Written answers

Tuesday, 29 July 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of SME’s operating, by county for each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [44075/25]
    • Semi-State Bodies
      3. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 329 and 331 of 24 June 2025, to the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, which...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      4. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a list of all public private partnership projects under his remit, including project name, contract value, and start-end date since 2010; and to confirm whether...
    • Departmental Contracts
      5. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department, or any agency under its aegis, has procured services from a company (details supplied), including but not limited to internet connectivity, satellite...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      6. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department and agencies under its aegis. [40888/25]
    • Grant Payments
      7. To ask the Taoiseach to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant payments for each year, in...
    • Departmental Data
      15. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Irish citizens who moved abroad each year since 2015. [41649/25]
    • Employment Data
      17. To ask the Taoiseach the unemployment figures for County Clare for 30 June 2024 and 30 June 2025; the unemployment figures nationwide for the same dates [41697/25]
    • Tourism Revenue
      18. To ask the Taoiseach the breakdown of tourism revenue from international visitors over the past three years; the data on countries of origin and sectors that benefited the most; and if he...
    • Employment Data
      19. To ask the Taoiseach to outline the current unemployment rate, including youth unemployment statistics; how these figures have shifted in response to recent economic policies; and if he will...
    • Programme for Government
      20. To ask the Taoiseach for an update as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to develop a new strategy Global Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      21. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [42473/25]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      22. To ask the Taoiseach the engagement he has had with the British Prime Minister in relation to legacy legislation, especially in view of reported pushback against the Prime Minister’s...
    • Regeneration Projects
      23. To ask the Taoiseach to outline how the recommendations of the Dublin City Taskforce will impact the south inner city; if the task force has an increased focus on the north inner city...
    • Climate Action Plan
      24. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the progress of the annexe of actions contained within each annual climate action plan; to provide a breakdown of which actions are completed, are...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      26. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the capital funding programmes or grants for which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility for which sporting organisations are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      28. To ask the Taoiseach whether, in addition to the work of the independent Covid-19 evaluation, any other means of inquiry is being considered for those who have lost loved ones in nursing...
    • Departmental Staff
      29. To ask the Taoiseach the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43668/25]
    • Departmental Equipment
      30. To ask the Taoiseach whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity, autonomy and crisis management....
    • National Development Plan
      31. To ask the Taoiseach the level of funding under the national development plan provided under the shared island Initiative; if it is proposed to extend the range of projects eligible for...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will examine the case of a passport application for a person (details supplied), and the difficulties in the applicant receiving...
    • Departmental Meetings
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he or his officials have met with peace activists or experts in the past 12 months; the date and agenda of those meetings; and if he...
    • Middle East
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to abide by the legal analysis of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied...
    • Legislative Measures
      37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the Government's position on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025. [40715/25]
    • Registration Certificate
      38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 121 of 22 May and 133 of 1 July 2025, to provide additional guidance in relation to a matter (details...
    • International Agreements
      39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when Ireland will ratify the UN Global Oceans Treaty; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40779/25]
    • Middle East
      40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to clarify the Government’s position in respect of issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which...
    • Middle East
      43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 8 July 2025, to state, as was asked in the original question, the total number of the 57,012...
    • International Relations
      44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list all territories internationally which the State recognises as being illegally occupied by another state, as a result of United...
    • Passport Services
      45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application in respect of a person (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40987/25]
    • Middle East
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if vetting was undertaken for the evacuation of Irish citizens and their dependants from Israel to ensure that they were not involved in war...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent by his Department on food and alcohol at receptions in Iveagh House between 2014 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those...
    • Passport Services
      49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of requests to expedite passports received by his office in each year from 2015 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Trade Agreements
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to his meeting with the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, recently, whether the Irish Government's position on...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can confirm that maintaining or increasing current levels of EU overseas development aid both unilaterally and collectively will be a...
    • Visa Applications
      53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who is in Gaza and has a student visa for Ireland is added to the exit lists so that...
    • Passport Services
      61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it will be ensured that the processing of a passport for a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department, as it...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average waiting time for processing individuals on the foreign births register; and the number of cases currently being processed. [41829/25]
    • Office of Government Procurement
      64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of companies currently on the Office of Government Procurement framework for the provision of transferring furniture and other...
    • Passport Services
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to make changes to the current passport application process for passports that are expired more than five years whereby they are...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42108/25]
    • Passport Services
      68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the timeframe for the new passport office in Cork to open; if printing facilities will be available in this new office; and if he will make a...
    • Northern Ireland
      71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the challenge to the UK’s Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 which is before the European Court of Human...
    • Trade Relations
      72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position on all developments relating to EU-US trade talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42180/25]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether his Department will make additional resources available to the Irish Embassy in Tel Aviv in order to secure the safe passage of...
    • International Relations
      76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in light of the Hague Group meeting in Colombia, which Ireland attended, and the declaration of 12 countries to end all ties with Israel...
    • Military Aircraft
      77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has given approval for the transfer of military weaponry or personnel through Irish airspace, from the period 28 May to...
    • Trade Sanctions
      79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he will take on an EU level to sanction Israel for its ongoing war crimes in Gaza; to push for an end to the blockade of food and...
    • Middle East
      80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the reported deaths of civilians in Gaza from hunger with the Israeli Government; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Diaspora Issues
      82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to develop a new diaspora strategy; and if he will make a statement...
    • Trade Agreements
      84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on engagements he has had with like-minded EU counterparts with regard to Ireland’s opposition to the Mercosur trade...
    • Passport Services
      87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications with addresses in County Cork that are being processed by the passport office as of July 2025; and if he...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to establish new Irish embassies during the lifetime of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42451/25]
    • Passport Services
      89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to increase staffing and resources of the passport office to ease processing delays; his views on the opening of a new passport...
    • Consular Services
      90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with counterparts in the United States regarding the deportation of Irish citizens living in the United...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025,...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the controls in place to prevent appropriation of Irish foreign aid by officials in a country (details supplied). [42522/25]
    • Diaspora Issues
      93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the work to facilitate the easier return to Ireland for emigrants, including reciprocal driving licence arrangements...
    • Northern Ireland
      94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any engagement with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland with regard to legacy legislation, especially in view of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether his Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts or included social...
    • Northern Ireland
      97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the closing of charity shops in Northern Ireland (details supplied); given they receive funding from Irish...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to open a new Irish consulate general office in Auckland, New Zealand; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the capital funding programmes or grants for which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility for which...
    • Middle East
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been contacted in relation to an Irish citizen seeking the evacuation of his father from Gaza; and if he will address the matters...
    • Visa Agreements
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department launched a communications strategy in South Africa to advise South African citizens of the need for a short-term visa to...
    • Middle East
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to work with his counterparts at the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to ensure that the family of a Palestinian individual...
    • EU Presidency
      107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the preparations underway for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2026; the key thematic priorities under...
    • Nuclear Proliferation
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps his Department is taking to advance Ireland’s commitment to nuclear disarmament and arms control; including support for the...
    • Passport Services
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures being taken to enhance consular services and modernise passport delivery for Irish citizens abroad; the current staffing levels...
    • Diaspora Issues
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of his Department’s engagement with the Irish diaspora, including any planned reforms to the Emigrant Support Programme;...
    • Legislative Measures
      113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the Occupied Territories Bill and the possibility of dealing with services as well as goods and any other sanction...
    • Trade Relations
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his Department and other Departments engagement with the EU and US as regards the possibility of tariffs; and if he will...
    • Official Engagements
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on recent engagement between his Department and the Palestinian Authority; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Passport Services
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current number of passport applications currently being processed; the number of passports issued to date in 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is aware of plans by the EU to reduce the overseas aid budget; the engagement his Department has had with the EU on this...
    • Official Engagements
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the recent engagement his Department has had with the EU regarding Russian aggression in Ukraine; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43660/25]
    • Departmental Equipment
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity,...
    • Departmental Bodies
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason his Department has not published the names of those in the US Strategic Economic Advisory Panel; and if he will make a statement...
    • Consular Services
      130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the procedure in place in circumstances where a person alleges unlawful detention in the United States and where consular...
    • Debt Relief
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's official position on global debt refinancing and forgiveness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43767/25]
    • EU Presidency
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there will be a recruitment process for additional staff for the EU Presidency; if persons outside the public service will be eligible...
    • Middle East
      135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of evacuation processes in place for university students granted places at Irish universities to escape Gaza; and...
    • Trade Agreements
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide detailed clarification of the potential access and the protections to market access, arising from the so-called "negative list"...
    • United Nations
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress he has made in lobbying for continued support of the UN Security Council mandate for the UNIFIL mission; if he intends to...
    • Diaspora Issues
      143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the consultation that has been conducted by his Department with the Irish diaspora on voting rights for new emigrants; and if he will make a...
    • Family Reunification
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions Ireland is taking with regard to the forced repatriation of refugees to Afghanistan; the steps that have been taken to support...
    • Foreign Policy
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is of the view that the institutional balance of the treaties requires that the European Commission must always reflect positions...
    • European Union
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to identify and provide an explanation for each and every instance where the Government has sought clarity regarding inconsistency in...
    • Passport Services
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff in the passport service, by role, by year, for the years 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Electricity Grid
      153. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of funding provided to ESB for energy grid maintenance and upgrade in each of the years 2010 to...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the NDP review and the announcement of €3.5 billion of an equity investment in ESB and EirGrid, the...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration has been given to re-examining the eligibility criteria for the energy audit voucher available to small...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      156. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the €3.5 billion allocation for EirGrid and ESB in the NDP review, whether any parameters were put in...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      157. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered removing the first come-first served principle for ESB hook-ups; the plans to prioritise residential...
    • Recycling Policy
      159. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the strategies the Government supports to address fast fashion and the recycling of clothing textiles; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Schemes
      160. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) under the warmer home scheme delivered by the SEAI; and if he...
    • Radon Gas Levels
      161. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase testing of radon gas given CSO data showing that 64% of homes in the mid-eastern region had not been...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      162. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      163. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his...
    • Energy Conservation
      164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given that the new construction at Killarney Innovation Centre will employ green technologies, including energy-efficient...
    • Recycling Policy
      166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount which has been retained as surplus from the deposit return scheme due to amounts not being reclaimed;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the figures on the uptake of the low-cost loan scheme for quarter 2 2025; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      168. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide updated figures on the installation of solar panels in homes, both new and retrofitted, to date in 2025; and if...
    • Energy Conservation
      169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide updated figures on the homes retrofitted to B2 or above, to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Grant Payments
      170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out the provisions he intends to promote to facilitate the circular economy and the reuse and repair of...
    • Energy Conservation
      173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a community energy advice service, as energy poverty is a complex issue and people need expert...
    • Departmental Policies
      174. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the South Coast DMAP Implementation Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41276/25]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      175. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration will be given to changing regulations to allow household solar PV energy generation in the event of a...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      176. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      180. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the internal oversight that exists within his Department to monitor the scope, duration, and cost escalation of legal...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether any legal engagements have exceeded their initial estimated or approved cost in the past three years; if so, the...
    • Electricity Generation
      183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department analysed developing micro-electricity production in the State and the feasibility of providing grant aid...
    • Electricity Grid
      184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department examined polices on dynamic electricity off peak-pricing to incentivise and lower the operational costs...
    • Energy Conservation
      185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 10 and 11 of 16 July 2025, to report on the 80 homes across two area based projects...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of installation of solar PV as part of the warmer homes scheme; the number of homes...
    • Departmental Schemes
      196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will consider implementing changes under the warmer homes scheme to improve a BER in cases where an...
    • Departmental Data
      198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of a decision made by a board (details supplied); the impact this will have on retired workers; and if he...
    • Electricity Grid
      199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the electricity grid; the relevant legislation that dictates the process for connections; if there is...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      201. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the process through which a costing of €900 million was reached for the proposed liquid natural gas...
    • Energy Prices
      204. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report on any meetings he had with energy suppliers since he took office; the dates on which those meetings took...
    • Recycling Policy
      205. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of bottles and cans that are recycled using the bottle deposit return scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      209. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline for the development of wind farms off the coast of Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Conservation
      210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide details of the number of applications received for insulation and energy grants for County Wicklow in 2024 and...
    • Ministerial Communications
      212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42140/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024...
    • Energy Policy
      214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the work to date his Department has undertaken as part of the energy poverty steering group; the number of times this...
    • Recycling Policy
      215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the up-to-date position on having the deposit return scheme available at civic amenity sites in County Cork; and if he...
    • Just Transition
      216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to expand the EU just transition funding outside of the midlands region; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the up-to-date position on providing funding to local authorities to install CCTV cameras in the vicinity of bottle banks;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that currently the SEAI are giving timelines of completion of all works of 26 months under the free energy...
    • Energy Policy
      219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if hydrotreated vegetable oil will be available under our clean energy transition for the heating of homes; and if he will...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      220. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department or any agency operating under the aegis of his Department has used reserved contracts or social clauses...
    • National Development Plan
      221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 13 February 2025 (details supplied) and following the NDP review, if the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the average cost to retrofit a home to a BER cost optimum standard under the better energy warmer homes scheme in the...
    • Departmental Funding
      225. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme under the subhead B4 of the Revised Estimate in each...
    • Departmental Schemes
      228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the average cost to install domestic solar PV under the solar PV scheme and the average size of...
    • Departmental Funding
      230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the funding provided for community energy grants in 2020 to 2024 and in 2025, in tabular form;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      231. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report on SRESS 1; the number of projects which were successful in their applications; the progress and when he...
    • Departmental Funding
      234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the NDP review and the €500 million allocated under the ICN fund; the details of what this...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if environmental assessments will still be undertaken on future infrastructure projects, as outlined in the National...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the expansion of district heating in Ireland; if additional funding will be provided on top of the...
    • Legislative Measures
      241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe for the renewable heat obligation Bill to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43007/25]
    • Energy Policy
      242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe for the sustainability charter of the national biomethane strategy to be published; to report on the process...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      243. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proportion of the target of 5.7TWh indigenously produced by 2030 has been achieved to date; and if he will make a...
    • Climate Action Plan
      248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the three new actions due and the 28 legacy actions due as outlined in the quarter 1 2025 progress...
    • Food Waste
      252. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the priority actions that is, reporting, sector specific targets, development of stronger food separation...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      256. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      258. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals to extend the natural gas supply to Cavan town, as well as more towns in Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will...
    • Recycling Policy
      260. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report on the salaries of the CEO and the directors of the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Energy Prices
      263. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to reduce the cost of energy for households; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      271. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a replacement insulation grant for a person (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      272. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in...
    • Departmental Staff
      273. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in each of the years 2015 to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      274. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's expenditure on IT consultancy; to provide a breakdown of all IT consultants engaged by his Department;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      275. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's expenditure on consultancy; to provide a breakdown of all consultants engaged by his Department; the...
    • Energy Policy
      276. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the proposed policy on private wires, to outline how this will be regulated; what safety measures are in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      286. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the current grant schemes available for anaerobic digestion (AD); if enhancements to these grants are being...
    • Recycling Policy
      287. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the number of retailers and producers currently operating the deposit return scheme; to outline any...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      289. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on plans to deliver onshore and offshore wind power and solar in a sustainable way and engage with the...
    • Energy Policy
      290. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of providing a €500 energy credit to each private household. [43563/25]
    • Building Energy Rating
      292. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated number of home retrofits to B2 standard or above that could be carried out for an investment of €2...
    • Foreshore Issues
      293. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the progress made in addressing the backlog of applications for foreshore licences in recent years, and in...
    • Energy Policy
      294. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to estimate the cost of converting all fossil fuel powered electricity generation in the State to renewable energy. [43583/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      296. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Departmental Equipment
      297. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Illegal Dumping
      299. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures being taken to combat illegal dumping; whether additional resources are being provided by his Department to...
    • Waste Management
      300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the creation of an urban waste management programme, acknowledging the acute waste management needs of dense...
    • Climate Action Plan
      301. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline for the consultation for the social climate plan. [43744/25]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      302. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update in relation to Vermilion Energy Corrib Ireland Ltd v The Minister for the Environment, Climate and...
    • Energy Policy
      303. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a data centre powered by gas powered generators offsite connected via a private wire as was suggested in recent media...
    • Energy Prices
      308. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears; the number of commercial electricity customers in arrears; the...
    • Waterways Issues
      311. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the programmes that are in place to protect rivers and lakes on a cross-Border basis; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      312. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on progress in respect of the Government’s commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals;...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      313. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason for the apparent decline in the percentage and number of female inductees to the Permanent Defence Force in 2024 compared to previous...
    • Emergency Services
      314. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if an emergency service (details supplied) was used as part of an operation; the reason this was used; the reason another service was not...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      315. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      316. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department and agencies...
    • Grant Payments
      317. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant...
    • National Security
      318. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to respond to concerns about the closure of a consultation on maritime security strategy (details supplied). [41199/25]
    • Defence Forces
      319. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the mechanisms that are in place to support veteran groups of the Defence Forces situated in the North, particularly around commemorations and...
    • European Union
      322. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence considering Ireland's recent commitment to joining the EU’S SAFE Mechanism for defence procurement, what the Minister will do to ensure...
    • Defence Forces
      326. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which he will ensure that current procurement process and guidelines for the Defence Forces will not hinder the quick and efficient...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      327. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates; how fees...
    • Naval Service
      334. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the development of a naval base in Dún Laoghaire Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41781/25]
    • Defence Forces
      335. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding any initiatives that seeks to encourage both recruitment and retention of personnel in the armed forces; and if he will...
    • Air Corps
      338. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of occasions Ministers for Defence have visited Casement Aerodrome since 2020, in tabular form; and when he intends to visit...
    • Defence Forces
      341. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the up-to-date position on recent risk assessments carried out this year on the safety impact to Irish peacekeeping troops serving in Lebanon on...
    • National Security
      342. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures being taken to protect any threat of damage to vital subterranean and submarine infrastructure with Ireland being a major...
    • Naval Service
      343. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Irish Naval Service monitors the presence of naval vessels from other countries off Irish shores; and if he will make a...
    • European Union
      345. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether his Department has had any engagement with the European Commission regarding the revelations that at least €15 million has been...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      347. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
    • Defence Forces
      348. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure that housing in barracks around the country is used. [42538/25]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      349. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether his Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts or included social clauses...
    • Defence Forces
      350. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacant posts for dentists, nurses and doctors within the Defence Forces Medical Corps; the timeframe for filling each of those...
    • Departmental Funding
      353. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility for which sporting...
    • National Development Plan
      355. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how the proposed increase in defence capital expenditure under the revised National Development Plan will increase defence and security...
    • Naval Service
      356. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on his Department’s engagement with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council regarding the establishment of a forward...
    • Defence Forces
      358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the investigations into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      361. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the progress being made in relation to an Army pension for a person (details supplied); if he will consider an...
    • Defence Forces
      362. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the plans for the improvement of the pay and conditions in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement...
    • National Security
      365. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a current assessment on the dangers faced by the State from possible hybrid and cyber attacks on communications...
    • Naval Service
      366. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service vessels which are operational, and currently able to patrol Irish waters and any plans to put more in operation; and...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      368. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline any figures that are available for the annual carbon footprint for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      369. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what increase in operational spending will take place in the context of the €1.7 billion increase in capital spending to ensure that the...
    • Defence Forces
      370. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any European counterparts have pressured his Department to increase defence spending to align more closely with NATO targets; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      372. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of full time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43656/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      373. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity,...
    • Departmental Meetings
      374. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether he or his officials have met with lobbyists from the arms industry in the past 12 months; the date and agenda of those meetings; and if...
    • Defence Forces
      375. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current height restrictions in the Defence Forces; if the possibility has been examined of reducing these, either in full or with regard to...
    • Departmental Investigations
      381. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has investigated the credible allegations made by a person (details supplied); if this has prompted a review of any such...
    • Defence Forces
      382. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress and-or recommendations that have been made by the Institute for Security Governance in their oversight of the Defence Forces...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Departmental Data
      383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he has a messaging provider downloaded on his Ministerial phone; to detail any provider downloaded; and if he will make a...
    • EU Directives
      384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of convictions of persons who have exceeded the driving times under the European Union Regulation (EC) No...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the Arklow to Shillelagh greenway project (details supplied); if he will provide details on the delay; if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      398. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of...
    • Driver Test
      399. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the waiting times for people to receive their first driving licences after passing the driving test; if he will...
    • National Car Test
      400. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people who have currently been waiting either more than three, six and nine months for an NCT test, in each test centre in...
    • Driver Licences
      402. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people working in the NDLS for each year from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      405. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average wait time for a driving test per test centre, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41194/25]
    • Bus Services
      406. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the continued delays and cancellations experienced on the S8 bus route; if he will instruct his Department to address...
    • Rail Network
      407. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail owns land on the north side of Drogheda, County Louth, that could be used to establish a new train station serving that...
    • Public Transport
      408. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposals, if any there are, to extend services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41361/25]
    • Road Safety
      410. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if phase 2 of the Road Safety Strategy 2025-2027 will include specific measurable targets aimed at reducing road deaths among 16- to...
    • Public Service Obligation
      413. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address issues raised in correspondence (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41413/25]
    • Departmental Legal Services
      416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the procurement processes used when engaging external legal firms and barristers, including whether panels are used; how often...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has conducted any audits or reviews in the past five years on legal fee spend; if so, to publish the findings or...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the internal oversight that exists within his Department to monitor the scope, duration and cost escalation of legal services once...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      421. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the deployment of counter-drone technology at Dublin Airport, if he will provide data on the number of drones detected and...
    • Departmental Data
      422. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount his Department spent on interpretation services over the past ten years, broken down by service, year, geographical area;...
    • Electric Vehicles
      424. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the analyses that his Department conducted on incentivising EV fleets and how flexible charging can be an incentive to benefit companies...
    • Driver Test
      426. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if information requested by the NDLS has been added to the file of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety Authority
      427. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the RSA will expedite a resolution; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Test
      428. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current total service volume of each driving test centre, in tabular form. [41740/25]
    • Rail Network
      430. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for a decision on a request for indoor seating at Navan Road Parkway train station made to the Irish Rail building and...
    • Air Services
      431. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the search and rescue helicopter contract agreed between his Department and a private contractor out of Weston...
    • Driver Test
      432. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed new driving test centre in south Dublin; if a site has been identified; and the date it is envisaged the new...
    • Greenways Provision
      433. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Tralee to Listowel Greenway in north Kerry will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41847/25]
    • Bus Services
      434. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Letterkenny bus station in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form;...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      435. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when 90-minute fares will be rolled out in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41857/25]
    • Bus Services
      438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE qualified vehicle body repairers employed by Bus Éireann, in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [41882/25]
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      440. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters in relation to public transport to Dublin Airport will be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      441. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of scrambler/quad related injuries-accidents recorded by hospitals; and if this information is not available, if there are...
    • Driver Test
      442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving testers moved from testing drivers of articulated lorries, buses and trucks to drivers of cars, each month, in...
    • Rail Network
      443. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to carry out an audit of the train stations along the Maynooth line, to assess whether additional seating will be facilitated under a...
    • Bus Services
      444. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current up-to-date position regarding the Clongriffin to city centre core bus corridor scheme; when this project will move to the...
    • Rail Network
      445. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail will fund brightening the lights along the pedestrian bridge between northbound and southbound platforms at Raheny DART...
    • Electric Vehicles
      446. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will fund the installation of high-speed EV charging points at the west pier of Howth Harbour; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      447. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm whether new testers in driving test centres have increased as promised since June 2025; if they are on schedule with...
    • Electric Vehicles
      452. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the number of EV charging points installed across Wicklow in 2020-2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      454. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that has been spent to date in 2025 on the bus corridor project for the N11-M11 road in Wicklow; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      455. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends on progressing the N81 Tallaght to Hollywood crossroad improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Tolls
      458. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase toll fees on roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42094/25]
    • Transport Costs
      459. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to reduce the fares for TFI zone 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42095/25]
    • Rail Network
      460. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for when the DART will run to Wicklow town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42096/25]
    • Bus Services
      462. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to increase fines for bus providers who do not meet their contractual obligations and targets, particularly for busses...
    • Electric Vehicles
      464. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Moby e-bikes that have been replaced in Wicklow due to damage or going missing; the cost of this; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      465. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people awaiting a driving test in Cork by driver category in the month of June in 2023, 2024 and 2025. [42155/25]
    • Road Safety
      466. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road deaths in Wicklow between 2020 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42218/25]
    • Departmental Data
      467. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has engaged with community and civil society groups in the past six months with regard to the operation of drone...
    • Aer Lingus
      472. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement his Department has had with retired Aer Lingus and DAA workers over cuts to their pension scheme in 2015; his plans to...
    • Greenways Provision
      473. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the completion and opening of the South-East Greenway, in particular the New Ross to Glenmore section and the Slieverue...
    • Bus Services
      474. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position regarding wheelchair accessibility access to all bus services nationally being introduced; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      475. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current wait times for driver tests in Wicklow; the measures he will take to reduce this; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the NTA prior to the renewal of a service contract for a company (details supplied) to discuss performance-related...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      479. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in...
    • Bus Services
      481. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the up-to-date position on the implementation of the changes to be rolled out to the 233 bus service; to detail the route and...
    • Electric Vehicles
      485. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position in providing an increased number of eCar public charging points for the mid-Cork region; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      487. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the absence of reciprocal driving licence agreements between Ireland, America and Canada (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Consumer Protection
      489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the recommendations contained in the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission report “Access to Car...
    • Departmental Data
      490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline data sharing restrictions in respect of statutory authorities under his Department and, in particular, his views on the...
    • Rail Network
      494. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the provision of rail to south-west Dublin and to Poolbeg are a priority for his Department in the context of the national development...
    • Road Projects
      495. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent on road maintenance in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025 by local, regional and national roads, in...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans the NTA has to increase the number of park and ride facilities within Clare. [42800/25]
    • National Transport Authority
      497. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is expected that a new permanent chief executive officer for the National Transport Authority will be appointed. [42801/25]
    • Driver Test
      498. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers who failed to show up for their scheduled driving test appointment in June 2025, by driving test centre;...
    • Legislative Process
      500. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the work that has been carried out to date by his Department and or the Attorney General to bring a consolidated road traffic Bill to...
    • Departmental Regulations
      502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 8 July 2025, the timeframe for his Department to finalise drafting amendments to the...
    • Rail Network
      503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the all-island strategic rail review was considered as part of the NDP review; the details of how its recommendations were considered;...
