Written answers

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Foreign Policy
      51. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail the plans to develop a new foreign policy strategy, Global Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26854/25]
    • Economic Policy
      58. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2024, published by his Department in November 2024. [27447/25]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Childcare Services
      75. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline actions she is taking to support staff retention in community childcare facilities. [32394/25]
    • Disability Services
      84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of community disability network teams in the State; and the number of which are fully staffed....
    • Family Resource Centres
      85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to advise on the number of applications received for inclusion in the National Family Resource Centre Forum; and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      86. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to the recently published report on behalf of Tusla regarding special care; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the implementation of pay increases for staff in the childcare sector. [32480/25]
    • Disability Services
      88. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Children’s Disability Network Team in Limerick will address the shortage of occupational...
    • Childcare Services
      89. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the amount by which childcare costs have reduced since the formation of Government. [32460/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the application for a block extension grant by a school (details supplied), if she will confirm receipt...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      92. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to address the issue of waiting times for assessments of needs; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Family Resource Centres
      93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is concerned about the lack of a family resource centre in Dungarvan and that no service is available in...
    • Disability Services
      94. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to update on the number of children currently awaiting a CDNT appointment, by CDNT in Cork. [32428/25]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on efforts to secure further contributions from the religious organisations associated with the...
    • Disability Services
      96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the engagements her Department has had with other Government Departments, Ministers and State...
    • Childcare Services
      97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the pre-election commitment from the Government parties to introduce €200 per month childcare...
    • Children in Care
      98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department conducts analysis, or monitors, the reports produced by the National Review Panel, regarding...
    • Childcare Services
      99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made in expanding access to childcare, on foot of the finding in research commissioned by her...
    • Disability Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to update on the pilot therapists in special schools programme in Cork. [32427/25]
    • Childcare Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if families availing of a childminder coming to their family home can qualify for the national childcare scheme;...
    • Departmental Strategies
      104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the expected timeline for the implementation of the autism innovation strategy; and if she will make a statement...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she plans to make changes to expand access to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she...
    • Disability Services
      106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline funding for a community neuro-rehabilitation team for north Dublin, as set out in the Programme for...
    • Childcare Services
      108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when capital investment to build or purchase State-owned childcare facilities will be provided, to create...
    • State Pensions
      109. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on progress to provide a State pension to foster carers; and if she will make a statement...
    • Parental Leave
      110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of the hardship endured by parents of multiples (twins, triplets etc.) who are only entitled to...
    • Childcare Services
      111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on her engagement with local authorities regarding a review of the 2001 childcare facilities for...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of payments made to date in each ‘number of days resident in relevant institution’...
    • Childcare Services
      113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to ensure childcare facilities delivered through housing developments are made...
    • Disability Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if mapping of specialist disability services (residential, day, respite, and children’s) is being...
    • Childcare Services
      115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress which has been made to examine and expand the access and inclusion model to make it available to...
    • Disability Services
      117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop a multiannual approach to funding for...
    • Childcare Services
      118. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the public consultation on a National Plan for Irish Language Provision in Early Learning and...
    • Disability Services
      119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her proposals to address waiting lists to access CDNT services in County Monaghan. [32458/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to place an autism innovation strategy...
    • Child and Family Agency
      121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will list the occasions on which she has met with or corresponded with the CEO of Tusla since she took...
    • Disability Services
      123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her proposals to provide overnight respite care for children with disabilities in County Monaghan. [32457/25]
    • Departmental Reviews
      124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to advise when the promised review of core funding will take place; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the lengthy Children’s Disability Network Team waitlists arising from increased caseloads;...
    • Childcare Services
      126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she is taking to ensure pay increases for childcare workers and an increase in core funding to match...
    • School Accommodation
      128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the recent refusal of a block extension grant for a school (details supplied), if she has plans to...
    • Childcare Services
      129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe in which she intends to cap childcare costs at €200 per month. [32459/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the role of her Department in monitoring and supporting the implementation of the national...
    • Disability Services
      131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when her Department will introduce and fund a community neurorehabilitation team for Dublin Central and Dublin...
    • Childcare Services
      132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children anticipated to benefit from the expansion of the maximum fee cap for childcare; and if...
    • Departmental Policies
      134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline her Department’s efforts to improve accessibility in rural towns and villages. [32258/25]
    • Childcare Services
      135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline her plans to expand the access and inclusion model to support children below the current age...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      136. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [32275/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      137. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a schedule of the amount expended by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, on external training, simulations and advice in advance relating to...
    • Departmental Data
      139. To ask the Taoiseach the number of employees in the State earning minimum wage; the number of employees in the State earning €1 over minimum wage; the number of employees in the State...
    • Departmental Functions
      140. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit within his Department. [32520/25]
    • Northern Ireland
      141. To ask the Taoiseach if the Carlingford Lough Commission is being considered for the shared island fund. [32616/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      142. To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of the contractor and a...
    • Judicial Reviews
      143. To ask the Taoiseach the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are pending or continuing; the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Trade Relations
      144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 10 June 2025, when the forthcoming action plan on market diversification, which is being...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the latest processing times for applications to the foreign births register; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Diplomatic Representation
      146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the Government provides diplomatic assistance for the immediate release of the 12 activists from the Freedom Flotilla...
    • Passport Services
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 10 June 2025, the number of passports issued to applicants using sworn affidavits as a form of...
    • Departmental Websites
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example,...
    • Middle East
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 10 June 2025, if he will confirm that the only material consequence in Irish policy between...
    • Departmental Contracts
      151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give consideration to the opening of an embassy in Lima, Peru, given our strengthening relationship, since Peru have a resident...
    • Human Rights
      153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied), a British citizen married to an Irish citizen, who has been imprisoned in Dubai...
    • Departmental Data
      154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of citizens that have sought permission from the Government to accept a title of nobility or of honour from a foreign Government,...
    • Departmental Staff
      155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of temporary administrative and policy officers expected to be hired by his Department, in either Dublin or Brussels, in the lead...
    • Passport Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [32682/25]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions taken by Ireland to support efforts to try to end Sudan's civil war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32753/25]
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that an aircraft which landed at Shannon Airport on 21 May 2025 was not operating as a “state aircraft”...
    • Middle East
      160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the boarding of the Madleen boat by the Israeli military; if his Department intends to support the activists that are now in...
    • Judicial Reviews
      161. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      176. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current capital works that are ongoing at present at Curragh Camp; when each of those projects will be completed; and the estimated cost of...
    • Military Honours
      177. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which a person can apply for a posthumous medal for a family member who was a member of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican...
    • Defence Forces
      178. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the outcome of the recent meeting with Galway City Council regarding the proposals for a permeability route adjacent to the...
    • Rights of Way
      182. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 27 March 2025, if a meeting has occurred with Galway City Council to progress matters the reopening...
    • Departmental Websites
      183. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      184. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of the...
    • Judicial Reviews
      185. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Aviation Industry
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the powers the Irish Aviation Authority holds to address situations where an airline knowingly misleads customers about their rights...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address concerns (details supplied) raised by CIÉ pensioners regarding their pension scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Protected Disclosures
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline his responsibilities relating to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Policies
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps required to finalise the UAS policy framework for publication; to indicate whether he expects this document to be ready before...
    • Departmental Funding
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding provided to date for the development of U-Space in Ireland; to outline the estimated total cost for its development...
    • Bus Éireann
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the timetable for the Bus Éireann route 161 which serves Dundalk to Newry via Carlingford in County Louth was last reviewed;...
