cost to the State of...
    • Bus Services
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to date of the development and implementation of the BusConnects project; the amount expended on the advertising of the...
    • Rail Network
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to date of the development and implementation of all dart+ projects to date; the amount expended on the advertising of the...
    • Bus Services
      365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on progress to introduce a direct bus route between Blanchardstown and Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      366. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve road safety in Dublin 8; if there will be enforcement of the clear way on Cunningham Road; if Memorial Gardens and...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the properties owned by Córas Iompair Éireann; their current use status, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid in consultancy fees to date by his Department, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland...
    • National Transport Authority
      369. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the National Transport Authority is sufficiently staffed to deliver on the numerous transport projects that are...
    • Tax Data
      371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the revenue collected from motor tax annually from 2019 to date in 2025, by each local authority. [12870/25]
    • Electric Vehicles
      372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 209 of 5 February 2025 in relation to the installation of EV chargers in public places, if Dublin...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      374. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that should be taken by a severely and permanently disabled person (details supplied) following refusal of primary medical certificate application...
    • Tax Credits
      376. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people that have applied to have their flat-rate expenses continued through 2025 as it was confirmed from 2025 that the credit would need to be...
    • EU Directives
      377. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in relation to the timing for the publication of the EU Tobacco Excise Directive, originally scheduled for December 2022; the...
    • Inflation Rate
      378. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has assessed the potential impact of the new tax on vapes, to be introduced in budget 2026, on inflation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Insurance Industry
      379. To ask the Minister for Finance the position Ireland has taken during the recently completed review of Solvency II in relation to the extension of powers to EIOPA regarding cross-border...
    • Tax Reliefs
      381. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the assertion by the Revenue Commissioners that the Finance Act 2022 inadvertently created a loophole allowing employers to make unlimited,...
    • Departmental Communications
      382. To ask the Minister for Finance to list the representatives from his Department who will be attending a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); to outline the contents of the...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      383. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the details of the involvement of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) at a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); to...
    • Tax Code
      386. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the percentage additional cost that will be added to petrol and diesel by 2030 as a result of the carbon tax; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Provision
      387. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department have advised the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation the turnkey purchases for houses rather than various forms...
    • Banking Sector
      388. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any legal obligation on banks to inform the Central Bank or the Department of Finance of the securitisation of large amounts of residential...
    • Financial Services
      389. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints to the FSPO each year since 2018; the number of decision by the FSPO that have been upheld, substantially upheld, partially upheld...
    • Tax Code
      390. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the zero rate of VAT of medical equipment and appliances to breast pumps and attachments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      392. To ask the Minister for Finance if the exemptions for capital gains tax apply to a family carer who moved out of their principle primary residence into the home of the cared-for person for a...
    • Tax Code
      393. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would consider allowing gym membership, or indeed any sporting membership, to be made tax deductible in the same way weight loss drugs are tax...
    • Tax Data
      396. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of rent tax credit claims which have been made annually in County Cork, by local area, from 2022 to date, in tabular form. [11012/25]
    • Housing Provision
      397. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the borrowing cap for local authorities to facilitate the delivery of new housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      398. To ask the Minister for Finance if all persons recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they are employed by his Department...
    • Tax Exemptions
      399. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the situation regarding a clinic (details supplied) which faces closure due to the recent tax law clarification; if a legislative exemption...
    • Insurance Industry
      400. To ask the Minister for Finance to examine the case for a review of the rules governing insurance premiums (details supplied). [11216/25]
    • Tax Code
      401. To ask the Minister for Finance if clear guidance will be issued for taxi drivers who will be affected by the tax implications of the ‘reverse charge’ model operated by taxi...
    • EU Funding
      402. To ask the Minister for Finance whether recently announced ReArm Europe plans by Ursula von der Leyen, particularly the announcement of more flexible use of EU funding towards defence...
    • Financial Services
      403. To ask the Minister for Finance the legislation or regulations that govern the provision of safe deposit boxes and their contents in financial institutions; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Code
      405. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to further expand the inheritance thresholds, particularly where it relates to the estates of single individuals; if he will acknowledge that...
    • Tax Credits
      406. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of instances of persons having marriage tax credits claimed during their separation being recouped following the finalisation of their divorce,...
    • Tax Data
      407. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the VAT rate applicable to each of bike rental and short-term car rental sectors from 13.5% to 9%. [11485/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      409. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will commit to reintroducing tax relief on trade union subscriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11498/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      410. To ask the Minister for Finance for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11518/25]
    • Tax Code
      411. To ask the Minister for Finance to address the discrimination childless adults are experiencing regarding inheritance tax (details supplied) as a matter of extreme urgency; and if he will...
    • State Assets
      413. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the volume of gold or gold receivables held by the Central Bank at the end of each year since 2014, in tabular form; the value of that holding as...
    • Tax Code
      415. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to make changes to the taxation of cohabiting couples to recognise them as equal to married couples. [11730/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      416. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to date in 2025, by...
    • Departmental Properties
      417. To ask the Minister for Finance to list the buildings occupied or vacant on land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which his Department owns or is leasing, and have been identified as surplus to...
    • Financial Services
      418. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services Ombudsman in each of the past five years; if there is a backlog of cases to be dealt with; if so,...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      419. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement his Department has had with mortgage lenders regarding Irish mortgage rates, in light of the ECB cutting rates over the past nine months. [11813/25]
    • State Bodies
      421. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT services providers as the Arts...
    • Tax Code
      424. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government plans to align the inheritance tax treatment for those without children with that for individuals leaving their estates to children (details...
    • Departmental Bodies
      425. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the years 2020 to...
    • Tax Data
      429. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of excise relief claimed on alcohol produced in the State by qualifying alcohol producers from 2014 to 2024, in tabular form. [12251/25]
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      430. To ask the Minister for Finance the discretionary investments in quoted equities global alcohol companies by the NTMA from 2014 to 2024, by value of investment and company, in tabular form....
    • State Assets
      431. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the State's holding in alcohol industry stocks; the investment in alcohol industry stocks from 2014 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Alcohol Sales
      432. To ask the Minister for Finance the volume of alcohol sales recorded in the off-trade, by volume, and monetary value in each of the years 2014 to 2024, in tabular form. [12272/25]
    • Ukraine War
      434. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to identify funds held by Russian beneficiaries in section 110 special-purpose vehicle firms. [12293/25]
    • Financial Irregularities
      435. To ask the Minister for Finance if new regulatory measures or amendments to existing legislation are being considered to enhance transparency and oversight of section 110 special-purpose...
    • Tax Reliefs
      439. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that persons doing dialysis in their home are not eligible to claim back any of the costs unless they are taxpayers or living with taxpayers;...
    • Credit Unions
      440. To ask the Minister for Finance how he plans to expand the role of Ireland’s credit union sector in the housing market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12350/25]
    • Insurance Industry
      442. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures his Department is considering to assist property owners whose premises may have previously been damaged by flooding and who now have difficulty...
    • Tax Data
      443. To ask the Minister for Finance the current turnaround period for ROS VAT unregistered refunds to farmers; the efforts his Department is making to improve these turnaround times to prevent...
    • Tax Reliefs
      444. To ask the Minister for Finance the eligibility of those who were previously declared bankrupt to apply for the help-to-buy scheme; if they are not eligible, if his Department is considering...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      446. To ask the Minister for Finance to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the aegis of his...
    • Tax Reliefs
      447. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to expand or amend the help-to-buy scheme to help more buyers; if he will consider certain changes (details supplied); and if he will make...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Management
      448. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration will be given to initiating tranche two of the OPW flood protection scheme for Mogeely, Castlemartyr, Killeagh and...
    • Office of Public Works
      449. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions taken by the OPW to date to secure a car park and access to Castletown House from a centre (details supplied), given that...
    • Civil Service
      453. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department has circulated advice on instances where a civil servant is serving a custodial sentence for a serious violent...
    • Departmental Staff
      454. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they...
    • Coastal Protection
      455. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if emergency coastal protection works will be carried out at Rossbeigh beach, Glenbeigh, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Properties
      465. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if lands formerly held by a company (details supplied) became State lands and vested in the Minister, pursuant to section 28 of the...
    • Court Accommodation
      466. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 24 November 2020, the cost of scaffolding that has been positioned around the dome of the...
    • Office of Public Works
      467. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the current situation regarding restoration works at Durrow Abbey, Tullamore, County Offaly; when repairs will...
    • Military Neutrality
      468. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether recently announced ReArm Europe plans by Ursula von der Leyen, particularly the announcement of more flexible use of EU funding...
    • Coastal Protection
      469. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans for coastal protection works at the Murrough, Wicklow town; the timeframe for the works; and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Bodies
      470. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT services...
    • Departmental Contracts
      471. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11524/25]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      472. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on when works on a scheme (details supplied) will progress, ten years after approval of said scheme; and if he will...
    • Public Sector Staff
      473. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list the functions, roles and services that were carried out and delivered by civil service or State agency workers; the cost to the...
    • EU Funding
      474. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details of the allocation of the EU’s social cohesion funding in Ireland from 2020 to date; and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      475. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the progress of a new Garda station (details supplied); if a contractor has been appointed for the development [11612/25]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      476. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he can take to ensure flooding in Listowel, County Kerry can be eliminated (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      477. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of recent restoration works at Quin Garda station, County Clare; the plans for the newly renovated building; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Staff
      478. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to...
    • Departmental Properties
      479. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which his Department or the HSE owns or is leasing, and have been...
    • Health Services Staff
      480. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 1108 of 5 February 2025, if there has been a change since 2022 to the criteria required to deem a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      481. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the report on flooding in Listowel in November 2024 the projected timeline for delivery; if he will expedite the delivery...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      483. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends conducting an environmental impact assessment on the rock armour placed at Rossbeigh beach; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      484. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will include in the Office of Public Works’ Tranche II Pilot the areas of Mogeely and Castlemartyr, County Cork; and if he...
    • EU Funding
      485. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has had engagement with relevant stakeholders, including those who benefit from cohesion policy programmes, or EU...
    • Departmental Bodies
      486. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      491. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of EU-owned OEM IT brands represented in ITC016F the Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision Of Network And...
    • State Properties
      492. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how many official State guests have stayed overnight in Farmleigh House for each of the past 25 years. [12324/25]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      493. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list all the OEM IT brands that were successful in TC016F Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of network and...
    • Flood Risk Management
      494. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he, along with the Office of Public Works, will detail the extent to which the town of Shannon, County Clare, has flooded since the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      495. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 22 January 2024, to provide an update on the project; the number of landowners being...
    • Departmental Properties
      496. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the ownership of a property (details supplied) will be transferred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12697/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      497. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Data Centres
      498. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the status of a national data centre policy; whether the Government is in the process of drafting it; when it...
    • Social Media
      499. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure that the expansion of the Appeals Centre Europe to additional social media platforms is effective;...
    • EU Agreements
      501. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has engaged with their French counterparts with regard to creating a blocking minority within the European Union to...
    • Work Permits
      504. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of critical skills employment permits that have been granted for registered nurses, registered midwives, between...
    • Departmental Strategies
      505. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to review, revise or update the Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland’s Enterprise...
    • Work Permits
      506. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to review the refusal of the work permit renewal application for a person [details supplied]. [10605/25]
    • Employment Rights
      507. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the options available to a person (details supplied) to remain working longer within the private sector; and if he will make a...
    • Construction Industry
      508. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware that asbestos sheets had been used for the construction of the (details supplied), and if the Department...
    • Personal Injuries Assessment Board
      509. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and value of claims by Gardaí who were injured during the course of their duties post-2022 that were processed by the...
    • Employment Rights
      510. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a timeline for the raising of paid sick leave to seven days, and ultimately ten days; and if he will make a...
    • Business Supports
      513. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if financial supports will be provided to businesses that suffered damage during storm Éowyn, similar to the humanitarian flood...
    • Departmental Bodies
      514. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on recent reports on the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland in respect of threatened legal action; and if he will make a...
    • Work Permits
      515. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to clarify a matter regarding work permits (details supplied). [10878/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      518. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the costings for spending by the Design and Crafts Council Ireland on legal fees to date on this issue (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Staff
      519. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before...
    • Business Supports
      520. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 20 February 2025, the position regarding the departmental review of issues that arose in...
    • Departmental Regulations
      521. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to examine the case for increasing the heavy goods vehicle/bus permit limit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Bodies
      522. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on reports of the recent legal action threatened by the Design and Crafts Council Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Business Supports
      523. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a compensation package for businesses which had to close for a period due to storm Éowyn; and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      525. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the proposed omnibus legislation launched by the European Commission on February 26 2025; if he is concerned that...
    • Departmental Bodies
      526. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take action to ensure price gauging practices are banned and added to the remit of the Competition and Consumer Protection...
    • EU Directives
      527. 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;...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      529. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the Government’s response to the latest recommendation of Ireland’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisory...
    • Departmental Contracts
      533. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11516/25]
    • Job Losses
      534. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which he was contacted by and or engaged by a company (details supplied) in respect of job losses at the company; if so,...
    • Proposed Legislation
      535. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he is taking in relation to the Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Staff
      536. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the annual amount claimed by special advisors attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020...
    • Trade Data
      537. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to state or estimate the total value of imports originating in the Xinjiang province in China in each year from 2020 to 2024; and if...
    • Employment Rights
      538. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce legislation to compel employers to pay employees at weekly or fortnightly intervals at most, to ensure employees...
    • State Bodies
      539. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT services...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      540. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider adding voluntary organisations into the remit of the WRC in view of an inquest verdict (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Bodies
      541. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for...
    • Business Supports
      545. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of grant-aid issued under the Power-Up grant for business to companies (details supplied), in tabular form. [12248/25]
    • Departmental Data
      547. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of funding provided by Enterprise Ireland to companies (details supplied) from 2014 to 2024, in tabular form. [12253/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      549. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review and advise on the case of a child (details supplied) diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and a moderate to severe...
