Written answers

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      40. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his discussions with the new Canadian Prime Minister. [30341/25]
    • Economic Growth
      72. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2024, published by his Department in November 2024. [30340/25]
    • Cabinet Committees
      75. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on water quality will next meet. [32139/25]
    • Climate Change Policy
      78. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the new climate investment clearing house. [32140/25]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      82. To ask the Taoiseach the reason the Government has not committed to a full independent inquiry on the Covid-19 pandemic; and if it will commit to such an inquiry. [32098/25]
    • Departmental Priorities
      88. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the priorities of his Department’s housing and infrastructure unit [32279/25]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Provision
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand the number of third level places related to therapies in the disability sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to reach the target of 750 apprenticeships in the public service and Civil Service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Admissions
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of leaving certificate holders who accepted a university place in each of the past ten years; the number of persons who graduated from...
    • Third Level Fees
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the latest update on the implementation of a ‘second chance’ provision to ensure students undertaking a repeat year or changing...
    • Education and Training Provision
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the development of the Modern Methods of Construction Demonstration Park at Mount Lucas; the number of beneficiaries who will...
    • Grant Payments
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the same income eligibility limits for SUSI grants are applicable for students attending approved colleges and courses outside our...
    • Third Level Costs
      120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the targeted supports he intends to give to families for the upcoming college year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Fees
      121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his rationale regarding the change in the student contribution charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37620/25]
    • Further and Higher Education
      122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to ensure that the construction of the five new higher education buildings aligns with and supports...
    • Grant Payments
      123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the number of students in receipt of various levels of SUSI grant; his plans to improve access to higher education by expanding the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider providing a career pathway for healthcare assistant profession through a third level course, apprenticeship, social care...
    • Third Level Fees
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the third level fee supports that are available for graduate medicine students; if he will outline future plans for this if none are currently in...
    • Adult Education Provision
      127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the falling rates of literacy, meaning the increase in the percentage of adults aged 16 to 65 in Ireland who...
    • Transport Policy
      128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to reduce commuting times for students who must travel over county lines to attend third level education. [37635/25]
    • Student Accommodation
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions his Department is taking to increase access to student accommodation in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the means by which his Department is working to simplify apprenticeship pathways. [37330/25]
    • Teacher Training
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that he has engaged with the president of a school (details supplied) regarding Gaeltacht placement fees for post-primary...
    • Departmental Funding
      134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on funding to replace or upgrade basic research equipment in our universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37372/25]
    • Technological Universities
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve funding for the South East Technological University's health, pharmacy, veterinary and apprenticeship buildings; and if he...
    • Third Level Fees
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed roadmap for implementing the promise in the programme for Government to “Continue to reduce the Student Contribution...
    • Student Accommodation
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position on the new student accommodation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37622/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to extensive waiting lists for mental health supports in third level institutions; the actions he will take to...
    • Third Level Fees
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the...
    • Grant Payments
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has looked at streamlining and simplifying the SUSI application process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37584/25]
    • Student Accommodation
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 22 May 2025, for an update on the developments made to increase the provision of student accommodation...
    • Third Level Fees
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has undertaken any study to determine the impact on college uptake levels of the €1,000 reduction in the student...
    • Student Accommodation
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If he will ensure that measures are put In place to protect students from runaway inflation rates when tenancies change, as could happen under...
    • Grant Payments
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the increases in SUSI grants have kept pace with the cost-of-living increases in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Costs
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he and his Department have had with stakeholders regarding pay rates for PhD researchers students, as of July 2025; and if he will...
    • Technological Universities
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the development of a borrowing framework for technological universities; the timeline for the delivery of the framework;...
    • Further and Higher Education
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the major capital projects that will be progressed in 2025 in the further education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37628/25]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plan for a renewed action plan to succeed the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025; if the new action plan will have a focus on...
    • Student Accommodation
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to address the shortage of third level student accommodation; the measures being taken to ensure affordability of rents...
    • Research and Development
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the Department’s plan to recruit US researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37585/25]
    • Third Level Admissions
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that he has engaged with both Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork with a view to increasing the number of Irish...
    • Third Level Staff
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 27 March 2025, if the position remains vacant; the number of positions in the university occupied by...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the target of 10,000 annual apprenticeship registrations by the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37512/25]
    • Education and Training Provision
      155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite work on a site (details supplied) in Killarney, County Kerry, by developing a state-of-the-art campus focusing on skills development...
    • Student Accommodation
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the programme for Government commitment to ensure student accommodation leases align with the academic year, making it easier...
    • Education and Training Provision
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to expanding employer placement opportunities as a formal component of university programmes; and if he will make...
    • Third Level Fees
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount the student contribution fee will be for the 2025-26 academic year and the 2026-27 academic year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Further and Higher Education
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 36 of 22 May 2025, for an update on the development of a new campus for further education and training in...
    • Third Level Fees
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the plans for the student contribution charge for the coming academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37619/25]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a disparity in pay exists in how some apprentices are supported during their off-the-job phases of their training, that is,...
    • Education and Training Provision
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to increase the number of degree courses for occupational therapy and speech and language therapy; and if he will make a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the expansion of apprenticeships since the publication of the action plan on apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Technological Universities
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make specific capital funding commitments to deliver the South East Technological University strategic plan; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Fees
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a strong case to Cabinet to retain the cost-of-living reduction of €1,000 for student fees in budget 2026, and to making...
    • Education Policy
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to consider Ireland’s potential membership of the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline any additional supports being considered to assist students with disabilities in their transition from secondary to third level...
    • Education and Training Provision
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the steps being taken to integrate green skills across further and higher education programmes; and if he will make a...
    • Further and Higher Education
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the new building for Dunboyne College of Further Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37298/25]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Appointments
      171. To ask the Taoiseach the number of the seven external experts appointed or to be appointed to the new disability unit in his Department that have lived experience of disability in Ireland....
    • Trade Data
      172. To ask the Taoiseach the total value of trade in goods and services between Ireland and Russia in each of the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive; the major sectors for that trade; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      173. To ask the Taoiseach his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015 to 2025, in tabular form. [37003/25]
    • Departmental Advertising
      175. To ask the Taoiseach his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of each advertising campaign, in each of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      176. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the position or grade of those availing...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      179. To ask the Taoiseach to outline his engagements during the UN Ocean Climate Summit in Nice. [37356/25]
    • Climate Action Plan
      180. To ask the Taoiseach when the climate action plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published. [37358/25]
    • Trade Data
      181. To ask the Taoiseach the value of both imports and exports of trade in both goods and services between Ireland and the occupied Palestinian territories in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and...
    • Departmental Budgets
      182. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of the €550 million allocated from the shared island fund drawn down to date; and the means by which his Department manages and tracks this. [37784/25]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Trade Agreements
      183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. [36907/25]
    • Northern Ireland
      184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the most recent discussions with Members of the Northern Ireland Executive in relation to North-South issues. [36908/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015 to...
