Written answers

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      39. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Water Quality will next meet. [53073/25]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      52. To ask the Taoiseach if an allocation will be ringfenced from the Shared Island Initiative funding to further cross-Border sporting initiatives in the years ahead. [55022/25]
    • Departmental Functions
      62. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the programme plan for his Department’s new disability unit for 2025-2027. [48522/25]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      67. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with faith and non-confessional groups to discuss a structured dialogue process. [48523/25]
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Childcare Services
      92. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures taken to address the huge shortage of childcare places in the whole of County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      93. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to increase the number of State-owned early learning and...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      94. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time for assessment of needs in the Dublin Midwest constituency; the steps which are being taken to reduce...
    • Child and Family Agency
      95. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of times she has met with the CEO of Tusla since she took office. [61892/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      96. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of applications received in 2025 for Cork county under the building blocks extension grant scheme; the number of these...
    • Childcare Services
      97. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update regarding her Department’s review of core funding. [61423/25]
    • Disability Services
      99. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to address the continued shortage of therapists across children’s disability network teams,...
    • Childcare Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of funding provided to childcare service providers under the Core Funding model each year since its introduction; and if...
    • Disability Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to place an autism innovation strategy on a statutory...
    • Children in Care
      102. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children who have been temporarily missing, or as stated by Tusla, “absconded”, from Tusla, or...
    • Disability Services
      103. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to provide urgently needed respite for families of children/adults with profound disabilities in County Kerry;...
    • Child Protection
      104. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reforms she will make to the child protection system to make it fit for purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rights of the Child
      105. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how Ireland’s obligations under the UNCRC are currently being met; the steps her Department is taking to incorporate the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      106. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current average waiting time for assessments of need for children in County Offaly; the measures being taken by her Department...
    • Children in Care
      107. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children who have been temporarily missing (absconded) from Tusla, or Tusla-funded, care in the past 12 month; the...
    • Childcare Services
      108. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on tackling the issues of non-refundable deposits in childcare services. [61906/25]
    • Cúram agus Oideachas na Luath-Óige
      110. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality cén cur chuige atá maidir le naíonraí agus naíscoileanna Gaeilge a bhunú, agus ansin tacaíocht...
    • Departmental Strategies
      111. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the development of the National Equality Data Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61579/25]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      112. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason she accounts for the trend of more naíonraí outside the Gaeltacht closing than opening in recent years; the...
    • Childcare Services
      113. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to increase supply and affordability of childcare in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of disabled adults currently residing in privately outsourced residential facilities; and the number of people residing...
    • Child Poverty
      115. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is concerned that Budget 2026 will increase child poverty; the measures she will take to address this; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      116. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline the scheme or schemes of grant aid that will be available in 2026 for the upgrading or provision of new...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      117. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time in Laois for an assessment of need (AON); and the longest time any child is waiting for an AON in County...
    • Childcare Services
      118. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline the roadmap to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child through the national childcare...
    • Disability Services
      119. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on CDNT waiting lists for assessments and therapies in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      120. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to ensure that childcare providers participate in the core funding scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      121. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of staff recruited in CDNTs in Fingal West in the past 12 months; and the number who resigned or left, by grade and...
    • Childcare Services
      122. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the work her Department is undertaking to improve transparency in childcare fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      123. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being implemented to reduce assessment and intervention waiting times for children with additional needs in Galway...
    • Disability Services
      124. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she is taking to address staff shortages and long waiting lists across the children’s disability network teams in...
    • Childcare Services
      125. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she and her officials will meet with childminders to listen to the issues impacting the sector. [61744/25]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      126. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress within her Department towards the development of a new programme of acquisition and fitout of State-led early learning...
    • Disability Services
      127. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions taken by the HSE to fill the vacancies in the CDNTs in County Louth; the number of children on the waiting list for...
    • Childcare Services
      128. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare service facilities that have been referred in Cork city and county for sustainability funding; the measures...
    • Residential Institutions
      129. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of applications received, the number approved, and the amount of money paid out to date under the mother and baby...
    • Childcare Services
      130. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to ensure adequate childcare places and staffing in south Tipperary, particularly in rural areas where providers are...
    • Disability Services
      134. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Clondalkin CDNT will move to the new primary health care centre on the Boot Road, from a location (details supplied); the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      135. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will publish the methodology and outputs of the forward planning unit established in January 2024, including any mapping or...
    • Childcare Services
      136. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures her Department is taking to address the rising number of creches that are facing closure due to rising costs; if her...
    • Disability Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of adults with intellectual disability awaiting residential placement nationally, by county; and the number of people...
    • Childcare Services
      138. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports her Department will provide to a group (details supplied) in County Galway in its efforts to establish a new community...
    • Disability Services
      139. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children’s disability network teams which are fully staffed in the State; and the number which are not fully...
    • Childcare Services
      140. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update regarding the work of her Department towards providing childcare places in County Dublin. [61424/25]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      143. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the means by which the proposed reforms to the assessment of need process will contribute to reducing the current backlog of over...
    • Disability Services
      144. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the lack of funding for Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living, including the provision of funding for fuel costs...
    • Childcare Services
      145. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the work her Department is doing to evaluate the possibility of greater State involvement in providing childcare; and if she will...
    • Family Resource Centres
      146. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the supports she is providing for family resource centres in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      147. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to increase respite services for children in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61034/25]
    • Childcare Services
      148. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a progress report on the Programme for Government Commitment to reduce childcare costs to €200 per month per child; and...
    • Disability Services
      150. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s efforts to improve accessibility in rural towns and villages; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Childcare Services
      151. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the need to improve pay and terms and conditions within the childcare sector in order to attract and retain staff; and...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      152. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Louth that have had assessments of need outsourced by the HSE to private providers to date in 2025;...
    • Childcare Services
      153. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions she will take to address the shortage of creche/preschool places in south Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to...
    • Child Protection
      154. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on actions taken since the remains of a child (details supplied) were found, including the actions taken by...
    • Childcare Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the means by which Budget 2026 will support the delivery of affordable and accessible childcare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      156. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if it is the case that individuals who do not have an intellectual disability are not eligible for State-provided residential care...
    • Childcare Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to extend the national childcare scheme to childminders...
    • Disability Services
      159. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s plans to ensure that children with disabilities can fully participate in mainstream education, sport, and...
    • Childcare Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the warning of an organisations (details supplied) that if nothing changes, thousands of trusted childminders...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      164. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans she has to ensure further increases in pay for early years educators and school age care practitioners; and if she will...
    • Childcare Services
      165. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will report on her engagements with the childminding sector. [61900/25]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      166. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider extending payments to ECCE providers to the month of December given the long duration between the last 2025...
    • Disability Services
      167. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current status of a new children’s disability respite centre in Monaghan; the additional respite places that will be...
    • Childcare Services
      172. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding that will be provided in 2026 for the building blocks grant scheme; when the details of the 2026 scheme will be made...
