Written answers
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Cabinet Committees
1. To ask the Taoiseach for a schedule of all cabinet sub-committees and the membership of each committee. [30740/25]
- National Security
2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings convened of the new National Security Forum, including the dates the forum met, and the date for the next meeting. [30766/25]
- Departmental Data
3. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30782/25]
- Departmental Contracts
4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €1million that...
- Census of Population
6. To ask the Taoiseach the date for the next planned census. [31013/25]
- Departmental Staff
7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the reason for engaging them; the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Departmental Data
8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the list of each instance in which the Government granted approval as required under Article 40.2.2 of the Constitution to a citizen to accept...
- Consular Services
9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide assistance to an Irish citizen (details supplied) who has been arrested by the Israeli military and remains in custody awaiting a...
- Departmental Data
11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies,...
- Departmental Contracts
12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in...
- Passport Services
14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to establish a passport printing service at the Cork passport office, which would help ensure a quicker turnaround period for applicants...
- Trade Agreements
15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the EU-India Free Trade Agreement negotiations. [31059/25]
- Visa Agreements
17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that a small number of students who were granted J1 visas are now not permitted to travel by the US authorities; whether his...
- Departmental Staff
18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Postal Services
19. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give detailed and urgent consideration to a recent report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Electricity Generation
20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is still the Government’s intention to proceed with ‘private wire’ legislation to allow data...
- Departmental Funding
21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the funding provided to the warmer homes scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular...
- Departmental Data
24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all...
- Departmental Contracts
25. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had...
- Departmental Funding
27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the funding available to renewable energy communities in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the...
- State Bodies
31. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the first- and full-year cost of establishing the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. [31334/25]
- EU Agreements
33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position which Ireland will take on the upcoming renewal of the memorandum of understanding between the European Union,...
- Bord na Móna
34. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 28 May 2025, for an update on the decision from the Competition and Consumer...
- Departmental Consultations
35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Data
36. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in...
- Departmental Contracts
37. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in...
- Defence Forces
39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the arrangements between the Defence Forces and the Maltese Defence Forces whereby Maltese cadets receive training at the Curragh Camp...
- Departmental Staff
44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Test
45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30739/25]
- Road Safety
46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Road Safety Authority will consider an awareness campaign to promote the importance of walking on the right side of the road for...
- Air Safety
47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views following the recent disclosure in the Sunday papers that dozens of flights of an airline (details supplied) were grounded due...
- Departmental Data
48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all subsidiary...
- Departmental Contracts
49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued...
- Public Sector Pensions
51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he is taking to ensure that there is a full committee overseeing the operation of the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951; the...
- Bus Services
52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he was aware of the issues facing many wheelchair users of the Bus Éireann many of whom have to book their place on a bus prior to...
- Electric Vehicles
54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on plans to facilitate kerbside home electric charging points for residents who do not have a driveway (details supplied)....
- Air Safety
55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a unmanned aircraft systems policy framework; if this policy framework will address individuals’ concerns...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct Transport Infrastructure Ireland to engage with the communication issued to them by an organisation (details supplied)....
- Bus Services
57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the operators of all bus routes contracted with the NTA; when the operator was awarded the contract; the duration of the...
- Road Projects
58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to allocate funding for the upgrade of a road (details supplied). [30908/25]
- Road Safety
59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the progress on the reduction of the speed limit in urban cores to 30km/h; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Bus Services
60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will outline plans for an early morning bus route from Cork to Waterford for those travelling to third level education;...
- Public Transport
61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of journeys taken by Leap card in teach of the years since its introduction, in tabular form. [31014/25]
- Departmental Contracts
63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if framework-based procurement is included in his Department’s reporting of tendered procurement in its annual accounts; and if he...
- National Development Plan
68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of capital funding allocated to his Department under the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the amount of capital funding that has not yet been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31036/25]
- Electric Vehicles
70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the electric small public service vehicle scheme will re-open for applications. [31091/25]
- Driver Licences
71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the NDLS offices are not offering a walk in service in Tralee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Road Traffic Offences
74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether it is an offence for a driver of a motor vehicle to overtake a school bus while it is stopped to board or disembark students; if...
- Departmental Staff
75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of retired officials who were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025;...