    • National Development Plan
      504. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the NDP review; the criteria his Department will be using to rank projects in order of priority as part of a pipeline for...
    • EU Regulations
      505. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to ensure compliance with the EU’s TEN-T regulation requiring a mainline rail link to Dublin...
    • Rail Network
      507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the absence of a mainline rail link to Dublin Airport aligns with Ireland's climate and sustainable transport...
    • Aviation Industry
      508. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the work his Department has carried out to ensure Ireland’s aviation sector are meeting the commitments outlined in the Climate...
    • Grant Payments
      509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on an application for a wheelchair accessible grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate an inspection carried out at a testing centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Measures
      511. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date in enacting legislation to regulate horse drawn carriages in Dublin city centre. [42946/25]
    • Bus Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus shelters that have been sanctioned for delivery in Limerick city in 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number installed; the...
    • Driver Test
      513. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that have been taken to address the increasing wait times for driving tests specifically for the centres servicing the...
    • Rail Network
      514. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the capital allocation, costs, and timeline for the implementation of the Poolbeg Luas extension in the context...
    • Departmental Data
      516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the one new actions due and the 13 legacy actions due as outlined in the q1 2025 progress report (details...
    • Bus Services
      517. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the planned Mullingar town bus service. [43017/25]
    • Road Projects
      518. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on all national and regional roads projects as outlined in the 2021-2030 NDP; the breakdown of progress to date; to...
    • Rail Network
      520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on progress to implement the recommendations of the strategic rail review; if any projects have been selected for...
    • Driver Test
      521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a county-by-county breakdown of the average driving test waiting list times; and a centre-by-centre breakdown of the number of...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      522. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to tackle the use of mobile phones while driving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43073/25]
    • Electric Vehicles
      524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that was allocated to the EV grant scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the number of grants that were awarded; the...
    • Active Travel
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to progress active travel both in urban and rural Ireland; his plans for Kerry in particular; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rail Network
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he has had with Irish Rail and the NTA regarding opening up catering services on additional routes; the progress that is...
    • Public Transport
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the roll-out of contactless payments on public transport; when he expects the roll-out to be complete; and if he...
    • Bus Services
      532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the roll-out of the Dublin BusConnects programme; when he expects the remaining five phases of the redesigned...
    • Transport Costs
      534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of public transport passengers who have used the 90-minute fare in the year to date; whether he intends on maintaining the...
    • Public Transport
      535. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drivers across all bus and rail services in Ireland in each of the past five years; the number recruited during the year to...
    • Bus Services
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints received by the NTA regarding delayed, cancelled or ghost buses in each of the past three years; and if he will...
    • Data Protection
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify whether footage captured by road users, including motorists and cyclists, using dash cameras or any similar video recording...
    • Electric Vehicles
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of EV grant funding drawn down, by constituency, in each of the last three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to restrict the use of large SUVs in urban settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43152/25]
    • Electric Vehicles
      546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current percentage of our private car fleet that is electric; the steps he is taking to ensure that 30% of our private car fleet is...
    • Departmental Funding
      547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility, for which...
    • Transport Costs
      549. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Navan is in zone 4 of the Dublin commuter zones, while towns which are a very similar distance from Dublin City Centre, such...
    • Transport Policy
      550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Navan is the only large commuter town with high service numbers to be placed in the outermost Dublin commuter zone; and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a new scheme will be introduced to support persons with a disability to reduce their transports costs, including purchase of...
    • Bus Services
      552. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the upgrading of the N2/A5 route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43235/25]
    • National Development Plan
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the recent publication of the National Development Plan, if he will ensure that additional funding is provided for the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date with a pilot scheme for a subsidised hackney service in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of resit applications for driving tests by month in 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Transport Costs
      558. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to extending the eligibility for the young adult travel card to people aged 26 and 27 in Budget 2026; and...
    • Road Network
      560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to upgrade the access onto the M50 northbound from the M4 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Contracts
      561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Departments expenditure on consultancy; to provide a breakdown of the all consultants engaged by his Department; the dates of their...
    • Departmental Schemes
      563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the successor scheme to the disabled driver and passenger scheme will be introduced; to report on engagement with stakeholders on...
    • Road Projects
      564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether a project (details supplied) will be prioritised or provided with additional funding for development under the updated National...
    • Public Transport
      565. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken under the Transport Access for All Strategy to ensure universal accessibility across all modes of public...
    • Bus Services
      566. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a 90-minute ticket will be rolled out for Limerick buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43400/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's expenditure on IT consultancy; to provide a breakdown of the all IT consultants engaged by his Department, the dates of...
    • Road Safety
      570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on progress made on his Departments work plan for 2025, in conjunction with other agencies and Departments,...
    • Bus Éireann
      571. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the work being done to recruit more bus drivers and mechanics to Bus Éireann; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the work being done to deliver greater public transport systems; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Projects
      573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the N53 project in County Louth; any possible interim plans to ensure safety at the Crossmaglen turnoff...
    • Road Safety
      574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to include traffic calming and speed reduction measures at a School in County Louth (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Vehicle Clamping
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of clamping appeals made to the NTA over the past five years, and what proportion of them have been upheld, rejected, or are...
    • Rail Network
      577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the €2 billion allocation to the MetroLink project announced as part of the new national development...
    • National Car Test
      579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting time for car tests in each of the three test centres, Ennis, Shannon and Kilrush for June 2024 and June 2025, in...
    • Rail Network
      580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to give consideration to a request for lighting at a railway crossing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Éireann
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to reinstate axed rural Bus Éireann routes, in areas such as Waterford, given their role in combating rural...
    • Departmental Staff
      582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43669/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity,...
    • Air Services
      584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider plans for Waterford Airport's runway extension. [43707/25]
    • Rail Network
      585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Metro west plan; whether it remains under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43786/25]
    • Road Projects
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the earliest construction start and end dates regarding the N2 Clontibret-to-the-Border road scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Road Network
      588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the funding provided to Monaghan County Council for road maintenance and improvement in the years 2019 to 2024 and date in...
    • Rail Network
      589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position of the independent expert contract in place to review additional documents released by TII at the MetroLink...
    • Bus Services
      590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus services operated by private providers in Dublin, broken down by local area; the annual cost to the State of these...
    • Public Transport
      591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated completion date for the Luas Finglas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43913/25]
    • Air Navigation Orders
      592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take under the powers granted to him under section 5 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1946 to issue appropriate...
    • Rail Network
      594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the MetroLink project; the most recent cost estimates, construction timeline and consultation milestones relevant...
    • Dublin Bus
      595. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport daily passenger volumes, cancellations, and year-on-year changes for Dublin Bus services on routes in the Dublin...
    • Road Safety
      596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of school zone road safety installations, their coverage and any measured accident reduction impact in the Dublin north-west...
    • Bus Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if design work has begun for BusConnects corridors serving Ballymun, Finglas and Glasnevin; when construction work might commence; and if...
    • National Development Plan
      602. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the national development plan funding of the northern ring road. [44161/25]
    • Bus Éireann
      603. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of meetings he held with Bus Éireann regarding the Cork PSO routes, or in which these routes were discussed, since taking...
    • Rail Network
      604. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the Irish Rail performance statistics, including average delays, punctuality rate and monthly cancellations...
    • Driver Test
      605. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driving test and the number of persons waiting for a theory test in County Cork, by test centre, in...
    • Bus Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated costs of upgrading bus infrastructure in order that buses can accommodate more than one wheelchair at a time. [44338/25]
    • Transport Costs
      609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated costs of abolishing fees for disabled persons’ parking cards. [44340/25]
  • Department of Finance
    • Electric Vehicles
      611. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to increase the supply of second-hand EV cars from neighbouring markets and disincentivising the importation of fossil-fuel cars; and...
    • Departmental Data
      612. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's position regarding Ireland being 14th globally in terms of fossil fuel investment by manager location, alongside economies that have...
    • Tax Data
      613. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of homes for which a vacant homes levy has been applied; and the number of homes for which it has been received. [44158/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      614. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of the help-to-buy scheme for 2025 to 2029; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44302/25]
    • Tax Rebates
      615. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider a proposal (details supplied) and allow for a draught excise rebate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40775/25]
    • Departmental Legal Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Finance the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which external advice was...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      617. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department and agencies under its...
    • Insurance Industry
      618. To ask the Minister for Finance to introduce policy to ensure the reimbursement of persons who had been involved in a road traffic accident and were charged higher insurance premiums while...
    • Tax Reliefs
      619. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made to the Revenue Commissioners under the mortgage interest tax relief scheme for the year 2024, by county; the number of these...
    • Tax Data
      620. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties listed under deferral payments for LPT for 2024, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Schemes
      621. To ask the Minister for Finance the up-to-date position on changes being considered under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme to ensure that the scheme is replaced with a...
    • Tax Data
      623. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected tax revenue to be generated for 2025; the way in which this compares to the previous three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Finance the current level of public debt as a percentage of GDP; the way this has this changed over the past decade; the measures being taken to reduce the fiscal...
    • Insurance Coverage
      627. To ask the Minister for Finance the immediate measures he is taking to ensure that all thatched properties in the State can obtain sufficient insurance; the measures he has taken to work...
    • Grant Payments
      628. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant payments for...
    • Interest Rates
      629. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the growing hardship faced by families in County Mayo and across Ireland whose mortgages have been sold to vulture funds; if he is aware...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      632. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 583 of 29 April 2025, which specific case law he is referring to. [41086/25]
    • Tax Collection
      634. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been collected in the NORA levy, excise duty, carbon tax, and VAT on fuel, in the past ten years, and to date in 2025, in tabular form....
    • Tax Data
      635. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the residential zoned land tax (details supplied). [41169/25]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      637. To ask the Minister for Finance to strongly support the pre-Budget submission by a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41257/25]
    • Tax Collection
      638. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that would be raised in 2026 if a VAT rate of 23% was applied to tuition fees paid to fee charging primary and second level schools; and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      639. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review correspondence (details supplied) to establish if anything can be done to resolve the issue raised; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      642. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to introduce measures to support the Irish wine growing industry including the introduction of a relief from alcohol products tax for sparkling...
    • Departmental Schemes
      644. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of active primary medical certificate appeals in County Monaghan; the current waiting time for an appeal decision; and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government
      645. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to maintain access to cash and support its continued acceptance in our economy; and...
    • Insurance Industry
      651. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure consumers will see a reduction in insurance costs, given costs in the sector continue to rise; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      652. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will he consider an increase to the income thresholds for the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41466/25]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      653. To ask the Minister for Finance if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates; how fees are monitored...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department conducts regular benchmarking, or market testing, to ensure that the rates paid for legal services, solicitors and barristers, represent...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      656. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted any audits or reviews in the past five years on legal fee spend; if so, to publish the findings or summaries of those reviews;...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      657. To ask the Minister for Finance the internal oversight that exists within his Department to monitor the scope, duration, and cost escalation of legal services once engaged; and if he will...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      658. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department makes use of capped fee arrangements, fixed-fee briefs, success-based fee models or other such arrangements in its legal engagements; if...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      660. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being put in place to address the cost of living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41660/25]
    • Tax Exemptions
      661. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing an exemption on zoned land tax for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41676/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      662. To ask the Minister for Finance if there will be a renewal of existing tax reliefs for agriculture, such as stamp duty reliefs for land consolidation and consanguinity; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      663. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of beneficiaries availing of the fishers tax credit allowance; the cost of this allowance per annum; if he plans to increase this allowance given...
    • Tax Exemptions
      664. To ask the Minister for Finance to examine the case of a person (details supplied); if farmers are exempt from the new regulations regarding residential land tax; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      665. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 314 and 315 of 24 June 2025, if he will provide revised answers to those questions in the same manner as he did for...
    • Electric Vehicles
      669. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to insurance for electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Programmes
      670. To ask the Minister for Finance the means by which the delivery of the “Women in Finance” initiative will be delivered; if there is a timeframe for the delivery; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the work carried out by her Department to examine the barriers facing farming women within the taxation system; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Communications
      672. To ask the Minister for Finance if he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42109/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      674. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the help to buy scheme will be extended in Budget 2026 to first-time buyers purchasing second-hand homes, as per the circumstances of a person...
    • Departmental Reviews
      675. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 1 July 2025, if his Department will review a tax system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      677. To ask the Minister for Finance to examine the case of persons (details supplied); to provide some clarity on the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42314/25]
    • Tax Collection
      678. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Apple tax windfall; the amount that has been collected by the State to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42320/25]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      679. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to increase to 40 the number of dog detection teams within the Revenue Commissioners. [42425/25]
    • Tax Data
      680. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to make any changes to the capital acquisitions tax which excludes structures that fall outside the group A category; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      681. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form;...
    • Departmental Data
      682. To ask the Minister for Finance if the €24 million committed by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund for a project (details supplied) has been transferred to the developer to date;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      686. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy claims approved since 1 July 2020, broken down by county, along with the number of applicants associated with these claims; the...
    • Tax Credits
      687. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of rent tax credit claims made in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Industry
      688. To ask the Minister for Finance the commitments the upcoming Action Plan for Insurance Reform will contain to explore new solutions for sectors who still cannot get insurance (details...
    • Tax Reliefs
      689. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider in advance of Budget 2026 raising the maximum tax relief credit on health insurance premiums, presently capped at €200, in view of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      690. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department or any agency operating under the aegis of his department have used reserved contracts or social clauses in their public procurement...
    • Defective Building Materials
      691. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the defective concrete products levy sufficiently addresses industry accountability or contributes meaningfully to redress funding; if...
    • Tax Data
      692. To ask the Minister for Finance to estimate the annual revenue that would be raised by a 5% and 10% levy on net profits of grocery retail chains with revenue in excess of €50 million...
    • Departmental Data
      693. To ask the Minister for Finance the ethical standards and ESG-based risk strategies that are employed by the State’s sovereign wealth funds and the policy of the Government in...
    • Tax Data
      694. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to issues raised in relation to income tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43075/25]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      695. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address an issue (details supplied) in the forthcoming Budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43114/25]
    • Tax Data
      696. To ask the Minister for Finance to introduce the lower VAT rate for the hospitality sector as a matter of extreme urgency, to allow businesses remain viable and competitive, many of whom are...
    • Departmental Funding
      697. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility, for which sporting organisations...
    • Insurance Industry
      700. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an assessment of the State’s ability at attracting more companies offering public liability insurance into the market to ensure savings for...
    • Departmental Data
      701. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide financial details and a timeline on the purchase and sale of Israeli war bonds by ISIF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43443/25]
    • Insurance Industry
      704. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an assessment of the impact of the Duty of Care and PIAB legislation on insurance premiums for customers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Credits
      705. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest figures for the number of people who have availed of the rent tax credit in this tax year, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • British-Irish Co-operation
      706. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s plans to engage with Northern and British authorities on the issues facing cross-Border workers and employers and particularly...
    • Tax Rebates
      709. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first year cost of reversing the carbon tax increase in May from the 1ST of November. [43649/25]
    • Departmental Budgets
      711. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue raise by increased level of capital spending in 2026 announced as part of the National Development Plan. [43651/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      712. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of full time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43659/25]
    • Departmental Policies
      713. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity, autonomy, and crisis...
    • Departmental Data
      715. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the GNI* figures used to underpin the share of GNI* of capital spend for years 2026-2030 in the National Development Plan, in tabular form. [43732/25]
    • Tax Credits
      716. To ask the Minister for Finance the full estimated annual cost of the renters tax credit, and the estimated first-and full-year cost of a €250 increase. [43734/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      717. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first-and full-year cost of moving hospitality to a reduced rate of VAT from the 1 July 2026; and the costs if the measure excluded...
    • Fossil Fuel
      720. To ask the Minister for Finance whether Irish sovereign funds are invested in fossil fuel industries; the steps his Department is taking to ensure Ireland's investments are green...
    • Departmental Data
      721. To ask the Minister for Finance based on current projections and forecasts from his Department and the NTMA, when is it forecast that the debt to GNI* ratio will fall below 60%; what the...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      722. To ask the Minister for Finance what the NTMA’s end of year cash balance was for 2024; what it is currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43800/25]
    • Departmental Data
      723. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the bond redemptions due on Irish national debt for each year from 2025 to 2030; the month when redemptions are due; the interest rate applying to...
    • Tax Data
      726. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected additional corporation tax yield in 2026 from the increase in the rate to 15% under Pillar Two of the OECD BEPs project; the cost of the...
    • Departmental Data
      728. To ask the Minister for Finance the full year cost of extending the reduced VAT rate on electricity and gas bills in 2026, and then the six month cost from January to end of June 2026; and...
    • Tax Data
      731. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of individual taxpayer units that would be impacted by reducing the Standard Fund Threshold from €2 million to €1.5million....
    • Compliance Targets
      733. To ask the Minister for Finance the target level of compliance for each year since 2020 and the outturn. [43855/25]
    • Universal Social Charge
      734. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of removing USC on the first €30,000 earned. [43856/25]
    • Departmental Budgets
      738. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the standard rate band by €100. [43860/25]
    • Tax Credits
      741. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing each tax credit by €100. [43863/25]
    • Local Property Tax
      744. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing local property tax assuming the Exchequer replaces all revenue for local authorities. [43866/25]
    • Tax Data
      748. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing stamp duty for first-time buyers. [43870/25]
    • Tax Credits
      752. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of making the research and development tax credit payable to small and micro companies within 12 months. [43874/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      757. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of restoring the trade union tax relief. [43879/25]
    • Tax Data
      758. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of continuing all farm-related taxes set to expire at the end of 2025 or during 2026; and the cost broken down by each specific tax. [43880/25]
    • Departmental Data
      762. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that Ireland has had invested in companies which derive profit from their activities in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      764. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider discontinuing the pension-annuity levy applied to Aer Lingus pensioners; if he will explore options to reimburse those affected for...
    • Departmental Budgets
      765. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a 10% reduction in alcohol excise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44084/25]
    • Tax Reliefs
      767. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing targeted tax relief or other short-term financial supports for families with very young children, to help bridge the gap...
    • Departmental Meetings
      769. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times his Department officials have met with an organisation (details supplied), or any of the subgroups it represents; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      770. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to introduce a wealth tax; if so, to outline details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44312/25]
    • Departmental Budgets
      771. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual revenue that would be generated through the introduction of a wealth tax levied at 0.5% on assets over €1 million and 1% on assets...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      772. To ask the Minister for Finance given that states generally have access to cheaper finance than the private sector, to outline the differences in financing costs for the delivery of large...
    • Departmental Data
      773. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional Israeli bonds were purchased in 2024 or if the value of the ISIF holding of Israeli bonds increased in 2024 for a different reason such as...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      774. To ask the Minister for Finance in the case of a person who receives a small private pension as well as a government pension which has in recent years risen, if his Department is considering...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Data
      775. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the standard breakdown that is provided every year between "Budgetary Measures" and "To be Allocated" of the Government...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      776. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason there was no mention of the Gaeltacht in the new NDP document; and the steps he will take to remedy the situation. [43740/25]
    • Budget 2026
      778. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the well-being framework will be utilised in formulating key target areas of budget 2026; if consideration is given to how the...
    • Departmental Data
      779. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total annual expenditure on external legal fees by all Government Departments and agencies under their aegis, for each of the past...
    • Departmental Projects
      783. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for the full costs associated with a project (details supplied); to outline full details of all suppliers; the reason no local...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      785. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that have been taken to address flooding in Listowel and Killocrim, to prevent it from taking place this winter; and if he...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      786. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department and...
    • Departmental Data
      787. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific metrics being used to evaluate the success of public service reform initiatives; to provide data available on the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      790. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on works to treat pyrite affecting Shannon Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40961/25]
    • Grant Payments
      791. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of...
    • Office of Public Works
      792. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an OPW drain traversing a person’s land (details supplied) will be cleaned; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Inquiries
      793. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to strongly support the pre-budget submission by a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41258/25]
    • Departmental Budgets
      794. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of rolling out sun cream dispensers across all OPW parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41274/25]
    • National Development Plan
      795. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to prioritise an early review of the national development plan;...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      796. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates;...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      797. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department conducts regular benchmarking, or market testing, to ensure that the rates paid for legal services, solicitors and...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      802. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether any legal engagements have exceeded their initial estimated or approved cost in the past three years; if so, the number of such...
    • Heritage Sites
      803. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on any works or proposals to open Saint Laurence's Gate, Drogheda to the public, and on improving the surrounding public...
    • Departmental Policies
      804. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has a policy on alarm installation engineer codes and the procedure that follows if an alarm company goes out of...
    • Ionaid Oidhreachta
      805. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform céard iad na socruithe atá déanta chun a chinntiú go bhfuil seirbhís lónadóireachta...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      806. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42107/25]
    • Departmental Communications
      807. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has any messaging provider downloaded on his Ministerial phone; the details of any provider downloaded; and if he will make a...
    • Civil Service
      808. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the procedure for filling Civil Service positions; if that public panels and internal mobility panels are...
    • Heritage Sites
      809. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide data on the number of cultural heritage sites supported by the Government, and the funding allocated to their preservation...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      810. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the purpose of the new netting on parts of the roof of the National Gallery; the cost of the netting; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      811. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Apple tax windfall; what has the money been used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42320/25]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      814. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures being considered due to climate change issues with particular reference to flooding preventions and land drainage...
    • Insurance Coverage
      815. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position of the memorandum of understanding between the representative body for insurance companies in Ireland, Insurance Ireland...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      816. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions his Department has taken to promote the use of reserved contracts or social clauses in public procurement; the data they...
    • National Development Plan
      818. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has identified any infrastructure projects in north Kildare as part of the National Development Plan review 2025; and...
    • Departmental Data
      819. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons currently on a panel arising from the most recent assistant principal officer recruitment campaign across civil...
    • Departmental Reviews
      820. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the analysis his Department has completed on the recovery and rebuilding costs in the event of potential major coastal flood events in...
    • Departmental Data
      821. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the four legacy actions due as outlined in the Q1 2025 progress report (details supplied); to outline which...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      822. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the capital funding programmes or grants for which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility for...
    • Departmental Staff
      824. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of staff seconded from State or semi-State bodies as part of the NDP review; if these staff will remain seconded;...
    • Office of Public Works
      825. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail all the OPW-owned sites in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43502/25]
    • Flood Risk Management
      826. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail each allocation made to Louth County Council under the OPW’s minor flood mitigation works and coastal...
    • Pension Provisions
      828. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the interdepartmental working group looking at the procedures for qualifying for the payment of an occupational...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      829. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is examining the pension abatement issue, and considering exceptions for those who are carrying out critical work; and...
    • National Development Plan
      831. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plan for the management of the NDP roll-out, and breaking into project financing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Projects
      833. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific terms under which the National Concert Hall site was allocated for the National Children’s Science Museum project;...
    • Departmental Funding
      835. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are concerns regarding state aid rules relating to the National Children’s Science Museum project as a similar museum,...
    • National Development Plan
      836. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason there is no specific allocation in the national development plan for the Gaeltacht; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      837. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43665/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      838. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Summer Economic Statement
      839. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Summer Economic Statement does not include Budget projections for the cost of maintaining existing levels of service in...
    • Departmental Data
      842. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the revenue arising from the Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, judgment on the Apple case has been deployed in the review...
    • Departmental Projects
      843. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the redevelopment of the GPO Arcade will include public-use elements funded under the capital plan at the discretion of his...
    • National Development Plan
      844. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason Cork is only referenced twice in the national development plan; and the Cork-specific projects that will be progressed and...
    • Departmental Strategies
      845. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps his Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the operation of...
    • Departmental Data
      847. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a list of units in his Department and the budget, including staffing budget for each. [44324/25]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      848. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration will be given to acquiring a lease (details supplied) in order to reunite the lands of Castletown House; and if he will...
    • Departmental Strategies
      849. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efforts that were made to keep a café in Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsaigh, Ros Muc; the plans to ensure a café can be...
    • Departmental Projects
      850. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for works on Gorey Garda station as discussed with the Minister on his visit on 19 May; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Inquiries
      851. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans to introduce a right to repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43251/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      852. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the proposed marine tourism strategy; whether stakeholder consultation has commenced with coastal communities and...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      853. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he is supportive of the Wild Atlantic EuroPride bid, which seeks to make counties Limerick and Clare the hosts of EuroPride...
    • Departmental Data
      854. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total annual funding received by local enterprise offices in each local authority area in each of the past five years, in tabular...
    • Departmental Strategies
      855. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department is taking to create jobs in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40735/25]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      856. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the plans for Ireland to hold an international summit on artificial intelligence in 2025; and if he will make a statement...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      857. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made on the creation of an artificial intelligence observatory to monitor the development and impact of AI and provide...
    • Departmental Data
      858. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the net number of jobs provided, by each local enterprise office, in each local authority area in each of the years 2015 to 2024...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      859. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of the reasons for the refusal of employment permits during 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      860. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government has had any discussions regarding the development of a sovereign artificial intelligence system; and if he will...
    • Regional Development
      861. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of IDA visits, the total number of IDA-supported companies and the total number of employees in those IDA-supported...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      862. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      863. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department...
    • Departmental Funding
      864. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific supports or funding that will be provided to Killarney Innovation Centre’s expansion to accommodate up to 100...
    • Tourism Schemes
      866. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the new Fáilte Ireland destination experience development plan for County Wexford makes minimal reference to Gorey...
    • Tourism Funding
      867. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the supports that have been provided by his Department, by Fáilte Ireland or by any other Government agency to...
    • Tourism Promotion
      868. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment regarding the development of tourism promotion plans for the Normandy celebrations in 2027, the role that is envisioned for Ferns,...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      869. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide detailed information on the smart regions enterprise innovation scheme, launched on 13 October 2023; the number of...
    • Trade Data
      873. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of exports to the US by Enterprise Ireland-backed companies in 2024; the expected level of exports to the US by Enterprise...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      874. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to develop a code of practice to support the hiring of...
    • Co-operative Sector
      875. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to bring forward an updated legal framework for the...
    • Economic Growth
      876. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to consider the development of economic strategic...
    • Business Supports
      877. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to set up a cost of business advisory forum; and if he will...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      878. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to conduct a comprehensive review to assess the cost...
    • Regional Development
      879. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to work with IDA Ireland to target at least half of IDA...
    • Consumer Protection
      880. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the programme for Government commitment to ensure that legislation and guidelines regarding the...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      881. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to continue to ensure employers make reasonable...
