Written answers
Thursday, 19 June 2025
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Job Creation
14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts he is making to increase employment opportunities in County Meath, given the very significant number of workers who are...
- Industrial Development
15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the new national clustering policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33182/25]
- Trade Data
17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that according to the UN trade database Comtrade, Ireland imported €2.89 billion worth of goods from Israel in...
- Enterprise Support Services
18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in Kerry currently supported by Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32983/25]
- Small and Medium Enterprises
20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial supports he will put in place to assist SMEs reduce their greenhouse emissions in line with Government targets; and if...
- Enterprise Support Services
21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that Enterprise Ireland plays such a crucial role in scaling Irish businesses globally, the key sectors or regions where...
- Human Rights
22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 28 of 1 May 2025, and 6 of 20 February 2025, if the action plan on business and human rights...
- Labour Market
23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the skills gap highlighted by Irish and International companies in difficulties they are experiencing in their recruitment campaigns;...
- Enterprise Support Services
25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide details on the remit of the National Enterprise Hub; for statistics relating to its usage since its launch; and if he will...
- Regional Development
26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new midwest regional enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33047/25]
- Work Permits
27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average processing times for employment permits this year; how this compares with the same period last year; and if he will make a...
- Business Supports
29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a report on the cost of business advisory forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33045/25]
- Enterprise Policy
30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the positions that Ireland is taking in the negotiations on the EU’s corporate sustainability due diligence...
- Wind Energy Generation
32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the progress made to date under Powering Prosperity – Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy,...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific timelines and performance indicators that will be used to measure the effectiveness of the recently announced small...
- Regional Development
34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new mid east enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33033/25]
- Business Regulation
35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for the latest update on the commitment to undertake a look-back exercise to identify regulations that are now redundant, to reduce...
- Tourism Industry
37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives he is taking to support tourism and hospitality in County Louth and the northeast; and if he will make a statement on...
- Information and Communications Technology
38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions his Department is taking to progress and prioritise the Irish National Semiconductor Strategy in order to take full...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the implementation of an appeals system for the power-up scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tourism Industry
42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce any policy initiatives to reduce the level of 'daytrip' coach tourism from Dublin to the west of Ireland, so that...
- Trade Relations
43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the analysis undertaken of the activities of a company (details supplied), which company continues to generate profit from tourism to...
- Job Creation
44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the engagements he has had with a view to job creation and retention in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will...
- Trade Data
45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and value of dual-use export licence applications, in respect of end-users in Israel, approved by his Department by quarter...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of SMEs which have closed in the State in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement...
- Regional Development
47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement there has been with his Department, State agencies and Department counterparts in the North, on the issues impacting...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the targeted supports he is considering to help small and local businesses remain viable in rural towns and areas like Mayo; and if he...
- Enterprise Policy
49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the expected timeline for developing a national life sciences strategy to ensure competitiveness in this sector; and if he will make a...
- Business Supports
50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an overview of funding available to businesses for climate and energy efficiency measures. [33193/25]
- Tourism Industry
51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the accommodation capacity available to the tourism sector; the number of bed nights in 2023, 2024 and to date in...
- Regional Development
52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in Meath currently supported by Enterprise Ireland and by the IDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Functions
53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered the establishment of a workers' co-operative development unit within his Department; and if he will make a...
- Enterprise Policy
56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions his Department is taking to facilitate collaboration between larger FDI companies and indigenous firms, particularly...
- Work Permits
57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment permit applications received to date in 2025, and the number of permits issued; and if he will make a...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department is taking to support the economic rejuvenation of towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- EU Directives
60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department have had any engagement at EU level on the ongoing case on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive currently...
- Business Regulation
61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the concrete steps Ireland is taking at Council level regarding the Omnibus proposals (COM 80 and COM 81) to defend...
- Trade Relations
62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 20 February 2025, to detail the way in which, as outlined in the reply, officials carry...
- Regional Development
63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made by his Department to reform the smart regions enterprise innovation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Business Regulation
64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the means by which the proposed change to the Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence Directive in the EU Omnibus...
- Business Supports
65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the digital voucher uptake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33163/25]
- Job Losses
66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his officials have had engagement with a company (details supplied) and the examiner located there, since the announcement of...