    • Child Protection
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken by his Department relative to the findings of the O’Keeffe v. Ireland case in 1973 and the ruling of the European Human...
    • Schools Building Projects
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite an application made by a school in County Clare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10616/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the actions she will take to support this family in securing a...
    • School Enrolments
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students enrolled in a school (details supplied) in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a county-by-county breakdown of the 3,275 children now identified as requiring a special educational place for September 2025 (details...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding for school completion programmes (details supplied) from the years 2020 to 2025, per programme, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next Stage 2a meeting (details supplied) will be held, following a previous meeting in October 2024; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Data Protection
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of fines issued to her Department in respect of breaching general data protection regulations, by year, from 1...
    • Special Educational Needs
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to intervene urgently in the case of a child (details supplied) to grant a place in an ASD class for September 2025. [10815/25]
    • School Enrolments
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently intervene regarding the need for an additional junior infant class at a school (details supplied) for the 2025-26 school...
    • Departmental Meetings
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will facilitate a meeting, as requested in correspondence to her office on 4 March 2025, between the principals of schools (details...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when extension and refurbishment works will commence at a school (details supplied); and the reason for repeated missed deadlines for same. [10855/25]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an appeal by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10862/25]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to proactively ensure that a preschool (details supplied) can continue to operate from a location; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the demand from school transport escorts for fair pay and conditions, to reflect the importance of their work for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress in attaining a site for a special school in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school for emergency works (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case for the establishment of an extra bus route (details supplied). [10974/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10989/25]
    • School Transport
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be considered as a pilot school in the programme for Government school transport 2030 scheme; and if she will...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the planned Commission of Investigation into Historical Sexual Abuses in Schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a directive was given to a school (details provided) to no longer allow SNA positions to be filled; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus service can be provided to transport students from Ardfert, County Kerry to a post-primary school (details supplied), as post-primary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she or the Minister of State with responsibility for special education and inclusion will meet with a representative group of parents who...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are proposed plans to amalgamate the primary schools in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, to form a co-educational primary school; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the tendering process for the expansion of the ASD unit in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for an extension to a school in County Leitrim (details supplied) will progress to tender; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Facilities
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are funding streams in her Department that might provide for a sensory playground for autism classes at a school (details supplied); and...
    • Departmental Staff
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all persons that are recruited to work in her Department and all the related agencies of her Department are fully vetted before they are...
    • School Accommodation
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an additional junior infant class in a school (details supplied); if she will examine the possibility of a new primary school for the...
    • School Staff
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive their full wages while on leave, which resulted in the person being out-of-pocket when...
    • Special Educational Needs
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be sanctioned to open a fifth autism classroom, with consideration to the high volume of applications that...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 411 of 5 February 2025, the reason a person (details supplied) has still not received an assessment for...
    • School Accommodation
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to construct additional classrooms to accommodate the large increase in demand made for places in a school (details supplied);...
    • Education Welfare Service
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals against expulsions from post-primary schools initiated by the Child and Family Agency under the provision section 10(b) of...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe in which a decision will be made regarding an application for a school extension (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Facilities
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures relating to the use of space in school buildings for the provision of ECCE and afterschool services; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school extension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11165/25]
    • School Facilities
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures regarding the use of space in school buildings for the provision of ECCE and afterschool services; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the urgent measures being taken to ensure that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not left without a suitable school place, in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of delays with the construction project for a new purpose-built school (details supplied); the action her Department is taking to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance her Department will provide to a person (details supplied) in establishing a post-primary moderate autism class; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with Bus Éireann and introduce a local school bus service in north Tipperary (details supplied) for the upcoming school...
    • School Admissions
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school place for a chid (details supplied); the reasons for the delay in finding them an appropriate school place; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an SNA will be put into place for a pupil whose application has been approved (details supplied). [11204/25]
    • School Facilities
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing challenges regarding a school (details supplied) accessing a sports capital grant and...
    • School Transport
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 6 November 2024, if an application by a group (details supplied) for school transport will be...
    • School Textbooks
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the free schoolbooks scheme for students in Junior Cycle years; if consideration has been given to including private...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Post Graduate Certificate in Education graduates from the UK are eligible to register as a newly qualified teacher in Ireland; when changes to...
    • School Textbooks
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to concerns of small schoolbook retailers regarding the knock-on impact of the free schoolbooks scheme that has...
    • Schools Building Projects
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current timescale for opening the third primary school site with planning permission for a 32-classroom building at a location (details...
    • School Accommodation
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a new secondary school on a site (details supplied) in Clara, County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Staff
      628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to school-secretary pensions; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a new ASD class has not been approved for a school (details supplied); the reason this decision has been taken; if it will be...
    • School Facilities
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if private schools are being considered for inclusion under future funding rounds in relation to the roll out of free solar panels for schools;...
    • School Enrolments
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with the SENO and NCSE with respect to finding a school place for the child (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm a timeline for publication in respect of the promised review by the State Examinations Commission on exam accommodations for...
    • School Funding
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently intervene to fund a school (details supplied) in County Clare that is constantly struggling to make ends meet; and if she...
    • School Facilities
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a boundary fence will be erected at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11378/25]
    • School Transport
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the trouble families in Saggart are facing with transport to school (details supplied); if she will instruct his Department to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the reduction in special education allocation hours for a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Enrolments
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who availed of home tuition because of a lack of a suitable school place in Cork for the 2024-2025 school year. [11407/25]
    • Education Schemes
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied), which was included in the original early start pilot, only has one year of early start; and IF it is...
    • Special Educational Needs
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the lack of ASD classes in the coming school year in Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11421/25]
    • School Transport
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct Bus Éireann through the post-primary school transport scheme to ensure that a new bus pick-up stop will be installed in...
    • School Accommodation
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the delays in the construction of a school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of special classes in fee paying schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11482/25]
    • School Transport
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 20 February 2025, if the case will be re-examined given further information has come to hand on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11515/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a child (details supplied) who is at risk of expulsion from primary school due to a lack of additional supports available;...
    • School Accommodation
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11549/25]
    • Child Abuse
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding a redress scheme for victims of historical child sexual abuse in Primary and Secondary schools; if a similar...
    • School Accommodation
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building (details supplied); the status of the appointment of a multi-disciplinary design team; the timeline for the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken to address the lack of school places in Carlow for children with special educational needs, specifically referring to a...
    • School Transport
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes being implemented on the school transport scheme for the 2025-2026 year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11659/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the option of opening a second ASD classroom in school (details supplied) for the coming academic year,...
    • School Funding
      665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 4 March 2025, the amount of funding under the science implementation support grant received by each...
    • Special Educational Needs
      666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure a child (details supplied) receives appropriate education and support, following the child's expulsion from...
    • School Curriculum
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason current 5th year students have to study 20 sraith pictiúir for the Irish oral exam in 2026 compared to current 6th year students...
    • School Transport
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 20 February 2025, if the case will be re-examined given that further information has come to hand on...
    • School Curriculum
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of US-based Catholic missionary organisations (details supplied) running pilot programmes in State-funded primary schools for...
    • Education Policy
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has issued advice to primary schools on specific requirements or criteria for outside organisations brought into primary...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to her or her Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to date in...
    • Departmental Properties
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which her Department or the HSE owns or is leasing, and have been...
    • Schools Building Projects
      673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11801/25]
    • School Enrolments
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected number of junior infant enrolments in Dublin 15 and in Dublin west in September 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029, tabular form....
    • Special Educational Needs
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education runs a communications campaign; if so, the communication channels used to inform parents that they...
    • Education Standards
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department monitors the number of children who complete either primary school or secondary school but who remain illiterate or...
    • Education Policy
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy in relation to allowing or prohibiting male students to compete in female-only sports; whether she is aware of...
    • School Transport
      686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the commitment in the Programme for Government that an independent assessment on the feasibility of removing the exclusion of drivers aged...
    • School Enrolments
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide up-to-date statistics on the post-primary population in Dublin 15 across three school areas, Blanchardstown Village and West,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider establishing a special school or pre-school unit for children with additional needs in a school building which is no longer...
    • School Transport
      693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a bus ticket for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11891/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied) who has autism and is yet to receive a school placement; if she will...
    • School Discipline
      697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of expulsions at primary, post primary, and special school settings in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular...
    • School Accommodation
      698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will still receive funding if the school proceeds with installing modular buildings for a special class. [11931/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if her own Government Department have used any of the same IT services providers as...
    • School Accommodation
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the additional schools accommodation application submitted by a school (details supplied) for the expansion of...
    • Home Schooling
      701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide any further State support to parents who wish to homeschool their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with Bus Éireann on the rule that drivers on school transport must be under 70 years of age (details supplied). [11967/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if immediate funding will be provided for a full building survey of a school (details supplied) to assess serious health and safety concerns...
    • School Staff
      705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will investigate the reasons for administrative delays leading to apparent underpayment of teachers (details supplied); the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will have an educational assessment carried out; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a transfer will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12042/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to sanction the provision of extra accommodation for the two special ASD classrooms for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will open a special education school in the premises where a school (details supplied) is vacating in Gorey, County Wexford; the funds...
    • School Transport
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the number of primary and secondary school students who have received an Irish exemption each year for the past five years; the number in...
    • State Examinations
      713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to introduce measures allowing students to sit the Leaving Certificate through Irish sign language, in the same manner as other languages such as...
    • Schools Building Projects
      714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that a school building project (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of suspensions and expulsions in each special school across Ireland for the past three academic years, in tabular form,...
    • Schools Building Projects
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has in place to build an extension with additional classrooms at a school (details supplied), so that they can facilitate the...
    • School Transport
      717. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review the mandatory retirement age of 70 for Bus Éireann drivers, given the serious shortage of school bus drivers; if...
    • School Accommodation
      718. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date evidence-based rationale with statistics for moving a school (details supplied) in the Blanchardstown school area to the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to address the lack of school places for children with additional needs in the Donabate area; the options that will be open...
    • Departmental Bodies
      720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of her Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the...
    • Child Abuse
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans are in progress for a redress scheme for people who suffered either physical or mental abuse in school; if so, the conditions of this...
    • School Transport
      725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department intends to implement the proposed reduction in the distance eligibility criterion for post-primary students under the school...
    • State Examinations
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made regarding the number of sraith pictiúr students in the 2026 Leaving Certificate class will be required to learn...
    • School Staff
      727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 25 September 2024, if the analysis of the survey relating to school caretakers’ work pattern,...
    • School Accommodation
      728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new premises for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12313/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants and payments made to a company operating special playgroups for autistic children (details supplied) between the years 2000 and 2011;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to progress an application to provide suitable accommodation for a school (details supplied); if the building project will be expedited...
    • National Council for Special Education
      731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Dublin 11 that expressed an interest in opening a special class in the years 2023-2025; the number of these applications...
    • School Facilities
      733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will ensure all schools are provided with free period products to ensure no student is held back due to period poverty; and if she will...
    • State Examinations
      734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools offering PE as a Leaving Certificate exam subject per county in the 2024-2025 academic year; and if she will make a...
    • National Council for Special Education
      735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of the number and name of the schools in Kildare that have expressed an interest in opening a specialist class in...
    • School Funding
      737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how her Department can further financially assist schools that are enthusiastically implementing the Green School Programme; and if she will make...
    • Public Sector Staff
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the functions, roles and services that were carried out and delivered by civil service or State agency workers; the cost to the State of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details on the number of schools in Balbriggan which expressed an interest in opening a specialist class for the school year 2025/2026, the...
    • School Funding
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for emergency funding (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12493/25]
    • Education Policy
      745. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to specific proposals for a right to switch off for secondary school students given the increased communication...
    • Special Educational Needs
      746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports and additional accommodations available to children and young people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder at primary and...
    • Teacher Training
      747. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of mandatory training in initial teacher training on managing children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the classroom; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      748. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of mandatory training within the national training programme for SNAs on managing children living with foetal alcohol spectrum...
    • Defective Building Materials
      749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department is having with a school (details supplied) in Donegal to deal with ongoing issues within the school including...
    • School Admissions
      750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the options available to a person (details supplied) who has been unable to secure a mainstream junior infant placement in schools in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount her Department has spent on works under the emergency works scheme in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [12548/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding issues outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12552/25]
    • National Council for Special Education
      753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many schools in Dublin mid-west expressed interest in opening a special class in a mainstream school for the years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026;...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person with 18 years’ instruction experience (details supplied) will be allowed to claim incremental credit with respect to his...
    • Special Educational Needs
      759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Lucan that expressed an interest in opening an additional needs class in the past five years; the number of these...
    • School Transport
      761. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on plans to reform the school transport system, particularly the eligibility criteria and likely timeframe for the implementation...
    • Special Educational Needs
      762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that a child (details supplied) has a place in an autism class or special school as soon as possible as recommended by their local...
    • School Accommodation
      763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a rule-circular exists setting a limit of one sensory room per primary school, irrespective of class-school size. [12691/25]
    • School Admissions
      767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12730/25]
    • National Council for Special Education
      768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in north Kildare that expressed an interest in the opening of a specialist class in the last academic year; whether any of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an updated psychological assessment is required for a child diagnosed with autism to be eligible to apply for a school place; if a particular...
    • Residential Institutions
      771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide guidance for a person who attended a school (details supplied) and who was unable to come forward for redress at the time and who is...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of National Educational Psychological Service assessments being made available for schools in Dublin mid-west; and if she will make a...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of her Department and each body under the aegis of...
    • School Accommodation
      774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the current use of a building (details supplied) in County Tipperary, given the immediate shortage of special school places in south...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Artists' Remuneration
      775. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of artists deemed eligible for the basic income for the arts scheme (including the 2,000 availing of it) in each of the...
