Written answers

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Child Poverty
      25. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by his Department in reducing child poverty and promoting well-being. [7636/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      47. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will meet next. [8321/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      80. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [5755/25]
    • Departmental Programmes
      88. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [7555/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      93. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [7556/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      97. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [9165/25]
    • Cruinnithe an Aire
      98. To ask the Taoiseach cén uair a bhfuil sé i gceist go mbuailfeadh an Coiste Rialtais ar Thuaisceart Éireann le chéile arís. [9979/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      101. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with social affairs and public services last met. [7688/25]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      105. To ask the Taoiseach for an update in relation to his attendance at the Munich security conference. [7954/25]
    • Civil Service
      106. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [9294/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      107. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on office furnishings, fittings and technology in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [9296/25]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      108. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent discussions with President Zelenskyy. [9837/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      110. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the new projects that will be delivered under the Shared Island scheme in the next five years. [9838/25]
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      111. To ask the Taoiseach cad é líon foirne a Roinne agus cé mhéad díobh sin atá inniúlach sa Ghaeilge; agus cad iad na bearta atá á ndéanamh...
    • Cabinet Committees
      112. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will meet. [10134/25]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      114. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US president. [12128/25]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights
      127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions the Government is taking to address the growing persecution of Christians worldwide, particularly in light of the recent...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department has had any contact from the US administration or the White House regarding the Control of Economic Activity...
    • Military Neutrality
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the merits of a referendum on Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15460/25]
    • British-Irish Co-operation
      139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report his attendance at the UK-Ireland Summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15457/25]
    • Human Rights
      141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report the exchange of views with the Belarusian opposition leader that took place at the EU General Affairs Council meeting...
    • International Relations
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the significance from an EU perspective of recently reported chat group conversations by members of the US administration; and if he will...
    • Human Rights
      143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the allegations of human rights abuses being suffered by workers from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, and the immense...
    • Middle East
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict put forward by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and former...
    • Trade Promotion
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update in relation to the Government’s Trade Forum and the efforts that are underway to preserve...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if artificial intelligence innovation will be a key theme of Ireland’s EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Bodies
      153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his engagements with the EU-Israel Association Council, following the recent meeting of the council; and if he will make a...
    • Military Neutrality
      154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the issues surrounding triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15538/25]
    • International Sanctions
      155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action that is planned to step up pressure on Russia, including through further sanctions and by strengthening the enforcement of...
    • Middle East
      156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken in response to Israel denying a European Union delegation access to the State of Palestine; and if he will make a...
    • Northern Ireland
      158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement that has taken place with the British government in relation to the repeal of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and...
    • International Relations
      159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his engagement to date, and the details of further engagements planned with the United States Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick; if the...
    • Middle East
      160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the meetings he has engaged in with international organisations, including the United Nations and the European...
    • Diaspora Issues
      163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are supports for members of the Irish diaspora who would like to retire to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Human Rights
      164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a report on his efforts to alleviate the repression of people, particularly women, in Afghanistan; the engagements he has...
    • Passport Services
      165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to establish a passport printing service at the Cork Passport Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15395/25]
    • United Nations
      166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has had with the United Nations in relation to Ireland’s departure from the UN mandate to deploy troops abroad;...
    • Middle East
      167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on whether Irish provided aid is being permitted to enter Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15499/25]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      173. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the current surge in number of foreign birth registration applications from the US impact on the current turnaround processing times for...
    • Middle East
      174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional measures he is proposing to the EU to impose sanctions on Israel given the ongoing and worsening attacks in the West Bank and...
    • International Relations
      175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report the discussion on EU-UK relations that took place at the EU General Affairs Council meeting which he attended in Brussels...
    • Middle East
      176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to fulfil its obligations under the Genocide Convention to take action to prevent acts of genocide in Palestine;...
    • EU Meetings
      181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his attendance at the General Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 18 March 2025; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Military Neutrality
      183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department has had any contact from the US administration or the White House on a political level seeking the removal or...
    • Diaspora Issues
      184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of funding provided by his Department for organisations and community groups working with the Irish diaspora; and if he will make...
    • International Bodies
      185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on any work his Department is undertaking to comply with the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice...
    • Middle East
      186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details on any engagement he or his officials have had with the Israeli government following Israeli bombardment of a hospital in...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his engagements with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo in light of the current conflict; and if he will...
    • Foreign Policy
      189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent cancellation of the election in Romania; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15461/25]
    • Human Rights
      190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has raised the serious matter of sustained attacks on citizens of Hungary, and consequently the EU, who are LGBTQ+ by the actions...
    • Irish Aid
      191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an overview of the overseas aid that Ireland is providing to Nepal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15469/25]
    • Ukraine War
      192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will reaffirm Ireland’s continued and unwavering support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial...
    • European Union
      193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the importance of supporting initiatives that encourage connectivity and engagement with European Union partners, particularly...
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that a person (details supplied) and Jewish Holocaust survivors, experts and over 100 civil society groups urge world leaders...
    • Trade Relations
      195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in relation to the possible impact of US tariffs; and if he...
    • Diaspora Issues
      196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his proposals to provide more effective services to and build relationships with the diaspora; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Relations
      199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his engagements with the government of Turkey in relation to the escalating situation there; and if he will make a...
    • European Council
      200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has been briefed regarding ReArm Europe plans following the European council recently; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Climate Action Plan
      202. To ask the Taoiseach when the Climate Action Plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published by his Department. [15146/25]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      204. To ask the Taoiseach the total sum spent on cybersecurity measures within his Department during each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024. [14681/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      206. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Water Quality will meet next. [15023/25]
    • Census of Population
      207. To ask the Taoiseach the population of the Lucan area at each census since 1981 [15414/25]
    • Official Engagements
      208. To ask the Taoiseach if he met with any US fracked gas communities (details supplied) during his time in the United States; and if not, the reason therefor. [15517/25]
    • Labour Market
      209. To ask the Taoiseach the unemployment figures for County Clare for 1 March 2024 and 1 March 2025; the unemployment figures for all of Ireland for the same dates; the measures his Department...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      210. To ask the Taoiseach if an individual citizen can make a submission to the Covid review; and if so, to outline the process. [15852/25]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Military Aircraft
      211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the number of inspections of military aircraft carrying munitions of war that took place in Ireland since January 2024; and if...
    • National Security
      212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade this Government’s plans to deal with the vulnerability of Ireland’s undersea cables; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the Government’s approach to the issue of global governance of activity in space. [14724/25]
    • Passport Services
      214. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application can be reviewed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14983/25]
    • Departmental Data
      215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens that have sought permission from the Government to accept titles of honour or nobility in the past five years,...