    • Road Projects
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department’s timeline for building the new motorway from Cork to Limerick. [31884/25]
    • Public Transport
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider raising age eligibility for those who wish to avail of the young adult Leap Card considering the financial pressures...
    • National Transport Authority
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider providing a budget to the National Transport Authority specifically for service enhancement; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital budget allocation for his Department in the years of 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [32567/25]
    • Aviation Industry
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of delays in the Irish Aviation Authority issuing EASA Part 66 Category A maintenance licences and other relevant licenses...
    • Rail Network
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the status of engagements between Iarnród Éireann and a representative group (details...
    • Aviation Industry
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for reinstating the Dublin to Derry airlink, and if it can be brought forward from the projected October 2026 timeframe to...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the proposal by the CIÉ group to close off its defined benefit pension scheme for new employees and move them to a...
    • Bus Services
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a report on the National Transport Authority demand need assessment along the H1 bus route. [32165/25]
    • Driver Test
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of a private company (details supplied) that automatically grabs and resells cancellation slots for driving test for the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to expand the e-scooter legislation which was introduced in May 2024 in order that it also involves a requirement for...
    • Coast Guard Service
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a contract has been signed to construct the Greystones Coast Guard Station; when construction will commence; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on plans to bring the DART to Wicklow town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32207/25]
    • Road Projects
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to provide funding along the planned Tallaght to Hollywood Cross upgrade of the N81 in Wicklow; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a timeframe for the commencement of the new bus route from Glendalough to Bray; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rail Network
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to provide additional carriages on the Dublin to Wexford rail line, and if he will provide a timeline; and if he will...
    • Road Projects
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends on progressing the N11/M11 upgrade, as provided for in the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if TII will give consideration to provide streetlighting at the junction of the N59 and L1321 at Moycullen, Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to facilitate the progression of the N59 between Bunnakill and Claremont in County Galway to the construction phase of...
    • Driver Test
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has to wait 15 weeks for a driving retest appointment, given they have been waiting eight months...
    • Public Transport
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of taxis in the Dublin area that are wheelchair accessible; what is being done to increase the number of wheelchair accessible...
    • Bus Services
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority will fund the installation of a next bus Indicator screen at bus stop pole number (details supplied)....
    • Road Tolls
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to remove the tolls from the M4 when the franchise period finishes in 2033. [32359/25]
    • Active Travel
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 10 June 2025, to provide a breakdown of the funding provided to the Galway public bike...
    • Rail Network
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the East Coast Railway Infrastructure Protection Projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32466/25]
    • Bus Services
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine the case of the relocation of a bus stop (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32468/25]
    • Disability Services
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 29 May 2025, if pet dogs are permitted to travel without restrictions on Dublin Bus and Bus...
    • Driver Test
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if the driving test will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Language
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider new projects (details supplied) that include bilingual awareness and promote the Irish language; and if he will make...
    • Road Network
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider removing ‘km/hr’ from road speed signs and display numerical speed limits only, in line with the...
    • Driver Licences
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options available to learner drivers who do not have family or acquaintances to accompany them in vehicles; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of external auditors that the Department have used to carry out works on behalf of the Department in 2024 and to date in 2025,...
    • Rail Network
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE staff currently working on the route option selection and preliminary business case stage of the Navan to Dublin Rail...
    • Transport Policy
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has undertaken any analysis of regulation and potential bureaucracy that relates to the delivery of transport...
    • Taxi Licences
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of local area hackney licences currently active in Ireland, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 27 May 2025, if he has received the data requested from the Road Safety Authority on driving...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner permit holders involved in fatal and serious crashes in 2023 who were on their second, third or subsequent permit...
    • Traffic Management
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that former speed limits are still showing in popular navigation services after these were reduced on national secondary...
    • Judicial Reviews
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which...
  • Department of Finance
    • Transport Policy
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has assessed the VAT liabilities arising from the use of the reverse-charge mechanism by ride-hailing platforms such as a company...
    • Tax Code
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has considered reducing the VAT rate on home energy upgrades to support households in decarbonising and retrofitting their homes. [31868/25]
    • Tax Credits
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will engage with the Revenue Commissioners to review the current administrative and legislative requirements governing access to the incapacitated child...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available to employers and employees to promote remote and flexible working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31901/25]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the number of mortgage holders paying an interest rate over 6%; the number paying an interest rate over 7%; the number paying an interest...
    • Seized Property
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of storing and maintaining the MV Matthew ship since it was first seized by the State; the weekly amount it is costing to store and maintain the...
    • Banking Sector
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance to estimate the impact on, or cost to, the Central Bank of Ireland resulting from the Governing Council of the European Central Bank's decision to change the...
    • Grant Payments
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any grant funding schemes in place to support car adaptations for people with a disability or medical issues; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Reports
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of recommendations 22 and 23 of the Fund Sector 2030 report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32055/25]
    • Veterinary Services
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason vets charge VAT when medical services provided by a recognised medical professional qualify for VAT exemptions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans to widen the VAT for small family home bed and breakfast suppliers as is the norm in other countries that have a threshold of...
    • Credit Register
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance how someone who believes their name is unfairly on the Credit Register can have their name removed as they are unable to access any credit; and if he will...
    • Departmental Reports
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Fund Sector 2030 report; and when its recommendations, with particular consideration to recommendations 22 and 23, will be implemented....
    • Tax Code
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32122/25]
    • Banking Sector
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide data on the distribution of mortgage loan sizes issued in each of the past five years, broken down by loan size band (for example, under...
    • Tax Code
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance further to interactions at the Joint Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport on 28 May 2025 (details supplied), if he will clarify his...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be foregone by eliminating the VRT on imported new electric vehicles, in tabular form. [32231/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a timeframe for the resolution of appeals by the Disabled Drivers Board of Appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32251/25]
    • Banking Sector
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has examined the matter of mortgages and loans being refused to disabled people and those with chronic illnesses due to being classed as...
    • Data Protection
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), if he can justify Revenue's unlawful destruction of the 13.3 million call recordings without a disposal...
    • State Bodies
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the total annual funding provided by Home Building Finance Ireland to developers for home construction, by year and county/region, in tabular form. [32343/25]
    • Tax Code
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance the rational for the discrepancy between the rate of capital gains tax and the taxation rates on gains made from exchange-traded funds; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Industry
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the obligations insurance companies have when requesting medical reports for the purpose of issuing mortgage protection policies, particularly in cases...
    • Departmental Websites
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if...
    • Departmental Contracts
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of the contractor and...
    • Tax Code
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of abolishing the local property tax and introducing a tax on non-principal private residences (NPPR) as follows: single...
    • Tax Exemptions
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of jet fuel VAT and excise exemptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32670/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue from cutting pension relief threshold from €115,000 to €60,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of abolishing USC for all earners and replacing it with a higher income social charge of 10% on all earnings over €100,000...
    • State Savings Schemes
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the potential to expand the remit of Ireland State savings to introduce new investment products for Irish savers, in line with the ambition...
    • Banking Sector
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the potential of schemes to allow Irish savers to invest more of Ireland’s substantial household deposit savings into products which...
    • Judicial Reviews
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are pending or...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • An Garda Síochána
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department or An Garda Síochána or the Office of Public Works or which agency has responsibility for the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of works on the weir at Ballincollig Regional Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31818/25]
    • State Properties
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 29 May 2025, the breakdown of the funding allocated to maintaining vacant properties owned...