    • Arts Council
      777. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total remuneration cost of the adjudicating panels for the Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary award (English language)...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      779. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide information on the renewal date of the basic income for the arts scheme that is set to end in August 2025; and...
    • Swimming Pools
      780. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the delivery of a swimming pool in Balbriggan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      781. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before...
    • Foras na Gaeilge
      782. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will ensure that in any arrangement made with the Executive in the north regarding the funding of Foras na Gaeilge that the...
    • Limistéir Pleanála Teanga
      783. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén amscála atá leagtha síos ag an Roinn chun maoiniú a fhógairt don chéad timthriall seacht...
    • Pleanáil Teanga
      784. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an mbeidh maoiniú ar fáil chun Oifigigh Pleanála Teanga a fhostú agus pleananna teanga a chur i bhfeidhm agus...
    • Coláistí Samhraidh
      785. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén tacaíochtaí a bheidh i bhfeidhm do mhná/d’fhir tí na Gaeltachta agus fadhbanna ollmhóra...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      786. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dáta a fhoilseoidh Údarás na Gaeltachta na pleananna atá ullmhaithe aige chun tithíocht a chur...
    • Film Industry
      787. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the key elements of his Department's strategy to attract international film, television and content creation...
    • Arts Policy
      788. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the creative schools arts initiative; if this will be expanded to include fee-paying schools; and if he...
    • Departmental Contracts
      789. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11528/25]
    • Ministerial Staff
      790. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      791. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon fhigiúirí ag Rialtas na hÉireann a léiríonn na buntáistí eacnamaíocha...
    • Foras na Gaeilge
      794. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sé treoir maidir le haon mhaoiniú breise a chuirfidh sé ar fáil d’Fhoras na Gaeilge go...
    • Sports Facilities
      796. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide emergency funding to a leisure centre (details supplied) to carry out emergency works to the facility; and if he will...
    • Arts Council
      797. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount of Arts Council funding allocated to each county for the past two years; the groups that have had a decrease in...
    • Departmental Bodies
      798. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification,...
    • Swimming Pools
      802. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be made available for the development of a public swimming pool in Rush, County Dublin, under the large-scale...
    • Sports Funding
      803. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of the sports capital grant fund will open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Museum Projects
      804. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the works in respect of the natural history museum; and the date on which it is expected to reopen. [12388/25]
    • Sports Facilities
      807. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available to develop a basketball court in Crumlin; the Government’s plans to support a plan (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Data
      808. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has seen the research conducted by Coimisiún na Meán into the viability of a content levy; and if he will make a...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      811. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a proposal from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on ways to alleviate the debt levels in...
    • Septic Tanks
      813. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider changes to the grant scheme available for upgrading septic tanks (details supplied). [11997/25]
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      814. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on its engagement with off-balance sheet borrowing by approved housing bodies (AHBs) for the delivery of social...
    • Water Services
      815. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of water service stations in Ireland that have access to a back-up generator; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Policy
      816. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the temporary waiver scheme in respect of development contributions for planning for houses will be continued for the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      817. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the representatives from his Department who will be attending a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied);...
    • Housing Schemes
      818. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce the funding allocations and sanctioned number of acquisitions that will be designated to local...
    • Departmental Staff
      819. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people employed in the planning division of his Department, by grade level. [10686/25]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      820. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can seek emergency funding for the National Parks and Wildlife Service and meet with them to address the urgent and...
    • Housing Schemes
      821. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider reviewing the Government criteria for the local authority affordable housing schemes, which stipulates...
    • Departmental Schemes
      822. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the delays to some interim remediation scheme pathfinder projects due to a requirement to re-tender for...
    • Urban Development
      823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in light of the very welcome news that the Westgate Vision Project has been approved for Drogheda town, if he will commit to...
    • Local Authorities
      824. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority pensions are index linked; when the increases take effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Schemes
      825. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing grants available for a person (details supplied) living in a home who’s owner is now deceased; and if he...
    • Housing Policy
      826. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will revise current housing policies to ensure fairness for older individuals who have contributed to society throughout...
    • National Development Plan
      827. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the eastern gateway bridge in Cork; if it will be included in the National Development Plan (details supplied);...
    • Fire Stations
      831. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided by his Department for a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      832. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he can undertake to address the shortcomings in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme, which result in a...
    • Planning Issues
      833. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement an exemption scheme for planning permission and other fees for homeowners rebuilding their homes due to...
    • Building Regulations
      834. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that under Part L 1.3.4 of the current Building Regulations, which covers building envelope permeability,...
    • Housing Schemes
      838. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with the Housing Agency regarding a cost rental tenant-in-situ application (details supplied) to prevent a...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      839. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 4 March 2025, to outline the timeline for the multi-stakeholder group plan on...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      842. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been made aware of issues relating to the provision of emergency replacement mobiles or caravans to Traveller...
    • Departmental Staff
      844. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted...
    • Housing Schemes
      846. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the fact that State funds have been made available to numerous private businesses under the built heritage...
    • Derelict Sites
      847. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current policy regarding the use of derelict protected structures for emergency or short-term accommodation; the criteria...
    • Housing Schemes
      849. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social and affordable homes that were stalled awaiting approval from his Department at the start of January...
    • Vacant Properties
      857. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding any initiative proposed by his Department that seeks to address long-term vacancy in privately owned...
    • Regeneration Projects
      858. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if completion of phase 2C of the City Northwest Quarter Regeneration Programme will involve any demolition; and the timeline...
    • Housing Schemes
      861. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of serviced sites under the ready-to-build scheme that have had applications received for development by each local...
    • Housing Provision
      866. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the lack of funding in Offaly County Council for extensions to council properties; and if he will make a...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      867. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by each local authority on emergency homeless accommodation in each of the past ten years and to date in...
    • Departmental Budgets
      869. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in receipt of housing assistance payments at the end of each of the past ten years. [11310/25]
    • Departmental Data
      871. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons availing of the rental accommodation scheme at the end of each of the past ten years. [11312/25]
    • Local Authorities
      873. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of local authority access officers; if this role is filled in each local authority; whether the role is...
    • Climate Change Negotiations
      876. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the size of the Irish delegation at COP16 in February 2025; the level of seniority of the delegates; and if he will make a...
    • Septic Tanks
      878. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government who can qualify for the septic tank grants in the Meath local authority area given the low application success rate; and if he...
    • Defective Building Materials
      880. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a motion passed by Donegal County Council (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Authorities
      881. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body responsible for enforcing tree protection orders in local authorities and the process for members of the...
    • Legislative Process
      884. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the Planning and Development Act 2024 to be implemented; if safeguards to prevent frivolous or vexatious...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      885. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11481/25]
    • Heritage Projects
      886. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress for a heritage grant application (details supplied) for the Courthouse in Shillelagh; and if he...
    • Departmental Contracts
      887. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11522/25]
    • Heritage Projects
      888. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on designating the Royal Canal Greenway a natural heritage area; the protections it would afford land adjacent...
    • Local Authorities
      889. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the completion of local authority strategies for the creation, improvement and preservation of sustainable...
    • Housing Provision
      891. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on planned new social and affordable housing units for east Cork over the next five years, including...
    • Departmental Data
      892. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the housing list in east County Cork, by local electoral area. [11588/25]
    • Water Charges
      894. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is an appeals procedure for a person whose application for the refund scheme for water has been refused; and if he...
    • Housing Policy
      895. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to increase the income thresholds to qualify for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      896. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the local electoral areas that experienced greater than 10% population growth between the 2016 and 2022 Censuses; the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      897. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the increases in the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme, announced in October 2024, will be applied to those...
    • Legislative Process
      899. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the marine protected areas legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11680/25]
    • Housing Policy
      900. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to tackle rising rents in counties Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authorities
      904. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has concerns that local authorities are preventing genuine farmers from building on their own lands (details supplied);...
    • Defective Building Materials
      905. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will review the case of a person (details supplied) who is renting elsewhere while reconstruction works are...
    • Business Supports
      906. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to review the business rating system to assist struggling businesses which find the level of rates to be an...
    • Heritage Schemes
      907. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase funding for schemes to support owners of historic thatched buildings, including the historic structures...
    • Wildlife Protection
      908. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department, in consultation with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, will consider purchasing lands (details...
    • Departmental Staff
      909. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March...
    • Architects Register
      910. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the blockages to the establishment of a statutory register for competent architectural technologists that was...
    • Waterways Ireland
      912. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Waterways Ireland will bring their proposals to change the Shannon River bye-laws and canal bye-laws before an Oireachtas...
    • House Sales
      913. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units that have been bought by individuals or companies from outside the EU for each of the past five...
    • Court Judgments
      915. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the High Court’s ruling that wind turbine noise constitutes a nuisance (details supplied), if the Minister...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      916. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason none of the ECB interest rates cuts have been passed on to tracker mortgages holders, in particular those with...
    • Departmental Data
      917. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless mothers who gave birth in each of the past five years. [11879/25]
    • Fire Service
      918. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support and resources provided by both his Department and from central Government to local authorities across the State to...
    • EU Funding
      919. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount by which the Economic and Social Intervention Fund, ESIF, was reduced in Limerick in 2024 compared to 2023 and 2025...
    • Departmental Data
      921. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projects funded to date through the urban regeneration and development fund, by county and location, the total amount...
    • Local Authorities
      922. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the means by which he will encourage and incentivise local authorities to deliver a greater focus and budget on nature...
    • State Bodies
      923. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT...
    • Water Services
      924. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department has undertaken since 2017 on each of the eight recommendations from chapter 5 of the Joint Committee...
    • Legislative Measures
      927. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the pressure on the Irish housing market, he will consider banning the purchase of Irish properties by individuals...
    • Fire Stations
      928. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advance the plans to build a new fire station in Rathdowney, County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      929. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps the Government will be taking to progress the 35th amendment of the Constitution (water in public ownership); and if...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      930. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders made by the local authorities in counties Wexford and Wicklow, from January 2020 to...
    • Housing Schemes
      933. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant funding opportunities available (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12086/25]
    • International Protection
      934. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, without any further delay, he will refuse the request by the then- Minister for Children, Equality, Disability,...
    • Housing Schemes
      936. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Exchequer funding for the Housing First scheme is separate to the acquisitions funding announced March 2025; the amount of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      937. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      941. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of business cases for emergency accommodation providers currently awaiting a decision from counties Wexford and...
    • Housing Schemes
      942. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes; when homeowners who already paid a...
    • Rental Sector
      943. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that not all local authority tenants are being income assessed on the same differential rent review (details...
    • Water Supply
      944. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a group (details supplied) will receive funding through the 2024-2026 multi-annual rural water programme. [12322/25]
    • Water Charges
      945. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his response to media reports that he is considering introducing charges on domestic households; and if he will make a...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      946. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Housing Finance Agency reviewed its interest rates in the period 2022 to date; to provide details of any adjustments...
    • Culture Policy
      947. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place for Ireland to sign the Council of Europe FARO Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for...
    • Defective Building Materials
      948. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reasons a property would be deemed ineligible for the defective concrete blocks grant scheme in view of the fact that a...
    • Public Sector Staff
      949. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the functions, roles and services that were carried out and delivered by civil service or State agency workers; the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      950. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide all correspondence between his Department and an individual (details supplied) between April 2021 and March 2025 in...
    • Housing Provision
      958. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the provisions in Circular 06/2024 - Arrangements for Social Housing Acquisitions which has resulted in...
    • Housing Schemes
      959. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the work of officials within his Department to implement the commitment in the programme for Government to work...
    • Data Centres
      960. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government about the impact of water consumption by data centres on water supply; his views on the impact of this consumption on water...
    • Deposit Protection Account
      961. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce a deposit protection scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12637/25]
    • Rental Sector
      962. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce minimum BER standards for the private rented sector and for social housing; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      964. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will next update the Basic Unit Costs (BUCs) and the Acquisition Cost Guidelines (ACGs) for social housing; if these...
    • Housing Schemes
      965. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many applications under the cost rental equity loan scheme are under consideration by his Department or relevant agencies;...
    • Housing Provision
      973. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the social and affordable housing completion figures for 2024 will be published; the number of social housing, cost...
    • Rental Sector
      974. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review the rent pressure zone scheme to assess if it has achieved any of its stated objectives; if further districts in...
    • Water Services
      975. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give consideration to implementing mandatory parallel domestic water systems (blue-grey-brown) in new builds, to...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      976. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department can provide information on the current capacity of the Poolbeg and Shanganagh wastewater treatment...
    • Water Services
      977. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will require sustainable urban drainage systems to be installed in all new homes with a view to rolling them out, by...
    • Local Authorities
      978. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide for municipal districts in the six local authorities that currently do not have them (details supplied) in...
    • Water Services
      979. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received any submissions to improve and replace Dublin's Victorian sewer system; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Policy
      980. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to establish a State-sponsored housing infrastructure investment fund to provide finance for a major construction of social...
    • Housing Schemes
      981. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to amend the local authority house purchase scheme to enable tenants to purchase “Section 5” houses; and if he...
    • Housing Policy
      983. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to establish a scheme whereby local authorities acquire, by agreement or by compulsory purchase, and repair vacant houses for...
    • Water Services
      985. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of developer provided infrastructure projects nationwide that fall outside the scope of circular PL5/14 of November...
    • Domestic Violence
      986. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that the housing crisis is causing particular concern for victims and survivors of domestic abuse; if there are...
    • Vacant Properties
      987. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the number of void houses in Leitrim and Sligo local authority housing supply; the number of weeks, months...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      988. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Pension Provisions
      989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence regarding widows pension (details supplied); the alternative supports,...