    • Departmental Advertising
      187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the position...
    • Human Rights
      190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the release of Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky after five years. [37105/25]
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to allegations of election impropriety in Albania by some international observers; the actions he will take...
    • International Bodies
      197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland has been invited to the emergency ministerial meeting on Palestine being hosted by the Hague Group in Bogotá on 15 and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over...
    • Middle East
      199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total number of people the Government accepts have been killed in the Israel-Gaza conflict to date; the number of these deaths that are...
    • Human Rights
      200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been brought to concerns raised about a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37327/25]
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); the assistance his Department is giving to them; and if he will make a statement...
    • Passport Services
      202. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the next of kin which is listed on the back of a passport can be changed if the named next of kin has passed away; the current process to...
    • Military Aircraft
      204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of German military aircraft that have been allowed to use Shannon Airport for training, or other purposes, since 7 October 2023;...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on a foreign birth register application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37616/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is he aware of the tremendous work being carried out by an organisation (details supplied) in New York, which aims to bridge the gap between...
    • Middle East
      207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he accepts the findings in the report of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied...
    • Passport Services
      208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport can be issued for a child (details supplied). [37762/25]
    • Military Aircraft
      209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the legal advice he received in relation to the use of Shannon Airport by United States aircraft carrying deportees...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Energy Policy
      210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when Ireland plans to formally leave the Energy Charter Treaty, particularly in light of the EU exit and Inter Se...
    • Environmental Policy
      211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to confirm Ireland’s stance on the Right to a Healthy Environment Campaign at the Council of Europe, specifically...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming, and general cosmetic expenses, in each of...
    • Departmental Advertising
      214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his expenditure on advertising detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide...
    • Energy Prices
      217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a timeline for when the terms of reference for the National Energy Affordability Taskforce will be...
    • Climate Action Plan
      218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons for the failure to meet the deadline for completing the Climate Action Plan 2024, sub action EL/24/22, to...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, with respect to the upcoming rollout of the RHO (Renewable Heat Obligation) he will support the following measures for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      220. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the publication of the Electricity Storage Policy Framework for Ireland in July 2024, how his Department...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the current energy policy narrative that Ireland will become a significant exporter of renewable...
    • Energy Prices
      223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any cost benefit or an electricity price impact analysis regarding the warning raised by...
    • Departmental Consultations
      224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the timeline for the public consultation to inform the development of Ireland's Social Climate Plan; and...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      225. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline, in respect of greenhouse gas emissions from data centres, the sectoral emissions ceiling those emissions are...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Expenditure
      226. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming, and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015 to...
    • Departmental Advertising
      228. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his expenditure on advertising detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of each advertising...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      229. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the position or...
    • Defence Forces
      231. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has sanctioned the expenditure of €299,000 excluding VAT to convert artillery towing Land Rovers from diesel to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      233. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over...
    • EU Regulations
      234. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the procedures to be followed in order for Ireland to commit to the security action for Europe regulation further to his announcement on 27 June...
    • Military Archives
      235. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence where the military archives for the past 50 years are held; if they are accessible to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces
      236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure that Nenagh Military Barracks is maintained and a plan is put in place for its future. [37879/25]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Traffic Offences
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if sufficient legislation is in place in order for fixed-charge notices to be issues for the offence of displaying illegal number plates;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015...
    • Departmental Advertising
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the...
    • Regional Airports
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will commit to Government funding to support the runway extension development at Waterford Airport. [37087/25]
    • Driver Licences
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to extend the list of recognised states in the exchange of a foreign driving licence to include the United...
    • Driver Test
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the RSA could provide drivers with SMS reminders, with Eircode-specific directions and on-site signage, to prevent driving test...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional measures his Department plans to implement to prevent misuse of e-scooters, including speeding and driving on footpaths....
    • Bus Services
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on proposed updates to the 318 bus service linking Ennis and Limerick city (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over...
    • Road Safety
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department is using ongoing data analysis and local knowledge to identify accident-prone areas and focus road safety...
    • Transport Policy
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to finalise and publish the national drone policy framework, as committed to in the programme for Government, to ensure...
    • Public Transport
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the outcome of the cross-departmental task force in into driver recruitment and retention challenges. [37267/25]
    • Road Safety
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to legislation that would make it mandatory for all vehicle drivers to use dipped headlights during the...
    • Driver Licences
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application by a person (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37303/25]
    • Driver Test
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review case (details supplied) and if he can expedite same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37343/25]
    • Road Safety
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to promote safer driving, following the publication of the 2025 ETSC Road Safety Report, which...
    • Road Projects
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to develop a bypass of Innishannon, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37383/25]
    • Road Safety
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will commission an updated evaluation of the Essential Driver Training programme to determine its impact on young...
    • Departmental Funding
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided for footpaths to each of the 31 local authorities in each of the past five years; the distance of footpaths covered...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has provided a letter of support for CIÉ pension increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37451/25]
    • Greenways Provision
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the proposed cycle greenway route through Kinvara, County Galway; the current stage of the project; and the expected...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of issues with the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951 (details supplied); the steps he will take, or has taken, to...
    • Transport Costs
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for estimated cost of extending the young adult Leap card to encompass all those under the age of 30; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Transport
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Public Transport Safety Charter; the stakeholders involved in the drafting process; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of valid driving licences issued as of 2 July 2025 that rely on the condition that a certification of fitness was provided...
    • Driver Test
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is aware of the issues and confusion being caused by the naming of two driver test centres in Mulhuddart, one near a...
    • Driver Licences
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time for applications for a driving licence after a driving test has been passed; the steps he is taking to reduce...
    • Parking Provision
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department intends on strengthening the rules and regulations around illegal parking in disabled parking spaces during the...
    • Transport Policy
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any limitations to extending subsidies to commuters for the purposes to incentivise the take-up of sustainable travel...
    • Bus Services
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the newly approved Local Link service between Ballinasloe and Athlone is scheduled to commence, given that it was previously...
    • Driver Licences
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering measures to alleviate the financial burden on individuals living with epilepsy who are required to...
    • Driver Test
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting time between passing the driver theory test and being able to apply for the driving test; if this time is required for those...
    • Taxi Regulations
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite the introduction of taxi wheelchair accessible grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37778/25]
    • Bus Services
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the status of the promised bus service linking Athenry to Galway city, which was scheduled to commence in...
    • Rail Network
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the display signs on platforms at Connolly Station are frequently not working; when these signs which are vital tools for...
    • Bus Services
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason bus timetables are not displayed at train stations on the Northern line, including Skerries; the measures that will be...
    • Public Transport
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the coordination that takes place between the National Transport Authority, Irish Rail, and Dublin Bus to ensure...
    • Departmental Schemes
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 2 July 2025, the steps his Department has taken to develop a new needs-based, grant-led...