    • Child Protection
      173. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if Tusla has sufficient funding and resources to protect children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59240/25]
    • Disability Services
      174. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of vacant posts within the children's disability network team (CDNT) in County Galway; the recruitment strategies...
    • Child Protection
      175. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to reduce the rate of child trafficking in the State. [61893/25]
    • Childcare Services
      176. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a predicted timeline on the delivery of reducing the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child; and if she...
    • Children in Care
      179. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality of the efforts underway within her Department to increase the provision of special care placements; and if she will make a statement...
    • Parental Leave
      181. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeline for the introduction of paid surrogacy leave, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      182. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will next meet. [59736/25]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      183. To ask the Taoiseach the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most...
    • Labour Market
      184. To ask the Taoiseach to provide CSO data on labour force participation, migration, and tax status of persons aged 22-40 years of age, by highest education level; and to support an assessment...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      185. To ask the Taoiseach for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of the past five years, in...
    • Census of Population
      186. To ask the Taoiseach if Census 2027 will include a question on sexual orientation. [60502/25]
    • Departmental Policies
      189. To ask the Taoiseach the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; and the input these individuals or teams have...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Policy
      190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to support LGBTQI+ communities at EU and international level. [60929/25]
    • Departmental Contracts
      191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by...
    • Religious Persecution
      192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he and his Department are taking to deal with the plight of persecuted Christians in Nigeria; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount his Department has spent on rent regarding premises (details supplied). [61004/25]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of all overseas aid projects and funding amounts allocated in 2024 and in 2025, or the latest data available, by country, in...
    • Foreign Policy
      196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his officials have read a report titled "Peak Ireland Ireland’s Diplomatic Challenges and the Lessons for the UK" which was...
    • Departmental Communications
      197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of press releases issued by his Department from 1 January 2025 to date on issues relating to Israel or Gaza, Ukraine, Africa and...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the new Irish Consulate General Offices based in Melbourne and Malaga will be opened; if new locations for these offices have been...
    • EU Presidency
      199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of Ireland preparing for its Presidency of the Council of the European Union from July to December 2026 and a public...
    • Departmental Communications
      200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each...
    • Middle East
      201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken to raise the issue of the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the detainment of 16 Irish citizens by the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the update on an application for Irish citizenship for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61259/25]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of any conditions and stipulations attached to any overseas funding from the State; if the State ever makes such funding...
    • Military Neutrality
      208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views the Government must recognise our stance on being neutral; and if there are any changes on neutrality it will have to be...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 4 November 2025, if he will indicate the matters outstanding on this application; and if he...
    • Departmental Functions
      210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input these...
    • Middle East
      211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the progression of Israeli Settlements (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his engagements with the ambassador and government of Tanzania in relation to recent reports that authorities have killed...
    • Official Engagements
      213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to visit Greece before the end of 2025 to discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation ahead of Ireland's EU Presidency; and if...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      214. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount that each Irish Honorary Consulate received in consulate fees in 2024 and for the first nine months of 2025, in tabular form; and...
    • Trade Promotion
      215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the first monitoring report of the Windsor Framework confirms that the UK’s internal market guarantee has been met, but...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if two foreign birth registry applications (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61820/25]
    • Foreign Policy
      217. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's position on Transnistria and its recognition as part of Moldova; the way in which the question of Transnistria impacts on...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      218. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to advocate for a person (details supplied) currently in a German prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61881/25]
    • Humanitarian Aid
      219. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a detailed breakdown of the ways in which Ireland’s humanitarian aid to Afghanistan is being allocated, particularly in...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      220. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Irish aid budget for 2026 will be agreed; the way in which global education programmes will be prioritised; the level of funding...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62201/25]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Waste Management
      224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a company (details supplied) will provide the composting bins to customers pursuant to 2023 legislation to allow...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      225. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original...
    • Electricity Generation
      226. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grants or supports available for 3-phase electric in a commercial setting; the grants or supports available for...
    • Waste Management
      227. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position on the levy on disposable cups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61045/25]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of the second phase of the Land Use Review for renewable technologies; the role of local authorities; the...
    • Energy Prices
      232. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has commenced or intends to commence an investigation into electricity...
    • Departmental Communications
      234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose...
    • Energy Conservation
      235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current number of warmer homes scheme applications awaiting survey and awaiting completion, by county; the median and...
    • Departmental Communications
      246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the ministersdiary@dcee.gov.ie email address in his Department is operational and regularly monitored; if incoming...
    • Energy Conservation
      247. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider supporting and promoting a nationwide ‘Power Hour’ campaign, encouraging schools across...
    • Departmental Functions
      248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning;...
    • Departmental Funding
      249. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding available for a voluntary led community park in Carlow (Tinryland Park, Tinryland, County Carlow) to assist...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      250. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the safety regulations for lithium ion battery storage (details supplied). [61767/25]
    • Departmental Budgets
      251. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the 2025 and 2026 capital budget allocation for his Department, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Recycling Policy
      252. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken to provide a national recycling service for nitrous oxide canisters. [61871/25]
    • Wastewater Treatment
      253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the actions his Department and the Environmental Protection Agency are taking to address wastewater...
    • Grant Payments
      254. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allow grants to be paid under the SEAI heat pump system grant scheme to households (details supplied) in cases...
    • Data Centres
      255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the annual usage of water by data centres in Ireland; if this is something that is recorded by his...
    • Climate Action Plan
      257. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighting the urgency of reducing carbon emissions,...
    • Fisheries Protection
      258. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that Inland Fisheries Ireland maintains a catch and release policy for salmon angling on the River Suir...
  • Department of Defence
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      261. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by...
    • Naval Service
      262. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any personnel from the Naval Service went to the UK for a specialist training course which is not available within the State in 2024 and to...
    • Air Corps
      263. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any personnel from Air Corps went to the UK for a specialist training course which is not available within the State in 2024 and to date in...
    • Defence Forces
      264. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the budget allocation for Defence Forces Equitation School in the years of 2024, 2025 and 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Communications
      265. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of...
    • Defence Forces
      266. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the process that local community voluntary groups must meet in order to have Defence Forces School of Music play at a community event; and if he...
    • Departmental Functions
      268. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input these...
    • Defence Forces
      269. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will direct Defence Forces based in the lower harbour of Cork to write against the proposal for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy; and if he...
    • Coast Guard Service
      270. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to give an update on his Department’s meeting with the developer of the search and rescue service at Weston Airport, to address concerns...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by...
    • Dublin Bus
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the top five most popular Dublin Bus routes, by passenger number and direction in the first nine months of 2025. [60970/25]
    • Bus Éireann
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional improvements to services that will occur in 2026 for Bus Éireann PSO routes arising from Budget 2026. [60971/25]
    • Dublin Bus
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional improvements to services that will occur in 2026 for Dublin Bus arising from Budget 2026. [60972/25]
    • Traffic Management
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the areas the 'built-up area speed limit' of 50 kilometres per hour in Section 5 of the Road Traffic Act 2004 currently applies...