- Business Supports
67. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with Government colleagues in relation to insurance and reducing the cost of insurance for businesses; and...
- Enterprise Policy
68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timeline for the publication of 'Enterprise 2035'; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32969/25]
- Small and Medium Enterprises
69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanism his Department is using to measure the success of grants offered to SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Coillte Teoranta
70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged with Fáilte Ireland regarding the masterplan for Portumna Forest Park in County Galway; and if he will make a...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how his Department, working alongside Enterprise Ireland, is adapting to support the needs of startups in the face of AI and...
- Regional Development
73. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in Kilkenny and Carlow currently supported by Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Employment Rights
76. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the development of the voluntary code of practice to support the hiring of workers with a disability, as committed to...
- Enterprise Policy
77. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagements that he, or any representative of his Department or associated State agencies, have had in respect of the former BOSE...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has conducted or plans to conduct any reviews into the barriers Mayo based SMEs face in accessing Government...
- Business Supports
79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an overview of his intentions to fulfil the Programme for Government pledge to better support the hospitality...
- Employment Rights
82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason previous commitments made by the Government on worker's rights issues have not been delivered. [33190/25]
- Tourism Industry
83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline his engagements with the Central Statistics Office, Fáilte Ireland and other stakeholders, regarding data collection...
- Business Regulation
84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with stakeholders surrounding the proposed change to the Corporate Sustainability and Due...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has any plans to review the appeals process for the domiciliary care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Payments
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the initiatives he is taking to support foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33147/25]
- Social Welfare Appeals
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing times for social welfare appeals for each social welfare scheme; the number of successful appeals...
- Social Welfare Payments
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of funeral assistance grants paid out over the past five years; the number refused, by county, in tabular form;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he recognises the anomaly in the social welfare system which means that people in receipt of widow’s pension, and...
- School Meals Programme
108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount allocated to the school meal holiday programme; the number of schools taking part, by county, in tabular form; the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the expansion of the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32899/25]
- Departmental Strategies
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide details on any specific cross-departmental mechanisms in place to ensure that the lived experience of...
- Social Welfare Payments
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who will receive an increase in their carer’s allowance payment when the changes to the means...
- Child Poverty
113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress which has been made to examine ways to lift more children in Ireland out of child poverty and the expected...
- Social Welfare Payments
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of job seekers allowance recipients by length of time they have been in receival of the payment, under 1 year,...
- Social Welfare Code
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he is ensuring that the social welfare system is progressive and empowers people with a disability to live full and...
- Employment Schemes
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he is taking to support more disabled people into employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Payments
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carers in Kilkenny and Carlow that received the carer’s support grant in 2025; how the number of...
- State Pensions
118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the commitment to examine what modification can be made to support women who fall outside of existing...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he expects the Programme for Government pledge to remove the means test requirement for qualification for a carers...
- Social Welfare Payments
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the up to date position on the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension) Bill 2025; the number of applications...
- Social Welfare Code
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on his Department's review of all its social assistance schemes; if he will consider adapting the means-testing...
- Social Welfare Benefits
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of illness benefit recipients by length of time they have been in receival of the payment, under 1 year,...
- Social Welfare Code
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his plans to address the gap between the better off and those...
- Social Welfare Payments
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of a widow’s pension who are under age 66; if he will provide an estimated cost of...
- Public Sector Pensions
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when his Department became aware of the overpayment of pensions to Ministers and civil servants; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline his plans to abolish the means testing for carer's allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32977/25]
- Employment Support Services
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide increased flexibility to local CE, TÚS and rural social schemes to retain participants for longer,...
- Public Sector Pensions
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the interaction there has been between his Department’s secretary-general and the counterpart in the...
- Public Services Card
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of expenditure to date regarding the creation and operation of the Public Services Card; the amount expended in...
- Social Welfare Payments
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the carer's allowance weekly income disregard will increase from €450 to €625 for a single person, and...
- Departmental Strategies
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on his Department’s annual social inclusion forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Payments
135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a poverty impact assessment was carried out on the Government’s decision to allow for rents to be reset to market...