    • Passport Services
      216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of an issue faced by domestic violence survivors whereby they are trying to seek a passport for their child, including...
    • Official Travel
      218. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of his St. Patrick’s Day missions and in particular the business and trade aspect of the missions; and if he will make a...
    • Diaspora Issues
      219. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of funding provided by his Department for organisations and community groups working with the Irish diaspora; and if he will make...
    • Middle East
      221. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with Irish representatives at the United Nations, particularly with regard to the conflict and devastation in...
    • Ukraine War
      223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of engagement he has had with foreign ministers of other EU Member States with regard to collective support for Ukraine and its...
    • Trade Agreements
      225. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with his “like-minded” European counterparts in relation to the EU Mercosur Free Trade Agreement;...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      226. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish ambassador to Italy has visited the city of Naples in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025; and if so, the purpose of each...
    • Middle East
      227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or Ministers of State from his Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food, water, and...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average time to process foreign birth register applications; and if he will provide a schedule, by number of persons and country,...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      230. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of people employed in the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU for each of the past five years; the number of vacant...
    • Human Rights
      231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his engagements with the government of Pakistan and its embassy regarding the arbitrary detention of a person (details...
    • Middle East
      233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade considering that Article 18 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that civilian hospitals may in no circumstances be the object of attack,...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      239. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if discussions have begun on the appointment of the new Irish Ambassador to the United States. [15476/25]
    • Passport Services
      242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application (details supplied) can be escalated as the application has passed the target issue date and the applicant’s...
    • Middle East
      244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is considering prohibiting the use of Shannon Airport by the United States military given the recent threats by President Trump to...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Prices
      246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to “Commission an independent review into the...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to “Emphasise that low costs for households and...
    • Climate Action Plan
      248. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the climate action plan for 2025 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15030/25]
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to “Ensure a policy is put in place to...
    • Energy Conservation
      251. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an exemption could be made for an SEAI warmer homes scheme application (details supplied), in view that the...
    • Postal Services
      252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an Eircode where there is currently no dwelling; if the presence of an Eircode indicates that a dwelling...
    • National Broadband Plan
      253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the expected connection date of the national broadband plan to a location in County Offaly (details supplied); and...
    • Climate Change Policy
      254. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the consultation for the social climate plan which the Government needs to submit to the European...
    • Illegal Dumping
      255. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost to both Kilkenny County Council and Carlow County Council for the collection and management of illegal dumping...
    • Energy Policy
      256. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the total amount of funding allocated for the development of district heating projects and...
    • Energy Prices
      258. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position taken at the meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of 17 March 2025 regarding...
    • Data Centres
      260. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on which information about data centres will be made publicly available pursuant to Article 12(1)...
    • Energy Conservation
      261. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to expand the warmer homes scheme to people who live in a property held in trust; and if he will...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to install an EV charger in Chapelizod. [15683/25]
    • Military Aircraft
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the progress of the examination of the legal and policy implications of the provisions of the Air Navigation and...
    • Driver Licences
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner permit holders disqualified in 2024 and to date in 2025, by county; the number that surrendered their learner...
    • Military Aircraft
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of exemptions granted under Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989 to...
    • Driver Licences
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is aware of any policy change in the issuing of drivers’ licences which has resulted in licence holders whose place of...
    • Rail Network
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support the provision of capital funding to enable the development of a second platform at Clara train station in County...
    • Road Projects
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated, per kilometre, to each national primary road in the country during the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position on the decision of the CIÉ executive board in 2009 not to grant further increases to CIÉ pensioners, in...
    • School Transport
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 5 February 2025, if he has engaged with the Minister of Education and Bus Éireann on...
    • Common Travel Area
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to paragraph 8 of the Memorandum of Understanding between the British and Irish Governments concerning the Common Travel Area and...
    • Road Projects
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency funding will be provided to Tipperary County Council to carry out urgent road repairs, ensuring that an important sporting...
    • Bus Services
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the results of the recent BusConnects consultation will be completed; when the outcomes will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by persons with debilitating conditions who are wheelchair users and who are...
    • Departmental Data
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of flights diverted to Shannon Airport for medical reasons, each year from 2020 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is liaising with insurance industry representatives to ensure the timely commencement of insurance related provisions...
    • Taxi Regulations
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the maximum permissible age of all taxis impacted by the Covid pandemic by two years, as was done for those registered...
    • Road Projects
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be provided to assist people upgrading roads through the CIS scheme in Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will...
    • Driver Test
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proportion of the 72,000 applicants on the waiting list for a driving test which are waiting for tests in each testing centre, in...
    • Taxi Regulations
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timeline for extending the ten-year vehicle limit for taxis registered in 2015; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Noise Pollution
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the proposed interdepartmental committee has been established to source funding options for implementing noise mitigation action plans...
    • Taxi Regulations
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the ten-year vehicle limit for taxis registered in 2015 has been granted, following indications in Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 4...
    • Road Projects
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the contract for the new M28 motorway will be signed and awarded; the value of the contract; and the duration of the construction...
    • Driver Licences
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if steps are being taken to establish a reciprocal drivers' licence exchange agreement with the United States of America, given the large...
    • Driver Test
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applicants that have not shown up for driving tests in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025. [15435/25]
    • Bus Services
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the provision of a dedicated student bus service from Dublin city centre to UCD and the surrounding accommodation in...
    • Road Safety
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details regarding the use of 'near-miss technology' for monitoring accidents on Irish roads; and if he will make a statement...
    • Active Travel
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a breakdown of the amount allocated to each local authority for active travel measures in each of the years 2021 and 2024; the amount...
    • Rail Network
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the reopening process and timeline of Kilmallock train station, given its specific mention in first draft of the all-island...
    • Airport Policy
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the number of inspections of civil aircraft carrying munitions of war that took place in Ireland since January 2024; and if...
    • Greenways Provision
      308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of the proposed West Clare Railway Greenway between Kilrush to Kilkee (Section 1), Ennis to Ennistymon...
    • Public Service Obligation
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will provide financial support to Shannon Airport Group to establish a route to Amsterdam under a Public Service...
    • Driver Licences
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the average waiting times for each National Driver Licence Service centre in Ireland on 31 December 2023 and on 31 December...
    • Road Projects
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been allocated to the national roads in County Clare for the years 2019 to 2024, by road number and by the following...
    • Driver Test
      312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting time for driving tests in Mallow; the actions his Department is taking to reduce the unacceptable waiting time for driving...