    • Work Permits
      882. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current number of work permits allocated for motor-auto mechanics; the number therein of the car mechanic quota and of the...
    • Grant Payments
      883. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of...
    • Departmental Funding
      884. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to explain how funding for Microfinance Ireland is accounted for in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025, given that only...
    • Health and Safety
      885. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is any current legislation governing the operation of nail salons, including qualifications and hygiene regulations; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      886. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to name all of the IDA client companies with operations in Drogheda, County Louth and in Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a...
    • Redundancy Payments
      890. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the €600 per week cap on statutory redundancy payments has not been reviewed and revised upwards in 20 years; if he...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      891. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates;...
    • Work Permits
      898. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits given out by country of origin and by sector every year since 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Consumer Rights
      899. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm that there are two-year warranties on electrical products on the European continent compared with one-year warranties here...
    • EU Regulations
      900. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a new EU Delegated Act (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1222) that classifies nitrous oxide as harmful to...
    • Tourism Industry
      901. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE staff by job title and gender working in each Department within Fáilte Ireland as of 21 July 2025, in tabular...
    • Enterprise Policy
      902. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the work carried out by his Department to support the “Action Plan for Women in Business”, drawn up by...
    • Work Permits
      904. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a decision will be made in relation to a review of a work permit for a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a...
    • Industrial Development
      905. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures being taken to address the lack of development at a campus (details supplied) considering that the contractor is now in...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      906. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42150/25]
    • Export Controls
      908. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of dual-use export licences granted by Ireland for exports destined for the State of Israel in each of the years 2018 to...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      909. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in view of recent incidents of AI chatbots producing and posting racist and antisemitic content, the steps he is taking to ensure...
    • Industrial Development
      910. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the IDA office in Taiwan will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42305/25]
    • Job Losses
      911. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he is taking to address concerns related to the potential loss of jobs in the delivery sector due to the progression of...
    • Employment Rights
      912. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reviews and inspections that have been carried out in relation to employment practices in the English language teaching sector in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      913. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the impact of dynamic pricing practices in the sale of tickets to cultural, entertainment, recreational and sporting...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      914. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide data on foreign direct investment inflows over the past five years including the sectors that have attracted the most...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      915. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current level of assistance and courses available to SMEs in the area of securing public sector procurement contracts; and if he...
    • Climate Change Policy
      916. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures being taken in 2025 to identify key sectors that will require additional State supports to successfully transition to...
    • Exports Growth
      917. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of exports by Enterprise Ireland backed companies for the years 2023 and 2024; the expected level of these types of exports...
    • Tourism Promotion
      918. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider a stand-alone tourism promotion campaign for The Gearagh, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tourism Industry
      920. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the statistics on employment rates in the tourism sector for the past three years; the breakdown by region and by type of employment...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      922. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date...
    • Workplace Discrimination
      924. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports in place to ensure that working mothers are not disproportionately penalised in terms of promotion and pay; and if he...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      925. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to state whether his Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts or...
    • Trade Agreements
      926. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how the Government is preparing for the potential negative economic impact arising from US trade policy; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      928. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the National Standards Authority of Ireland provide certification for modular home extensions or garden log cabins; and if he will...
    • Work Permits
      929. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people in the State on work permits who were paid the minimum wage or less; the number that were paid between the...
    • Gender Balance
      930. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the means by which the delivery of the “Balance for Better Business” initiative will be delivered; if there is a...
    • Climate Action Plan
      931. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the two legacy actions due as outlined in the Q1 2025 progress report (details supplied); to outline which...
    • Work Permits
      932. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people currently holding employment permits under each category for which an employment permit is issued in each of the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      933. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility, for...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      935. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details and dates of any correspondence raising issues in relation to workplace culture, dismissals, expenses or financial...
    • Departmental Data
      936. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what the full complement of staff at the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland should be at present; and the number of vacancies....
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      938. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases involving the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland currently before the Workplace Relations Commission, or which...
    • Departmental Schemes
      939. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the €250 million seed and venture capital scheme led by Enterprise Ireland; the intended timeline for...
    • Departmental Strategies
      940. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to publish the proposed national life sciences strategy; whether it will include actions on workforce planning,...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      941. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made in establishing the new small business unit within his Department; the anticipated functions and staffing level of...
    • Enterprise Policy
      942. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date on developing strategic development zones to support regional enterprise and investment; and if he will make a...
    • Crime Prevention
      943. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether additional steps are planned to tackle rising levels of retail crime, as outlined in the programme for Government, including...
    • Departmental Funding
      944. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the expected timeline for launching further calls under the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund; and whether future calls will...
    • Enterprise Policy
      945. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the updated Enterprise 2035 strategy will be published; whether it will contain sector-specific targets for indigenous exports;...
    • Labour Market
      946. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for each of the past five years, the number of employers who undertook a Labour Market Needs Test to see if there was anyone in the...
    • Work Permits
      947. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the review of the critical skills occupations list and the ineligible occupations list will take into consideration issues related...
    • Industrial Development
      949. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the work of the IDA in County Louth in the past 12 months, including the work done to try to prevent job...
    • Economic Data
      950. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an assessment of his Department’s view of the state of the following sectors in the economy: pharma, technology and...
    • Enterprise Policy
      951. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the work being done by his Department, in conjunction with other Government Departments, on the development of an...
    • Tourism Promotion
      952. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the work his Department has done to increase cross-Border tourism; if any work is underway to market the Newry, Mourne,...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      953. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the work being done by his Department and any engagement with other Departments and Government agencies to address...
    • Health Promotion
      955. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the data available and its sources to support the case that alcohol labelling will economically damage the drinks sector in Ireland;...
    • Employment Data
      956. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of full time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43658/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      957. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Tourist Accommodation
      958. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the introduction of Fáilte Ireland's short-term letting register; to outline the enforcement measures...
    • Employment Rights
      959. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on plans to deliver collective bargaining legislation for Irish workers, as per the recommendations of the Irish...
    • Employment Data
      961. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full-year cost of introducing two new bank holidays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43727/25]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      962. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the exploratory work carried out by his Department in respect of introducing a four-day working week; if he plans to meet with an...
    • Legislative Measures
      963. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work being carried out to progress the Co-Operative Societies Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43729/25]
    • Co-operative Sector
      964. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports being put in place to support the formation of community-led co-operatives; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Oireachtas Committees
      965. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline his Department's position on the Oireachtas joint committee on enterprise report on the EU Omnibus proposal; if the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      966. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in the context of proposals for an AI observatory and the clear impact of AI on the employment market demonstrated in independent...
    • Tax Code
      967. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he has done any independent research or assessment on the impact of the 9% VAT for hospitality on the retention of jobs and...
    • Employment Rights
      968. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to address the lack of collective bargaining agreements or collective bargaining coverage in the hospitality...
    • Tax Code
      970. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employees employed in sectors that would benefit from a reduction in VAT to 9%, by county, in tabular form; and if he...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      971. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the reopening of the second autism class in a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      972. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport can be provided to a child (details supplied) in view of their need for same on medical grounds; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff who work in early intervention classes across the State. [40741/25]
    • Education Schemes
      975. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first- and full-year cost of expanding the home school community liaison scheme by 5%, up to a maximum of 40%, in DEIS urban band...
    • School Transport
      977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants for the school transport scheme in 2024. [40745/25]
    • School Facilities
      981. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS plus schools. [40749/25]
    • School Staff
      986. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of re-introducing the allowance at the same rate for teachers teaching in Irish in Irish medium education...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      987. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of additional NEPS educational psychologists needed for 2025-2026 to keep pace with public need. [40755/25]
    • School Admissions
      989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to ensure there is an appropriate school place for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SNA provision for the 2025-2026 academic year will be increased based on the submission made by a school (details supplied), and the SENO....
    • Education Schemes
      991. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a remote area grant payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40782/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      992. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the construction of a school (details supplied); and the projected timelines for completion. [40791/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      997. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the opening of a special class at a school (details supplied). [40816/25]
    • Departmental Legal Services
      1001. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by her Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1002. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No.376 of 24 June 2025, if a response will issued from the SEC. [40866/25]
    • School Transport
      1004. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the terms and conditions for school transport escorts; when the terms and conditions, including pay levels were last reviewed; and if...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1006. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for expansion on the Safe Routes to School Programme; her engagement to date with the National Transport Authority on reopening this programme...
    • School Staff
      1007. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary school teachers currently employed in public schools in Ireland, by region, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1008. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to special education services over the past three years; the number of students served and the type of support provided,...
    • Early School Leavers
      1009. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students per year dropping out from post-primary education over the past decade, including demographic factors such as age,...
    • Departmental Data
      1010. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students participating in extracurricular activities in schools, including a breakdown by type of activity and student...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1011. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the implementation of the Digital Strategy for Schools; the number of schools equipped with digital technology and training...
    • Education Standards
      1012. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the results of recent assessments on literacy and numeracy among primary school students, including comparisons to previous years and targeted...
    • School Enrolments
      1013. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools in Cork city and county currently operating above enrolment capacity; the projected demand for...
    • Departmental Data
      1014. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts that remain unfilled in Cork primary and post-primary schools in the 2024-2025 school year, by subject and school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1015. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education teachers and special needs assistants assigned to schools, both primary and post-primary, in Cork since 2021; if...
    • School Funding
      1017. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for additional funding or supports to schools in Cork city and county to help manage increased running costs; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1018. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNA’s who do not have permanent contracts will be entitled to utilise the redeployment scheme her Department is establishing; if not,...
    • Traveller Education
      1019. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school exists exclusively for the Traveller community (details supplied); under what grounds is it designated as a special school;...
    • State Examinations
      1020. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider raising the percentage weight of the Leaving Certificate oral exam to 50% rather than decreasing it to 35%, to incentivise...
    • Education Standards
      1021. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no compulsory standardised test for Irish in T2 primary schools, as currently there is no national baseline for pupils in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1022. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether additional special education teaching hours will be provided for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a tender report for a school (details supplied) that applied for planning for new school building; and the next steps that are...
    • State Examinations
      1024. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any additional avenues of support available for students with a diagnosis of dyslexia when undertaking second-level examinations...
    • Grant Payments
      1025. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the timeframe for commencement of a new school building (details supplied). [41076/25]
    • Education Policy
      1027. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the FASD Ireland pilot project in secondary schools in County Clare; and if she would expand this pilot project elsewhere....
    • State Claims Agency
      1030. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the costs incurred annually from 2000 to date to the State in legal fees and associated fees, in respect of all legal...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1031. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how survivors who were not part of the scoping inquiry can engage with the Commission of Investigation into the Handling of Historical Child...
    • School Curriculum
      1032. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider an update to the leaving certificate Portuguese curriculum and examination to facilitate Brazilian students who speak a...
    • Education Policy
      1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allocate sufficient funding to fully implement the national therapy service in mainstream education settings; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Administration
      1035. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarification regarding a school lease recoupment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41196/25]
    • Education Costs
      1036. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make the State's education system truly free by removing costs and charges to families; remove mock exam and correction fees;...
    • Education Policy
      1037. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she supports the concept that every school should become a school of sanctuary; and her views on the role of schools as champions of...
    • School Patronage
      1038. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans for a school to become co-educational (details supplied) considering that other schools in its catchment are...
    • School Transport
      1039. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for SEN transport by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41260/25]
    • School Admissions
      1040. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41298/25]
    • School Transport
      1041. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to amending a school bus route to accommodate a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1042. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently review the eligibility of a school (details supplied) for DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41322/25]
    • School Funding
      1043. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the points made in correspondence (details supplied) regarding school funding; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1044. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to schools in Kerry that wish to partially integrate children with ASD into mainstream classes; and if an increase to...
    • School Staff
      1046. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to address the increasing number of staff injuries reported in autism classes in schools in Kerry, including assaults such as...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1047. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to expanding the number of early intervention classes in Kerry, where access remains limited despite increased demand from...
    • School Staff
      1048. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the difficulties faced by schools in Kerry in recruiting and retaining bus escorts for children with additional needs; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be allocated to help key workers in Kerry better support children transitioning between primary and secondary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1050. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of the distribution of the 1,600 new special needs assistant posts for new special classes, new special schools, and existing...
    • School Transport
      1051. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student will be entitled to school transport under the transport scheme if their home address is 4.8 km from their school; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1053. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if alternative school places have been sought for children who were offered autism class placements at a school (details supplied) and now have...
    • School Admissions
      1054. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if support will be provided to a parent trying to find a school place for their 16-year-old child (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Enrolments
      1055. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Meath still without an appropriate school place for September; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current average class size, that is, pupil-to-teacher ratio, in primary and post-primary schools in County Meath; the corresponding figures...
    • School Transport
      1058. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport allocations in County Meath for September 2025; the number of pupils approved for school buses; the number of...
    • School Enrolments
      1059. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently still without a school place for September; the number of children waiting for autism classes with no other...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1060. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will explore the possibility of loaning or purchasing land from South Dublin County Council to provide space for a required...
    • School Funding
      1068. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount her Department spent on interpretation services in schools and or any educational facilities over the past ten years, broken down by...
    • School Curriculum
      1069. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children requiring EAL supports per annum, since 2015, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41645/25]
    • School Staff
      1070. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to sanction a home school liaison officer for a primary school in County Clare (details supplied) which has an...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1071. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the planning permission submissions for two post primary schools in Cherrywood; the status of each application including...
    • School Staff
      1072. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards that are in place to ensure that redeployment does not result in SNAs repeatedly being treated as the “last in” in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1077. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding pupils with a diagnosis of autism who have been granted additional supports in schools, the interim measures her Department will...
    • School Discipline
      1078. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school suspensions and expulsions for the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41723/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1079. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with additional needs who are on short school days this year, and for the past five years; and if she will make a...
    • School Textbooks
      1082. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full details in relation to the free schoolbooks scheme at both primary and secondary school levels, by all items covered and the items not...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1083. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); when the project will move to construction stage; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1093. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 461, 462 and 463 of 15 July 2025, if she will acknowledge that the new circular facilitating admissions...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      1094. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mental health professionals currently working directly in post-primary schools; if her Department has costed the expansion of in...
    • School Curriculum
      1095. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current budget allocation for school-based mental health initiatives, including the Junior Cycle wellbeing programme, SPHE, and so on. [41786/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1096. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41815/25]
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1097. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Teaching Council will not fully recognise a special education masters as an appropriate qualification for a special education...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1098. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a child (details supplied); if she will set out the supports that will be made available to the child and the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects construction works in a school (details supplied) to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      1102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for delays to review of SNA allocation at a school (details supplied), where parents are concerned that there are not enough...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the personal emails used for her Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42138/25]
    • Youth Services
      1105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider an approach of multi-annual funding commitment for the youth work sector to allow for more sustainable planning; and if she...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal costs incurred on Tusla from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42186/25]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider including corporal punishment and physical abuse post-1982 in the new commission of investigation; and if she will make a...
    • School Enrolments
      1108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if enrolment increases over the summer months, if a school (details supplied) will be entitled to keep its current staffing levels given it is...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reducing the pupil-teacher ratio for Gaelscoileanna; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42215/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who will be seeking secondary level special education provision in the east-central, Cork network in September 2025; and...
    • Irish Language
      1113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the number of students enrolled in Irish-medium schools, broken down by school, primary and secondary level, local authority area,...
    • School Transport
      1114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications submitted for school transport to two schools in County Sligo (details supplied) for the 2025/2026 school year; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to a matter raised in correspondence by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      1116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school extension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42399/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite the expansion of the provision of special classes in mainstream post-primary schools for students with mild intellectual...
    • School Enrolments
      1121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Greystones is one of the areas to be included in the pilot common application system for the 2025-2026 admissions process; if not, if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider the development of a post-primary school in Newtownmountkennedy as a result of the rapidly increasing...
    • School Transport
      1124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the €50 primary school and €75 post-primary school annual school transport fee to other public...
    • Departmental Transport
      1125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by her Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
    • School Enrolments
      1126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for when a common enrolment policy will be in place for post-primary schools in Greystones, County Wicklow; and if she will make a...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, primary and secondary schools, respectively, that require students to have an...
    • School Staff
      1129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers working in the State across both primary and secondary schools. [42506/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost of providing a nurture room in a school. [42509/25]
    • School Funding
      1137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to special education from 2020 to date in 2025. [42514/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she has taken to ensure that there will be an appropriate special class for a group of students (details supplied) in the Dún...
    • School Transport
      1141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest update on allowing those over 70 years of age drive a school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42555/25]
    • School Textbooks
      1143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the free schoolbook scheme for students in Junior Cycle years; if consideration has been given to including private...
    • School Uniforms
      1145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is conscious of the need to assist parents with the cost of school uniforms; if a Departmental missive could be considered to encourage...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action taken to reduce class sizes and the pupil teacher ratio at primary school level since 2020; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action taken to improve financial supports for primary schools since 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42716/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action taken to improve the pay and working conditions and opportunities for career development for primary school teachers since 2020; and...
    • School Textbooks
      1153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who will benefit from the free schoolbooks scheme at primary level for the 2025-2026 academic year, by local authority...
    • Departmental Data
      1155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian pupils enrolled in Irish schools at primary level; the number enrolled at post-primary level, by county as of June 30...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building projects that have been completed, by county, in tabular form since 2020; the funding allocated for same, by...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 12 June 2025, if she will consider pausing the redesignation of mild general learning disability...
    • Departmental Data
      1159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school teachers in full-time employment as a proportion of overall participation; the number in part-time employment; the...
    • School Staff
      1160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department could provide additional detail as to the reason the teacher allocation has resulted in the merger of four 3rd class groups...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed building works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42795/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department or any agency operating under the aegis of her Department, have used reserved contracts or social clauses in their public...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently intervene to resolve the situation at school (details supplied), where an approved ASD class has been supressed; the steps...
    • School Facilities
      1166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position in relation to the progress in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42905/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding the progress of the building of a school at a location; when it is expected to be completed (details...
    • School Accommodation
      1168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reconsider an application for additional school accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      1169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42917/25]
    • School Enrolments
      1170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department’s planning unit has assessed the need for additional primary school places in Kildare town; her plans to meet the...
    • Departmental Data
      1171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Youth Services
      1173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the analysis her Department or the Department previously with responsibility for youth, has done on the viability of integrated youth hubs as a...
    • National Development Plan
      1174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital allocations her Department has planned in the Dublin Bay South constituency as part of the updated National Development Plan. [42974/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently intervene to resolve the situation at a school (details supplied) where an approved ASD class has been supressed, resulting...
    • School Accommodation
      1176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on an application made by a school (details supplied) under the additional accommodation scheme for two modular classrooms...
    • School Transport
      1178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus tickets can be awarded to persons (details supplied). [43019/25]
    • School Funding
      1180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first- and full-year cost of increasing capitation rates for primary and post-primary school pupils, respectively, by an...
    • Departmental Data
      1181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing a €100 allowance towards iPads for students in secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      1182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding provided by her Department for trauma informed practice training for teachers carried out by the National Educational...
    • Departmental Data
      1183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of nurture groups in schools across the State, broken down by primary and post-primary school level, in tabular form. [43024/25]
    • School Funding
      1184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the maximum amount of capital funding available for schools who wish to re-configure existing spaces within the school building to accommodate...
    • Irish Language
      1185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allowance that was available for teachers who taught in Irish in Irish-medium schools before it was abolished; the estimated cost of...
    • Departmental Funding
      1188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to the climate action summer works scheme in 2026 and beyond, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      1189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of carrying out a review in her Department, for example, a review of the Professional Master of Education; and if she will...
    • School Funding
      1191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated for improving safety in school science; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43032/25]
    • Education Schemes
      1192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated for the Deis Plus programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43033/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to Traveller/Roma/Refugee capitation supports in primary and post-primary schools respectively, in tabular form....
    • Special Educational Needs
      1196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position in providing additional SNA posts for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43037/25]
    • National Council for Special Education
      1197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times the NCSE has directed a school to enrol a particular child or young person with special educational needs under section 67...
    • School Transport
      1199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure school bus tickets are awarded to a family (details supplied). [43070/25]
    • School Accommodation
      1200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for capital funding under the additional school accommodation scheme for a post primary school (details...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the Programme for Government commits to reducing the pupil-teacher ratio to 19:1, and the current pupil-teacher ratio stands at 23:1, when...
    • Departmental Circulars
      1202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will commit to communicating important circulars to school principals during school term time and not during holiday periods;...
    • School Funding
      1204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will commit to a guaranteed grant schedule given that schools have been requested to submit a three-year budget to the FSSU...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to sanction more early intervention classes in Kerry; the number that will be available in 2026; the number of places...
    • Departmental Funding
      1206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which her Department or any body under her aegis has responsibility, for which sporting...
    • School Transport
      1208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the rollout of the school transport scheme. [43202/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special needs assistants and special education teachers employed by her Department for the academic year 2024-2025; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports being put in place to support student mental health and wellbeing including access to counselling and mental health...
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      1211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the review of the Anti-Bullying Action Plan; the new measures that are being introduced to address online and in-school...
    • School Curriculum
      1212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in reforming the senior cycle curriculum; the subjects being prioritised for modernisation; how student, parent-guardian and...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for achieving the Programme for Government commitment to reduce primary school class sizes to the EU average; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed new National Youth Strategy; and the supports being prioritised for early intervention, mental health, and youth...
    • Child Abuse
      1215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding a redress scheme for victims of historical child sexual abuse in primary and secondary schools (details supplied). [43403/25]
    • Education Policy
      1216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her policy for improving accessibility to co-educational schools at primary level; the percentage of new schools sanctioned that are...
    • Youth Work Projects
      1217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans in her Department, including Budget 26 plans, for an assessment of the funding of youthwork services in the State; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans and timelines for the expansion of the school inclusion model and school based therapies for special schools, for autism classes and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to streamline the school building programme application model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43427/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to provide additional autism units at primary and secondary schools in County Louth for the September 2025 intake of...
    • School Transport
      1225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to update the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43431/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to update the educational system at primary and secondary level to cater for students with mild learning disabilities; and if she will...
    • Youth Work Supports
      1228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans, including budget 2026, for an assessment of the funding of youth work services in the State; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      1229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the major project for a school (details supplied); when works will commence and be completed; the reason for the continued...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the major project for a junior and national school (details supplied); and a timeframe for the project’s completion....
    • School Transport
      1232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that school transport tickets are issued to persons (details supplied). [43642/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of additional investment in special education arising from the national development plan; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school will be included in a programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43644/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full time equivalents directly employed by her Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43657/25]
    • Departmental Policies
      1236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD places that will be available in schools, both primary and post-primary, in the Dublin south-west area for the 2025-2026...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the new build for the Irish-medium secondary school in Waterford city. [43704/25]
    • School Staff
      1240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to address the shortage of qualified Irish-language teachers affecting Gaeltacht and Irish language schools. [43705/25]
    • School Funding
      1241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding stream available to a school (details supplied) to apply to extend a sports hall given that they are ineligible under additional...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of the ADAPT programme of school building project delivery for a school (details supplied), the number of third-party contracts...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests received by the NCSE and-or her Department for additional SNA and SET posts; the number of posts that were requested; the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the establishment of a new DEIS Plus scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43781/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who sat the Leaving Certificate in politics and society in Dublin North-West, by year and, by school, in tabular form;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in advancing a project (details supplied); when this proposal will advance to the next stage; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special educational accommodations, such as rest facilities, flexible scheduling or assisted learning support that have been implemented in...
    • School Admissions
      1256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children, by county who are without a school place for September as of 24 July 2025. [43838/25]
    • School Textbooks
      1257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated in 2025 to continue the implementation of the schoolbooks scheme at primary level; the total grant per pupil in...
    • School Curriculum
      1258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether he would be supportive of including Gaelic games on the primary school curriculum in order to give each child a chance to access and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on all school building projects in the Dublin North-West constituency, broken down by category (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Data
      1261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of all primary schools in each of Dublin 1, Dublin 3, Dublin 5, Dublin 7, Dublin 9 and Dublin 11, the total number of students in...
    • School Staff
      1263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address teacher recruitment shortages in Dublin; if her Department is engaging with the Department of Housing in respect of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the national- and local-level coordination between core services to children attending special schools; the efforts being made to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans, if any, to roll out the in-school national therapy service to all schools; her plans in respect of coordination of the...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na moltaí, má tá aon mholtaí ann, chun Gaelscoil nó Gaelscoileanna eile a bhunú i gContae an...
    • School Transport
      1268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the review of the school transport scheme in 2024, and the opportunity provided to bring forward pilot routes, if she will prioritise...
    • School Admissions
      1270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school place for a pupil (details supplied). [43986/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional ASD class places allocated at both primary and post primary in Dublin 9 and 11 in 2025; and when they will be...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the new education campus in Whitehall, Dublin 9 including four schools; and the timeline for construction and...
    • School Accommodation
      1274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when temporary accommodation will be provided to meet growing demand in Glasnevin post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      1275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the list of Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 schools awaiting major works approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she is addressing teacher shortages in DEIS secondary schools in Ballymun and Finglas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44007/25]
    • School Enrolments
      1277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post-primary school places projected to be needed in Dublin 11 by 2027; and whether current school building plans are sufficient...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the number of school SEN places sanctioned earlier in 2025; and the date when they will be operational. [44060/25]
    • School Admissions
      1280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a suitable school placement for a child (details supplied) for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      1281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to pupils (details supplied); whether capacity will be increased to accommodate them; and if she will make...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      1283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil aon mholtaí ann chun níos mó béime a chur ar mhúineadh na Gaeilge i mbunscoileanna; an bhfuil aon...
    • School Admissions
      1284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children at primary and secondary level without a school place for September 2025 in Cork, in tabular form. [44150/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the timeline for the opening of a new special school in Carraig na bFhearr. [44152/25]
    • School Transport
      1288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who applied for a concessionary ticket for school transport in Cork; and the number who received such a ticket; in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeline for the delivery of a permanent building for a new secondary school serving the Dublin 9 area; and the current pupil...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS primary and post primary schools currently in the State, in tabular form. [44212/25]
    • School Staff
      1300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional home school completion officer to a DEIS school. [44216/25]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS schools that currently do not have a HSCL officer or do not have sufficient HSCL officers. [44217/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding amount provided to special schools which cater for children with MGLD and other learning disabilities. [44218/25]
    • Departmental Policies
      1303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the operation of her...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, median, maximum and minimum primary school class sizes for the Cork City and Cork County Council area from 2019 to date in 2025, in...
