Written answers
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Diplomatic Representation
1. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget allocation to the Irish Embassies based in Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and United Arab Emirates in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form....
- International Relations
2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether there remains an Israeli ambassador accredited in Ireland. [40080/25]
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Departmental Budgets
3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the capital budget allocation to his Department in the years of 2024 and 2025 in tabular form. [39750/25]
- Energy Conservation
4. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the average waiting time for the warmer homes scheme, by county, in each of the years 2020 to 2024...
- Energy Policy
14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to ”Improve traceability in HVO procurement to...
- Natural Gas Grid
15. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the Government’s position on commercial liquid natural gas facilities in Ireland; and if he will...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
19. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to deliver actions to achieve a 51% reduction in...
- Air Quality
20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the actions he has taken to continue efforts to raise air quality standards, especially in...
- Illegal Dumping
21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the programme for Programme for Government to increase penalties to deter littering and...
- Environmental Schemes
22. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to increase take-up of grants to support small...
- Environmental Policy
23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to work with farmers and rural communities to...
- Public Sector Pensions
24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the dates on which his Department received a request from EirGrid for an increase in the rate of a deferred personal...
- Department of Defence
- State Properties
28. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to confirm who is responsible for the playing pitches at the Curragh military camp; if there is a plan for their restoration; and if he will make...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Bus Services
29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of purchasing 35 additional hydrogen buses for the Bus Éireann PSO fleet. [39743/25]
- Driver Test
31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers who had their learner permit renewed by the RSA while their application for a driving test was pending in...
- Departmental Schemes
32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the development of a successor scheme to the disabled driver and passenger scheme; if there is a timeline for the...
- Bus Services
33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when additional bus services will be provided in Cavan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39885/25]
- Taxi Licences
34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the supply of licensed taxi drivers and vehicles to support the needs of urban, rural, and night-time economies; and...
- Driver Test
35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made on the review of the area knowledge module of the small public service vehicle (SPSV) driver entry test, including any...
- Road Safety
36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that urgent safety and speed reduction measures on the N4 at Ballinalack and Rathowen, County Westmeath are prioritised...
- Taxi Regulations
37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase licensed taxi drivers and vehicle supply in order to support the urban, rural, and night-time economies by at least...
- Driver Test
40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider reforming the SPSV driver entry test in relation to specific geography-based knowledge, in view of the advancement in...
- Public Transport
45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the recent fare changes have resulted in increased costs for passengers living in Skerries and Balbriggan and that...
- Driver Test
46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the driver test waiting times, by test centre; the breakdown of new applications, by test centre, in tabular form; and if...
- Driver Licences
48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a drivers licence for a person (details supplied) will be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40111/25]
- Driver Test
49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will expedite a driving test for the person given particular circumstances...
- School Transport
50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration given to the inclusion of a light rail system for Galway in the upcoming review of the National Development Plan; when...
- Department of Finance
- Financial Services
51. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the review of Ireland’s financial services tax regime, as encouraged by the Commission on Taxation and Welfare and plans to...
- Enterprise Policy
52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give detailed consideration to a document produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Code
53. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a time-limited capital gains tax exemption for property owners to encourage the sale or reuse of vacant or underused...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Government Procurement
57. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a company (details supplied) has ever been put on the Office of Government Procurement framework to provide security personnel to...
- Coast Guard Service
58. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on proposals to upgrade an Irish Coast Guard station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Office of Public Works
60. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered setting up an Oireachtas members enquiries line (via e-mail) for the OPW; if not, the reasons he has chosen not to...
- Departmental Funding
62. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of the applications received for the infrastructure, climate and nature fund, by Department; to provide the...
- Flood Relief Schemes
64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to streamline and simplify the delivery of flood relief...
- Tax Yield
65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of carbon tax revenue that was allocated to agriculturally based programs in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make...
- Cancer Services
66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will give detailed consideration to a document produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Local Authorities
67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of funding that will be provided under a scheme this year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Enterprise Policy
68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will give detailed consideration to a document produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Tourism Policy
69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans to extend the branding of our national tourism product (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Work Permits
70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he has taken to advance the Programme for Government commitment to examine ways to facilitate people who are on work...
