Written answers

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      43. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will meet. [15703/25]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      73. 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. [15702/25]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      86. To ask the Taoiseach for an update in relation to his attendance at the Munich security conference. [16802/25]
    • Urban Development
      87. To ask the Taoiseach with respect to the taskforce for Dublin, if the Liberties area of Dublin 8 is included in the 'Rejuvenating our Capital City Centre' section of the Programme for...
  • Department of Health
    • Primary Care Centres
      119. To ask the Minister for Health when the new primary care centre in Nenagh will open; what services it will provide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24022/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      126. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new 95 en-suite bed residential care centre in Thomastown; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23653/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      128. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unitised beds in Monaghan Hospital, by category. [24144/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      129. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for bringing forward a new GP contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24100/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      130. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made regarding commitments in the Programme for Government surrounding rare diseases and specifically plans for a review of the drug reimbursement...
    • Primary Care Centres
      131. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned primary care centre for Portumna; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23779/25]
    • Primary Care Services
      132. To ask the Minister for Health if she will respond to the pressing need for additional space at the HSE-owned facility housing Gurteen, the family practice, in County Sligo; and if she will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      133. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to address the shortage of general practitioners in rapidly growing towns such as Naas, Maynooth, Celbridge and Leixlip; and if she...
    • Health Services
      134. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand specialist services in endometriosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24155/25]
    • Disease Management
      135. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the work of her Department to support those living with functional neurological disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24125/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      136. To ask the Minister for Health if she will fund a centre (details supplied) for the south-east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24147/25]
    • Health Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Health to set out of the total number of deliveries in each of the 19 maternity units, from 1 January 2025 to 31 March 2025; the number of caesarean sections in each...
    • Mental Health Services
      138. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the performance of the community access support team in Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22416/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      139. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the current waiting lists for CT and MRI scans at Monaghan and Cavan hospitals. [24126/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      140. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the delivery of the capital programme for Beaumont Hospital; and for an update, as of Q1 2025. [24097/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      141. To ask the Minister for Health when the strategic review of general practice will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24099/25]
    • Health Services
      142. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the development of a new gender identity services model of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24149/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      143. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to improve CAMHs services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24033/25]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      144. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request clarification from the Health Information and Quality Authority regarding the clinical basis and evidence used to describe spina bifida as...
    • Health Services
      145. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioner training is being considered as part of the national response to endometriosis; if the Minister acknowledges the importance of...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      146. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on reducing the waiting list for accessing Children's Disability Network teams in Dublin West; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Abortion Services
      147. To ask the Minister for Health if the Department will undertake further independent research into abortion provision, in light of the HSE's more recent position since the 2021 review, that...
    • Mental Health Services
      148. To ask the Minister for Health how a proposed 50-bedroom mental health facility on the grounds of Saint Stephen's hospital, Glanmire, is compliant with the UNCRPD; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      149. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to address the shortfall of regional inpatient neurorehabilitation beds across the country, highlighted in the inpatient rehabilitation...
    • Cancer Services
      150. To ask the Minister for Health for a clear timeline as to when the HIQA review on a breast density notification within the BreastCheck Programme will begin; when it is expected that it will...
    • Mental Health Services
      151. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals in place to ensure separate access to acute emergency care for patients with mental health issues; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      152. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pharmacists participating in the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24146/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      153. To ask the Minister for Health to consider providing the support required to provide a much-needed surgical hub at Letterkenny University Hospital, given the pressures that the hospital...
    • Primary Care Centres
      154. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of primary health care centres in the Dublin mid-west area; to provide a timeline of their roll out; and if she will make a...
    • Dental Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the current staffing levels within the HSE school dental programme in CHO9, in light of the significant number of children under...
    • Home Care Packages
      156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital bed days that were lost due to the lack of availability of home care packages and availability of nursing home places, in 2023,...
    • Dental Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to fill consultant and specialist orthodontist vacancies in Dundalk; if people in urgent need of care can avail of an alternative...
    • Health Services
      158. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the network of menopause clinics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24156/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Health the action she has taken to reopen Southdoc Blackpool; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24151/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      161. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to introducing health warning labels on alcohol products in May 2026; her views on her Cabinet colleagues’ comments in relation to...
    • Primary Care Services
      162. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the possible provision of public rapid injury clinics (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24025/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      163. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to ensure that Clifden hospital remains open on a permanent basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23680/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      164. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that only patients on waiting lists under the care of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital will be referred to the Swords surgical hub...
    • Emergency Departments
      165. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to reduce waiting times at accident and emergency departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24032/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      166. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends on mandating the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre to collect data on shingles or post-herpetic neuralgia, in order to provide greater...
    • Primary Care Centres
      167. To ask the Minister for Health for an update in respect of the proposed Rathmines primary care centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23496/25]
    • Pharmacy Services
      168. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline for appointing a chief pharmacist within the Department of Health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24134/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      169. To ask the Minister for Health if she accepts that adult-specific services for eating disorders remain significantly under-resourced and overly centralised in Dublin; the rationale for...
    • Disability Services
      170. To ask the Minister for Health if she is confident that the HSE’s Roadmap for Service Improvement, relating to the Progressing Disability Services Strategy, will succeed in ensuring...
    • General Practitioner Services
      171. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Programme for Government commitment to explore the recruitment of HSE-employed GPs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24092/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      172. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the midlands region, including County Offaly, has fewer ambulance resources now than it did 25 years ago; if there are plans to review the level of...
    • Hospital Facilities
      173. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that there are over 300 beds nationwide in the private sector for older person services out of use due to delays caused by the Health...
    • Hospital Staff
      174. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe to increase the number of consultants in emergency medicine by a further 50%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24101/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      175. To ask the Minister for Health if Pluvicto, the new, life-changing prostate cancer medication that has been approved by the European Medicines Agency, will be made available to all public...
    • Dental Services
      176. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is aware that the waiting time for adult special care needs general admission waiting list for routine dental care in Mallow General Hospital is...
    • Health Services
      177. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are very few convalescence beds available in west Cork, which is delaying patient discharges from the acute hospitals and slowing recovery....
    • Health Services Staff
      178. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the vacancy for primary care south Tipperary ophthalmologist following the planned retirement of the ophthalmologist in October 2024; and if...
    • Primary Care Centres
      180. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new primary care centre for Gorey, County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23790/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      181. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on staff recruitment and retention efforts within the HSE in the area of special needs services, particularly in relation to...
    • Dental Services
      182. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the provision of orthodontal services in the north-east region; the reasons for delays in accessing services; and her proposals to ensure...
    • Hospital Procedures
      183. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently examine the possibility of carrying out procedures that qualify under the EU cross border initiative in Irish hospitals; and if she will...
    • Home Help Service
      184. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently address the lack of home help services where people are approved but there is no services available; the efforts being made to improve the...
    • Abortion Services
      185. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the status of the O'Shea review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      186. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new acute hospital for Glanmire, Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23512/25]
    • Cancer Services
      187. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects the current lung cancer screening pilot to be evaluated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24136/25]
    • Health Services
      188. To ask the Minister for Health if she would consider expanding the free HRT scheme to include medications prescribed for menopausal symptoms for women with contraindication to HRT products;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      189. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the development of new policy on adult safeguarding in the health and social care sector; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Facilities
      190. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for additional beds for people with Dementia at Shaen Hospital, Portlaoise, County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service
      191. To ask the Minister for Health if she will engage with the National Ambulance Service on the need for a 24/7 rapid response vehicle operated by advanced paramedics at Tuam ambulance base;...
    • Medicinal Products
      192. To ask the Minister for Health to outline her engagements with the HSE on access to givinostat for Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23725/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      194. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the potential roles of advanced nurse practitioners; whether she has any plans to expand such roles; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      195. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment that has been made of recent research linking the shingles vaccine to a reduced risk of dementia, and whether there are plans to incorporate...
    • Health Services
      196. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to develop more regional inpatient rehabilitation beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24130/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-patient beds for eating disorders in north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24141/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      198. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the proposed Baggot Street primary care centre; the efforts the HSE is making regarding their proposed disposal of the old Baggot...
    • Hospital Services
      199. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the restrictions to hospital transport services in Tipperary, which are leaving many patients without transport; to increase the...
    • Ambulance Service
      200. To ask the Minister for Health if she will engage with the HSE and the National Ambulance Service on the withdrawal of ambulance vehicles from advance paramedics-educational officers and...
    • Medicinal Products
      201. To ask the Minister for Health the means by which she will ensure that patients have access to new innovative medicines and treatments as quickly as possible, especially for rare diseases;...
    • Disability Services
      202. To ask the Minister for Health the locations around the country where community health organisations are providing specific services for adults who suffer from ADHD; the staffing cohort at...
    • Health Promotion
      203. To ask the Minister for Health the reason her Department has not commenced an information and awareness campaign on the use of HHC products and the associated harms, especially in young...
    • Health Services Staff
      204. To ask the Minister for Health in light of the failure to provide nursing cover for Tory island, when commitments will be fulfilled regarding providing nursing cover on the island at all...
