Written answers
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Middle East
1. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland is not making an oral submission to the International Court of Justice for the case regarding Obligations of Israel in...
- Official Engagements
2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to invite his Dutch counterpart to Dublin for a bilateral meeting, [21319/25]
- A Vision for Change
3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can assist in expediting a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21386/25]
- Diplomatic Representation
4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update of the work of the Irish Embassy based in Rabat, Morocco. [21439/25]
- Official Engagements
5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of engagement between his Department and the Government of Indonesia in 2024 and to-date in 2025. [21506/25]
- Human Rights
6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on Ireland's position in relation to operations conducted by the Pakistani state in Balochistan, and the alleged human rights...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Conservation
7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount allocated to the business energy upgrade scheme grant support, administered by the Sustainable Energy...
- Climate Change Policy
8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his Department intends to hold an effective public consultation on the development of Ireland's Social Climate Plan;...
- Departmental Contracts
9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department holds any contract with a company (details supplied), in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025; if so,...
- Waste Management
10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to address the situation in certain areas of Ireland where no waste collection companies are...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel, by rank currently in Defence Forces School of Music. [21333/25]
- Naval Service
13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the Parliamentary Budget Office Report on the Naval Service personnel tax credit; whether he agrees with its conclusion that the...
- Official Engagements
14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the bilateral meetings he has had with his counterparts to date in 2025. [21504/25]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Pension Provisions
15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase funding to the CIS scheme substantially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21100/25]
- Driver Test
16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if people over the age of 70 are exempt from completing the driver certificate of professional competence; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Staff
17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE staff, by job title currently within air accident investigation unit of his Department; the number of vacant WTE staff,...
- National Car Test
18. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how the estimated time to car test invite statistics are compiled by the RSA; whether his attention has been drawn to significant...
- Road Traffic Offences
22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the existing structure of the application of penalty points and fines to determine if there is a more progressive way...
- Public Transport
23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will state the progress on the DART+ West project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21431/25]
- Road Projects
24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the progress to date in relation to the N/M20 Limerick to Cork motorway project; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Staff
26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE ship surveyors employed by his Department in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [21450/25]
- Coast Guard Service
27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of capital investment undertaken at each coast guard station nationwide in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular...
- Road Projects
28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to the N2-Clontibret-to-the-Border road project to date; the amount allocated in 2025; the amount required to...
- Rail Network
30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the reinstallation of the shelter on the southbound platform at Killester DART station; and if he will make a statement...
- Public Transport
31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a timeline on the rolling out of free public transport for those under nine years old, as committed to in Budget 2025; and if he will...
- Airport Policy
32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to invest in Waterford Airport as a key piece of infrastructure for the south east region; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Properties
33. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of all properties his Department have rented from 2015 to date in 2025, including the length of tenancy; and the amount spent on rent on each...
- Revenue Commissioners
34. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vehicles seized by Revenue Commissioners under section 141 of the Finance Act 2001 in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [21336/25]
- Tax Code
35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the report undertaken by his Department’s Committee sub-group into the replacement of the disabled drivers and disabled...
- Tax Credits
36. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Parliamentary Budget Office Report on the Naval Service personnel tax credit; whether he agrees with its conclusion that the credit has failed...
- Fiscal Policy
37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reviewing and amending the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund for companies that operate in illegal Israeli settlements. [21413/25]
- Financial Services
38. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on engagement he has had with the central bank in relation to identifying the gaps in available data on the investment funds sector and...
- Fiscal Data
41. To ask the Minister for Finance the average annual rate of interest paid on the national debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21469/25]
- Financial Services
44. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for allowing less transparency for passively traded exchange traded funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21472/25]
- Tax Avoidance
46. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 64 to 66 of 9 April 2025, if he was presented evidence by the Revenue Commissioners that the amendment introduced into...
- Fiscal Policy
48. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount if any of the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund are invested In Irish sovereign or quasi sovereign debt; and if he...
- Tax Data
49. To ask the Minister for Finance the list of all houses and gardens that are available to the public for viewing as a condition of their exemption from capital acquisitions tax; the list of...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Public Works
52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE qualified horticulturists, by grade employed by OPW as of 22 April 2025; and if he will provide same figures as of 31...
- Cycling Facilities
54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the proposed walking and cycling bridge across the River Liffey from the War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge to...
- National Parks
56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Phoenix Park Transport and Mobility Options Study and his plans for its implementation; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average wait time a work permit applicant must endure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21400/25]
- Enterprise Policy
58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a new mid-west regional enterprise plan will be published soon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21428/25]
- Industrial Development
59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in IDA supported companies in Limerick at the end of March 2025 and the number in Clare; and if he will make a...