    • Road Safety
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to improve road safety in County Kerry; if he is aware that there have been eight fatalities this year to date...
    • Bus Services
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the impact of the transfer of staff regarding the roll out of BusConnects Phase 7; the impact this has had on staffing...
    • Road Projects
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provisions that have been made under the National Development Plan for roads projects; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to encourage pedestrians to wear high vis clothing and protect themselves at all times when using the...
    • Transport Costs
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 30 September 2025, if new criteria was established in relation to Leap cards; if students...
    • Bus Services
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for the installation of a next bus indicator screen at a bus stop (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue generated through car-parking charges at Heuston Station in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Cycling Facilities
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the tender process for a replacement service provider for the TFI bike scheme in Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans for the long overdue Killarney town bypass in County Kerry to address the chronic situation faced by local businesses,...
    • Departmental Communications
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in...
    • Road Safety
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the UK's review of the brightness and hue of modern LED headlights and associated safety concerns; if he will consider...
    • Bus Services
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of issues with the new BusConnects F1 route, which includes repeated late-arrivals, cancellations and ghost buses; if he...
    • Motor Fuels
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department’s policy around the use of hydrotreated vegetable oil in public and private vehicles; and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline any plans to implement the new United Nations vehicle safety regulations on assisted and self-driving systems, as developed...
    • Rail Network
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Iarnród Éireann to increase the number of carriages from four to six on the 06.37 train service from...
    • National Car Test
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the additional capacity added to the NCT system since the RSA is working with a company (details supplied) to improved...
    • Driver Licences
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of licence and learner permit applications processed per year, broken down per category, from 2020 to date; and if he will...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the agreed 5 per cent increase in CIÉ pensions will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61386/25]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on An Garda Síochána and the RSA dedicated technical projects to oversee the implementation of the revised RTC...
    • Road Safety Authority
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the RSA's budget for campaigns and education, by year from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61392/25]
    • Driver Test
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action plan to reduce driving test wait times to ten weeks nationally; to provide a breakdown of waiting test time per centre; and if...
    • National Car Test
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the plan to expand the NCT test centres nationally; the timeframe to open the four additional locations in Clare,...
    • Departmental Funding
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the decision not to provide funding to Galway County Council to take ownership of Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, County...
    • EU Regulations
      308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the EU Regulation he was referring to in an interview he gave to a newspaper (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Haulage Industry
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the request to deliver a financial support package for the Irish road haulage sector, which was initially...
    • Road Safety
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been allocated for road safety improvements in rural areas of Roscommon and Galway; and if so, the amount allocated and...
    • Rail Network
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on the current state of rural rail infrastructure in the Roscommon-Galway region; the investments that are planned to...
    • Ports Policy
      312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has assessed the implications for operational stability at the Port of Cork Company following the resignation of its chief...
    • Public Transport
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to support an independent community and voluntary transport provider (details supplied); if he will consider the...
    • Transport Policy
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the consideration of establishing a dedicated transport policing service, similar to the British...
    • Public Transport
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department and the National Transport Authority are taking to respond to the recent push by employers to bring workers back...
    • Rail Network
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on reopening the Rosslare Europort-to-Waterford city rail link, where this may be prioritised within the workplan of the...
    • Bus Services
      325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the M4 hard shoulder bus lane will be completed. [61596/25]
    • Driver Test
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to introduce an option for learner drivers to complete their theory test online, following on from the pilot carried...
    • Military Aircraft
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total costs of air traffic control fees, paid by the State on behalf of US military aircraft that transited through Irish airports...
    • Driver Licences
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the process of exchanging a persons’ foreign driver’s licence (Belgian) for an Irish licence will be expedited at their...
    • Active Travel
      329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider establishing a dedicated fund for local authorities to maintain and upkeep the expanding active travel network in...
    • Departmental Functions
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input these...
    • Public Transport
      331. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to improve public transport accessibility services on buses and train services in County Wicklow; and...
    • Bus Services
      332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on plans to renovate Parnell Place bus station. [61750/25]
    • Public Service Obligation
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid in fines by Bus Éireann for PSO routes in Cork city in each of the past five years including any fines paid to date...
    • Bus Services
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to tender for new bus routes under BusConnects Cork; if so, which routes will be tendered for; and when these tenders...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the serious concerns regarding traffic congestion and the spate of road traffic collisions on the M7 and N7, raised in...
    • Dublin Bus
      337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the reliability performance of Dublin Bus routes (details supplied); if the National Transport Authority...
    • Bus Services
      338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current plans to expand or strengthen bus priority measures along corridors (details supplied), including the introduction of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine and respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied). [61821/25]
    • Public Transport
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the public transport provision serving Garristown and the surrounding rural areas of North County Dublin; if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the new regulations for drivers on learner permits for longer than four years and who will have to take a driving test before...
    • Cycling Policy
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will renew funding for the bikes and ebikes upcycling initiative or continue to fund the services concerned until a decision is...
    • Taxi Regulations
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding a taxi platform; if he will address concerns raised; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the most up-to-date performance statistics for the E1 bus service. [61963/25]
    • Departmental Offices
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the anticipated timelines in which vehicle registration books will move from hardcopy to digital format; the role staff in his Department...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Statutory Instruments required to implement the agreed pension increases for Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ)...
    • Road Safety
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of safety works and reconfiguration of an area (details supplied), where a cyclist died two years ago and a cyclist was...
    • Bus Services
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the public outcry from residents in an area (details supplied) which has lost its direct bus route to Dublin city...
    • Taxi Regulations
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to facilitate the introduction of an online booking platform for vehicle suitability tests by the National Transport Authority;...
    • Rail Network
      358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 4 November 2025, the engagement he has had with Irish Rail in relation to the multiple...
    • Traffic Management
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria for the installation and deployment of a fixed speed camera on a regional road; if consideration has or is being given to...
    • Road Projects
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to prioritise a Bypass for Killorglin town In County Kerry; if consideration will be given to the fact that Laune Bridge is the gateway...
    • Rail Network
      361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers who have used the Maynooth to Pearse Station service and vice versa from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form. [62231/25]
    • Dublin Bus
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with Dublin Bus on the number of ‘ghost busses’ appearing on their real-time service in 2025; whether a...
    • Bus Services
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who wish to travel from Dublin to Trim in County Meath via rail from Connolly to...
    • Taxi Regulations
      365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the effectiveness or otherwise of the local area hackney scheme as a component of the overall rural transport service...
  • Department of Finance
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the serious matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding vehicle importation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Collection
      368. To ask the Minister for Finance whether current outstanding derelict site levies owed will be recouped by Revenue on launch of the new derelict sites tax. [62083/25]
    • Tax Code
      369. To ask the Minister for Finance if measures will be introduced to counter imbalances in the allocation of capital acquisitions tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Yield
      370. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected revenue from LPT in 2026, and the estimated number of households reclassified into higher valuation bands since 2021. [60907/25]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the...