    • Office of Public Works
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the temporary traffic measures at Ashtown Gate Junction beside Phoenix Park; if he will provide a timeline on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a timeline for when works to Garda stations (details supplied) will be completed by the Office of Public Works; and...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to capital carryover, whether such funds may be redeployed for all types of one-off capital expenditure; to identify...
    • Public Sector Staff
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of new public sector jobs created in each of the past five years, disaggregated by civil service, local government, HSE,...
    • Health Services
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department monitors or oversees the grant aid and service-level agreements made between the HSE and organisations funded under...
    • Heritage Sites
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will direct the OPW to extend the opening hours at Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery’ Sligo (details supplied). [32196/25]
    • Pension Provisions
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in relation to the incorrect pension related payments to Ministers and civil servants, he will identify the number of...
    • Heritage Projects
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the solicitors acting on behalf of the Office of Public works have completed the necessary legal and administrative steps to progress...
    • Departmental Websites
      326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for...
    • Pension Provisions
      327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the engagement process for the NSSO pension errors recently identified by a review; if those who have been affected by the...
    • Freedom of Information
      328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform where in the Freedom of Information Act 2014 it authorises the Information Commissioner to develop and deliver training modules for and...
    • Departmental Contracts
      333. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name...
    • Civil Service
      334. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current number of staff in the National Shared Service Office who have applied through the civil service mobility scheme to transfer...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      335. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Financial Management Shared Services Project; the number of bodies that have...
    • Departmental Contracts
      336. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the spending to date on the development, implementation and roll out of the financial management shared services...
    • Data Protection
      338. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of data breaches reported by the National Shared Service Office to the Data Protection Commissioner in each of the years 2021...
    • Civil Service
      339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of civil servants employed across all Government Departments, by grade, for each of the years 2015 to 2024 inclusive,...
    • Parking Provision
      340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the application for planning permission for a car park for (details supplied) will be submitted; if his Department is still...
    • Office of Public Works
      341. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a breakdown in the cost of running a property (details supplied) in 2024 while it was closed to the public; and if he will make a...
    • Arts Council
      342. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he exercised his power under the Arts Act 2004 to refuse to consent to the proposal by the Arts Council for the reappointment of its...
    • Postal Services
      343. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had any engagement with An Post in relation to section 8.22 of the Code of Practice in respect of any material acquisition or...
    • Judicial Reviews
      345. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Industrial Development
      346. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a full list of the current IDA sites in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31828/25]
    • Company Takeovers
      348. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will engage with the workforce of a company (details supplied) to ensure the future viability of this important employer is...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      352. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to employers and employees to promote remote and flexible working; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits
      354. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued to persons from outside the UK or EEA intending to take up position as doctors, nurses and other...
    • Job Creation
      355. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of the number of new jobs created in Ireland in each of the past five years, disaggregated by multinational...
    • Post Office Network
      357. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the business case made by postmasters that argued that post offices should have been categorised...
    • Work Permits
      358. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a detailed statement on the pre-launch testing and validation process for the new online work permit application...
    • Departmental Strategies
      364. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the process and timeline for the development of the National Life Science Strategy as committed in the Programme for Government; and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      365. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32479/25]
    • Departmental Websites
      366. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for...
    • State Bodies
      367. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE staff currently at the Health and Safety Authority, by job title; the expected timeframe for filling each of...
    • Industrial Development
      368. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline all capital investment made by the IDA in County Clare since 2022, in tabular form. [32601/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      369. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the...
    • Departmental Policies
      370. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the merits of providing grants for public facing businesses, including restaurants & cafés, to provide baby...
    • Judicial Reviews
      371. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Funding
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of increasing the capitation grant at primary and secondary level by 5%; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio by 1 point at primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31786/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected demand for school places in mainstream primary schools for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing...
    • Schools Building Projects
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the development of a new site to accommodate a school (details supplied); when the new schools will be operational; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD places available in primary schools in Ballincollig, County Cork for September 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31821/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of the delivery of ASD classrooms at a school (details supplied); the date on which officials in the...
    • School Funding
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding reduction in ICT grant funding allocated to school (details supplied); if she will address the concerns raised in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to concerns raised by some school principals regarding proposed changes to the allocation of special schools...
    • Schools Building Projects
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in Roscrea will move on to the next stage in the capital development plan. [31883/25]
    • Departmental Policies
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered introducing a national policy on menstrual health education that includes conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS; and if...
    • School Accommodation
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress of an application of a school (details enclosed) to renovate and extend their school campus; and if she will make a...
    • Bus Éireann
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has a plan in place to bridge the shortfall of €90 million that was outlined at the presentation for school bus places by Bus...
    • Bus Services
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus travelling to secondary schools (details supplied) will include new stops, given concerns regarding the safety of the current bus...
    • School Transport
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider updating concessionary rules to align with the school transport scheme 2030, allowing students school choice rather than...
    • School Accommodation
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a progress report on when the PE hall aspect of the development at a college (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will stop all payslips being sent out to SNA’s and school staff as they can be received online and reassign the funds of sending...
    • Special Educational Needs
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in south Tipperary has not been allocated a single SNA despite a number of children with needs in the...
    • School Transport
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport can be provided for a child (details supplied). [32005/25]
    • State Examinations
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look to remove the question on “short story” Junior Cycle Higher Level English paper (details supplied) from the...
    • School Accommodation
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the urgent remedial action she will take to deal with the structural defects at a school (details supplied), given that two classrooms are...
    • School Management
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a board of management will be reinstated at a school (details supplied). [32013/25]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the work of the commission into historical sexual abuse in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32048/25]
    • Further and Higher Education
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse austerity measures made during the financial crash regarding FET learners payments, as many prospective students are not able...
    • Schools Building Projects
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the proposed development works at a school (details supplied); the status of the application for additional...
    • State Examinations
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when consideration will be given to making reasonable accommodation for students with dyslexia for State exams, such as the Junior and Leaving...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the current qualification requirements for learning support teachers in Ireland (details supplied); if she has considered updating...
    • School Staff
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the current policy that denies incremental credit to post-primary teachers with experience in private schools outside the EU,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure further SNA allocation is given to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32094/25]
    • School Accommodation
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on developments to be undertaken at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32096/25]
    • School Transport
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills ; if she will review a school bus route to allow students to enrol in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views of existing restrictions on teachers taking parental leave in individual days as can contribute to a lack of continuity between...
    • School Staff
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of an allowance for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32127/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an urgent update on the provision of a new modular SEN at a school (details supplied). [32131/25]
    • School Transport
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish a school bus route for the 30 plus secondary school children living in the Nenagh/Silvermines area travelling to...
    • School Staff
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to introduce job-sharing arrangements for primary school principals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32135/25]
    • School Funding
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) which is not classified as a DEIS school can avail of European Structural and Investment Funds; the funding that...
    • Special Educational Needs
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the availability of school places for children with special educational needs in east Galway; if her Department is aware of the...
    • School Staff
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs employed in mainstream primary schools as of 30 September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32219/25]
    • State Examinations
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students completing their second level education Leaving Certificate examination in Gael Choláistí this year; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for an additional special education resource will be approved for a school (details supplied). [32234/25]
    • Departmental Properties
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update of the transfer of a plot of land in a school (details supplied) from her Department and the Dublin Education and Training Board to...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of plans for renovations at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32254/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of an ASD class in a supplementary request under ASA in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the planning for a new school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32256/25]
    • School Admissions
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a case can be examined (details supplied) where a child does not have an appropriate school place for September; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider correspondence (details supplied) around the school transport scheme grant; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Funding
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of capital and current funding her Department provided to a school (details supplied) in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular...