- Low Pay
61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline any plans to remove sub minimum wages and any economic impact assessment that has been carried; and if he will make a...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether or not there is currently a budgetary constraint or recruitment freeze affecting the allocation and deployment of SNAs for the 2024/2025...
- Disadvantaged Status
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between student/teacher ratio criteria in junior and senior primary schools with DEIS Band 1...
- Schools Building Projects
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [21324/25]
- School Enrolments
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide assurances that an individual (details supplied) will receive an offer of a school place for September 2025; and if she will make a...
- School Curriculum
70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has been provided with sufficient teaching resources to make transition year available for all students who wish to...
- School Enrolments
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the frequency with which the school planning areas reviewed; when the most recent review took place; the alterations, if any were made during that...
- Schools Building Projects
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school project will be delivered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21393/25]
- Departmental Correspondence
73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she received correspondence (details supplied); when it is proposed to issue a response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21399/25]
- Special Educational Needs
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of visiting teachers to children who have significant hearing loss in primary schools in County Cork (details...
- State Examinations
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will apply some principle of proportionality so that the current cohort of Leaving Certificate students, to be examined in June 2025, are...
- School Accommodation
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that has been provided to schools within Tipperary under the emergency works scheme in the years of 2024 and to date in...
- Special Educational Needs
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify on reports that SENOs are approving an increase in allocations of SNAs in principle, but these supports cannot be put in place due to...
- Child Abuse
79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run...
- Special Educational Needs
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of spaces for children with additional needs in Monaghan; the plans to increase such; the timeframe to do so; and if she will make a...
- School Funding
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to investigate the urgent concerns of a school with respect to the failure of her Department to provide it with an ancillary grant (details...
- Special Educational Needs
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports that will be available to special needs assistants as part of the redeployment scheme for special needs assistants should...
- Teaching Qualifications
83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a refund under the PME fee refund scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21643/25]
- Schools Building Projects
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21656/25]
- School Enrolments
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration her Department is giving to the provision of a new co-educational secondary school in the Cabra-Phibsboro, D7 school planning...
- Special Educational Needs
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the programme for Government commitment to create a national therapy service; this be located in the National Council for Special...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Tourism Policy
88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the recruitment campaign for a new CEO for Failte Ireland will be advertised outside of State; if so, where; and if not, if this...
- Tourism Industry
89. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the proposals to support the tourism sector due to a decrease in tourism in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Provision
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocation given to Wicklow County Council for re-letting works of social housing stock from the years from the...
- Water Quality
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his role and responsibility in relation to Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Staff
95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE senior mapping managers and superintendent of mappings that are employed by his Department in 2024 and to...
- Defective Building Materials
96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when people in Skerries will be able to access a scheme for remediation and compensation for homes built with defective blocks;...
- Housing Schemes
97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing Agency plans to increase the thresholds in terms of the value of homes that can be considered for inclusion in...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a decision regarding their appeal submitted in July 2024 regarding...
- Departmental Projects
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current projects under the remit of his Department that received EU funding in 2024 and to date in 2025; and the...
- Departmental Staff
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade based in Department's central debt recovery unit as of 23 April 2025, in tabular form....
- Departmental Strategies
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to report on the work his Department is taking alongside the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and...
- Social Welfare Payments
103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young people aged 18 years to 25 years that have received an exceptional needs payment in each of the years...
- Social Welfare Benefits
104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s benefit could be considered as a scheme to be transformed into a pay-related one; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Payments
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied); if matters will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Prison Service
107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projected recruitment pipeline for prison officers in 2025 to 2027; the projected attrition rate; and the expected net...
- An Garda Síochána
109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the divisions currently without a crime prevention officer, in tabular form. [21329/25]
- International Protection
112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether international protection applicants who are experiencing faster processing times are at risk of not getting access to...
- Anti-Racism Measures
113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland remains at risk of facing infringement proceedings from the EU regarding the Council Framework Decision on combating...
- Road Traffic Offences
114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measure that will be taken to curb the use of mobile phone while driving; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Prison Service
116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether it is appropriate for staff of the Irish Prison Service to attend an event that includes a keynote address...
- Human Trafficking
117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action he is taking to address child trafficking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21437/25]
- An Garda Síochána
118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding is available in 2025 to purchase replacement Garda prisoner transport vehicles. [21443/25]
- Closed-Circuit Television Systems
121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by An Garda Síochána on purchasing new Garda CCTV cameras in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
- An Garda Síochána
122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will allocate the necessary funding for anti-stab vests to be issued to each frontline prison officers. [21447/25]
- Prison Service
123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average daily prison population and the official bed capacity of each custodial institution for the months January to March...
- Sentencing Policy
132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for introducing legislation to expand community sanctions and to implement electronic monitoring, as committed to...