    • Education and Training Provision
      990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason time spent on vocational training opportunities schemes are not considered as part of the required cumulative paid...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person, who has reached the age of 70, and is retired, must pay PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Properties
      992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of premises in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10633/25]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made by his Department’s appeals office in relation to a request for an oral hearing; and if...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in receipt of carer's allowance, a qualifying payment for fuel allowance, had their...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      995. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is mortgage interest relief available in 2024 for people that did not have sufficient tax liability to assess the...
    • Community Welfare Services
      996. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what steps are being taken to ensure that individuals living in nursing homes, such as individuals (details supplied), are...
    • Data Protection
      997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a schedule of fines issued to his Department in respect of breaching general data protection regulations,...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to urgently address and rectify a carer’s allowance overpayment for a person (details supplied). [10818/25]
    • School Meals Programme
      1000. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on when the next round of applications under the school meals programme will be accepted, as the only...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1001. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will make provision for widows/widowers to avail of free travel at 60 years of age regardless of whether their...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1002. 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); and if he will make a statement...
    • Pension Provisions
      1003. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the widow's pension will be extended to unmarried couples on the death of one partner; the number of years living...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Staff
      1005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the disability allowance appeal decision in relation to person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1007. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a working family payment application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1008. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to reinstate a grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine a case affecting carers, allowance entitlements for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he plans on including varifocals in the optical benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11221/25]
    • Business Supports
      1011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the compensation available to businesses which had to close for a period due to storm Éowyn; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1012. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total budget allocation to the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities in each of the years since 2011,...
    • School Meals Programme
      1013. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to introduce a school meals scheme at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1015. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for working family payment (details supplied) that was submitted in November...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1016. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when he plans to make the changes to the carer’s allowance means test; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1018. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1019. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have availed of the free travel pass for those medically unfit to drive, by county; and if he will...
    • Employment Schemes
      1020. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons annually, by county, who have been sanctioned for not fully and-or in part engaging with employment...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1022. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11526/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare payments a person (details supplied) is entitled to. [11564/25]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1024. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total expenditure and number of claims over the lifetime of the Covid-19-related lay-off payment scheme; the average...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1025. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount each weekly social protection payment should be at to maintain their value compared to pre-pandemic levels (2019)...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1026. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to replace jobseeker’s assistance; what consultations have been held on the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Support Services
      1027. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce a new structure and employment supports for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1028. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have received the HAP under Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the emergency humanitarian assistance scheme...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1029. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of the carer’s allowance, and who has passed the means test for the fuel allowance, is...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1030. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the carer’s allowance who have applied for the fuel allowance; and of these, the...
    • Social Insurance
      1031. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the lower rate of PRSI in Class D that applied to civil servants who commenced employment prior to April...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1032. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a carer’s appeal by a person (details supplied) that was submitted in...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1034. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the introduction of a certificate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11681/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1035. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress being made on abolishing the means test for carers. [11755/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1...
    • Departmental Properties
      1037. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which his Department owns or is leasing, and have...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1038. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 471 of 4 March 2025, if his Department will not be recovering the amount despite the...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1039. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to provide an additional, second rate of means-tested child benefit to the households containing the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to deliver child benefit to mothers from the tenth week of pregnancy; and if he will consider the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1041. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to backdating arrears for six months for a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • State Pensions
      1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); if he will support this query; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1043. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a €50 weekly cost of disability payment to all recipients of disability-related...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the amount paid under the HAS1 and HAS2 humanitarian aid scheme due to storm Éowyn; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1046. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension appeal by a person (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine subsidies for the elderly (details supplied) who cannot claim them because their children are still...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1048. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will reconsider the refusal of the humanitarian assistance scheme payment to a person (details supplied)....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if child benefit payments can be backdated in a case in which a parent (details supplied) did not register their child at...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1050. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if direction has been given to staff in his Department to refuse humanitarian assistance scheme applications based on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether a person needs to be in receipt of jobseekers allowance for three months to qualify for the training support grant;...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received under the humanitarian assistance scheme for loss of food due to extended power outages...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1056. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual domiciliary care allowance applications or social welfare appeals relating to domiciliary care...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1057. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1061. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the humanitarian assistance scheme received by his Department in 2025 and for each of the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1062. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update for a person (details supplied) on their carer’s allowance application; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1064. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department intends to restore child benefit for children in full-time third level education beyond 18 years of age;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1065. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for carers will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12342/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      1066. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the Bereaved Partner’s Pension Bill; and when he anticipates the pension will be available to...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1067. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the decision not to award the household benefits package to (details supplied). [12363/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1069. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is considering any changes to the income test for his Department’s humanitarian assistance scheme for...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1070. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews carried out on carer’s allowance over the last five years, and the number per year, in tabular...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1074. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 27 February 2025, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1077. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 4 March 2025, if he will consider commissioning research, external or...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1078. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a humanitarian assistance scheme application was refused for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal whose...
    • Gender Recognition
      1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is planning to introduce legislation to include non-binary people in the already-established Gender Recognition Act...
    • Social Insurance
      1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount of both employer PRSI contributions and employee PRSI contributions owed to the Social Insurance Fund,...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is no leeway for those who were unable to access information about the humanitarian assistance scheme due...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1084. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each...
    • Public Sector Staff
      1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reviewing public sector sick leave policies to ensure greater flexibility for employees...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he plans to take to ensure that necessary and appropriate care is being provided to family members in the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Policy
      1087. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his position on the European Commission's proposal to create 'return hubs' through agreements with third countries; and how he...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1088. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will, on the grounds of the age of the applicant, the fact that they have lived in Ireland continuously for 51 years,...
    • Direct Provision System
      1089. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that can be taken to assist a person (details supplied) to renew their permission to continue to stay in Ireland;...
    • Legislative Programme
      1090. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to bring the heads of a bill to Government this year to provide for a promised disregard scheme for criminal...
    • Visa Applications
      1091. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the visas available to a Thai citizen seeking to move to Ireland. [10618/25]
    • Coroners Service
      1092. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who died in custody in Mountjoy Prison on 3 January 2022 and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a funding from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1094. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost for the fixed speed camera on the R772 to date, providing a full breakdown of costs including installation fee,...
    • Paramilitary Groups
      1095. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the recent report of the Independent Reporting Commission; if he will outline the Government’s views on...
    • Visa Applications
      1096. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will grant a performance visa to a person (details supplied) in light of his active support and involvement in the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1097. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of claims by Gardaí who were injured during the course of their duties pre-2023 that were processed...
    • Data Protection
      1099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a schedule of fines issued to his Department and the Irish Immigration Service in respect of breaching...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will announce a new strategic policy committee member; if there is any guarantee that the application of a person...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review concerns with the naturalisation portal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Court Accommodation
      1104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if we will address an ongoing issue in relation to plans for a new courthouse in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a group either in Leinster House, or the locality, in relation to a serious matter (details supplied);...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      1106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the Judicial Council’s recommendation to increase personal injury awards by 17 per cent; and if he will...
    • Visa Applications
      1108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the join-family visa applications of a person (details supplied); and if he will provide an...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in Roads Policing Units, by division, in January and February 2025; the number of additional...
    • Departmental Staff
      1111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted...
    • Departmental Surveys
      1112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider introducing an annual victim survey, similar to the Crime Survey of England and Wales which records all...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Gardaí in each Garda division in each of the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      1114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce pre-action protocols and other tort reforms in order to reduce the time and financial cost of dealing...
    • Departmental Data
      1115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will return to publishing figures on its website on the number of Gardaí assigned to each divisional...
    • Departmental Funding
      1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that the funding for the role of community prison links worker with an organisation (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Data
      1117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners released on temporary release within 24 hours of them being sent to prison in each of the past ten...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to County Offaly, by rank, in each of the years from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if...
    • Control of Firearms
      1119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will establish a new permanent stakeholders forum for licensed firearms holders to ensure ongoing consultation and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider facilitating local GNIB signing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11356/25]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a process is in place for a naturalised citizen to amend their date of birth on official State identification documents in...
    • EU Directives
      1125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the directives of the European Union which he is obliged but has not as of yet transposed into domestic...
    • Sentencing Policy
      1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the offences which are subject to a penalty on conviction of up to life imprisonment, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Legal Aid
      1128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the mechanism by which the allowances granted on which a person’s disposable income is calculated regarding...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the public consultations his Department plans to conduct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11424/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      1131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11523/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to a charter flight that departed to Georgia on 27 February 2025 to provide information (details supplied).; and...
    • Electric Vehicles
      1133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made to ensure that peoples using e-scooters dangerously are fined appropriately, or the e-scooter...
    • Court Procedures
      1134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will honour former Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s plans for a ban on the use of private counselling notes being...
    • Stardust Fire
      1135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status and timelines of the exceptionality phase of the redress scheme for survivors of the Stardust tragedy, as committed...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of probationer Garda officers assigned in each station in Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Meath and Wicklow for the years...
    • Legal Aid
      1141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the withdrawal by the Legal Aid Board of legal aid on the basis of alleged breaches of the in-camera rule, if he...
    • Family Law Cases
      1142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of cases where the in-camera rule has been applied in a manner that restricts parents from raising legitimate...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will conduct an independent review into cases where children have been removed from their primary caregiver...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the rollout of the children’s court advocate pilot programme; and if children in complex custody...
    • Family Law Cases
      1148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way his Department is ensuring that the proposed reforms on parental alienation under the family justice strategy do not...
    • Visa Applications
      1150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the sources of income and means that are considered in the means assessment for a stamp 0 visa, a retiree applying as an...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      1155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an Irish citizen currently incarcerated in a French prison (details supplied); and the status of transferring...
    • Visa Applications
      1156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the visa requirements for missionaries visiting Ireland to proselytise; and to provide a breakdown of the number of visas...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles, by type, assigned to each station in Donegal; the number of these vehicles that have gone above...
    • Family Reunification
      1158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of delays in the processing of family reunification visa applications for workers in the health care system on...
    • Passport Services
      1159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way a person in County Kildare (details supplied) can qualify for a passport given their current status; and if he will...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the request for final documentation and a certificate fee will issue to an applicant (details supplied) after their...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding bench warrants and that remain unexecuted in each of the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March...
    • Departmental Properties
      1163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which his Department owns or is leasing, and have been...
    • Legislative Measures
      1164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to proceed with the proposal to abolish juries in defamation actions in the High Court, given the opposition of...
    • Prison Service
      1165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capacity of Limerick prison; the number of persons currently incarcerated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Family Reunification
      1166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite a family spouse unification visa application for a person (details supplied) considering the recent worrying...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí attached to Mayo, Roscommon and Longford roads policing unit as of 10 March 2025, by rank, in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way a person (details supplied) can obtain a copy of citizenship certificate. [11871/25]
    • Prison Service
      1169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and percentage of the overall prison population who are serving a sentence of less than three months; three months...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Gardaí assigned to each station in County Cork, following the recent assignment of Gardaí, in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on a citizenship application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Bodies
      1175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the refusal rate for both women's refuges in county Wexford and in Bray, each year from January 2020 to date in 2025, in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on the recent Garda recruitment campaign. [12087/25]
    • Family Reunification
      1181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the website for those tracking their application for join family (sponsor is an Irish citizen or is in category A) will be...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí in each division for Enniscorthy/Gorey and for County Wicklow over the past five years, in tabular...
    • Immigration Policy
      1191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has plans to put in place a pathway towards longer-term visas for spouses of Irish citizens who are non-EU...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of Operation Encompass as an early intervention strategy to provide immediate support for children impacted by...
    • Court Procedures
      1193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the court fees waived for on-trade liquor licences 2014 to 2024, in tabular form. [12258/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the annual spend in 2021, 2022 and 2023 by An Garda Síochána on the rental and leasing of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request his officials to examine the file relating to person (details supplied) who submitted an appeal of a...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      1196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans in place to advertise the position of city sheriff in Cork city in view of the fact that the existing sheriff is due...
    • Visa Applications
      1197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in respect of having a single application process for employment permits and visa applications; the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received for citizenship in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; the number of applications received in the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí in community policing in the Dublin Metropolitan North Central area from 2018 – 2025, per...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet the family of (details supplied). [12495/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports made to An Garda Síochána in 2024 regarding breaches of protection orders, safety orders, and...
    • Court Judgments
      1204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update of the number of convictions under 'Fagins Law' since it was adopted in tabular form. [12543/25]
    • Crime Prevention
      1205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plan to expand the youth diversion programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12551/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to report on the current Garda staffing numbers as of 17 February 2025 at Dundrum, Stepaside and Cabinteely stations; and if...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      1208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality regarding medical negligence cases, the reason the three key recommendations by a judge (details supplied) Pre-Action...
    • Legislative Measures
      1209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to bring forward legislation to change the legal liability of unincorporated associations. [12623/25]
    • Prison Service
      1210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of plans to erect a new prison in Thornton Hall, as stated in the Programme for Government, acknowledging...
    • Legal Aid
      1211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the restoration of criminal legal aid fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12798/25]
    • Departmental Consultations
      1212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to establish a stakeholders forum for licenced firearms holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      1214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances of visa fraud identified from 2020 to date in 2025, by visa category, by year; and if he will make a...
    • Family Reunification
      1216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the reason join family visa applications take considerably longer to process than other categories; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on the application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) who applied to the...
    • Prison Service
      1220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current operational capacity of each prison in Ireland, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      1221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an assessment has been conducted on the impact of criminal feuds on community safety in the areas affected in Dublin; the...
    • Sentencing Policy
      1222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the evidence framework that was utilised in the decision to increase sentences for knife crimes. [12852/25]
    • Social Media
      1223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on ongoing or upcoming legislative measures aimed at improving the regulation of social media platforms,...
    • Immigration Policy
      1224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individuals who were refused leave to land; the number that received a refusal at each border or port in 2024;...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Greyhound Industry
      1226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is aware of the amount of funding that has been provided by Rásaíocht Con Éireann to a charity...