    • Primary Care Centres
      205. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update regarding the provision and location of a primary care centre for Mountrath, County Laois; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      206. To ask the Minister for Health if the commitment made in the 2020 Programme for Government regarding the implementation of an informed consent model for hormone replacement therapy for...
    • Hospital Facilities
      207. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to continue to increase capacity and open more beds at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24102/25]
    • Hospital Services
      208. To ask the Minister for Health the plans her Department have to improve the services at Naas hospital; if there are plans for infrastructure investment for the hospital in the next five...
    • Emergency Services
      209. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure safe staffing in the helicopter emergency medical service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24148/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      210. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request confirmation from Children’s Health Ireland that all paediatric orthopaedic consultants currently operating on children with complex...
    • Mental Health Services
      211. To ask the Minister for Health in light of the recent Mental Health Commission report, the actions she will take to improve acute mental health services and services for those with severe...
    • Hospital Facilities
      212. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent funding can be provided to address issues within the orthopaedic department of Sligo University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      213. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on progress towards the Programme for Government commitment to extend the Laura Brennan HPV catch-up vaccination programme to anyone under 25 who...
    • Ambulance Service
      214. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance response time in County Meath in each of the past ten years; and the steps she is taking to decrease ambulance response time in the...
    • Health Services Staff
      215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish-qualified nurses recruited by the HSE in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [24055/25]
    • Health Services
      217. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of treatment for chronic conditions in Mayo University Hospital and in primary care centres in Mayo; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      218. To ask the Minister for Health the location of each CAMHS-ID facility in the country; the staffing cohort at each facility; the number of patients benefiting from the services therein, in...
    • Medical Records
      220. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the total number of the 19 maternity hospitals that are fully computerised/digitised, which can operate without paper files; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      221. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the ongoing use of the full capacity protocol at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) and the continued overcrowding at UHL; and if she...
    • Medical Records
      223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making provision in the forthcoming Budget to increase the income threshold for full medical card entitlement; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      224. To ask the Minister for Health to report on any plans either in place, or under consideration, within her Department to regulate shopfronts to prevent drug paraphernalia such as...
    • Home Help Service
      225. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the provision of a home help service in west Cork is failing to deliver the required hours to people, which in turn is increasing the likelihood of...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      226. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to reduce cancellations of hospital procedures and overcrowding. [24162/25]
    • Health Services
      227. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that will be taken to address the continued lack of dedicated neurorehabilitation beds in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24096/25]
    • Departmental Projects
      228. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24051/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      229. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for legislative change with regards to the Programme for Government’s policy to follow a “health-led approach to drugs misuse”;...
    • Cancer Services
      230. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the HSE’s growing reliance on outsourcing radiotherapy services to private providers; the steps she is taking to reverse this trend; and if...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      231. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request from Children’s Health Ireland details of the procedures in place for the handling and storage of medical devices that have failed...
    • Hospital Services
      232. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing level and capacity of psychiatric services at Roscommon University Hospital. [24139/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      234. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for capital investment to support the expansion of mental health services in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      235. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the scale of the financial deficit that each level four hospital is operating under and her plans to gap this funding in 2025; and if she will make...
    • Hospital Equipment
      236. To ask the Minister for Health if another CT scanner will be provided in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23652/25]
    • Dental Services
      237. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to increase the number of dentists participating in the dental treatment service scheme across the country; and if she...
    • Primary Care Centres
      238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in primary health care centres, by post, throughout Dublin Mid-West; her plan to fully staff teams; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Eating Disorders
      239. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of an eating disorder team for Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24094/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      240. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the enforcement of legislation prohibiting the use of sunbeds by persons under the age of 18, in light of reports that sunbed operators are...
    • Local Drugs Task Forces
      241. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate how the recent funding announcement of €1.89 million through the Community Service Enhancement Fund will be distributed, and whether it will...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Data
      242. To ask the Taoiseach the average wage and the median wage in Ireland in each year from 2015 to date in 2025. [24464/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      243. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will meet. [22234/25]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      244. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the Shared Island Initiative. [22235/25]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      245. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the European Council on 20-21 March 2025. [22210/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      246. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee for Climate Action, Environment and Energy will next meet. [22211/25]
    • Departmental Projects
      247. To ask the Taoiseach the number of IT projects within his Department, or bodies under its aegis, which have been allocated funds in excess of €1 million in the years 2020 to date; the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      248. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a copy of all delegation orders issued to Junior Ministers across the Government as of 1 May 2025. [23010/25]
    • Housing Policy
      249. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the Housing for All Conveyancing and Probate Implementation Group and when he expects all of the recommendations of the group to be actioned...
    • Departmental Strategies
      250. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for publishing and implementing a new national digital strategy. [23228/25]
    • Energy Usage
      251. To ask the Taoiseach the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in meeting our climate targets for 2030; and if he will...
    • Departmental Bodies
      252. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the number of agencies or quangos established by the Department in each of the last 10 years and the cost to the state of funding each one. [23373/25]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Middle East
      262. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the actions he has taken, or engagement with his cabinet colleagues with regard to ensuring compliance with the advisory...
    • Northern Ireland
      263. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a statement on the recent report by the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland into the Kingsmill massacre investigation....
    • Overseas Development Aid
      264. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a detailed breakdown of Ireland’s overseas development aid expenditure for the most recent fiscal year, including the...
    • Energy Usage
      268. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our climate...
    • Passport Services
      269. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite a passport application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23502/25]
    • Middle East
      271. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the Israeli authorities regarding the ongoing blockade that has prevented four Irish-funded aid trucks, waiting in...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      272. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the situation in Sudan; if he can outline the work Ireland is doing with international partners to provide...
    • Human Rights
      273. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of a case (details supplied) in which activists have been jailed; if he will advocate for their release and support the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      274. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he has made to date to increase the number of Irish diplomatic staff in the United States since the formation of the Government,...
    • Historical Conflicts
      275. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the State recognises the historical fact that a genocide was attempted against the people of Armenia, in 1915, by the Ottoman...
    • Departmental Bodies
      276. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department, focusing...
    • Departmental Funding
      280. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to identify any existing oversight mechanisms or audits that are conducted to assess the effectiveness of funding allocated to...
    • Passport Services
      285. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the processing of a passport for a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      287. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE housekeepers/executive assistants working in each Irish Embassy and Consulate General Office, as of 5 May 2025, by gender,...
    • Official Engagements
      288. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to invite the Governor of Washington to Ireland for a bilateral meeting. [24286/25]
    • International Agreements
      289. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list all international treaties to which the State has been a party from 1 January 2020 to date in 2025; to specify which of these...
    • Foreign Policy
      290. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland’s views on Ukraine’s path to European Union membership; the role it will play as part of Ireland’s...
    • European Union
      291. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views as to closer European Union engagement with the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership; and if he...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Policy
      292. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has reversed previous Governments’ policy which banned fracked gas in Ireland; if it is now Government...
    • Departmental Schemes
      293. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide figures on the uptake of the low-cost loan scheme since it was rolled out in 2024, broken down by quarter,...
    • Energy Conservation
      294. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide updated figures on the installation of heat pumps in retrofitted homes, from 2021 to date in 2025; and if he...
    • Departmental Consultations
      297. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scientific expertise his Department has access to for assessing environmental and climate claims; and if he will...
    • Environmental Policy
      298. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the work of his Department’s exploration and mining division; the way in which...
    • Bord na Móna
      300. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with representatives from unions (details supplied) to discuss the sale of Bord na Móna recycling...
    • Departmental Strategies
      301. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for delivering a new national cybersecurity strategy in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Usage
      302. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in...
    • Waste Management
      303. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Waste Management (Use of CCTV in Waste Enforcement)...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      306. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the commissioning date and the annual energy output for the renewable electricity support scheme wind farm...
    • Air Services
      308. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the DAA, AirNav and the IAA are subject to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021; and...
    • Environmental Investigations
      310. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request an impact risk assessment on the health impact of autism and Alzheimer’s disease due to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      311. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding the warmer homes scheme, to provide a breakdown, per county, of the waiting list, as well the average wait...
    • Departmental Programmes
      313. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment about the Programme for Government, and proposals concerning retrofitting; to report on the work his Department has...
    • Departmental Reviews
      314. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when does he anticipate the findings of the NGI consultation and the second CEPA consultation of the energy security...
    • Strategic Infrastructure
      315. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment as part of the proposal to have a strategic emergency gas reserve, when will the selected location of the floating...
    • Departmental Schemes
      316. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who received neither the November or January...
    • Departmental Bodies
      318. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his...
    • Climate Action Plan
      327. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland will miss the 25 June 2025 deadline for submitting our social climate plan; if late submission puts us at...
    • Departmental Projects
      328. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government will seek to enforce performance security under the ORESS contract for the sceirde rocks project...
    • Departmental Data
      330. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when auctions will take place for sites B, C and D as outlined in the south coast DMAP; and if he will make a statement...