    • Rail Network
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details on the proposed Blanchardstown Luas line under the Luas 2050 vision; the steps taken regarding this development; and...
    • Transport Costs
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a timeline for the introduction of free public transport for children under the age of nine, which was announced in budget 2025 and...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of annual funding provided to TII for winter maintenance in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider making it a requirement that all taxi drivers operating wheelchair-accessible vehicles are properly certified to use...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when camera enforcement of bus lanes will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37923/25]
    • Bus Services
      312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what the next phase of the BusConnects network in Dublin is; and whether it will include 24-hour services. [37925/25]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline, given the difficulties with getting school bus drivers, the reason those willing to drive the school bus and who may have a small pension face a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      314. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015 to 2025, in tabular...
    • Departmental Advertising
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies and cost of each advertising campaign, in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the position or grade of those...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 17 June 2025, if the Revenue Commissioners is under inquiry or investigation in relation to its destruction of...
    • Tax Code
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason married couples can share their tax reliefs and allowances between them but cohabiting couples are taxed as single individuals; and if he will make...
    • Summer Economic Statement
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance the date his Department plans to publish the summer economic statement; the way in which it plans to account for any proximate announcements regarding EU-US...
    • National Economic Dialogue
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the national economic dialogue. [35902/25]
    • Tax Yield
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in 2023 and 2024 from the vacant homes tax. [37187/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the cost to the exchequer of the help to buy scheme in each of the years since its creation in 2016 in tabular form, and; an estimation of the cost...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      325. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over €20,000; the...
    • Tax Yield
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised from stamp duty on shares in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [37256/25]
    • Illicit Trade
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is confident in the methodology behind the Revenue Commissioners ready reckoner, which estimates the fiscal impact of changes to tobacco excise; if he...
    • Tax Code
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would amend the rules governing the residential zoned land tax to exclude the period where an active planning application or appeal is underway on a...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      329. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the tax reliefs allowable with the primary medical certificate in line with current vehicle values; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      330. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the social welfare payments announced in the cost of living package in the previous year are exempt from tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Rebates
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the overcompensation provided as a result of the inclusion of poultry broiler sector within the VAT flat-rate addition scheme; and if he will...
    • Banking Sector
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the level of engagement his Department has with the Bank of International Settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37381/25]
    • Tax Data
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money raised through windfall tax receipts used for current expenditure between the years 2020 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if...
    • Tax Code
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the anomaly that exists in regard to inheritance tax in respect of childless couples (details supplied) and bring an end to this very...
    • Tax Data
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by two years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if...
    • Tax Reliefs
      338. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the price cap of the help-to-buy scheme given the continuing increases house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Budgets
      340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the infrastructure, climate and nature fund operated by his Department will have its indicative allocations announced as part of the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      341. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      342. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's expenditure on media consultancy in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the consultancy firms involved; and the nature of...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      343. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the migration from the former eTenders platform (details supplied) to the current national eTenders system, to clarify...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      344. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 not included in the published reports of purchase orders over...
    • Public Sector Pay
      345. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of increasing the Garda training allowance to €579.15 per week for 2026; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Plean Forbartha Náisiúnta
      346. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform an bhféadfadh sé trácht a dhéanamh ar an athbhreithniú ar an bPlean Forbartha Náisiúnta atá ar...
    • National Development Plan
      348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether an indicative allocation of the final tranche of money raised from AIB share sales will be made and announced as part of the NDP...
    • National Parks
      349. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the OPW's view on whether the Phoenix Park was returned to an 'as found' condition following recent concerts, as was promised to...
    • Architectural Heritage
      352. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he has been approached by the Minister for Transport to give Ministerial consent to the sale of the retail units in the General...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Legislative Process
      354. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the timeline for the implementation of the Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025; if the...
    • Legislative Programme
      355. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of legislation for a referendum on Ireland’s membership of the European Unified Patent Court system; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      356. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming, and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years...
    • Departmental Advertising
      358. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his expenditure on advertising detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      359. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      361. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives currently undertaken or planned by his Department and agencies under his remit to encourage more businesses to adapt...
    • Business Supports
      362. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a specific targeted provision for a scheme to support small businesses in providing baby changing facilities; and if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      363. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders...
    • Legislative Process
      364. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the full enactment of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024,...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      365. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to improve AI literacy on a national level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37376/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      366. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protections that will be in place for family home bed and breakfasts as part of the short-term letting legislation currently...
    • Business Supports
      367. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the success of a business (details supplied), of the number of employees working in the facility and the number of...
    • Legislative Process
      368. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason section 22 of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 has not been commenced....
    • Artificial Intelligence
      370. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, given the eight competent authorities for the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act announced in March, he will set out the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of proposed changes to the school bus service for a school (details supplied); if she is aware that parents have been informed by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015 to 2025,...
    • Departmental Advertising
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies and cost of each advertising...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the position or...
    • Schools Building Projects
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each capital project funded by her Department in each year since 2020, by county, including name of school, nature of the project,...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will re-introduce the route for people who undertook an early childhood care bachelor's degree to attend a postgraduate course in a...
    • School Accommodation
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be allocated under the application for the new summer works scheme for a school (details supplied). [37083/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the permanent extension of a school (details supplied); the reasons modular accommodation was not provided in September...
    • Special Educational Needs
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on an announced sanctioned special class for a school (details supplied); to provide details on when the admissions process...
    • School Facilities
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with Fingal County Council regarding the temporary access of land for outdoor...
    • Departmental Funding
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any engagement her Department has had with an organisation (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to its...
    • Special Educational Needs
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on her Department’s efforts to provide summer provision for two families (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); the reason for any delays; the projected timeframe for the issuance of the letter of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current average processing time for schools’ applications to the NCSE for additional SNA supports following a formal diagnosis; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the extension to a school (details supplied), which was approved in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37184/25]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current average waiting time for a psychological assessment through NEPS in DEIS versus non-DEIS school; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Home Schooling
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average processing time for the home tuition grant scheme applications for children without school placements; the number of applications...
    • School Staff
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for a reduction in teacher allocation at a school (details supplied), how this will impact junior and senior infants at the school;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of purchase orders processed by her Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over...
    • Special Educational Needs
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special educational needs in rural parts of the country that have to travel outside their area to receive appropriate...
    • School Transport
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the parameters of the independent assessment into the feasibility of the over-70s' exclusion from the school transport scheme will be...
    • Departmental Schemes
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the teaching hours extension scheme, which currently applies to post-primary schools, to include primary schools...
    • School Textbooks
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of families in Kilkenny and Carlow that currently avail of the free schoolbooks scheme; the annual cost of this; and if she will make...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has considered the introduction of a post-graduate qualification in primary school teaching at University College Galway;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the new Owenabue Educate Together primary school for Carrigaline, County Cork; the stage this project is currently at; and the...