    • Control of Horses
      1227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress of the commitment in the programme for Government to ‘Bring forward a Control of Horses Bill to modernise...
    • Transport of Animals
      1228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if livestock passport applications (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/25]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a grant application (details supplied) for a drive shaft cover under the area of natural constraints scheme will be expedited;...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of costs in relation to the money given to two care home providers (details supplied) for the years...
    • Animal Breeding
      1231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his Department’s policy on illegal puppy farming; if he will provide an update on the progress made under...
    • Forestry Sector
      1232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the damage done by Storm Éowyn, if timber harvested from private forestry can be sold on a volume rather than a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on an ACRES payment application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fishing Industry
      1240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) with a view to getting justice for him and his family, as discussed on...
    • Animal Welfare
      1241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider implementing a ban on transporting domestic animals in car boots that are closed and have no light or windows;...
    • Waterways Issues
      1242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grants available to promote a safe place for fishing on one’s farmland; if there are any such grants for wooden...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has given consideration to introducing further regulations on protected urea fertiliser labels, specifically the...
    • Animal Welfare
      1244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct his Department to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in order to ban the transport of cats and dogs in...
    • Departmental Regulations
      1246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address,as a matter of priority, the concerns of tens of thousands of farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the current TAMS scheme, or TAMS schemes offered heretofore, provides for stock-proof barbed wire fencing for cattle; and if he...
    • Animal Welfare
      1248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has viewed the Charities Regulators Report 2024 into a charity (details supplied); if further payments will be...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to list all current trials and research under way by bodies under his aegis into the use of seaweed supplements for the reduction of...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that exist for seaweed supplement producers; the way in which the Government intends to protect and develop the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in each county awaiting ACRES payments for 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10890/25]
    • Animal Passports
      1253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a passport application (details supplied) for a foal out of the mare, submitted in June 2024 to Horse Sport Ireland....
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of ACRES scheme payments for a person (details supplied); when the balance of payment due for 2023 is expected; and the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all persons who are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before...
    • Animal Welfare
      1258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of horses being put in subpar conditions in Limerick city, which has led to the deaths of these animals; his plans to...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reverse the approach to the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017; if the Bill will be allowed to progress in...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1095 of 22 January 2025, if he will provide a breakdown of the amounts paid to hunts by...
    • Animal Passports
      1261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a passport system is currently in place or will be introduced for the ownership of horses, similar to the registration system for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to expedite a payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11170/25]
    • Planning Issues
      1263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the preparation of the application for substitute consent to An Bord Pleanála for the development of the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a young farmer (details supplied) who applied for TAMS 3 young farmers in 2024, following a successful application for...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has been in contact with the European Commission regarding the nitrates derogation; if so, what specifically that...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in cases in which farmers are in a partnership if farm payments can be paid to all partners equally as opposed to one partner; the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11512/25]
    • Horticulture Sector
      1269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the publication of the results from the survey on the national overview of the provision of allotments and...
    • Animal Sales
      1270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dogs exported from Ireland for commercial sale in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding supports available to local communities to help maintain and or acquire local wetland areas in order to protect their...
    • Departmental Staff
      1272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary since 1 March 2020...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if including mineral soil in good agricultural and environmental condition (GAEC) standard 2, meets the objectives set out in...
    • Fishing Industry
      1274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the revenue generated through activities in each of the fisheries harbour centres under the remit of his Department, in 2024 and...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the EU Agriculture Council will next meet. [11862/25]
    • Animal Welfare
      1276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who received the benefit of the Probation of Offenders Act 1907, following proven charges under the Animal...
    • Departmental Data
      1277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 548 of 4 March 2025, of the figures previously provided in relation to disqualification orders...
    • Animal Welfare
      1278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who received fines under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 between 2020 to date which were less than...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the deer management strategy group, set up by his predecessor, has the authority to recommend the financing of specialised...
    • State Bodies
      1280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT services...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants who have left or been excluded from the sheep improvement scheme since its commencement on 1 February 2023;...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to urgently expediate an aquaculture licence transfer for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Turbary Rights
      1283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether turbary rights are assigned to a property with a dwelling house or to land without a dwelling house; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an ACRES payment will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      1288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislation/powers currently in place to prevent the illegal felling of woodlands; what sanctions can be put in place when...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for...
    • Nitrates Usage
      1293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the current actions being taken by his Department with regard to the possible retention of the nitrates derogation; and...
    • EU Funding
      1294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason delays in issuing payments are occurring under the schemes funded through the European Maritime, Fisheries and...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the necessary resources will be provided to the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board in order that decisions can be made in a...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Child and Family Agency
      1299. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if individuals (if appointed) under the provision section 10(b) of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act...
    • Children in Care
      1300. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the procedures surrounding emergency custody transfers, including whether adequate safeguards...
    • Childcare Services
      1301. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of how she will progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month through...
    • Psychological Assessments
      1302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the instructions given to parents by the children’s disability network team in relation to updated...
    • Childcare Services
      1304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 27 February 2025, if she accepts that the Programme for Government...
    • Children in Care
      1305. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children placed in special emergency arrangements in the past four years; the number of whom are...
    • Ukraine War
      1311. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amounts paid as additional top-up payments to date for the accommodation recognition payment in counties...
    • Childcare Services
      1312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of early years education jobs being advertised with ‘no English/Irish required’;...
    • Disability Services
      1313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth based on the information provided by my constituent the support services available for individuals with...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a schedule of fines issued to Tusla in respect of breaching general data protection...
    • International Protection
      1315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who resided at a premises on a weekly basis in 2024 and to date in 2025 (details...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1316. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she is taking to address issues with the national childcare scheme, as raised in correspondence...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1317. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a update on the case of a person (details suppled) who, having been referred for an autism assessment to...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1318. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will consider the urgent need for a family resource centre in the Cabra area, particularly in light of...
    • Child Protection
      1319. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of the disparity in quality to child welfare services between different regions of the country;...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1320. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the work her Department is doing to develop policy interventions at a national level to better...
    • Childcare Services
      1322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware that a preschool (details supplied) is being forced to vacate from its current location; if her...
    • Disability Services
      1326. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams, by...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need for each quarter of each year 2019-2024,...
    • Childcare Services
      1328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the case of a preschool service (details supplied) which has been advised it...
    • Ukraine War
      1330. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the continuation of the accommodation recognition payment (ARP) for Ukrainian refugees;...
    • Parental Leave
      1331. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the leave available to a same-sex, non-genetic-intended parent of a child, born through surrogacy in July 2025;...
    • International Protection
      1332. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding plans for the provision of an International Protection Accommodation Service centre...
    • Departmental Staff
      1333. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all persons that are recruited to work in her Department and all the related agencies of her Department are...
    • After-School Support Services
      1334. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding streams are available for afterschool services in order that they can hire additional staff for...
    • Disability Services
      1335. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will be provided with transport to and from the daily unit at St....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1336. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional financial supports available to parents in receipt of a subsidy for each child attending creche...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1337. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to roll out HSE adult autism assessments; and, if so, the timeline involved in such a...
    • International Protection
      1338. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans regarding the Programme for Government commitment that international protection applicants would be...
    • Childcare Services
      1339. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding core funding financial reporting;...
    • International Protection
      1340. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of the eight women and 20 children residing in the grounds of a nursing home (details supplied)...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1342. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who have registered user profiles on the mother and baby institutions payment scheme...
    • Childcare Services
      1362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to stop the significant number of withdrawals from the core funding scheme, including...
    • Youth Services
      1364. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount in youth funding for County Offaly in each of the years from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [11296/25]
    • Disability Services
      1366. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 25 February 2025, wherein you stated that a total of...
    • Childcare Services
      1367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the reopening of Before 5. [11393/25]
    • Disability Services
      1368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on the waiting list for occupational therapy services in Meath; and if she will make a...
    • International Protection
      1370. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an IPAS in Newbridge was closed with only 24 hours’...
    • Ukraine War
      1371. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a decision has been made to further extend the accommodation recognition payment (ARP) for Ukrainian...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to issues with a Tusla file (details supplied). [11470/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      1373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with her Department. [11513/25]
    • Disability Services
      1374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date in advancing a proposal to provide a standalone respite centre for adults with...
    • International Protection
      1376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is her Department's intention to use Thornton Hall as a site for IPAS accommodation; and if she will make...
    • Disability Services
      1379. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite beds available for people with a disability in CHO4 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1380. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant posts, under active recruitment, broken down across disciplines, including, but not...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1382. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the intended withdrawal of a childcare facility from the core funding...
    • Disability Services
      1383. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when funding will be made available to turn a facility (details supplied) into a residential service in order...
    • Childcare Services
      1384. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures her Department has considered to expand childcare places in response to concerns in relation to...
    • Disability Services
      1385. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is planned that full-capacity respite services for children and young adults will recommence at a...
    • International Protection
      1386. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps taken by her Department when deciding on the location of an international protection accommodation...
    • Departmental Data
      1390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a course of action is currently being considered on an issue (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the rules regarding split place exemptions as part of the ECCE scheme. [11720/25]
    • International Protection
      1393. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a hotel (details supplied), as an IPAS accommodation centre, is not currently subject to HIQA...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1395. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to her or her Department outside of their regular...
    • Gender Equality
      1396. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the estimated number of public and private sector organisations that will use the new gender pay...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1397. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to develop ASD places in pre-school settings; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ombudsman for Children
      1398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budget allocation for the Ombudsman for Children's Office in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [11863/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on safeguarding issues at an organisation (details supplied); the specific steps she will take to...
    • Childcare Services
      1400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to provide a €100 a week cap for childcare costs; and if she will consider the...
    • Disability Services
      1402. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is legislation dealing with the right of a person with a disability to access toilet facilities from a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the vacancy rate for therapists for each CDNT in CHO9, in tabular form. [11918/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1405. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide information on research commissioned previously to inform plans to modernise youth...
    • Childcare Services
      1406. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has considered amending the childminding services regulations 2024 to allow childminders employ...
    • Disability Services
      1407. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the vacancy rate of each CDNT in the CHO7 as a percentage of WTEs; the vacant posts in each of those CDNTs by...
    • Childcare Services
      1408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that will be taken to progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per...
    • Nursing Homes
      1409. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list the organisations funded by the HSE and her Department that work with sufferers of acquired brain...
    • Care Services
      1410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions her Department has taken to act on the “Wasted Lives” report and to end the practice...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1411. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be made available to make a facility (details supplied) in Kerry a wraparound service. [12040/25]
    • Disability Services
      1412. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the support services available to children and young people with autism and their families in Dublin...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1413. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if endometriosis will be recognised as a disability. [12085/25]
    • Childcare Services
      1414. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the gradual reduction of childcare costs as committed to in the Programme for...
    • Disability Services
      1415. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 19 February 2025, if the figures provided for CDNT1 and CDNT2...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide detailed information on applications for assessment of needs (AON) in Louth; the number of...
    • Disability Services
      1418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE health and social care professionals working in the children's disability network teams in...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of her Department who have a professional...
    • Disability Services
      1423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to increase the number of therapists in CDNTs; the current WTE staffing shortage, by CHO area; and if...
    • Home Help Service
      1426. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) had their home support hours cut; if she is aware of the consequences of...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1427. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 19 February 2025, given by way of correspondence from the HSE, the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to enact key commitments outlined in the Programme for Government (details supplied) in relation to...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 19 February 2025, the total number of assessment of needs...
    • International Protection
      1431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the accommodation recognition payment is to remain; if so, if it is to be decreased; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      1432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on each neurorehabilitation team in each RHO area; to provide information (details supplied) for...
    • Disability Services
      1433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date a child (details supplied) was referred for occupational therapy (OT) support from Monaghan CDNT; the...
    • Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Issues
      1436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if approval has been given on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission code of practice on the public...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      1437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can provide an update on the distribution of the Dormant Account Fund in her Department; the plans in...
    • State Bodies
      1438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Department have used any of the same IT...
    • Public Sector Staff
      1439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to list the functions, roles and services carried out and delivered by Civil Service or State agency workers;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has extended a contract with a provider (details supplied); if so, the duration of same; and if the...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is not deemed by her Department or agencies to be a disability at...
    • Childcare Services
      1442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the scoping carried out with regard to the opening of additional childcare facilities in Adamstown, Lucan....
    • Children in Care
      1443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth given the recent case where a care home for vulnerable children falsified Garda vetting and background checks,...
    • Data Protection
      1446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a data protection issue at an agency under her Department’s remit has been brought to her attention...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1447. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to media reports (details supplied), to outline the safeguards in place to ensure that subject access...
    • Disability Services
      1448. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in a CDNT being moved into a primary care centre (details supplied); if the move is...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1449. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of staff employed in early learning and care services who work directly with children. [12832/25]
    • Youth Services
      1452. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will commission an independent report into the death of a person (details supplied) under the care of an...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1453. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of her...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the current use of a building (details supplied) in County Tipperary, given the immediate shortage...
  • Department of Health
    • Healthcare Policy
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether a cross-departmental approach is needed in order to advance rare disease policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12560/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1456. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of any additional costs occurred by speech and language therapists who have qualified abroad in registering to practice in Ireland when...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1458. To ask the Minister for Health the preparations underway in her Department for Ireland to host the world Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin in June 2025; and if she will make a...
    • EU Programmes
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health the preparations underway in her Department for Ireland to take over the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers in H2, 2026; and if she will make a...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health the input her Department had in the preparation of the revised EU Tobacco Products Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10562/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the current wait times for a first chemotherapy appointment from the time of decision or consent to treat on a hospital by hospital basis, across...