- Weather Events
73. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to develop an extreme weather event assistance scheme for...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students of the upcoming educational psychology course in Maynooth University will undertake their placements in health and social care...
- School Funding
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full year cost of increasing primary school capitation grants in increments of €25 up to a maximum of €100....
- Special Educational Needs
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional 200 SNAs in primary and secondary schools respectively up to 2,000. [39764/25]
- School Transport
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional 10,000 school transport places up to a maximum of 100,000 places. [39766/25]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full year cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio by one point in secondary schools. [39767/25]
- School Equipment
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS primary and secondary schools respectively, that require students to have an iPad for learning instead of traditional...
- Teacher Training
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing one teacher with trauma informed care training. [39772/25]
- Departmental Data
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers working in the State across both primary and secondary schools. [39773/25]
- Irish Language
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reinstating the allowance for teaching in Irish for teachers working in Irish-medium schools. [39856/25]
- Special Educational Needs
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first- and full-year estimated cost of expanding the summer programme by 2% up to 10%. [39859/25]
- National Educational Psychological Service
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of educational psychologists working in NEPS to date. [39860/25]
- School Funding
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the ancillary grant by 5% up to a maximum of 20% for primary and secondary schools respectively. [39862/25]
- School Staff
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of teacher recruitment for September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39682/25]
- Schools Building Projects
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the expected commencement date for the construction of the new school building for a school (details supplied), given the...
- School Funding
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first- and full-year cost of increasing post primary school grant by 5% up to a maximum of 30%. [39931/25]
- School Staff
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to her publication of the senior cycle redevelopment implementation support measures, which commits to establishing a dedicated post of...
- Irish Language
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need to further incentivise teaching through Irish; if additional grants or scholarships could be considered for any prospective...
- School Staff
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to recruitment for the education therapy service; the number of the 90 posts announced by her that have been opened;...
- School Transport
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update in relation to the expansion of the school transport scheme service as set out in the Programme for Government; and if she...
- Youth Services
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give detailed consideration to the issues raised by an association (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students on a waiting list for a special school place in County Kerry; the number per each school; and if she will make a statement...
- School Funding
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available for caretaking and facilities management of a new school (details supplied). [40093/25]
- Special Educational Needs
125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify within every special school if every teacher and SNA, respectively has the appropriate qualification; and if not, the number of...
- Wildlife Regulations
126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the protection of schoolchildren, all school staff, teachers, support staff and caretakers, and their health and safety, if he...
- Healthcare Policy
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a request (details supplied) to revoke the S1 form to allow them to revert as a new entrant; and if she will make a...
- School Accommodation
128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage without delay in view of the urgent need to have this much...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- National Broadband Plan
129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to date with the roll out of the National Broadband Plan throughout County Cavan; and if he will make a...
- Arts Council
131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review a proposal and request that the Arts Council to engage with a group (details supplied) that wish to...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Urban Development
132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to prioritise urban greening of the existing built...
- Housing Schemes
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 3 July 2025, if he has ever requested that the providers or delivery partners of...
- Vacant Properties
134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider loosening the criteria for the vacant property grant, which does not allow the property to be occupied...
- Waterways Issues
135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of phase 3 of the Ulster Canal; when works on this phase will commence; the estimated date of completion;...
- European Investment Bank
136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the State, through the Housing Finance Agency or another State body, took out a loan from the European Investment Bank...
- Housing Provision
137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the development of 106 social houses in Blessington will commence, having been halted earlier in June 2025; and if he...
- Energy Conservation
138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes retrofitted to date; the average cost to retrofit to a b2 BER rating or higher; the proportion that...
- Local Authorities
140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes, by whether they are occupied, on the market or vacant, by local authority. [39948/25]
- National Parks
142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to create new national parks and increase funding to...
- National Monuments
143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to support applications for additional UNESCO...
- Housing Policy
144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the Programme for Government, the progress his Department has made in ensuring the Housing Agency is able to...