    • European Union
      331. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his response to the European Commission's decision to open an infringement procedure against Ireland (INFR(2025)2005)...
    • Energy Prices
      332. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider capping standing charges for electricity at a rate consistent with European averages (details...
    • Departmental Strategies
      337. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that Irish-based financial institutions hold more than €31 billion in investments in fossil fuel...
    • Energy Production
      338. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress his Department has made to complete action 8 of the Energy Security in Ireland to 2030 document, including...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      340. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is considering reducing the regulated cost of gas meter removals for households that are improving energy...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      341. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces are carrying out exercises in the St. Bridget’s Campus, Ballinasloe; if so, the reason residents were not notified...
    • Air Corps
      342. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rationale for purchasing four H145M helicopters; whether any missiles have been bought for these helicopters; whether there is any plan to...
    • Defence Forces
      343. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to review correspondence (details supplied); if he will provide an update on the status of the scheme; if there are any plans to return the...
    • Air Corps
      348. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will commit to a public plebiscite on the question of the removal of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23745/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      349. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department, focusing...
    • Departmental Funding
      351. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to specify the total amount of funding allocated to each of the identified non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under his Department’s...
    • Air Corps
      358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of pilots within the Air Corps that went to the US for specialist military flying training courses in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025;...
    • Defence Forces
      359. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new cadetship recruitment campaign for the Army will be launched in quarter three 2025. [24271/25]
    • Air Corps
      360. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Casement Aerodrome has the necessary parking stands and length of runaway required for Airbus A380 type of aircrafts to use then aerodrome....
    • Defence Forces
      361. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress that has been made in implementing the long service increments, contained in the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Test
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the average driving test waiting list times; the number of applicants waiting to sit their driving test; the...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      366. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the planned improvement or maintenance works for the section of the N3 road between Cavan and Virginia; and if he will make a statement...
    • Emergency Services
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 29 April 2025, the reasons a company (details supplied) only assumed full 24-hour cover from...
    • Taxi Licences
      368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an extension until 12 of June 2025 will be provided to a person (details supplied) for an electric taxi grant application.; and if he...
    • Rail Network
      369. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status and repair timeline for the Barrow Bridge in New Ross; the reason Iarnród Éireann has not been more...
    • Ferry Services
      371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of any consideration given to supporting the reopening of Dún Laoghaire ferry port for passenger transport;...
    • Driver Test
      372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any circumstances by which there are exemptions or accommodations made for the driver theory test. [23293/25]
    • Climate Action Plan
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      374. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will arrange emergency improvement works to the bridge over the Royal Canal at North Docks, Dublin as a matter of priority; and if...
    • Road Projects
      375. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding being made available by his department for roads projects in the South Dublin County Council area. [23454/25]
    • Driver Licences
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to correspondence in respect of driving licence exchanges (details supplied); if he will provide a...
    • Driver Test
      378. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of driving test wait times, broken down by test centre; the average number of weeks a person is waiting, broken...
    • Air Safety
      381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport about the regulation of drones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23489/25]
    • Legislative Programme
      384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the legislation required for the transport security force under the National Transport Authority; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether Clifden driving test centre in Galway will be open during the summer months, with no impact on service delivery; and if he will...
    • Bus Services
      386. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why the direct bus service from Heuston Station to University College Dublin has been removed during off-peak times, particularly on...
    • National Transport Authority
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional public transport buses the National Transport Authority intends on having picking up and dropping off customers at Shannon...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland will provide a timeline for the completion of works at a location (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      392. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider improving the driving licence conversion for people holding US driving licences, to enable those people to continue driving...
    • Bus Services
      393. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Bus Connects roll out for Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23715/25]
    • Driver Test
      395. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is plans to reduce the waiting times for car driving tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23778/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      396. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated increase in income Irish Rail expects to receive with the new commuter fares announced this month; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      398. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why Irish Rail is operating the northern commuter line at reduced capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23798/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      402. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department,...
    • Legislative Measures
      411. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of the substantially higher carbon footprint per passenger kilometre associated with first class and business class flights...
    • Bus Éireann
      414. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the enactment of the revised services on Bus Éireann route 243 covering Bweeng and Grenagh; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Investigations
      415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of any investigation carried out by his Department in relation to the allegation that munitions are being carried through...
    • Driver Test
      416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people currently on a waiting list for a driving test in a centre (details supplied); the steps being taken to reduce the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of his Department (details supplied) to confirm that for each year between 2020 and...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      421. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by Dublin Airport Authority on purchasing specialist fire appliances for Dublin Airport Fire Services, in 2023, 2024 and...
    • Dublin Bus
      422. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of increasing the number of Dublin Bus safer journey teams to five; and the cost of extending the programme until the...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      423. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grades of staff employed within DAA Airport search unit, in tabular form. [24277/25]
    • Dublin Bus
      424. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given that when the E2 bus route in Dublin was launched it was accompanied by a booklet outlining the expected time between buses would...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      425. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of the recent High Court case regarding CIE pensions, where the High Court put an obligation on both CIÉ and the active...
    • Driver Licences
      426. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an issue in respect of a driving licence can be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24333/25]
    • Rail Network
      427. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will arrange emergency improvement works to the Railway Bridge over the Royal Canal on the North Docks, Dublin, damaged August...
    • Active Travel
      428. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24357/25]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      429. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road traffic accidents that involved sleep disorders for each of the years 2015 to 2024 and to 30 April 2025, in tabular...
    • Driver Test
      432. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers who failed to show up for their scheduled driving test appointment to date in 2025; and if he will make a...
    • National Vehicle and Driver File
      437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the revised National Vehicle and Driver File Bill 2025 has been presented to Government for approval to draft; if the Bill has been...
    • Insurance Industry
      438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has made all the necessary ICT changes to allow motor insurers access to realtime data on driver disqualifications; and...
    • Driver Licences
      440. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of disqualification orders received from the Courts Service via a weekly file to date in 2025; the number that did not include...
    • National Vehicle and Driver File
      441. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the relevant sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 allowing access by insurers and intermediaries to disqualification and...
    • Driver Licences
      442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of validations that failed when an insurer attempted to validate the driver number of a disqualified driver against the...
    • Bus Services
      446. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the appropriate bodies to ensure the provision of a bus shelter in Emyvale, County Monaghan; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      447. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review correspondence (details supplied) and provide an update to this question. [24479/25]
    • Public Transport
      448. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 1614.for a timeline for the introduction of free public transport for children under the age of nine that was announced in Budget 2025....
    • Rail Network
      449. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a timeline for the construction of the DART+ South West project. [24488/25]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      450. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the disused Brennanstown stop on the Luas Green Line will be opened to passengers. [24489/25]
    • Rail Network
      452. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the development of the Cabra DART station. [24491/25]
    • Driver Test
      454. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current wait times for driving tests in Donegal, by test centre, in tabular form; if any plans are in place to bring the length of...
  • Department of Finance
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      455. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans to revise the criteria for applications for a for primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24424/25]
    • Departmental Data
      456. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons, expressed as a percentage of the total workforce, who were in the highest income tax bracket in Ireland in each year from 2015 to date...
    • Legislative Measures
      457. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish legislation to bring in a tax on e-liquids of €500 per litre, per the Budget 2025 announcement; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Energy Usage
      459. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our climate targets for 2030;...
    • Departmental Projects
      460. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the development of the Greystones media campus, which is partly funded by the Strategic Investment Fund; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      461. To ask the Minister for Finance the average effective tax rate at each income level from 15,000 to 400,000, similar to that provided in document (details supplied), in tabular form; and if...
    • Tax Exemptions
      462. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of artists and artists’ works approved by the Office of the Revenue Commissioner for artists’ exemption; if he will provide the total...
    • Tax Data
      464. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of taxation revenue generated and projected per annum following recent changes by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners in relation to the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      465. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that Irish-based financial institutions hold more than €31 billion in investments in fossil fuel industries; if he will consider...
    • Customs and Excise
      467. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yearly revenue which would be raised in the event of excise increases (details supplied), in tabular form. [23694/25]
    • Programme for Government
      468. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his plans for a National Fintech Hub, as outlined in the Programme for Government. [23763/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      470. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department, focusing particularly on...
    • Departmental Funding
      477. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the total administrative costs associated with non-governmental organisations under the aegis of his Department, including the overhead costs...
    • Tax Reliefs
      479. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will urgently increase the tax-free allowance bands for older people in line with the increases to the old age pension (details supplied); and if he...
    • Tax Data
      480. To ask the Minister for Finance if the current capital acquisition tax and specifically inheritance tax has been reviewed at any point since 1991 for compliance with the equal status...
    • Tax Credits
      482. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is eligible to claim the health expenses tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24210/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      483. To ask the Minister for Finance if a couple looking to purchase a property are eligible for admission to the help-to-buy scheme if those selling have previously availed of the scheme for the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      484. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm that for each year between 2020 and 2025 in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of his Department, that the board has a terms of...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      488. To ask the Minister for Finance to state the arrangements which apply to setting the salary of the CEO of NAMA; whether ministerial approval is required for this salary level; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      489. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who paid the domicile levy in 2019 to date in 2025; the amount collected under the levy in the same period; the number of persons who...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Staff
      490. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a comprehensive breakdown of the number of staff employed across all Government Departments, agencies, and State bodies whose...