    • Health and Safety
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of updating the safety in school science guidelines. [37292/25]
    • School Facilities
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of bringing secondary school science labs up to date and modernised for the new senior cycle reforms. [37293/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a child (details supplied) in need of SNA support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37305/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and location of additional schools and funding secured in the Department's capital plan for the Donabate area; and if she will make a...
    • School Enrolments
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who travelled to school outside the Donabate area and the schools attended for the 2024-2025 academic school year, in...
    • School Meals Programme
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify when the review of the template documents for new schools joining the hot school meals scheme in advance of procurement will be...
    • Site Acquisitions
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the acquisition of land and the plans to move a school (details supplied); if she will provide a map of the land in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the application for a new building for a school (details supplied; for an update on when a new school building will be...
    • Special Educational Needs
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is aware that an ASD class sanctioned in a school (details supplied) is still not open. [37369/25]
    • School Staff
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to add school caretakers to her Department's payroll; the timeline for the implementation of same; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can address a case where a child with a disability (details supplied) is experiencing difficulty accessing school transport;...
    • School Staff
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37422/25]
    • School Accommodation
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding repairs to a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans for a new school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37439/25]
    • School Admissions
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been brought to the lack of availability of co-educational primary schools in Cork (details supplied); the actions her...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently review the DEIS categorisation thresholds and ensure that DEIS rural schools are no longer punished for geography rather than need...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37575/25]
    • School Accommodation
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for emergency works relative to health and safety in the name of a school (details supplied) will be expedited and approved....
    • Special Educational Needs
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 1 July 2025, if her attention has been drawn to the particular shortage of special classes for...
    • Education and Training Provision
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37627/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); if it will be ready to accept students in September 2025; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 25 June 2025, if the application for emergency works will be granted as a matter of urgency given...
    • School Equipment
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an allowance covering the cost of a device (details supplied) for each child in a school that teaches using such...
    • School Accommodation
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be given for additional school accommodation to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence with regard to school transport (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37707/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has been denied an additional special needs assistant (SNA) by the NCSE following a recommendation made...
    • School Staff
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37736/25]
    • School Funding
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of increasing extra support for those learning Irish as an additional language. [37752/25]
    • School Facilities
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of carrying out a review of all science labs in the country to ensure they are up to date and capable of performing well in exams. [37753/25]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPS psychologists employed and working in the system to date. [37754/25]
    • School Facilities
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of sensory rooms there in schools across the State; and the further number required to address demand. [37756/25]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of implementing the DEIS plus programme from September 2025. [37757/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 1 July 2025, the way in which she can justify 22 early intervention classes in Cork and only two in...
    • School Funding
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a request for financial support from a newly amalgamated school (details supplied) where only one grant funding will be...
    • Schools Building Projects
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost of opening a new Gaelcholáiste in Dublin. [37847/25]
    • School Funding
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a funding model will be provided to introduce talks from former gambling industry employees to secondary school students; as schools are...
    • School Discipline
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether TUSLA staff have been provided with a practice directive policy or internal guidance concerning the use of physical restraint in Irish...
    • Schools Building Projects
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of all capital works on schools in Tipperary that exceeded €500,000, from 2020 to 1 July 2025, by year and school, in tabular...
    • Special Educational Needs
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support people learning Braille, Irish Sign Language and other ways of communication in schools; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Expenditure
      452. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      453. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline if the conditions for copper switch-off have now been met for this process to begin; if not, when he expects...
    • Departmental Advertising
      455. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      456. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide...
    • Post Office Network
      458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he recognises that investing €15 million per annum for five years in the Post Office Network is vital in...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total cost to the Exchequer related to the basic income for the arts scheme, broken down by year since it was...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 not included in the published reports of purchase...
    • Sports Facilities
      470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the situation regarding an artificial playing surface development for a club (details supplied); when...
    • Sports Organisations
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding that was allocated to the Camogie Association, LGFA and the GAA in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to...
    • Sports Funding
      472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether funding will be granted for those involved in sport not funded by national bodies (details supplied); and if he...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding funding for the independent film & television sector in Ireland; the measures he will be...
    • Media Sector
      474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended in respect of the activities and mission of the local democracy reporting scheme since its...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total, in square metres, of film and television studio space in Ireland; the measures being taken to increase that...
    • Arts Funding
      477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the levels of support made available by his Department, the Arts Council or other agencies of the State for the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a status update on the roll-out of the high-speed broadband network under the national broadband plan; for a...
    • Sports Funding
      479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding earmarked for the development of grassroots football academies and player development; and if he will make...
    • Culture Ireland
      481. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding allocated to Culture Ireland for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37472/25]
    • Sports Funding
      482. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding allocated to the Euro 2028 advance legacy fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37473/25]
    • Commemorative Events
      483. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for details and costings on a possible annual commemorations programme to replacement the decade of centenaries; and if...
    • Post Office Network
      484. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he recognises that investing €15 million per annum in the Post Office Network is not only good value for...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      488. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37711/25]
    • Sports Funding
      489. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reasons preventing organisations combining Leader and Sports Capital Programme on a single project, notwithstanding...
    • Commemorative Events
      490. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the date and location for the international day of famine commemoration in 2025 will be announced; and whether he...
    • Departmental Strategies
      491. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Counter Disinformation Oversight Group, as committed to in the National Counter Disinformation Strategy, will...
    • Sports Facilities
      494. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of proposals to use lands, previously identified for a centre of excellence for soccer, as a...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Regeneration Projects
      495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the implementation of the Dublin city task force recommendations will oversee regeneration of flat complexes in the south...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the...
    • Planning Issues
      499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on a review of planning regulations in relation to a new and separate exempted development threshold for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the...
    • Housing Schemes
      502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the croi cónaithe cities scheme, by a list of the schemes that have or are coming to market under this...
    • Defective Building Materials
      503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the considerable expense that homeowners have to incur to be admitted to the pyrite remediation scheme; if...
    • Waterways Issues
      504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the specific environmental and infrastructural factors that led to the River Tolka’s consideration as a...
    • Vacant Properties
      505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for an ‘above the shop’ living refurbishment grant by topping up the vacant and derelict refurbishment...
    • Housing Schemes
      506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the cost to the exchequer of the first home scheme (aka shared equity scheme) in each of the years since its...
    • Departmental Schemes
      507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the cost to the Exchequer of the croí cónaithe scheme in each of the years since its creation, in tabular...
    • Housing Schemes
      508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the cost to the Exchequer of the housing assistance payment in each of the years since its creation in 2014, in...
    • Housing Provision
      509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address long waiting times for allocation of social housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to address record homelessness figures across Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase...
    • Local Authorities
      512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has ever conducted an analysis, audit, or review of local authority compliance with Circular Fin 07/2012...
    • Land Issues
      513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to take in relation to the transfer of lands from commercial State bodies to expedite the development of...
    • Planning Issues
      514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when new rural planning guidelines will be published for Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Schemes
      516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will significantly increase the mortgage allowance scheme for those vacating a social house with a view to purchasing a...