    • Health Services
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the level of service required in each GP practice across the State as part of their public service contract; and to make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health to prioritise the immediate funding and delivery of more public inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment, so that those in crisis receive the care they...
    • Health Services
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the transition from CAMHS to AMHS ensuring continuity of care with no dangerous gaps for young people entering adulthood with an eating...
    • Eating Disorders
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health to establish a special Oireachtas committee on eating disorders to ensure real accountability and that all commitments made under any new model of care are...
    • Health Services
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a ringfenced, multi-annual funding for specialist hubs that are fully resourced, staffed, and accessible to everyone across Ireland; and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes who is subsequently found to have type 1 diabetes is not entitled...
    • Health Service Executive
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide this Deputy with an update from the HSE on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10587/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase funding for drugs task forces; if this funding will be ringfenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10588/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that can be urgently taken at Letterkenny University Hospital to reduce waiting times for chemotherapy patients. [10589/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount collected by all HSE hospitals in respect of car parking charges for visitors and patients in each of the years since 2020, in tabular...
    • Hospital Charges
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the car parking fees charged at each HSE hospital, in tabular form. [10594/25]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed review of physician associates as promised in the HSE 2025 Service Plan has commenced; the terms of reference of the review; the timeline for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of grant schemes available through her Department and the HSE to support frontline community-based health responders such as Irish Red...
    • Departmental Communications
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health when a reply will be issued to correspondence from an organisation regarding a study on incidence of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDE) in Ireland...
    • Departmental Records
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with Down syndrome in Ireland, based on records of births in each of the years 2017 to 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1479. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the public health nurse network in the Dublin mid-west area, to include current staff employed and current staff vacancies, in tabular form....
    • Healthcare Policy
      1480. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will instate a review into the impact of the cessation of developmental checks for all children under the national healthy childhood programme in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1481. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects the free hormone replacement therapy scheme will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10650/25]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1483. To ask the Minister for Health if she has read the consultant report relating to operations at Cappagh and Temple Street hospitals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1487. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details suppled) who, having been referred five years ago by her GP to the cardiology department of...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1488. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Assisted Human Reproduction (Amendment) Bill 2023, which addresses issues of parentage; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reviews
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10683/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      1490. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider increasing funding for a service (details supplied) which has been funded by the HSE since 2021; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1491. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects the National Cardiovascular Health Strategy to be published; the timeline in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Facilities
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects the cardiac rehab hub in Galway University Hospital is due to be reopened; when and the reason it was suspended; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1493. To ask the Minister for Health if she can detail the waiting list for the cardiac rehab hub in Merlin Park; the waiting list in October 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      1494. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists currently employed in counties Wexford and Wicklow, in tabular form; to outline plans to address the ongoing crisis; and...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1495. To ask the Minister for Health if a preferred location/site/building has been identified for a primary care centre in Gorey, County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reviews
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the need for more GPs in the south-west Wicklow area, especially in the Aughrim area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10711/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the need for cancer treatment services at the Arklow primary care centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10712/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health if there are clear guidelines for treating paediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome or paediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric disorders associated...
    • Eating Disorders
      1499. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to increase the number of public inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10717/25]
    • Legislative Programme
      1500. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is planning to introduce legislation that will regulate and restrict the sale of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, and prevent...
    • Substance Misuse
      1501. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of public information campaigns her Department has undertaken to raise awareness of the use of nitrous oxide, particularly with...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health the date she plans to publish the HSE capital plan for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10731/25]
    • Dental Services
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of children seen by HSE dentists, by CHO area, in the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10732/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1505. To ask the Minister for Health if a person in County Donegal (details supplied) is on the routine or urgent waiting list for cardiac surgery in Saint James's Hospital, Dublin; and if she...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1506. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the numerous cases of children with scoliosis who have faced various challenges with appointments postponed, changed, delayed or cancelled...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1507. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a research report into the prevalence of neurodiversity among people accessing addiction services (details supplied); the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1508. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure that funding is provided to a mental health service (details supplied) following the announcement that its messaging service...
    • Health Services Staff
      1509. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 721 of 18 February 2025, if she will clarify Section 3 of the Guidelines on Terms and Conditions of HSE Employment...
    • Medicinal Products
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve the availability and supply of Creon (pancreatic enzymes) to Ireland. [10766/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1511. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment to see a consultant at Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health the number of counties without CAMHS or YAMHS eating disorder teams. [10786/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1514. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider adding the rental of breast pumps and attachments to the long-term illness scheme for tube fed children; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      1515. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a charitable organisation (details supplied), which is partially funded by the HSE, is allowed to refuse services to an individual with an...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1516. To ask the Minister for Health given the findings of the reports on 'Wasted Lives in Nursing Homes' and 'Meeting the Needs of People with Korsakoff’s Syndrome in Ireland,' the...
    • Disability Services
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health the support services available for individuals with acquired brain injuries who are residing in nursing homes; and how individuals like those described in...
    • Data Protection
      1519. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a schedule of fines issued to her Department and the HSE in respect of breaching general data protection regulations, by year, from 1...
    • Hospital Staff
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unfilled vacancies in University Hospital Kerry, across all Departments, for the years 2020 to the end of year 2024; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1521. To ask the Minister for Health the progress the proposed 60-bed community nursing unit in Cashel has made; the particular steps the HSE are preparing to take in relation to obtaining...
    • Disease Management
      1522. To ask the Minister for Health when the updated national rare disease strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10822/25]
    • Departmental Consultations
      1523. To ask the Minister for Health if she will engage with an institution (details supplied) regarding the need for improved governance and safety regulations surrounding the use of aesthetic...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1524. To ask the Minister for Health if a person can be issued with an anticipatory statement of need for the 2026-2027 year (details supplied). [10831/25]
    • Hospital Equipment
      1525. To ask the Minister for Health if she has been made aware of problems with the Halcyon Radiation machine in University Hospital Limerick whereby the machine regularly breaks down leading to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1526. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to replace the three speech and language therapists out on maternity leave at the primary care centre, Mullingar; and if she will...
    • Health Service Executive
      1527. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of rebranding HSE South West. [10841/25]
    • Civil Registration Service
      1528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of civil registration service offices in operation in counties Leitrim and Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10842/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1529. To ask the Minister for Health if she will instruct her Department to urgently recruit a speech therapist for the Ballyboden primary care centre; if she will add additional resources to...
    • Insurance Coverage
      1531. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that numerous people have had their health insurance claims rejected in relation to Lyme disease; if she will instruct her Department to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1532. To ask the Minister for Health whether an urgent appointment at Beaumount Hospital could be issued to a person in County Galway (details supplied); the reason the person in question has...
    • Departmental Funding
      1533. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided for the planned 20 new beds for those suffering with eating disorders that were originally intended to open between 2018...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1534. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm when a person (details supplied) will receive an outpatient appointment for orthopaedics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10889/25]
    • Health Services
      1535. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a person (details supplied) for a primary medical cert; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10892/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      1536. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to provide bridging funding for an organisation (details supplied) as they continue to work with the HSE regarding a possible service level...
    • Ambulance Service
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics recruited into the ambulance service from July 2024 to year end 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10897/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      1538. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants for paramedic posts that are on panels since June 2024 without a job offer. [10898/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      1539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved headcount and whole-time equivalent posts and new posts allocated to the National Ambulance Service in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form....
    • Health Services Staff
      1542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff across each service division of the HSE currently suspended with pay; and the number on administrative leave, by the year the suspension...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1543. To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each January for each year from 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025,...
    • Health Service Executive
      1544. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the amount...
    • Hospital Staff
      1545. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by each of the section 39 voluntary hospitals on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in...
    • Health Service Executive
      1546. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on management consultants and external professional services, by type, for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular...
    • Hospital Staff
      1547. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by each of the section 39 voluntary hospitals on management consultants and external professional services, by type, for each year from 2019 to...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1548. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days that full capacity protocols have been active for each model 3 and model 4 hospital, each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in...
    • Health Service Executive
      1549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities for each year from 2019 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [10919/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      1551. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of Clinical Status 1 ECHO and Clinical Status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1554. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department, Statewide and for each location, in each of the years 2019 to 2024 and to date...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1557. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, hospital group and hospital, in each of the years 2019 to 2024 and to date...
    • Health Service Executive
      1558. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene with the HSE to ensure that funding is provided to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1559. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, at the end of February for the years 2019, 2023, 2024,...
    • Care Services
      1560. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of February for the years 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025, in tabular form; and the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists by health area and wait timeband for the end of February of each year 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025, inclusive, in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1564. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) in the department of ophthalmology, South Infirmary Hospital, County Cork, before she loses her...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children, and separately, the number of special-care patients, adult and children, who are on dental surgery waiting lists at the end...
    • Abortion Services
      1566. To ask the Minister for Health the incidents reported to the State Claims Agency which related to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, per year from 2019 to 2024,...
    • State Claims Agency
      1567. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of claims settled by the State Claims Agency which related to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, per year, from 2019 to...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1568. To ask the Minister for Health if she can review a case where a child (details supplied) has been on a waiting list for orthodontic care since 2019 and has been advised that they will be...
    • Dental Services
      1569. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a reimbursement for their dental costs under the treatment benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      1571. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot continue to get buscopan on prescription, taking into consideration the significant health issues he has; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      1572. To ask the Minister for Health if given the Labour Court Recommendation 22780 which awarded pay parity for medical scientists with biochemists, and which was implemented with the national...
    • Health Services
      1573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialist teams and dedicated inpatient beds in Dublin and the north-east for patients suffering with eating disorders; and if she will make a...
    • Emergency Services
      1575. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HIQA review into urgent and emergency care services in the midwest region; the date at which she expects the final report to be sent to her;...
    • Health Service Executive
      1577. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the status of these vacant posts in the HSE addiction service; if the HSE has begun...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1578. To ask the Minister for Health if she has plans to expand the chronic disease management programme; if she will consider the addition of a condition (details supplied); the process that...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1579. To ask the Minister for Health if the appointment of a clinical nurse lead to support the implementation of the national model of care for epilepsy has been progressed; the reasons a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1580. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to establish a dedicated office for alcohol in her Department to drive policy development and input into cross-departmental policy; if not,...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1583. To ask the Minister for Health if osteotomy surgeries on children have been suspended at the National Orthopaedic Hospital at Cappagh and Temple Street Children’s Hospital; and if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1584. To ask the Minister for Health if she will extend the long-term illness scheme to people suffering from the condition fibromyalgia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11046/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1585. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress update on the reopening of a respite centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11052/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1586. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11076/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1587. To ask the Minister for Health if all persons that are recruited to work in her Department and all the related agencies of her Department are fully vetted before they are employed by her...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1588. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have an operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; if they are on the routine or urgent waiting...
    • Health Service Executive
      1589. To ask the Minister for Health the amount accrued by the HSE in paying interest as a result of late payments to its suppliers, contractors and others in 2022, 2023, 2024, and to date in...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1590. To ask the Minister for Health if the online sale of nicotine products in Ireland is monitored by the State; and her views on the way minors are safeguarded to prevent them from purchasing...
    • Health Services
      1591. To ask the Minister for Health the hours in which Shannon Doc operates in Roscrea, County Tipperary; if she will provide a breakdown of each day that the Shannon Doc service did not open...
    • Hospital Services
      1592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant ophthalmologist hours available at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital; the breakdown of public and private hours available for...
    • Medical Cards
      1593. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons (details supplied) were refused medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11107/25]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1594. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the €1.48 billion committed to in Budget 2025 for mental health that is dedicated specifically to those under 18 years of age and...
    • Ambulance Service
      1595. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics recruited by the National Ambulance Service in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number of...
    • Nursing Homes
      1596. To ask the Minister for Health if it is her intention to remove the anomaly whereby a first-time application for the fair deal scheme that is refused prevents the applicant from reapplying...
    • Mental Health Services
      1597. To ask the Minister for Health if she will investigate the case of a patient (details supplied) of the mental health service who has been accommodated in an emergency homeless hostel for a...
    • Legislative Process
      1598. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a timeline on legislation that would add HHC as a Schedule 1 controlled drug to the misuse of drugs legislative framework; and if she will...
    • Mental Health Services
      1599. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have aged out of adolescent primary care mental health teams without having received therapeutic support, by local health office and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1600. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgical procedure will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11209/25]
    • Medical Inquiries
      1602. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the establishment of the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; when she expects the inquiry to...
    • Disease Management
      1603. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide further details on the process to be followed by families who suspect that their child may be impacted by exposure to sodium valproate in...
    • Hospital Services
      1604. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be made available to provide dialysis services in Roscommon University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1605. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be provided to address the impact the high cost of fuel is having on social care staff working in rural communities; and if she...
    • Disability Services
      1607. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of adult ADHD services in Dublin 18 a person (details supplied) can avail of; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1608. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an MRI scan in respect of a patient in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11267/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1609. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a list for the primary care child and adolescent psychology service in south Lee, in total, for longer than six months, 12 months,...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1610. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress of the promised additional 117 ICU beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11272/25]
    • Organ Donation
      1611. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of key organ donation personnel in intensive care units; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11273/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1612. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the progression of the proposed new primary health centre in Birr, County Offaly; if it is expected that this service will operate at...
    • Departmental Properties
      1613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant and or derelict buildings in the ownership of, or leased by, her Department, by the HSE or by other agencies reporting to her Department;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP practices that took on new general medical services scheme patients, per county, in each of the years 2019 to 2024. [11319/25]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1615. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline, in the decisions of the multidisciplinary meetings at St. James’s Hospital under gastro-intestinal conference, the number of...
    • Mental Health Services
      1619. To ask the Minister for Health when a treatment in CAMHS will be made available to a child (details supplied). [11358/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      1620. To ask the Minister for Health the number of grade 3 and grade 4 clerical support staff appointed in the hospitals of the University of Limerick Hospital Group; the number of these are HSE...
