Written answers
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Policy
16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the income eligibility limits for social housing in Cavan and Monaghan will be increased; and if he will make a statement...
- Planning Issues
17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the methods his Department is currently assessing to speed up the planning process; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Schemes
18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the first home scheme to bridge the gap will be extended to first-time buyers of second-hand homes; and if he will make a...
- Defective Building Materials
19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to support those in social housing whose home is affected by pyrite; if legislative...
- Housing Provision
20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plan to increase capacity of Dublin City Council to address their housing list, homelessness and those at risk of...
- Vacant Sites
22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he acknowledges that there is significant variation across local authorities in the way they enforce vacant sites...
- Fire Stations
23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the capital delivery programme for fire stations in County Cork, including details of projects...
- Defective Building Materials
24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that he will ensure that defective block homeowners at a location (details supplied) do not have to rebuild their...
- Housing Provision
25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the rationale behind the recent updated guidelines to local authorities on the second-hand acquisitions programme;...
- Housing Policy
26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on whether Roscommon and Galway local authorities have been directed to reopen their development plans to re-zone...
- Housing Provision
27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on measures undertaken to date, to enable the private sector to deliver more homes; and if he will make a...
- Water Services
28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the joint level of engagement which has taken place between his Department, Uisce Éireann and local authorities in order...
- Housing Policy
29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing a starter home scheme to address the imbalance in affordable housing provision for lower and...
- Building Energy Rating
31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes retrofitted by Fingal County Council since 2021; the number targeted for 2025; if Fingal County...
- Housing Policy
32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to allow for cluster developments in small rural villages across Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement...
- Rental Sector
33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether renters or landlords will be happier with Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Provision
34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes which have been delivered in Kilkenny and Carlow since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Policy
35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the provision of allocated housing for those that work in front-line public sector jobs including teachers, nurses...
- Housing Schemes
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will incentivise local authorities that deliver or exceed their housing targets, by providing additional funding in...
- Budget 2026
37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the level of funding provided for housing in Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Schemes
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the allocation for 2026 tenant in situ scheme will be released to local authorities; and the amount which it will be....
- Residency Permits
40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assessments his Department has carried out, or plans to carry on, in respect of the impact of student and employment...
- Turf Cutting
41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue an order to allow the cutting of turf at bogs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Homeless Accommodation
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the funding provided in the Budget will lead to a decrease in homelessness from current levels by this...
- Legislative Measures
43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the reform of the Multi-Units Development Act 2011, and related regulations of the property service management...
- Legislative Process
44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish legislation on the multi-unit development defects redress scheme. [53748/25]
- Wind Energy Guidelines
45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which guidelines will finally be put in place for the construction of large wind farms. [49020/25]
- Housing Schemes
46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to review the targets for and operation of the affordable purchase scheme. [53750/25]
- Approved Housing Bodies
48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing body applications currently awaiting approval for cost rental in his Department; the length of...
- Housing Schemes
49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the housing schemes in Ros a Mhíl and Eanach Mheáin currently owned by an...
- Housing Policy
50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the significant challenge that coastal community members face in competing for housing within their own communities due...
- Rental Sector
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the March 2026 rent reset will be operationalised in a way that will protect renters and mitigate for the...
- Local Government Reform
52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the restoration of town councils. [53201/25]
- Housing Policy
53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department is doing to ensure that there is no net decrease in land supply from rezoning by local authorities; and...
- Homeless Persons Supports
54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the increasing number of older persons who are falling into homelessness, particularly in...
- Defective Building Materials
55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is expected that the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill 2024 will be introduced; if this piece of...
- Housing Provision
56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the Oscar Traynor Road site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53890/25]
- Housing Policy
57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider the way in which greater downsizing options for those in private housing, who wish, to downsize their home can be...
- Urban Development
58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department is undertaking to enable local authorities to identify suitable sites for urban development zones; and...
- Housing Provision
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Roscommon County Council is currently missing its housing targets by approximately 50 percent; the specific...
- Housing Schemes
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to revise the first home scheme house value limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53577/25]
- Rental Sector
63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to increase the number of long-term private rental houses across the country. [53286/25]
- Housing Policy
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to implement a State savings scheme, similar to the Social Democrats' homes for Ireland State savings scheme, to fund...
- Water Quality
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet with the Lough Neagh stakeholders group to discuss the current ecological crisis impacting on the lake, and by...
- Housing Schemes
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the manner in which his Department will assist local authorities in further promoting the croí cónaithe scheme and...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether national guidance exists for social housing tenants and applicants fleeing domestic, sexual, and gender violence to...