    • Airport Policy
      313. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of applicants for exemptions to permit the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft from Irish-register...
    • Public Service Obligation
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timeline for the extension of free child fares on public service obligation services to children aged five to eight...
    • Bus Services
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Transport Authority's survey of bus movements and travel patterns for Nenagh town commenced and will be completed as...
    • Driver Licences
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he intends to decide on whether Ukrainian drivers can still avail of free or subsidized CPC training; and if he will make a...
    • Official Engagements
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had a meeting with the CEO of CIÉ since taking up his position as Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pensions
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the last increase in pensions payment was awarded on 1 July 2008, at 5.06% in the 1951 pensions scheme for staff who...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the potential fraud involved in the use of used cooking oil and palm oil effluent as products in renewable fuels, and...
    • Road Safety
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on what proactive measures are being implemented to address the increasing prevalence of speeding e-scooters and...
    • Driver Licences
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received to exchange driving licences from other states received in each month since January 2020, including...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a query raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15806/25]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Rebates
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing the diesel rebate to be paid directly to the Revenue accounts of qualified businesses that may be having short term tax issues,...
    • Tax Reliefs
      329. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider tax relief on oxygen, electricity costs and travel expenses for those who suffer from pulmonary fibrosis, in the context of Budget 2026,...
    • Tax Credits
      330. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is investigating the potential ways to re-introduce a film tax credit for regional productions; if he would support such a tax credit; and...
    • Fiscal Data
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance the current balance of the national debt; the annual cost of servicing same; and the details of the debt amount in the context of GDP and GNI. [15195/25]
    • Middle East
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or Ministers of State from his Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food, water, and electricity to...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 334
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason an area (details supplied) is now in a red zone; the reason residents are only notified when applying for home insurance, which is now 60% more...
    • Departmental Data
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail any modelling figures generated by his Department on the effects of tariff and corporation taxes increases on Irish GDP, tax, jobs and budgetary...
    • Housing Policy
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to take action that will assist first time buyers who cannot secure a mortgage on a one-bed apartment due to the lower loan-to-value limit on...
    • Housing Schemes
      337. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the number of help-to-buy grants drawn down in each year since it came into operation, the total spend on the scheme in each of these years, and...
    • Tax Reliefs
      338. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a complete listing of buildings approved that are availing of the section 482 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; the frequency with which this...
    • Legislative Measures
      341. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of legislating to ensure access to cash, including the provision of ATMs and cash desks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15799/25]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Tourism Industry
      342. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Skellig boat licences for the next five seasons, including the 2025 season will be issued; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      343. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Poddle and Whitechurch stream flood alleviation schemes, including expenditure and timeline for completion. [15013/25]
    • Middle East
      344. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or Ministers of State from his Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food, water,...
    • Heritage Sites
      345. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full running costs of Farmleigh House, from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15480/25]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of minor works, drainage maintenance and large capital projects being carried out under the OPW drainage...
    • Heritage Sites
      349. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Turoe stone will be returned to its original location in Turoe, County Galway; when the associated site works at this location...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      351. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) which references an agreement arranged by his Department; and if he will...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Artificial Intelligence
      352. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of copyright infringements (details supplied); the steps his Department are taking to...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      353. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the top ten countries of foreign direct investment from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      354. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the top ten political lobbying organisations from the most recent year available and numbers of lobbies for each...
    • Business Supports
      355. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial supports-assistance available to a person in County Kerry (details supplied) who wishes to set up a business to provide...
    • Industrial Development
      358. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on efforts by his Department, in conjunction with Clare County Council, the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      361. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15646/25]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Building Projects
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to a school extension (details supplied), which has been approved, she will intervene in the case and allow the school to go...
    • Special Educational Needs
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for assistive technology for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15004/25]
    • School Accommodation
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a modular unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15009/25]
    • School Transport
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a place on a school bus route will be provided for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15045/25]
    • School Funding
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will expedite the payment of the schools services support fund grant to a school (details supplied) in light of the serious...
    • Departmental Properties
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a site (details provided) is under the ownership and control of the Department of Education; if the site is under the Department's...
    • School Transport
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Bus Éireann will issue school bus tickets for the existing school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15072/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 576 of 22 January 25, for a further update in relation to the new special school announced for Lucan; to...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding her Department's plans to expand and change the criteria needed for teacher qualification in order to address the teacher...
    • School Funding
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocated funding for the school completion programme, with confirmation of whether each local management committee has indicated that the...
    • State Examinations
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way his Department intends to address the issue of fairness in 2025 Leaving Certificate grading adjustments; the way his Department will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of school places required for special schools in Dublin and Cork for September 2025, and the projected number of places that...
    • School Transport
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be made available to two students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15098/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case for the emergency works application (Details supplied), due to significant issues with mould and damp at the school;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to intervene to provide adequate speech and language therapy services at a school (details supplied), to stop the erosion of this much needed...
    • Schools Building Projects
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on emergency works applications for a school (details supplied). [15108/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to provide additional special education classes in an area of County Cork (details supplied); her plans to increase the capacity of the...
    • Schools Administration
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a mechanism whereby a school parents’ association can ensure that there is engagement from the board of management of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will open a special educational needs classroom for the academic year 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Staff
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to give school secretaries access to the public service pension schemes and other leave schemes, in view of the fact that...
    • School Accommodation
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the installation of the promised prefab building at a school (details supplied), which is intended to...
    • School Staff
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNA posts sanctioned in Cork for the 2024-2025 school year; and the number currently filled. [15206/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism places available in primary schools in Skerries, Rush, Lusk, Balbriggan, Garristown, Naul, Oldtown, Ballyboughal, Rolestown,...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be included in the new DEIS Plus scheme for schools. [15277/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be sanctioned for a special class, as requested by the SENO and school over a year ago. [15278/25]
    • Irish Language
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the implications for a pupil who is granted an exemption from Irish in primary school, including what they should be doing during Irish class....
    • Special Educational Needs
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sufficient supports in school are being provided for a pupil (details supplied) with dyslexia. [15292/25]
    • School Admissions
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of applications for persons related to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15349/25]
    • Schools Administration
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following a statement issued on 19 March 2025 (details supplied), if she will clarify the timeline and process whereby it is proposed to change a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm if a special school (details supplied) will be opening a secondary school on their grounds; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early School Leavers
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will continue to financially support, and endorse, the successful roll out across County Kerry, and throughout the country, of the School...
    • School Staff
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to examine the anomaly in the pay and conditions of an acting principal (details supplied). [15401/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the application for funding to provide a SEN classroom in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Facilities
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline possible funding options for a secondary school in County Cork (details supplied) to carry out adaptation works to its sports hall to...