- Prison Service
133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average daily number of people on community based restorative justice programmes in 2024; the target numbers for 2025; and...
- An Garda Síochána
138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 27 March 2025, with regard to the four vacancies in the driving training school in...
- Asylum Applications
140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for Palestinian asylum seekers who hold a Palestinian passport and Israeli issued identity...
- Bench Warrants
142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants currently outstanding in each Garda division as of 25 April 2025; the number older than 6 months,...
- Visa Applications
143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what action is being taken by his Department to improve on the timeline for the processing of entry visa applications, in view...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Departmental Contracts
144. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid by his Department to external HR specialists to carry out work on behalf of the Department in 2024 and to-date in...
- Greyhound Industry
145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 3,088 2021-born pups with an ‘active status’ on RCETS on 21 February 2025, participated in an...
- Departmental Budgets
148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the capital budget that has been spent in the first four months of 2025; if he will provide same figures for the...
- Departmental Data
149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of food products seized by his Departmental officials at Dublin Port and Dublin Airport to date in 2025; and the penalties...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disabilities Assessments
150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting three years for an assessment of need; and if she will make a...
- International Protection
151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the duration of the lease on an IPAS centre (details supplied); if she intends to renew this lease once lapsed;...
- Childcare Qualifications
153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the action that has been undertaken in furtherance of the stated commitment in...
- Disabilities Assessments
154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an autism assessment and assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) will be provided following...
- Disability Services
155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will commit to providing multi-year development funding which was available pre-2008, for residential...
- Departmental Strategies
156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when her Department will publish the new LGBTIQ+ inclusion strategy, as this received Government approval in...
- Legislative Measures
157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on proposals for legislation to ban conversion practices; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Youth Services
158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans in place to introduce Traveller-specific UBU funded youth projects in Cork; and if she will...
- Family Resource Centres
159. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the application process will open, via TUSLA, for the provision of the previously announced five new family...
- Disability Services
160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite hours provided to disabled adults within Tipperary in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular...
- Disabilities Assessments
165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need at the end of quarter 1 of each year 2019,...
- Disability Services
166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children's disability networks teams, by CHO/CDNT...
- Disabilities Assessments
167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need at the end of March each year 2019, 2024, and...
- Disability Services
169. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently awaiting respite with Enable Ireland in Kilkenny and Carlow at present. [21609/25]
- Residential Institutions
172. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the role of institutions run by Protestant denominations run institutions here; and her plans to...
- Disability Services
173. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the service pathway for children referred to speech and language therapy in in HSE Dublin north west: the...
- Department of Health
- Disabilities Assessments
174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently awaiting autism assessment through primary care in Kilkenny and Carlow at present. [21613/25]
- Mental Health Services
177. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied) who, having been referred to CAMHS Limerick, has yet to receive an appointment and due...
- Health Services
178. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of an elderly person (details supplied) who was recently removed from the public health nurse (PHN) service, and a nurse had been...
- Hospital Staff
179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiologists based at St. James's Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [21321/25]
- Hospital Procedures
180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hip and knee replacement surgeries carried out at the National Orthopaedic Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [21322/25]
- Hospital Staff
181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant neonatologists based at the Coombe Maternity Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [21323/25]
- Hospital Procedures
182. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale on the restriction on the types of MRIs offered under GP access to community diagnostics; the reason below-the-knee MRI is no longer available...
- Hospital Appointments Status
183. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be provided with an appointment for a scan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21343/25]
- Hospital Services
184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who attended a prostate rapid access clinics and the proportion who were offered an appointment in the Mater Hospital within 20 working...
- Official Engagements
185. To ask the Minister for Health if she has spoken with the UK Health Secretary since her appointment. [21345/25]
- Ambulance Service
186. To ask the Minister for Health the full year costs of providing three additional 24-7 HSE critical care ambulances. [21346/25]
- Hospital Services
187. To ask the Minister for Health when the project for a new critical care unit at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown will move to the next stage of works. [21347/25]
- Hospital Staff
188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ENT surgeons based at Beaumont Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [21348/25]
- Health Services Staff
189. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the provision of additional funding to appoint clinical psychologists dedicated to supporting adults with epidermolysis bullosa. [21349/25]
- Health Services
190. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the expansion of IVF support to include secondary infertility as announced in Budget 2025; if a timeline for this can be shared; and if she...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
191. To ask the Minister for Health the current audiology waiting lists for both adults and children in each CHO area, by age and length of time waiting; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
192. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will respond to the extensive correspondence from a person (details supplied); if an unreserved apology and refund of fees will be issued by the HSE...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
194. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline any reimbursement or subsidy scheme available for the payment of hearing aid batteries (details supplied). [21412/25]
- Medical Cards
195. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to index medical card income thresholds to annual social welfare increases to prevent the loss of medical card access for low-income individuals...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
196. To ask the Minister for Health the status her promised inquiries into the lack of insulin pump treatment for adults in the mid-west HSE area; when she will be able to provide an update; and...