    • Climate Change Policy
      491. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific measures taken in his departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our...
    • Departmental Schemes
      492. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out what measures the Office of Public Works is taking to address flood risk associated with the Blackwater-Bride river...
    • Housing Schemes
      494. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify the current position of the Office of Public Works regarding the former Garda Station at An Rinn, County Waterford,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      495. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the recent tender for “ITC016F Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Network & Firewall...
    • An Garda Síochána
      496. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to refurbish the Garda Immigration Unit at Shannon Airport this year. [23660/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      497. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department,...
    • Departmental Functions
      506. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation providing for the existence of his Department and the allocation of its...
    • Flood Risk Management
      507. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has made him aware of consistent and severe flooding in an area of Raphoe (details supplied); if there are plans for flood...
    • Heritage Sites
      508. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform who currently has priority on an avenue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24212/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      511. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the boards of bodies (details supplied) under the aegis of his Department, to confirm that for each year between 2020 and...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      515. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of taxi companies currently on the Office of Government Procurement Framework to provide taxi services to public bodies; when...
    • Office of Public Works
      516. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for the Office of Public Works’s policy on herbicide use. [24485/25]
    • Heritage Sites
      518. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the works being carried out at the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park; and the timeline for completion and its opening as a...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Legislative Measures
      519. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the regulations in place governing the advertisement of environmental claims for products sold in Ireland; and for updates on any...
    • Energy Usage
      520. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our...
    • Departmental Strategies
      521. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline his Department’s strategy to support small and micro-enterprises in rural counties like Waterford,...
    • Business Supports
      522. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will undertake a review of enterprise and grant supports to ensure they are accessible to sole traders, family-run businesses,...
    • Enterprise Policy
      523. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will commit to a coordinated regional enterprise strategy for the south east that includes dedicated investment in town centre...
    • Water Services
      524. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with Uisce Éireann and the Department of Housing; Local Government and Heritage in...
    • Work Permits
      525. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of a work permit application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23453/25]
    • Business Supports
      526. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanisms being put in place to allow businesses and representative organisations to make submissions to the proposed cost of...
    • Departmental Strategies
      529. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the drafting of Enterprise 2035, as outlined in the Programme for Government. [23761/25]
    • Irish Stock Exchange
      530. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on plans outlined in the Programme for Government to explore opportunities to enhance the Irish Stock Exchange,...
    • Departmental Strategies
      531. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on his plans to set up a MMC Innovation Fund, via the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, to directly...
    • Civil Service
      532. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the procedures in place to prevent barriers to reasonable accommodation for autistic individuals in the civil service from working...
    • Departmental Bodies
      533. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department,...
    • Legislative Programme
      542. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025 and when this Bill will be enacted; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      543. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm that for each year between 2020 and 2025, in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of his Department (details...
    • Export Controls
      547. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government will block exports from companies (details supplied) where there is evidence that these exports contribute to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Building Projects
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a national school in Cork (details supplied) will receive the additional classroom it was promised. [23172/25]
    • State Examinations
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a person (details supplied); if criteria will be confirmed. [23173/25]
    • School Transport
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered expanding the age restriction on school bus drivers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23192/25]
    • Third Level Education
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a course (details supplied) will be recommended for recognition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23209/25]
    • Child Abuse
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the redress payments to victims of historical abuse are expected to be paid out; the timelines or procedures in place to ensure timely and...
    • School Staff
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if this apparent discrepancy will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of school retrofit programmes currently in place; the criteria for inclusion in these programmes; the number of schools that have...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on an emergency works application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23253/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the Celbridge and north Kildare area that expressed an interest in opening a specialist class in the past academic year;...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with persons regarding their concerns over a telecommunications mast (details supplied). [23283/25]
    • School Admissions
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reply to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the Department will reconsider this decision; the reasons as to why this...
    • Energy Usage
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures taken in her Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our climate...
    • School Staff
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for approval for a teaching post in Kilkenny (details supplied) which was refused will be reconsidered as a matter of urgency...
    • Child Abuse
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a recent RTÉ programme on two Christian Brothers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23381/25]
    • Land Issues
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a parcel of land adjacent to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23451/25]
    • School Transport
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to allow people who are contracted by Bus Éireann to drive buses for children with additional needs to continue to do...
    • Education Policy
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason only children who have entered the country in the last two years can be counted when schools apply for additional EAL teaching posts;...
    • School Curriculum
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the comments made by Government colleagues regarding sacrament preparation outside of school time; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health and Safety
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the guidance for lab health safety for secondary schools was last updated; if there are plans to update guidance; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a child with autism and ADHD (details supplied) who is attending a mainstream school but has been refused SNA support; and...
    • School Staff
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review the rules surrounding the retention of acting-up allowances for teachers who have served in acting deputy principal...
    • Home Schooling
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details provided) will be provided with home tuition support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23681/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be released for a new autism class at a school (details supplied); if a commitment will be provided that funds will be released...
    • School Patronage
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of the number of multidenominational schools, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23701/25]
    • School Staff
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who was refused incremental credit. [23704/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SET hours will be increased at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23710/25]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she considers a class size of 39 pupils to be excessive for a single teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23713/25]
    • School Transport
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether there has been any further progress on the comprehensive analysis of matters as they relate to bus escort's pay and whether she has plans...
    • School Staff
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the campaigns her Department have undertaken to recruit teachers who qualified in Ireland and moved abroad; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Bodies
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of her Department, focusing...
    • School Equipment
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding circular 0032/2017, if her Department is aware that schools are instructing parents to purchase laptops only through exclusive...
    • Special Educational Needs
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional special needs assistants at a school (details supplied) as the school authorities need to make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 8 April 2025, if a decision has been made on a new school building; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 848 to 850, inclusive, of 29 April 2025, the number of SNAs are based in mainstream schools; the number...
    • School Staff
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost of providing an additional assistant principal 1 post to 1,761 mainstream primary schools, for the academic school year...
    • Special Educational Needs
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the nationwide pilot plan to redistribute therapists through 16 selected special schools; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Appointments
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to provide places for parents and carers to be represented on the Department of An Taoiseach Disability Unit; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she plans to ensure the continuity of the current Laois/Offaly MDT service which operates outside of the pilot programme; and if...
    • Departmental Appointments
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism by which she will ensure the Disability Committee is accessible to parents and carers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the updated ‘Procedures on the use of school property and school sports facilities outside of school hours’ are not...
    • School Admissions
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied) who does not have a place in a local school for the forthcoming school...
    • Schools Administration
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an issue related to the Leaving Certificate timetable (details supplied); if any allowances can be made for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding her Department provided to schools within Dublin 15 area for works carried out under emergency works scheme in the years of...
    • School Transport
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for eligibility for the school bus transport scheme, specifying the distance requirements, prioritisation process, and any special...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be included in the DEIS project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24315/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes for children with intellectual disabilities in each primary school in Kildare north specifically; the number of...
    • School Staff
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to allow individuals with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in inclusive education to become teachers and work with children who...
    • School Transport
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for the extension of a school transport route (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports being provided to a child (details supplied). [24406/25]
    • School Staff
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she will put in place in order that more schools conduct online interviews (details supplied). [24410/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is aware of reports that AI tools are having a detrimental impact on education and learning (details supplied); and whether she will...
    • School Enrolments
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young people who currently do not have a secondary school place in Greystones for 2025-2026; and the plan of action to ensure that...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Arts Policy
      626. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht where an artist who is interested in showcasing their work in the Centre Culturel Irlandais may apply or who they may engage with...
    • Energy Usage
      627. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting...
    • Limistéir Pleanála Teanga
      628. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sé sonraí ar an líon Oifigeach Pleanála Teanga atá ag feidhmiú faoi láthair i...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      629. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé na hacmhainní nua atá curtha ar fáil chun cur i bhfeidhm an Phlean Náisiúnta um...
    • Pleanáil Teanga
      630. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sé achoimre ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le líon na mBailte Seirbhíse Gaeltachta...
    • Sports Organisations
      631. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his view on camogie players being forced to wear skirts or skorts; if this is in line with Government policy on increasing female...
    • Departmental Schemes
      633. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the cultural capital scheme application by a group (details supplied). [23459/25]
    • Road Projects
      634. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht regarding the commitment in the Programme for Government to restore the Scéim na mBóithre Áise to improve the...
    • Arts Funding
      635. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide funding to a traditional music festival of renown in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Tourism Promotion
      636. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the initiatives he is implementing to promote tourism in Kerry and enhance the region's appeal as a destination for visitors....
    • Departmental Bodies
      637. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his...