    • Special Educational Needs
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school's (details supplied) SNA allocation will be reviewed in light of the fact that an increased allocation was recommended by the SENO;...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for emergency funding (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32415/25]
    • School Funding
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the funding available to schools for resources such as art therapy; if she will consider increasing supports for initiatives like...
    • Special Educational Needs
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which SNA allocations will happen for the 2025/2026 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32485/25]
    • School Accommodation
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of prefabs being used in primary and post primary schools across the State; the cost of these prefabs to the State, per county, in...
    • Departmental Websites
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example,...
    • Schools Building Projects
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school building project for a school (details supplied); to outline the timeline for this project; when the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to a school (details supplied) that have been denied a SNA without any detail on the reason the decision was reached....
    • School Accommodation
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) that was granted funding by her Department in December 2024 for additional space needed in September 2025, will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when contact will be made with a school (details supplied) that has been looking for a reply from her Department since January. [32549/25]
    • School Accommodation
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the additional space promised for a school (details supplied) will be open by September 2025. [32550/25]
    • Departmental Data
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12, in tabular form. [32564/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools providing summer education programme in the post code of Dublin 12. [32565/25]
    • Early School Leavers
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children that have left school before completing the Leaving Certificate or Leaving Certificate Applied, in the past five years, in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 1,600 additional SNA posts promised by her have been awarded. [32626/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs incurred by her Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of the...
    • School Funding
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to increase the primary capitation grant by €75 per pupil to ensure schools can meet elevated running costs and reduce the burden on...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reduce primary school class sizes to 19 pupils. [32655/25]
    • Education Policy
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new national small school’s project will be introduced. [32656/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to introduce special educational needs coordinators to support students with a disability in transitioning through all educational settings....
    • School Staff
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the allocation of an additional teacher to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Accommodation
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the plans to build SET classrooms during the summer holidays (details supplied). [32710/25]
    • School Funding
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that capitation payments per secondary-school student are significantly higher than those per primary-school student; and if she will...
    • Early School Leavers
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that left school during each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 without completing the Leaving Certificate or Leaving...
    • Education Policy
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on programmes to improve media literacy in primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Patronage
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to increasing the number of multi-denominational schools; the progress that has been made since 2011; if she plans to survey...
    • Education Schemes
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused under the teacher refund scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32794/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed building programme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32812/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for ASD classrooms within the approval process for a school (details supplied); the projected timeline for its...
    • Judicial Reviews
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of judicial review cases her Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Sports Funding
      473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the next Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund will allow for site purchase and the planning for essential swimming...
    • Arts Policy
      474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protections and supports he plans to introduce to safeguard and promote authentic Irish cultural production and...
    • Post Office Network
      475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports available for postmasters struggling to keep their post offices open; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Arts Policy
      478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the development of a successor scheme to the basic income for the arts pilot; to outline the...
    • Sports Facilities
      479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will provide the funding to rebuild the Buncrana Leisure Centre, County. Donegal; if he is aware of the serious...
    • National Broadband Plan
      480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider reviewing the eligibility criteria for the National Broadband Plan intervention area in light of...
    • Arts Funding
      481. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports provided by his Department for the operation of municipal art galleries; and if he will make a statement...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      482. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the basic income for the arts pilot scheme will be extended or expanded beyond its planned end date in August, in...
    • Departmental Websites
      483. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM...
    • Departmental Schemes
      484. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Minister if he will provide an update on the cultural capital scheme application of a group (details supplied). [32579/25]
    • Departmental Bodies
      485. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of Exchequer funding that was provided to each State agency under the remit of his Department in 2024...
    • State Bodies
      486. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to fill the post of Chairperson for the National Concert Hall. [32608/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      487. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms...
    • Departmental Bodies
      488. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process used within his Department when directors/chief executives of agencies in the aegis of his Department seek...
    • Postal Services
      489. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had any engagement with An Post in relation to section 8.22 of the Code of Practice in respect of any...
    • Judicial Reviews
      490. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Planning Issues
      491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a reason must be given by a person when making an objection to planning permission as was the case in the past (details...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a site has extensive growth of an invasive species, and the landowner deliberately and recklessly disrupts and spreads the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an appeals process is in place for homeowners who wish to appeal the awards they have received under the defective concrete...
    • Water Pollution
      496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the Department has plans to classify additional rivers, lakes, and estuaries as 'Heavily Modified Water Bodies'...
    • Housing Policy
      497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his Department’s efforts to fulfil the Programme for Government’s commitment to establish a...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the report of AHB Strategic Forum has been finalised; if has considered its contents; if he will publish the report and its...
    • Fire Service
      499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of all capital plans for the development of fire services within County Kildare. [31968/25]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a list of all land purchased by the National Parks and Wildlife Service over the past five years, including the number of...
    • Housing Schemes
      501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority tenants, living in a part V home, can purchase their home under the tenant purchase scheme; if he intends...
    • Environmental Policy
      502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department’s approach to river conservation in light of reports that hundreds of...
    • Housing Policy
      503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on short-term letting and tourism legislation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector
      504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of self-build mortgage loans issued annually for each of the past five years; and if such loans are tracked...
    • Housing Schemes
      505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list each of the current government schemes in operation that are intended to support home ownership or assist individuals...
    • Housing Policy
      506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the merits of providing low interest, Government-backed bridging loans for people seeking to move to home and are...
    • Vacant Properties
      509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the time it takes, on average, for each local authority to turn around, or clean out, vacant properties and make them...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Parks and Wildlife Service has agreed a solution with Galway County Council to the planning condition...
    • Rental Sector
      511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to increasing local authorities powers to enforce minimum standards in private rented...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a detailed update on the status of PPP bundles 4,5,6 and 7, given the withdrawal of funding for bundle 3; and whether...
    • Land Development Agency
      515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a detailed update on discussions between the LDA and Dublin City Council in relation to the Ballymun LAP site 1, a former...
    • Fire Service
      522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a report into Cork city’s fire cover; and if he will commit to fund the phased plan to deliver fire...
    • Departmental Websites
      525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters...
    • Turf Cutting
      526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Rental Sector
      527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline, given that rents in Ireland are extremely high by European standards, how the Government expects a loosening of...
    • Housing Provision
      528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide available data on the impact of the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2027's Implementation Plan...
    • Housing Schemes
      530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider changes to the vacant property grant (croí conaithe grant) to allow houses built but not...
    • Derelict Sites
      531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount levied, collected, owed, CPOed and cumulatively owed and the number of sites on the register on 31 December 2024...
    • Departmental Contracts
      532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024;...
    • Disability Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options open to a disability charity (details supplied) who have been refused CAS funding by two county councils to...
    • Waterways Ireland
      534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the third draft of the byelaws given to him in September 2024 by Waterways Ireland officials, without being...
    • Waterways Issues
      535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 30 May 2025, if he will advise on a timeline for the required investigative works...
    • Housing Schemes
      536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the projected €450 million allocated for the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme that has been spent...
    • Heritage Sites
      543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the Kilmainham Mill restoration project being undertaken by Dublin City Council; whether the council sought...