    • School Accommodation
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 25 March 2025, and respecting that existing accommodation must be used to meet the demand for...
    • School Admissions
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15559/25]
    • School Enrolments
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that will be enrolled into the interim special school in County Monaghan in September 2025; if there is capacity at the...
    • School Transport
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will implement the recommendations of the school transport review concerning lowering the minimum distance limits in relation to the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names and locations of schools currently in receipt of the NCSE educational therapy support service, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) under the emergency works scheme given a revised itemised cost breakdown was...
    • School Staff
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 628 of 19 March 2025, if she will consider bringing school secretaries under a public service contract; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider including a special education school on the campus of one of the sites designated for schools in the Clonburris SDZ. [15681/25]
    • School Admissions
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to use legislative powers to compel every school in an area (details supplied) to open special classes to ensure there are enough school places...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether some schools in Nenagh should achieve DEIS status. [15694/25]
    • School Curriculum
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will identify every secondary school in Dublin 2,4,6 and 8 which has Politics and Society on their Leaving Certificate curriculum, in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with a request to review the Phase 2 scope of works by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has applied for an autism spectrum disorder class with the National Council for Special Education; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time it takes to process an application for a special transport grant; how many special transport grants applications have been...
    • School Facilities
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will engage directly with a school regarding the urgent need for an on-site, after-school service for all students attending...
    • Language Schools
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the changes to the financial requirements for students arriving into the country under a Stamp 2 visa to €6,665 as proof of...
    • Schools Administration
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the Diocese of Cork and Ross is running a pilot programme in State-funded primary schools whereby a US evangelical Catholic...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to exclude a school (details supplied) from the DEIS band 1 programme considering all other schools in the...
    • School Transport
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a person's application for a school transport remote area grant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the case of a child (details supplied) and allocate them a place in an early intervention class. [15823/25]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Tourist Accommodation
      439. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeframe for implementation of the register for short-term lets, such as a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • National Library
      440. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has been advised by the Board of the National Library of Ireland of the reason that the Office of the Chief Herald of...
    • Sports Funding
      443. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is flexibility within the sports capital grant scheme (details supplied) to amend allocations based on actual needs and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      444. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any public body or publicly funded body under his Department's aegis are not compliant with Part V of the Disability Act 2005;...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      445. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether he intends to continue the basic income for artists when the pilot programme comes to an end in August 2025; and if he...
    • Online Safety
      446. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps being taken to examine ways to enforce age verification obligations on online service providers and hold them to account...
    • Community Development Projects
      447. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports his Department has provided towards the establishment of community hotels in Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      448. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to place the basic income for the arts allowance on a permanent basis; if he will introduce a more expansive basic...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Planning Issues
      449. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to the current situation with the section 179A planning exemption that replaced the part 8 process for social...
    • National Development Plan
      450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Development Plan Review is scheduled to be completed; to confirm that the towns and cities infrastructure...
    • Housing Schemes
      451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants or financial support schemes available via local authorities to householders to specifically provide a sensory room...
    • Housing Provision
      452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the build cost and delivery cost per unit at development (details supplied). [15011/25]
    • Mining Industry
      454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has requested the transboundary screening for the main mine application, mine waste facility, water abstraction and...
    • Land Issues
      455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on delays at the land registry. [15025/25]
    • Tourist Accommodation
      456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide data on the number of short term lets which have been granted planning permission in the years 2022, 2023...
    • Fire Stations
      458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed plan for Castlerea fire station; if there are any intentions to reopen the station in light of the clear and...
    • Housing Schemes
      459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans are in place to review the current tenant purchase scheme and reduce the period of time tenants are required to be in...
    • Housing Provision
      460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital allocations for social housing acquisitions for 2025, in tabular form. [15139/25]
    • Urban Development
      461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated to Cork county projects as part of the urban regeneration and development fund from 2020 to 2024; the...
    • Heritage Schemes
      462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount provided to each local authority in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in respect of the built heritage investment...
    • Housing Provision
      463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide data on the total amount spent on the housing assistance payment in each of the past five years, in tabular form....
    • Land Development Agency
      467. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide data on the total amount spent on the Land Development Agency, including operational costs, land acquisition and...
    • Middle East
      472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or Ministers of State from his Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off...
    • Local Authorities
      474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the refusal of transfers between county housing lists is a policy or law by the councils. [15297/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which a young family in County Kilkenny (details supplied) can be included in the Mica redress scheme; the way in...
    • Defective Building Materials
      479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to allow...
    • Vacant Properties
      480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown, by county, of the 1,200 properties which are long-term vacant and derelict residential and commercial...
    • Student Accommodation
      481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans in relation to introducing protections for students that are entering digs-style accommodation; if he will work with...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of any submission or correspondence received by his Department from Limerick City and County Council, Clare...
    • Defective Building Materials
      483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received and approved in County Clare under the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme;...
    • Housing Schemes
      484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that have been or that will be built in County Clare from 2020 to 2025 under the local authority...
    • Departmental Budgets
      486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided by the Exchequer to Uisce Éireann for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the...
    • Housing Schemes
      487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline details of the location, by town name, of all social housing schemes completed for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022...
    • Water Services
      490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether Uisce Éireann has the capacity to deliver water and wastewater infrastructure for 50,000 new homes to be...
    • Derelict Sites
      491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the work of the working group initiated as part of a review of the Derelict Sites Act, 1990; and if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of repair and lease homes funded by his Department from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [15730/25]
    • Defective Building Materials
      493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide a date for when a decision will be made regarding Fingal County Council's request for inclusion in the...
    • Local Area Plans
      495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure Local Area Plans (LAPs) are published in a timely fashion and that out-dated LAPs are updated on time; and...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 83 of 15 February 2023 and 294 of November 2022, and in light of recent court rulings...
    • Departmental Data
      498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of short-term lets granted planning permission in 2024, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services
      500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the fact that at present there is no dedicated pathway for migrants with disabilities within...
    • Fuel Poverty
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on proposals to amend eligibility for fuel allowance, including by making it identical to that of medical cards;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a HAS application for a person (details supplies). [15070/25]
    • State Pensions
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the annual cost of disability support payment to persons in receipt of the State...
    • Departmental Schemes
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which an application to the humanitarian assistance scheme was refused in the case of an elderly couple from...
    • Disability Services
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is encountering a delay on a disability allowance appeal that remains unresolved since...