    • Tax Data
      373. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide, for each age bracket (details supplied) the total and average annual income tax and USC contributions recorded for Irish residents in the latest...
    • Tax Code
      376. To ask the Minister for Finance his policy proposals to broaden the tax base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61046/25]
    • Tax Credits
      377. To ask the Minister for Finance for any assessment of the rent tax credit commissioned by his Department and its effectiveness in supporting low-income tenants; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Reliefs
      378. To ask the Minister for Finance the monitoring measures his Department will take in assessing the ongoing impact of the new VAT reduction on new apartment sales from 13.5 % to 9 %; and if he...
    • Debt Restructuring
      381. To ask the Minister for Finance the position on a Europe-wide debt warehousing strategy for the debt accrued due to the Covid-19 pandemic; to report on any discussions he has had at...
    • Tax Yield
      382. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of Capital Acquisitions Tax received in 2024; and the total amounts received from those who availed of the Group A, Group B and Group C...
    • Insurance Coverage
      383. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted or commissioned recent assessments of the prevalence of under-insurance among homeowners in the State, in view of recent...
    • Tax Data
      384. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Revenue Commissioners has estimated the net fiscal impact of international protection applicants with labour-market access (taxes and...
    • Departmental Communications
      385. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of the past five...
    • Tax Code
      386. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify issues in regard to the Finance Bill 2026 in respect of purchasing an apartment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      387. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Ukrainian vehicles that have been imported into the State; the number of Ukrainian vehicles that have been taxed in the State; the number of...
    • Customs and Excise
      388. To ask the Minister for Finance the number, and the cost of disposal, of nitrous oxide canisters seized by the Revenue Commissioners, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [61348/25]
    • Departmental Functions
      390. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input these individuals or teams...
    • Tax Code
      391. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider as a solution to the capital acquisition tax issue (inheritance) to classify the next-of-kin (details supplied) to be automatically promoted to...
    • Tracker Mortgages
      394. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a referral or request from the Tánaiste and the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment following an oral question to him on 5...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      395. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department maintains any centralised data on the number, value, or type of post-award contract variations approved by contracting...
    • Office of Public Works
      398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works would have an interest in acquiring a site in County Kerry, (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Functions
      399. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform far a breakdown of all the costs associated with the departmental reorganisations across the Government in 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Office of Public Works
      400. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will issue a tender for the provision of a mobile coffee and light snacks dock at a location (details supplied), prior to its...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      401. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Civil Service HR Analytics Hub, or any cross-departmental working group, maintains or plans to establish a longitudinal dataset...
    • Departmental Communications
      404. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      405. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether organisations in receipt of public funding (details supplied) should continue to receive such funding when they...
    • Office of Public Works
      406. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Garda House in Ballylongford, County Kerry will be put on the open market for sale; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      408. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to deliver a flood management solution for Bantry and, critically, an interim flood management plan to protect...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      409. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 4 November 2025, which requested a breakdown by Departmental vote of various aggregate...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      415. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any measures of optimism bias compensation are applied in decisions around the awarding of public sector contracts particularly with...
    • Departmental Functions
      416. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input...
    • Office of Public Works
      417. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the nature of refurbishment works that the OPW carried out at Letterkenny Garda Station in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form;...
    • Civil Service
      421. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his attention has been drawn to a civil service mobility scheme transfer that was accepted by a civil servant (details supplied)...
    • Data Protection
      424. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is concerned at the Data Protection Commissioner’s (DPC) ruling of June 2025 (details supplied) specifically in respect of...
    • Office of Public Works
      425. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the OPW’s removal of the searchable Kilmainham Jail 1916 (details supplied) autograph book;...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      428. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 6 November 2025, if any of the €35 million penalty paid by a company (details...
    • Flood Risk Management
      429. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will install a tidal flood barrier in Cork city given recent funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62087/25]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Farm Safety
      432. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of fatal and non-fatal farming incidents that were reported to the Irish HSA in the past five years; and the reasons...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      433. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by...
    • Work Permits
      434. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total administrative and employer cost of processing employment permits and associated recruitment of overseas workers in each of...
    • Business Supports
      436. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grants or supports available for 3-phase electric in a commercial setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60987/25]
    • Company Closures
      437. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been made aware of a company (details supplied) having entered receivership; if his Department has engaged with the Ireland...
    • Job Creation
      438. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work being undertaken by his Department to secure new employment at a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      440. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is confident that his Department will publish an action plan to promote collective bargaining by the end of 2025; if there will...
    • Industrial Development
      441. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can confirm the future use of IDA lands (details supplied) with Cork County Council; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Business Supports
      442. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in view of the sharp decline in business confidence among mid-sized Irish firms (from 81% to 60%) with energy costs, skills shortages...
    • Departmental Communications
      443. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in...
    • Tourist Accommodation
      444. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61274/25]
    • Work Permits
      446. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will provide contact details for a phone line (details supplied) given the only communication option is via email;...
    • Industrial Relations
      447. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a detailed progress report regarding the industrial relations provisions in respect The Industrial Relations (Provisions...
    • Employment Rights
      448. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration has been given to introducing statutory paid leave for workers who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks’...
    • Company Registration
      452. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of current suspensions of involuntary strike-offs by the Companies Registration Office; the number of cases pending; and...
    • State Bodies
      453. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacancies by job title at Enterprise Ireland as of 31 October 2025; the estimated full year cost of filling each of...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      456. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has engaged with the Roscommon Chamber of Commerce following recent reports of economic distress; the supports...
    • Departmental Functions
      458. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input...
    • Business Supports
      459. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 25 September 2025, for further information on the number of businesses in Cork city and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      460. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans to support public information campaigns explaining artificial intelligence and the way in which algorithms and recommender...
    • Job Losses
      461. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that the State has put in place to address the planned closure of a factory (details supplied) in Arklow, County...
    • Tourist Accommodation
      462. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department intends to launch a national public awareness campaign in advance of the introduction of new regulations under the...
    • Work Permits
      464. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to support more teachers’ ability to transfer from a stamp 1 visa to a general employment permit, which is currently...
    • Job Creation
      465. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs finding that AI-related jobs here have doubled since 2023, placing Ireland among the...
    • Work Permits
      466. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given the labour market is tight and many enterprises are reporting skill shortages, the immediate steps his Department is taking to...
    • Business Supports
      467. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress of the Cost of Business Advisory Forum; the number of SMEs which have benefited to date from its aim of reducing the...
    • Exports Growth
      468. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment following the launch of the Government’s Action Plan on Market Diversification to strengthen Ireland’s global trade...
    • Tourism Funding
      469. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of capital investment allocated in 2025 under the tourism investment grant scheme; the way in which his Department ensures...
    • Tourism Promotion
      471. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Transport and local authorities to improve access infrastructure to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Youth Services
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual funding for youth services in Dublin City across all Departments from 2000, or latest available data to 2025 or most recent available...