    • Rental Sector
      544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a tenancy is voluntarily ended by the tenant will the landlord be entitled to increase the rent for new tenancy; and if he...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Minister of State at his Department who has responsibility for Traveller accommodation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Monuments
      546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a structure (details supplied) has been registered as a national monument under the Historic and Archaeological Heritage...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is his intention to advance the recommendation of the Report of the Housing Commission with respect to the holding of a...
    • Judicial Reviews
      548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which...
    • Departmental Data
      549. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of legal cases defended by his Department in each of the past ten years in respect of alleged failures in State...
    • Housing Schemes
      550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details concerning the implementation of the tenant-in-situ scheme by Cork City Council, particularly in light of...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding job seeker’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person's income averaged over a number of years can be used to calculate the amount of pay-related jobseeker's payment...
    • Pension Provisions
      553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will examine the case of An Post pensioners who, having been civil servants prior to vesting in 1984, and having paid...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of an illness benefit claim for a person (details supplied). [32024/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the eligibility for the living alone increase, particularly for those not reliant on a social protection payment,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the carers allowance application for a person (details supplied). [32158/25]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal process will be completed for an applicant for Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on how his Department is addressing the rising cost of living for people with disabilities; the plans to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) which was submitted to the Social Welfare Appeals Office in September...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in each county that have received the baby boost grant since its introduction; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount of social welfare overpayments identified by his Department for each of the years 2014 to 2024; the amount...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      566. 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 received the free travel pass since it was...
    • Pension Provisions
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025; when he expects it to pass through both Houses of...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people awaiting a decision on social welfare payments and allowances applications; the number of appeal...
    • Departmental Websites
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters...
    • Men's Sheds
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community organisation such as a men's shed can apply for the workplace adaptation grant; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available to those workers suffering with effects of long Covid and currently availing of special leave with pay...
    • Departmental Contracts
      574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 941 and 719 of 10 June 2025, to clarify with his counterpart at the Department of...
    • Social Welfare Code
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the case of a person with a disability in receipt of a State payment such as disability allowance, the assets in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) would qualify for jobseeker's pay-related benefit; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the number of people who will receive an increase in their carer's allowance...
    • Judicial Reviews
      579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • An Garda Síochána
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-scooter related road traffic incidents recorded by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2020 to...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-scooter related road traffic offences recorded by An Garda Síochána since the introduction of...
    • Visa Applications
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for the join family visa will be finalised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered expanding the scope of Coco’s Law to cover deepfakes and AI generated content more explicit given...
    • An Garda Síochána
      585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public order unit vans attached to Waterford/Kilkenny Division as of 9 June 2025. [31922/25]
    • Asylum Seekers
      586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will intervene to ensure that a Palestinian asylum seeker (details supplied) is appropriately housed in line with the...
    • Courts Service
      587. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1554 of 29 April 2025, his plans to retain the court services in Mall House, Youghal,...
    • Deportation Orders
      588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of deportation orders issued to individuals under the age of 18 in 2022, 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025; for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent under the voluntary return scheme in 2024 and to date in 2025, by transport, transit visas and...
    • Deportation Orders
      597. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the average timeline between final refusal of international protection, the offer of voluntary return, and...
    • Departmental Data
      598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have availed of return counselling under the voluntary return programme in 2024 and to date in 2025,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the current Garda vetting system with a view to streamlining the process, in particular by enabling a single...
    • Prison Service
      603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of people incarcerated in Irish prisons as of 31 December in each year from 1990 to date; and if he will make...
    • Deportation Orders
      605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the State has a policy of issuing deportation orders against non-nationals on completion of a prison sentence; and if he...
    • An Garda Síochána
      606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to every Garda station in counties Carlow Kilkenny for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,...
    • Prison Service
      609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the prison visitation committee application of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • International Protection
      610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in light of the increasing demand for accommodation for both international protection applicants and beneficiaries of...
    • Departmental Staff
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE staff, by job title, working at a location (details supplied). [32164/25]
    • Citizenship Applications
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive their citizenship certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Media
      614. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions his Department is taking to address the growing misuse of social media platforms, particularly the sharing of...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans for works to be carried out to upgrade CCTV cameras in a location (details supplied); if so, when these works...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      616. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update in respect of a property (details supplied). [32229/25]
    • Visa Applications
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on an individual's application under the Turkish Association Agreement (details supplied); and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to issue specific guidelines for the submission of video content via the Garda traffic watch online reporting system,...
    • Prison Service
      619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria used to determine suitability of a site for a new prison building.; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Properties
      620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unused sites or buildings owned by his Department in each county, in tabular form. [32262/25]
    • Courts Service
      626. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to hold an inquest into the murder of a person (details supplied) as planned; the position regarding whether...
    • Prison Service
      627. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the re-appointment of a Prison Visiting Committee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Applications
      628. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants that were successful for asylum or protection that submitted no identification from their country of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants that were successfully given naturalisation having submitted a sworn affidavit as identity instead of...
    • Departmental Websites
      631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      632. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 677 and 679 of 20 May 2025, the reason both questions have not been sufficiently...
    • An Garda Síochána
      633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí working in the bureau full-time; the number of applications to the bureau in each of the past five...
    • Visa Agreements
      634. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a limit on the number of Palestinian citizens that are minors allowed to enter the State on a short stay visa in a...
    • Departmental Data
      635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the State purchase of a hotel (details supplied) in Dublin for the purpose of IPAS accommodation; the extent or...
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with respect to his responsibility for anti-racism policy, if Ireland will implement policy similar to that which exists in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      638. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the age profile of the Garda vehicle fleet within the Clare-Tipperary division. [32609/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024;...
    • Visa Applications
      640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will increase staffing at visa offices so that those who have submitted applications for critical skills visas and join...
    • Departmental Data
      641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the properties that are under construction or contract to provide IPAS accommodation in Meath west. [32694/25]
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the invitations to the next citizenship ceremony will be issued. [32695/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      643. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in relation to the proposed State purchase of a hotel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide data on Garda staffing levels (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Agreements
      647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has begun to issue shorter visas than it had previously; and whether this has any consequences for the...
    • Judicial Reviews
      648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      649. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number po BISS applications made in County Louth from 2015 to 2025, in tabular format. [31849/25]
    • Animal Welfare
      650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has any plans to appoint a national director of animal welfare. [31865/25]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      651. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports the are in place for small farmers transitioning to more sustainable and regenerative practices; and if he will make a...
    • Farm Safety
      652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has given consideration to initiating a formal and nationwide farm safety awareness seminar in all primary schools,...
    • Departmental Funding
      653. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital works projects funded under the 2025 fishery harbour coastal infrastructure development programme in Dunmore East...
    • Departmental Websites
      656. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for...
    • Veterinary Services
      657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Department vets that are members of an organisation (details supplied). [32621/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the...
    • Judicial Reviews
      661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Reviews
      662. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 523 and 724 of 27 May 2025, to identify the lead Department responsible...
    • Departmental Funding
      663. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether the new rules around maximum fee caps will apply to childcare providers who are re-entering core...
    • Departmental Schemes
      664. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the number of applications received; the...
    • Departmental Funding
      667. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her Department plans for the National Centre for Research and Remembrance; actions are being taken in relation...
    • Burial Grounds
      668. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions have been taken under the Institutional Burials Act 2022 to protect the sites associated with mother...
    • Departmental Budgets
      669. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the annual budget allocation to the Decision Support Service; the number of staff...