    • Tourism Promotion
      647. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Tourism Ireland will run an advertisement campaign to promote tourism within Ireland throughout subway stations in New York...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      648. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will reconsider the introduction of a content production levy given recent developments in the United States where there is...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      649. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht who is conducting the research and report on the basic income for artists; and if he is confident that the report will be...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Rural Schemes
      651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the availability and use of capital support programmes under his Department for rural settlements like...
    • Housing Schemes
      652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an occupational therapist will be assigned to Kerry County Council to accelerate housing adaptation grant application...
    • Housing Policy
      653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on changes to planning regulations for modular housing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Land Development Agency
      655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that there is a working group in Government looking at the future funding of the LDA; to confirm the persons on...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policies and regulations that exist in respect of residents in homeless accommodation seeking to make a complaint about...
    • Housing Schemes
      659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a complete list of all affordable housing schemes in Louth including the number of units under construction; when...
    • Rural Schemes
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect...
    • Planning Issues
      672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average wait time for a planning application to be fully processed from start to finish by An Bord Pleanála for each...
    • Climate Action Plan
      677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of individuals, families, and children currently in emergency accommodation, disaggregated by county and by...
    • Child Protection
      680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact of child homelessness on education access and well-being, and what cross-departmental supports are in place between...
    • Housing Provision
      681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people considered “hidden homeless” (for example in temporary, insecure or unsuitable living...
    • Rental Sector
      682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenancies supported by HAP nationally and by local authority. [23335/25]
    • Housing Provision
      685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the original and revised delivery targets under “Housing for All” for social, affordable purchase,...
    • Planning Issues
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions granted but not commenced for residential construction. [23340/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing developments or regeneration projects approved by the Department that have not proceeded due to cost...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of publicly owned or NAMA-held residential sites that remain idle or under-utilised. [23342/25]
    • Construction Industry
      689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average per-unit cost of construction under social and affordable housing schemes, by year and by project type (house or...
    • Housing Schemes
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all Departmental and agency-run schemes launched since 2020 aimed at increasing supply (for example...
    • Housing Policy
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he accepts that reliance on the private rental market for long-term housing of vulnerable individuals is unsustainable...
    • Departmental Consultations
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount spent by the Department since 2020 on consultants, feasibility studies, legal reviews, planning appeals, and...
    • Housing Provision
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Department or agency-led projects that incurred costs exceeding €1 million but produced no housing...
    • Housing Policy
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he will now formally declare a national housing emergency, and commit to convening a cross-party housing emergency...
    • Housing Schemes
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to introduce the “above the shop” property refurbishment grant to address vacancy and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the creation of the proposed housing activation office has been costed, and if so, if he will set out the projected costs...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the status as promised on the intentions of Government to bring forward new guidelines to replace the 2006...
    • Housing Policy
      705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the town centre first policy has failed to significantly reduce vacancy rates in smaller towns since its launch;...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the progress being made in the delivery of the wastewater treatment system for Craughwell, County Galway; if there...
    • Departmental Data
      709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the number of acquisitions made under social housing second hand acquisitions programme in 2024 and to date...
    • Housing Schemes
      710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to extend the shared equity scheme and the help to buy scheme for second-hand homes; if so, to outline a...
    • Planning Issues
      711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government on whom the duty lies to enforce An Bord Pleanála planning conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regulatory Bodies
      713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many staff were employed in An Bord Pleanála for the years 2020 to 2024, as of December in each year, in tabular...
    • Local Authorities
      720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many county directors of planning hold professional planning qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the staff retention rate in An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23618/25]
    • Planning Issues
      736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to allocate the low cost sites that are available at Over The Water, Cahersiveen, County Kerry for many years; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites that are zoned for planning specific to housing that are in Ireland from January 2025. [23691/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the amount allocated to each local authority for the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2023 and 2024 and the...
    • Rental Sector
      739. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the number of inspectors for private rental properties for each local authority for the years 2023...
    • Departmental Funding
      740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to establish a new Towns and Cities Infrastructure Investment Fund, to replace the Urban...
    • Housing Policy
      742. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of land activation units established in local authorities, as outlined in the Programme for Government. [23769/25]
    • Local Authorities
      743. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his engagement with Cork City Council regarding 33 families in Cork city whose homes are sale agreed under...
    • Defective Building Materials
      744. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on progress to date on the rollout of the scheme to address the remediation of defects in apartments and...
    • Derelict Sites
      745. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is working towards allowing county councils to apply the derelict site levy throughout the year and not just...
    • Local Government Reform
      747. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timelines his Department has in place to deliver the local government reforms mentioned in the Programme for Government;...
    • Departmental Bodies
      748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his...
    • Local Authorities
      757. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to immediately request local authorities to refrain from increasing rents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Schemes
      758. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing first tenancies that will be made available in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area in the next year....
    • Local Government Reform
      760. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether legislation will be progressed to transfer the powers of local authority chief executives to the elected council...
    • Housing Policy
      761. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering any policy measures to expand public land holdings in Irish cities and bring them in line with cities...
    • Local Authorities
      762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of the number of architects currently employed by local authorities, broken down by local authority; the number of...
    • Housing Policy
      765. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider instructing county councils to make more use of modular homes to tackle the housing crisis; if he will...
    • Water Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed report on progress under the measure A8, Waste Water Collection and Treatment Needs for Villages and...
    • Environmental Policy
      767. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made to support biodiversity; the key achievements since 2020; the plans between now and 2030; and if he...
    • Vacant Properties
      768. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant social homes brought back into active use in 2024 under the voids programme by local authority, in...
    • Planning Issues
      769. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residential units that have received planning permission with conditions restricting the bulk buying or multiple...
    • Housing Policy
      770. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce additional housing supports to single income households looking to purchase a home; and if he will make...
    • Energy Conservation
      771. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide updated figures on the installation of heat pumps in new homes, from 2021 to date in 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Schemes
      772. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reinstate the refurbishment costs as part of the tenant-in-situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cúrsaí Tithíochta
      773. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government sonraí a thabhairt maidir leis an teagmháil agus comhoibriú go léir idir a Roinn féin agus...
    • Legislative Process
      774. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the schedule for commencement of the various chapters and sections of the Planning and Development Act 2025,...
    • Housing Provision
      775. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing projects approved under the single stage approval process in each year since that process was...
    • Regeneration Projects
      776. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the regeneration of the Tarry Path in Cork. [24455/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      779. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 1 May 2025, regarding the affordable housing and social housing scheme at Tober...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      783. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the appeal of a person (details supplied). [23678/25]
    • Birth Certificates
      784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to urgently intervene and correct a genuine mistake in a birth certificate (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons no increases for child or adult dependants are paid with jobseeker's pay-related benefit; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      786. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he plans to amend the fuel allowance eligibility criteria for recipients over 66 years in the future; and if he will make...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      789. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which HAS1 payment rates are decided; the amount allocated per household member, per day of being without power...
    • Departmental Contracts
      790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to state who was awarded the contract to provide the auto-enrolment pension system; the amount the contract was for; when the...
    • Energy Usage
      791. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer’s allowance submitted in August 2024 will be approved as a matter of urgency (details...
    • Civil Registration Service
      794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy for listing party 1 and party 2 on marriage certificate documentation; if this policy differs between same-sex and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      795. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the current status of a disability allowance application for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      796. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23562/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the launch of an information campaign to promote the expanded scope of the wage subsidy...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any plan to implement recommendation No. 12 from the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      799. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the median and mean time to process carer's allowance reviews and appeals in each of the years 2015 to date; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      800. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown of the average processing time, average appeal processing times, the number of applications...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the roadmap for phasing out the carer's allowance means test, as committed to in the programme for...
    • Departmental Reviews
      802. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the comprehensive review of means tests across the social welfare system, as committed in the Programme for...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      803. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the number of people who have been in receipt of jobseeker's allowance payment...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision on an appeal will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23776/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      806. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the living alone allowance will be increased, (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23976/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase the means test allowance for single people over 70 years to qualify for fuel allowance in line with...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine a case affecting carers allowance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24010/25]
    • School Meals Programme
      819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if children (details supplied) are included in the hot meals programme; if the dietary conditions of the programme has been...
    • Childcare Services
      820. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of concerns among childcare sector workers that they must claim jobseeker’s benefit for every school...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      821. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will consider exempting funds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24220/25]
    • Employment Support Services
      822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals referred to JobPath providers (details supplied) since a contract was first commenced; the number...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on carer's allowance review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24302/25]
    • Employment Support Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department is aware of employment service providers (details supplied) subcontracting any work specifically related to...
    • Data Protection
      827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of information of individuals in receipt of social welfare that are passed on to Turas Nua or Seetec from...
    • Departmental Data
      828. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether her Department monitors the employment status of those who have been granted Irish citizenship in recent years; if...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      830. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing can be arranged in respect of an application for carer’s allowance (details supplied). [24331/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assistance his Department can offer to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24348/25]
    • Departmental Data
      832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that have received newborn baby grants since the scheme commenced in February, in tabular form, on a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that exist to support workers who are in receipt of carers' allowance payments and also on maternity leave, but...