    • Departmental Schemes
      507. 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...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare applicant (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Care Services
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to increase the upper age limit for domiciliary care allowance eligibility from 16 to 18 years old; and if he will...
    • Disability Services
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review a disability allowance decision in respect of an applicant in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15448/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider introducing a dedicated financial support scheme for young adults under the age of 40 with invisible...
    • Departmental Records
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 25 years or younger in 2023 and 2024 who are neither in full-time education or receiving...
    • Legislative Reviews
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection which Departments are involved in the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing legislative impacts of non-binary...
    • Gender Recognition
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what happens to non-binary gender recognition on legal documents in Ireland if individuals have been legally recognised as...
    • Pension Provisions
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the utilisation options for the money paid by people in pension contributions when it is established that their contributions...
    • Childcare Services
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any financial supports are available for children's eyecare costs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Care Services
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he intends to review the means testing criteria for carer’s allowance during the current Government's term; if...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the welfare entitlements available to a family providing full-time care for their child (details supplied); and if...
    • Care Services
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will award credit for caring role played...
    • Transport Costs
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the support available to those who face significant travel expenses in order to attend hospital appointments in another...
    • Departmental Schemes
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that where separated couples have shared custody arrangements only one parent is entitled to child specific...
    • Irish Sign Language
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or...
    • Disability Services
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an assessment has been conducted on the additional costs incurred by people aged 65 years and over due to disability,...
    • Departmental Reviews
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15849/25]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount his Department spent on all social welfare claims by applicants in receipt of a protection order for the year...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Regulations
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider bringing in regulations relating to not-for-profit management companies that oversee communal...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons convicted for driving without motor insurance, careless driving, dangerous driving, driving while under...
    • An Garda Síochána
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the protocols for Garda when a member of the public can track their stolen items to a specific location as a consequence of GPS...
    • Departmental Data
      538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of judicial vacancies. [15133/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars and vans attached to the Kildare division as of 24 March 2025; and if he will provide the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the groups and stakeholders which were consulted as part of the review of the Sexual Offences Act 2017; whether the...
    • Middle East
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or Ministers of State from his Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food,...
    • International Protection
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if international protection applicants arriving in Ireland from Palestine will have their applications prioritised, as...
    • Departmental Funding
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on funding for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15300/25]
    • Local Community Safety Partnerships
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of local community safety partnerships in both Kilkenny and Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will seek an update from the Garda Commissioner on the status of the plan to build a new garda station at Carndonagh,...
    • Visa Applications
      550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a visa application (details supplied); if further information is required to finalise this application;...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15396/25]
    • Departmental Data
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offenders who served their full sentence in respect of convictions for criminal offences; and the number of...
    • Litter Pollution
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for dog fouling in each of the four Dublin local authorities in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and...
    • Departmental Data
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of scramblers that have been seized in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025. [15439/25]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for dangerous, reckless and careless driving on scrambler bikes in each of the years 2020 to 2024...
    • EU Programmes
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the national implementation plan for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, which he brought to Cabinet on 25...
    • Departmental Data
      567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members on the Censorship of Publications Board in each of the years from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and...
    • Gender Recognition
      568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is involved in the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing legislative impacts of non-binary...
    • An Garda Síochána
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown for 2024 of the number of Gardaí, by rank, for each functional area, by county, in the Clare/Tipperary...
    • Courts Service
      571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the progress on the evaluation of the drug treatment court, as identified as a strategic priority under the...
    • Prison Service
      572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work of his Department and that of the Prison Service to develop enhanced prison-based addiction treatment services to...
    • Film Industry
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a list of movies, television shows and video games currently banned by the Irish Film Classification Office; when such...
    • Censorship of Publications
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a list of books and periodicals currently banned by the Censorship of Publications Board; when such items were last...
    • Crime Prevention
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address crime and ensure safety in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15682/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported incidences submitted through the Garda traffic watch online reporting system; the number of reported...
    • Domestic Violence
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to introduce Clare’s law provisions into Irish law, to address the issue of domestic violence; and if he...
    • An Garda Síochána
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all his meetings with the Garda Commissioner since he took office, by the date, location and all attendees of...
    • Visa Applications
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances in which a person residing in Ireland (details supplied) can remain living and working here; and if he will...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Grant Payments
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the balance for 2023 and the total outstanding amount for 2024 will be paid to a person (details supplied) in respect of the ACRES...
    • Agriculture Industry
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the implementation of the all-island protected geographical indicator status for grass-fed cattle, including how the...
    • Departmental Investigations
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify a compensation issue for a person (details supplied). [15035/25]
    • Grant Payments
      589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an emergency fund for farm buildings damaged during the recent storm as a matter of extreme urgency, and take into...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for the ending of the practice of pair trawling (details supplied), which is having a devastating impact on marine life...
    • Grant Payments
      592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the eligibility for the women in agriculture grant via TAMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15208/25]
    • Departmental Policies
      595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in light of storm Éowyn, whether his Department has changed policy on planting distances from roadsides and overhead cables; and...
    • Forestry Sector
      597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a union dispute in the forestry section of his Department is affecting the licensing process, or whether it is resolved; and if he...
    • Fishing Industry
      598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how often a census is undertaken of the Irish fishing fleet; and to provide a breakdown of the current fleet, by boat size. [15254/25]
    • Agriculture Supports
      600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how he plans to prioritise improvements in farmer mental health and well-being supports, recognising the unique challenges faced by...
    • Agriculture Industry
      603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has plans to recruit and retain young people into farming, given the many challenges the sector currently has; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Supports
      604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider tax reliefs on training fees for those looking to get involved in a horse partnership or syndicate; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average annual CAP payments received by farmers in Carlow and Kilkenny from 2021 onwards; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Greyhound Industry
      606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status assigned to non-coursing greyhounds born in the Republic of Ireland on the Rásaíocht Con Éireann...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of licensed horse trainers in Ireland in each year since 1 January 2020; the number of Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board...
    • Departmental Bodies
      612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any public body or publicly funded body under his Department’s aegis procured from outside the EU any professional services...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      613. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board took in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to advise the public or those working in the sector...
    • Fishing Industry
      614. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress of the efforts by Bord Iascaigh Mhara to retrieve ghost gear (abandoned nets, and so on); the amount of material...
    • Departmental Bodies
      616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any public bodies or publicly funded bodies under his Department's aegis are not compliant with Part V of the Disability Act 2005;...
    • Agriculture Industry
      617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the increase in the cost of production of milk products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15566/25]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an Eco scheme and hardship payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Industry
      621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the recent investigation by an organisation (details supplied); if he will take action on the animal rights...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the status of Cheeverstown House, Templeogue, Dublin 6W; if it is ultimately planned to wind...