    • School Accommodation
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently examine and expedite the granted extensions for autism rooms at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category;...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated average public expenditure per pupil in primary, post-primary, and further/third-level education; and if these figures are in...
    • Irish Language
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who were granted an exemption from the study of Irish at primary level over the past five years, in tabular form; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review enrolment policies for students with diagnosed language disorders who are professionally recommended to attend specialist...
    • Residential Institutions
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on his meetings with survivors of the industrial and reformatory school system and their requests for a Health (Amendment) Act...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process involved for a school that wishes to acquire DEIS status; to provide details of the criteria it must satisfy; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be allocated a concessionary or non-concessionary school bus ticket at this late stage; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61124/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the €3 billion funding for special education in budget 2026 which will be spent on new measures; and if she will make a...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a school (details supplied) in order for reconsideration to be given to the school’s application to be allocated...
    • School Funding
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application to fund a laptop for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61142/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the new process for completion of assessments and eligibility letters in advance of applying for special school places by 1 October,...
    • Teacher Training
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure on recruitment campaigns of international hiring of teachers; and to compare this with the estimated cost of teacher training for...
    • Departmental Communications
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of the...
    • School Enrolments
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the D15 pilot scheme for common enrolment; if there are plans to roll this out in other areas; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently intervene to resolve the issues arising from the NCSE’s SNA Review Guidelines 30214, to protect the essential work of SNAs in...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPS assessments that have been provided in schools to date in 2025; the locations of each; her plans to increase NEPS assessments;...
    • School Enrolments
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be fully open; the current opening hours; the number of pupils; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason it is not possible to transfer permanency of teacher posts from one school to another; the reason a teacher must resign from his or...
    • School Enrolments
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans to provide educational facilities for an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect a response regarding stage 2A of its new school build project. [61330/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the National Council for Special Education records and reports local demand for autism-specific school placements; the number of...
    • School Transport
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of children (details supplied); if she will provide an update from the school transport appeal board; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to refuse retrospective payment of set up grants for the autism special classes opened in 2021 and 2022 at a...
    • School Transport
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in the Roscommon–Galway constituency currently without access to school bus services, in tabular form; the steps...
    • School Curriculum
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to give more specific guidance to schools on how they can make meaningful provision for students who have opted out of...
    • School Admissions
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements being put in place to ensure that a child (details supplied) has an appropriate school placement for September 2026; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Circular C30/2014 will be reviewed and updated given the document is over a decade old and given developments within special education in that...
    • Teacher Training
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest update on the Teaching Council’s work to make it mandatory for all student teachers to undertake one mandatory school placement...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when DEIS Plus resources will be allocated directly to schools; if she will commit to ensure these funds are made available as soon as possible...
    • Schools Building Projects
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building project for a school; when the project is expected to go to tender; when construction is scheduled to commence; when...
    • School Accommodation
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time a school (details supplied) will be required to remain in temporary accommodation which has been described as unsatisfactory;...
    • Health and Safety
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with Kildare County Council in relation to the lack of signage and road safety markings at a school site (details supplied)...
    • Energy Conservation
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider supporting and promoting a nationwide ‘Power Hour’ campaign, encouraging schools across Ireland to turn off all...
    • State Examinations
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 427 of 21 October 2025, if she is satisfied that the response from the State Examinations Commission is...
    • Departmental Functions
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of foresight or future planning that operates within her Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input these...
    • Departmental Funding
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to continue to fund an organisation (details supplied); and when they will receive more funding. [61703/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date in which her Department received the design team's report in respect of the new school building project for a school (details supplied);...
    • School Transport
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport route (details supplied) will resume; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61720/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the application process for reading schools; the NCSEs role in managing and determining applications to reading schools; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has read the correspondence sent to her by an organisation (details supplied); the urgent actions she will take to ensure a safe...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which DEIS Plus resources will be allocated; if she will ensure that all eligible schools will have access to these resources before...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to provide capital funding for the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) given the extensive...
    • School Accommodation
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school (details supplied) for safety works under the climate action summer works scheme; and when they will receive a decision...
    • School Funding
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an outstanding payment will be made to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61866/25]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of cases taken against her Department in each of the past five years including to date in 2025; the number of those which relate to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 15 July 2025, when a decision is expected to be reached on a climate action summer works scheme...
    • School Curriculum
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has given consideration to the inclusion of existing non-curricular languages as curricular languages within the Leaving...
    • School Transport
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bus tickets (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61952/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the SNA Review Process guidelines for 2025/26 published by the NCSE. in particular: the evidence or consultation informed the narrowed...
    • School Costs
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a role in putting a cap on transition year fees in secondary schools to ensure lower income families can afford these fees....
    • School Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an SNA is under a temporary and fixed term contract, and is actively looking for a permanent role, the reason they can only be placed on a...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has put in place a pathway for those qualified as primary school teachers with a recognised British teaching qualification, who...
    • State Examinations
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support deaf children within the Leaving Cert Applied programme. [62117/25]
    • School Enrolments
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has any plans to increase capacity in a school (details supplied) to cater for the growing number of applicants in the area....
    • School Accommodation
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the remaining improvement works to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62126/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address issues concerning the interpretation of the term “SSD of unknown origin” by SLT’s in the HSE to exclude children...
    • Site Acquisitions
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills he will outline his Department’s plans for a site north of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pensions
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an employee's pension can be transferred to a different pension scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school’s application under the additional accommodation scheme; when a decision will be taken whether to progress the...
    • School Transport
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will issue to correspondence from this Deputy regarding an application for a seat on a special needs school transport for a child...
    • Special Educational Needs
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to sanction more early intervention classes in Kildare; the number that will be available in 2026; the number of...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Post Office Network
      565. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to support investment into rural post offices as essential community supports, per the IPU’s recommendation of...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to give a detailed progress report regarding the rollout of the national broadband scheme in County Kerry; when the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      568. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of...
    • Sports Facilities
      569. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is conscious of the fact that despite the phenomenal growth in population in County Kildare the provision of...
    • Departmental Communications
      570. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and...
    • Sports Funding
      571. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to have darts recognised by the Irish Federation of Sport as a sport in its own right; if...
    • Trade Unions
      572. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether organisations in receipt of public funding (details supplied) should continue to receive such...
    • Sports Funding
      573. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next round of the Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund will open; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Functions
      574. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      575. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will approve the pension increase that was agreed between An Post and the An Post trustees of the pension...
    • Culture Policy
      576. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on plans to introduce a youth culture card as provided for in the Programme for Government. [61833/25]
    • Repatriation Costs
      577. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration has been given to the possibility of a repatriation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Flood Risk Management
      578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the inter-agency flood response plan for Bantry (details supplied); and the warning level at which such a plan is instigated....
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the staffing budget for the National Parks and Wildlife Service from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form. [62235/25]
    • Local Authorities
      580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that have voted to increase LPT above the basic rate for 2026, with percentage increases....