- Gender Recognition
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department is responsible for issuing gender recognition certificates; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Strategies
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new roadmap for social inclusion will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32905/25]
- Social Welfare Payments
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of supplementary welfare allowances paid out, by county, over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for disability allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32965/25]
- Social Welfare Payments
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider changing the farm assist payment to a credited contribution while in payment; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider extending social welfare benefits to surrogate parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Payments
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons over 66 who have qualified for the fuel allowance since the expanded means test for over 66s was...
- Employment Support Services
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to improve access to the workforce for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Payments
145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people who have had the carer’s allowance removed from them in each of the past ten years, and to...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give a timeline for implementing the Programme for Government commitment to phase out means testing for the...
- Social Welfare Payments
147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline his plans to reform the domiciliary care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33184/25]
- Social Welfare Benefits
148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of a cohort of people in the State with five plus years of PRSI contributions who are only entitled to the...
- Employment Support Services
149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to expand and build on successful programmes like WorkAbility and Employability to support people with disabilities...
- Pension Provisions
150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 31 of 11 May 2023, if the discussions between his Department and the Department of...
- Social Welfare Payments
151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the improvements he is planning in relation to the fuel allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32978/25]
- Social Welfare Appeals
152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to give an update on work his Department is doing to decrease social welfare appeal waiting times; the current average time...
- Departmental Strategies
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the commitment to reduce consistent poverty to 2% by 2025 in the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 has been...
- Social Welfare Code
154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to develop a pension solution for foster carers in recognition of the enormous contribution they make to vulnerable...
- Pension Provisions
155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the means by which his Department is assisting businesses to plan for auto-enrolment; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Code
157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend social welfare payments, benefits and allowances to foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Community Employment Schemes
158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of the growing difficulties faced by community and voluntary organisations across County Tipperary in...
- Child Poverty
159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps he will take to address the massive rise in consistent poverty among children; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Payments
160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the number of families that have benefitted from the newborn baby grant since its introduction; his...
- State Pensions
161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he intends to review the current weekly means limit for the increase for qualified adult allowance for recipients of the...
- Data Protection
162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, further to the most recent fine imposed on his Department by the data protection commissioner for deficiencies in...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will ensure entitlement to disability allowance for young people who have been in receipt of domiciliary care...
- Social Welfare Offices
165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions his Department will take to alleviate the issue of the great difficulty persons have in meeting with the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending illness benefit to the self-employed; the estimated increase in PRSI rates that would be required to...
- Departmental Communications
167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department regularly shares data with the Criminal Assets Bureau of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Schemes
168. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that parents/guardians of children who are blind and in receipt of a free travel pass will also receive a travel...
- Employment Support Services
169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail any plans he has to review the wage subsidy scheme. [31582/25]
- Social Welfare Payments
170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the improvements he is planning in relation to the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Official Engagements
171. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on his attendance at the annual carers’ forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32902/25]
- Employment Support Services
172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on his engagement to encourage employers to utilise the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Payments
173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the carers allowance at year end for each of the past ten years; and the current...
- Departmental Communications
174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will ensure that his Department will examine the case for TDs having direct access, a local dedicated phoneline or...
- Social Welfare Benefits
176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the number of persons who have qualified for the new pay-related benefit since...
- Social Welfare Code
177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the initiatives he is taking to support kinship carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33042/25]
- Social Welfare Payments
180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of the fact that when custody is split between two separated or divorced co-parents there is no mechanism by...
- Social Welfare Benefits
181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have availed of parents benefit in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review and change the current very penal means test calculation on land or savings on, for example, the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Consular Services
186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the types of services which his Department offers to Irish citizens when offering consular assistance in an emergency situation;...
- Middle East
187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional measures that will be taken to bring an end to the Genocide, slaughter, starvation and degrading of the Palestinian people...
- Departmental Communications
188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of all diplomatic démarches received by the Government from other states over each of the past five years, including...
- Foreign Policy
190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of individuals or groups who lobbied the Government to include the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of...
- Foreign Conflicts
192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he has received a briefing from relevant Ambassadors regarding the growing border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia; whether...
- Diplomatic Representation
193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether there are any plans for new embassies planned for any countries in which Ireland does not have a full-time mission; whether...