    • Departmental Funding
      670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason AIM support educators funding is withdrawn when a child is absent due to illness or holidays; and if...
    • Disability Services
      674. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE psychologists based in Waterford south city children's disability network team in the years of...
    • Departmental Budgets
      677. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the findings and recommendations from the personalised budget pilot; her next steps to...
    • Disability Services
      678. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE social workers and nurses, by grade, that are based in south Kildare children's disability...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      683. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children as of 1 June 2025 or latest date available, that were awaiting a first assessment from...
    • Care Services
      688. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the action she is taking to provide full-time early learning and care services for children...
    • Childcare Services
      689. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children that avail of NCS universal fee supports; the number of children that avail of targeted...
    • Departmental Data
      690. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to recent announcements of fee capping in EY & SAC, to what percent do the Department...
    • Departmental Funding
      691. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth metric used to reduce the maximum amount of Core Funding from 600,000 in year two, 500,000 in year three and...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      692. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the waiting list for HSE home support in each month of 2025, broken down by regional health area and local...
    • Departmental Schemes
      693. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications for HSE home support (disability) in CHO 4 in 2024; and if she will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      696. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of active service arrangements and grant aid agreements in place for disability services with...
    • Departmental Funding
      698. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide data on the total funding allocated and spent on disability services per CHO area in each of the past...
    • Disability Services
      699. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of total expenditure on disability services in each of the past five years (details...
    • Departmental Data
      700. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the names of the five highest-funded for-profit organisations that have received payments under service...
    • Disability Services
      702. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the up-to-date position regarding the establishment of a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the CHO9 area....
    • Health Services Staff
      703. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE dietitians working at Coastal children's disability network team in the years of 2024 and to...
    • Health Service Executive
      704. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether provision has been made in the Health Service Executive’s draft service plan for the...
    • Disability Services
      705. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide a timeline for the roll out of an adult disability service in Wicklow Town; and if she will...
    • Health Services Staff
      706. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will allocate funding to an organisation (details supplied) from the 2026 National Service Plan for a...
    • Disability Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred for assessment for ADHD/ASD,...
    • Womans Health
      708. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether she will consider, in collaboration with the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment,...
    • Departmental Meetings
      709. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to proposed changes to the guardian ad...
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budget that has been allocated to ensure the success of the proposed changes to the guardian ad litem...
    • Health Services Staff
      713. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE clinical nurse specialist based at Coolock children's disability network team in 2024 and...
    • Departmental Data
      714. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32363/25]
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      715. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the amount spent or incurred by the Decision Support Service on PR consultants or PR...
    • Health Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps her Department will take to ensure that a child (details supplied) will receive individual...
    • Childcare Services
      718. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of childminders who work in their own homes that are now registered under the national...
    • School Admissions
      719. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps her Department will take to ensure that a child (details supplied) will have access to an appropriate...
    • Departmental Data
      720. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she will take to ensure that the number of preschool places available in Dungarvan and west County...
    • Departmental Websites
      721. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using...
    • Health Services Staff
      722. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can outline the plans being developed by the disability unit within her Department to increase the...
    • Same-sex Marriage
      723. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the ten years since the Marriage Equality Referendum; and if the Government intends to mark the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      724. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if she would be open to meeting with the family...
    • Child Poverty
      725. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to deal with the significant increase in the number of children living in poverty, as...
    • Departmental Strategies
      726. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the forthcoming national disability strategy will include specific actions and measurable targets to address...
    • Childcare Services
      727. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the strategies being progressed within her Department to expand the provision of after-school and...
    • Health Service Executive
      728. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement her Department has had with the HSE on its proposed audit of capacity and provision of respite...
    • Departmental Contracts
      729. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the costs incurred by her Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR...
    • Disability Services
      730. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new services for children with special needs in County Monaghan for which funding was sought for delivery in...
    • Departmental Data
      731. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new services for children with special needs in County Cavan for which funding was sought for delivery in...
    • Departmental Programmes
      732. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Acorn, the new managed child savings account, will be established; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      733. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff employed in her Department's equality division and at which grades. [32769/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      734. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will prepare a dedicated nursing home care policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32772/25]
    • Judicial Reviews
      736. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of judicial review cases her Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      737. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of legal cases defended by her Department and or the HSE in each of the past ten years in respect of...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of teenagers in the State currently awaiting an autism assessment, by county; the length of time they are waiting, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Health Services Staff
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the status of her plans to resolve the ongoing recruitment issues within primary care services (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      741. To ask the Minister for Health when the medication known as givinostat will be made available in Ireland, given its potential role in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she...
    • Health Services
      742. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the physiotherapist service in a care centre (details supplied) in Longford, following the noncompliance finding by HIQA in October 2024, and...
    • Medical Cards
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if she will amend the means test relating to over 70's medical card entitlement to take account of increases to the State pension in recent years; and if she...
    • Health Service Executive
      744. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 15 May 2025, if the HSE has compiled the requested information regarding the number of GPs by county or smallest...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people left the waiting list for CAHMS in county Clare for each of the past four years; the reasons they left the list, in tabular form; and if...
    • Medicinal Products
      746. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) with Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be prescribed givnostat as a matter of urgency....
    • Nursing Homes
      748. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is possible for a brother-in-law of the person receiving long-term care in a nursing home to be named as a 'family successor”, in order to...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      749. To ask the Minister for Health for confirmation that the legal instructions issued by her predecessor and contained in a letter titled ‘Directions from Minister of Health to the...
    • Departmental Data
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 54 children who were waiting longer than four months for their paediatric spinal surgery at the end of December 2024 that were offered the...
    • Medicinal Products
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details regarding the prescribing of antidepressants to patients who are covered under the medical card scheme and the drugs payment...
    • Nursing Homes
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public nursing home beds created by the State each year from 2020 to 2024, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if she can confirm that funding for a psychologist in Ennis day hospital was stopped in September 2024 when the previous psychologist retired, and was not...
    • Ambulance Service
      763. To ask the Minister for Health when she last met with the National Ambulance Service; and who the attendees were. [31881/25]
    • Departmental Communications
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HIQA review into hospital services in the midwest was not published in May as she committed to. [31882/25]
    • Health Services
      765. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to develop an oral immunotherapy service for those with severe allergies; and if so, the timeline for this rollout; and if she will make a...
    • Pharmacy Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Health when she intends to publish and implement guidelines from the pharmacy regulator on pharmacy charges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31916/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists working in primary care in Waterford; the number on leave; if cover has been provided (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the reason all provisions of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 must be commenced together; and the length of time the process take. [31929/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if pay increases for section 39 workers, under the recent agreement reached at the WRC to fund health, social care and homeless sector employers, will...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give an update on waiting times for under-18s for Orthodontist services in Drogheda and Dundalk and if there are plans in place to reduce waiting...
    • Health Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31944/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists based at Newbridge primary care centre in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [31962/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the current and capital funding required for the purchase of an additional helicopter for the HSE helicopter emergency medical service. [31964/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      781. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE occupational therapists based at Athy primary care centre in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [31965/25]
    • Health Services
      782. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider introducing additional measures to reduce the out-of-pocket cost of essential medications for infants, including for common conditions...
    • General Practitioner Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs operating in each of the community area networks of north Kerry, south Kerry and west Kerry. [32009/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for a 60-bed community nursing unit in Cashel, County Tipperary; if the commitment to build this new unit will still be upheld; the...