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      581. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original...
    • Local Government Reform
      582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to examine the information (details supplied) and give an updated response regarding the position of re-establishing town...
    • Rental Sector
      583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps a person who has been renting out short-term lets for the past ten years in rural County Kerry should take (details...
    • Fire Service
      586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of concerns raised by members of the Dublin Fire Brigade regarding the proposed implementation of the NMACS...
    • Election Management System
      587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of prosecutions taken and the number of convictions secured, for the offence of taking photographs inside a polling...
    • Housing Provision
      588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to estimate the total number of housing units in the State at the end of each year from 2011 to date in 2025. [61098/25]
    • Homeless Accommodation
      589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of any proposals to provide homeless accommodation at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria and regulatory safeguards to be applied under the proposed scheme allowing developers to construct their own...
    • Local Authorities
      593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of housing maintenance funding provided to each county council from 2020 to date in 2025; the average waiting time...
    • Defective Building Materials
      594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government he is willing to meet with constituents from Fingal West who are affected by defective concrete blocks; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding allocation for social housing acquisitions in 2026. [61213/25]
    • Departmental Communications
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of...
    • Derelict Sites
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derelict sites levies levied, collected, owed and cumulatively owed; the number of sites CPOd in the previous 12 months;...
    • Land Development Agency
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to empower the Land Development Agency to purchase a factory (details supplied), ensuring it could be kept open to...
    • Housing Policy
      602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the large number of people who earn too much to qualify for social housing, but not enough to qualify for...
    • Community Development Projects
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application for a community centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Planning Issues
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns in relation to changes to the RPZ framework (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rental Sector
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has any plans to increase rent thresholds for single renters in existing HAP tenancies. [61275/25]
    • Local Authorities
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid to local authorities through development contributions; the breakdown per county; and if he will make a...
    • Water Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Uisce Éireann's draft capital investment plan 2025-2029, following its submission to the CRU for approval...
    • Turf Cutting
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will respond to an email (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61300/25]
    • Building Energy Rating
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a minimum BER for the private rented sector will be legislated for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59248/25]
    • Wastewater Treatment
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration would be given to reviewing the eligibility areas of grant aid schemes administered by Cork City Council to...
    • Water Services
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement that has taken place between his Department and Uisce Éireann in relation to the progression of the taking...
    • Local Authorities
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the decision not to provide funding to Galway County Council to take ownership of Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara,...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has reviewed current legislation governing solar and wind farms in the west of Ireland; the improvements...
    • Weather Events
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that has been allocated to mitigate storm-related damage in Roscommon and Galway following storms Amy and...
    • Housing Provision
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to increase commencement and completion rates of housing developments specifically in Roscommon-Galway;...
    • House Prices
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being considered to improve housing affordability in Roscommon-Galway, particularly for first-time buyers and...
    • Waterways Issues
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports which have been provided to South Dublin County Council and Fingal County Council to bring the Farmleigh Bridge,...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are available for the improvement/upgrade of wastewater treatment systems for SME’s; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Functions
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether those with refugee status entitled to emergency accommodation as provided by local authorities, what legislation is...
    • Local Area Plans
      626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local area plans that he has been notified of in each of the past five years. [61739/25]
    • Local Authorities
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether there is a funding stream for local authorities to pay to put shuttering on housing; and whether this can be included...
    • Planning Issues
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering undertaking a review of retail planning and development guidelines to provide for a distinct category for...
    • Vacant Properties
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns regarding the vacant homes grant raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • House Prices
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in view of continued elevated cost-of-living pressures, specifically high housing costs, rental inflation and utility bills,...
    • Presidential Elections
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government plans to hold a referendum to change the constitution to reduce the threshold required for the nomination of...
    • Legislative Measures
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has issued or intends to issue guidance and instructions to local authorities regarding the implementation...
    • Housing Provision
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a target for the number of build to rent units that it anticipates will be built in Ireland over the...
    • Housing Policy
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a fund for unfinished housing estates such as (details supplied) to deal with serious infrastructure and...
    • Housing Schemes
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review an application for a person (details supplied) under the croí cónaithe scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Data Centres
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are cases where land that had been zoned as residential was used to provide land and infrastructure for a data...
    • Building Regulations
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations providing for exempted development for the conversion of commercial properties to residential accommodation...
    • Fire Safety
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons who have already paid and are out of pocket for fire safety defects in apartment blocks will be reimbursed under...
    • Housing Schemes
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out a review of the first home scheme; and if his Department has agreed to raise the price...
    • Housing Policy
      642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review current income eligibility thresholds for social housing; if he is aware of low income families qualifying...
    • Departmental Bodies
      643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if in relation to a matter (details supplied) he will report on the nature of the issue arising; when it is expected to be...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans to extend the treatment purchase scheme (hair replacement) to cover more than the five types of alopecia currently...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a caring support pension application can be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there was a commitment given to citizens who were on invalidity pensions or other welfare payments that they could go...
    • Pension Provisions
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who has a private pension scheme through their employment would be able to qualify for the Government...
    • School Meals Programme
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that initially subscribed to the hot school meals schemes in 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of...
    • Deportation Orders
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department is notified by the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when a person becomes subject to a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department collects data on the number of individuals currently in receipt of social protection payments following the...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his position on benchmarking social welfare rates against average earnings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his position on introducing a basic Income for carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61043/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial redress payments for mother-and-baby home survivors are taken into account during means tests for individuals...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to introduce additional supports to assist hard pressed senior citizens with the cost of living crisis; if he will consider...
    • Departmental Communications
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide the exact credits and entitlements for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has examined how existing maternity and illness benefit schemes could be extended or adapted to provide...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carers allowance application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the back to education allowance does not allow for a second Erasmus year (details supplied); if he will consider...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to expanding the criteria of the occupational injuries benefit scheme to include healthcare...
    • Departmental Functions
      665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of hours spent implementing the means-test for carer's allowance; the cost of this work to implement the means...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the significant disparity between the rate of illness benefit, currently €244 per week, and the rate...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of invalidity pension applications that are submitted for appeal annually; the percentage success rate of those...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the overpayment being taken from the weekly supplementary welfare allowance of a person (details supplied) can be reduced...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the merits of expanding the fuel allowance to include all persons over the age of 70 that live alone; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of fuel allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61836/25]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection given the ongoing housing crisis, if his Department will consider adjusting the means assessment criteria for social welfare...
    • Social Insurance
      681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide, for each age bracket (details supplied) the total and average annual income PRSI contributions recorded for Irish...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will consider introducing an emergency winter payment to offset the extra cost of disability; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will explain the reason a parents carers allowance is under review for a person (details supplied); f his...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not received their disability allowance payment for the past two...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the number of people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit, per Intreo area,...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason his Department does not accept medical certificates issued by a private medical insurer (details supplied) for the...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the carers allowance by two percent; in line with inflation; ten percent; 20 percent; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Laois who were in receipt of living alone allowance and subjected to a review by his...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures his Department will take to support households facing increased energy and housing costs, particularly...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families which have received the child support payment and working family payment supports to date in Laois in...