    • National Council for Special Education
      1306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals to the NCSE, by county; and the number of successful appeals over each of the past five years [44253/25]
    • School Facilities
      1307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to discuss the need to provide additional funding for sports halls in schools. [44254/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to discuss the recent changes to the allocation model for special education. [44255/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied). [44279/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 15 July 2025, her Department's precise rationale for requiring DLD/SSD of an unknown origin for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeline for the delivery of a permanent building for the new secondary school serving the Dublin 9 area on the Swords Road campus;...
    • School Enrolments
      1312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of children waiting on a school place in north Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44356/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with additional needs that are currently waiting on a school place for September; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      1315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the proposed changes to the school transport scheme are in place and ready for implementation for the 2025-2026 school year. [44391/25]
    • School Enrolments
      1316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of children waiting on a school place in south Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44411/25]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Artists' Remuneration
      1317. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of initial applicants for the basic income for artists payment; the number of initial applicants rejected...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1318. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proportion of the country and the percentage of the population that now have 5G mobile coverage; and if he will...
    • Telecommunications Services
      1320. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the direct Oireachtas helpline for the Commission for Communications Regulation. [40820/25]
    • Departmental Legal Services
      1321. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal...
    • Business Supports
      1323. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the achievements of the State-backed National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) programme in supporting...
    • Departmental Data
      1324. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the data his Department holds on the digital divide in Ireland, including access to high-speed internet across...
    • Sports Organisations
      1325. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any grant supports within his Department that would apply to an organisation (details supplied) which...
    • Grant Payments
      1326. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the...
    • Arts Funding
      1327. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding options available to a theatre company during the remainder of 2025 (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Sports Funding
      1328. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to establish a large scale sports infrastructure fund grant scheme; to open a round in 2025 and-or 2026; and...
    • Emergency Planning
      1329. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 8 May 2025 and No. 357 of 27 May 2025, if it is the intention of the...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      1330. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider expanding the basic income for artists scheme to all artists, and not confine it to those who have...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1331. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 9 July 2025, if the CSSO will confirm to the club concerned that they have...
    • Telecommunications Services
      1339. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a broadband connection will be restored for a person (details supplied); the reason for this disconnection; and...
    • Sports Funding
      1340. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding that was last awarded by his Department to support female sports at both national and local...
    • Telecommunications Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the messaging provider downloaded on his Ministerial phone; the details of any provider downloaded; and...
    • Sports Funding
      1344. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Wicklow County Council was not successful in their funding application under the LSSIF to develop a...
    • Sports Organisations
      1345. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if specific funding can be provided for sporting bodies or organisations registered with Sports Ireland to assist...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1348. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the roll out of fibre broadband under National Broadband Ireland for the mid-Cork region; the...
    • Culture Policy
      1349. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline his plans for the expansion of the night-time economy action plan outside of Cork city, to include rural...
    • Departmental Data
      1350. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide data on public participation in arts and cultural events over the past three years, detailing the number of...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1352. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to address the significant shortage of swimming instructors nationally to meet the demand...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      1353. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the research being carried out on the basic income for arts pilot scheme; whether a permanent form of...
    • Arts Council
      1355. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how a US-based performance group, which is looking to perform their show in Ireland, may engage with the Arts Council;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1356. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when funding will be approved for a small-scale local festival and summer schools programme 2025 (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Data
      1357. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023,...
    • Legislative Measures
      1358. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the Commission for Communications Regulation “Know Your Customer (KYC) Guidance Document -...
    • Emergency Planning
      1359. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the public warning system. [42565/25]
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1360. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to accelerate the roll out of high-speed broadband in underserved rural communities; the...
    • Arts Funding
      1361. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider providing support funding for a production (details supplied) at Cork opera house due in October...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1362. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts or...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1363. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the poor availability of high-speed broadband an area (details...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1364. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a contact list of all State and semi-State bodies connected with his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      1365. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has...
    • Departmental Funding
      1366. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has...
    • Post Office Network
      1367. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a report and if he has had discussions with a union (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Swimming Pools
      1368. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made in implementing the National Swimming Strategy; the number and location of pools or swimming...
    • Sports Funding
      1369. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the means by which Sport Ireland’s planned disability lead and associated grants to inclusive clubs will be...
    • Media Sector
      1371. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans to expand supports for local and independent media, including changes to the sound and vision scheme, local...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1372. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to date in delivering high-speed fibre broadband to 1.1 million premises by 2026; the measures being...
    • Culture Policy
      1373. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of plans to introduce a culture card for 16- and 17-year-olds; the intended eligibility, value and...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      1374. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when updated capital allocations for national cultural institutions will be published in the context of the ongoing...
    • National Archives
      1375. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of preparations for the public release of the 1926 Census records by the National Archives; the...
    • Film Industry
      1376. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update following the stakeholders’ forum, and on plans for section 481 to ensure that quality employment...
    • Social Media
      1377. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on social media disinformation and combatting it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43522/25]
    • Sports Funding
      1378. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update and timeline on LSSIF and sports capital funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43523/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1381. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of full time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43655/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1382. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for...
    • Arts Council
      1383. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he will ensure that artists, musicians and arts workers are not negatively impacted by any findings of the...
    • Arts Policy
      1384. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his Department has plans for the development and promotion of amateur and community theatre; and if he will...
    • Arts Funding
      1385. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure decision-making in the granting of monies directly from his Department to arts festivals and...
    • Sports Funding
      1386. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a timeframe for the opening of the next round of sports capital grants applications. [43975/25]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Provision
      1388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the allocation of European Union and European Investment Bank funds available for the construction and...
    • Airport Policy
      1389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to request from An Coimisiún Pleanála a copy of any submissions received from national or regional health...
    • Legislative Measures
      1390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024 to earmark certain cost-rental units for...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has assessed Dublin City Council’s funding capacity to deliver major public realm improvements along...
    • Housing Provision
      1392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of submissions received from Clare County Council for the development of new affordable housing schemes; and if...
    • Strategic Infrastructure
      1393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of any submission or correspondence received by his Department since March 2025 from Limerick City and County...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      1394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all full- and part-time staff employed at the Met Éireann facility in Shannon Airport in December 2019...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      1395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the small villages that are currently participating in measure A8 regarding the wastewater collection and treatment needs for...
    • Housing Schemes
      1397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the issues identified with the serviced sites scheme, considering only four local authorities have provided for the scheme...
    • Water Supply
      1400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a group water scheme in County Mayo (details supplied); if he is aware that the scheme is operating over...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the updated planning guidelines for wind farms will be issued; the reason for the ongoing delay in publishing same; and...
    • Planning Issues
      1402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the updated planning guidelines for rural houses will be issued; the reason for the ongoing delay in publishing same;...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      1403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal...
    • Water Supply
      1405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on funding allocations for the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2024-2026 under measure A5...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his...
    • Housing Schemes
      1407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide data on the number of refusals by the pillar banks of the first home scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the...
    • Local Authorities
      1408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be made available to local authorities to assist in the purchase of additional four to five-bed...
    • European Parliament
      1409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the manner in which MEPs who do not serve their full term are replaced; whether the list of replacement candidates submitted...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      1410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 8 July 2025, the reason rough sleepers are not counted in the monthly homeless...
    • Meteorological Services
      1411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the recent declaration of yellow warnings by Met Éireann for what was a period of average summer...
    • Fire Stations
      1414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for sourcing a suitable site for the south-west fire station in Cork following the publication of the fire...
    • Architectural Heritage
      1415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the immediate measures he is taking to protect thatched properties and to ensure that they can obtain sufficient insurance to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will urgently sanction additional funding to Sligo County Council for the housing adaptation grant for older people and...
    • Legislative Programme
      1417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress on the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41042/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      1418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will resolve the ongoing issues for tenants in the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme with houses owned by...
    • Grant Payments
      1419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to his Department’s published procurement-related payments over €20,000 for 2023 and 2024, the...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of major amenity and regeneration projects funded by his Department or through the URDF in the...
    • Housing Policy
      1423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any circumstances whereby a social housing applicant can transfer his or her application to another local...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the final turnout for 2024 for Vote 34, including capital and current expenditure and all subheads and programme level...
    • Water Services
      1426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will approve funding at an early date in respect of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vacant Properties
      1427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the vacant property refurbishment grant in each month since it was established; the number...
    • Consumer Protection
      1428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to scams which have emerged across the country where websites and bad actors advertise...
    • Housing Provision
      1429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the provision of social housing stock and affordable cost-rental homes for vulnerable and low-income...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      1430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce a homeless prevention budget amounting to 20% of all homelessness expenditure, including provision for a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person (details supplied) is eligible for the enhanced defective concrete block scheme; the additional supports...
    • Departmental Data
      1432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people who do not have habitual residency in Ireland but are currently on the housing waiting list, or are in...
    • Fire Service
      1433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current position in relation to a new project in County Laois (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      1435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the inspections his Department undertakes to ensure the quality and safety of homeless hostels, both private, charities and...
    • Housing Provision
      1440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the circumstances of a family can be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41309/25]
    • Local Authorities
      1450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Cork County Council for the installation of a dedicated surface water pipe in Union Hall...
    • Building Regulations
      1451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to publish in full any correspondence from the Land Development Agency in relation to the changes in design guidelines for...
    • Vacant Properties
      1452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider raising the amounts of the vacant and derelict property grants in recognition of the increase in...
    • Housing Policy
      1453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the income eligibility thresholds for social housing have been increased nationally in the past 20 years;...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times he has met with the RIAI since he was appointed; the list of attendees and the dates of any meetings in...
    • Housing Schemes
      1460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will urgently reconsider the significant reduction in funding to the tenant in situ scheme allocated to Fingal County...
    • EU Directives
      1461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the European Commission's concerns regarding the alleged non-conformity of Ireland's transposition of the...
    • Building Regulations
      1462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to state whether a strategic environmental assessment and-or screening for a strategic environmental assessment and-or an...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated...
    • Local Authorities
      1471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority home loan applications submitted to Roscommon County Council in 2024 and to date in 2025, the...
    • Wildlife Protection
      1474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on any work being carried out by his Department into the population growth of seagulls; their migration...
    • Housing Provision
      1475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the number of public and private houses and apartments actually built per annum since 2015, broken down by number...
    • Architectural Heritage
      1476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide assistance as a matter of priority towards the cost of thatching a landmark building in Dublin (details supplied);...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      1477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed progress report in regard to the €6 million in funding that was announced by his Department on 7...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify that houses located in Enfield, County Meath, and properties with an address of Enfield, County Westmeath,...
    • House Sales
      1480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government under the Property Services Regulations Act 2011, whether the address of the property sold is published; and if he will make...
    • Grant Payments
      1481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an addition to the housing aid for elderly-housing adaption for those with a disability scheme for 2026...
    • Water Services
      1482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date by which the public consultation on Uisce Éireann’s capital investment plan for 2025 to 2029 will be...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      1483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 16 July 2025, the reason that solar PV is limited to the installation of 1kWp...
    • Archaeological Sites
      1484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the routine maintenance and conservation of structures (details supplied), as there is significant vegetation growing on them...
    • Grant Payments
      1485. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average waiting time for a housing adaptation grant to be approved; the average amount awarded, per local authority area,...
    • Septic Tanks
      1486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to broaden the scope of the septic tank grant, to allow all households who cannot afford to repair or replace problematic or...
    • Fire Service
      1490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests his Department has received from Donegal County Council seeking funding to purchase additional fire...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names, organisations, former responsibilities, current responsibilities and full remuneration, including of secondees, of...
    • Housing Schemes
      1492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS,...
    • Vacant Properties
      1493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the review of the vacant property refurbishment grant carried out in 2024, if he has considered introducing phased...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget allocation for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [41874/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE senior archaeologists employed by his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to examine correspondence (details supplied); if the lack of consultation will be rectified; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      1497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on an application (details supplied) under the National Developer Providing Infrastructural Resolution...
    • Local Authorities
      1498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing applications, by local authority that have used the section 179A exemption since 2023, in...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the timeline for each project currently proposed or completed in the north-west quarter regeneration in Cork...
    • Derelict Sites
      1500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites on the derelict sites register on 31 December 2024; the amount levied in 2024; the amount collected; the...
    • Planning Issues
      1501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed extension to the duration of planning permission applies to one-off rural house planning applications coming...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      1503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a determination will be made regarding legislation on marine protected areas; if this determination will be made over...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      1504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of offshore renewable energy applications to An Bord Pleanála that have been met within the 18-week decision...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagements he has had with the National Parks and Wildlife Service concerning offshore renewable energy; and if he will...
    • Departmental Policies
      1508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government her Department’s plan on actively promoting the inclusion of women and minorities into political roles; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      1510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount estate agents are paid in commission or fees for selling homes under affordable housing schemes funded by the...
    • Rental Sector
      1511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to review the monthly rent of cost-rental properties and if he will decrease these so as more people can access...
    • Housing Provision
      1512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the way the social homes in Blessington, County Wicklow, due to be built as part of PPP bundle 3 will be...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will continue using public private partnerships as a model of delivering social housing; and if he will...
    • Planning Issues
      1514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding Wicklow County Council sought for retrofitting works on top of their base funding in 2024...
    • Housing Schemes
      1515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of homes purchased in County Wicklow from CAS funding in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding sought and awarded to Wicklow County Council for regeneration works for local authority homes in each...
    • Housing Provision
      1523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of housing commencements per month of 2025 in County Wicklow, in tabular form. [42089/25]
    • Animal Culls
      1526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of deer culled in Wicklow from 2020 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42125/25]
    • Ministerial Communications
      1527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of personal emails used for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42142/25]
    • Rental Sector
      1529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assistance available to people who are not on a social housing list when they are given notice to quit their rental...
    • Planning Issues
      1530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress his Department has made to reform planning conditions for childcare facilities to open in areas of need; and if...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the issues facing the residents of Red Island, Skerries, regarding pyrite remediation applications, which...
    • National Parks
      1532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the State is willing to purchase lands bordering the Wicklow Mountains National Park at Aghavannagh that are currently on...
    • Local Authorities
      1533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the amount of funding been granted to Wicklow County Council for works on the Bray to Greystones cliff walk,...
    • Housing Policy
      1536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider adopting an approach to cost-rental and affordable purchase housing similar to other European countries...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of any roles of district conservation officer, regional manager and park ranger within the National Parks and...
    • Vacant Sites
      1539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the value of unpaid vacant site levies for Cork county for the years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Vacant Properties
      1540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review being carried out of the croí cónaithe, vacant-derelict property refurbishment grant;...
    • Gorse Burning
      1541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of gorse fire incidents across Cork county for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and the number of forestry fire...
    • Departmental Policies
      1542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of a national policy on rightsizing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42255/25]
    • Housing Schemes
      1544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority home loans approved and drawn down for Cork county for 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date, in tabular...
    • Archaeological Sites
      1546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of archaeological excavations licensed in Cork county in each of the past five years, including their location,...
    • Vacant Properties
      1547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant residential properties across the State currently; the efforts that are being taken to address this...
    • Heritage Sites
      1548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of heritage sites in the State to include the number of sites registered, those at risk, and funding...
    • Student Accommodation
      1550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assessments his Department has carried out on the impact of students studying English language courses on housing...
    • Land Issues
      1553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the delays at the Land Registry; the initiatives being taken to rectify these delays; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1555. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and...
    • Údaráis Áitiúla
      1556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cén chaoi a bhfuil a Roinn ag tabhairt tacaíochta do húdaráis áitiúla chun sprioc 20% de...
    • Land Development Agency
      1557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes, respectively, that will be delivered through Land Development Agency...
    • Housing Provision
      1558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the need for additional social and affordable housing in Rathmines and the surrounding area, including by way of...
    • Housing Policy
      1559. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the targeted policies being introduced by his Department to support young adults in accessing affordable housing, to enable...
    • Housing Schemes
      1560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has carried out a review of his Department's voids programme to take account of construction inflation; if not, his...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the total capital outturn from his Department, in each year for 2020 to 2024, by vote subhead, in tabular form....
    • Homeless Accommodation
      1562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there are well in excess of 200 people over 65 years of age in homeless accommodation; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      1563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider introducing emergency legislation to expedite housing developments for the general population as has been done in...
    • Local Authorities
      1564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to estimate the full year cost of the maintenance of local authority rented homes, broken down by local authority. [42731/25]
    • Mayoral Election
      1565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date for a mayoral plebiscite for Cork city that will happen before the 2029 local elections; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1566. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a timeline on his Department’s working group review of engineering qualifications for the local government sector,...
    • Local Authorities
      1567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of zoned land capable of residential development owned by local authorities nationwide; and if he will make a...
    • National Planning Framework
      1568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the revised population targets as per the revised NPF have been formally communicated to local authorities. [42747/25]
    • Housing Policy
      1569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his revised housing plan will be published. [42748/25]
    • Departmental Reports
      1570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to give a commitment to publish a summary of the Mulcahy Report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal along...
    • Housing Provision
      1571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of all affordable housing that is, cost rental and affordable purchase units delivered by local authorities,...
    • Departmental Functions
      1572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on all European Commission infringement proceedings currently underway related to the functions in his...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      1573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review of section 10 funded emergency homeless services; and to give a commitment to publish the review...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the awarding of the Housing First tender in Dublin; and to provide an explanation for the delay in the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for the defective concrete block grant scheme in each county in which the scheme is operational; the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or any agency operating under the aegis of his Department, have used reserved contracts or social clauses...
    • Planning Issues
      1578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to streamline planning processes for critical infrastructure projects like the Metro; and if he will...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in the context of the mica issue, the way he is ensuring that current rebuilds meet appropriate structural standards,...
    • National Development Plan
      1580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the biodiversity cross-Border projects that have been identified by his Department as part of the National Development Plan...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the State’s response to early indications of defective concrete blocks; if there were...
    • Housing Policy
      1587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provision, if any, that exists for people in receipt of HAP in one local authority area, and who have children attending...
    • Rental Sector
      1588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in the context of the private rental sector reforms, if in respect of those landlords with four properties or less, who had...
    • Local Authorities
      1589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has made any funding available to local authorities to appoint vacancy officers to manage social...
    • Climate Action Plan
      1592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the seven legacy action due as outlined in the Q1 2025 progress report (details supplied); to outline...
    • Local Authorities
      1593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can detail for each specific local authority the precise number of Part V units currently due for delivery, in tabular...
    • Construction Industry
      1597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide updated figures on the installation of heat pumps in new homes for Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 to date, in tabular form;...
    • Water Services
      1598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a group water scheme is temporarily unavailable due to contamination where does the responsibility to provide water...
    • Weather Events
      1601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review into the State’s response to Storm Éowyn. [43117/25]
    • Architectural Heritage
      1602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provisions made in the Planning and Development Act 2024 to strengthen, protect and enforce protection of our built...
    • Local Authorities
      1603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outstanding debts for unpaid development levies, derelict sites, rent arrears and other in each local authority, in...
    • Architectural Heritage
      1604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine establishing an expert committee in his Department to assess the condition of Dublin’s north...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the capital funding programmes or grants for which his Department or any body under his aegis has...
    • Water Services
      1610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update in regard to people living in Kilteel on the group water scheme who are approaching four years depending on...
    • Water Charges
      1611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is aware of the ongoing increase in water charges by Uisce Éireann and the effect this has on small...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is aware of the current delays in the land registry; the plans his Department has to help alleviate this as...
    • Housing Provision
      1613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options available to a person (details supplied) and to other families in the same situation; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authorities
      1614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the average duration spent on Galway County Council’s social housing waiting list in each of...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      1615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made on the expansion of Ireland’s network of marine protected areas as committed to in the programme for...
    • Housing Schemes
      1616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown by local authority of the number of landlords who have expressed interest in the tenant in...
    • Vacant Properties
      1617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an estimate of the average renovation cost for local authorities of vacant properties. [43568/25]
    • Building Energy Rating
      1622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to estimate the cost of retrofitting all HAP properties to a minimum B2 standard. [43581/25]
    • Constitutional Amendments
      1623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on progress in implementing the Housing Commission’s recommendation of holding a referendum on a right to...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      1624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the Government’s plan to end child, family and individual homelessness by 2030, as per the...
    • Housing Schemes
      1625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown by local authority of the annual amount spent on local authority housing maintenance. [43594/25]
    • Planning Issues
      1627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the examination of ‘meanwhile use’ for creative and cultural infrastructure (details...
    • Housing Provision
      1628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update in the negotiations between his officials, Dublin City Council and a company (details supplied)...
    • Housing Schemes
      1629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average purchase price of homes availing of the vacant property refurbishment grant, broken down by local authority area...
    • Departmental Staff
      1630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form.; and if he...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Planning Issues
      1632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Gaeltacht planning guidelines, which were being finalised in February 2024 will be published. [43703/25]
    • Housing Provision
      1634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new social homes that have been brought into use in the last two years, broken down by local authority, number...
    • Departmental Data
      1635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing completions required annually over the next five years in order to meet the combined demand from...
    • Land Issues
      1637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has examined international examples of zoning reform, including the model used in Japan where development is permitted...
    • Housing Policy
      1638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider establishing a cross-departmental housing supply dashboard or task force to monitor real-time monthly...
    • Urban Development
      1639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific regulatory, planning, or zoning obstacles that discourage the conversion of vacant upper floors of commercial...
    • Waterways Ireland
      1643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that will be implemented to increase tourism business through direct investment and/or introduction of specific...
    • An Ghaeltacht
      1644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil dualgais ann ar iarratais phleanála taobh istigh den Ghaeltacht fógra a dhéanamh sna meáin...
    • Housing Policy
      1655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has approved a prohibition on purchase of second-hand dwellings by approved housing bodies (AHBs) under the capital...
    • Housing Provision
      1656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the anticipated delivery timeline for housing on the Oscar Traynor Road site; the unit breakdown, by tenure type and expected...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of regeneration schemes initiated and completed since 2020; and the projected completions in the Dublin north-west...
    • Planning Issues
      1666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out work on planning guidelines for drone delivery bases, given that while the regulation of...
    • Housing Provision
      1670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress on the delivery of future housing in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Housing Schemes
      1672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reopen the tenant-in-situ scheme in County Mayo for cases where the tenants are facing homelessness; and if he...
    • Property Registration
      1673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average wait time for a deed of rectification from Tailte Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      1674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he has taken to ensure that local authorities and AHBs are able to quickly resolve matters arising in tenant...
    • Local Authorities
      1675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant enforcement officers employed, by local authority, in tabular form. [44113/25]
    • Construction Industry
      1676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update into the review of the Construction Progress Report pipeline. [44157/25]
    • Tax Collection
      1677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites for which a vacant sites tax or zoned land tax has been applied, and the number of sites for which it has...
    • Housing Schemes
      1678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding data across all local authorities for the tenant-in-situ scheme since its introduction in 2023, broken down by...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of regeneration projects that have been applied for by each local authority, the number that have been approved...
    • Housing Provision
      1682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of directly built local authority homes delivered in each of the past five years, by local authority, in tabular...
    • Vacant Properties
      1683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department provides any funding for the boarding up of homes and if so, how much was provided in each of the past five...
    • Waterways Ireland
      1684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct Waterways Ireland to provide water tap services, pump out machines, postal services and refuse services...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding for Traveller accommodation that was applied for by each housing authority in each of the years 2020 to...
    • Housing Policy
      1687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the designation of recipients of HAP housing as having their housing needs met, to allow them to remain on...
    • Vacant Properties
      1688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to define the aspects of affordability related to the vacant property grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Derelict Sites
      1693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department is taking to work with local authorities in collecting the derelict sites levy; if he has any...
    • Local Authorities
      1695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total amounts of units retrofitted by local authority area for each of the past five years. [44257/25]
    • Housing Policy
      1697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in view of reports that high rents are impeding single people from saving for a deposit for a one bedroom house in their...
    • House Sales
      1699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of reports regarding the lack of transparency and culture of bidding wars that has emerged in the Irish...
    • Planning Issues
      1700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permission exemptions for VATSUs granted in 2024 and 2025, by county, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the number of new operatives and new trades apprentices hired into each of the 31 local authorities, in each years...
    • Construction Industry
      1702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has investigated forming a State construction company, similar to an ESB for housing, with the aim of...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress of the regeneration of the Noonan's Road and surrounding streets regeneration. [44281/25]
    • Planning Issues
      1705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the on the number of affordable houses, cost rental and cost purchase, homes planned for Cork City and County...
    • Rental Sector
      1706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will launch and oversee an audit of damp in social housing and in accommodation leased by the State or paid for through...
    • Departmental Data
      1707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V homes bought, by each local authority in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the average cost of each home,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his thoughts on the cessation of tenant-in-situ purchases made by local authorities; what alternative homelessness prevention...
    • Energy Conservation
      1712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the total number of social housing units retrofitted, by local authority area, for each of the past five years including...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1714. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has met with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss changes to the planning permission standards for apartment;...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times his Department officials have met with an organisation (details supplied), or any of the subgroups it...
    • Housing Provision
      1717. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated one-year cost of removing all income thresholds for social housing eligibility. [44343/25]
    • Rental Sector
      1720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated costs of establishing a monitoring body which will conduct regular inspections of private rental units to...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated costs of establishing an independent Traveller-specific housing agency to oversee the delivery of culturally...
    • Land Development Agency
      1722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated costs of building 66,910 homes on the 83 parcels of disused and underused land in public ownership identified...
    • Housing Policy
      1723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is consistent with national policy that a local authority in Dublin has voted to reduce the density...
    • Childcare Services
      1724. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking, in co-operation with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality, to ensure...
    • Rental Sector
      1725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in the context of Housing For All, including a target for rented accommodation to be inspected every four years, the number...
    • Housing Provision
      1727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant social housing stock in each local authority area and as a proportion of overall social housing stock,...
    • Housing Policy
      1728. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to strengthen and reform the powers available to local authorities to tackle the housing crisis at...
    • Housing Schemes
      1730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering plans to introduce an affordable rental and affordable purchase housing scheme for older people who are...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      1731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost of providing emergency accommodation for people experiencing homelessness in Dublin in 2025; and...
    • Legislative Process
      1733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1734. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the ceiling caps for the first homes schemes for Tipperary, as it is having a reverse impact in comparison...
    • Housing Provision
      1735. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress of affordable housing schemes across the country; and if figures on their delivery can be...
    • Departmental Reports
      1737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the subject matter of departmental reports which are pending publication; and the timeline for publication of each of these...