- Energy Conservation
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the report recently published by the National Oversight and Audit Commission which warned that the Government...
- Rental Sector
70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding being provided for cost rental under Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53825/25]
- Planning Issues
71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the public consultation for review of exempted development received submissions advocating for the introduction of a...
- Housing Schemes
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants that have availed of the first home scheme by county; the amount that is drawn down in monetary value;...
- Housing Provision
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the new housing plan makes it possible for Donegal County Council to construct affordable housing...
- Water Pollution
75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department or organisations and agencies related to his Department are taking with respect to the Joint...
- Vacant Properties
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the means by which his Department can assist local authorities in turning about casual vacancies in a more...
- Local Authorities
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation provided to each local authority in 2024 to complete change of tenancy works on local authority social housing...
- Defective Building Materials
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the legislative amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act...
- Planning Issues
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the rural housing guidelines; the timeline for publication of the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on...
- Vacant Properties
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will take to tackle vacancy and dereliction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53723/25]
- Housing Schemes
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the methodology through which local authorities are funded to support the purchase of land and meet the development...
- Water Services
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on the provision of current and capital funding allocations for Uisce Éireann’s Greater Dublin...
- Vacant Properties
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that local authorities, particularly Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council, have adequate staffing...
- Housing Policy
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding being provided for affordable housing under Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53738/25]
- Heritage Sites
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commit to ensuring that tours of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal return to being available every day; and if he...
- Housing Policy
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the work of the Strategic Housing Activation Office; when the permanent head of the office will be announced;...
- Local Authorities
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve the fairness in local government funding to individual local authorities; and if he will make a statement...
- Housing Policy
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he is taking to incentivise apartment building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53819/25]
- Fire Stations
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commit to the recommended delivery of a new fire station in Rathdowney, County Laois in the new Fire Services...
- Local Authorities
95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the level of funding provided for local authorities in Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on...
- An Ghaeltacht
96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cad é stádas na dtreoirlínte pleanála don Ghaeltacht; cén uair a fhoilseofar na treoirlínte; agus...
- Rental Sector
97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement protections for students from excessive rent increases that may occur following on from the new rent...
- Solar Energy Guidelines
99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the solar farm guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53896/25]
- Water Services
102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding to date allocated under the Rural Water Programme 2024–2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Wastewater Treatment
103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the co-funding contribution expected of local authorities for the provision of wastewater infrastructure; if...
- Local Authorities
104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the significantly increased housing targets for local authorities, if his Department will ensure that the local...
- Rental Sector
106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider his stance outlined in Parliamentary Question Nos. 384, 385 and 386 of 23 September 2025 (details...
- Planning Issues
108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he intends to take to address the failure of some local authorities to implement national planning and rezoning...
- Housing Schemes
110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes delivered and approved in County Laois under both the affordable purchase scheme and the first home scheme...
- Wastewater Treatment
114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of pilot sewage schemes in small villages that is being led by his Department; if his Department is...
- Ministerial Communications
115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53941/25]
- Waterways Ireland
118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of Phase 3 of the Ulster Canal; when works on this phase are expected to commence; and the estimated date...
- Vacant Properties
119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant or derelict properties registered in Cork county from 2022 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will...
- Wastewater Treatment
122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the work of the multistakeholder group under his Department in respect of developer provided...
- Housing Provision
124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes built in the State in each of the past five years and to date in 2025. [53285/25]
- Housing Policy
127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is evaluating to reduce building costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53465/25]
- Rental Sector
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on increasing the supply of cost-rental homes in Cork county; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Vacant Properties
130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of registered derelict or vacant housing properties in Dublin Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Local Authorities
132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that local authorities are responding positively to the National Planning Framework and are complying with...
- Rental Sector
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will examine measures to support the continued availability of rental accommodation to households in receipt...
- Budget 2026
134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding being provided for social housing under Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53824/25]
- Housing Policy
135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on if social housing applicants should be able to move their application from one local authority to another on...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- EU Presidency
136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which the trio procedure associated with Ireland's Presidency of the Council of Ministers works, specifically when Ireland's...
- Middle East
137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions his Department is taking to ensure the safety of Irish citizens participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla following their...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- National Oil Reserves Agency
138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current surplus in the National Oil Reserves Agency levy account; if the levy currently funds the holding of fuel...
- Environmental Schemes
139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the SEAI Solar PV grants can be extended to properties build and occupied after 2021; and if he will make a statement...
- Official Engagements
140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he met formally with a person (details supplied) during the recent UN General Assembly week; and if he will make a...