    • Planning Issues
      517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the taxpayer is funding An Bord Pleanála to assess the planning application for the now discontinued Sceirde...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      518. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that rough sleepers, who are homeless people by definition, are not included in the "Monthly Homeless Report"...
    • Local Authorities
      519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have received clarity on the process for drafting of development plans given the potential changes to be...
    • Waterways Issues
      520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline, in light of concerns for individuals and businesses who use and operate on inland waterways, the progress made in...
    • Grant Payments
      521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any financial support is available for housing extensions where household income is over the financial threshold to qualify...
    • Housing Policy
      522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to revise the income eligibility limit for affordable cost rental in County Cork to match the household income limit...
    • Legislative Programme
      524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what his department doing to ensure that The Apartment and Duplex Remediation Bill 2004 comes before the Committee on Housing,...
    • Planning Issues
      525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views regarding the retail planning guidelines; if there is a timeline in place for the review of the guidelines; if he is...
    • Local Authorities
      526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details on possible costs for each local authority to employ an archaeologist; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the publication of the Electricity Storage Policy Framework for Ireland in July 2024, the engagement that has taken...
    • Turf Cutting
      528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to cessation of turf cutting scheme applicants whose scheme is due to end this year, if the scheme will be...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans reduce homelessness each year from 2026 to 2030, to meet the Lisbon Declaration timeframe of working towards ending...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the collaborative work he plans to undertake with his colleague, the Minister for Health, on issues around health...
    • Departmental Funding
      532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if capital assistance scheme funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Policy
      533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the ongoing housing crisis and the need to support families in mortgage-to-rent schemes in meeting their financial and...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown on age, nationality, employment status of those in emergency homeless accommodation in Ireland;...
    • Fire Service
      535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of retained female firefighters within the State, and the fire station they are stationed to, in tabular form; and...
    • Housing Schemes
      538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the position regarding local authorities that have fully committed their 2025 funding allocation for the...
    • Local Authorities
      540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed at each of the 31 local authorities at the end of 2024, in tabular form. [37835/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the reasoning behind the decision, during the biannual review, to not increase the price ceiling in Cork for houses...
    • Vacant Properties
      542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the position in regard to the vacant and derelict property grant (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Local Authorities
      543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 1 April 2025, the number of graduate planner posts and staff officer posts in the...
    • Housing Schemes
      547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the number of properties purchased under the tenant in situ scheme at a national level in 2025, by...
    • Local Authorities
      553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will identify the additional level of funding required by Galway City and County Council as a result of Storm...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Departmental Expenditure
      555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies and cost...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training;...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any plan to increase the rate of €289 maternity benefit, considering the rising cost of living,...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the status of a review for carer’s allowance for a person (details provided); and when it is...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase...
    • School Meals Programme
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in Kilkenny and Carlow currently availing of the free school meals scheme; the annual cost of this;...
    • Social Insurance
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37300/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has instructed the successful bidders for NAERSA’s investment management services, in the context of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is expected a decision will issue on a carer's allowance appeal (details supplied). [37359/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received under the humanitarian assistance scheme for stages 1, 2 and 3 following Storm...
    • Departmental Reports
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 601 of 24 June 2025, if he will provide a timeline for the completion of the report on...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing all core weekly social welfare payments by €1, in tabular form. [37454/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the income disregards by €1 for the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the domiciliary care allowance by €1. [37461/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to include schoolteachers who are without a permanent contract or a contract of indefinite duration in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will conduct a review of the social protection supports available to widowed persons (details supplied); and if he will...
    • State Pensions
      580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the State pension being paid to a person (details supplied) ceased without notification; if the payment will be...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of self-employed people who have availed of carer's benefit since it was extended to the self-employed; if he can...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the fuel allowance to working family payment recipients; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the average processing time for applications under each payment scheme in his Department; and how this...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of live social welfare appeals which have been waiting for a decision for one year or longer; if he can provide a...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the ESRI's proposal for a second tier of child benefit; his views on whether the ESRI's proposal could give rise...
    • Child Poverty
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the child poverty rate according to the survey on income and living conditions for each year 2005 to 2025,...
    • Pension Provisions
      592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department or any body under its aegis has any estimate of the value of unclaimed private pension assets in Ireland;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €20,000 cap for scholarship income for the purpose of claiming disability allowance, DA, will be revised in...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an accommodation recognition payment overpayment to a person in County Kerry (details supplied) will be reviewed given the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for sickness benefits in the name of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional humanitarian assistance payments still awaiting review, decision, and payment; the number of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal by an individual (details supplied) against a refusal of invalidity pension for a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is an early entry process for the back-to-work enterprise allowance scheme for those people who have completed the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up-to-date position on a review of an application request under the carer's support grant for an individual (details...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Expenditure
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the...
    • Immigration Status
      606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current immigration status of a person (details supplied); when their application for the spouse of Irish national visa...
    • Departmental Data
      607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Belarussian citizens currently resident in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37114/25]
    • International Protection
      608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any Belarussian citizens currently seeking international protection in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the calls from some of the families who lost loved ones in the Omagh bombing on 15 August 1998 for an independent...
    • Domestic Violence
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current situation around infrastructure to combat domestic violence in the State, including by providing the current number...
    • Victim Support Services
      615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which a victim access the victims support unit through probation services (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for approval of long-stay (D) student visa applications from India, Nigeria, Brazil and China, in...
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      621. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the practical application envisioned by his Department for the recently adopted IHRA working definition of antisemitism; and if...
    • Departmental Contracts
      622. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount the State has paid to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the nature of the contract...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      623. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-scooters tests that have been completed in the Dublin metropolitan region, the number of seizures in this...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      625. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cameras installed across the Dublin metropolitan area; the share of whom are currently operational; and the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      626. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Gardaí added to the force in County Carlow in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of...
    • Departmental Properties
      631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm whether a property (details supplied) has been purchased by his Department, or by any agent, body or contractor...
    • Prison Service
      633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people in prison who were on waiting lists to access psychology services, as of June 2025, by days waiting list,...
    • State Pathology Service
      635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his knowledge of the circumstances of the appointment of a person (details supplied); the recruitment process which was...
    • Citizenship Applications
      636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions his Department is taking to remedy delays in the processing of citizenship applications as of July 2025; and if he...
    • Visa Applications
      638. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide data on the processing times for Stamp 4 visa applications as of July 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Prison Service
      639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his plans to improve capacity issues in the Irish prison service given The Irish Penal Reform Trust has identified...
    • An Garda Síochána
      640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to recruit at least 5,000 new Garda recruits and additional Garda...
    • Departmental Strategies
      642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to publish a new Rural Safety Strategy, as of July 2025; and if he...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      643. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason his Department wants to increase the personal injury guidelines by 16.7%; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Status
      644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of any changes that have been made to the process for renewing registration permission; if he can provide any...