- Department of Finance
- Local Authorities
76. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the borrowing capacity of local authorities and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31084/25]
- Tax Reliefs
77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider recommending that Crohn’s disease and colitis sufferers be allowed to avail of the tax break on gluten-free products that is...
- Departmental Data
78. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form....
- Departmental Contracts
79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €1...
- Exchequer Deficit
81. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the annual cost of interest payments on the State’s national debt for each year during the period 2000 to date; the total interest payments...
- State Pensions
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pensioners that their sole income in the State pension; the number of pensioners that have an income below what would be required to pay income...
- Tax Code
83. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of removing the USC on all income up to €30,000, €35,000, €40,000 and €45,000, respectively, in tabular form....
- Departmental Staff
89. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of retired officials who were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the reason for...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Data
90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary...
- Departmental Contracts
91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued...
- Office of Public Works
93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 114 of 26 February 2025, if he will provide an update on a possible timeline for a visit to the...
- Public Sector Pensions
94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on movements being made to explore a supplementary pension for post-2013 uniformed public servants retiring before the...
- Office of Public Works
95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 396 of 8 April 2025 and 61 of 14 May 2025, when he will meet an organisation (details supplied) as...
- Departmental Data
96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 29 April 2025, if there is any formal tabular measurement of the regional balance with...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 664 of 29 April 2025, if his Department envisages any further improvements to the provision of...
- Departmental Staff
98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of retired officials who were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025;...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Data
99. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary...
- Cybersecurity Policy
100. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline his Department’s activities and plans to support the development of Ireland’s cybersecurity industry; and if...
- Redundancy Payments
101. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to review the current statutory redundancy guidelines, with a view to reducing the time required to claim a payment and to...
- Tourism Funding
102. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether tourism funding should be ringfenced by region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31069/25]
- Tourism Policy
103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a tourist tax for Irish cities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31070/25]
- Industrial Development
105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA visits to each of counties Laois, Offaly, Longford, Westmeath, Roscommon, Galway, Tipperary and Kildare in 2022,...
- Departmental Staff
109. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in...
- Employment Support Services
110. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure that the maximum possible support is provided by his Department, and the industrial promotion agencies under the...
- Industrial Relations
111. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases brought to the District Court by workers seeking enforcement of a Workplace Relations Commission's awards, under...
- Departmental Contracts
112. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Bus Services
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is a requirement that in order for a private school bus operator to obtain a PSV permit they must have a contract with Bus Éireann;...
- Schools Building Projects
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she has plans to facilitate the expansion of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30747/25]
- Departmental Data
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within her Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in...
- Departmental Contracts
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by her Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in...
- School Staff
119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills that staff allocation a school (details supplied) will have for the upcoming school term beginning in September 2025 through to 2026; and if she...
- School Funding
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) was refused funding for an additional ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to issue a letter to approval as a matter of urgency to a school (details supplied). [30889/25]
- Prison Service
123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the secure unit allowance to be extended to all teachers teaching in both closed medium and high security prisons; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Correspondence
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30911/25]
- Schools Building Projects
125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30960/25]
- State Examinations
126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the difficulties being encountered by students with dyslexia sitting State exams (details supplied); the plans her Department...
- Schools Building Projects
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed date for the completed construction of a school (details supplied); the reason for the delays to date; and if she will make a...
- School Funding
128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the schedule of grans for schools will be available for the 2025/2026 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31037/25]
- School Staff
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when special needs assistant allocations for mainstream classes for the 2025/2026 school year will be finalised by the NCSE; and if she will make...
- School Funding
130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a grant received by a school (details supplied) will be reviewed given the school has been refused the sensory room grant; and if she will...
- School Curriculum
131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the possibility of making the driving theory test a mandatory element of the transition year cycle programme will be investigated; and if she...
- School Funding
132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following her announcement of €65 million in minor works and ICT funding for schools, if she will confirm the difference between funding...
- School Accommodation
135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31172/25]
- School Funding
136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on funding (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31175/25]
- Schools Building Projects
137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will commence for the delivery of a new classroom for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Accommodation
139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31178/25]
- Schools Building Projects
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31179/25]
- Teacher Training
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing training to student teachers and qualified teachers to complete work placements in special education settings;...
- Special Educational Needs
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures the Government is taking to tackle the inequalities between school children with extra educational needs or disabilities. [30281/25]
- Departmental Staff
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by her Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the...