    • Social Welfare Code
      834. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has plans to introduce a special scheme that would provide social protection for maritime/fishing sector workers,...
    • Employment Support Services
      835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an overview of data collected on the effectiveness of labour activation policies administered through Intreo centres; the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Visa Applications
      836. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will engage with relevant Departments on the significant visa processing delays being experienced by a group (details...
    • Departmental Policies
      837. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether an organisation’s working definition (details supplied) of antisemitism supersedes the description of racism...
    • Deportation Orders
      841. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the charter flight that departed to Georgia on 30 April 2025, the total cost of the flight; the total length of time...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      842. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a naturalisation application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      844. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the proposed building for a school (details supplied), which has not progressed since the sod was...
    • An Garda Síochána
      846. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána currently attached to a station (details supplied); the hours that the...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      847. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is no refugee programme in place for Palestinians, equivalent to the Afghan admission programme, considering...
    • Court Accommodation
      848. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on his plans to refurbish Wicklow district courthouse in Wicklow town; and if he will make a statement on...
    • International Protection
      849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a full, itemised, disaggregated and centre-by-centre breakdown of all financial, operational, service-based, and...
    • Departmental Offices
      850. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland...
    • Prison Service
      851. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the information considered by Government when making a decision (details supplied); if the governor of the...
    • European Court of Justice
      853. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the process by which applications are considered under a Court of Justice of the European Union ruling...
    • An Garda Síochána
      854. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the current number of Gardaí assigned to Waterford Garda Division, broken down by rank and station, and...
    • Domestic Violence
      857. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the progress made in the provision of domestic violence refuges for the counties currently without one;...
    • International Protection
      861. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to continue using a building (details supplied) as an IPAS centre, or if it will return to providing...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      865. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application made by a prisoner serving a sentence in the UK (details supplied) for permission to complete the...
    • International Protection
      867. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a cost of providing security on a monthly basis at an accommodation centre (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Prison Service
      868. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of whole-time and part-time prison chaplains working in each prison, in tabular form. [23478/25]
    • International Protection
      871. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant IPAS accommodation beds under paid contract with the State; the location of these vacant IPAS beds; the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      873. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the immigrant investor scheme was utilised in connection with a factory (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      874. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí, by rank, attached to the Garda Immigration Bureau based at Shannon Airport as of 2 May 2025. [23665/25]
    • Departmental Data
      878. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 565 to 568, and No. 570 of 25 March 2025 regarding offences committed on bail, if the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      879. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to Santry Garda station, by grade, at the end of April 2025, or the latest date available;...
    • Departmental Data
      881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of custodial sentences that have been handed down for drug possession per year from 2020 to date, in tabular form;...
    • Coroners Service
      884. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a complaints procedure available to bereaved families regarding the conduct of coroners; if no such procedure...
    • Departmental Bodies
      885. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his...
    • Departmental Funding
      889. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to identify any existing oversight mechanisms or audits that are conducted to assess the effectiveness of funding allocated to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      894. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown, by rank, of the number of officers stationed out of Kildare’s ASU base in Newbridge; and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      895. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the successful naturalisation application by a person (details supplied) did not proceed; the allowances made for...
    • An Garda Síochána
      896. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of competitions held for sworn gardaí to apply to join divisional collision forensic investigation units in...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      900. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for naturalisation being processed by the citizenship division at present; the average wait time for...
    • Family Reunification
      902. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current national policy in relation to family reunification for those granted asylum; the degree of familial...
    • Visa Applications
      903. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of approved and refused short-term visit and tourist visa applications in the past five years. [24350/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      904. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of offences recorded in each Garda station in County Mayo in each of the most recent five years; to provide a...
    • Visa Applications
      907. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will issue in respect of the long-term visa application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      908. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the formation of a new rural safety strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24453/25]
    • International Protection
      909. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be continuity of staffing for teams dealing with international protection and Ukraine accommodation since...
    • International Students
      910. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 585 of 1 April 2025, if he is satisfied that his Department undertook the necessary...
    • Alcohol Sales
      911. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if steps are being taken to reform the licensing laws to support Ireland's night-time economy and cultural life, including the...
    • International Protection
      912. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the full costs of modular housing for Ukrainians at Heywood Road, Clonmel, County Tipperary; the reason for the excessive...
    • An Garda Síochána
      913. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the Garda fleet in each Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24478/25]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Climate Action Plan
      915. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 728 of 8 April 2025, whether it remains his Department’s position that wool is a...
    • Forestry Sector
      916. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry licences issued in the years 2023 to date, by type, by quarter, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Usage
      920. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific measures taken in his departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      921. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite an ACRES payment in respect of farmers in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agricultural Colleges
      922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the exclusion of the Level 9 MSc (Agriculture) in Environmental Resource Management at University College Dublin...
    • Marine Institute
      923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the current Programme for Government's promised action to "Ensure the promotion of marine education courses and degree...
    • Departmental Bodies
      926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department,...
    • Departmental Funding
      930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to identify any existing oversight mechanisms or audits that are conducted to assess the effectiveness of funding allocated to...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department is considering the reinstatement of compulsory sheep dipping; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Veterinary Laboratories
      936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the progress and the plans around the Sligo regional veterinary laboratory (RVL); when works will be completed; the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm that for each year between 2020 and 2025 in respect of the boards of bodies under the aegis of his Department (details...
    • Agriculture Industry
      941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he and his Department are taking to support farmers' efforts in biodiversity; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Sector
      942. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many forestry felling licences were issued in 45 days or less from applications received from 1 January 2025 to date; and if he...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on an appeal which was recently submitted (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he received the application for the dredging of Cé Heilbhic from Waterford County Council before 4 April; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Supports
      945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans he has to introduce low interest loans for young farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24445/25]
    • Farm Safety
      946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to prioritise improvements in farm safety, health and well-being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24448/25]
    • Food Industry
      947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the strategy to support local and artisan food and drink producers in developing Irish food culture and production;...
    • Departmental Strategies
      948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the National TB eradication strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24450/25]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      949. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if suitable respite will be provided for a child (details supplied) given the previous respite offer was...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      952. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an assessment of needs will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Energy Usage
      953. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific measures taken in her departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      954. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied) as a matter of urgency, as the child...
    • Home Care Packages
      955. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the number of hours currently allocated to a person (details supplied); if the...
    • Childcare Services
      957. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide details on the percentage of early years providers accessing the Government’s core...
    • Disability Services
      958. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of waiting lists, to include banded waiting times, in the CDNT in north Kildare...
    • Childcare Services
      960. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the gradual reduction of childcare costs as committed to in the Programme for Government, the steps...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      961. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the shortage of school places in the Glasthule area in Dublin; the work being...
    • Care Services
      963. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of private foster care placements since January 2022, in tabular form; if use of private care has...
    • Disability Services
      964. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the numbers of persons on CDNT waiting lists in Kerry; the average waiting times to...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the supports being provided to people working in early years and afterschool care services to ensure...
    • Disability Services
      966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE psychologists based at East Clare Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2024 and...
    • Home Help Service
      968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, broken by area and by length of time, in tabular...
    • Disability Services
      969. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the campaigns her Department has undertaken to recruit qualified professionals from abroad to work within the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis...
    • Departmental Funding
      972. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to specify the total amount of funding allocated to each of the identified non-governmental organisations (NGOs)...
    • Departmental Reviews
      975. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to state whether any review or audit has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness, redundancy and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      976. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a summary of any specific steps taken to streamline non-governmental organisations under the aegis of...
    • Departmental Funding
      977. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the total administrative costs associated with non-governmental organisations under the aegis of her...
    • Departmental Bodies
      978. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a full and detailed explanation of how her Department monitors and ensures transparency in the use of...
    • Childcare Services
      979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all families deemed to have been over-charged by a facility (detailed supplied) in respect of their...
    • Disability Services
      983. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the definite commencement date in 2025 for the community neuro-rehabilitation team for HSE integrated health...
    • Departmental Meetings
      984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the dates and attendees of all MinMAC meetings in her Department since she took office; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      985. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of student placements in Blanchardstown Children's Disability Network Team, in 2024 and to-date in...
    • Departmental Funding
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is funding available for a local non-profit organisation to build a creche on local community owned...
    • Childcare Services
      988. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the number of children who benefited from supports under the national childcare scheme in 2022, 2023...
    • Disability Services
      989. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current provision and location of overnight respite care for children with disabilities in County Monaghan;...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      992. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid in redress to survivors of mother and baby and county homes. [24463/25]
  • Department of Health
    • Misuse of Drugs
      993. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on progress towards banning the sale of hexahydrocannabinol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23549/25]
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      994. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that due to delays in funding approval for certain service users, an organisation (details supplied) must pay out of pocket to provide meals...
    • Patient Transport
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the hospital transport budget for all hospitals in the south-east and mid-west regions; the qualifying criteria for patients availing of hospital transport;...