    • An Garda Síochána
      645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated annual cost of recruiting 500, 1,000 and 1,500 gardaí; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37438/25]
    • Private Security Authority
      646. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the anomaly in the Private Security Authority guidelines (details supplied); if consideration has been given...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for details on the running costs of the cyber security centre, including staff, and details of future funding required to...
    • Departmental Funding
      649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed list of the supports available to a group in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Family Reunification
      650. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the application for reunification of persons (details supplied). [37597/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      651. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of candidates from the 2022/2023 recruitment campaign that are still waiting to be called for training in...
    • Visa Applications
      652. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the status of visa applications for a sporting group (details supplied); the steps being taken by his...
    • Fines Administration
      653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individuals issued fines for illegally parking in a disabled parking space from 2023 to date; the number of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a specific timeframe for when the backlog will be cleared and finished for the remaining old paper citizenship...
    • Deportation Orders
      656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if part of a hotel complex (details supplied) is now a holding and detention centre for those awaiting deportation; if a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      659. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of simple possession searches for drugs undertaken in each Garda division for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      660. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 582 of 1 July 2025, if he will clarify that checks into an applicant’s background...
    • Departmental Budgets
      662. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of the revised budgetary allocations now falling under the remit of his Department following...
    • Departmental Functions
      665. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the oversight and accountability mechanisms his Department is putting in place to ensure transparent expenditure and effective...
    • Family Reunification
      666. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will communicate with a person (details supplied) in order that their passport be issued as soon as possible,...
    • International Protection
      667. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total spent by his Department on accommodation for international protection applicants in each of the past five years; the...
    • Drug Dealing
      670. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the quantity, by weight and the economic street value, of cocaine seized by Gardaí in each of the past ten years, by...
    • Asylum Applications
      671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have claimed asylum in Ireland having arrived from Sweden in each of the past 10 years; if a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      672. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider counting time spent residing in Northern Ireland as equivalent to time spent living in the Republic of...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      673. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if fixed charge notices are currently being issued for the office of displaying illegal number plates; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Reviews
      674. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any plans to amend the Status of Children Act 1987 to allow for court-ordered DNA testing of individuals other than...
    • Departmental Programmes
      675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the immigrant investor programme; if it is open or closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Protection
      677. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of households with status, including the number of children who are due to be transferred to alternative IPAS...
    • An Garda Síochána
      678. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual resource allocation to the Garda National Immigration Bureau; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37870/25]
    • Airport Security
      680. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of passport checks conducted at Dublin Airport in 2022, 2023, 2024 and the first half of 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Deportation Orders
      684. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will intervene to reverse the deportation of a man who is facing grave danger since his deportation to Nigeria (details...
    • Immigration Status
      685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to examine the case of an urgent stamp 4 renewal (details supplied) given the time sensitive nature of their application. [37928/25]
    • International Protection
      686. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to intervene to reverse the eviction of an individual resident (details supplied) at an IPAS centre. [37929/25]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Animal Welfare
      687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine who a person should contact regarding horses being held in poor conditions. [37709/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      688. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years...
    • Departmental Advertising
      690. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies and cost of each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      691. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      693. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department will take with the large spread of ragwort, especially on the roadsides of Kerry, as this causes the spread...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      694. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Horse Sport Ireland will accept a late horse registration application from a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he...
    • Animal Diseases
      695. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide comparative data between the number of cattle that fail the bovine TB skin test and the number of cattle subsequently...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on TAMS grant payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37154/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders...
    • Animal Welfare
      699. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm receipt of a complaint from an person (details supplied) in Dublin mid-west regarding the neglect of an animal; to confirm...
    • Agriculture Supports
      700. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is implementing to enhance financial supports for small farmers with annual incomes below €20,000; and if he...
    • Forestry Sector
      701. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the 2023 review of ash dieback, the progress that has been made in implementing the recommendations to support affected...
    • Agriculture Industry
      702. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline, with respect to the Nature Restoration Law, the assurances he can provide that Irish farmers will not face mandatory...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in establishing a verifiable framework for farmers to trade carbon credits; the way in which his...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      705. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific supports or emergency flood relief schemes available to farmers affected by flooding events not caused by their actions;...
    • Agriculture Supports
      706. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payment supports available to small suckler farmers who are not in receipt of any agricultural payments or supports; and if he...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      708. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to examine a mechanism to engage with stakeholders on the design of national...
    • Agriculture Supports
      709. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to review the eligibility criteria for the succession planning advice grant...
    • Agriculture Industry
      710. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the programme for Government commitments to ensure sufficient employment permits to support the agrifood sector,...
    • Trade Agreements
      712. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update as of July 2025 on his ongoing engagement with other EU ministers in the same portfolio regarding Ireland’s...
    • Agriculture Supports
      713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update as of July 2025 in respect to the programme for Government commitment to place a specific focus on farmer mental health...
    • Food Industry
      714. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to update and introduce a new food strategy to succeed Food...
    • Animal Welfare
      715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans for an action plan to succeed the Animal Welfare Strategy 2021-2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37659/25]
    • Statutory Instruments
      717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 762 of 8 April 2025, if the Statutory Instrument mentioned in his response, to allow sharing of...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Departmental Functions
      718. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how the transfer of integration and immigration functions to her Department has impacted the residual budget allocations and...
    • Parental Leave
      719. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is giving consideration to extending the length and scope of parental leave; if she will respond to matters raised in a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      720. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will respond to matters raised in a correspondence (details supplied) from the family of a child in Dublin 17 awaiting an...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      721. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years...
    • Departmental Advertising
      723. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her expenditure on advertising detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      724. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department's expenditure on media consultancy in each of the years 2015 to 2025; and the consultancy firms involved; and the...
    • Disability Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the case of a person will be examined (details supplied); if they can remain with the same service provider; and if she will make...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      726. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time in each health region for the completion of the preliminary team assessment under the standard opening...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      727. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of purchase orders processed by her Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders...
    • Childcare Services
      728. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the qualifying thresholds for the NCS scheme, given that families earning just over €60,000 are entitled...
    • Disability Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of respite services in County Meath available for adults aged 18, with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities; and...
    • Departmental Data
      730. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 28 May 2025, the number of people currently in prison that have previously been in...
    • Disability Services
      731. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that some people using disability day services are being charged daily transport fees; and if she will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      734. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are plans to expand the access and inclusion model to include children attending afterschool provision; and if she will...
    • Childcare Services
      735. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on actions already taken or commenced to improve the critical accessibility issue as set out in the programme for...
    • Disability Services
      736. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently provide respite services at schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37553/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      738. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional supports available for an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37560/25]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      739. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which a person can recoup from the State the charge levied on families to release a family member from country homes and...
    • Childcare Services
      740. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding creches not participating in the core funding scheme; if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of...