    • Ambulance Service
      796. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new ambulance base for Gorey, County Wexford. [32026/25]
    • Care Services
      797. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the national guidance that prohibits home care workers from assisting vulnerable patients with the administration of blister-packed oral...
    • Departmental Data
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if all public information notices are published and based on open competition to give all eligible competent suppliers, public and commercial, a transparent...
    • Health Services
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of diagnostic scan activity, public and private, since 2010, broken down by year, by public or private and, by location; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the number of PET scans in public hospitals broken down by location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32070/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      806. To ask the Minister for Health the number of completion dates offered to the NPHDB by the main contractor regarding the NCH, to outline each date; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in introducing a tuition-fee support scheme for graduate entry medicine, as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for HSE home support (older people) in CHO 4 in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32113/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      814. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for ophthalmology treatment for a long time will receive an appointment for surgery as it is...
    • Health Services
      815. To ask the Minister for Health to address the shortage of services (details supplied) in north Cork as a matter of urgency. [32130/25]
    • Departmental Meetings
      816. To ask the Minister for Health when she next intends to visit Beaumont Hospital. [32166/25]
    • Health Services
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the podiatry services currently available to medical card holders aged over 65 within the Dublin 5, 13 and 17 areas. [32167/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      818. To ask the Minister for Health If she will provide a copy of staffing levels at Kilbarrack primary care centre, Dublin 5. [32168/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on homeless-specific measures by her Department in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations in place with regard to the use of sunbeds, especially by minors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32174/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      822. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on current waiting times for access to mental health support services, particularly in primary care and community settings; the measures being...
    • Departmental Schemes
      823. To ask the Minister for Health if she will instruct her Department to extend the special leave with pay scheme past June 2025, given the fact that there remains a large number of public...
    • Care of the Elderly
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the specific arrangements she has in place to ensure social care services for the elderly are delivered in a manner consistent with the UN Convention on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      825. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants and WTE NCHDs located in medicine, surgery and emergency departments in Our Lady's Hospital Navan. [32225/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      826. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied); if the appointment for surgery can be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32227/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      827. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite the process of approval for givinostat, used in the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, as further delays could affect the ability...
    • Health Service Executive
      828. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the procedure in place by the HSE in respect of equality of care provided for people in nursing homes where the HSE has paid for the nursing home...
    • Healthcare Policy
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the women’s health action plan; whether her Department is planning to integrate premenstrual dysphoric disorder into that plan;...
    • Health Services Staff
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications in the process annually by CORU-the Health and Social Care Professionals regulator, for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she...
    • Care Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the case for respite care services for a person (details supplied). [32315/25]
    • Medical Cards
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug dioctyl is not covered on the medical card scheme; if she is aware of the financial hardship this is causing patients; if there are plans...
    • Health Services
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the lack of support and information on alternatives to abortion being offered to women facing unplanned and difficult...
    • Health Service Executive
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO9 area where HSE substance misuse teams are based; the number of WTE staff, by job title working in each of these teams, by location,...
    • Hospital Procedures
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ENT surgeries are based at Beaumont Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [32341/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE administrative staff, by grade working at Tonlegee Road primary care centre in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [32342/25]
    • Departmental Reviews
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to review all age-based exclusion criteria regarding spinal muscular atrophy treatments, given that adults were excluded from treatments as...
    • Departmental Policies
      849. To ask the Minister for Health her views in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32361/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      850. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details in respect of the audit into governance and equity in patient access and waiting-list management at Children's Health Ireland,...
    • Health Services Staff
      851. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspectors in HIQA in 2019 to 2024 and to date 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32368/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      852. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private nursing homes that the HSE have taken control of; to set out the reason, clinical or financial, for 2019 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      854. To ask the Minister for Health for breakdown of agency spend, per job rank/type, in HIQA, for each of the years 2019 to 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32371/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      855. To ask the Minister for Health why nurses are currently not entitled to bereavement leave (details supplied) that is comparable to other public servants; if she proposes to rectify this; and...
    • Hospital Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1165 of 13 May 2025, to outline the same relevant statistics for all individual hospitals which may have specific local...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      857. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to treatments paid for under the national treatment purchase fund where an individual received care in a private setting, if an agreed hourly rate...
    • Medicinal Products
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of pharmacists regarding the prohibitive cost of the shingles vaccine, despite it being recommended by the...
    • Departmental Funding
      859. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case for grant approval for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32391/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      863. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 25 May 2025, the number of deadlines set and missed. [32417/25]
    • Departmental Data
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims which were made to the CervicalCheck Tribunal, by year; the number of claims resolved positively by the tribunal; the number of claims...
    • Cancer Services
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the operational status of the National Cervical Screening Laboratory; the timeframe from commencement to completion and opening; the cost of the development to...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the occupational therapy first-time assessment waiting list, and within that, the numbers waiting less than 4 months; the number...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      869. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms by which the National Treatment Purchase Fund are accountable to the Minister and to the Oireachtas; if she intends to ensure that the National...
    • Health Services
      871. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a family (details supplied); if she and the relevant officials from the HSE will engage with this family as a matter of urgency;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the steps and engagement that is being taken to support and assist people mainly women impacted by the mesh implant scandal; stage her Department and the HSE...
    • General Practitioner Services
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the cost currently reimbursed to a GP for providing a patient with a full schedule of visits under the maternity and infant care scheme; when this cost was...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      875. To ask the Minister for Health when publicly funded IVF for persons experiencing secondary infertility will become available. [32488/25]
    • Departmental Websites
      876. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so,...
    • Departmental Meetings
      877. To ask the Minister for Health regarding any engagement she has had with an organisation (details supplied); if she plans to meet with this group in advance of the summer Dáil recess;...
    • Health Services
      878. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to the level of care and service provided by the National Gender Service (details supplied); and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      879. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the adoption of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines for healthcare professionals working with...
    • Health Services
      881. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to end the differential in the age of which a person ages out of paediatric mental health services and paediatric physical health services; and if...
    • Medicinal Products
      882. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to further roll out the free HRT scheme to men and others who use HRT for medical reasons. [32518/25]
    • Health Services
      883. To ask the Minister for Health to give urgent attention to a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32546/25]
    • Departmental Policies
      884. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by her Department to encourage the provision of bilingual labelling on food packaging, which would promote the Irish language; and if she...
    • Medicinal Products
      885. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to make eylea or aflibercept, available to suitable patients in Irish hospitals for the treatment of the wet form of age-related macular...
    • Health Services
      886. To ask the Minister for Health the services available nationally to support those who have suffered from child loss. [32556/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      887. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to change capacity laws in cases where a person has a dual mental health diagnosis as many family members are watching on helplessly as their...
    • Health Services
      888. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of hours of specifically family carer in-home respite hours only the HSE has delivered, by CHO, via the tender authorisation scheme...
    • Hospital Services
      889. To ask the Minister for Health if she was made aware of any reports which cited concerns regarding sub-optimal care for children with spina bifida at CHI Crumlin; if she will name the...
    • Dental Services
      893. To ask the Minister for Health the reason fillings are not being installed in a HSE local dental clinic (details supplied); if the failure to provide this service is contributing to the...