- School Enrolments
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to follow through in the Programme for Government’s plan to ensure, through the NDP process, that adequate funding...
- School Staff
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include school secretaries and caretakers in the public service pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27338/25]
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Post Office Network
146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made on the programme for Governments commitment "to provide the nationwide network of post offices with...
- Departmental Data
148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including...
- Departmental Contracts
149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the supports and guidance currently available to SMEs in relation to implementation of the NIS2 Directive;...
- Regulatory Bodies
152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of employees employed by ComReg yearly. [30996/25]
- Artists' Remuneration
156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will extend the basic income for the arts pilot scheme which is due to end in August; if the scheme will be...
- Departmental Staff
159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Wildlife Conservation
160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made in reversing the decline in numbers of the hen harrier following the publication of the 2022 National...
- Local Authorities
161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to retrofit a local authority home, broken down by pre- and post-BER in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and...
- Departmental Data
162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all...
- Departmental Contracts
163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had...
- Legislative Measures
165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all sections of the Planning and Development Act 2024 that have been formally enacted; and the date upon...
- Environmental Policy
167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in light of the deepening ecological catastrophe engulfing Lough Neagh, and noting that the 2025 fishing season has...
- Urban Development
168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on call 3 for the urban regional development fund, including the number of projects that applied for funding,...
- Environmental Policy
169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the reasons for his plans to downgrade the environmental target standards of 466 stretches of river, lakes...
- Defective Building Materials
170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the interim funding for multi-unit development defects remediation; the total number of schemes that have...
- Electricity Supply Board
172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a list of all the meetings he and his officials have had with the ESB since he took office, providing dates and attendees...
- Departmental Meetings
173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a list of all the meetings he and his officials have had with the infrastructure unit of the Department of Public...
- Local Authorities
174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the borrowing capacity of all local authorities combined for the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [31083/25]
- Election Management System
176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the development of a national shared electoral registration system; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of retired officials who were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Departmental Schemes
180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider altering the criteria for the means test for fuel allowance to allow a greater income threshold for those...
- Departmental Data
181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all...
- Departmental Contracts
182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had...
- Social Welfare Fraud
184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments that are collected once every seven or eight weeks in south Tipperary; if there is a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal (details supplied). [30884/25]
- Social Welfare Payments
186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis undertaken into the distributional impact of the new jobseeker’s pay-related benefit ahead of its...
- Social Welfare Code
187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will consider adapting the income assessment period for jobseeker’s pay-related benefit to reflect that...
- Social Welfare Benefits
188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare payments open to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31049/25]
- Community Employment Schemes
189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection is he is concerned that recent policy changes outlined in correspondence (details supplied) will impact on projects that...
- Departmental Staff
190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical assessors employed by his Department; if he can identify the average number of professional-opinion...
- Social Welfare Benefits
192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be carried out in relation to the decision not to award the carer’s support grant to a person...
- Social Welfare Rates
193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the occasions since 2000 that the weekly means limit for the increase for qualified adult allowance for recipients of the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if kinship carers are eligible for the back to school allowance. [31180/25]
- Social Welfare Code
196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending child benefit to families in the international protection process. [31181/25]
- Child Poverty
197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost and feasibility of setting up a new departmental team to address child poverty. [31182/25]
- Social Welfare Rates
198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost to increase working age social welfare payments by €1. [31183/25]
- State Pensions
202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of restoring the right to retire at 65 and reintroducing the State pension. [31187/25]
- Pension Provisions
203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of introducing a long term carer’s pension. [31188/25]
- Social Welfare Rates
204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of a €1 increase to the household benefits gas or electricity payment. [31189/25]
- Departmental Schemes
205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of expanding the free travel scheme to include those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance....
- Pension Provisions
206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of pension provision for foster carers and kinship carers; figures to be given separately....
- Social Welfare Schemes
207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending the guardian payment to cover children over the age of 12. [31201/25]
- Social Workers Register
209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of hiring a case worker to help social welfare applicants. [31203/25]
- Social Welfare Application Forms
210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of increasing support for social welfare applicants struggling with literacy or accessibility....
- Paternity Leave
211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of doubling the provision of paternity leave benefit to four weeks. [31206/25]
- Parental Leave
212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending parent’s leave benefit up to eight weeks. [31207/25]
- Social Welfare Schemes
213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of providing up to 20 days of reproductive leave, as outlined in the reproductive...