    • Disability Services
      741. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide information on access to full-time residential care for a person (details supplied); if she will provide details...
    • Childcare Services
      742. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to examine the childcare provider case (details supplied); if access and inclusion model funding can be backdated and clarity given...
    • Parking Provision
      743. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department intends on strengthening the rules and regulations around illegal parking in disabled parking spaces during the...
    • Disability Services
      745. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a new healthcare facility will be established to replace outdated and unsuitable accommodation (details supplied); and if she...
    • EU Directives
      746. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 900 of 5 November 2024, if she will set out work carried out by her Department to transpose EU...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      747. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the amount of money allocated for pay for early years educators as part of core funding annually since its inception, and...
    • Nursing Homes
      752. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any plans to expand funding streams for activities for adults in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Service Executive
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of administrative staff and senior managerial staff in the HSE in 2005, 2015 and 2025, by grade, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      754. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015 to 2025, in tabular...
    • Hospital Inspections
      758. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the latest HSA audit of CUH. [37092/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if adults currently excluded from reimbursement of spinal muscular atrophy treatments can be considered for access under the HSE’s individual patient...
    • Health Services Staff
      760. To ask the Minister for Health when the approval to backfill recruit two WTE senior speech and language therapists will be given to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 14 in order that the...
    • Emergency Departments
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of specific care and treatment areas for patients who arrive emergency department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda,...
    • Health Strategies
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new rare disease strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37134/25]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      764. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the application of a CGM sensor for a person (details provided); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37142/25]
    • Disease Management
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have had cardiovascular disease screening carried out on them as part of the opportunistic case finding and chronic disease...
    • Mental Health Commission
      766. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the findings of the Mental Health Commission in regard to CUH; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37144/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment abroad scheme can be used in the case of a person (details supplied). [37165/25]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that all LGBTQ+ families are provided with legal recognition where the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 is currently failing...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      769. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision in relation to an application for blind welfare allowance, awaited since November 2024; and if she...
    • Disability Services
      770. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 663 of 14 May 2024, has the position of CHO DNCC changed regarding plans to develop phlebotomy, x-ray or diagnostic...
    • Medical Records
      771. To ask the Minister for Health if she will take action to ensure relatives of deceased residents of private nursing homes have access to the medical records of their loved ones; and if she...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37197/25]
    • Health Services
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a child (details supplied) seeking support from the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make the shingles vaccine free for older people; if she will consider this as a measure to help older people with the cost; and if she...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date situation regarding clarifying a site for a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37213/25]
    • Hospital Equipment
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is undertaking to deliver a positron emission tomography and new CT scanners to Galway University Hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE only began publishing purchase order data for payments over €100,000 on its website from quarter 4 of 2021 onwards (details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the number of purchase orders processed by her Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over €20,000; the...
    • Health Strategies
      780. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to adequately resource the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine to position Ireland as an international leader in...
    • Health Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider providing sustainable funding for national physiotherapy services for people with multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions...
    • Health Services Staff
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time it takes to recruit non-clinical staff off a panel in the HSE; and the length of time the recruitment of technical service officers...
    • Primary Care Centres
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date progress report on the new primary care centre in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37269/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown, per county, of number of GPs (or WTE) there are for the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; in tabular form; and if she...
    • Primary Care Centres
      785. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has completed the assessments of tenders for the development of a primary care centre at An Spidéal, County Galway; if it has selected a...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      788. To ask the Minister for Health to explain the issue with regard to the lack of funding between the HSE and a charity (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37315/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      789. To ask the Minister for Health if permanent contracts of employment will be offered to all radiography and radiation therapy graduates this year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Abortion Services
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the recent legislation in the UK which has effectively legalised abortion for the full nine months of pregnancy; whether her Department has...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      791. To ask the Minister for Health when section 232 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37326/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      792. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm that the co-location of standalone maternity hospitals with adult acute hospitals will remain Government policy into the future; and if she...
    • Health Services
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm previous statements by Ministers for Health that any decisions about reconfiguration of health services in the mid-west will be underpinned...
    • Ambulance Service
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed breakdown of ambulance handover times for each emergency department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37336/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      796. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of total WTEs for all grade codes from 2020 – 2025; and to provide the activity analysis for the same period by HSE Region, in tabular...
    • Emergency Departments
      797. To ask the Minister for Health if safe staffing levels exist in each emergency department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37338/25]
    • Hospital Services
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to deliver the required acute hospital capacity as determined by the ESRI acute demand projections for each hospital in Ireland;...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      799. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the programme for Government commitment to move to a health-led approach to drug addiction and to divert those found in possession of drugs...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      800. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied) and expedite an appointment for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37363/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      801. To ask the Minister for Health to consider expanding the free HRT scheme to include those treatments that are not covered under the drug payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      802. To ask the Minister for Health if alternative public treatment options are available for a child (details supplied). [37379/25]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      803. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on when the HSE will make omnipod insulin pumps available to patients in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37380/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      804. To ask the Minister for Health to reply to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37382/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      805. To ask the Minister for Health if a subsidy is available for children directed to the care of a psychotherapist after six weeks (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      806. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be offered to a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37399/25]
    • Laboratory Facilities
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of outsourcing routine blood samples from Letterkenny University Hospital to private laboratories for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date, in...
    • Patient Transport
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure on private taxis by Letterkenny University Hospital for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date, in tabular form. [37412/25]
    • Disease Management
      809. To ask the Minister for Health if she will host a rare disease conference; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37420/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      810. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE plans to complete a full health technology assessment in relation to EYLEA (aflibercept) given this was recommended by an NCPE Rapid Review...
    • Nursing Homes
      811. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently expedite a case (details supplied) and allow for a long-term nursing home bed in St. Columbanus Home, Killarney, County Kerry, as this is a most...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      812. To ask the Minister for Health if a procedure will be expedited (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37425/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      813. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give detailed consideration to correspondence received from an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      814. To ask the Minister for Health if a case will be reviewed and hip surgery expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37431/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      815. To ask the Minister for Health further to a response by the HSE to Parliamentary Question REPDR 25/01974, if a wider issue (details supplied) will also be rectified; and if she will make a...
    • Primary Care Centres
      816. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a new site for a primary care centre Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon; to outline the next steps for the process; and if she will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      817. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the drug "ryeqo" to treat endometriosis; if she will be willing to consider adding it to the list of reimbursable items for medical card...
    • Primary Care Centres
      819. To ask the Minister for Health for a status update on the planned primary care centre for Portumna; the steps being taken to expedite this; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the St. Brigid's Psychiatric Hospital site in Ballinasloe, County Galway. [37465/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      821. To ask the Minister for Health to detail all requests for additional staffing for the National Ambulance Service since January 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37478/25]
    • Vaccination Programme
      822. To ask the Minister for Health whether the commitment in the new National Sexual Health Strategy 2025-2035 to expand access to existing vaccination programmes in "private settings" includes...