- Housing Provision
145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the social housing waiting lists for Kerry in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and...
- Wildlife Regulations
148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in detail the specific "threats to public health and safety" that underpinned the legal justifications of the...
- Local Authorities
153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when additional funding will be allocated to a local authority (details supplied); if he will ensure that this grant aid is...
- Animal Welfare
154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of animal welfare monitoring and oversight at Dublin Zoo; the independent inspections that have been...
- Housing Schemes
155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding that will be provided for a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Building Regulations
156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the rationale behind proposals to reduce minimum standards for apartment size, window dimensions, and green...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Weather Events
157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to develop an extreme weather event assistance scheme...
- Public Sector Staff
158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade based in each INTREO office in Galway, in tabular form. [39742/25]
- Social Insurance
159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently with the scope section of the Department; and the number of these appeals that have run over...
- Social Welfare Benefits
162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the jobseeker’s allowance claim for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Schemes
163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications under humanitarian assistance scheme 1 and humanitarian assistance scheme two which have been...
- Children in Care
164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of allowing all fostering caring families to receive the back to school allowance without a means test; and if...
- Social Welfare Benefits
166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the living alone allowance for each of the last four years; the number per county; and...
- Care Services
176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give consideration to a document produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who retires from employment at the age of 65 is entitled to receive jobseeker’s pay related benefit until...
- Citizens Information Services
178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of the pay claim which regional administrators of the Citizens Information Service are bringing to the Labour...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- An Garda Síochána
179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vetting applications processed by Garda National Vetting Bureau in the years of 2024 and 2025 in tabular form;...
- Visa Applications
181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the weekly actual and target average turnaround times for South African visa applicants, broken down by category of visa, for...
- Departmental Investigations
182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of an internal audit investigation into an incident (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Domestic Violence
183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the previous commitments to deliver domestic violence refuges in each county, including Monaghan and...
- Prison Service
184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners that have been unlawfully at large from prison in each of the past ten years. [39839/25]
- An Garda Síochána
185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated annual costs of removing point 2 on the Garda pay scale so that Gardaí would go from point one to point 3 on...
- Departmental Priorities
188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the Programme for Government commitment, the progress that has been made in transferring responsibility for property...
- Housing Policy
189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in regulating service charges and sinking funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39980/25]
- Citizenship Applications
190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide clarity for a person (details supplied) on the steps they can take to apply for citizenship; and if he will...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will engage with the Minister for Social Protection to consider the introduction of a dedicated 'safe fund', similar to...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Departmental Correspondence
192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence relating to an unauthorised agricultural operation (details supplied); if he has responded to this...
- Wildlife Regulations
193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the context of the recent and annually recurring very stark warnings in respect of Avian Flu issued by his Department, the...
- Health and Safety
194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the context of his Department's annually recurring stark warnings to the general public with regard to Avian Flu and appropriate...
- Weather Events
195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to develop an extreme weather event assistance scheme for...
- Department of Children, Disability and Equality
- Disability Services
196. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE staff grade speech and language therapists based in each children's disability network team within CHO2 in the...
- Departmental Budgets
197. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the capital budget allocation to her Department in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [39761/25]
- Childcare Services
198. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the proposed move of a crèche to a new building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
200. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the strategy to ensure services, care and accommodation for disabled people does not move in large measure to the private-for-profit...
- Question Heading for question(s) 201
201. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a service (details supplied) does not have a single service level agreement with the HSE but rather numerous agreements...
- Children in Care
202. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will include additional ring-fenced funding to an organisation (details supplied) in Budget 2026; and if she will make a...
- Mother and Baby Homes
203. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he will consider extending the DNA testing to family members who are cousins to identify remains at the mother and baby home in...
- Disability Diagnoses
204. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 883 of 8 July 2025, if she will recognise obsessive compulsive disorder as a disability rather...
- Disease Management
205. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to ensure people with cerebral palsy can adapt their cars to continue living independent lives; and if she...
- Disabilities Assessments
206. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of need completed by each children’s disability network team, in each area, in each of the years...