- State Bodies
141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the Environmental Protection Agency is excluded from Ombudsman oversight, and the alternative accountability...
- International Agreements
142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a possible global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54024/25]
- Climate Change Policy
143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he would consider Ireland hosting a future Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;...
- Wind Energy Generation
144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding developers of wind energy farms have received from the State in the previous ten years; and if he...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated cost to the State to achieve its 2050 climate plan of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions; and if he...
- Emergency Planning
149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures being taken by his Department, in coordination with local authorities and the ESB, to prepare for the impact...
- Electricity Generation
150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of uptake for the small-scale renewable electricity support scheme for SMEs; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Defence
- National Security
152. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures Ireland has in place in the event of a drone attack being launched in Irish air space by another State or third party; and if he...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Airport Security
153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drone detections recorded since the installation of anti-drone technology at Dublin Airport in July 2023; and if he will...
- Driver Licences
163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a licence exchange can be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53976/25]
- Airport Security
164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contingency plans that are in place to prevent similar incidents in Ireland, in light of recent drone-related hybrid attacks on...
- Rail Network
167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail will install anti slip grip on the steps leading down to platforms 1, 2 and 3 at a location (details supplied); and if he...
- Bus Services
168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional buses that would be needed to increase the frequency to every 20 minutes on Mondays to Fridays and to every 30 minutes on...
- Departmental Schemes
169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 28 May 2025, if he can provide an update as to how the principles and parameters of the new...
- Bus Services
170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Bus Éireann to address the limited public transport provision serving Cloyne, County Cork; if consideration...
- Personal Injury Claims
172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review options for a limited no fault compensation scheme for public transport passengers injured in accidents where no...
- Bus Services
173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of challenges that public service bus companies are experiencing with regarding to the international recruitment of bus...
- Emergency Services
175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding search and rescue services in an area (details supplied), if consultation with the local community occurred before the service...
- Bus Services
176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the operation of the recently introduced Local Link route 862 between Cavan and Longford, which replaced the NTA route...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs
177. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the review and extension of the help to buy scheme, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Insurance Coverage
178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address an organisation’s concerns and requests regarding insurance discrimination impacting cancer survivors (details supplied). [54011/25]
- Tax Reliefs
179. To ask the Minister for Finance if the deferral of the proposed tapering of benefit in kind will be continued following Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54020/25]
- Tobacco Control Measures
180. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the proposed tax on vapes, to be implemented on 1 November 2025, excludes tobacco pouches which continue to grow in popularity; if he will use...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Public Works
181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the upgrading of Gorey Garda Station. [54057/25]
- Regional Airports
182. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered allocating a percentage of the annual dividend paid by the DAA to the Exchequer directly to supporting...
- Civil Service
183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the policy regarding the Civil Service mobility scheme in circumstances where an applicant has previously lodged a complaint...
- State Properties
184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 232 of 23 September 2025 and 365 of 30 September 2025, to detail all expenditure on both...
- Flood Relief Schemes
185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the progress of the flood relief scheme for Enniscorthy, County Wexford; if any other potential issues could be raised...
- Office of Public Works
186. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans for a location (details supplied), given the growing concern around the rapidly deteriorating state of the building; and if he...
- Public Sector Staff
187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the criteria by which those with disabilities, who apply for positions under the disability-specific recruitment schemes run...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Consumer Protection
188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for clarification on matters in relation to the EU fire regulation standard which is accepted as the equivalent of I.S.419:1988 for...
- Industrial Development
189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the scale of capital investment required in serviced sites, utilities and digital infrastructure to...
- Departmental Offices
190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the staffing resources in the AI office that will be allocated to the office's planned regulatory function, in comparison to the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Residential Institutions
195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek to urgently end the Industrial and Reformatory School Survivors hunger strike by immediately awarding a Health (Amendment) Act...
- Schools Building Projects
196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps and stages in a building project for a school, whether it is an extension or a new building; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the NCSE policy requiring exclusive clinical wording for access to autism classes, in cases where a clinician recommends...
- National Educational Psychological Service
198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the national educational psychological service withdrew a dedicated psychologist from two primary schools (detailed supplied); and if...
- State Examinations
202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made, and if a final decision will be made, on the provision of additional time allocation for dyslexic students,...
- Teaching Qualifications
203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is expected that the Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2016 will be updated in order to facilitate a person (details supplied)...
- Schools Building Projects
204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding the Saint Columba's College building project now that the tender report has been submitted since July 2025; and if...
- Education and Training Boards
205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if someone working with an ETB on a fixed-term contract for the fifth time could be given a full-time job (details supplied); and if she will...