    • Health Services
      997. To ask the Minister for Health the services and treatment options that are available for people with a disease (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23177/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      998. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care centre for An Cheathrú Rua, County Galway; when the business case will be completed; and if the details for the business...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      999. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23182/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation regulating medical advertising and labelling, in particular the legislation regulating what health...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the innovation and economic growth section of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland; whether she views the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and psychology service staff currently working at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Ambulance Service
      1005. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recent announcement by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) on the recruitment of additional staff does not include any additional paramedic...
    • Dental Services
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1568 of 19 March 2025, if she will review this case again where a child (details supplied) has been on a waiting list...
    • Mental Health Services
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no permanent psychiatry expertise or consultants available on a 24-7 basis to address emergency psychiatry admissions of patients under 18...
    • State Claims Agency
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times has the State Claims Agency paid the legal costs and-or compensation incurred by a private company such as a clinic (details supplied) in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-invasive pregnancy test providers that supply the Irish market; the number of these that are located abroad; the number of these that do not...
    • Health Promotion
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health if any further steps are planned to resolve the impact vaping is having on our young people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23276/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of spiking that have been reported in the past five years, per county; including reports to hospitals and gardaí, in tabular form;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details regarding the traction system referred to in HIQA’s review on governance of implantable medical devices at Children’s...
    • Nursing Homes
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the national treatment purchase fund review of the nursing home pricing system, given that the programme for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health if she will explain the reason the shingles vaccine is not included in the national immunisation programme, despite overwhelming clinical evidence of its...
    • Energy Usage
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health the specific measures taken in her departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our climate targets for 2030;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 25 April 2024 if she will now expedite the urgent aftercare required by a person who had cataracts removed under...
    • Mental Health Services
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment to attend CAMHS, Kilkenny, will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [23432/25]
    • Primary Care Services
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals on the waiting list for primary care occupational therapy services in Carlow and Kilkenny; the steps being taken to reduce the...
    • Obesity Levels
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commission a comprehensive national report on the prevalence and projected trends of obesity in Ireland, with particular reference to the growing...
    • Health Services Staff
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health if an HSE employee who was granted a career break in 2023 and sought to return to work in September 2024 will be approved to return immediately; if she will...
    • Care Services
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for funding and for a carer for HSE home support in each month of 2025, by RHA and IHA; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1030. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [23445/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the bed base occupancy rates for each model 3 and model 4 hospital in this State as of 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, or on similar and relevant...
    • Emergency Departments
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the increase in emergency department (ED) presentations for each model 3 and model 4 hospital ED between 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, and their...
    • Medicinal Products
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request the HSE to make the new, life changing prostate cancer therapy, pluvicto, a treatment that has been approved by the European Medicines...
    • Mental Health Services
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to ensure that the current 15- to 18-month wait for an appointment on referral to the ADMiRE Clinic in CAMHS is decreased; the efforts...
    • Health Services Staff
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the recruitment of staff for the ADHD clinic in CHO 7. [23499/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the proposed site for the north east primary care centre, and what planning stage the project is at. [23500/25]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health if smaller and independent shopkeepers will be exempted from the hefty tobacco products licence fees, as per the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long on an operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23519/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health whether weight loss medication (details supplied) can be covered under the medical card scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23521/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details regarding the private clinic located at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street; the details of the contract with the...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints Children’s Health Ireland received in 2024; the response time for complaints; the percentage of complaints which required...
    • Hospital Staff
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if a number of required positions have been filled in Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service; and the number that...
    • Hospital Services
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the number of spina bifida multidisciplinary team clinics held in Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number at which a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists at University Hospital Kerry, broken down by speciality, in each of the years 2015 to date; and if she will make a...
    • Emergency Departments
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of average accident and emergency waiting list times, broken down by hospital, in each of the years 2015 to date; and if she will make...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the numbers of persons on CAMHS psychology waiting lists in Kerry; the average waiting times to access these services; to provide a...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on progress towards banning the sale of hexahydrocannabinol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23548/25]
    • Care Services
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive care supports, and how her Department plans to address the shortfall in supports available to those suffering...
    • Health and Safety
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ban the use of sunbeds, as endorsed by the Taoiseach; if, in the interim, she will take action to ensure that sun bed providers are not accepting...
    • Medical Cards
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health whether Addison’s disease be covered under the medical card and the drugs repayment scheme. [23557/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the actions she is taking to support children with eating disorders (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists for GPs in Kerry in each of the years 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Services
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists for primary care services in Kerry in each of the years 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists for psychological services in Kerry, broken down by child, young person and adult, in each of the years 2015 to date,...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new elective hospital for North Dublin will proceed to a formal planning application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23624/25]
    • Emergency Departments
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has undertaken to deliver a new expanded modern accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health what capacity will the new accident and emergency department in Beaumont Hospital have compared to the current emergency department; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health to request the HSE to review and put in place a referral pathway for patients and key resources, to make more use of the Children's Health Ireland Urgent Care...
    • Health Services Staff
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of speech and language therapists currently employed within CHO 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23654/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at University Hospital Limerick in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health the projects in County Clare that are included in the HSE Capital Plan 2025; the funding allocated to each in this plan; and the timeframe for progress of...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for psychology services in primary care within CHO 3. [23663/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE lactation consultants based within community care settings of CHO 3 in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [23664/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently consider the case of a person (details supplied), aged 51-years-old and suffering with MS, who is currently awaiting assessment by a...
    • Health Services
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is suffering from a chronic neurological disorder and enduring constant debilitating pain has not got the benefit...
    • Planning Issues
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that aero-medical and special operations section of the Health Service Executive and Galway University Hospital have confirmed their satisfaction...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred by University Hospital Limerick for prostate surgery at St....
    • Hospital Services
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health if the operating hours for ultrasounds at University Hospital Galway will be expanded beyond the current operating hours of Monday to Friday between 9 a.m....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers with Covid-19 currently in receipt of the special leave with pay. [23714/25]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 27 March 2025, if she will provide a detailed breakdown of the reasons 132 of the 200 appeals to reimbursement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health her plans for healthcare workers with Covid-19 upon the ending of the special leave with pay but who continue to suffer disabling symptoms that render them...
    • Medical Cards
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card scheme does not cover the cost of providing a GP medical cert, which is a requirement for over 70-year-old applicants to a renew a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on occupational therapy waiting lists in County Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Dental Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting dental appointments in County Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies within University Hospital Kerry, by occupation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23760/25]
    • Health Services
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for adults special care needs GA waiting list for routine dental care in each hospital, in tabular form. [23782/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the number of patients on the public waiting list for cataract surgery as at the end of April 2025, male or female, age, and how long they...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of her Department, focusing particularly on...
    • Nursing Homes
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the current situation whereby vulnerable elderly sick people in need of nursing home care, either short- or long-term, are being placed in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to review the eligibility criteria for the long-term illness scheme to include inflammatory bowel conditions, such as Crohn’s disease and...
    • Abortion Services
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision was taken at Department of Health and HSE level, prior to the abortion law changing in 2019, to adopt an approach to pregnancy counselling...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps her Department has taken to expand IVF support to those experiencing secondary infertility; the supports currently in place for secondary...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to re-advertise the tender for the construction of a primary care centre in Portumna, County Galway; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list in Crumlin Childrens Hospital dental section; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24066/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that the dental section in Crumlin Childrens Hospital is not doing any preventive dental care at present, unless it is an emergency, due to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts in orthodontics in Crumlin Childrens Hospital that are currently waiting to be filled, how long the vacancies have existed; and if...
    • Hospital Services
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health if patients currently on waiting lists for procedures will be referred for the new Swords surgical hub when it opens later in 2025; and if she will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department has undertaken to ensure that the fair deal scheme does not impede succession planning in particular the succession of agricultural...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on her plans to commence each section of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Qualifications
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department has undertaken with the Department of Further and Higher Education and third level institutions to increase the supply of graduates...
    • Health Services
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on her work to ensure even more routine healthcare services are available in the evenings and weekends as mentioned in the Programme for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work her Department has undertaken through the Laura Brennan HPV Catch Up Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work her Department has carried out to work towards the full digitisation of Irish healthcare records; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department has undertaken to advertise outside of Ireland for healthcare professionals and healthcare workers; and if she will make a statement...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health the share of GMS practices that receive the social deprivation practice grant, from the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of amputees in Ireland is collated in a national database; if not, the reason; if she plans to establish a database of amputees to inform and...
    • Health Service Executive
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health the list of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24118/25]
    • Oireachtas Committees
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which she will ensure the Disability Committee is accessible to parents and carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24116/25]
    • Dental Services
      1147. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices that are currently accepting new medical card patients in the Cork area and the south Lee area as of now, and at this same...
    • Health Services
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health whether dialysis patients travel together via taxi. [24121/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health if sustainability for climate criteria are written into the HSE’s procurement policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24189/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to address the waiting lists regarding assessment of needs tests for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24198/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1154. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the current staffing levels within CAMHS teams in west Cork and the wider Cork area; and the number of children who have been referred...
    • Hospital Services
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on any plans or protocols for children who present to accident and emergency departments with psychiatric crises; and if...