    • Civil Registration Service
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that must be taken, and documentary evidence that must be provided, by a couple giving notification to marry to the civil registration services,...
    • Mental Health Services
      825. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the recent meeting with HSE regional health areas-regional executive officers and teams within mental health services for Louth, Meath...
    • Eating Disorders
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which commitments within Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone Implementation Plan 2025 - to enhance supports provided in ED are...
    • Mental Health Services
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans or if proposals are being actively considered for the provision of a crisis resolution teams in the County Louth area, similar to the pilot crisis...
    • Primary Care Services
      832. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans or if proposals are being actively considered for the development of a community access support team in the County Louth area, similar to that...
    • Mental Health Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the schemes that exist for recognising the progress made by communities in relation to recovery from addiction, mental health difficulties and related issues;...
    • Medicinal Products
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being made to make Selumetinib available for children. [37501/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      835. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to expand funding streams for activities for adults in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37502/25]
    • Health Services
      836. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the purpose and current status of a systematic review on the outcomes of interventions for gender dysphoria in adults, which National Gender Service...
    • Mental Health Services
      837. To ask the Minister for Health if the vacant post for area lead for mental health engagement at Drogheda Department Of Psychiatry identified by the MHC inspection report published on 16 06...
    • Health Service Executive
      843. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that she has received a copy of the HSE's nationwide review of insourcing and outsourcing arrangements; if she has considered its contents; if she...
    • Hospital Staff
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE cardiology registrars based at Saint James's Hospital, Beaumont Hospital and the Mater Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Planning Issues
      845. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the following details with respect to the HSE and four planning appeals submitted to An Bord Pleanála (details supplied) if the HSE...
    • Medicinal Products
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will instruct their Department to make oral immunotherapy as well as...
    • Middle East
      847. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the medical evacuation programme from Gaza; how she envisions the programme continuing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37594/25]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      848. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if the Government plans to expand access to medicinal cannabis for a larger scope of illnesses...
    • Mental Health Services
      849. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the €93 million being spent annually on outsourcing mental health care, including the types of services and providers...
    • Hospital Equipment
      853. To ask the Minister for Health if the linear accelerator and CT scanner in CUH which had been closed in recent times, remain closed as of 2 July 2025; when it is anticipated it will be in...
    • Abortion Services
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that exist to ensure that healthcare professionals who do not wish to participate in abortions can exercise freedom of conscience in this...
    • Hospital Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Health if the opening hours at the medical assessment unit in Ennis Hospital are to be revised (details supplied); if so, the rational for same; and if she will make...
    • Health Services
      857. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the lack of access to manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) therapy for lymphedema patients across County Roscommon, where no physiotherapists...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      859. To ask the Minister for Health if the semi-synthetic cannabinoid hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), commonly found in vape products, will be included under schedule 1 of the Misuse of Drugs...
    • Food Safety
      860. To ask the Minister for Health if she is concerned by the absence of public guidance from the FSAI regarding the impact of UK folic acid flour fortification from October 2025, despite this...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      863. To ask the Minister for Health to reply to attached correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37728/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      864. To ask the Minister for Health if, following a query (details supplied), a wider issue will also be rectified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37732/25]
    • International Protection
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health supports available to children and adults in IPAS accommodation; if specialist services for trauma and, more generally, services that can...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the mini-TT 380 copper coil is not included in the free contraceptive scheme; if this coil has not been included as a reimbursable items due to a...
    • Health Service Executive
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the levels of expenditure that the HSE sanctions without sign-off from the HSE senior leadership team, with sign-off from the HSE senior leadership team, and...
    • Clinical Trials
      868. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the interim recommendations she received from the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      873. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals currently living with migraine; if she is aware of the WIFOR European study on the socioeconomic burden of migraine, which shows a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      874. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the patient survey report launched by the Neurological Alliance of Ireland in June 20255, which shows significant regional differences in...
    • Cancer Services
      876. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts currently being made to improve the prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and quality of life for those affected by advanced ovarian cancer; and...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are currently no seizure detection devices (details supplied) eligible for funding under the local community healthcare organisation's...
    • Health Services Staff
      878. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of agency staff employed by the HSE for each of the past three years, by CHO area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      879. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is undertaking to offer timely appointments to the 10,542 children awaiting dental screenings in CHO9; and if she will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      880. To ask the Minister for Health if the Dexcom One continuous glucose monitor is available on the drugs payment card scheme for individuals who do not qualify to access the continuous glucose...
    • Vaccination Programme
      881. To ask the Minister for Health the lessons that have been learned to date from the Laura Brennan HPV vaccination catch-up programme to inform its future development; whether there are any...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      883. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will recognise obsessive compulsive disorder as a disability rather than a mental health condition. [37830/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      884. To ask the Minister for Health if a healthcare professional (details supplied) could be trained in a hospital for breast cancer patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      885. To ask the Minister for Health the expected waiting time for a hip replacement and for further information to be supplied to a patient (details supplied) and this Deputy. [37836/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some GP surgeries are implementing charges on medical card holders for various tests such as blood tests, urine sample testing and changing of...
    • Hospital Facilities
      888. To ask the Minister for Health in which month the new 96-bed block in UHL will be open to patients. [37878/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      889. To ask the Minister for Health if Veoza, aimed at women who are not suitable for HRT, will be covered under the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37881/25]
    • Health Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) will be funded by the HSE to eliminate the cost barrier of exercise for older people; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Meetings
      891. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet a group representing parents (details supplied) affected by the hip dysplasia scandal at Children’s Health Ireland; if she will issue a...
    • Medical Cards
      892. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people covered by medical cards in each year 2011 to 2025, in tabular form. [37931/25]
    • Departmental Properties
      894. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure the use of the Crumlin Hospital site for key worker housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37934/25]
    • Hospital Equipment
      895. To ask the Minister for Health the details of equipment and machinery, such as CT and MRI scanners and linear accelerator machines, which have reached their end of life, across each...
    • Hospital Services
      897. To ask the Minister for Health the extent and cost of radiation therapy outsourcing to private providers, by hospital, in tabular form; and the details of total payments to private providers...
    • Disability Services
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the measures the Government is taking to address the unacceptable delays in accessing public psychological and speech and language therapy services for...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Schemes
      928. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent by his Department each year from 2020 to 2025 inclusive on the provision of personal alarms under the senior...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      929. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming, and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      931. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his expenditure on advertising detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies, and cost of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      932. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and...
    • Community Care
      935. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are any financial supports for communities where they provide services and activities for older people in community...
    • Departmental Funding
      936. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports available to an organisation in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37561/25]
    • Community Development Projects
      939. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to financially support community cafes across the country. [37877/25]
    • Plean Forbartha Náisiúnta
      940. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an mbeidh costas Ionad Pobail Mhaigh Chuilinn i gContae na Gaillimhe cuimsithe sa Phlean Forbartha Náisiúnta nua; agus...