    • Ukraine War
      624. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has undertaken an impact assessment of varying the accommodation recognition payment; and, if...
    • International Protection
      625. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of a case of Syrian refugees in Jordan who have Irish resettlement papers and are at risk of...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average length of time of assessments of needs nationally, in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and the number of...
    • Health Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will adopt a standard criterion for the diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Ireland; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1056 of 19 March 2025, and the letter provided from the HSE in respect of...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      631. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to purchase the remaining Bessborough grounds; her plans for memorialisation on the site; and if she...
    • Departmental Data
      632. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of health and social care professional positions approved, and the number of social care professional...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      633. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current wait times for a child to receive an initial assessment for autism in the Cork city HSE area. [15075/25]
    • Children in Care
      634. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in residential care at a location in Tipperary (details supplied); the capacity...
    • Care Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a list of respite facilities currently accessible to adults with special and additional...
    • Disability Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware that people with disabilities using day services in CHO1 are subject to a €4 daily...
    • Grant Payments
      638. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports offered by her Department for upgrading and maintenance of playground facilities, including the...
    • Departmental Data
      639. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a full cost benefit analysis has been carried out on the use of rural hotels for IPAS accommodation; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      640. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will confirm that any pay deal in regard to section 39 workers will cover all section 39 workers; and if...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      641. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the redress, supports or services available to individuals who spent time in a mother and baby home, but fell...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      642. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will investigate the case of a child (details supplied) with significant additional needs, who has been...
    • Care Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria required for a person in County Kerry (details supplied) who wishes to set up a business to provide...
    • Departmental Data
      644. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will continue to financially support, and endorse, the successful roll out across County Kerry, and...
    • Departmental Investigations
      645. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine the case of a person (details supplied). [15399/25]
    • Childcare Services
      646. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding a childcare centre (details supplied), the reason only six days’ notice was given to notify the...
    • Departmental Investigations
      647. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15447/25]
    • Care Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will ensure respite services are provided to families in a care centre (details supplied); and if she...
    • Departmental Data
      649. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children of relevant age not attending an ECCE programme in 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the children's disability...
    • Departmental Strategies
      651. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the national LGBTQI+ inclusion strategy II expected to be available to the public, and what her role is in...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      652. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will give consideration to issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to assessments...
    • Ukraine War
      653. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can confirm the continuation of the accommodation recognition payment to Ukrainian refugees; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      654. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding increase in capital funding for an organisation (details supplied); and the supports in place to help...
    • International Protection
      655. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria and processes being used to assess the suitability of the former St. Mary’s Secondary School...
    • Childcare Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding provided to each city and county childcare committee in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular...
    • International Protection
      666. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres approved in each Gaeltacht, by year for past five years, and by Gaeltacht area; the...
    • Care Services
      668. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline Tusla’s separation policy in instances where multiple siblings from a family are in...
    • Middle East
      669. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will review a case concerning two Palestinian people (details provided) who have been evacuated from Gaza...
    • Departmental Data
      670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with respect to the 14,221 children who are now overdue an assessment of need, the engagement she has made with...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      671. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions recommended in the Report of the Citizen's Assembly on Gender Equality; the action plan produced by...
    • Irish Sign Language
      672. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of social media videos posted on her Department's social media accounts that included closed...
    • Child and Family Agency
      673. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 26 February 2025, if she will confirm whether or not supports and...
    • Departmental Data
      674. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessments of need that result in no diagnosis and no need for support afterwards; for a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      676. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been taken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      682. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
    • Departmental Programmes
      683. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
    • Departmental Funding
      685. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
    • Departmental Programmes
      686. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      687. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      688. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will engage with a group (details supplied) on issues of concern regarding the Bessborough site and the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      689. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in the Programme for Government to...
    • Departmental Funding
      692. To ask the Minister for Health to outline whether there are plans to provide additional financial assistance to drugs and alcohol task forces to assist with the extra costs associated with...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      693. To ask the Minister for Health since the introduction of the national access policy in 2022, the number of children placed on the waiting list for autism assessment by a primary care team in...
    • Departmental Data
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children assessed for autism by the primary care team in County Clare since the introduction of the national access policy in 2022; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      695. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the funding provided by her Department to CareGivers Ireland in 2022, 2023 and 2024; to confirm which section of the relevant legislation this...
    • Health Service Executive
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delay in the HSE providing a reply to a representation submitted by my office in April 2024 (details supplied); and when a reply will be...
    • Departmental Reviews
      697. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15010/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists at Cork University Hospital for CT, MRI and ultrasound scans, in each quarter from 2022, to date in 2025; and the...
    • Health Services Staff
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time psychologists, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists employed by the HSE in each CDNT nationwide; and the number...
    • Hospital Charges
      700. To ask the Minister for Health to review hospital car-parking charges for certain cohorts of patient (details supplied) [15036/25]
    • Hospital Admissions
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who currently remain in hospital but are clinically discharged and for each of the past five years. [15037/25]
    • Hospital Procedures
      703. To ask the Minister for Health is she aware that once cancer treatment is completed, some patients are prescribed high tech medication for which the HSE can only allow a three-month script,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on extending the age group that can get access to bowel screening (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Care Services
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends introducing registration for care workers and home carers, much like registration of social care workers through CORU following qualification;...
    • Hospital Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the provision of MRI scans in Cavan and Monaghan hospitals; the number and location of all scanners; current waiting lists to access...
    • Hospital Staff
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions that have been advertised and have not been filled to date in all our hospitals during the past five years, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Budgets
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the capital budget or total capital spend at Beaumont Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      710. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to reduce the current waiting list (details supplied) to attend the ophthalmology outpatient's department of University Hospital...
    • Hospital Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 889 of 25 February 2025, if she will provide children with life changing conditions attending St. Lukes Hospital Kilkenny...
    • Departmental Reviews
      712. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15069/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to increase HSE home support hours for the elderly following a report that CHO 4 has had a waiting list of over 1,000 since 2022,...
    • Departmental Funding
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of allocating the historic funding for pulmonary fibrosis in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15078/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the regional executive officers or HSE Department given Section 39 granting authority for pulmonary fibrosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the details on the situation in Rosmuc, Leitir Mealláin and Carraroe with regard to ensuring a locum is in place; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Admissions
      718. To ask the Minister for Health when new patients will be accepted to a community hospital in Donegal, which is being delayed by HIQA; and if she will contact HIQA and request it to finalise...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to the PCAAT based at the HSE primary care unit in Callan, County Kilkenny, currently waiting for an assessment; the average waiting...