    • Mental Health Services
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to CAMHS by CHO7 in the past 12 months; the number of those referrals rejected by CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the infrastructure needs at University Hospital Kerry (details supplied). [15084/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health the redress that has already been delivered and is further planned for patients and their families who were found to have suffered at the hands of the...
    • Abortion Services
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health if, given the HSE’s statement highlighting a link between telemedicine abortion and coercive control, she will commit to ending the practice of...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the rights parents or guardians have to be consulted and involved in medical decisions during the decision-making representative application process; if...
    • Health Services Staff
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people availing of the temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees unfit for work post-Covid-19 infection; if she will...
    • Dental Services
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) can have the dental intervention they need, within a timeframe that allows them to...
    • Health Service Executive
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in adult mental health services in CHO7; the number of child and adolescent mental health service beds in CHO7; the average waiting time to...
    • Hospital Services
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in each private hospital nationwide are currently occupied by a patient who first presented to a public hospital, but was transferred by...
    • Health Services Staff
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the introduction of a regulatory framework for the currently unregulated role of physician assistants, enabling this role to be formally...
    • Home Help Service
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elderly people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health to outline her plans to provide an alternative to accident and emergency for people experiencing a mental health crisis; if this will be included in her...
    • Hospital Staff
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE secretaries working with each consultant paediatric dermatologist based at CHI Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form....
    • Primary Care Centres
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of primary care centres where intravitreal injections for age-related macular degeneration currently takes place. [24288/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologists working in the public health service; her plans to expand this number; and the international recommended best...
    • Health Services
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who urgently needs a transfer of care to a medical consultant/team, a full-time healthcare assistant...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered the potential impact of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2024 on specialty vape shops from a ban on vape...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health if the possibility could be examined of amalgamating appointments (details supplied), as trying to get to all of the appointments in two different places will...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to keep the model of care for long-Covid under review, as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health if she will approve the outstanding service level agreement for a meals on wheels group (details supplied); if funding will be provided as agreed in 2024,...
    • Medical Cards
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of over 70's medical cards in circulation at the end of April 2025, for each local health area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, the current staffing shortfall at the HSE’s Galway community audiology services; when the...
    • Medical Cards
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a medical card holder (details supplied) needing assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24356/25]
    • Health Services
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients undergoing treatment for sleep disorders in Ireland in each of the years 2020 to 2024, and as of 30 April 2025, in tabular form; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting diagnosis for sleep apnoea in Ireland, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24360/25]
    • Health Services
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients undergoing treatment for sleep apnoea in Ireland in each of the years 2020 to 2024, and as of 30 April 2025, in tabular form; and if...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the creation of a national sleep programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24363/25]
    • Cancer Services
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether it is appropriate that there is no national skin cancer screening programme in Ireland at present; if there are any plans to establish...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health to estimate the current annual costs to the Exchequer of treating skin cancer and related conditions. [24379/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have undergone genetic testing at St. James's Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [24381/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE public health nurses covering the Palmerstown area in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [24382/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 5A waiting list patients seen in the CHO7 area under the HSE orthopaedic treatment waiting list initiative in 2024. [24384/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, at functional neurological disorder services at St. James's Hospital; and the expected timeframe for filling...
    • Health Services Staff
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric plastic surgeons based at CHI Crumlin in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [24386/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an urgent CAMHS assessment following GP referral, given their severe behavioural challenges and significant...
    • Health Services
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health the coordinated care pathways available for children with multiple diagnoses, such as ASD, epilepsy, and speech delays, who are ineligible for CAMHS and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department will intervene in the case of a child (details supplied). [24405/25]
    • Health Services
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the future of the physiotherapy service currently based in St. Joseph's Campus in Longford town; if she is aware that the...
    • Cancer Research
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to increase the number of clinical trials, with a strong focus on cancer drugs. [24415/25]
    • Voluntary Hospital Sector
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health the accumulated deficits of each voluntary hospital nationwide as reported to her Department and or the HSE as of 1 January 2025, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that all emergency departments across the State have a safe space for cancer patients, forced to access care through this route. [24446/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that all diagnosed cancer patients receive a medical card. [24447/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and the reason for the delay in signing off on regulations and commencement of inquiry into the historical licensing and use of sodium valproate...
    • Abortion Services
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare providers who provide abortion services in each county, both in raw figures and as a percentage of total healthcare provision cover,...
    • Health Services Staff
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health if the appointment of a paediatric rheumatologist for the Munster region is being considered, given the strong demand for such a service by those suffering...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health whether the helipad at the new National Children’s Hospital will be capable of accommodating the new AgustaWestland AW189 helicopters used by the Irish...
    • Health Services
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene in the dispute between the HSE and healthcare workers in relation to the pay and numbers strategy; the discussions she has had regarding...
    • Departmental Policies
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health the action she is planning to take on the implementation of alcohol labelling, as per Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; her views on the proposed pausing or...
    • Home Help Service
      1221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, broken by area and by length of time, in tabular form [24945/25]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Fees
      1222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an Irish citizen, who completed their second-level education abroad, in a non-EU country, who plans to return and pursue their third-level...
    • Legislative Measures
      1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation governing school matriculation and university entry in Ireland. [23165/25]
    • Education and Training Provision
      1224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional supports will be provided for individuals undertaking construction related training and upskilling; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Usage
      1226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our climate...
    • Third Level Staff
      1227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the governance issues identified in the CINNTE review of South East Technological University, including the delay in...
    • Third Level Education
      1230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will act on the recommendations of the CINNTE review to improve student supports and retention at South East Technological University,...
    • Construction Industry
      1233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount his Department have spent on encouraging Irish construction workers to return to Ireland; if he will outline any financial incentives...
    • Third Level Education
      1234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether he is aware of a proposal to close the Saint Vincent's, Sunday's Well, music department and relocate; the timeline for same; and the...
    • Grant Payments
      1235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of removing the mature dependent section of SUSI treating all over the age of 23 as independent; and if he will make a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of paying all apprentices a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23576/25]
    • Third Level Fees
      1238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing all international fees by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23578/25]
    • Grant Payments
      1239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of allowing SUSI to cover micro credentials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23579/25]
    • Further and Higher Education
      1241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new further education and training college announced on 12 December 2022 in Swords will proceed to a formal planning application; and...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase education and training of new planners, including upskilling and conversion courses for professionals with relevant...
    • Grant Payments
      1249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an Irish citizen, who completed their second-level education abroad, in a non-EU country, that intends to return and pursue their third-level...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills about, for example, football, boxing, athletics, youth services, social services, health and well-being, community outreach, and cultural...
    • Scientific Research
      1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering any policy measures to remedy the "replication crisis" in the life sciences; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Measures
      1261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation regulating the rights and entitlements of third level students in respect of the...
    • Grant Payments
      1262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to assist a person (details supplied) who has been denied a SUSI grant due to complex circumstances not of their...
    • Irish Language
      1266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to fully implement the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 in all higher education institutions, HEIs; and if he will...
    • Third Level Staff
      1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to offering teaching or research posts in Ireland to academics in the US who have experienced or are at risk of...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of further education and training places in 2024, and the estimated cost of increasing the number of places by 1,000; and if he...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Reviews
      1272. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the Clár review due to be completed and additional areas included; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Usage
      1273. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the specific measures taken in his Departmental offices and operations in reducing energy usage and to assist in Ireland meeting our...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1274. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of rural broadband connection points still awaiting activation; and to provide a timeline for full delivery, including in...
    • Rural Schemes
      1275. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will publish full monthly expenditure profiles for all major rural and community programmes in 2025. [23390/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1276. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will confirm whether all capital underspends in 2024 were reallocated within the Department, or returned to the Exchequer....
    • Departmental Projects
      1277. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of capital delivery teams that are now fully operational; and whether further supports are planned to accelerate project...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1278. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether he intends to propose a stand-alone rural equality strategy during the lifetime of this Government. [23393/25]
    • Rural Schemes
      1280. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will set out plans to rebalance CLÁR programme allocations in favour of the most socio-economically disadvantaged areas....
    • Departmental Funding
      1282. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide details of total funding for SICAP in each of the last ten years, in tabular form; if he accepts that SICAP funding has...
    • Community Development Projects
      1283. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide figures on how many unsuccessful applications were received under the community centre investment fund over the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1284. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will engage with a community services group (details supplied) regarding its application to the community services programme;...
    • Men's Sheds
      1285. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline what direct supports are being provided to men’s and women’s sheds; and whether multi-annual core funding...
    • Departmental Funding
      1286. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason there are ongoing delays in disbursing community recognition fund allocations, to detail all delayed allocations in...
    • Community Development Projects
      1287. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm that consideration would be given to granting and paying out the sum awarded to a club (details supplied) under the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1288. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a comprehensive list of all non-governmental organisations operating within the State under the aegis of his Department,...
    • Departmental Funding
      1290. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to specify the total amount of funding allocated to each of the identified non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under his...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1295. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline the total administrative costs associated with non-governmental organisations under the aegis of his Department, including...

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