- Trade Relations
194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for increasing trade between Ireland and ASEAN countries; whether there are any trade delegations planned for the region; and if...
- Overseas Development Aid
195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the EU has carried out a gap analysis regarding the massive reduction in USAID contributions and funding around the world; the scale of...
- Ukraine War
196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will liaise with the well-being and counselling community and the Ukrainian community in Ireland to develop content and...
- Middle East
197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any response has been received from Israel to his diplomatic rebuke for the shooting by Israel at Irish soldiers participating in a...
- European Union
198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government’s approval is sought through the Foreign Affairs Council in advance of the President of the European Commission...
- Overseas Development Aid
203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of money which the State has provided to the UNFPA from 2024 to date. [33452/25]
- Departmental Staff
206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Waste Management
207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether local authorities have the legal authority to request proof of lawful waste disposal by residents in the form of...
- Departmental Policies
208. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are statutory planning guidelines for the construction of anaerobic digestors; and if he will make a statement on...
- Energy Policy
209. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update of all the actions in the energy security review, broken down by action; the breakdown of completed...
- Departmental Staff
211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in...
- Department of Defence
- Naval Service
212. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update and timeline regarding the Naval Reserve’s plan to launch four new vessels for harbour protection; the reasons for the...
- Defence Forces
213. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are any recent requests by the UN DPO for explosive ordnance removal units; the units that are currently deployed; and if he will make...
- Civil Defence
214. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the Volunteer and Equipment Management System (VEMS) of Civil Defence; how effective this system is in terms of having timely...
- Departmental Staff
215. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Rail Network
216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate two recent power line failures (details supplied) which caused significant disruption to the DART services and...
- Driver Licences
218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in a licence being exchanged (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33283/25]
- Driver Test
219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there is a freeze on commercial driving tests for trucks and busses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rail Network
220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm when the new stations under the expanded commuter rail programme for Cork, such as Blackpool, Blarney, Monard and Tivoli are...
- Taxi Regulations
221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to extend the wheelchair accessible vehicle taxi grant scheme; and if he...
- Electric Vehicles
222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the funding that was allocated to the EV grant scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the number of grants that were...
- Road Network
223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ask TII the materials went into the road surface in the area for one kilometre either side of junction 27 in Birdhill on the M7. [33375/25]
- Air Services
224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the Irish Aviation Authority’s role in enforcing consumer protection for airline passengers; and if he will make a...
- Driver Licences
225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a driving licence exchange (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33425/25]
- Departmental Staff
228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
229. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the engagement he has had with a company (details supplied) in view of their closure announcement; the affirmative action the Government will take...
- Fiscal Policy
230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered any proposals to introduce and incentivise employee ownership trusts in Ireland similar to those available in the UK; and if he will make...
- Tax Data
231. To ask the Minister for Finance the total additional amount in additional revenue generated by alcohol companies on foot of the introduction of minimum alcohol pricing in each year since its...
- Tax Code
232. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 21 May 2025, if he accepts that the register of beneficial ownership has been effectively closed to all...
- Illicit Trade
235. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures currently being undertaken to address the smuggling of illicit goods, including drugs and tobacco, and to strengthen border enforcement. [33259/25]
- Tax Code
237. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of concerns around VAT liabilities in an industry (details supplied); if his Department and the Revenue Commissioners have given...
- Fiscal Policy
238. To ask the Minister for Finance if we will give detailed consideration to a document recently produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Credits
239. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the proposed introduction of a tax credit for gym membership or other physical activity-related expenses; if any assessment...
- Fiscal Policy
240. To ask the Minister for Finance in situation where a legal title is owned by a credit servicing firm and the loan related to the same mortgage is owned by a special purpose vehicle, as is...
- Tax Code
241. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide in tabular form the total amount of capital gains tax paid by credit servicing firms and special purpose vehicles holding specified mortgages each...
- Tax Credits
244. To ask the Minister for Finance to give serious consideration to introducing tax credit increases for separated fathers who are financially supporting their children through maintenance...
- Fiscal Policy
245. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the future Ireland fund and the infrastructure, climate and nature fund that are invested in debt instruments of other countries such as bonds;...