    • Employment Support Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps his Department is taking to increase participation in the Activation and Family Support Programme, the Community...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      693. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on his Departments plans to extend the eligibility for the rural social scheme to include people who are...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Domestic Violence
      694. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of domestic violence refuge spaces in the State, by county, and by year, since 2022, in tabular form; and if...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original...
    • Visa Applications
      697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on a join spousal application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      698. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the quantity of fireworks seized by Gardaí within the Dublin region in the 2025 Halloween period; if he will provide the...
    • International Protection
      701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans regarding communications to members of a leisure centre (details supplied); who have paid membership fees but cannot...
    • Inspector of Prisons
      702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of all reports from the office of inspector of prisons that he has received since 2020, listing the date...
    • Prison Service
      703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions which were taken by his Department between receiving the Death in Custody Investigation Report on 18 July 2025 for...
    • International Protection
      707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on measures he is taking to ensure a financial contribution is made by employed and self-employed IPAS...
    • Immigration Policy
      708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if persons applying for entry visas, residence permits, or international protection are required to undergo any form of medical...
    • Work Permits
      710. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of labour market access permission applications made and granted since 2015, or...
    • International Protection
      712. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the gym and leisure facilities at a location (details supplied); when services will be reopened to members of...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      714. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to supply a comprehensive list of documentation required for a minor travelling on their own seeking re-entry to Ireland...
    • Election Management System
      717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions taken and the number of convictions secured, for the offence of taking photographs inside a polling...
    • International Protection
      718. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian nationals who were in Ireland under the Temporary Protection Directive in each month from February 2022...
    • Victim Support Services
      720. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is considering changing policy to address cases where victims are not afforded a right to information on the...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and capital funding allocations for the National Cyber Security Centre for 2025 and 2026, in tabular form; and if...
    • Immigration Policy
      722. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics study (details supplied); if a comparable study has been conducted or...
    • International Protection
      723. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department maintains, or has commissioned, a fully-loaded marginal (incremental) cost per international protection...
    • Departmental Communications
      733. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      734. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value of goods seized by CAB; the number of items and their broad category, in Cork in each of the past five years, in...
    • Crime Prevention
      735. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of the work reported to be undertaken by his Department on the issue of pet theft; the evidence-based...
    • International Protection
      737. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans in place to reopen the leisure centre at a location (details supplied), to ensure it remains open in the long-term;...
    • Family Reunification
      745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department can assist with a family reunification (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      746. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is considering proposals regarding the creation of a statutory offence or a defined sub-offence under sexual...
    • Asylum Seekers
      748. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of cases where the applicant seeking asylum was refused but are now under appeal; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      750. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the list of successful applicants of the Community Safety Fund; the funding each project received; the total number of...
    • International Protection
      751. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address issues relating to an accommodation centre contracted to IPAS (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      752. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 on 2 October 2025, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Visa Applications
      756. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will provide an urgent update on a short stay visit visa appeal (details supplied). [61444/25]
    • Domestic Violence
      757. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has assessed the availability of domestic violence support services in the Roscommon-Galway constituency; if...
    • Coroners Service
      759. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his proposals to continue the south east coronial post-mortem service at WUH from January 2026; the number of times his...
    • Deportation Orders
      760. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of IPAS applicants which have been issued with a deportation order but remained in Ireland over the past five years,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      761. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether those who become Irish citizens need to notify every Government agency and Department themselves to inform them that...
    • An Garda Síochána
      765. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional costs incurred by An Garda Síochána for security provided at Shannon Airport due to US military use of...
    • Departmental Functions
      767. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      768. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to address the backlog in citizenship applications over the past five years; the timeframe for the...
    • Departmental Appointments
      774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to granting an earlier appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      775. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that the normal operation of a local restaurant (details supplied) can resume; if his Department has had any...
    • Child Abduction
      776. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide aggregated figures for 2018 to date on requests concerning parental child-abduction cases to non-Hague jurisdictions...
    • Departmental Data
      777. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the statistics for convictions under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 by county; to...
    • Substance Misuse
      778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported suspected drink-spiking cases in County Kerry; the number that were investigated; the number that were...
    • An Garda Síochána
      780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí by rank attached to Donegal Divisional Protective Services Bureau as of 5 November 2025; and if he...
    • Prison Service
      781. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the report on the old Cork Prison that was expected for publication in November 2024; the reason for the delay in...
    • International Protection
      782. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1309 of 4 November 2025, the reason that two contracts with a company (details supplied)...
    • Asylum Applications
      783. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for asylum for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61857/25]
    • Alcohol Sales
      785. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of special exemption orders secured by licensed premises from 2018 to 2024, by year, on a county by county...
    • An Garda Síochána
      787. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Garda vetting is taking up to ten months for some persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      788. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) was not provided with notice that there were additional documents required for their...
    • Visa Applications
      789. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the actions he will take to address this issue; and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      790. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has consulted with the Garda management leadership team and/or the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure,...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      791. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by...
    • Departmental Staff
      792. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified tree surgeons that are employed by his Department in the years from 2023 to date in 2025, in tabular...
    • Animal Diseases
      793. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rules that apply to the sale of cattle from TB-restricted herds to controlled finishing units (CFU's); the basis upon which a...
    • Departmental Communications
      795. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason it has taken up to 20 years and longer to process aquaculture licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Horse Racing Industry
      801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the terms and conditions available for the equine technical support scheme operated by his Department for 2024 and...
    • Forestry Sector
      802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an organisation still exists or has it been replaced by another name/organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the current TB compensation scheme payment caps of €3,000 for commercial TB reactors and €5,000 for...
    • Agriculture Supports
      804. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted an assessment of milk and beef prices in the west of Ireland; the findings of same; the measures...
    • Departmental Functions
      805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input...
    • Tillage Sector
      806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when consultations will commence with tillage and farming organisations regarding the design of the proposed €50 million...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      809. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to urgently examine issues outlined in correspondence (details supplied); in view of correspondence from the Minister of State for...
    • Nitrates Usage
      810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ensure Ireland gets the best possible nitrates derogation deal for Irish farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Diseases
      811. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s current surveillance and containment measures in response to the most recent outbreak of avian influenza...
    • Teagasc Activities
      814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reports that Teagasc will be taking part in joint projects with Israeli counterparts (details supplied) [61859/25]
    • Animal Diseases
      815. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s response plan following the recent confirmation of avian influenza (H5N1) outbreaks on commercial turkey...
    • Assisted Animal Reproduction
      816. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of matings in the greyhound racing and coursing industries that involved surgical artificial insemination in each of the...
    • Animal Welfare
      818. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhound homed via Irish Retired Greyhound Trust, listed both directly and assisted from 2019 to 2024...