- Special Educational Needs
206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in light of the Supreme Court ruling (details supplied) the steps her Department has taken to review and update its policies to ensure full...
- After-School Support Services
213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school buildings in north County Dublin currently being utilised for after-school services; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on talks to resolve the dispute involving school caretakers and secretaries. [54127/25]
- Schools Building Projects
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the construction of a school (details supplied); and if there is a target completion date. [54128/25]
- Mental Health Services
218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available to schools in north Wexford to assist where a student experiences mental health difficulty. [54129/25]
- School Equipment
220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the process by which Oide and her Department generally approves the use of new technology in schools, including on a trial or pilot...
- School Facilities
221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a case (details supplied) where a Health and Safety Authority inspection highlighted risks arising from the lack of storage...
- School Staff
222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full time teaching posts that were not filled in DEIS schools for the terms 2023/2024; 2024/2025; 2025/2026, respectively. [54171/25]
- School Funding
225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount budgeted for DEIS schools last year but not spent. [54174/25]
- Special Educational Needs
226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with the NCSE to ensure that the request from a school (details supplied) to open two additional autism classes will be...
- School Transport
227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school bus service will be available for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54212/25]
- Education Schemes
228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the implementation group will be established to oversee implementation of the recommendations of the review of out-of-school education...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Online Safety
229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the ‘Gen Free: Free to be Kids’ campaign; to outline the new measures his Department is...
- Sports Facilities
230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update and timeline for completion of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Policy
231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put affordability central to housing policy; his plans to ensure the majority of new homes are genuinely...
- Planning Issues
232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the means by which he will ensure that any party reform or planning policy does not simply favour large developers at the...
- Housing Policy
233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he believes he can credibly claim that its housing strategy is working when homelessness and emergency...
- Housing Schemes
234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review and extension of the first homes scheme, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he...
- Planning Issues
236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department are evaluating plans to introduce a separate, streamlined planning process for infrastructure delivery; and...
- Homeless Persons Supports
237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to reduce the number families made homeless because of domestic/sexual/gender-based abuse. [53989/25]
- Regeneration Projects
238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason responsibility for regeneration of Dolphin House, Dublin 8, transferred from Dublin City Council to the Land...
- Housing Provision
239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delays in having housing built on the OPW site on Jamestown Road, Inchicore and on the surplus lands of the...
- Vacant Properties
241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to tackle dereliction and vacancy in south Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54051/25]
- Housing Provision
242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and...
- Local Government Reform
243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that Ireland has by far the highest number of residents to councillor ratio of any EU country, that he will consider...
- Housing Schemes
244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for housing support under the cost rental...
- Housing Provision
245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department has taken or plans to take to further incentivise the development of 1-bed units; and if he will...
- Building Energy Rating
246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of Government plans to introduce minimum building energy rating standards in the private rental sector from...
- Building Regulations
247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1360 of 29 April 2025, if he will provide a further update on the timeline for the...
- National Monuments
248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider designating the full site of Vinegar Hill in Enniscorthy, County Wexford as a national monument, in...
- Housing Policy
249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Government's new housing plan will be published. [54175/25]
- Urban Development
251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any funding plans, such as the previous Urban Regeneration and Development Fund, to support local authorities in...
- Departmental Data
252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54233/25]
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline, separately, the fixed charge, the annual management charge, and the contribution charge that will apply to My...
- Social Welfare Benefits
254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to an application (details supplied) for disability allowance to be restored; and if...
- Social Welfare Appeals
255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) with the social welfare...
- Social Welfare Schemes
256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of humanitarian assistance payments applications that were submitted in respect of garages and sheds; the number...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the criteria by which those with disabilities, who apply for positions under the disability-specific...
- Social Welfare Benefits
258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the carer’s benefit claim for a person (details supplied); the options available to the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- International Protection
260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who are in the international protection application process who were directly contacted by email in...
- An Garda Síochána
267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a full breakdown of all remuneration details that ever existed or were given to the current Commissioner of An Garda...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic/gender/sexual-based violent incidents reported to An Garda Síochána in each division of the...
- Personal Injury Claims
270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine whether changes to the civil liability framework are needed so that passengers injured on public transport...
- International Protection
271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the names of the international protection accommodation contractors for whom the recent Comptroller and...
- Private Security Authority
273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time a person with a conviction could be expected to be excluded from the PSA register; and if he will make a...
- An Garda Síochána
274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to report on the number of Gardaí based at Courtown/Riverchapel, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Prison Service
275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drugs overdoses in the prison system, broken down by prison, between 2020 and 2025 to date, in tabular form; and...