    • Departmental Policies
      1740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a progress report on the recommendations made in the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on the pre-legislative...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Employment Rights
      1742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the work being done to resolve the problem of bogus self-employment in the building sector; if he...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on progress in respect of fulfilling the Government’s commitment to Sustainable Development Goal...
    • School Meals Programme
      1745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of primary and post primary DEIS schools that currently do not offer a breakfast club, and to provide the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1747. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a social enterprise seeking to support survivors of SGBV would not be eligible for BTWEA/STEA; if he has plans to...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1748. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will examine the case of refusal of carer's support grant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1749. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people receiving full or half rate carer's allowance that have had a review of their claim twice in eight...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      1750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1752. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1753. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) regarding partial capacity benefit; that serious consideration would...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a blind pension payment has been stopped for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 629 of 17 July 2025, the reason he issued a hard copy response to the representation...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase core social welfare rates by €16 per week as part of the Government’s target to reduce...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1757. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase the index-link of the income disregard for the one-parent family payment and jobseeker’s...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase the living alone allowance to ensure a targeted measure to support single adult households, in line with...
    • Grant Payments
      1760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      1761. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of money paid to fraudulent applicants by his Department, in each of the past ten years; and the amount which has...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1762. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for job seeker's allowance or job seeker's benefit who listed their previous employment as...
    • School Meals Programme
      1763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase the roll-out of free hot school meals to all children and ensure ongoing evaluation of their nutritional...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will ensure households are able to purchase the essential energy they need to stay warm and well, and raise the fuel...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will fulfil the commitment in the programme for Government and extend the fuel allowance to recipients of the working...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will introduce a weekly cost of disability payment of €55 to cover the additional costs facing people with a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of long waiting times currently in his Department regarding the settling of appeals, particularly in terms of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the high level of care needed for a child from his mother (details supplied) is not being taken fully into...
    • Departmental Data
      1769. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 15 July 2025, if he accepts that his Department, using as it does its...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of payments made in respect of the homeowner’s once-off payment in lieu of mortgage interest tax credit to...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1771. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) for the homeowner’s once-off payment will be reviewed. [41340/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated timeframe for completion of reviews of applications for carer’s allowance; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1773. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the carer’s allowance application of a person (details supplied). [41398/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1774. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans his Department has to make those carers in receipt of a State pension eligible for the full rate of carer’s...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for social welfare payment delays on 7 and 14 July 2025; the way in which the issue was rectified; the measures...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1776. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost in 2026 of increasing the income disregard for carer’s allowance to €750 (single) and...
    • Legislative Process
      1778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025 will be enacted; when it will be...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1779. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare payments available without habitual residence as a stipulation. [41489/25]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a social welfare appeal (details supplied); and if a decision has been reached regarding this...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the supplementary welfare grant system can be used to apply for assistance with the provision, or upgrade of, a mobility...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1789. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if funding under food and basic material support for specific items has been withdrawn (details supplied); if so, the reason...
    • School Meals Programme
      1790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the school meals scheme; the details of both schemes; the way in which funding is allocated; the rate for...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1791. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if organisations (details supplied) are to be excluded from his Department's pre-budget forum in July as they were in 2024;...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to increase the payment rate for people in receipt of half-rate carer's allowance; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      1793. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if budget 2026 will offer better pension security for foster carers so the years spent caring for children on behalf of the...
    • Judicial Reviews
      1794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will order a judicial review into a matter (details supplied). [41817/25]
    • Pension Provisions
      1797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to intervene in relation to the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      1799. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if each Intreo office has a defibrillator within the office and all staff within that office are fully trained in the use of...
    • Pension Provisions
      1800. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employers will be allowed to enrol higher rate taxpayers in a company pension scheme and other employees in My Future...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1802. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will investigate the undue delay in an invalidity pension appeal case (details supplied); the likely date...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1803. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for new applications for disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41981/25]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for appeals with the social welfare appeals office for disability allowance, broken down into county and wait...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for new applications received in 2025 to date for exceptional needs payments in Wicklow; the current...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for supplementary welfare allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with reference to the programme for Government’s commitment to ‘examine how the social protection system can...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42152/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1820. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); the actions he is taking to ensure that this behaviour is...
    • Pension Provisions
      1821. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) will be approved immediately. [42234/25]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a detailed response will issue to a carer’s allowance case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Pension Provisions
      1823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it will be possible for qualified cohabitants to apply for a bereaved partner’s pension, given that the Social...
    • Social Insurance
      1824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 16 July 2025, if he will intervene in relation to the matter; if he will...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      1825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for all social welfare claim forms to be available to download online; if he is aware of the delay in emailing a request for...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of education-upskilling courses available under the back to education scheme; the measures being taken to...
    • Public Services Card
      1827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of ongoing issues with the PSC online renewal system in accepting photographs; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1828. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for consideration on providing free travel for all means tested social welfare recipients, to promote the use of public...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1829. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a review of how social welfare repayment statements are issued out to individuals; currently if more than one...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1830. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason teachers are exempt from jobseeker's pay-related benefit and are unable to claim this payment when they are out...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and...
    • Pension Provisions
      1833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for a non-contributory pension by a person (details supplied) was unsuccessful; the options...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1834. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to state whether his Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the value of a person’s house is disregarded as part of an application for a disability allowance; and if he will...
    • Pension Provisions
      1837. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) whose application for invalidity pension has been repeatedly...
    • School Meals Programme
      1839. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the hot school meals programme will be expanded to the schools announced in April 2025, given that these schools still...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the capital funding programmes or grants for which his Department or any body under his aegis has...
    • School Meals Programme
      1845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of school children who will be in receipt of hot meals from the start of the next school year, by county, in...
    • Departmental Communications
      1847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the process by which his Department contacts the British work and pensions department seeking...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the nature and extent of engagement his Department has had with other Government agencies and Departments...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work and access scheme; the numbers using it; his plans to increase this number and improve the scheme;...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1852. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the current waiting times at the Appeals Office, and if additional resources will be allocated to it; and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1853. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has plans to improve processing times for those who do not have year-long contracts and must avail of social...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1856. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer’s benefit will be approved for a person (details supplied). [43618/25]
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing all core social welfare payments by €1, providing a breakdown, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of carers in receipt of the carer's support grant; providing a breakdown of the number eligible due to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43667/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for disability allowance can be approved for a person (details supplied). [43792/25]
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the child support payment for under-12s by €6 or €10 and for over-12s by...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current cost of the free travel scheme; the number of participants; the projected cost of introducing free travel to...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1868. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing eligibility thresholds for SWA by 10%, 20%, 30% respectively, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1869. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding eligibility for fuel allowance to all those on the working family payment; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing fuel allowance by €5 or €10 a week; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a €30 per week cost of disability payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Community Welfare Services
      1873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of every additional ten community welfare officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44034/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to extend the JST to one-parent families in work, training or education; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost for every €1 increase in the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of increasing the working family payment thresholds by €20 or €50; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €10 increase in the household benefits package for gas and electricity; and if he will make a...
    • Bereavement Counselling
      1889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to putting in place a support to subsidise the cost of bereavement counselling for those who...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for educational sector workers who apply for a jobseeker’s payment while temporarily laid...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseeker’s applications received from educational sector workers temporarily laid off during the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the new pay-related benefit for a person out of work (details supplied) does not account for dependants; the...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the fuel allowance. [44325/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to estimate the cost of expanding the fuel allowance to all people on a disability-related social protection payment; and of...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      1899. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to improve the local community employment schemes in order to make them more attractive to engage social welfare...
    • Immigration Support Services
      1900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out as part of the Ukrainian response for non-accommodation costs, including car repairs and other items,...
    • Child Poverty
      1901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update in respect of fulfilling the Government’s commitment to SDG1 (ending poverty, including child...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • International Protection
      1902. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the statistics that document the prevalence of physically disabled persons who have entered Ireland seeking...
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      1903. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement his Department has had with the European Commission regarding the plans by Ireland to adopt the IHRA definition...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1904. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has engaged with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality in relation to the immigrant investor...
    • International Protection
      1905. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a Palestinian family living in Egypt without legal residency can seek asylum in Ireland; the options available to said...
    • Court Accommodation
      1906. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the progress of the construction of the new family court building at Hammond Lane, Dublin; and if he...
    • Visa Applications
      1907. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Palestinians he is aware of who are seeking a student visa to pursue a scholarship granted by an Irish third...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1908. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Waterford Garda station on the last day of January, February, March, April, May and June...
    • Crime Prevention
      1912. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes that were recorded where the suspected offenders were on bail in each of the past three years, by county...
    • Fines Administration
      1914. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the number of individuals issued with fines for illegally parking in a disabled parking space from 2023 to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1915. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality he number and location of Garda stations closed in County Clare since 1990; and to provide the total number of Garda stations...
    • Legal Aid
      1917. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal legal aid certificates granted in the District Court for each of the years 2015 to 2024; the reasons...
    • Domestic Violence
      1918. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a domestic violence refuge for County Roscommon; where it will be located; when it will be opened; and if he...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1920. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity...
    • Visa Applications
      1921. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to intervene urgently to assist with an individual (details supplied) who has been displaced from Gaza alongside his family...
    • Coroners Service
      1922. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the measures being taken to reduce delays in the processing of toxicology reports by the State...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1923. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1924. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the certificate of naturalisation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Records
      1925. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department maintains a centralised record of all facilities that have been used under contract to house beneficiaries...
    • Immigration Policy
      1927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any measures are taken to ensure that Israeli citizens entering the State have not committed, or were otherwise complicit,...
    • Grant Payments
      1928. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1929. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the €950 fee for the certificate of naturalisation; and if he will make a statement...
    • International Protection
      1931. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review his Department’s policy to ensure that when Ukrainians are notified of the cessation of their current...
    • Direct Provision System
      1932. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have died in direct provision in each year since it was established; and if a breakdown will be...
    • Prison Service
      1933. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of persons currently in prison in the State; and the number of prisoners currently serving time who...
    • Domestic Violence
      1934. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children admitted to women’s refuges in each county in the State in each of the past ten years and to...
    • Departmental Data
      1935. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of knives seized by gardaí in each county in the State in each of the past five years, and to date in 2025....
    • Missing Persons
      1936. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons reported missing in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025; the number of whom are children, by...
    • Departmental Data
      1938. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested for the offence of fraud in each county in the State, in the past year. [41134/25]
    • Domestic Pets
      1939. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who reported the theft of their family pet to the Garda in each of the past five years, by county. [41135/25]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1940. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have been assaulted while on active duty in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025....
    • International Protection
      1941. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the properties purchased by the State to accommodate asylum seekers and refugees; the number purchased; the...
    • Domestic Violence
      1942. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times gardaí were called to the scenes of domestic violence, in each county, in each of the past five...
    • Prison Service
      1943. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths of prisoners in the State, in each of the past ten years. [41142/25]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1944. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested for sexual assault, in each county in the State, in each of the past five years. [41143/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1945. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested for attempts or threats of murder in each of the past ten years. [41144/25]
    • Human Trafficking
      1946. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances of human trafficking reported to Gardaí, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [41145/25]
    • International Protection
      1947. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the absence of a harmonised EU-wide approach to exiting temporary protection, under existing domestic...
    • Immigration Status
      1949. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will intervene and expedite a join family visa application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Prison Service
      1950. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who escaped from prisons in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025; and if he...
    • Immigration Status
      1951. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people granted leave to remain in the last five years, broken down by originating country, in tabular form; and...
    • Immigration Policy
      1952. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visas that have been issued to non-naturalised parents of children born in Ireland over the last five years; the...
    • International Protection
      1953. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the occupancy rates of modular homes built for Ukrainian refugees since their completion on each site; the number...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1954. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the interim report of the Garda Recruitment and Training Capacity Group; the date on which the full report...
    • Courts Staff
      1955. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to appoint a new master of the High Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41228/25]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1956. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices issued by Gardaí to drivers whose vehicles failed to comply with number plate...
    • Departmental Data
      1957. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to respond to concerns raised in relation to conditions for residents at a location (details supplied). [41232/25]
    • Middle East
      1958. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to engage with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that a humanitarian worker (details supplied) is evacuated...
    • International Protection
      1960. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people with Irish citizenship currently living in IPAS accommodation for each of the past five years; and the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1961. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people given Irish citizenship after living in Ireland for less than five years, for each of the past ten years....
    • International Protection
      1962. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people in IPAS accommodation in receipt of free accommodation who are working and earning an income, for each of...
    • Visa Applications
      1963. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the last time the visa exemption list was updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41285/25]
    • Direct Provision System
      1965. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of reports that new mothers recovering from C-section surgery, and those with serious illness in direct...
    • Middle East
      1966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who has been accepted for a place in UCD is granted a student visa to...
    • Prison Service
      1967. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 758 of 15 July 2025, if the Irish Prison Service is amenable to responding to...
    • Visa Applications
      1968. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to work which his counterpart at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that a person (details supplied) is...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1969. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether a contract has been issued or is under consideration for an accommodation centre (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1970. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive their citizenship certificate; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      1971. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to consider extending document submission deadlines for visas in light of confusion over whether the INIS online portal is...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1976. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      1983. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the number of incidents involving unauthorised drone activity near Dublin Airport that have been reported...
    • Courts Service
      1984. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for Justice the amount that has been spent on interpretation services within the Courts Services over the past ten years,...
    • Departmental Data
      1985. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests each year for the past ten years, by country of origin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Asylum Seekers
      1988. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers who do not have leave to remain in Ireland, currently in Ireland, by country of origin; and if he...
    • International Protection
      1989. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given that an accommodation centre (details supplied) accommodates male international protection applicants on a transit and...
    • Prison Service
      1990. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cause of death of all those who died in prison, on temporary release from prison and who were unlawfully at large from...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1992. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles available to An Garda Síochána, by type and age of each vehicle, which division it is...
    • International Protection
      1996. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the exact area indicated on a map being purchased in relation to a hotel (details supplied) [41745/25]
    • Family Reunification
      1997. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the case of a family (details supplied); and if he will instruct his Department to assist with this...
    • Peace Commissioners
      1998. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of peace commissioners. [41826/25]
    • Residency Permits
      1999. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the new residence permit of a person (details supplied) is valid for one year only, whereas the previous permit...
    • Citizenship Applications
      2000. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when applying for citizenship through naturalisation the specific documents that are required for proof of residency; proof of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2001. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of each category of firearm training courses that took place in garda headquarters for armed Garda personnel in ...
    • Family Reunification
      2003. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 615 of 24 June 2025, the reason the majority of join family visas receive a first...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2005. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the implementation of initiatives to promote the recruitment and retention of women in An Garda...
    • Visa Applications
      2006. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications from Ukrainians for visas and asylum, for each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number...
    • Prison Service
      2008. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the reported plans to move 200 prisoners to Mountjoy west in the very near future (details supplied) and the...
    • Family Reunification
      2009. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of processing times for family reunification visa applications by country, in tabular form. [42019/25]
    • Citizenship Applications
      2010. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for an application for naturalisation by applicant nationality, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Work Permits
      2011. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the introduction of a single permit system for visas and work permits in cases such as that of a person...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2012. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the number of recruits in Templemore undergoing training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42104/25]
    • Local Community Safety Partnerships
      2015. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community safety audits carried out in Wicklow from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      2016. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a timeline for when his Department will make a decision on whether a location (details supplied) will be used to...
    • Departmental Data
      2020. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of crime statistics for 2024 and 2025 for Wicklow, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Applications
      2021. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on an asylum application submitted in January 2024. [42145/25]
    • Departmental Properties
      2022. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for Wicklow Court House; if the building will be returned to use for court services; if not, if it will be used as a...
    • Prison Service
      2023. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he will take to address overcrowding in prisons; if he intends to build Thornton Hall prison; and if he will make...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      2026. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to change children's probation services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42207/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2028. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people charged with murder who received bail before their conviction in the years 2020 to 2025; and if he will...
    • Sentencing Policy
      2029. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider minimum sentences for those who commit child sexual abuse crimes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      2030. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of private homes leased for IPAS accommodation; the total cost of these, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      2031. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department will ensure that an individual (details supplied) will be able to arrive in Ireland to begin their...
    • Prison Service
      2033. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners currently receiving treatment for a mental health condition; and what those conditions are. [42283/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      2038. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has examined the wider impact of the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill on privacy of...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      2039. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is examining the expansion of family reunion schemes for Palestinian refugees in Ireland similar to current...
    • Crime Prevention
      2040. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action he will take to improve safety in Ireland based on increasing numbers of violent attacks (details supplied); and if...
    • Language Schools
      2041. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inspections carried out of English language schools by immigration officials in each of the past five years, in...
    • Residency Permits
      2043. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidences of students holding an immigration stamp 2 permission that have been found to be in breach of the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      2047. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a definitive timeframe for convictions to be taken into account when assessing an application for naturalisation;...
    • Social Media
      2048. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being considered on the circulation of graphic or distressing footage on social media, relating to tragic...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2050. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current Garda levels for Cork county, by rank; how these levels compare to levels in 2020; and if he will make a statement...
    • Court Sittings
      2052. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to resolve court backlogs in Cork District Courts; the average waiting times for family law, criminal...
    • Court Orders
      2054. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the current use and regulation of special exemption orders, SEOs, for licensed premises; the number of SEOs...
    • Departmental Contracts
      2055. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to supply information in relation to a tender document notification (details supplied); to outline the original estimate...
    • Visa Applications
      2056. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a visa for a person (details supplied) will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42370/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      2057. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to engage with and meet groups representing parents and families of children conceived through surrogacy and...
    • Legislative Programme
      2058. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progression of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024 as committed to in the Programme for Government; how this will provide...
    • Immigration Policy
      2059. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given that the Government considers conditions in Gaza to constitute a genocide, whether any senior official in his Department...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2061. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE civilian staff by grade working in the Garda National Vetting Bureau, as of 21 July 2025. [42423/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2063. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to...
    • Immigration Policy
      2064. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information on how best to evacuate to Ireland a sick Palestinian woman who needs specialist treatment that...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      2066. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department or any agency under the aegis of his Department used reserved contracts or social clauses in their public...
    • Immigration Policy
      2067. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [42740/25]
    • Visa Applications
      2068. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will intervene in the processing of a visa for a person (details supplied) on humanitarian grounds; and if he will make...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2069. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ages currently of the boats within the Garda water unit; the average lifespan of each category of boat in use within the...
    • Prison Service
      2075. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners currently in Mountjoy Prison; the number of those in Mountjoy Prison from 2019 to 2024, in tabular...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2079. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank in each station in the DMR south division for each of the past five years, in tabular form;...
    • Departmental Funding
      2080. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the total funding amount allocated to the Ireland Against Racism fund has decreased from €1.1 million in...
    • National Development Plan
      2081. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capital allocations his Department has planned in the Dublin Bay South constituency as part of the updated national...
    • Citizenship Applications
      2082. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that a person born in Ireland after 2004 to non-Irish parents (one of whom is now a citizen) has to apply for...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2083. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána can use footage captured by road users, including motorists and cyclists, using dash cameras or...
    • International Protection
      2084. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of IPAS accommodation contracts that were terminated in 2025 and in each of the past five years; the reason for...
    • Departmental Funding
      2086. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2088. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí, by rank, attached to the community policing unit in each Garda district within Kildare-Carlow...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      2089. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has been contacted in relation to an Irish citizen seeking the evacuation of his father from Gaza; and if he will...
    • Courts Staff
      2090. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to increase the number of judges, and associated administrative personnel, servicing the Kildare area;...
    • Visa Applications
      2091. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources that have been redirected within his Department to assist the South African applicants who now need a...
    • International Protection
      2098. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to work with his counterparts at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that the family of a Palestinian...
    • Prison Service
      2099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans to place the Irish Prison Service on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Policy
      2100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the high level task force to consider the mental health and...
    • Prison Service
      2102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of category ‘A’ complaints made by prisoners in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date that were withdrawn,...
    • Departmental Budgets
      2104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the maintenance budget allocated for Garda-operated CCTV cameras in the Dublin Metropolitan Region for the years 2020 to 2025...
    • Immigration Policy
      2105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed report on the Immigrant Investor Programme; the number of applications received by the Department since...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a new capital programme for Garda stations is due to be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43390/25]
    • Immigration Policy
      2108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the recent engagement his Department has had with the EU regarding migration in Europe; and if he will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      2109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to cut the current citizenship application processing times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43472/25]
    • Visa Applications
      2110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the visa IT portal system that has huge technical issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Probate Applications
      2111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the lengthy processing times for grants of probate at probate offices in the State; the plans there are to...
    • Local Community Safety Partnerships
      2114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the progress of establishing community safety partnerships, and possible review mechanisms;...
    • International Protection
      2115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on processing times for IP applicants; the timeline proposed for further changes, including legislative changes;...
    • Legislative Measures
      2116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline any legislation or plans he has that will impact on the licensing and operation of firearms for hunting and sports;...
    • Drug Dealing
      2118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to address the huge issues being caused by the illegal drug trade, the organised crime and chaos which...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      2119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans for dealing with cyber threats, online scams and spyware such as (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Visa Applications
      2120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review as a matter of urgency the refusal of a visitor's visa for two persons (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      2121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43664/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      2122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      2123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when approval will issue in respect of applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43750/25]
    • International Protection
      2126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline in detail what analysis was carried out in terms of the potential impact on the State, both financial and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí stationed in Cork in each of the past 5 years, by station, in tabular form. [44180/25]
    • Prison Service
      2129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria used to determine suitability of a site for a new prison building. [44182/25]
    • Departmental Properties
      2130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unused sites or buildings owned by his Department in each county, in tabular form. [44183/25]
    • Law Reform Commission
      2137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has engaged with the Law Reform Commission on a matter (details supplied) since it was first taken under...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations in Cork in 2005; the number currently open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44202/25]
    • International Protection
      2140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people waiting decisions in the international protection system in employment, broken down by category of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hours that calls in Blarney, Glanmire and Ballincollig were diverted from the Garda station to the nearest Garda...
    • Immigration Policy
      2144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given significant concerns regarding EU plans for third country deportation, the steps he is taking to assess the consequences...
    • Visa Agreements
      2145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the current visa requirements for Peruvian nationals visiting Ireland for short stays, in light of recent...
    • Departmental Funding
      2147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering providing significant additional funding to the Ballymun Implementation Board, in a similar model to the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Horticulture Sector
      2148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date by his Department to add new people into the Irish horticulture sector, as per the Programme for...
    • Control of Dogs
      2149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dog licences that have issued in 2024, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Gender Balance
      2151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the decline in gender balance on national call research review panels over the period 2022-2024 and for the decline...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      2152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for...
    • State Bodies
      2154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of capital funding received by State bodies and semi-State bodies including Teagasc and non-Governmental organizations; if...
    • Grant Payments
      2155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of...
    • Public Services Provision
      2156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of targets delivered stands at 48% in 2024 in relation to Programme D of his Department’s Section in the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine by how much the Government intends to reduce the national herd; within what timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 781 of 15 July 2025, if as previously requested he will clarify if his Department plans to...
    • Agriculture Supports
      2159. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to expedite the overdue compensation payments for a person (details supplied) for loss of livestock due to TB infection; and if he...
    • Forestry Sector
      2160. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current procedure by which afforestation licence applications are referred to the ecology unit; and the average processing times...
    • Control of Horses
      2169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of people prosecuted for failing to register equines in each of the years 2023 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted...
    • Tillage Sector
      2178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a €60 million annual investment for a new tillage scheme, aiming to boost crop production which would...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      2179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address concerns about potential cuts to the CAP budget; if he will support calls for the EU Commission to be transparent...
    • Nitrates Usage
      2180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek clarity on the EU Commission's proposed changes to the derogation and its potential impact on Irish farmers; and if...
    • Farm Costs
      2181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support calls for targeted measures to address rising farm costs, including support for PRSI, trade and energy; and if he...
    • Fisheries Protection
      2182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the potential for pollack quota (TAC) in ICES area 6a south for 2026; how this will benefit those that fish this stock by hook and...
    • Animal Passports
      2184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pet passports issued for dogs and cats being taken out of the country in each of the past five years, in tabular form;...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      2186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the perceived failure to exclude large trawlers from coastal waters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Forestry Sector
      2187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of hectares of forestry approved for planting by individual farmers, commercial companies and pension/investment...
    • Departmental Staff
      2194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE staff by job title and gender working within biosecurity division of his Department as of 18 July 2025; the WTE...
    • Control of Dogs
      2195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the absence of figures for the number of euthanisations carried out at a dog pounds (details supplied), from February...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown on the number of delayed ACRES payments, by county and by average duration of delay and the reason for the delay; and...
    • Animal Culls
      2198. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will make to combat the increasing deer population in Wicklow; his targets for the county; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Communications
      2199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of any personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42148/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) is not receiving the full entitlements of ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      2203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts or included...
    • Assisted Animal Reproduction
      2204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to ban surgical insemination of greyhounds; and if so, the timeline for doing so. [42939/25]
    • Control of Dogs
      2205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on ongoing legislative work relating to dog welfare and control; and the timeline for when this legislation...
    • Climate Action Plan
      2206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the two new actions due and the nine legacy actions due as outlined in the Q1 2025 progress report (details...
    • Grant Payments
      2207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who still have not received any payments under the ACRES scheme for 2023 to date, on a county by county basis;...
    • Departmental Bodies
      2208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a contact list of all State and semi-State bodies connected with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Funding
      2209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility, for...
    • Nitrates Usage
      2211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress to date in obtaining an extension of the nitrates derogation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43241/25]
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      2212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of his most recent discussions with other EU agriculture ministers, and at the EU Agriculture Council, in relation to...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support the ringfencing of funding for farm schemes within the overall EU budget [43266/25]
    • Forestry Sector
      2214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to initiating a new largescale afforestation programme to reduce our carbon footprint and provide...
    • Nitrates Usage
      2215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the recent engagements he and his Department have had with the EU regarding the nitrates derogation; and if he will make...
    • Weather Events
      2217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the recent engagements he and his Department have had on formulating an extreme weather event financial scheme for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the plans he has to resource the Agricultural Appeals Review Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43298/25]
    • Agriculture Industry
      2220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the progress being made to find suitable replacements for potato desiccants such as diquat, to provide any...
    • Coastal Zone Management
      2221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government intends to support strategic investment in local marine infrastructure in areas such as Dún Laoghaire under...