- Departmental Staff
246. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully on-site, hybrid,...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- An Garda Síochána
247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans in place to improve the facilities at each Garda station in County Kildare; the timeframe involved in any such works; the cost...
- Public Sector Staff
248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a legal executive officer cannot currently apply for a secondment to another role like all other staff grades; and the reason...
- Flood Risk Management
249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has the responsibility for the section of the Clarin River that runs through Ballyboggan, Athenry County...
- Public Sector Pensions
250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grades of former civil servants that are having their pension deductions assessed for possible anomalies and if these former civil...
- Departmental Staff
251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Alcohol Sales
252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to elaborate on his position that alcohol labelling would impact competitiveness; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- EU Directives
253. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the aspects of the proposed Omnibus his Department is supporting and opposing at EU Level, with particular regard for the potential...
- Industrial Development
254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to discuss the IDA’s plans to promote and utilise IDA owned land and property in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
- Employment Rights
255. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason previous commitments made by the Government on workers right's issues have not been delivered. [33473/25]
- Company Closures
256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with the management and owners of a company (details supplied); the discussions he has had regarding...
- Enterprise Policy
257. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set out the supports he has put in place to assist university based enterprises to commercialise and grow in scale innovations and...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
258. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set out the supports to small businesses whose trade has been affected by the recent uncertainty created by the United States...
- State Bodies
259. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IDA lands (details supplied) have been transferred to the Land Development Agency for the delivery of much needed housing in the...
- Legislative Measures
260. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the implementation of section 22 of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act...
- Company Law
261. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of exemptions sought each years since 2015 for the 25 limit on directorships; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Industrial Development
262. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-hosted visits to each city in the State in each of the past 20 years, in tabular form. [33364/25]
- Company Law
266. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to clarify the circumstances in which the Companies Registration Office accept e-signatures for company filings; if it does not...
- Trade Data
267. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of imports of all goods and services to Ireland from Israel in the past year; the value of all goods and services from...
- Departmental Staff
268. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are...
- Tourism Industry
269. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on plans to develop long-term, sustainable, well-paid careers in the tourism industry. [33544/25]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , given that the 1,600 additional SNA staff promised in Budget 2025, bringing the number of SNAs from 22,000 to 23,600, will now amount to...
- National Educational Psychological Service
274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a NEPS assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33230/25]
- Teaching Qualifications
275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider applying the refund of fees for PME graduates retrospectively in order that students who graduated prior to 2024 are also...
- Schools Building Projects
276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on when the contract will be awarded for the construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- School Staff
277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the processes in place to ensure that teachers returning to work following periods of medical leave are...
- Special Educational Needs
278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available to schools where existing rooms have been repurposed as ASD classes; and if such spaces can be replaced or restored...
- School Transport
279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport applications submitted in County Louth from 2019 to 2025, along with the number of applications approved during...
- Residential Institutions
280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite the issuing of the HAA cards, as it offers far more supports and benefits to survivors of industrial schools than the...
- School Staff
282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct her Department to recognise teaching experience (details supplied) for the purposes of incremental credit; and if she will...
- Special Educational Needs
283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give detailed consideration to the issues outlined in document, recently produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and...
- School Enrolments
286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 12 June 2025 regarding the more than 92% of children who have been allocated a place or are in the...
- School Transport
287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address a school transport issue as regards a dangerous school bus pick-up point in Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 12 June 2025, the number of teachers required to reduce the teacher pupil ratio to 19:1 and 18:1...
- Schools Building Projects
289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered in detail proposals made by the 'Bridging the Gap' campaign group of families in Youghal to her Department for...
- School Enrolments
290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of new special school provision for the 2025-2026 school term, and for the expected locations nationally of this provision. [33400/25]
- School Staff
291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will ensure a school (details supplied) has funding for an extra teacher; if she is aware that two second classes are to be...
- Schools Building Projects
292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding the proposal and request to provide an new primary school (details supplied) for Carrick-on-Shannon,...
- Special Educational Needs
294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm when the special education needs litigation unit was established within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Funding
297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give detailed consideration to the issues raised by a national organisation (detailed supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Building Projects
298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a proposal is progressed without further delay which will ensure the best school provision for an area (details...