- Departmental Staff
214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of retired officials re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in...
- Social Welfare Appeals
215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Deportation Orders
216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of officials from her Department or bodies under her aegis that have travelled on Department of Justice, Home...
- An Garda Síochána
217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public order unit vans attached to the Kerry division as of 23 May 2025; if he will provide same figures as...
- Departmental Bodies
218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all...
- Information and Communications Technology
219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had...
- Deportation Orders
221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of individuals deported to Nigeria on the State-co-ordinated charter flight that...
- Visa Applications
226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current turnaround time for category D visa applications; the date of category D applications currently being processed; if...
- Cybersecurity Policy
229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress on developing a new national cybersecurity strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30073/25]
- Road Traffic Offences
230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people prosecuted for illegally modifying an electric bicycle to increase its power or speed since 2020, broken...
- An Garda Síochána
232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1607 of 29 April 2025, if he will set out the basis and purpose for the review of the...
- Family Law Cases
235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family law and childcare cases heard in camera in each of the past five years, by court level - district, circuit...
- Departmental Reviews
236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reviews or consultations that have taken place regarding the impact of the in camera rule on public understanding, media...
- Departmental Data
238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of accredited media applications made to attend in camera family or childcare proceedings under section 40 of the...
- Departmental Inquiries
241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has plans to use State-owned accommodation in Trim or the surrounding areas as an IPAS centre. [31089/25]
- Court Procedures
242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the newly appointed senior counsel to examine the conditions under which a repeat offender may be granted bail...
- International Protection
243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection in accommodation supported by the accommodation recognition payment,...
- Ukraine War
247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Ukrainian arrivals to Ireland since 2024, broken down by month, in tabular form, and the average number of...
- EU Directives
248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make a statement on the proposal by the European Commission to extend the Temporary Protection Directive provisions...
- Departmental Staff
249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to...
- Departmental Data
250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles seized and or impounded by Gardai, by county in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in respect of learner...
- Departmental Contracts
256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts...
- Departmental Schemes
258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2024 ACRES scheme payment will issue to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Inquiries
261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an ACRES payment to a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31257/25]
- Departmental Staff
262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Data
263. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within her Department,...
- Departmental Contracts
264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by her Department or bodies under its aegis,...
- Departmental Staff
266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of sanctioned posts and filled posts, by discipline and school, for therapists in Cork special...
- Disability Diagnoses
267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average length of time spent per assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005, where a finding of no...
- Departmental Staff
268. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of individual psychologists, that are directly employed by the HSE, who conduct assessment of...
- Departmental Data
269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will identify by name each section 38 organisation who conduct assessment of need processes for the HSE;...
- Health Services Staff
272. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how the HSE determines when a psychologist who is conducting an assessment of need process, either directly or...
- Childcare Services
273. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost via the national childcare scheme to reduce childcare fees to €200 per month. [31085/25]
- Departmental Data
274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost of increasing the wages across all grades of early years educators by €1.50 per hour...
- Family Resource Centres
275. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost of including all family resource centres into the national forum based on the number that...
- Care Services
276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year cost of opening all available beds in special care settings. [31088/25]
- Departmental Inquiries
277. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 22 May 2025, if the HSE will reply to this Deputy; and if she will...
- Departmental Data
280. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of enduring power of attorney applications completed by the Decision Support Service; if issues...
- Departmental Inquiries
281. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive an assessment of need; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
282. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her assessment of the Early Learning and Childcare Survey of Parents 2025 results; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Data
283. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of services that have engaged with the Department regarding the sustainability fund or case...
- Departmental Staff
284. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by her Department on a consultancy basis in the past four...
- Department of Health
- Carer's Leave
285. To ask the Minister for Health the first- and full-year cost of giving family carers the right to a minimum of 20 days paid respite. [31199/25]
- Medical Cards
286. To ask the Minister for Health the first- and full-year cost of allowing recipients of disability allowance to retain their medical cards if they return to work. [31204/25]
- Hospital Staff
287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses based at Killarney Community Hospital; if this number will be further increased before the end of 2025; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Equipment
288. To ask the Minister for Health if wheelchairs, rollators and other such mobility equipment supplied by the HSE are recycled; if so, the number of such units that are put back into use; and...