    • Animal Welfare
      2222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans to ban or limit the practice of blood sports in Ireland such as hare coursing and fox hunting; and if he will make a...
    • Assisted Animal Reproduction
      2223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will align Irish laws with those of other European countries and ban surgical insemination of racing greyhounds, as it is with...
    • Nitrates Usage
      2225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of discussions he has had to date with the EU Agriculture and Environment Commissioners and at the Agriculture Council...
    • Fishing Communities
      2226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that are available for small-scale farmers and fishermen facing exclusion from direct market supply chains and...
    • Grant Payments
      2227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on an outstanding agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payment (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff
      2228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43652/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      2229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Grant Payments
      2230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on an agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Fishing Industry
      2231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the recent announcement of a total allowable catch of pollack for 2026 and the division between recreational and...
    • Grant Payments
      2232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43920/25]
    • Trade Agreements
      2233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his engagements regarding the Mercosur trade agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43942/25]
    • Animal Diseases
      2234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the amount raised from farmers through levies; the contribution of the European Union; the amount of...
    • Food Industry
      2236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of people engaged in the food production industry, broken down by county and age demographics, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Beef Sector
      2237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department is taking to promote the Protected Geographical Indicator for Irish grassfed beef as a premium brand in...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date by his Department on examining the feasibility of a scouring plant for wool in developing an Irish wool...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the progress made to date by his Department in reviewing investment items and reference costs under the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      2241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department are taking to improve and accelerate IT capabilities in his Department in order to enhance systems and to...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department for Health in relation to examining the fair deal...
    • Grant Payments
      2243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date by his Department in relation to a review of the eligibility criteria for the succession planning advice...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on his Department’s progress to date in relation to the delivery of a scheme that recognises the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      2245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date by his Department in relation to the introduction of a national framework for carbon farming to guide the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares of land in the State eligible for payment under the single farm payment scheme; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Departmental Strategies
      2253. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cross-departmental strategies being developed to make parenthood more accessible and less burdensome. [42553/25]
    • Disability Services
      2254. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plan, timeline and cost to increase support for people with disabilities to access supported independent living; the provision...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2255. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of need overdue for completion at the end of quarter 2 2025, by area, in tabular form; and the mean time...
    • Children in Care
      2258. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in care who are in their third placement or greater within the previous 12-months in each of the years 2020,...
    • Childcare Services
      2259. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to address the problem of childcare providers exiting the core funding scheme; if a review into the core...
    • Health Services Staff
      2260. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE dietitians, by grade based at south Louth children's disability network team in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      2262. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend by her Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2263. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by her Department...
    • Childcare Services
      2264. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to increase investment in childcare infrastructure and expand creche and after-school service...
    • Disability Services
      2266. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will commit to providing ring-fenced funding to address the current and historic financial deficits experienced by voluntary...
    • Childcare Services
      2267. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when funding from TUSLA of €28,000 will be provided to an organisation (details supplied). [40977/25]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      2268. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to promote flexible working arrangements that benefit both...
    • Youth Services
      2270. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the procedure for establishing an aftercare, over 18, package for a young person in the care of Tusla; the circumstances in which...
    • Disability Services
      2271. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to examine the case of a person (details supplied) requiring funding-support for daily transport; and if she will make a statement...
    • Childcare Services
      2273. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he will make childcare affordable by increasing the subsidy and threshold for the national childcare scheme; and if she will...
    • Grant Payments
      2274. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value...
    • Childcare Services
      2275. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a case will be examined (details supplied) where a childcare provider who withdrew from core funding last year and increased its...
    • Children in Care
      2277. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children or young people either in State care, or previously known to child protection services, who have died in...
    • Child Protection
      2278. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unborn children placed on the child protection notification system in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025....
    • Child Abuse
      2279. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of reports of child sexual abuse made to Tusla, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025; the number made by...
    • Children in Care
      2280. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unaccompanied minors currently in State care. [41126/25]
    • Disability Services
      2281. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding a long-term residential place for a person in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      2282. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the planned investment in sustainable childcare infrastructure in Budget 2025, both at national and local level. [41159/25]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2283. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of funding allocated for new or expanded early years services in the Dublin 3, 5, 9, 13 and 17...
    • Childcare Services
      2284. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to support the financial viability of community-based childcare providers facing rising operational costs....
    • Legislative Process
      2290. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Equality and Family Leave (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill will be presented for debate in the Oireachtas; and if she will...
    • Family Resource Centres
      2291. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of an application (details supplied) for a community centre to join the family resource centre; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2292. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will increase funding for the waiting list initiative to clear the waiting list and backlog for the assessment of need...
    • Child Protection
      2293. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality regarding the 96,666 child protection and welfare referrals received by Tusla in 2024, the number that were subsequently assessed...
    • Children in Care
      2294. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide, for each calendar year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive, and for the period January to June 2025, the number of...
    • Child Protection
      2295. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a matter raised by this Deputy during Topical Issues in the Dáil chamber on Thursday 10...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2296. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will allocate €10 million to establish local, publicly run early childhood, education and care services, beginning...
    • Childcare Services
      2297. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to cases whereby childcare centres that have no refund policies regarding deposits and upfront...
    • Care Services
      2298. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the level of respite services available in Cavan and Monaghan for children and for adults; the further proposals to extend the...
    • Legislative Process
      2299. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Health Assisted Human Reproduction Act 2024 will commence; if maternity leave entitlement will be included for people...
    • Family Resource Centres
      2300. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review correspondence (details supplied); to outline the supports available on rents for a family resource centre; and if she...
    • Child Protection
      2301. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe for a review of a case by Tusla (details supplied). [41326/25]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      2302. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will undertake a review of the restriction on using first cousin DNA to link with the DNA of babies exhumed from the Tuam...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2303. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children referred for an autism spectrum disorder assessment to a CNDT (details supplied) team through either the...
    • Childcare Services
      2306. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the €200 monthly subsidy for families with children attending early years and school age care, as committed to in the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2307. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that Kerry has an early years staff turnover rate of 25%, above the national average; and the measures she intends...
    • Rural Schemes
      2313. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a targeted rural childcare investment strategy is being considered to address specific workforce retention and sustainability...
    • Disability Services
      2314. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason children with autism spectrum disorder in County Kerry no longer receive the previously standard six-week block of...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      2317. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider implementing a national policy to review ASD diagnoses in key educational transition years, 1st, 2nd, and 6th...
    • Care Services
      2318. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the efforts being made to increase capacity at overnight respite centres serving Kerry families (details supplied); and whether...
    • Disability Services
      2320. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason such a small proportion of families accessing disability services in Kerry are currently assigned key workers under the...
    • Childcare Services
      2324. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently address the issues outlined by Childminding Ireland (details supplied) as the sector is on the brink of collapse; and...
    • Disability Services
      2326. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of current staff vacancies across children's disability network teams in County Meath; the breakdown of these vacancies,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2327. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address the issue whereby recommendations from speech and language therapists who are registered with CORU, but operate...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2329. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if all external legal fees incurred by her Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2336. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment of needs in the CHO 7 area; the number of children waiting longer than 12 months; and...
    • Disability Services
      2337. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in the CHO 7 area currently waiting to access therapies by the CDNT, by category of therapy, in tabular...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2339. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently on a waiting list with the NCSE for an assessment of needs; the number of children on a waiting...
    • Children in Care
      2340. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of foster carers regarding the need to increase access to therapeutic supports for...
    • Childcare Services
      2344. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of parents who fall under fee band F in relation to their childcare fees; if the...
    • Children in Care
      2345. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to ensure that financial support is addressed in Budget 2026 around therapeutic supports for children in care, through expanded and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2347. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is concerned that early years educators are having difficulty accessing mortgages due to having to sign on to jobseekers...
    • Disability Services
      2348. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the CDNTs within CHO1 that currently have vacant psychologist posts; the estimated timeframe for filling each of those vacancies,...
    • Children in Care
      2350. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will introduce measures (details supplied) in Budget 2026, to support foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      2351. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of day-only and nighttime respite places available for children in the integrated health areas of Dublin north, and...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2352. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of the number of children on waiting lists in the children’s disability network teams of Coolock, Kilbarrack...
    • Disability Services
      2355. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of referrals received for an assessment of need with the children's disability network team in CHO6 Wicklow and CHO7...
    • Child and Family Agency
      2356. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the five new family resource centres will be announced by Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41925/25]
    • Disability Services
      2357. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of child physiotherapists in CHO6 and CHO7, County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41927/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      2361. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a child safety officer has been appointed to St John’s Ambulance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41944/25]
    • Departmental Programmes
      2362. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will be working alongside the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to support and implement the...
    • Programme for Government
      2363. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has conducted the assessment of access referenced in the Programme for Government to finance and financial...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      2364. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 10 July 2025, the reply from the HSE furnished to me on 5 July 2025, if he will direct...
    • Parental Leave
      2365. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the establishment of maternity, paternity and adoptive leave policies for all elected representatives; and if she...
    • Childcare Services
      2366. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement her Department have had with childcare providers to determine how to reduce the administrative burden on providers;...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      2367. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress her Department has made in trying to reduce the administrative burden on providers; and if she will make a statement...
    • Childcare Services
      2368. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on planned changes to the planning guidelines for childcare facilities to facilitate more applications; and if she...
    • Education Schemes
      2372. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress that has been made by her Department to host state led after school care and support start up supports for groups...
    • Health Service Executive
      2373. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question number 313 of 10 July 2025, if the Minister seek further clarification to matter (details...
    • Disability Services
      2374. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of State funding that was provided to private operators of disability services in Wicklow in 2020-2025; and if she will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2377. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality Further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 22 May 2025, to provide details of each employer of the 93 CDNTs (detail supplied);...
    • Childcare Services
      2378. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures she will be undertaking to assist for childcare costs for working families; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      2381. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions she will take to reduce increasing insurance costs for childcare providers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2382. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a crèche place for a child (details supplied) will be made available; to outline any interventions that can be made for the...
    • Childcare Services
      2383. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the commitments in the Programme for Government that have been commenced in relation to making childcare more affordable for...
    • Paternity Leave
      2386. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which her Department encourages the take-up of statutory leave for fathers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Priorities
      2387. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans her Department are working on to tackle the falling birth rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42167/25]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2388. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress being made to ensure the Review of Early Learning and Care and School Age Childcare operating system in Ireland will...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2389. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she uses personal emails for her Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42170/25]
    • Social Workers Register
      2391. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of social workers and family support workers employed by Tusla working in the Wicklow area from the years...
    • Traveller Community
      2392. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of the amount of funding that was allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in the years 2020-2025. [42203/25]
    • Disability Services
      2393. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline how the Government intends to explore and implement proven intensive, interdisciplinary therapy models...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      2394. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the use of a cadaver dog has been considered to investigate parts of the Tuam site that are not being excavated; and if she will...
    • Disability Services
      2395. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the respite houses available to young adults with disabilities in the town of Clonmel; the location; who operates...
    • Family Resource Centres
      2396. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is considering the creation of a capital funding stream to support the building of new or refurbishment or extension of...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2397. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to reduce the waiting times for children awaiting an assessment of need; the average waiting time by...
    • Childcare Services
      2398. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders who have registered with Tusla and are part of the national childcare scheme since the expansion of the...
    • Children in Care
      2399. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the up-to-date position regarding her engagement with the relevant stakeholders including foster families, on the proposed national...
    • Disability Services
      2400. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons with disabilities that received home support hours in CH04 up to July 2025; the number of persons with...
    • Employment Schemes
      2402. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide the up-to-date position on meeting the 6% target for employment of people with disabilities in the public...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      2403. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she intends to engage with and meet groups representing parents and families of children conceived through surrogacy and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2405. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent by her Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      2406. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding any engagement with a group (details supplied) as part of the progression of the Assisted Decision Making...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      2411. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to state whether her Department or any agency operating under its aegis has, in the past five years, used reserved contracts or...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2412. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeline for the establishment of the National Agency for Early Learning and Childcare; the interim measures being taken to...
    • Childcare Services
      2413. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the fiscal supports being considered by her Department to alleviate the burden of childcare costs; and if she will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      2415. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason people with alcohol-related brain injuries are excluded from community neurorehabilitation services; to outline the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2418. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average wait time for assessment of needs referrals, by regional health area and integrated healthcare area, in tabular form....
    • Disability Services
      2420. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting over 15 months for an appointment with a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2421. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need, by health region and integrated healthcare...
    • Disability Services
      2422. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on a waiting list for speech and language therapy by health region and integrated healthcare area; age...
    • Oireachtas Committees
      2431. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Children, Education and Disability has met since the formation of the current...
    • Disability Services
      2432. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in view of the recent announcement by a service provider (details supplied) if she is willing to release emergency funding to...
    • Family Support Services
      2433. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding whether kinship carers with a formal agreement have the same rights as foster carers. [42773/25]
    • Disability Services
      2435. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE play therapist posts that were filled at east Clare Children's disability network team in the years of 2023, 2024...
    • Childcare Services
      2438. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider introducing a cap or ban on administrative fees charged by crèches for placing children on waiting lists; and if...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      2443. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if future decision support services will accept paper submissions to register an enduring power of attorney for elderly or...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2444. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the Autism Assessments and Interventions Pathway Protocol Project; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2446. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on CDNT waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by team and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2447. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies that exist in CDNTs in County Kerry, by CDNT region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      2448. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the capital allocations that have been granted to her Department as part of the National Development Plan; whether any allocations...
    • Disability Services
      2449. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the urgent actions her Department will take to address the backlog of over 14,000 overdue assessments of need for children...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2451. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the Government’s commitment to expanding affordable and accessible early education and school age childcare, if she...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2453. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) will be called for their assessment of need appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      2454. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which her Department or any body under her aegis has responsibility, for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2456. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children, by county, who benefitted from supports under the national childcare scheme in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in...
    • Legislative Measures
      2457. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on proposals for legislation to ban conversion practices; when she will bring Heads of Bill to Cabinet; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      2458. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the LGBTI+ Community Services Fund will fund the outhouse community casework service in 2026; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      2459. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the independent review of low pay in Section 39 organisations will commence as committed to in the 2025 WRC agreement; the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2460. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children as of 1 July 2025, or latest date available, that were awaiting a first assessment of need from the HSE...
    • Child Protection
      2463. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her position on the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if she will...
    • Child and Family Agency
      2464. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress made on the reform of Tusla and improvements to child protection services; the level of funding allocated to family...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2465. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total cost of assessments of needs commissioned by the HSE, per each respective provider, in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      2471. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the responsibilities that have been devolved to the Minister of State with responsibility for Disability; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      2472. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline her plans regarding the ongoing research and planning on the development of assistive technologies to be used to assist...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2474. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans for assessing the best means of carrying out assessments of needs and therapies provision for those with autism; and if...
    • Disability Services
      2477. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the positions that are unfilled by the CDNT team, in tabular form; the plans to fill these; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Children in Care
      2479. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the engagement there has been with foster carers to deliver on their asks regarding the foster...
    • Child and Family Agency
      2480. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on early child and family interventions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43552/25]
    • Disability Services
      2481. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the positions and teams unfilled for community neuro rehabilitation teams, by region, in tabular...
    • Childcare Services
      2487. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to address the cost of childcare in areas like Dublin Rathdown, where the cost is above the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2488. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has engaged with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on ensuring...
    • Departmental Staff
      2491. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of full time equivalents directly employed by her Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43653/25]
    • Departmental Equipment
      2492. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • Disability Services
      2493. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the status of respite funding for adults with intellectual disabilities and autism in counties Carlow and...
    • Children in Care
      2494. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider the recommendations put forward by an organisation (details supplied) in its pre-budget submission 2026,...
    • Disability Services
      2496. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider supporting the introduction of a 10% candidate quota for people with disabilities on party ballots, in line...
    • Departmental Funding
      2497. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she plans to sanction the final €5 million in funding needed to complete a complex (details supplied) which would,...
    • Disability Services
      2500. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to provide a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the Dublin and north-east region noting that they do not currently...
    • Childcare Services
      2501. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm that consideration would be given to reforming the core funding model for childcare centres, to provide additional...
    • Children in Care
      2503. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing foster care allowance rates by €15 or €25, or alternatively index linking it to...
    • Childcare Services
      2505. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the current funding streams for childcare; the breakdown of the additional funding provided in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2507. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding required to increase funding for the ECCE scheme by 10%; if she will provide a breakdown of those proposed...
    • Departmental Data
      2508. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe for when additional funding will be provided for a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      2509. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider collecting and publishing data on the average number of overnight respite beds and a record of respite bed...
    • Departmental Policies
      2511. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she or her Department plan to alter the current departmental description of autism spectrum disorder as an umbrella term, with...
    • Disability Services
      2513. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to move from an emergency-based approach to a planned, rights-based model of disability support;...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2514. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions her Department is taking to reduce the backlog of over 14,000 overdue assessments of need for children with...
    • Departmental Funding
      2515. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline any new funding or staffing measures being put in place to clear the assessment of need backlog, particularly...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2516. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe within which she expects the current backlog in disability assessments and supports for children to be resolved; and...
    • Disability Services
      2518. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the progress being made on rolling out the national information management system for children's disability...
    • Departmental Policies
      2520. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      2521. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the public...
    • Departmental Funding
      2522. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated total recurring and accumulated funding deficits reported by State-funded service providers across the childcare and...
    • Public Sector Pay
      2523. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated total cost of aligning section 39 provider pay scales with pay scales in the statutory disability services sector....
    • Home Help Service
      2525. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing personal assistance hours by at least 270,000. [44329/25]
    • Disability Services
      2527. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of prioritising 460 people under 65 with a disability to move from family homes, congregated settings and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2533. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to allocating funding for after-school facilities as part of the National Development Plan Review...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2534. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the waiting times for assessments of need for Q1 and Q2 in 2025 with a breakdown, by county; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Health
    • Middle East
      2535. To ask the Minister for Health the details of any coordination with other states on evacuation flights from Gaza, similar to the coordination with the Slovakian Government in December 2024;...
    • Dental Services
      2536. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to reintroduce a vocational training programme for graduate dentists to support the transition into the workforce; and if she will make...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      2537. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided in 2025 for the provision of an integrated homeless health hub in Cork city day centre (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      2538. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the application for the approval of palforzia as an oral immunotherapy treatment for peanut allergy; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Care Orders
      2540. To ask the Minister for Health if long-term care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40725/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      2541. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the GP training programme; the number on the programme in each of the years 2015 to 2024, inclusive; the destinations of those on the...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      2542. To ask the Minister for Health to address the significant delays in parliamentary question responses from the HSE (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40776/25]
    • Care Services
      2543. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the fair deal scheme, in the instance that the principal residence is sold after the three-year cap has passed, the way in which this impacts the...
    • Hospital Staff
      2544. To ask the Minister for Health if an anomaly can be addressed in respect of staff and workers at a hospital in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      2545. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request a roadmap for the restoration of full maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital. [40801/25]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      2548. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider funding a second round of IVF for couples who have no children and were unsuccessful with round one of IVF; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      2549. To ask the Minister for Health his views on Ireland’s success in reaching a life expectancy of 83 years; what she expects to be the life expectancy for men and women in 2030, 2040...
    • Vaccination Programme
      2550. To ask the Minister for Health the primary reasons that approximately 10% of children at 24 months of age have not received the MMR vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products
      2551. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the assessment, funding and use, including early use through an early access scheme, of givinostat for muscular dystrophy patients; and if...
    • Departmental Equipment
      2552. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide information regarding the funding available for the purchase of a generator for a service in Mayo (details supplied). [40824/25]
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      2553. To ask the Minister for Health if all meals-on-wheels services across the State will be provided with a generator considering the impact of Storm Éowyn on electricity supplies,...
    • Public Sector Pay
      2554. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 828 of 25 February 2025, when and by whom the decision was taken to exclude medical scientists who retired before 1...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2557. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by her Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which external advice was...
    • Health Services Staff
      2558. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists based at Clogherhead health centre in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [40844/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      2559. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls received at NorthEast Doctor on-call service based in Drogheda in 2024 and to date in 2025; of the calls received, the number that were...
    • Health Services Staff
      2560. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental nurses who are currently on panels awaiting a job offer. [40846/25]
    • Medical Cards
      2561. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give due consideration to expanding Ireland’s medical card scheme to cover psychotherapy, both short-term and long-term, through a...
    • Health Services
      2562. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the correspondence to address concerns raised by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40861/25]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2563. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by her Department and agencies under its...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      2564. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently intervene in the case of a child (details supplied) who has been refused access to incontinence products by the HSE on the basis of a...
    • Medical Cards
      2570. To ask the Minister for Health if she will remove child maintenance payments as income in the means test for medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40896/25]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      2571. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all addiction step-down facilities currently operating in County Galway; who operates each facility; the public body or agency that holds...
    • Medicinal Products
      2573. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding treatments for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy in Ireland; and if she will make a...
    • Suicide Incidence
      2574. To ask the Minister for Health the work being undertaken by her officials and-or the HSE to establish real-time suicide reporting in Ireland and associated infrastructure; if she will...
    • Medicinal Products
      2575. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the growing concern re the shortage of salbutamol. [40971/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      2576. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1763 of 19 March 2025, the detailed breakdown of what precisely the amount of €145.5 million is spent on, in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2577. To ask the Minister for Health the reason new payment arrangements have yet to be made to section 39 workers despite the fact that there is an agreement in place and approved by Government...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2579. To ask the Minister for Health if a hip replacement surgery for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40976/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      2580. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person whose family member resided in a private nursing home can access their records. [40981/25]
    • Dental Services
      2581. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists working in the public scheme in each CHO district from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      2583. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitalisations for children caused by tooth decay, broken down by hospital group, from 2014-2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      2584. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 904 of 15 July 2025, if she will engage with a union (details supplied) to encourage the use of European-made...
    • Middle East
      2585. To ask the Minister for Health who is eligible for evacuation from Gaza to Ireland on medical grounds; and if people requiring medical attention in Gaza are eligible for evacuation if they...
    • Departmental Data
      2586. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 855 of 8 July 2025, the number of early abortions provided through fully remote consultations, in each of the years...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2588. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline of the full implementation of the statutory home support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41025/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2593. To ask the Minister for Health the average hours of home support delivered to older people in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41030/25]
    • Dental Services
      2597. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practicing dentists registered in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41039/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2599. To ask the Minister for Health the overall number and percentage of health care assistants working in HSE long-term residential care facilities currently that have the recommended QQI/FETAC...
    • Grant Payments
      2600. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant payments for...
    • Departmental Policies
      2601. To ask the Minister for Health if she will introduce a financial support system for people, especially children, who suffer from auditory process disorder; to outline her policy on this...
    • Medicinal Products
      2602. To ask the Minister for Health if she has engaged with her counterpart in the North to explore the potential for maximising access to new medicines while ensuring value for money through...
    • Departmental Regulations
      2603. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of instances in which free nicotine pouches have been distributed by retailers and at music festivals throughout Dublin bay north and...
    • Departmental Data
      2605. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young people aged under 18 who have been referred to mental health services in each of the past five years where the primary or a contributing...
    • Dental Services
      2606. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental positions in County Monaghan, including the number vacant, by quarter since 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41094/25]
    • Cancer Services
      2607. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting lists for cancer screening and cancer treatment at year end in each of the past ten years. [41095/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2610. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for eye treatment in each count; and the average waiting length, per county. [41098/25]
    • Cancer Services
      2613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer surgeries carried out in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [41101/25]
    • Health Services
      2614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents recorded in the health service 2018 to 2025; and the nature of adverse incidents. [41102/25]
    • Hospital Services
      2616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents recorded in each hospital group 2018 to 2025; and the nature of adverse incidents. [41104/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      2618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents that were recorded in each CAMHS region 2018 to 2025; and the nature of adverse incidents. [41106/25]
    • State Claims Agency
      2619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health service-related claims that have been lodged with the States Claims Agency for each of the past five years. [41107/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2620. To ask the Minister for Health the amount in compensation that has been paid out by the State as a result of claims lodged against the health service, in each of the past ten years and to...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      2621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently clinically discharged from hospital, but who remain in hospital; the number who have been in hospital despite being...
    • Emergency Departments
      2622. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in each emergency department in the country. [41110/25]
    • Cancer Services
      2624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases taken against the State regarding the alleged misreading of smear tests, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [41112/25]
    • Registration of Deaths
      2625. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons who died in the state in each of the past ten years. [41113/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2626. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of the cyber-attack on the HSE and on her Department in recent years. [41114/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2627. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of HSE staff currently absent from work. [41115/25]
    • Cancer Services
      2628. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted any analysis to determine the number of cancer diagnosis delayed as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      2629. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by each hospital in the State to debt collectors over the past decade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41117/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cyber security staff recruited by the HSE, in each of the past ten years. [41118/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2631. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments cancelled by each hospital in the State, in each of the past ten years. [41119/25]
    • Cancer Services
      2633. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to fund and implement the hereditary cancer model of care in Ireland, with particular reference to improving genetic testing and...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2637. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital procedure for a person (details supplied) is likely to be rescheduled following an already cancelled date; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      2638. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify when a person can expect a decision on a recent discretionary hardship application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2639. To ask the Minister for Health if a scan will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41184/25]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      2640. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that every child in emergency accommodation has access to a child support worker; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41187/25]
    • Health Services
      2641. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) can be urgently addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41190/25]
    • Dental Services
      2642. To ask the Minister for Health for Health her plans to provide the necessary funding to expand capacity and train more dentists at Cork University Dental School and Hospital; and if she...
    • Budget 2026
      2643. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the support that meals on wheels services that are not funded by the HSE receives from her Department; if she has considered expanding the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2644. To ask the Minister for Health if an impact assessment has been carried out in relation to the removal of emergency general surgery from the South West Acute Hospital which has a large...
    • Nursing Homes
      2645. To ask the Minister for Health the month in which the new Nenagh community nursing home will be fully open. [41226/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      2646. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the new 96-bed block in University Hospital Limerick will open. [41227/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2647. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of professional bodies the HSE gender programme has asked for representatives from, such as bodies for pharmacists, psychologists, and occupational...
    • Health Services
      2648. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the protests seeking improvements in trans healthcare on 12 July 2025; the actions she has taken to engage with trans...
    • Medicinal Products
      2649. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the assessment and potential inclusion of the psychiatric medication lumateperone for the treatment of bipolar disorder under the drug...