    • Nursing Homes
      895. To ask the Minister for Health if staff in private nursing homes are entitled to the recent section 39 pay deal. [32599/25]
    • Dental Services
      896. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will run an international recruitment campaign to recruit a suitably qualified senior dental surgeon, with a special interest in special needs, for...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      897. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that were received for ceiling hoists within CHO3 in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [32604/25]
    • Dental Services
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental nurses based in each primary care centre and health centre within county Clare in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [32605/25]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      899. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the training provided to haemodialysis patients to carry out their own haemodialysis at home; whether self-administered homecare is best...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      900. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the NTPF suspending all insourcing work with a public hospital since 11 April 2025; the name of the hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      901. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that there are 3,000 patients waiting for dermatology appointment in Sligo University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      902. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that no orthopaedic surgeries have taken place in Sligo University Hospital since January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      903. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the special leave with pay for people who continue to suffer from long Covid and cannot return to work; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes
      904. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA gives advance notice to nursing homes and residential care centres prior to a visit and inspection.. [32631/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      905. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred by her Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of the contractor and a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      906. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person requiring a new leg prosthesis fitting (details supplied); to advise when they will be supplied with same; and if she will make...
    • Health Services
      907. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider running a pilot orphan drug early-access programme in order that children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy can access givinostat; and if...
    • Emergency Services
      908. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to assess all playing fields, whether owned by sports organisations or part of national or secondary schools, for their suitability for the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      909. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the Government’s legislative response to the rise in vaping intends to be future proofed and cater for novel products such as nicotine...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      911. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which her Department was alerted to potential financial irregularities in relation to National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) funded insourcing...
    • Disability Services
      912. To ask the Minister for Health if a speech and language therapist will be appointed at a school (details supplied) for the duration of a period of leave. [32703/25]
    • Departmental Data
      913. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of authorised officers currently available for assisted admissions within the health service in Waterford city and county; if she considers...
    • Hospital Admissions
      915. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assisted admissions, by county and by CHO, for each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025, in tabular form.. [32713/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      916. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a geographical breakdown of the 174 authorised officers currently appointed under the Mental Health Act 2001; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Equipment
      917. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the current status of the two translabial scanners at Cork University Hospital and Holles Street; whether they are currently in use; whether trained...
    • Women's Health
      922. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the status of the report of the National Vaginal Mesh Implant Oversight Group; whether the report has been completed; and her views on whether the...
    • Medicinal Products
      923. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering an early access programme to givinostat (details supplied) for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients in Ireland, similar to that provided...
    • Nursing Homes
      925. To ask the Minister for Health whether therapeutic supports have been offered to residents of nursing-homes whose neglect and mistreatment were featured on a programme (details supplied) of...
    • Departmental Data
      926. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reports of alleged abuse, neglect, exploitation or other mistreatment of vulnerable adults that were made to HIQA in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date...
    • Departmental Budgets
      928. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated to HIQA for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; and for a breakdown of any additional costs accrued over time.; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      929. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of public health nurses, by funded WTE and filled WTE; the number of public health nurses per community health network; the number of public...
    • Legislative Measures
      930. To ask the Minister for Health if she will introduce statutory leave entitlements for those undergoing fertility treatment such as IVF, and for those who experience early miscarriage, in...
    • Medicinal Products
      931. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to ensure that adults with spinal muscular atrophy receive access to approved medicines (details supplied); if she will engage in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      932. To ask the Minister for Health if the next iteration of the Tobacco Free Ireland Strategy will contain objectives relating to nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches, to...
    • Cancer Services
      933. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the status of each cancer-related capital programme, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32776/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      936. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on implementing a multi-year funding approach for the health service, as committed to in the Programme for Government; the measures in place...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      937. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if she would be open to meeting with the family in question; and if she will make a statement...
    • Medicinal Products
      939. To ask the Minister for Health if she has given consideration to a fast-tracked review of vyloy for inclusion in the HSE reimbursement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      941. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information and Quality Authority has paused publication of stage-3 nursing home inspection reports; if so, the legal basis for this; and if she...
    • Judicial Reviews
      943. To ask the Minister for Health the number of judicial review cases her Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are pending or...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      944. To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal cases defended by her Department in each of the past ten years in which the next friend of a minor was the plaintiff or applicant; of those...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Grant Payments
      945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at third level; and if he will make a...
    • Further and Higher Education
      949. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will implement a revised funding model for graduate entry medicine students, as committed to in the Programme for Government;...
    • Departmental Data
      951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current offering by ETB of craft apprenticeship off-the-job training (phases 2, 4 and 6), by the number of places per intake, for 2023, 2024...
    • Departmental Funding
      956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will subsidise graduate entry medicine in line with undergraduate medicine; if new financial support mechanisms are being...
    • Student Accommodation
      957. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress of the Government's strategy for third-level accommodation, and specifically, how this strategy addresses...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      958. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on efforts as part of the Global Ireland framework to streamline the recognition of overseas and non-EU qualifications in Ireland,...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      960. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns regarding the lack of supports for persons seeking to complete a part-time masters degree while employed; if there...
    • Departmental Data
      961. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of capital and current funding his Department and SOLAS provided to a service (details supplied) in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in...
    • Departmental Websites
      962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      963. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for programme expenditure to improve a significant decline and to address the lack of consistency in the numbers of output targets for...
    • Further and Higher Education
      965. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for programme expenditure to address the numbers of invention disclosures from higher education institutes; the reasons there is a...
    • Gender Balance
      966. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is still only an output target of just one female research professor since 2023 under his Department’s equality budgeting...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      967. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to address the significant decrease in FET learners from underrepresented backgrounds from 23,763 in 2023 to 19,474 in...
    • Departmental Funding
      968. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be capping the current Solas admin, capital and general expenses to the welcome increase of €30,164 in 2025 from the previous...
    • Grant Payments
      969. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be capping the current grants to Solas for further education and training, to the welcome increase from €537,474 to...
    • Further and Higher Education
      970. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no consistency in numbers from his Department of Skillnet Ireland learners from the 2023 outturn target of 96,646 to the 2024...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      971. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department’s programme expenditure has decided to decrease the outrun target numbers of places for Skillnet Ireland...
    • Departmental Data
      973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information on the six further education building projects marked as output targets for 2025; the reason there were no building...
    • Departmental Funding
      977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be an increase of funding from the National Training Fund for training grants to industry from the current amount of €6,500...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      980. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department intends to cap the welcome increase in funding of public private partnership costs from €39,000 (NTF) in 2024 to...
    • Departmental Data
      982. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans his Department has to build on and expand the numbers of higher education students in the State, with the last figure from 2023 is at...
    • Departmental Budgets
      986. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has significantly reduced digital and capital investment and IT expenses from his programme allocations budget by 80%...
    • Departmental Contracts
      987. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of the...
    • International Students
      988. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to encourage greater participation by Peruvian students in third level institutions and continuing educational opportunities in...
    • Grant Payments
      989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an applicant (details supplied) will be considered for SUSI assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32706/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which he is pursuing the ‘CERN for AI’ proposal (details supplied); if he sees opportunity in State-led AI...
    • Judicial Reviews
      991. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Inquiries
      992. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the Programme for Government’s commitment to expand the remit of connected hubs to create new...
    • Departmental Data
      993. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the community centres based in County Kildare that received capital funding under the community centres investment fund in 2024,...
    • Rural Regeneration
      994. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has received an application for the rural regeneration and development fund-phase 2, for Carraig na bFhearr; and if so, when...
    • Departmental Websites
      995. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for...
    • Departmental Contracts
      996. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the...
    • Community Development Projects
      997. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are plans for a fund for community centres for energy efficiency and insulation in 2025 or 2026. [32714/25]
    • Judicial Reviews
      998. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which...

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