- Childcare Services
208. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measure being taken to address the 25% decrease in the number of services who have listed capacity for children under the age of...
- Disabilities Assessments
209. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need, by area, in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the number overdue...
- Childcare Services
210. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the new forward planning unit will be engaging with city and county childcare committees on the planned provision of public...
- Disability Services
212. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the length of the waiting list for adult disability respite in each county in each of the past five years, in tabular form; the...
- Childcare Services
214. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken by her Department to increase capacity for childcare services in Kerry; the number of families currently on a...
- Disabilities Assessments
215. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people under 18 who are on an autism assessment waiting list, broken down by county; the length of time they have been...
- Disability Services
216. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential places for people with a disability currently being provided as of 1 June 2025 or latest date available;...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
218. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people on the speech and language therapy initial treatment waiting list, and within that, the numbers waiting less...
- Disabilities Assessments
219. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children as of 1 June 2025 or latest date available, that were awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the...
- Disability Services
220. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of young adults within an intellectual disability in Kerry that are on the waiting list for day services. [40082/25]
- Health Services
221. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) who was referred fourteen months ago to a foundation for both...
- Disabilities Assessments
222. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the support that is in place for parents who, due to lengthy waiting times, paid for a private assessment of needs for their child...
- Childcare Services
223. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will provide an updated list of all childcare providers currently availing of the core funding scheme; if she is...
- Department of Health
- Home Help Service
226. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the number of home help agencies that are registered in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39928/25]
- Dental Services
227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental nurses based in each health centre and primary care centre within CHO2 in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [39755/25]
- Ambulance Service
228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of critical care ambulances and rapid response vehicles based in Galway in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025 in tabular form; if each of these...
- Emergency Departments
229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of minor and major treatment bays within the accident and emergency department of Galway University Hospital. [39757/25]
- Care Services
230. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO2 where HSE Adult Safeguarding Teams are based; and the WTE staff by job title required to fully staff one of those teams in tabular...
- Hospital Staff
231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologists based at Galway University Hospital in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in tabular form. [39759/25]
- Medicinal Products
233. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the drug duvyzat-givinostat in Ireland; when a decision could be made to make it available to those with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and...
- Hospital Procedures
234. To ask the Minister for Health the number of autopsies carried out in Mullingar, Tullamore and Portlaoise in 2024 and to date 2025; the number of histologies carried out and the number of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
235. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider extending the long-Covid payment for frontline HSE staff; if this payment will be continued for a person (details supplied). [39805/25]
- Health Services
236. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has considered the model whereby funding follows the patient (MFTP) for vasectomy services, as with termination of pregnancy services; and if...
- Health Strategies
238. To ask the Minister for Health if she will carry out a full assessment of the financial impact of heart failure on patients with recommendations on appropriate actions; and if she will make...
- Health Services
242. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed update on the status of verification testing for spinal muscular atrophy and severe combined immunodeficiency within the...
- Mental Health Services
243. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the roll out of a service (details supplied) in County Cavan; the discussions had in relation to this; the agreements that have been...
- General Practitioner Services
244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating GP surgeries per town in Cork south west, by town or by townland, in tabular form. [39841/25]
- Gender Recognition
245. To ask the Minister for Health if reimbursement for any form of hormone treatment for transgender teenagers is possible under the Cross Border Directive, given that a referral has been...
- Ambulance Service
246. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a new service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39874/25]
- Mental Health Services
247. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a new building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39875/25]
- Ambulance Service
248. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on re-establishing 24/7 advanced paramedic cover in Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39876/25]
- Cancer Services
249. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to create an overarching framework for cross-Border cancer care that would ensure that citizens on both side of the Border can get...
- Hospital Services
250. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of services for endometriosis assessment and treatment at Mullingar Regional Hospital; if a specialised multidisciplinary team is in place;...
- Mental Health Services
254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have presented to Crosslanes Drogheda psychiatric unit each month for the past 12 months from Navan Hospital or accident and...