    • Care Services
      2650. To ask the Minister for Health if a post admission care package can be organised for a patient (details supplied), who was recently discharged from the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2651. To ask the Minister for Health when facilities will be provided at a health centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41244/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      2652. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-term nursing home bed will be expedited for a person (details supplied) given the urgency of the case; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      2654. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to provide extra psychiatric capacity at a facility (details supplied), given the fact that people are being sent home for the lack of...
    • Budget 2026
      2655. To ask the Minister for Health to strongly support the pre-Budget submission by a society (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41256/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      2656. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE and an organisation (details supplied) have come to an agreement on the endometriosis framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2657. To ask the Minister for Health the capital projects which are at appraisal stage, by region and service division, in tabular form; the year in which each business case was submitted; and...
    • EU Directives
      2667. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the application submitted on behalf of a person (details supplied) for stem cell therapy was refused under the EU Cross-Border Healthcare Directive...
    • Medical Inquiries
      2668. To ask the Minister for Health if a speech and language appointment will be expedited (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41302/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      2669. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 1 October 2024, if she will clarify the contradiction between the reply with Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 5...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2671. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress of each individual action outlined in the 2022 HSE position paper on the prevention of foetal alcohol spectrum...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      2672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals diagnosed with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      2674. To ask the Minister for Health the aftercare supports that are available to an individual with a diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Research and Training
      2675. To ask the Minister for Health the mandatory required training that all HSE clinicians must undertake in order to support patients living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      2676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies who had facial dysmorphia associated with foetal alcohol syndrome recorded at birth in each of the past ten years, in tabular form...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2677. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the rehabilitation unit in Leopardstown Hospital, Dublin is closing; who has directed this closure; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products
      2678. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the growing use of HHC (hexahydrocannabinol) vapes, a synthetic cannabinoid product, among young people; if the new Public Health (Nicotine...
    • Disability Services
      2681. To ask the Minister for Health if they will ask the HSE and disability services to review the case of a disabled person (details supplied) who is not receiving the level of support and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2682. To ask the Minister for Health if gynaecologists are now using excision to remove endometriosis; if so, the countries in which the specialist consultants are trained; if there are plans to...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2683. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any supports for a group (details supplied) looking for a door-to-door transport service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41420/25]
    • Cancer Services
      2684. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for chemotherapy to commence from time of referral in each hospital group between 2015 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Primary Care Services
      2685. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is currently on the primary care waiting list for ASD-related supports in County Longford; if so, the position on the list; and...
    • Victims Commission
      2686. To ask the Minister for Health the quantum amount contained in the indemnity fund set aside as a condition of the transfer of the ownership of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda from an...
    • General Practitioner Services
      2687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs currently practicing in County Meath; the GP-to-population ratio for the county; how this compares with the national average and with...
    • Health Services Staff
      2688. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of both unfilled and filled adult multidisciplinary therapy posts in County Meath in 2024 and 2025, by CHO, and by occupation, in tabular...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies within Our Lady's Hospital Navan, broken down by specific role and department, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Dental Services
      2690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS patients in Cork; the number registered with a dentist; and if he will provide the same figures for 2019. [41467/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      2693. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to the St Mary's health campus ambulance base, the Kinsale road ambulance base and the Erinville bases in each of the years 2020 to...
    • Nursing Homes
      2696. To ask the Minister for Health if a place in a nursing home for a person will be provided (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41485/25]
    • Health Services
      2697. To ask the Minister for Health to review a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41486/25]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2698. To ask the Minister for Health if all external legal fees incurred by her Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates; how fees are monitored...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      2699. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department conducts regular benchmarking, or market testing, to ensure that the rates paid for legal services, solicitors and barristers, represent...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2701. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted any audits or reviews in the past five years on legal fee spend; if so, to publish the findings or summaries of those reviews;...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      2702. To ask the Minister for Health the internal oversight that exists within her Department to monitor the scope, duration, and cost escalation of legal services once engaged; and if she will...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2703. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department makes use of capped fee arrangements, fixed-fee briefs, success-based fee models or other such arrangements in its legal engagements; if...
    • Health Services Staff
      2705. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social workers currently employed in each of the six safeguarding and protection teams within the HSE; the number of vacant posts; the number of...
    • Health Service Executive
      2707. To ask the Minister for Health the role of the Chief Social Worker of the HSE; how this role interacts with both the National Safeguarding Office and the six regional safeguarding and...
    • Health Services
      2711. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been spent on interpretation services in all and any health settings over the past ten years, broken down by year and geographical area,...
    • Health Service Executive
      2712. To ask the Minister for Health the definitive timeline for disposal of the vacant HSE building in Derrygreenagh Park, Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath (details supplied). [41654/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2713. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all consultants commissioned as part of the north Kerry look-back review; the nature of the work they were commissioned for; and the...
    • Health Service Executive
      2714. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all reports commissioned by consultants as part of the north Kerry look-back review; and the costs associated with same. [41659/25]
    • Dental Services
      2715. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she will take to ensure that a person (details supplied) can have the orthodontic treatment they need without further delay; and if she will make...
    • Legislative Measures
      2716. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 has been referenced as the legislative framework that will ban HHC, and the reason the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive...
    • Primary Care Centres
      2718. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of the leasing of each primary care centre delivered under an operational lease model in Cork in the past five years; and the length of the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2719. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the urgent procedure necessary for a person (details supplied) in Cork University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      2720. To ask the Minister for Health if she will update circular 29/2019 regarding bereavement leave in the public health services, the staff of which are currently not entitled to leave that is...
    • Nursing Homes
      2722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community nursing home beds specifically available to persons with Alzheimer's disease, per county, per year between the years 2020 to 2025, in...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2724. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for dementia beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41705/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      2726. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the new mandibular device used to treat sleep apnoea is not approved under the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and whether the new device...
    • Health Services Staff
      2727. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives available for workers wishing to register with CORU but find that their employer refuses to complete the necessary forms; if she plans to...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      2728. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline for the introduction of legislation to add hexahydrocannabinol to control measures under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 as a schedule 1...
    • Health Services Staff
      2729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse posts per CHO; and the number of posts filled and the number of vacancies, in tabular form. [41735/25]
    • Home Care Packages
      2731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on a waiting list for home care packages in the CHO 7 area; and the number of those who have been waiting more than six months....
    • Dental Services
      2732. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of dentists enrolled with the dental treatment service scheme, by county, in tabular form. [41738/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently on the waiting list for the Centre for Obesity Management; and the average waiting time to access services once a referral has...
    • Health Services
      2734. To ask the Minister for Health the care pathway for a person who is diagnosed privately in the north of Ireland with endometriosis; the services available in this State; the next steps for...
    • Mental Health Services
      2735. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of fully staffing and resourcing all perinatal mental health teams across the six RHAs. [41755/25]
    • Health Services
      2738. To ask the Minister for Health the projected capital and staffing cost for the development of a dedicated mother and baby unit. [41758/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      2740. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline any costings conducted by her Department regarding the establishment of walk-in youth mental health hubs such as Jigsaw in each regional...
    • Health Services Staff
      2741. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of having a clinical psychologist in each primary care network or GP practice. [41772/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2743. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the recent RTE Investigates programme on a nursing home, she is satisfied that HSE safeguarding and protection teams are adequately skilled...
    • Health Services
      2744. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the current levels of funding allocated to oral health promotion initiatives; if she will consider increasing support for organisations...
    • Dental Services
      2747. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was spent through the dental treatment services scheme in each of the past four years, in tabular form. [41827/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      2748. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to conduct a review into the care of people in residential care covered under the fair deal scheme to ensure that the residents are receiving the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2749. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the practice known as gluten washing in the marketplace; if there are any proposed actions to address this practice and how it is impacting...
    • Health Services
      2750. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide for standardised breast density reporting for women who have mammograms in Ireland; her response to the campaign by an organisation...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2752. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 772 of 25 March 2025, if she will provide an update on proposals to deliver improved Wi-Fi and mobile phone coverage for...
    • Health Services Staff
      2758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric in emergency medicine posts based at CHI Temple Street, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [41884/25]
    • Health Services
      2760. To ask the Minister for Health if she has visited Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown since her appointment; and if so, the purpose of the visit. [41886/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2761. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses based at St Mary's Hospital, Phoenix Park, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [41887/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      2762. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at St Mary's Hospital, Phoenix Park, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [41888/25]
    • Hospital Services
      2763. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the imminent closure of the day centre at Cahersiveen Community Hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Services
      2764. To ask the Minister for Health the current general practitioner to population in the Fingal area, particularly in Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk; how this compares to the national...
    • Disability Services
      2768. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of day respite and night respite places available in the integrated health areas of Dublin north and Dublin north city and west, compared to...
    • Primary Care Centres
      2769. To ask the Minister for Health if information will be provided on the delivery of a primary care centre in an area (details supplied); the reason this project has been delayed; when it is...
    • Home Care Packages
      2770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting homecare support in Wicklow; the total number of hours allocated in 2024 and 2025 to date in Wicklow; the average number of...
    • Disability Services
      2772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received in 2024 and 2025 to date for respite care; the number of people currently on the waiting list for respite care services,...
    • Dental Services
      2773. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults that are on the dental appointment waiting list in Wicklow; the average waiting times for appointments; and if she will make...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2776. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in County Wicklow; the average waiting time, broken down by length of time, 3, 6, 12+ months, in tabular form;...
    • Health Services Staff
      2777. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult physiotherapists in CHO6 and CHO7, County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41926/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2780. To ask the Minister for Health the number currently on the waiting list for adult physiotherapy in CHO6 and CHO7, County Wicklow, by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      2783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications were received under the fair deal nursing home support scheme in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the average time for...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2786. To ask the Minister for Health when the family of a child (details supplied), who apparently received operations at CHI for development dysplasia of the hip which were unnecessary, will...
    • Hospital Staff
      2788. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists working at a hospital (details supplied), by grade, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      2789. To ask the Minister for Health the services currently available to users in north Dublin who suffer with trichiasis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41979/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      2791. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider reviewing the current regulatory status of melatonin in Ireland, given that it is available over the counter in many EU countries. [41999/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      2796. To ask the Minister for Health if the drugs scheme minimum payment be dropped from €80 to €40 for widowed partners (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      2797. To ask the Minister for Health the further investments planned for maternity services in the west of Ireland, including Portiuncula University Hospital, PUH, and University Hospital Galway,...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      2798. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the stage the Covid inquiry is at; the timeline for when it will begin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42061/25]
    • Ministerial Communications
      2800. To ask the Minister for Health if she uses personal emails for her Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42110/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2801. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the number of WTE dentists and dental nurse posts by grade that are filled at Castlebar Primary Care Centre in each of the years 2023 to...
    • Hospital Staff
      2802. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at Mayo University Hospital in each of the years of 2023 to 2024 and to date in...
    • Health Services Staff
      2803. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the number of WTE physiotherapist posts by grade that are filled at Claremorris Primary Care Centre in each of the years of 2023 to 2024...
    • Ministerial Communications
      2806. To ask the Minister for Health the messaging providers downloaded on her ministerial phone; the details of any provider downloaded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42137/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2807. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [42144/25]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      2808. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider an approach of multi-annual funding commitments for those working within addiction services to allow for more sustainable planning; and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2810. To ask the Minister for Health the measures her Department is taking to address the use of Hexahydrocannabinol, HHC, by young people; if she will consider criminalising HHC; and if she will...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      2811. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to ensure fentanyl use does not become widespread in Ireland as it has become in other countries; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      2813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists in Wicklow for residential addiction services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42195/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      2815. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for when a project will be completed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42197/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2816. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which contracts are awarded for taxi services within the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42199/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2817. To ask the Minister for Health the status of vacancies in primary health centres in Wicklow (details supplied); the number of posts that remain vacant or unfilled; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2818. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for scoliosis treatment in Wicklow; and the length of time they have been on waiting lists, in tabular form. [42213/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      2819. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has paid to private nursing homes in Wicklow between the years 2020 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2820. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation or resus bays and cubicles currently within the accident and emergency department of Kerry University Hospital; and if she will...
    • Dental Services
      2821. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists working in the school dental scheme in County Kerry in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Health Services Staff
      2822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of wholetime equivalent, WTE, physiotherapists by grade based in each primary care centre within CHO4 in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in...
    • Health Services
      2824. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently intervene and ensure every effort is made to have the decision reversed to close the daycare centre at Cahersiveen Community Hospital, County...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2826. To ask the Minister for Health the precise date building works are due to commence on the replacement facility for the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, County Cork. [42238/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2827. To ask the Minister for Health the number of trainee psychologists graduating from doctoral courses in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; the number of graduates who took up posts in the HSE within...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      2828. To ask the Minister for Health the details of funding allocated to Coolmine Southwest addiction services for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [42242/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      2829. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of 20 new specialist eating disorder inpatient beds announced by the Government on 21 July 2025, and for details of staff recruitment, including...
    • Health Services Staff
      2830. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing provision by grade staff, senior or principal grade and contract type, fixed term or permanent, for child and adolescent primary care services in...
    • Health Service Executive
      2831. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reported assaults on HSE staff during the course of their work duties for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; and to provide any additional...
    • Health Services Staff
      2832. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all primary care posts, including discipline, grade basic, senior or principal grade and contract type, fixed term or permanent, in each health...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      2837. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a serious matter (details supplied) regarding Covid 19 vaccines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42251/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2838. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in the Dublin southwest Integrated Health Area and the number of vacancies; and the details of recruitment to these roles...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      2842. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the application for a primary medical certificate for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      2843. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of speech and language therapy services in the Headford area of county Galway, in view of reports that no cover has been...
    • Health Promotion
      2844. To ask the Minister for Health if she has engaged with public health experts on the health impact of the potential delay of the application of health warning labels on alcoholic beverages;...
    • Cancer Services
      2845. To ask the Minister for Health the reason individuals diagnosed with cancer in County Leitrim are now being referred to Galway instead of Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2846. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite an appointment for surgery for a person (details supplied). [42332/25]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      2847. To ask the Minister for Health for the timeline regarding when the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority will be fully operational; the staff appointed to date in 2025; if a...
    • Mental Health Services
      2851. To ask the Minister for Health if frontline social workers in the public system have access to ongoing mental health supports; her plans to strengthen psychological support for staff...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2852. To ask the Minister for Health the number of wards or beds not currently in use in each of the Cork hospitals. [42391/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2853. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting ophthalmology appointments for cataracts in each of the past five years in Cork, in tabular form. [42392/25]
    • Disability Services
      2854. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the travel assistance schemes a person with a diagnosis of autism and Asperger's can qualify for. [42393/25]
    • Dental Services
      2855. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will examine the possibility of appointing an Orthodontist (details supplied) in Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42394/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      2856. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding car parking facilities at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42405/25]
    • Health Services
      2858. To ask the Minister for Health the advances her Department has made in expanding the screening process for newborn babies with rare diseases; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Centres
      2861. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO3 that are currently under construction; when each of those projects will be completed; the services that will be provided...
    • Health Services
      2862. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in respiratory medicine based at University Hospital Limerick in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [42427/25]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      2863. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on the Cross-Border Directive for each of the years 2023 to 2024, and to date in 2025; the number of patients treated under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2864. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on contracting out radiotherapy treatment for public patients to private providers in CH04 for each of the years 2023 to 2024, and to...
    • General Practitioner Services
      2865. To ask the Minister for Health to consider the use of private out of hours services or private 24-hour access doctors to alleviate the long delays in medical card patients accessing...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2866. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals currently wait listed for Cork University Maternity Hospital for a gynaecology appointment, by length of time waiting that is, up to...
    • Health Services
      2868. To ask the Minister for Health if a medication (details supplied) is prescribed by the complex menopause service at CUMH for women who are HRT contraindicated; the status on this medication...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2869. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the exclusion of chronic kidney disease (CKD) from the long-term illness scheme, given that it is a life-altering and life-sustaining...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2870. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by her Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form;...
    • Mental Health Commission
      2871. To ask the Minister for Health if she proposes to allow for an independent complaints process under the Decision Support Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42481/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      2872. To ask the Minister for Health the status and projected timelines for the development of the four primary care centres in County Longford, specifically in Edgeworthstown, Granard,...
    • Home Help Service
      2873. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help agencies registered in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42498/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      2874. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapy posts offered to graduates in each of the past five years; the percentage that were full-time 1.0 WTE and the...
    • Health Services
      2875. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to introduce type 1 diabetes screening to reduce the number of children diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis. [42523/25]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      2876. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department is undertaking to tackle the declining fertility rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42551/25]
    • Health Services
      2877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of newborn hearing screenings that have missed target screening dates under each of the hospitals in the Dublin region, in tabular form and by date...
    • Vaccination Programme
      2880. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have participated in the Laura Brennan HPV catch-up vaccination programme to date; the targets set for the programme; and to provide...
    • Primary Care Centres
      2881. To ask the Minister for Health the number of planned primary care centre projects that the HSE intends to lease which are currently stalled, suspended or otherwise in abeyance due to the...
    • Medicinal Products
      2882. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to the exclusion of transgender women from the free HRT scheme (details supplied); if she will re-examine the guidance...
    • Legislative Measures
      2883. To ask the Minister for Health if health warning labels on alcoholic drinks will be introduced as planned in May 2026; her views on proposals to delay this public health measure; and if she...
    • National Development Plan
      2884. To ask the Minister for Health the projects she intends to spend the €9.25 billion available to her Department under the revised national development plan; to outline the allocations...
    • Dental Services
      2885. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of dentists contracted to the dental treatment services scheme. [42569/25]
    • Health Services
      2890. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the integrated financial management and procurement system for the entire health services; the timeline she is working towards in rolling this...
    • Hospital Services
      2891. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have had to travel abroad for allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplants since the specialist bone marrow unit in Crumlin...
    • Health Services
      2893. To ask the Minister for Health if she has reviewed a proposal sent to her in relation to endometriosis care in Ireland; if she will meet with the author of this proposal; and if she will...
    • Health Strategies
      2894. To ask the Minister for Health if work has begun on a new national maternity strategy; the timeline she is working towards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42578/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      2895. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the programme for Government commitment to examine the introduction of free pelvic floor physical therapy sessions for women after childbirth;...
    • Health Services Staff
      2896. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering regulating the profession of healthcare assistants; if so, the work undertaken by her Department in respect of this; and if she will...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2897. To ask the Minister for Health if she has any plans to expand the number of midwife-led maternity units in the State; if she is aware of the World Health Organization’s guidance from...
    • Health Strategies
      2898. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that alcohol is prioritised in the new national drugs strategy; if she will commit to conducting meaningful consultation with groups...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2901. To ask the Minister for Health the work being carried out in her Department to prepare for Ireland assuming the Presidency of the Council of the European Union; the areas of health policy...
    • Health Strategies
      2902. To ask the Minister for Health if she will conduct a full assessment of the financial impact of heart failure on patients, including recommendations on appropriate actions (details...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2903. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to reduce cardiac rehabilitation programme waiting lists, which can reduce death from heart disease by at least 20%; and if she will...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2904. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on implementation of the National Review of Specialist Cardiac Services; if she will commit to implementing all recommendations; and if...
    • Health Services
      2905. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost to the health service of treating urinary tract infections in women, including GP visits, emergency presentations, hospital admissions and...
    • Health Service Executive
      2913. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the HSE of emergency department attendances for urinary tract infections in women over the past five years; if any analysis has been...
    • Health Services
      2914. To ask the Minister for Health if mortality data linked to urosepsis and late stage urinary tract infections in women is being analysed to inform clinical protocols and improve early...
    • Health Service Executive
      2915. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have registered for the new HSE app in Dublin Rathdown. [42610/25]
    • Health Services
      2916. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the reintroduction of vaginal mesh surgeries; the timeline for same; the consultation that has been carried out with campaign groups (details...
    • Health Services Staff
      2921. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1284 of 10 June 2025, if work being carried out by the HSE to establish the current census for clinical directors has...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2923. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for referrals for speech and language therapy services, by regional health area and integrated healthcare area, in tabular form. [42621/25]
    • Home Care Packages
      2925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages by health region and integrated healthcare area, in tabular form. [42627/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2927. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges by category and hospital, in tabular form. [42629/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2928. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for physiotherapy by health region and integrated healthcare area; age category; and time waiting, in tabular form....
    • Nursing Homes
      2938. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the legal minimum level of qualification, if any, required for health care assistants to work in a nursing home. [42649/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2946. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE have requested that the Irish Institute of Clinical Measurement Physiology (IICMP) get the two year...
    • Abortion Services
      2947. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the gestation for all neonatal deaths in 2022 through termination of pregnancy under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act...
    • Health Services Staff
      2948. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent occupational therapists, by grade, based at Mountmellick Primary Care Centre in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form;...
    • Hospital Staff
      2949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent radiographers, by grade, based at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025, in...
    • Hospital Charges
      2950. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has plans to facilitate the payment of accident and emergency department charges in cash at local post offices; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      2951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent consultant psychiatrist and senior psychologist posts that were filled in Laois CAMHS in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025,...
    • Abortion Services
      2952. To ask the Minister for Health the audits or reports that have been compiled including information on the care of babies born alive after abortion; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      2953. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress of the working group on the national hearing care plan; if she has received the report from the working group...
    • Mental Health Services
      2954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2025. [42678/25]
    • Home Help Service
      2955. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours currently being provided in each local health office (LHO) area as of 1 July 2025 or the latest date available; the way that...
    • Nursing Homes
      2956. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 1 July 2025 or latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of...
    • Hospital Services
      2957. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges at the end of June 2025 for each public and voluntary hospital; and the total number to date in 2025, in tabular form. [42681/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2959. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four months for treatment for both Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2960. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 1 July 2025 or the latest date available; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2985. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied) in University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42734/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      2986. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department, or any agency operating under its aegis, including the HSE, have used reserved contracts or social clauses in their public procurement...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2987. To ask the Minister for Health if she has a long-term plan to increase capacity in the Health Service Executive community audiology to address the long waiting lists in some regions, which...
    • Hospital Services
      2988. To ask the Minister for Health the details of Children's Health Ireland's target number of children to receive spinal surgery through outsourcing arrangements (details supplied) in 2025, by...
    • Hospital Staff
      2996. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a full breakdown of current staffing levels within orthopaedic departments across all Children's Health Ireland sites, in tabular form. [42783/25]
    • Medical Cards
      2999. To ask the Minister for Health the number of end-of-life medical cards issued, by age group, in each of the years 2020 to and to date in 2024, 2025, in tabular form. [42786/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      3000. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in chemotherapy wards in each of the relevant hospitals managed by the Ireland East Hospital Group; how this compares to...
    • Cancer Services
      3007. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on how often KPI data from the National Cancer Control Programme online portal is updated; its intended use; who the KPI data is shared...
    • Protected Disclosures
      3008. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures made from 2015 to date relating to care in Children’s Health Ireland, broken down by internal and external; and if...
    • Hospital Deaths
      3009. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the care of Children’s Health Ireland that have died during or following spinal surgery since 2015, by year; the number...
    • Hospital Services
      3010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal claims that have been initiated against Children’s Health Ireland relating to spinal surgery, including claims of death, permanent...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      3018. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the current level of funding allocated to cochlear implant services in Beaumont Hospital given the potential of these services to...
    • Medicinal Products
      3019. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of an elderly person (details supplied) will be reviewed who was recently removed from the public health nurse service, which had been providing...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3020. To ask the Minister for Health the number currently on the waiting list for child physiotherapy in CHO 6 and CHO 7, County Wicklow, by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • Cancer Services
      3021. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe between an initial appointment at each of the rapid access prostate clinics and diagnosis with prostate cancer where it occurs; and if she will...
    • Medicinal Products
      3023. To ask the Minister for Health the action she proposes to take to deal with the unregulated operators in the cosmetics industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42870/25]
    • Hospital Admissions
      3027. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people hospitalised for cosmetic surgery performed incorrectly from 2020 to 2025, broken down by hospital group, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Health Services Staff
      3029. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child physiotherapists in CHO6 and CHO7, County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42889/25]
    • Disability Services
      3030. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting occupational therapy in CHO6 in County Wicklow and CHO7 County Wicklow; broken down by length of time 3, 6, 12+ months, in...
    • Dental Services
      3031. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be taken to combat the rise in dentists carrying out a treatment (details supplied) for cosmetic reasons instead of carrying out...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      3032. To ask the Minister for Health if she aware of instances where people diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome subsequent to a previous diagnosis for ADHD were reported by health...
    • Home Help Service
      3033. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024; her plans for any changes to the system...
    • Home Care Packages
      3034. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff
      3035. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies within University Hospital Kerry, broken down by specific role and department, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      3036. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      3037. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on occupational therapy waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Dental Services
      3038. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting dental appointments in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3039. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on physiotherapy waiting lists in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      3040. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies that exist within CAMHS in County Kerry, broken down by area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42931/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      3041. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or the Health Service Executive have engaged with the Department of Justice in relation to the immigrant investor programme (IIP) funding...
    • Mental Health Services
      3042. 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 each of the years 2020 to date, in...
    • Health Services
      3044. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists across CHO7 that are trained in manual lymphatic drainage therapy for lymphedema patients; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff
      3045. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recruitment campaigns that St. James's hospital took in the United Kingdom to attract Irish trained nurses, doctors, speech and language...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3046. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that waiting lists for access to pain medicine are approximately 24-months at Tallaght University Hospital; the measures she is taking to...
    • Health Services
      3047. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost to the Health Service Executive of treating chronic diet related illnesses such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease...
    • Primary Care Centres
      3050. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the site for the provision of a new health centre at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      3051. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general surgeons in CHO7, and specifically in Dublin south-west, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      3060. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the chronic understaffing within the Limerick perinatal mental health team, with only one psychiatrist and one psychologist currently...
    • Hospital Services
      3063. To ask the Minister for Health the outsourcing of hospital services at university hospital Kerry broken down by department, procedure and cost in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and if she...
    • Health Services
      3064. To ask the Minister for Health if it can be ensured that necessary healthcare equipment is provided to a person (details supplied). [43056/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      3065. To ask the Minister for Health when hexahydrocannabinol will be added to the list of controlled substances under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      3066. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ban flavoured vapes, limit nicotine concentration levels and introduce plain packaging and mandatory health warnings on packaging of vapes; and if...