    • Health Service Executive
      1625. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of HSE-owned premises, by local area, in County Wexford, which are in full use, partial use, and not in use; and if she will make a...
    • Organ Donation
      1626. To ask the Minister for Health to provide and update on the Human Tissue Act 2024 with regard to organ donation opt out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11367/25]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1627. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider expanding funding for glucose monitors to those with cystic fibrosis related diabetes; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      1628. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive a psychology appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11369/25]
    • Health Services
      1629. To ask the Minister for Health the options for support available to persons wishing to obtain and train a medical alert assistance dog for emergencies relating to certain medical issues...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1630. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the details of future plans and timelines for the purpose and use of Crumlin children’s hospital in Dublin 12 once the national...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1632. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred by University Hospital Limerick to St. John’s Hospital for an urgent...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1633. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the case of person (details supplied) who continues to wait for a CAMHS appointment in Limerick for an ADHD assessment; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      1634. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify whether the HSE or their funded agencies continue to apply the ‘in loco parentis’ rule to children receiving home support;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1636. To ask the Minister for Health the number of palliative care nurses in Meath working for the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11397/25]
    • Cancer Services
      1637. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to recruit and fund the appropriate number of professionals (details supplied) to meet the demands of the increasing number of cancer...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1638. To ask the Minister for Health her views in relation to the worry and deep frustration of families and individuals in County Meath, and across rural Ireland generally, in relation to the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1639. To ask the Minister for Health the overall number of people in Meath awaiting treatment for scoliosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11400/25]
    • Emergency Departments
      1641. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE's current proposal for the transition of the emergency department at Navan Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1643. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to address the pay parity of Section 39 organisations and their workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11404/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      1644. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 797 of 18 February 2025, if the HSE is claiming ownership of a site in Dublin 8 (details supplied). [11405/25]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1645. To ask the Minister for Health the BMI required to qualify for gastric band surgery. [11410/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1646. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria required to claim reimbursement under the treatment abroad scheme. [11411/25]
    • National Children's Hospital
      1647. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide detailed plans of what will happen to Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin once the new children’s hospital at St....
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1650. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 to prohibit marketing of zero-alcohol products that share the same branding, logos and colours as...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1651. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of a primary care centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11432/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1652. To ask the Minister for Health the process for medically trained doctors from Spain to apply to the Medical Council for approval to work in Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Civil Marriages
      1653. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether it is appropriate that people across Offaly are expected to travel to neighbouring counties for both civil marriage ceremonies and to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1654. To ask the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [11445/25]
    • Disease Management
      1655. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter raised by a person (details supplied) in Cork city in relation to type 1 diabetics who have been refused CGMs based on a prior incorrect diagnosis...
    • Health Services Staff
      1657. To ask the Minister for Health if she will take steps to increase the number of advanced paramedics being trained across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11463/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      1659. To ask the Minister for Health when a dedicated public specialist unit will be provided for Limerick and the mid-west to treat children and adolescents with eating disorders; if she will...
    • Patient Safety
      1660. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the patient safety (licensing) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11499/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1661. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to offering permanent contracts to all graduate psychiatric nurses in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11500/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1662. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on 14 posts in a children’s mental health facility (details supplied); the status of recruitment for these posts; the number of...
    • Legislative Process
      1663. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to bring the Mental Health Bill 2024 to committee stage in an Oireachtas Select Committee or on the floor of Dáil Éireann; and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1664. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to implementing a standard criteria for diagnosis and support for people living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), given that...
    • Medicinal Products
      1665. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the shortage of certain medicines (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11508/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      1666. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with her Department. [11521/25]
    • Home Care Packages
      1667. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the status of homecare for a person (details supplied); and if their weekend homecare hours will be reinstated given the circumstances....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1668. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a psychology report for mental health intellectual disability services in each of the CHO4 areas; the current expected waiting...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for treatment for osteoporosis in CHO 4, and the periods spent on the waiting list, in each of the years 2020 to date, in...
    • Departmental Funding
      1670. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide funding for a scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11556/25]
    • Health Services
      1671. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline of the roll out for oral immunotherapy services for the treatment of children living with allergies; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time public health nurse posts within CHO4, in 2023 and 2024; the specific geographic area within CHO4 that currently has no public health...
    • Disability Services
      1673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical sessions typically offered to children and adolescents attending the CHO4 primary care speech and language therapy services; and if...
    • Mental Health Services
      1674. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to primary care psychology in CHO4, for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and to date in 2025. [11563/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      1675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals funded by the Health Service Executive for care for eating disorders by private providers, from the years 2022 to 2025, in tabular...
    • Ambulance Service
      1679. To ask the Minister for Health how she will address the serious concerns of officers in the National Ambulance Service on the impact of Revenue’s approach to benefit-in-kind taxation...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1680. To ask the Minister for Health the number of misread scans that have occurred in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in the past five years; if there has been an investigation into the reason...
    • Health Service Executive
      1682. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the project regarding the HSE’s acquisition of land at the back of Lusk health centre for a community nursing unit; if there is scope for...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1683. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department is engaged with Fingal County Council regarding a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11625/25]
    • Cancer Services
      1684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with a postcode in Donegal who have been recalled to the breast assessment clinic in Galway and who subsequently have had a diagnosis...
    • Hospital Investigations
      1686. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11628/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1687. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the latest delay for the publication of a tender for the delivery of a primary care centre at Gorey, County Wexford; the reason the dates...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      1688. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reported cyberattacks in 2024 on her Department, on the HSE and HSE hospitals and facilities, or on section 38 or section 39 organisations or...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1689. To ask the Minister for Health what supports are made available by her Department and or the HSE for the establishment of a new medical general practice; if she has plans to enhance those...
    • Medicinal Products
      1690. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to implementing a reimbursement scheme through the medical card and or drugs payment scheme for Ozempic; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      1692. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the proposed Bill to further regulate nicotine inhaling products, including a complete ban on disposable vapes, which was approved by Cabinet...
    • Hospital Staff
      1693. To ask the Minister for Health if current vacancies that have arisen from the transferring of the blood transfusion service from Mallow General Hospital to Cork University Hospital have...
    • Eating Disorders
      1694. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the exact details for the new eating disorder unit in Mallow General Hospital; the number of staff required; to provide a timeline on when she...
    • Health Services
      1695. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national audit for cleft services; the metrics used on the audit; if she will provide the results of the audit to Deputies; and if she will...
    • Hospital Staff
      1696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of SLT assigned to specific cleft services, per hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11690/25]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cleft surgeries and general age spread, by cleft centre of work/hospital, for the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1698. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment for a cleft nurse in CUH; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11692/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on occupational therapy waiting lists in Donegal; the length of time they have been on the waiting list, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Health Services Staff
      1700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant occupational therapy posts in Donegal; the length of time these posts have been vacant; the number of posts expected to become vacant...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      1701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meals on wheels service providers and locations in Kildare south; the number of meals served per service, per week, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Home Help Service
      1704. To ask the Minister for Health if the shortfall in homecare provision in Kerry will be urgently addressed; the number of positions that are currently vacant; the number of staff required to...
    • Home Care Packages
      1705. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care hours that have been granted in each HSE health region; the number of these hours/provision that are not being provided as the home...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1706. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment purchase scheme provides coverage for endometriosis treatment; and to provide an annual breakdown of endometriosis treatment provided under...
    • Health Services Staff
      1707. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding the vacancy since 5 October 2024 of an ophthalmologist for Tipperary south; the current stage of the recruitment process...
    • Dental Services
      1708. To ask the Minister for Health if Cross Border Directive services are available for a child who has been approved for dental treatment by the HSE orthodontic department; and if so, the...
    • Medical Cards
      1709. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a medical card appeal of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11732/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1710. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to introduce a pregnancy loss certificate such as exists in England, similar to a voluntary scheme operated by hospitals that enable parents who...
    • Hospital Services
      1712. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the paediatric orthopaedic surgery service at Children’s Health Ireland; the date at which she expects the review to be...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1713. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on contracting out radiotherapy treatment for public patients to private providers in 2024 and to date in 2025, by hospital, in tabular...
    • Mental Health Services
      1714. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the next implementation plan for Sharing the Vision to replace the 2022-2024 plan; the timeline she is working towards in publishing the plan;...
    • Emergency Services
      1715. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to publish the interim report on HIQA’s review into urgent and emergency care services in the midwest region; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1716. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts at the HSE surgical hub south Dublin, by grade, in tabular form; and the number of posts which are vacant. [11743/25]
    • Substance Misuse
      1717. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered the interim report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Drugs Use; if she will commit to a health-led response through the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1718. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment at the audiology clinic in Cootehill to have a hearing device fitted, given that their hearing...
    • Nursing Homes
      1721. To ask the Minister for Health to arrange a transfer for a patient in a home in County Offaly to a nursing home (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1722. To ask the Minister for Health the annual amount claimed by special advisors attached to her or her Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to date in 2025, by...
    • Departmental Properties
      1723. To ask the Minister for Health to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which her Department or the HSE owns or is leasing, and have been identified as surplus...
    • Ambulance Service
      1724. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans to construct a state-of-the-art ambulance base at Kelvin Grove, Carlow. [11799/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1725. To ask the Minister for Health if automatic or priority access to a medical card will be considered for individuals who have suffered a stroke, given the long-term medical needs and...
    • Legislative Measures
      1727. To ask the Minister for Health in collaboration with the relevant authorities, if she will review the fines and enforcement measures for the misuse of disabled parking spaces, given that...
    • Dental Services
      1728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children qualified for free orthodontics under the HSE scheme in the Dublin north west area between 2017-2020, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Health Service Executive
      1732. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all HSE submissions on wind farm planning applications since 2021, in tabular form, including planning authority case file number, EHO...
    • Abortion Services
      1733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents related to termination of pregnancy reported to the national incident management system, in each of the past five years and to...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1736. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an inventory of medical radiological equipment at Mullingar Regional Hospital, such as CT scanners, X-ray machines, MRI scanners, DEXA scanners and...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a waiting list for a paediatric homecare package in CHO8. [11856/25]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the age of 12 years who have been referred for a public psychological assessment for specific learning disabilities, including...
    • Hospital Staff
      1739. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiographers by grade working in Mullingar Regional Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; if this number will be further...
    • Community Care
      1740. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to address a situation (details supplied); the measures she is taking to address community hospital bed shortages; if she plans to...
    • Emergency Departments
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to reduce waiting times at UHK accident and emergency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11868/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1743. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to establish a minor injuries clinic at UHK; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11869/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1745. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for epilepsy neurosurgery at a clinical site (details supplied); the number of patients who are currently awaiting epilepsy surgery;...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1746. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have received epilepsy surgery at a hospital (details supplied) in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1747. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait times for appointments at the epilepsy monitoring unit at a hospital (details supplied); the number of patients currently awaiting...
    • Hospital Services
      1748. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen at the epilepsy monitoring unit at a hospital (details supplied) in each of the past five years to date; and if she...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1749. To ask the Minister for Health to address the situation in relation to the drop-off zone at the entrance to the Mater Hospital Dublin (details supplied) which is now having an impact on the...
    • Abortion Services
      1750. To ask the Minister for Health the economic supports provided to mothers who are considering abortion because of economic reasons. [11880/25]
    • Health Services
      1751. To ask the Minister for Health the economic supports provided to mothers by the HSE My Options. [11881/25]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1753. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a campaign (details supplied); her views on the campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11894/25]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1754. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have an operation in Galway University Hospital; the reason for the daily cancellations for over a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1755. To ask the Minister for Health if durvalumab is being considered for use by the HSE as part of the first-line treatment of patients with cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) as is now the...
    • Emergency Departments
      1756. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the approach to triaging patients presenting at accident and emergency facilities around the country; how they are linked into acute mental health...
    • Mental Health Services
      1757. To ask the Minister for Health if she will direct the HSE to review its approach to patients presenting with emergency mental health situations at accident and emergency facilities around...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1758. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a decrease in the take-up of the HPV vaccine nationwide; if this is a matter of concern for her; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1761. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to introduce a certificate formally recognising a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11924/25]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has considered amendments to the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018, to target zero-alcohol product advertising in spaces where alcohol...
    • Nursing Homes
      1763. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of where the additional €145.5 million in 2022 and €138.74 million was spent on costs related to fixed-unit costs and other costs...
    • Home Care Packages
      1764. To ask the Minister for Health for an update and deadline for the rollout of the dementia-specific home care package for Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11972/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1765. To ask the Minister for Health the inpatient rehabilitation bed occupancy in Monaghan Hospital in February 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11973/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1773. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE neurological specialists, by title, by CHO region for each month since January 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1775. To ask the Minister for Health if the long waiting times for blood tests in Beaumont Hospital (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11991/25]
    • Patient Transport
      1776. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been spent on transportation for dialysis patients from County Mayo to both Mayo University Hospital and Galway University Hospital in...
    • Emergency Departments
      1777. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that presented to the emergency department of Cavan Hospital either by ambulance, through GP referral or self presentation who...
    • Departmental Funding
      1779. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the underspend of approximately €42,000 in the funds allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in 2024 can be carried...
    • Health Services
      1780. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE or other health supports that are available to individuals with korsakoff syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11998/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      1782. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals, in ranges of 18-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69 years who are in receipt of full-time nursing home care, private and public, by IHA...
    • Patient Transfers
      1783. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite the transfer of a person (details supplied) from CUH to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1784. To ask the Minister for Health when it is intended to publish the national policy on adult safeguarding for the health and social care sector; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1785. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a dental appointment through the school dental programme for children; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1788. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the understaffing in the healthcare system, specifically in terms of mental-health support, leaving some waiting for services for extended...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1789. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the Evaluation of the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12041/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1790. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for seven years for an appointment; if this case will be investigated; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1791. To ask the Minister for Health if she will recognise fibromyalgia as a long-term illness in Ireland, recognising that this illness affects approximately ninety thousand people nationally,...