    • Health Services
      720. To ask the Minister for Health to intervene to provide adequate speech and language therapy services at a school (details supplied), to stop the erosion of this much needed resource at the...
    • Dental Services
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the orthodontal treatment of a child (details supplied); if she will ensure that this child secures the orthodontal treatment they need as a...
    • Emergency Services
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the resignation of multiple helicopter emergency medical service paramedics due to safety concerns (details supplied); the steps being taken...
    • Health Service Executive
      723. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment by the HSE; if she can advise when this assessment will be carried out; if there...
    • Hospital Facilities
      724. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the minimum of 29 post-acute inpatient beds dedicated to neurorehabilitation across counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. [15128/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      725. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a map of the lots to be retained by the HSE at a location (details supplied), the lots to be sold, and the lands across from the main campus owned...
    • Ambulance Service
      726. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the establishment of a new service ambulance base and education centre for the National Ambulance Service on a HSE owned site (details...
    • Hospital Staff
      727. To ask the Minister for Health if she has heard reports of a high prevalence of zero hour contracts being used for healthcare assistants at St. Vincent's Hospital Dublin; the number of such...
    • Disease Management
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the number people with type 1 diabetes admitted for hospital in-patient treatment in 2023 and 2024, by hospital; how many of these were using continuous...
    • Health Services Staff
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given for additional staff as a matter of extreme urgency to allow two respite beds (details supplied) reopen at the earliest possible...
    • Health Service Executive
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has discontinued the provision of a diabetic foot clinic service at Aughnacliffe, Medical Centre, Aughnacliffe, County Longford, which was...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting since 2020 for an ENT appointment. [15227/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts under active recruitment, broken down across disciplines, including, but not restricted to, psychology, radiation therapy and social...
    • Hospital Staff
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dermatologist registrars based at Tallaght University Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15248/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for WTE cardiological specialist, by job title and by CHO region, in tabular form. [15249/25]
    • Middle East
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if she or Ministers of State from her Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food, water, and electricity to...
    • Mental Health Services
      737. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of vacancies in Waterford mental health services, Waterford CAMHS and University Hospital Waterford department of psychiatry, including the...
    • Ambulance Service
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances available, on average, daily in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15279/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      741. To ask the Minister for Health whether the oral immunotherapy drug known as palforzia, used by people who have peanut allergies, has been approved by the HSE for reimbursement; its current...
    • Health Services Staff
      742. To ask the Minister for Health if a position (details supplied) will be filled; the status of those on the panel since 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15287/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons recruited for the National Ambulance Service in each county over each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce waiting times at the accident and emergency department of Naas General Hospital. [15304/25]
    • Care Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE-funded day care centres within CHO7 for older persons where transport is provided to services users to and from their homes where the service...
    • Hospital Staff
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in endocrinology at Beaumont Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15306/25]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      750. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of the addiction services in Carlow and Kilkenny, and the funding they receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15311/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      751. To ask the Minister for Health to address issues in regard to the national oral health policy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15312/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      752. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list time for counselling in the HSE national counselling service in the Louth/Meath area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      753. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to fund a community neurorehabilitation team for the north Dublin area as promised in 2019, in order to provide access to vital therapies for people...
    • Departmental Meetings
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet with a person (details supplied) as per their request; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15316/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      755. To ask the Minister for Health if she will assist a group with funding for an event (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15317/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior grade psychologists based in community care within CHO4 in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15352/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general adult psychiatrists based at Cork University Hospital in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15353/25]
    • Emergency Services
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 24-7 HSE rapid response vehicles based in Cork, by location, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15354/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently carry out changes to the fair deal scheme given certain anomalies in the scheme (details supplied). [15361/25]
    • Health Services
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no publicly funded routes to access diagnostic services in the southeast for autistic and ADHD adults, especially as public diagnostic...
    • Healthcare Policy
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to ensure that medical professionals receive an adequate amount of experience and training with neurodivergent persons; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      763. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the standardising of the community funded scheme for post-mastectomy products and wigs-hair pieces; when consistent funding will be available...
    • Insurance Coverage
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the payment due for health scans such as CT, MRI, and so on are accepted from the patients' health insurance or medical card, which is...
    • Mental Health Services
      765. To ask the Minister for Health whether a publicly available progress summary covering some or all of the 49 recommendations made in the independent review of the Child and Adolescent Mental...
    • Hospital Facilities
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if Ennis Hospital will no longer accept card or cheque payments from patients; if patients will need to pay via a centralised office on the east coast; and if...
    • Health Service Executive
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if she or any of her Departmental staff were made aware of payroll overpayments within the HSE prior to release of an internal audit on 25 March 2025; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses employed in the Lucan area every five years from 1981 to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15415/25]
    • Care of the Elderly
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly funded community groups servicing the needs of older people in the Lucan area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15418/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for a building, and possible use of the building (details supplied) as a community-led health and wellbeing centre; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      773. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for completion of the audit the clinical audit to look at a sample of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) surgeries performed between...
    • Health Service Executive
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are local people living and paying cash rent to rent bungalows in a hospital in Athy; if the HSE were ever told about the significant risk of...
    • Mental Health Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a patient (details supplied) is urgently afforded access to an appointment with a psychiatrist. [15554/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to address the severe shortage of GPs in Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15557/25]
    • Departmental Data
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients presenting at hospitals (details supplied) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15567/25]
    • Childcare Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports available for a child’s eyecare costs, specifically eye tests, specialist lenses, and so on; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      782. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on her discussions with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the rollout of the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Primary Care Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Ennis primary healthcare centre at Station Road, Ennis, County Clare; and the additional staffing and services...
    • Hospital Staff
      786. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of whole-time equivalent positions at University Hospital Limerick and within the UL Hospitals Group on 1 March 2024 and on 1...
    • Health Services
      787. To ask the Minister for Health to outline plans to extend opening hours of the local injuries unit at Ennis Hospital; to provide details of progress being made on the expansion of the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      788. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposed provision and operation of a contracted satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis Hospital, County Clare; and the reason for...
    • Departmental Data
      789. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals reimbursed for their insulin pump training and-or its consumables through the EU Treatment Abroad or Cross Border Healthcare Scheme...
    • Departmental Schemes
      790. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that access the Omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSE's exceptional hardship scheme or have done so...
    • Departmental Data
      791. To ask the Minister for Health to provide data for the Model 4 hospitals (Beaumont, St. James's, St. Vincent's, University Hospital Galway, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital...