- Hospital Staff
289. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant respiratory physicians based at Kerry University Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Data
290. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of a 20% increase in clinical training places for medical interns, initial specialist training, higher specialist training and clinical psychology;...
- Vaccination Programme
295. To ask the Minister for Health when the vaccine injury compensation scheme will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30761/25]
- Departmental Reviews
296. To ask the Minister for Health if measures are being considered and taken to review the criteria that determine the access of adults with spinal muscular atrophy to approved treatment; and...
- Departmental Data
297. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within her Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form....
- Departmental Contracts
298. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by her Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of...
- Departmental Policies
300. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a type of medication (details supplied) is not currently available in Ireland; if consideration will be given to approving the medication urgently...
- Departmental Data
303. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card patients seen through the MRI scanner in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan in the past two years. [30843/25]
- Departmental Inquiries
304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no pelvis MRI scanning done for medical card holders in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan. [30844/25]
- Hospital Services
305. To ask the Minister for Health the MRI scans that are done in Navan for medical card holders. [30845/25]
- Health Service Executive
306. To ask the Minister for Health if the adult ADHD HSE service in Cork is currently taking referrals; the current staffing levels for the service; the wait time to be offered an initial...
- Departmental Programmes
307. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the progress made to date in delivering the national bioinformatics roadmap, including key milestones achieved; to provide details on the current...
- Ambulance Service
311. To ask the Minister for Health if she will prioritise the provision of an ambulance base in Killorglin, County Kerry; if she will accept that Killorglin town and the mid-Kerry region is a...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
312. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, by area, by length of time, in each of the years 2015 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will...
- Health Service Executive
313. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a HSE directive to home carers prohibiting them from administering medicated cream (such as difene cream) to someone they...
- Healthcare Policy
314. To ask the Minister for Health when there will be equal access for spinraza treatment for adults with spinal muscular atrophy treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30952/25]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
317. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the delivery of the Killarney primary care centre on the site of Áras Pádraig in Lewis Road; if she is satisfied that this is the best...
- Community Care
318. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the delivery of the new Killarney community nursing unit will facilitate the provision of a local injuries unit (minor injuries) at the St....
- Hospital Facilities
319. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated delivery date for the 108-bed extension planned for University Hospital Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30970/25]
- Hospital Services
320. To ask the Minister for Health if, given the planned upgrade of the oncology unit at University Hospital Kerry (UHK), increased radiotherapy and chemotherapy services will be available there...
- Health Services Staff
321. To ask the Minister for Health if the recruitment embargo can be lifted from the health services, particularly additional staff reductions due to retirements, resignations, and so on; and if...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
322. To ask the Minister for Health if, when the new Killarney community nursing unit is complete, she will examine the possible use of St. Columbanus Home as a possible respite centre; and if...
- Health Services Staff
323. To ask the Minister for Health the current resources and staff allocation to Cavan Monaghan palliative care, including the provision for home care palliative care and residential palliative...
- Hospital Services
327. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the contingency plans in place at CHI hospitals in the event that a consultant is not in a position to provide on-call hours; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Policies
329. To ask the Minister for Health the options she is considering regarding the future board and governance arrangements at CHI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31005/25]
- Departmental Funding
330. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the cost of providing locum cover at CHI hospitals in the event consultants cannot provide on-call hours since 2019, broken down by year and by...
- Departmental Reports
332. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HR reports, investigations or reviews carried out at CHI hospitals into the use of NTPF-funded waiting list initiatives since 2019; to outline...
- Departmental Data
333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of companies used by CHI to provide consultant weekend cover and-or waiting list initiatives since 2019; to list the names of the companies and the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
335. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be able to access a CAMHS assessment for which they have been waiting over 18 months; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Services
336. To ask the Minister for Health if women are offered information on alternatives as a matter of course, prior to their pregnancy termination; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Data
337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants at CHI hospital that are on paid leave since 2020; the longest length of time a consultant has been on paid leave; and if she will...
- Departmental Inquiries
338. To ask the Minister for Health if the children mentioned in an article (details supplied) as orphan patients at CHI are in fact children with scoliosis and spina bifida; and if she will make...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on urology waiting lists at CHI since 2019; the length of time they are waiting in the following bands: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9...