- Departmental Staff
299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people working full-time and part-time in her Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Departmental Expenditure
300. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of funding provided by his Department to the St. Patrick’s Day Festival each year since 2019, in...
- Universal Basic Income
305. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total cost of the basic income for the arts scheme in each year since it was introduced; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
306. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Defective Building Materials
307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to include the...
- Wind Energy Guidelines
308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the intentions of Government to bring forward new guidelines to replace the 2006 guidelines on...
- National Planning Framework
313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised national planning framework will be published; if he will guarantee that it will be published before the...
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm unequivocally whether he is satisfied that the current policies, priorities, decisions and actions of his...
- Traveller Accommodation
315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application has been submitted by Cork City Council for funding for emergency funding to replace mobile homes/caravans...
- Departmental Data
316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on an application from Kerry County Council (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement...
- Local Authorities
321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the number of staff employed in Cork County Council to address vacancy and dereliction; the population size served by the...
- Marine Protected Areas
324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the marine protected areas Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33476/25]
- Heritage Schemes
325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of the 2025 budget for Historic Structure Fund that was spent in the first five months of 2025; and if he will...
- Departmental Staff
327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will initiate a review of his Departments processes for assessing the entitlement to the domiciliary care allowance,...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to abolish the means test criteria for carers, who provide an invaluable service to their cared on behalf...
- School Meals Programme
331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her engagements regarding the hot school meals programme. [31315/25]
- Social Welfare Benefits
332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider streamlining jobseeker's benefit claims during holidays for school bus escorts and other seasonal...
- Poverty Data
334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the failure to make progress towards the Roadmap for Social Inclusion target of reducing consistent poverty...
- Social Welfare Payments
339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to expedite a carer’s support grant application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- State Pensions
340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms available by which a person (details supplied) can increase the rate of their State pension; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Payments
341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of an invalidity pension application for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be...
- Departmental Staff
345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- An Garda Síochána
346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí stationed at each Garda station in County Kildare for each of the past three years; the total number...
- Immigration Policy
348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current rules governing the migration of South African citizens to Ireland, specifically in relation to...
- Prison Service
350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unserved prison sentences in the State last year, and each of the last five years; the number that were given...
- Probation and Welfare Service
351. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people referred to the probation service for a community service report who were found by that report to be...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1192 of 19 March 2025, if his Department has instructed the Office of Parliamentary...
- Departmental Staff
353. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Live Exports
354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the total number of live animal exports from Ireland to Morocco, Israel, and Singapore, broken down by...
- Waste Management
355. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are mandatory set-back distances from houses for anaerobic digestors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33276/25]
- Agriculture Schemes
356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he plans to carry out the next reclassification of land in the jurisdiction of Ireland for the purposes of the areas of natural...
- Departmental Staff
358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disability Services
359. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of under-65s residing in nursing-homes; to provide any additional information regarding these...
- Assisted Decision-Making
360. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions taken by her or by the Decision Support Service to implement the commitment contained in the...
- Disability Services
362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the community neuro-rehabilitation team that has been promised since 2019 for the midlands northeast will...
- Childcare Services
364. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of families on enhanced childcare subsidies that were negatively affected by the fee adjustment...
- Mental Health Services
365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department will urgently review the case of a 14-year-old girl (details supplied) who has been waiting...
- Child and Family Agency
367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet received a retrospective ill health...
- Care of the Elderly
368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a retirement home (details supplied) in Waterford was closed; the reason for its closure; if his Department...
- Schools Building Projects
369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the building block extension grant application for a school (details supplied) was not successful;...
- Departmental Inquiries
371. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 11 June 2025 which referred to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of...
- Residential Institutions
373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason there are no survivors of institutional abuse representatives on the decision-making bodies,...
- Disability Services
374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to develop a national pathway and specialist multidisciplinary functional neurological disorder...
- Childcare Services
376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on an audit on the number of childcare facilities per local authority that have undergone a change...
- Departmental Staff
380. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people working full-time and part-time in her Department and bodies under the aegis of the...