    • Mental Health Services
      1792. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a registered mental health nurse working in the HSE (details supplied) has been waiting eight months on a contract to be issued by the regional...
    • Emergency Departments
      1793. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who left the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital without being seen, in each of the past five years. [12078/25]
    • Health Strategies
      1794. To ask the Minister for Health the current stage of development and implementation of the framework for endometriosis. [12079/25]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      1795. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists recruited by the National Educational Psychological Service in each of the past ten years, by county, in tabular form. [12080/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists recruited by the HSE, by county, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [12081/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1797. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists who have retired from the HSE, by county, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [12082/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      1798. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have accessed treatment for endometriosis under the Cross-Border Directive legislation. [12083/25]
    • Disease Management
      1800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people attending Dundalk Clinic for type 1 diabetes, broken down by those who have commenced treatment on pump therapy, those who have expressed...
    • Hospital Staff
      1805. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours in Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, allocated to the newly appointed endocrinologist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12115/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1806. To ask the Minister for Health the number of diabetes specialist nurses/dietitians/chiropodists/psychologists presently working in Dundalk diabetes clinic; if these posts are specifically...
    • Health Strategies
      1807. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers availing of education courses on type 2 diabetes held at Dundalk Library; the numbers availing of the Living Well programme provided by public...
    • Disease Management
      1808. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to open up a diabetes eye-screening location in the Dundalk area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12118/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      1810. To ask the Minister for Health if there is mandatory training for all in-patient staff in psychiatric services on the management and treatment of eating disorders; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1811. To ask the Minister for Health the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of her Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the years 2020 to...
    • Mental Health Services
      1815. To ask the Minister for Health when the funding that was promised in 2015 for `ItsGood2Talk` will be provided; the reason this funding has been held up for ten years; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed at University Hospital Limerick, per discipline, from 2011 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds at each of the UL Hospital Group hospitals, from 2011 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1818. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres currently under construction within CHO4; when each of these will be opened; the level of service each will provide; and if she will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1819. To ask the Minister for Health how long the HSE is actively involved in the recruitment process to find a replacement GP following a vacancy in a practise with a GMS contract, if this...
    • Health Promotion
      1822. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on HSE campaigns (details supplied) in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [12259/25]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1823. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been provided to the National Counselling Service from 2020 to date in respect of services for people affected by adoption and the mother...
    • Mental Health Services
      1829. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown, by year of the categories of funding provided, expenditure and any unspent funds in respect of the National Counselling Service from 2020 to...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1830. To ask the Minister for Health to publish in tabular form a breakdown, by year of the numbers of people affected by adoption and the mother and baby homes who have accessed the services of...
    • Disability Services
      1831. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by persons with debilitating conditions who are wheelchair users and who are reliant on public...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1832. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the day/elective hospital for Swords; if this facility will be a HSE-run facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cancer Services
      1833. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider amending the State-funded grant for the provision of a prosthesis for women who have gone through mastectomy surgery (details supplied);...
    • Disability Services
      1834. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department is undertaking to ensure that care hours that have been allocated to individuals are filled; if she is aware that in some cases where...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1835. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the dialysis-at-home scheme; if she is aware that the scheme is a valuable tool to ensure that patients can remain in their...
    • Health Service Executive
      1836. To ask the Minister for Health number of HSE-owned properties that are currently vacant, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12320/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1838. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will allocate funding for a specialist multidisciplinary functional neurological disorder clinic at St. James’s Hospital. [12329/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1839. To ask the Minister for Health the way it is planned to enhance services at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; the number of additional nursing staff that have been taken on at the hospital...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1840. To ask the Minister for Health the action she is taking to expand GP services in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12346/25]
    • EU Regulations
      1842. To ask the Minister for Health if she has sought legal and policy advice in 2024 on the impact of Prospectus regulation (EU) 2017/1129 on the Central Bank of Ireland and its licensing of...
    • Mental Health Services
      1843. To ask the Minister for Health to address the total lack of out-of-hours mental health services for people on the Iveragh peninsula in south Kerry who are experiencing a crisis in their...
    • Disability Services
      1844. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage level of staffing in each Children’s Disability Network Team (CDNT) in Fingal; the average wait time, in months, for a first appointment...
    • Substance Misuse
      1846. To ask the Minister for Health her approach to the growing concerns regarding the impact on the health of young people of vapes sold by vape shops in towns and cities across the State; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1847. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1108 of 2 February 2025, if there has been a change to the criteria since 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1848. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has considered allowing Ukrainian doctors to work under close supervision as junior doctors after passing their OET exam; and if she will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1853. To ask the Minister for Health the GP to community health network population ratio for all HSE health regions, broken down into healthcare areas, for the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular...
    • Pension Provisions
      1854. To ask the Minister for Health when a reply will issue to the pension section of the HSE in respect of a person (details supplied) in view of the inordinate amount of time it has taken to...
    • Health Services
      1855. To ask the Minister for Health if spirovital therapy is available to HSE patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12482/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1856. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 374 of 27 February 2025, if she is aware of an issue with the advertisement of posts for speech and language therapists...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1857. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a person (details supplied) awaiting a speech and language assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12496/25]
    • Cancer Services
      1858. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to ensure those with prostate cancer and who have private health insurance, such as in the case of a person (details suppled), can avail...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1860. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12528/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1861. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what mental health supports are available to those affected by flooding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12529/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      1862. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE gastroenterologist registrars based at St James's Hospital in the years 2023 and 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [12544/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1863. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dementia advisers based in CHO 7 in the years 2023 and 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [12545/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      1864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric urologist based at CHI Crumlin in the years 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [12546/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1865. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE HSE funded substance misuse liaison nurses in CHO7 in the years 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [12547/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1866. To ask the Minister for Health when she intends to launch the review into Ireland's reimbursement process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12554/25]
    • Health Strategies
      1867. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department still views the recommendations contained within a report (details supplied) relevant; whether she intends to act on these recommendations;...
    • Disease Management
      1868. To ask the Minister for Health the role of the rare disease and long Covid policy unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12556/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1869. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to review how orphan medicinal products are assessed and reimbursed as part of the Programme for Government's commitment to conduct a review...
    • Departmental Reports
      1872. To ask the Minister for Health if a serious incident report been completed in relation to the death of a person (details supplied); and when the report will be given to the family involved;...
    • Eating Disorders
      1873. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who are funded by the HSE to avail of treatment for eating disorders in private facilities; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1875. To ask the Minister for Health if funding and recruitment is approved or currently advertised for all the 11 vacant occupational therapy posts in Donegal (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Primary Care Services
      1877. To ask the Minister for Health which of the eight vacancies currently in primary care in Donegal which were vacant as of December 2023, will be considered for funding going forward (details...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1879. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to address the considerable need for occupational therapy appointments in Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1880. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the progress of the HSE oxygen contract changeover originally due to be completed in November 2024; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1881. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a current estimate of the number of patients in receipt of oxygen through the public system; if costs related to the provision of oxygen for that...
    • Health Services Staff
      1883. To ask the Minister for Health when she anticipates that social care workers will be required to register with CORU; the steps being taken to ensure that the necessary regulatory framework...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1884. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Limerick surgical hub; the date of commencement of the works; the estimated cost of the hub; the expected delivery date; the services...
    • Medical Cards
      1885. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the merits of reviewing the qualifying criteria for medical cards; if those with diagnosed long-term illnesses could be considered for inclusion;...
    • Substance Misuse
      1886. To ask the Minister for Health the legislative measures in place to prevent the sale of sweets in premises which sell vapes, to ensure the marketing of sweets cannot be used to attract...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1887. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12728/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1888. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the existing bed numbers in use for Killybegs Community Hospital; the details of the unused beds; her plans to reinstate all beds for usage at...
    • Cancer Services
      1889. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women that have been subject to delays for cervical screening in the past five years, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1890. To ask the Minister for Health the number of category 1 incidents involving a service user that have been reported to each psychiatric unit for each year from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form;...
    • Nursing Homes
      1891. To ask the Minister for Health if she will introduce regulations to control the flat-rate charges for special services being applied each week by nursing homes to those residents already...
    • Health Services
      1892. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request a review of the financial support approved by the HSE for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cancer Services
      1893. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all cancer centres that receive State funding as community cancer support centres under the NCCP. [12828/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1894. To ask the Minister for Health to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of her Department and each body under the aegis of her...
    • Eating Disorders
      1895. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review and address the severe inadequacies in Ireland’s eating disorder services, particularly the lack of inpatient beds and the...
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1896. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a campaign (details supplied) which calls for an end to the loophole in the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which allows zero-alcohol...
    • Health Services Staff
      1897. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints about the behaviour of nurses that have been made to the HSE, the Nursing and Midwifery Board and the Office of the Ombudsman in 2023...
    • Mental Health Services
      1898. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate steps being taken to improve the treatment of individuals presenting at accident and emergency departments with suicidal ideation, including...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1899. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices who started their apprenticeships, by type, in each of the years 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1900. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the academic scholarship programmes available to Palestinian students in each of Ireland’s higher education institutions; the...
    • Student Accommodation
      1902. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding or a loan facility will be made available to Atlantic Technological University (Sligo Campus) to start construction of student...
    • Departmental Staff
      1903. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they are...
    • Third Level Costs
      1904. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the higher costs for students of University College Limerick, to repeat exams, modules and years given they appear to be...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1906. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the level 6 and level 7 bridging programmes designed for those seeking advanced entry to stage 2 or stage 3 of the B.Ed Montessori Education,...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1908. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) concerning ETB personal assistants; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Fees
      1909. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the fact that certain students have had their €1,000 fee refund revoked due to them attending class remotely; if he...
    • Student Accommodation
      1910. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the rules for the SUSI grant scheme could take into account the transience of the rental market and in particular have cognisance of the fact...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1911. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11520/25]
    • Student Accommodation
      1912. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, given that the last time the interdepartmental group on student accommodation met was 2021, when they are scheduled to meet next;...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1913. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of graduates in planning from Irish higher education institutions in each of the years 2020 to 2024; and the projected number in each...
    • Student Accommodation
      1914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of State-owned purpose-built student accommodation for University College Cork, the University of Limerick and University College...
    • Third Level Staff
      1915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the members of all technical university boards across the country; the process involved in selecting members for these boards; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      1916. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual amount claimed by special advisors attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020 to date in...
    • Third Level Fees
      1917. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available with contribution fees for students studying abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11814/25]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to discrepancies in pay for apprentices completing the off-the-job college phases of their apprenticeship at a...
    • Student Accommodation
      1919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an organisation (details supplied) will be engaged with in respect of the new student accommodation strategy; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      1920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the funding being directed towards a workshop (details supplied) and his views on whether utopia is appropriate given that it...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1922. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the...
    • Third Level Education
      1927. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of capital investment allocated to SETU in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the new Kilkenny Institute of Further Education; the amount of capital envisaged to complete the project and when he hopes...
    • Education Policy
      1929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider developing a centre of excellence for marine and airborne field robotics, with a particular focus on supporting many...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expediting a review of the Solas statutory apprenticeship which require that certain apprenticeship applicants must pass the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1933. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people who attained qualification in early years childcare in each of the years from 2004 to 2024; and the QQI/FETEC level...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1934. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the aegis...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Rural Schemes
      1935. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a review has been carried out of the eligibility criteria for CLAR with a view to expanding the programme to rural areas which are...
    • Animal Welfare
      1936. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will outline his Department’s policy on illegal puppy farming; if he will provide an update on the progress made under...
    • Road Projects
      1937. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total amount in local contributions from residents and landowners, per local authority, under the local improvement scheme since...
    • Control of Dogs
      1942. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what plan his Department has to address the problem of dog attacks on sheep farms in south Wicklow, including expansion and...
    • Rural Schemes
      1943. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next round of CLÁR funding for developing community facilities and amenities grants will open; and if he will make a...
    • Community Development Projects
      1945. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when successful projects under category 2 of the Community Centres Investment Fund 2024 will be announced; and if he will make a...
    • Men's Sheds
      1946. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for a list of men’s sheds in Dublin south west. [10976/25]
    • Library Projects
      1948. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided for a new library in Athenry, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11029/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1949. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before...
    • Community Development Projects
      1950. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department will engage with a community services group (details supplied) regarding its application to the community services...
    • Library Projects
      1951. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will outline the current and forthcoming streams of funding for new library buildings for the coming years. [11172/25]
    • Community Development Projects
      1952. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on an application by a community (details supplied) for the community centres investment fund grant; and...
    • Men's Sheds
      1954. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider providing additional funding to an association (details supplied) following the loss of the IMSA sustainability...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1956. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11525/25]
    • Animal Breeding
      1957. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the national dog breeding establishment register for 2025 will be published; if it will contain the maximum number of breeding...
    • Community Development Projects
      1958. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on a project (details supplied) in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11705/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1960. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1 March 2020...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1961. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to other State agencies and if his own Government Department have used any of the same IT services...
    • Community Development Projects
      1962. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on a community centre investment fund application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Bodies
      1964. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1968. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he can provide an update on the reviews of both the SSNO and the community and voluntary pillar funding schemes; when the reviews...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      1969. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he can provide an update on the future of the Dormant Accounts Fund; the plans in place to support those projects and programmes...
    • Community Development Projects
      1970. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to list the unsuccessful applications for funding under phase 1 and phase 2 of the Community Centre Investment Fund (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      1971. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide a schedule of the headings under which he can provide direct funding and-or grant aid to community groups and-or...
    • Community Development Projects
      1973. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the Community Centres Investment Fund will reopen for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12636/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      1974. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under...

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