    • Departmental Funding
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be allocated for transgender services before the national clinical programme for gender healthcare is complete; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Data
      794. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hours the National Gender Service has spent assisting the UK prison service, and the estimated cost of this to date. [15626/25]
    • Family Reunification
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review a case concerning two Palestinian people (details provided) who have been evacuated from Gaza and are in receipt of a family reunification...
    • Departmental Data
      797. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 19 February 2025, to provide details of the retail impact assessment and SME test carried out as part of her...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      798. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to action the recommendations of the citizens’ assembly on drug use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15650/25]
    • Cancer Services
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is providing any assistance to cancer patients from Laois who must travel to Dublin hospitals for treatment around parking charges, and her...
    • Health Services
      800. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will continue its safer nightlife programme ahead of summer 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15678/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      801. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand access to naloxone for frontline health workers in order to help reduce drug deaths; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15684/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by the HSE on independent and privately run mental health services, outside the Irish State, from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [15699/25]
    • Grant Payments
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assistance or grants available for persons with prosthetic eyes. [15707/25]
    • Departmental Data
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of phase 2 of the HSE’s hospital performance visualisation platform. [15712/25]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      805. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 19 February 2025, given that the National Gender Service is unable to provide any examples of companies that have...
    • Departmental Data
      808. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 19 February 2025, given the National Gender Service indicates that it cannot reliably quantify the potential for...
    • Health Strategies
      812. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 19 February 2025, the means by which people with lived experience will be involved in the Gender Healthcare...
    • Irish Sign Language
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of social media videos posted on her Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      814. To ask the Minister for Health for her plans to outline her plans to reduce excessive waiting times for accessing genetic counselling services for individuals discharged from hospital care...
    • Health Services
      815. To ask the Minister for Health for what supports exist post-discharge for families dealing with complex medical conditions, particularly regarding feeding difficulties and early...
    • Cancer Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that terminal cancer patients are being deprioritised for life-saving and urgent treatment in accident and emergency in favour of flu patients,...
    • Hospital Deaths
      818. To ask the Minister for Health if she will conduct a review into a number of inquests and High Court cases (details supplied); if not, her reasoning; the research, if any, her Department has...
    • Hospital Investigations
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations and reviews held into serious reportable events in maternity units between 2016 and 2023 which resulted in negative outcomes in...
    • Mortality Rates
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the basis for the HSE’s current definition of perinatal mortality rate for the purposes of inclusion on maternity patient safety statements (details...
    • Departmental Data
      821. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any regularly updated public-facing data sources that can be easily accessed by members of the public which state the number of babies under 2.5...
    • Primary Care Centres
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of primary care centres in the State, by regional health area and integrated healthcare area (details supplied), in tabular form; the number...
    • General Practitioner Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the strategic review of general practice; the timeline she is working towards for publication; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Deaths
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to give greater statutory recognition and entitlements to women who experience pregnancy loss. [15804/25]
    • Departmental Data
      826. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown, by local health office or local electoral area of the 152 drug poisoning deaths reported for Dublin by the health research board in 2021...
    • Home Help Service
      828. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients approved for home support in Cork and waiting for the care to commence; the HSE’s plan on recruitment of home support workers;...
    • Primary Care Services
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for primary care speech and language therapy in Cork per community health network, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels in community healthcare network 4, northwest Cork; the current vacancies that exist in the network and the measures being put in...
    • Eating Disorders
      831. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the rollout of eating disorder teams; the funding allocated to the rollout for 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Facilities
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the amount three hospitals (details supplied) earned in car parking fees in 2024. [15851/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults that presented to accident and emergency departments with eating disorders in 2024 and to date in 2025. [15853/25]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Building Projects
      834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a new school building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15797/25]
    • Grant Payments
      835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the issues surrounding students’ eligibility for SUSI grants for a certain approved course under the part-time fee...
    • Third Level Fees
      836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need to create a student finance model that would provide interest free loans to students that do not qualify for SUSI grants,...
    • Schools Building Projects
      837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider exploring the feasibility of establishing a wind turbine trade school in the northwest to boost apprenticeships and...
    • Middle East
      838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or Ministers of State from his Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food, water, and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the pay discrepancies between the apprentice electrical contracting rate and the engineering industry rate; if there are...
    • Grant Payments
      840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a SUSI grant appeal will be approved for a student (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15331/25]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that in some cases, apprenticeships that would ordinarily take four years to complete, are taking seven years to finish; if he...
    • Courses Accreditation
      842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the evaluation of course content of e-college courses, whether there is any independent evaluation of the quality of the content;...
    • Education and Training Provision
      845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for each year since 1 January 2020, the cost of operation of e-college; the number of Solas staff who work on e-college projects; the process for...
    • Education Policy
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether subsidiary companies of universities and colleges also fall under his aegis; whether such entities are considered public sector bodies;...
    • Grant Payments
      849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding support available to a person (details supplied); if their SUSI application will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Education and Training Provision
      850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding the new campus for Kilkenny College of Further Education and Training; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase the core funding for higher education institutions and ensure that it is index linked going forward; and if he will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the free fees initiative to the BSc programmes in education studies and early childhood education; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that Marino Institute of Education is recognised as eligible for the various additional funding streams provided for by the HEA...
    • Education Costs
      855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to comment on recent suggestions that there will be no further reductions in student fees, which contrasts with the commitment to reduce the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Rural Schemes
      856. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he plans to implement the recommendations contained in the Review of the Delivery Model of the Seniors Alert Scheme published in...
    • Community Development Projects
      857. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to examine the case of a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15008/25]
    • Animal Welfare
      858. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development about the Government's timeline for transferring responsibilities related to dog control, welfare, and breeding to the Department of...
    • Rural Schemes
      860. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to Cork county projects as part of Clár funding from 2020 to 2024; the projects approved; the monies for...
    • Departmental Data
      863. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to Cork County projects as part of the community centre investment fund from 2020 to 2024; the projects...
    • Rural Schemes
      865. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to Cork County projects as part of the local improvement scheme from 2020 to 2024; the projects approved; the...
    • Men's Sheds
      867. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding the men’s sheds received in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [15298/25]
    • Road Projects
      868. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding will be provided to assist people upgrading roads through the LIS scheme in Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will...
    • Emergency Services
      869. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he will take to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is provided with home base facilities in Shannon and in every...
    • Community Development Projects
      870. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if and when an appeals process for unsuccessful CCIF applications under measure 2 will commence; the guidelines for the appeals of...
    • Irish Sign Language
      871. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or subtitling...
    • Community Development Projects
      872. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports his Department has provided towards the establishment of community hotels in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...

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