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services
381. To ask the Minister for Health for a projected start date to construction works on a replacement facility for the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton. [33389/25]
- Alcohol Sales
382. To ask the Minister for Health her views that labelling regulations would apply to all alcohol sold in the State, not merely alcohol produced in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
383. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given that many of the frontline workers during the pandemic are still suffering with the effects of long Covid and have to deal with an increased...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
384. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who has a very rare form of epilepsy will receive her much-needed seizure monitor. [33227/25]
- Medicinal Products
385. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the situation regarding the unavailability of phyllocontin and uniphyllin (theophylline) tablets, which were previously used to manage...
- General Practitioner Services
386. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the current status of SouthDoc in Blackpool, as a number of users in the northside of Cork city have stated that the service appears to be wound...
- Medicinal Products
388. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she will take to ensure that givinostat is available at the earliest opportunity to sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [33245/25]
- Health Services
389. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to recognise inflammatory bowel disease under the long-term illness scheme, to provide patients with access to the necessary...
- Medical Cards
393. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to remove GP fees for completing and signing medical card application forms. [33265/25]
- Mental Health Services
394. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will urgently review the case of a 14-year-old girl (details supplied) who has been waiting over 15 months to be seen by a psychologist under...
- Hospital Appointments Status
396. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied) requiring surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33291/25]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
397. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address and support the 166 healthcare workers, who put their lives at risk working during the pandemic, who are now facing an end to long-Covid...
- Hospital Services
398. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the amount of funding allocated by the HSE for respite beds in a hospital (details supplied) for the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular...
- Health Services
400. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give detailed consideration to a strategy document recently produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Pharmacy Services
404. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to have pharmacists prescribe for common conditions; the timeline she is working towards for implementing this recommendation from a group...
- Health Services
405. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each recommendation from a group (details supplied); the timeline for implementation of the remaining recommendations; and if she will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
406. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the implementation of an RSV Immunisation Pathfinder Programme for older adults in 2025 to protect vulnerable older adults, including those...
- Health Services Staff
407. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the process through which people availing of the special long-Covid sick pay scheme for healthcare workers will be supported as they...
- Health Services
409. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s position is regarding pension entitlements for staff employed under HSE-funded Roma and intercultural health projects operated by area...
- Mental Health Services
410. To ask the Minister for Health to detail all applications made in the past five years with respect to the establishment of a Jigsaw youth mental health service in Waterford, including the...
- Health Services
411. To ask the Minister for Health if she is fully satisfied with the proposed location for a facility in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33372/25]
- Health Service Executive
414. To ask the Minister for Health for the number of reported assaults on HSE staff during the course of their work duties for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and to provide any additional...
- Mental Health Services
416. To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of hotel accommodation for former residents of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton since the building was vacated on October 2023, until the...
- Disability Services
418. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Council for Special Education accept clinical diagnosing of autism in assessment reports completed by counselling psychologists. [33411/25]
- Mental Health Services
419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychology training placements funded by her Department for the coming college term from September 2025; and their allocation to each training...
- Health Services
420. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33426/25]
- Departmental Schemes
421. To ask the Minister for Health if she or the HSE has any plans on making thyroid disease a long-term illness further to matters raised (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Hospital Facilities
422. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has any plans to purchase an available near Crofton Road in Dún Laoghaire, adjacent to St. Michael’s Hospital, to help alleviate...
- Parliamentary Questions
424. To ask the Minister for Health the expected wait-time for parliamentary questions replies to be returned by the HSE to TDs. [33453/25]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
425. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown, by regional health area, of primary care child and adolescent service waiting-lists for occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and...
- Nursing Homes
426. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing-homes (details supplied) will be investigated by her Department. [33456/25]
- Dental Services
427. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists employed by the HSE, per local health area, per grade, from the years 2018 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
- Primary Care Centres
429. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the status of the proposed primary care centre at a location (details supplied), including a timeline for when the project will...
- Departmental Staff
430. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people working full-time and part-time in her Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully on-site, hybrid, or...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to intervene or offer supports to dozens of Brazilian students left in limbo following the sudden closure of an agency (details...
- Departmental Staff
436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Rural Schemes
437. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline all of the grant opportunities available to meals on wheels programmes in addition to the funding available from the...
- Departmental Staff
439. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that...