- Departmental Bodies
340. To ask the Minister for Health the governance and reporting arrangement regarding the NTPF; how it reports to the Minister; if the NTPF is accountable to the Oireachtas, including Oireachtas...
- Departmental Investigations
344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HR investigations carried out in relation to the work of consultants at CHI since 2019, broken down by year and by hospital; and if she will make...
- Childcare Services
347. To ask the Minister for Health when the Board of CHI first became aware of issues in relation to the carrying out of osteotomies at CHI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31033/25]
- Departmental Data
348. To ask the Minister for Health if non-consultant doctors were seeing children with suspected hip dysplasia since 2019; the role such doctors had; if non-consultant doctors at any point...
- Childcare Services
349. To ask the Minister for Health if four consultants at CHI raised concerns in 2020 in relation to the treatment of children with suspected hip dysplasia; if these concerns were raised with...
- Health Services Staff
350. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels within the HSE school dental programme in CHO 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31039/25]
- Dental Services
351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 13 years old awaiting dental screenings in CHO 9, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31040/25]
- Eating Disorders
353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds for eating disorders in north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31042/25]
- Ambulance Service
354. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is undertaking to allow qualified advanced paramedics who received their qualifications outside Ireland work for the National...
- Health Services
356. To ask the Minister for Health the locations around the country where community health organisations are providing specific services for adults with an ADHD diagnosis; the staffing cohort at...
- Legislative Process
358. To ask the Minister for Health when it is intended to fully implement the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31051/25]
- Health Services
359. To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed to increase capacity in the neurological rehabilitation facility in Tower, Blarney, Cork from 20 beds to 50 beds and recruit the necessary...
- Hospital Complaints Procedures
361. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of presenting complaints or categories of presenting complaints, for patients attending emergency departments; if such data is retained and...
- Health Service Executive
362. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 22 May 2025, and the reply provided from the HSE, if she will confirm when a tender will be issued to appoint an...
- Departmental Policies
366. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to recognise Crohn’s disease and colitis as long-term illnesses. [31097/25]
- Health Services
367. To ask the Minister for Health the supports for parents who have to pay high medical costs for essential medicines for their children; if supports will be improved for parents who do not...
- Hospital Investigations
368. To ask the Minister for Health if any risk assessment was carried out in the oncology general surgery service at CHI since 2020 to date, if a high red risk was identified in any assessment...
- Pharmacy Services
374. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the percentage of pharmacies that have now opted in to providing free hormone replacement therapy to patients with a valid prescription; and...
- Vaccination Programme
376. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration would be given to the phased introduction of the shingrix vaccine shingles vaccine to the National Immunisation Schedule; and if she will make...
- Pharmacy Services
377. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the introduction of the common conditions services by community pharmacies; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointments Status
378. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait time to receive an appointment for an ultrasound at Midlands Hospital Tullamore; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31168/25]
- Residential Institutions
379. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a suitable residential placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31171/25]
- Departmental Data
380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved centres, the number of acute approved centres, the number of in-patient beds, and the number of children admitted to adult inpatient...
- Nursing Homes
381. To ask the Minister for Health when safeguarding regulation for nursing homes will be put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31244/25]
- Hospital Complaints Procedures
382. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HIQA do not have a direct complaints service line for families of older people in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Nursing Homes
383. To ask the Minister for Health how the situation arose where the nursing home in Portlaoise owned by a provider (details supplied) was in breach of a restriction on admissions imposed by...
- Departmental Staff
385. To ask the Minister for Health the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by her Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the reason for...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to allocate funding to a local training initiative (details supplied), to retain this vital community development programme. [31216/25]
- Departmental Data
387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in...
- Departmental Contracts
388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in...
- Artificial Intelligence
390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Ireland is not involved the EU AI Factories initiative to date; if, in the context of the new EU AI Continent Action Plan, Ireland...
- Departmental Staff
391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Community Development Projects
392. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the Community Services Programme will be open for new applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30921/25]
- Departmental Data
393. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all...
- Departmental Contracts
394. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts...
- Community Development Projects
396. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when successful applicants for grants administered through the local community development committee as part of the local...
- International Protection
398. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that yet again no project from the Courtown-Riverchapel area of County Wexford was awarded funding under the latest...
- Departmental Staff
399. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date...