- Departmental Reports
258. To ask the Minister for Health the details and dates of correspondence received from the HSE or Children’s Health Ireland regarding a report (details supplied). [39965/25]
- Emergency Departments
261. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for accident and emergency departments, broken down by hospital. [39968/25]
- Nursing Homes
262. To ask the Minister for Health the number of closure notices issued by the Health Information and Quality Authority relating to nursing homes, for each nursing home, for each of the years...
- Mental Health Services
263. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, by area and by length of time, in each of the years 2015 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits
271. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering abolishing means testing for the carer’s allowance (details supplied); and if the case of a person will be examined. [39991/25]
- Ambulance Service
272. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the number of WTEs in the National Ambulance Service (NAS), per grade codes, by HSE region, from 2020 to 2025; and to provide the level of...
- Healthcare Policy
273. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the unit within her Department that is responsible for alcohol policy outside of the enforcement of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if she...
- Medicinal Products
277. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the proposal that high protein oral nutritional supplements are administered under a managed access programme, the effect...
- Hospital Facilities
278. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40015/25]
- Healthcare Policy
280. To ask the Minister for Health if she has issued health advisory guidelines to schools related to nicotine pouches in response to calls from an organisation (details supplied); if not,...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
281. To ask the Minister for Health when it is envisaged that tubeless diabetic pumps will be made available to children to assist in managing type 1 diabetes, who are currently required to use...
- Alcohol Sales
282. To ask the Minister for Health in view of recent statements from the Tánaiste on pausing the implementation of alcohol labelling, when alcohol labelling will be introduced; and if she...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people with diabetes on a waiting list in Kerry in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of those waiting less than six...
- Hospital Procedures
286. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to reports that CHI orthopaedic surgeons performed hip surgeries at University Hospital Kerry in recent years, who approved sending CHI orthopaedic...
- Disabilities Assessments
287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list, and within that, the numbers waiting less than four months; the number waiting...
- Mental Health Services
289. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list for Jigsaw in Kerry as off 1 July 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40052/25]
- Health Services
290. To ask the Minister for Health the number of companies used by Children’s Health Ireland to provide consultant weekend cover and/or waiting list initiatives in Kerry since 2019; to...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
291. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case...
- Departmental Correspondence
292. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give detailed consideration to a document produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Disease Management
293. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding Lyme disease in providing accurate testing and adequate treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40061/25]
- Cancer Services
294. To ask the Minister for Health to give detailed consideration to the issues raised in a document produced by a national organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Mental Health Services
295. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for CAMHS by community health organisation, age category, and time waiting, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Eating Disorders
296. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for treatment of an eating disorder by community health organisation, age category, and time waiting, in tabular form;...
- Dental Services
297. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for adults special care needs GA waiting list for routine dental care in each hospital, in tabular form. [40089/25]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
298. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 8 May 2025 the proportion of this funding that was spent to address waiting lists in Kerry; and if she will make a...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
299. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using omnipod 5 insulin pumps in each county from 2020-2025 inclusive; the status of the roll-out of these products; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
300. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of ongoing delays in processing blind welfare allowance applications throughout the Midlands and Western regions; if she will review this...
- Disability Services
301. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40121/25]
- Cancer Services
302. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that at least €20 million in new recurrent development funding is provided in 2026 and in each subsequent year for the National...
- Hospital Staff
304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the senior radiographer post at Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal has been delayed by two years; when this post will be filled; and if...
- Medicinal Products
305. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on a recent discretionary hardship application for the purposes of ozempic injections; and if she will...
- Healthcare Policy
307. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the findings from the May 2025 ESPAD report which show that 10 percent of 15- and 16-year-olds in Ireland have used moist snuff and 7.6%...
- General Practitioner Services
309. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list for GP services in each county in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [40248/25]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Staff
319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vacancies currently at each grade from administrative officer level and above within the Department, in tabular...
- An Teanga Gaeilge
320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta chun an "Plean Digiteach don Ghaeilge", a d'fhoilsigh an Rialtas i mí na Nollag...
- Library Services
321. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a service (details supplied) will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39872/25]