- Hospital Staff
197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmic surgeons based at University Hospital Limerick in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [21452/25]
- Mental Health Services
198. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to roll out dialectical behaviour therapy in Tipperary. [21453/25]
- Hospital Staff
199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists by grade working in Nenagh General Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [21454/25]
- Disability Services
201. To ask the Minister for Health the level of overall funding provided by her Department to the HSE South Cork and Kerry for distribution to Section 39 agencies, taking into account inflation...
- Primary Care Centres
202. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO7 that currently have vision testing services. [21501/25]
- Hospital Services
203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant urologists based at St. Vincent's University Hospital in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [21502/25]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for the Centre of Obesity Management; and the average waiting time for access services once a referral has been made....
- Emergency Departments
205. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients for each March of each year 2019-2024, inclusive, nationwide and...
- Hospital Services
211. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, for each March of each year 2022-2024, inclusive by hospital group and...
- Hospital Transfers
213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed transfers of care for each March for each year 2019-2024, inclusive, at each location, in tabular form; the number of delayed discharges...
- Ambulance Service
215. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO and clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, for March of each year 2019, 2024 and 2025, in tabular...
- Home Help Service
220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer for quarter 1 of each year 2019, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and the breakdown by length...
- Hospital Services
223. To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each March for each year 2019 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form;...
- Patient Safety
227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities for each March for each year 2019 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [21556/25]
- Health Services Staff
228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against staff at HSE facilities for each March for each year 2019 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [21557/25]
- Patient Safety
229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities for quarter 1 for each year 2019 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [21558/25]
- Health Services Staff
230. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against staff at HSE facilities for quarter 1 for each year 2019 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [21559/25]
- Mental Health Services
231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists, by CHO and length of wait, at the end of March each year 2019, 2024 and 2025, in a direct comparison, in tabular...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of quarter 1 for each year 2022-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21562/25]
- Dental Services
236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists on the dental treatment services scheme at the end of quarter 1 for each year 2019-2024, by LHO, in tabular form; the number of dentists...
- Health Services Staff
239. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for quarter 1 of each year, 2019-2025, both nationally/statewide and broken down for...
- Health Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the HSE on management consultants and external professional services, by type, for quarter 1 of each year, 2019-2025, in direct comparison, in...
- Hospital Staff
242. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the each of the section 38 voluntary hospitals on agency staffing and on private recruitment firms for quarter 1 of each year, 2019-2025, by...
- Hospital Services
245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and occupancy rate in Monaghan hospital, by category and by month, in each of the years 2023 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
246. To ask the Minister for Health the basis upon which the free contraception scheme excludes those aged over 35; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21598/25]
- Substance Misuse
247. To ask the Minister for Health the drug rehabilitation services available in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21599/25]
- Mental Health Services
248. To ask the Minister for Health the CAMHS psychology waiting-list numbers and exact wait-times in months and years for young people in each integrated health area of the South West Regional...
- Health Services
253. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the HSE of management consultancy services for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 by CHO regional health area, in tabular form. [21638/25]
- Hospital Equipment
254. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available immediately to acquire a second CT scanner for St. Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Process
255. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1598 of 19 March 2025, if she will provide an update on a timeline for legislation that would add HHC as a Schedule 1...
- Mental Health Services
256. To ask the Minister for Health the CAMHS psychology waiting list numbers and exact wait times in months and years for young people in each integrated health area of the Mid West Regional...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
261. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which she plans to address the shortcomings in oversight and monitoring of foster care placements for individuals with disabilities, as highlighted...
- Eating Disorders
262. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted a review of the effectiveness and availability of community-based services for adults with eating disorders; and if so, to...
- Medical Cards
266. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase medical card income limits; and if she will consider adjusting the thresholds in line with increases in social welfare rates to prevent...
- Medicinal Products
267. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to introduce a nationwide scheme to allow people return unused or out of date medication to pharmacies; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Adult Education Provision
268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the role of adult educator in Youthreach as outlined in his speech at the recent conference in Wexford (details supplied); if the...
- Grant Payments
269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that anyone applying for the SUSI over the age of 23, still residing with their parents is automatically classed as a mature...
- Departmental Budgets
271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the capital budget allocation for his Department that was spent in the first four months of 2025; If he will provide the same...
- Third Level Education
272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of clinical psychologist courses and places that are currently in the third level educational system; and what plans are in place to...
- Further and Higher Education
273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the second annual Impact 2030 progress report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21668/25]
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
275. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the projects in County Meath that received funding under the CLAR Programme; and the amount of funding received for the years 2023,...