    • Hospital Staff
      3069. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors specialising in geriatric medicine in CHO7 and specifically in Dublin south west in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3071. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for elective surgery in Tallaght University Hospital; the average time spent on a waiting list for elective surgery in Tallaght...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      3072. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait times in the accident and emergency department in Tallaght University Hospital in each of the past five years; the steps she is taking to...
    • Care Services
      3074. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum length of respite care that a carer of an older person can apply for per annum free of charge; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cancer Services
      3077. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a report (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address the five key challenges identified; if she will implement...
    • Medicinal Products
      3078. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who has a prescription for medication in one EU country is entitled to use that prescription in another EU state; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Admissions
      3079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatients per annum in each hospital across the State in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, in tabular form. [43113/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      3080. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric plastic surgeons based at CHI Temple Street in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [43133/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      3083. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at the Coombe Maternity Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025; and the future refurbishment works that...
    • Hospital Services
      3084. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have attended the adult cochlear outpatient clinic at Beaumont Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [43137/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      3085. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which her Department or any body under her aegis has responsibility, for which sporting organisations...
    • Primary Care Centres
      3087. To ask the Minister for Health if a site could be considered for a long-planned primary care centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43195/25]
    • Health Strategies
      3088. To ask the Minister for Health if she has any plans to develop and implement a national allergy strategy, given the prevalence of food allergies and the level of unmet need for one; and if...
    • Disability Services
      3090. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists in CHO7, and specifically in Dublin south-west, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      3091. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists in CHO 7 and specifically in Dublin South-West in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Dental Services
      3100. To ask the Minister for Health on behalf of a person (details supplied), whether dental expenses will be extended under the medical card scheme to new patients; and if she will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3101. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria required to open a DDoc service in the north of Swords; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43224/25]
    • Abortion Services
      3102. To ask the Minister for Health the information provided to women requesting to terminate a pregnancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43225/25]
    • Health Services
      3103. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to improve the treatment of patients with symptoms of endometriosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43226/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3107. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time patients for an appointment in the endometriosis hubs once referred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43230/25]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      3111. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have tested positive for HPV following cervical screening under the CervicalCheck programme in the last five years; and the number of...
    • Health Service Executive
      3112. To ask the Minister for Health if funding of the outhouse community casework service will be in the HSE’s Service Plan for 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43282/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3113. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of all consultants that have been engaged as part of the North Kerry CAMHS look-back review; the dates of their engagement, the nature of their...
    • Dental Services
      3116. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national oral health office has not been allocated funding for patients, in particular paediatric patients, who are on public orthodontic...
    • Health Services
      3117. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the options available to a family to access appropriate health care for a person and to review and reverse the treatment abroad scheme refusal...
    • Health Promotion
      3118. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prosecutions brought under the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014 by section.. [43324/25]
    • Health Services
      3120. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social inclusion beds in place; who are they contracted to; the spend per year; and what are the units of care for these beds. [43326/25]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      3121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential detox beds in place for addiction services; where these beds are based; who owns the contracts for these residential beds; and the...
    • Mental Health Services
      3124. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons and the average wait time on the waiting list for CAMHS in CHO2; and a breakdown of this waiting list by age category, in tabular form;...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      3125. 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...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3126. 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...
    • Mental Health Services
      3127. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to CAMHS psychology in CHO2 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Development Plan
      3128. To ask the Minister for Health the details of engagements she had with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation and the Minister for...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      3129. To ask the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that €9.2 billion in capital funding will be sufficient to deliver the new maternity hospital, four elective hospitals, 3,000...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      3130. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of 20 individuals making a claim against the State (details supplied); if an update will be provided; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      3131. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of 20 individuals making a claim against the State (details supplied); if an update will be provided; and if she will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      3132. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the publication and implementation of the new Digital Health Strategy; the measures being taken to roll out shared electronic health records...
    • EU Programmes
      3133. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s engagement with EU counterparts on cross-Border healthcare cooperation; whether improvements are planned to the EU Cross-Border...
    • Health Promotion
      3134. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to improve diabetes care and prevention; including access to continuous glucose monitors, structured education programmes, and community-based...
    • National Development Plan
      3135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of major health capital projects planned under the National Development Plan; whether updated timelines and budget allocations will be published as...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3136. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the next phase of redevelopment at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; the funding status, additional...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3137. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the delivery of new elective-only hospitals in Dublin, Cork, and Galway; how these will contribute to the Government’s objective of...
    • Health Strategies
      3138. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on implementing the Women’s Health Action Plan, including the expansion of menopause clinics and endometriosis care pathways; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries that have taken place in Cork county in the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the current waiting list for such surgery...
    • Health Services Staff
      3140. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of all consultants that have been engaged as part of the South Kerry CAMHS lookback review, the dates of their engagement, the nature of their...
    • Emergency Departments
      3141. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure there is no overcrowding at the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      3142. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on podiatry services in the Louth area; the plans there are to ensure adequate personnel and services; and if she will make a statement...
    • Dental Services
      3144. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the orthodontic services provided in the Louth area; her plans to ensure adequate personnel and services, particularly for...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      3145. To ask the Minister for Health to consider additional funding for addiction services provided through the north-eastern regional drugs and alcohol taskforce; and if she will make a...
    • Obesity Levels
      3147. To ask the Minister for Health to consider additional funding and a strategy to deal with obesity issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43489/25]
    • Departmental Data
      3148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that availed of the northern planned healthcare scheme from June 2024 to June 2025; if she will provide details of the types of...
    • Health Services
      3149. To ask the Minister for Health the range and nature of diabetes services available to Louth based adults and children at hospitals; the plans to improve the diabetes service currently...
    • Health Services Staff
      3150. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to introduce specialist public health nurses; if so, the number and the cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43492/25]
    • Primary Care Centres
      3155. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the plan and timeline to deliver a fully populated primary care centre in Dundalk, County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      3156. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the plan and timeline to deliver the ten-bed extension in the Drogheda DOP, Crosslanes; her plans to improve the acute mental health bed...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3157. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the plan to deal with the lack of GP provision in Louth and throughout the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43499/25]
    • Dental Services
      3158. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the plan to deal with the lack of dental services for those on medical cards and PRSI patients; the engagement she has had with an...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      3159. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the current situation with the MCAP scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43501/25]
    • Health Promotion
      3160. To ask the Minister for Health her proposals for the provision of a health educational programme for transition year students that specifically identifies the risks associated with drinking...
    • Emergency Services
      3161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of NAS paramedics per 100,000 nationally by health region; the number of critical care ambulances and rapid response vehicles per health region, in...
    • Medical Cards
      3163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders currently waiting for dental appointments in County Clare, broken down by age and waiting time, for end of June 2024 and...
    • Dental Services
      3164. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all dental treatments available for medical card holders under the DTTS; the details of the fees paid to practitioners for each item; when...
    • Mental Health Services
      3165. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels of the perinatal mental health team in County Limerick; the current levels of demand for the service; her plans to expand and...
    • Care Services
      3166. To ask the Minister for Health if a period of respite care will be approved for a person (details supplied). [43615/25]
    • Legislative Process
      3167. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; her assessment of its impact to date; if all sections of the Act...
    • Home Care Packages
      3168. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail for each local health office area the number of home care support hours for older people to be provided in 2025, in tabular form, including...
    • Departmental Staff
      3169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by her Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43662/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      3170. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity, autonomy and crisis...
    • Obesity Levels
      3171. To ask the Minister for Health whether consideration has been given to opening an additional specialist centre to treat obesity, given the current waiting time for semi-urgent cases is six...
    • Dental Services
      3172. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of dentists enrolled in the dental treatment services scheme in the CHO 7 area each year for the past five years, in tabular form. [43699/25]
    • Mortality Rates
      3173. To ask the Minister for Health the cardiac mortality rates by region and by county since 2015, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43708/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3174. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of running each existing community café providing free out-of-hours adult mental health services; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      3176. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been provided for elective hospitals as part of revised NDP allocations. [43757/25]
    • National Development Plan
      3178. To ask the Minister for Health the amount provided for outstanding contractual commitments, by project, at July 2025 including the new children's and maternity hospitals as part of revised...
    • Climate Action Plan
      3181. To ask the Minister for Health the amount provided for climate action as part of revised NDP allocations. [43762/25]
    • National Development Plan
      3182. To ask the Minister for Health the amount provided for surgical hubs as part of revised NDP allocations. [43763/25]
    • Community Care
      3185. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of running a community café to provide free out-of-hours adult mental health service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43774/25]
    • Dental Services
      3186. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the number of children in Cavan and Monaghan that received all routine dental check-ups through the Schools Programme; the number who have not,...
    • Health Services
      3188. To ask the Minister for Health the details for the basis on which women aged over 35 are excluded from the free contraception scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43789/25]
    • Hospital Equipment
      3189. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the cost and feasibility of providing MRI/CT scanners in Monaghan Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43790/25]
    • Mental Health Policy
      3190. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fully implement the national clinical programme for ADHD in adults; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43809/25]
    • Eating Disorders
      3193. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully funding the national clinical programme for eating disorders and deliver the remaining eating disorder teams by 2026; and if she...
    • Mental Health Policy
      3194. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fully implement the national clinical programme for specialist perinatal mental health; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      3195. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical and support services including neurology, sleep specialists, mental health and social services are specifically available to individuals who...
    • Dental Services
      3197. To ask the Minister for Health the recourse available to parents whose children have not been offered or received routine dental check-ups as part of the schools programme; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      3198. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to increase funding for recovery education by 10%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43841/25]
    • Mental Health Policy
      3199. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully funding a single crisis resolution team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43842/25]
    • Hospital Investigations
      3201. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects to receive the Nayagam review or an interim report; and when it will be published. [43845/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on CAMHS waiting lists and the length of wait in the years 2023 to date, by CHO area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      3204. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE staffing allocation for CAMHS; the number of which are vacant; by CHO area, in quarter 1 and quarter 2 of 2025; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medical Research and Training
      3207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of counselling and educational psychology trainees currently enrolled on postgraduate programmes annually; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      3209. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to fill the 12 vacant posts for radiation therapists which currently exist in Cork University Hospital; if the matter can be...
    • Cancer Services
      3210. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department, together with the HSE, has carried out a review of all cancer treatment facilities to identify what vacant posts need to be filled in order...
    • Health Services Staff
      3211. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has formally notified her Department that the national biological treatment service for rabies, specifically the service responsible for assessing...
    • Health Services
      3212. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases referred in 2024 to advocacy groups (details supplied), respectively. [43928/25]
    • Laboratory Facilities
      3214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of screening laboratory inspections which have taken place since 1 January 2018, by individual laboratory, in tabular form; the location of each...
    • Patient Safety
      3220. To ask the Minister for Health if a woman can request a review from CervicalCheck where they later develop cancer pursuant to Part 5 of the Patient Safety Act 2023. [43939/25]
    • Cancer Services
      3222. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any restrictions on which smears reported under the National Screening Programme can be reviewed under the terms of Part 5 of the Patient Safety...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      3223. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43974/25]
    • Ministerial Communications
      3224. To ask the Minister for Health the reason her diaries have not been published for any dates since September 2022; and if she will publish the remaining diaries to date. [43980/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      3226. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of current CAMHS staffing levels across each health region; and the breakdown of how these compare with staffing levels benchmarked per...
    • Mental Health Services
      3228. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully funding a single CAMHS bed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44008/25]
    • Vaccination Programme
      3231. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to reopen the Laura Brennan catch up HPV vaccine programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44011/25]
    • Health Services
      3232. To ask the Minister for Health what plans are underway within her Department to improve access to lymphoedema treatments and early intervention; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      3233. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Women’s Health Action Plan 2024-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44013/25]
    • Dental Services
      3235. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has liaised with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science with a view to increasing the number of...
    • Work Permits
      3237. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to work with the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to reform work permit regulations concerning the visa process for...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3238. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on treatment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44068/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children or adolescents awaiting an appointment for the child and adolescent mental health services in County Offaly; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Policy
      3243. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the process for (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44091/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3245. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding Jigsaw youth mental health services to provide full national coverage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44096/25]
    • Dental Services
      3246. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be implemented to improve services (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44101/25]
    • Cancer Services
      3247. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for persons with a diagnosis of cancer to start treatment in Carlow and Kilkenny following reports that the target of 90% to start within 15...
    • Mental Health Services
      3252. To ask the Minister for Health the total annual cost to the Health Service Executive and her Department of providing online mental health services; a breakdown of these costs by platform or...
    • Departmental Schemes
      3253. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an updated timeframe for the introduction of the vaccine compensation fund for those who have experienced adverse reactions of vaccines...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      3254. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for addiction services in Finglas including funding for the Finglas addiction support team; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Services
      3255. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on plans to expand primary care capacity in Ballymun and Finglas. [44127/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3256. To ask the Minister for Health whether the current funding model for community mental health services in Dublin 11 meets assessed need. [44128/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      3257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists currently assigned to CHO area 9; and if there are plans to increase this number. [44129/25]
    • Vaccination Programme
      3258. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to putting in place a three year programme for shingles vaccination to be made available to people over 65 and/or...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3264. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting appointment by speciality in primary care services, in each LHO in Cork, in tabular form. [44155/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3265. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently in hospital in Cork awaiting a nursing bed space, by length of wait, in tabular form. [44156/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3266. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully staffing and operating all child and adult mental health services teams, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3269. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the availability of designated disability parking spaces at Beaumont Hospital, in light of ongoing concerns raised by patients with...
    • Medicinal Products
      3270. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug will be made available to a person (details supplied). [44201/25]
    • Human Rights
      3271. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the operation of her Department and any...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      3272. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to ensure the implementation of the public sector equality and human rights duty in the public procurement practices of her...
    • Weather Events
      3273. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE collect statistics on the number of heat-wave related deaths per year; if not, the reason therefor and if they do, could the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3274. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 65 awaiting an appointment, by speciality for primary care services in Cork, in tabular form. [44280/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      3275. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in July 2022, 2023 and 2024 in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Cork by area; and...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3277. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young people on the CAMHS waiting list in Cork City for less than 3 months; for 3-6 months; for 6-9 months; for 9-12 months; for 12-18 months;...
    • Mental Health Services
      3280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in acute mental health wards that are occupied by persons with neurological disorders waiting to access long-term care. [44288/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      3283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists designated in a full-time capacity to the Carrigaline primary care centre; if there are locums; and her plans to recruit further...
    • Nursing Homes
      3284. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fair deal applications received in Cork this year, the average processing time, and the number approved. [44293/25]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3286. To ask the Minister for Health the divisions and officials in her Department that had a role in discussing or deciding the naming and branding of the new national children’s...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3287. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists to be seen by a psychiatrist at the Carrigaline primary care centre, by waiting times of three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3290. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for pain management in Cork University Hospital and the Mercy University Hospital, by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [44368/25]
    • Home Help Service
      3292. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for home help in south Lee, Cork. [44370/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3295. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for CAMHS in south and north Lee, by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [44373/25]
    • Health Promotion
      3297. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered a publicity campaign on the need for donor breast milk for premature babies in NICUs; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dental Services
      3298. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists operating under the DTSS scheme who are operating in each of the HSE health regions and broken down by county. [44399/25]
    • Cancer Services
      3305. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait times for BreastCheck nationally and by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44418/25]
    • Middle East
      3306. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of evacuation processes in place for medical evacuees attempting to escape Gaza; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Public Sector Pensions
      3307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the business case submitted by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science...
    • Education and Training Provision
      3308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the quality controls in place regarding the training provided by a company (details supplied) for special needs assistants or SNAs; and if he...
    • Student Accommodation
      3312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of private-owned and publicly-owned student accommodation in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education and Training Provision
      3313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason adult education teachers are being told there is no role or guarantee of hours for the coming academic year, while positions are...
    • Pilot Training Courses
      3314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 1 July, to provide an update on his engagements with the City of Dublin ETB; and if he will make...
    • Research and Development
      3315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of companies, and from what sector, collaborating with Research Ireland's activities or other State supported research initiatives in...
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      3316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na pleananna atá aige maidir le cúrsaí Gaeilge tríú leibhéal nua a chur ar fáil chun a chinntiú...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      3317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which...
    • Education and Training Boards
      3318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the status of adult literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages, ESOL, tutors employed by ETBs, many of whom have...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      3319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department and agencies...
    • Further and Higher Education
      3320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the exclusion of Marino Institute of Education from core Higher Education Authority funding streams, given its role in teacher...
    • Departmental Priorities
      3323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the Killarney Innovation Centre providing spaces for emerging tech enterprises, how his Department is supporting the...
    • Grant Payments
      3325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant...
    • Technological Universities
      3328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether technical universities, and specifically, TUS Clonmel IT, receive funding to build student accommodation; and if he will make a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      3329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans for a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41303/25]
    • Northern Ireland
      3331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the poor CAO points conversion rates for A-level students in Northern Ireland to have a fairer opportunity to access...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      3333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a 23-year-old apprentice (details supplied) in his first year of a plumbing apprenticeship in Galway getting paid €7.50 per hour can...
    • Further and Higher Education
      3335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for information about the working group established in response to the Programme for Government commitment to advance the research...
    • Education and Training Provision
      3336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills despite an increased investment in SOLAS for the FET sector of 37% since 2020 and with an allocation of over €1 billion in 2025, the...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      3338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates; how fees...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      3339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department conducts regular benchmarking, or market testing, to ensure that the rates paid for legal services, solicitors and barristers,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      3341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has conducted any audits or reviews in the past five years on legal fee spend; if so, to publish the findings or summaries of...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      3342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the internal oversight that exists within his Department to monitor the scope, duration, and cost escalation of legal services once engaged; and...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      3343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department makes use of capped fee arrangements, fixed-fee briefs, success-based fee models or other such arrangements in its legal...
    • International Protection
      3345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline whether English language lessons are available to every person seeking international protection; whether it is mandatory in any...
    • Further and Higher Education
      3346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons that the undergraduate psychology degree programme (PC414) at Carlow College is not currently included in the Free Fees Initiative...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      3347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a nationwide breakdown of all craft apprenticeships, with details on the number of students began their apprenticeships in each category in...
    • Medical Qualifications
      3358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has reduced the points on the health professions admission test required for studying medicine (HPAT) from 300 to 150...
    • Technological Universities
      3359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no capital funding was allocated in 2025 for the Technological University of the Shannon compared with the previous year when there...
    • Departmental Contracts
      3363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a company (details supplied) had a contract with his Department in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025; and if so, the nature of the...
    • Education Policy
      3364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has to advance education, training and maintenance of new digital skills, particularly STEM subjects, to assist girls; and if he...
    • Gender Equality
      3365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work his Department has carried out on the review of the gender equality action plan for higher education referenced in the programme for...
    • Ministerial Communications
      3366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42174/25]
    • Education Policy
      3368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he will take to ensure that staff working in adult education are not reliant on social welfare during the summer months; the...
    • Student Visas
      3369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade...
    • Departmental Data
      3370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students studying English language courses in the State in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Education Policy
      3374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is responsible for education for people over the age of 65 years, given that lifelong learning is defined as learning up to...
    • Education Costs
      3375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need to create a student finance model that will provide interest-free loans to students that do not qualify for SUSI grants to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
    • Programme for Government
      3378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress made in creating a website to give students comprehensive information on third level pathways, as committed to in the...
    • Departmental Projects
      3379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress made in creating an online career guidance and information portal. [42605/25]
    • Departmental Data
      3381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report the total number of students registered in higher education institutions each year for the past five years. [42607/25]
    • Student Accommodation
      3382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress made in carrying out the second stage of the technological sector student accommodation programme. [42608/25]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      3383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report the amount of funding allocated in the National Training Fund to provide craft apprenticeships to fill reported gaps in the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      3384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that an education and training board has capped the number of places available for specialist training (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Funding
      3386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital works projects within his Department that were funded by the EU in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025; and the amount of funding...
    • Youth Work Projects
      3387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Youthreach centres in Dublin; and the number of students attending each of those centres, in tabular form. [42804/25]
    • Departmental Meetings
      3388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the bilateral meetings he has had with his EU counterparts since his appointment, in tabular form. [42805/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      3389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department, or any agency operating under its aegis, has in the past five years used reserved contracts or included social clauses...
    • Grant Payments
      3390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it can be ensured that a person (details supplied) receives the SUSI grant in time to return to Trinity College Dublin. [42987/25]
    • Research Funding
      3392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the breakdown of the funding for the future funding of €23.6 million announced at the beginning of the year to fund...
    • Departmental Funding
      3394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the breakdown of funding of €600m as announced in June 2025 as part of the amendment of the National Training Fund...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      3396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the apprenticeship budget of €54.2m which was allocated from 2021 to 2023 to SOLAS and the Higher Education...
    • Irish Language
      3397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of his Department’s annual funding of €900,000 to support the expansion of the Irish language by students...
    • Grant Payments
      3399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to extend the SUSI grant system for postgraduate fee contribution of €5,000 for qualifying students for the upcoming academic...
    • Education Costs
      3400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants or supports available to students completing their third level college course in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      3401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the one legacy action due as outlined in the Q1 2025 progress report (details supplied); to outline which actions they...
    • Youth Services
      3402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the important work done by teachers and staff in Youthreach facilities, if there have been any discussions regarding the alignment of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      3403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility, for which sporting...
    • Education Policy
      3406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on timelines, budgets and the terms of reference for a review of disability issues across further and higher education...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      3407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for capital investment in further and higher education facilities in Louth over the next number of years, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Further and Higher Education
      3408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in colleges of the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43465/25]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      3410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new apprenticeships and the timeframe to have them up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43467/25]
    • Adult Education Provision
      3414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans to deal with issues being faced by adult educators across the ETB sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments
      3415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the same income eligibility limits for SUSI grants are applicable for students attending recognised courses in colleges...
    • Departmental Staff
      3416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43661/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      3417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity,...
    • Departmental Funding
      3418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special educational accommodations, such as rest facilities, flexible scheduling or assisted learning support that have been implemented in...
    • Third Level Fees
      3419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an opportunity, or any avenue, whereby a third level student can receive fee support to repeat a year, where the student suffered a...
    • Education and Training Provision
      3420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any progress in expanding the number of dental college places offered to students in University College Cork and Trinity...
    • Departmental Funding
      3423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding set aside for the North South Research Fund; the number of applicants and the awards given to successful applicants, in 2025 and in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      3424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Skillnet SME incentivisation scheme will be launched; and the reason for the delay in launching the scheme; and if he will make a...
    • International Students
      3426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide detailed information on the acceptance criteria, processes for assessment and any other pertinent information of the Government of...
    • Education and Training Provision
      3427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year costs of doubling the number of third level places available for therapeutic courses (details supplied). [44354/25]
    • Third Level Fees
      3428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the student contribution fee for September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44363/25]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      3429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship courses which have been cancelled this year broken down by ETB. [44432/25]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Community Development Projects
      3430. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown of community infrastructure projects identified by his Department, such as town halls, community centres,...
    • Rural Schemes
      3431. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made on establishing additional remote work hubs in rural Waterford as promised under Our Rural...
    • Departmental Data
      3432. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he expects the rural population in Ireland to rise or fall over the next four years. [40784/25]
    • Ministerial Communications
      3433. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is aware of the demands of protesters in Dublin recently in relation to the depopulation of rural, island and Gaeltacht...
    • Sports Organisations
      3434. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is concerned about certain rural GAA clubs not being able to field adult and underage teams anymore. [40786/25]
    • Ministerial Communications
      3435. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is concerned about the decline of rural pubs in the past 20 years, as highlighted by a recent report (details supplied)....
    • Rural Schemes
      3436. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the rural proofing model pledged in Our Rural Future; the number of departments that have adopted the model; and...
    • Housing Provision
      3437. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he met with protesters who marched in Dublin over the issue of housing in the Gaeltacht; and his solutions to provide...
    • Departmental Data
      3438. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity...
    • Irish Language
      3439. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a fhoilseoidh sé na caighdeáin teanga nua ionas gur féidir le obair leanacht ar aghaidh chun an...
    • Grant Payments
      3441. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value...
    • Island Communities
      3442. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad airgid de bhuiséad na Roinne Gaeltachta a caitheadh ar Rannóg na nOileán nuair a bhí na...
    • Irish Language
      3443. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department intends to carry out a feasibility study or impact assessment on a voluntary code for bilingual labelling...
    • Rural Schemes
      3445. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which his Department received a request from Louth County Council to approve the appointment of a contractor to carry...
    • Community Development Projects
      3455. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria used for selecting successful applicants to receive funding from the community recognition fund; and if he will make...
    • Ministerial Communications
      3459. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42154/25]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      3461. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to examine the case for approval of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42311/25]
    • Community Development Projects
      3462. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there will be a call issued in 2025 for the Community Centre Development Fund; if so, if it will be for both strand 1 and...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      3463. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the up-to-date position with his Department in dealing with rural isolation and loneliness; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Community Development Projects
      3464. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for his consideration in reviewing the application process under CLÁR to provide different measures when the scheme is open...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      3465. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the new initiatives under rural connectivity created by the National Broadband Plan are being considered to deliver new services...
    • Road Projects
      3466. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures being taken to address the backlog in local improvement scheme applications for the mid-Cork region; and if he will...
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      3467. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and details of funding drawn down for projects awarded under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme for the past...
    • Rural Schemes
      3468. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount of funding allocated to respective local authorities each year since 2022 for all rural schemes provided by his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3469. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      3470. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department or any agency operating under the aegis of his Department have used reserved contracts or social clauses...
    • Departmental Funding
      3472. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility, for...
    • Community Development Projects
      3474. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether there will be a strand of the Community Centre Development Fund that will provide funding for new community centres; and...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      3477. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the funding streams that will be available for social enterprise projects in Louth; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Community Development Projects
      3478. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the Government’s plans to support communities where levels of deprivation remain high; and if he will outline...
    • Departmental Data
      3479. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a detailed breakdown of the Our Rural Future actions completed to date and detailed reasons for non-completion of...
    • Rural Schemes
      3482. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of engagement and consultation with fishing communities for the next iteration of Our Rural Future. [43629/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      3484. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of full time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43666/25]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      3485. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better...
    • An Ghaeltacht
      3486. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total funding allocated by his Department for each Gaeltacht area for each year since 2015, in tabular form. [43702/25]
    • Rural Schemes
      3488. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next Rural Youth Assembly is to take place. [43737/25]
    • Community Development Projects
      3492. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the strategic development plan for the piers on Inishturk, Clare Island and Roonagh pier; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Language
      3497. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans that are in place to ensure additional funding for mná tí; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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