- Legal Aid
280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for recommendations regarding thresholds and allowances to be implemented for civil legal aid; and if he will...
- Cybersecurity Policy
281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give an immediate assurance that Ireland will ratify the Budapest convention without any further delay; and to...
- Visa Applications
282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action his Department is taking to resolve technical issues with the INIS online portal being experienced by visa and...
- Sentencing Policy
283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the average custodial sentence imposed in cases of child sexual abuse over the past five years; and the number and...
- Data Protection
286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is taking to curb the extent to which people are tracked by apps on their smart phones; and if he...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Animal Slaughtering
287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 1 October 2025, if he will provide a copy of the repealed legislation referred in the...
- Teagasc Activities
288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide information on the Teagasc Grass10 recruitment programme; if he will clarify the reason a person who finished...
- Agriculture Schemes
289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of uptake on the TAMS 3 solar capital investment scheme to date for farmers for self-consumption; and if he will make a...
- Department of Children, Disability and Equality
- Early Childhood Care and Education
295. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the pay increase for early childhood educators as agreed in 2024; and if she will make a statement...
- Paternity Leave
296. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to extend and improve paternity leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54019/25]
- After-School Support Services
297. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the role of her Department in supporting the use of school buildings for childcare, after-school services and breakfast clubs,...
- Rights of the Child
299. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will urgently provide a public update on Ireland’s position regarding ratification of the UNCRC second optional...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
300. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has given further consideration to undertake an audit of early learning and childcare facilities, which have been...
- Department of Health
- Healthcare Policy
302. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which Ireland contributes to European commission expert groups covering the healthcare sector; the identities of Irish representatives to these...
- Hospital Appointments Status
303. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting on knee surgery in Cappagh Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53964/25]
- Primary Care Services
304. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether primary care psychology services in an area (details supplied) were closed in March 2025 due to no psychologists being in post; if the...
- Health Services Staff
308. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the recruitment process to fill the post vacated by a doctor (details supplied); the current interim arrangements in place to...
- Primary Care Centres
309. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at location (details supplied) in each of the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form;...
- Health Services Staff
310. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recruitment campaign for the consultant ophthalmologist position in south Tipperary is being advertised as a temporary position; the reason this...
- Health Services
311. To ask the Minister for Health where children require appropriate eyecare and cannot be seen by a consultant ophthalmologist in the area, if there are any areas where children receive...
- Cancer Services
312. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will approve treatment for a constituent (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54026/25]
- Misuse of Drugs
313. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the proposed project to test wastewater to measure the levels of illicit drugs and their metabolites excreted in urine; the means by which...
- Eating Disorders
314. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case for her Department funding specialist medical care for eating disorders abroad for a person (details supplied) which address the immediate...
- Medicinal Products
315. To ask the Minister for Health whether the prescription drug Yselty/Linzagolix, used in the treatment of endometriosis, is being considered for inclusion in the drugs treatment scheme; when...
- Dental Services
316. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to address the HSE orthodontist waiting list, currently at five to six years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54134/25]
- Hospital Facilities
317. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the additional 97 beds planned for Wexford General Hospital; a timeframe for being available to treat patients; and if she...
- Medical Records
318. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans in place to modernise the health system by moving from paper-based patient records to electronic health documentation; the time frame for the...
- Hospital Facilities
319. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has undertaken an assessment of each hospital nationwide in respect of accessibility for persons with disabilities, particularly wheelchair users;...
- Hospital Staff
320. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to retain and recruit radiology staff across the health service, given their critical role in diagnostics, treatment pathways, and reducing...
- Hospital Services
322. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the plans for trauma and emergency care capacity at a hospital (details supplied); if she will consider the urgent need for a...
- Nursing Homes
323. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a fair deal application for a person (details supplied); when a decision will issue as the family urgently need this support; and if she will...
- Ambulance Service
324. To ask the Minister for Health to consider reinstating training for advanced practitioners in the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54181/25]
- Health Services
326. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to the provision of foot care for the elderly (details supplied); the actions she will take to address...
- European Council
327. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which her Department is preparing for the forthcoming EPSCO meetings on 17 October and 3 December 2025; whether the Irish Government has a...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education and Training Provision
328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to expand semiconductor related education and training pathways, including apprenticeships, post leaving certificate programmes and...
- Third Level Fees
329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any courses run by an institution (details supplied) are approved courses under the student fee scheme for specified undergraduate courses as...
- Third Level Admissions
330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in 2024/2025 from the 26 counties that have applied to universities in the North, by county, in tabular form; and if he...