    • Greyhound Industry
      823. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the decision to award €19.82 million to Greyhound Racing Ireland in the 2026 Budget was reliant on the figures stated in...
    • Departmental Staff
      827. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s plans for the London agricultural attaché post; if the position will be replaced by a junior...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason stock-proof fencing, required by goat farmers, has been omitted from targeted agriculture modernisation schemes to date;...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association warning that lack of clarity around the next CAP regime and existing trade...
    • Greyhound Industry
      831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the incentive a greyhound owner has to keep the status of a non-coursing greyhound updated on the Rásaíocht Con...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Departmental Schemes
      832. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to publish the review into the mobility allowance; when an alternative scheme will be announced to replace this scheme;...
    • Disability Services
      834. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she will take to allocate an immediate extra support package for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Family Resource Centres
      836. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that there is only one Family Resource Centre in Cork City; her plans to remedy this matter; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare providers of sessional services in Naas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61100/25]
    • Children in Care
      849. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason Tusla must take out a care order through the courts placing children into State care in order for their guardian to...
    • Departmental Communications
      851. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend,...
    • Disability Services
      852. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when Clondalkin CDNT will move from Scoil Mochua to the new primary health care centre on the Boot Road; the reasons for the delay;...
    • Children in Care
      853. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children who have been in the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, under section 17 and section 18 of the Child...
    • Childcare Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a press release issued by an organisation (details supplied) articulating a crisis in the sector;...
    • Disability Services
      857. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s future plans for a home (details supplied) in County Donegal; when the new accommodation will be ready; when...
    • Employment Rights
      858. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has undertaken a review of existing employment protections for individuals who experience pregnancy loss; and if...
    • Disability Services
      862. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the day services available in north Westmeath to an adult with an intellectual disability (details supplied); and the way in which...
    • Mental Health Services
      866. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans her Department has to reduce waiting times for children's mental health in Roscommon-Galway; whether additional staff or...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      867. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has carried out an assessment of the impact of long waiting times on children and families in Roscommon-Galway;...
    • Childcare Services
      868. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the Building Blocks Programme is on track to deliver the 1,500 new childcare places as announced in 2025; the reasons for any...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      873. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 4 November 2025, her views on the way in which evidence based policy will be...
    • Parental Leave
      875. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider increasing the number of days for parental leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61514/25]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      876. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment from a Children's Disability Network Teams in County Laois; the average waiting time...
    • Childcare Services
      877. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans and the timeframe for achieving a reduction in the average net cost of childcare to €200 per month per child under...
    • Special Educational Needs
      879. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children with disabilities or additional needs which are participating in the Access and Inclusion Model across early...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      880. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the first quarter-by-quarter milestone commitments which are under the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025 2030;...
    • State Pensions
      881. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether foster carers allowance can be used to qualify persons for a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement...
    • Family Support Services
      882. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the investment and actions her Department will take to strengthen prevention and early intervention services for children and...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      883. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an enhanced package of services for all thalidomide survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61533/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      885. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the launch date for the next National Strategy for Women and Girls; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61574/25]
    • Employment Rights
      886. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to introducing statutory leave entitlements for those undergoing fertility treatment such as IVF; and...
    • Departmental Functions
      887. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the level of foresight or future planning that operates within her Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      888. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting for an assessment of needs in the HSE CHO9 area; and the breakdown of the number of...
    • Disability Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE administrative posts by grade that have been filled in each Children's Disability Network Team in Donegal in 2023...
    • Child and Family Agency
      891. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a reply will issue from Tusla regarding correspondence (details supplied). [61960/25]
    • Disability Services
      892. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans her Department has to reduce waiting times for children's disability services in Roscommon-Galway; whether additional...
    • Childcare Services
      893. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will engage with private childcare providers who avail of core funding from her Department on the issue of significant...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      895. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether flexibility or discretion can be applied in situations where a child narrowly misses the upper age threshold for availing of...
    • Child Protection
      896. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the training and resources which are provided to Tusla to assist staff in identifying and supporting victims of grooming; and if she...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      897. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a child (details supplied) is still awaiting an autism assessment alongside accessing occupational therapy and...
    • Children in Care
      898. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports in place for children who are in State care upon turning 18 years of age, to ensure they are provided with appropriate...
    • Childcare Services
      900. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review the current means tests for the national childcare scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      901. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagements she has had with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Ireland (FASD) regarding their work in supporting children, young...
    • Children in Care
      905. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Government intends to publish the revised childcare amendment bill, and whether it will include provisions to make...
    • Childcare Services
      907. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a list of early years and school age childcare services that have withdrawn from the core funding scheme; the number and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      908. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of naíonraí closures over the last five years; and the number of closures forecast for next year; and if she...
  • Department of Health
    • Insurance Coverage
      909. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance by age group (details supplied). [60904/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      911. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60906/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      912. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the recruitment campaign for an ophthalmologist in south Tipperary; the number of applications received; the number called for interview;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      913. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive a very urgent appointment at UHL; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60930/25]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three...
    • Hospital Staff
      915. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of staff in each public and voluntary hospital on a whole-time equivalent basis at the end of September 2025; the number of medical and dental...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      916. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for surgery will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [60964/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      917. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting ear, nose, throat surgery at the ENT department of the Mater Hospital; the types of surgeries being awaited; and the current...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      918. To ask the Minister for Health the number of holter monitors and cardiac event monitors currently available at Beaumont Hospital; the number of patients awaiting the use of a holter monitor...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      919. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times to see a consultant paediatric neurologist at CHI Temple Street. [60968/25]
    • Mortality Rates
      920. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the EuroMOMO z-score for Ireland for each week from the beginning of November 2024 to the end of March 2025, in tabular form; if the...
    • Hospital Admissions
      921. To ask the Minister for Health the number hospitalisations per 1,000 cases of influenza in adults aged 65 and over in Ireland, alongside available comparative data for other EU member...
    • Disability Services
      922. To ask the Minister for Health when the 'ADHD in Adults - National Clinical Programme' will be available to County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60981/25]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      923. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the implementation of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) screening in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; if she...
    • Hospital Services
      924. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand dental surgery services under general anaesthetic at Galway University Hospital for adults and children with intellectual, physical, or...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      926. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2278 of 8 September 2025, the number of families over the past five years that have availed of the International...
    • Healthcare Policy
      927. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on her Department's efforts to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to publish a national policy on adult safeguarding for the health...
    • Legislative Process
      929. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Health (assisted human reproduction) (amendment) Bill; the timeline she is working towards in publishing this supplementary legislation; and...
    • Nursing Homes
      931. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently examine fair deal client contribution costs for a person (details supplied); to provide a breakdown of the way in which these costs were...
    • Health Services Staff
      932. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultant epileptologists who are employed by the HSE and based in Cork University Hospital; if they are full-time or part-time, for each...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      933. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing numbers in the national cervical screening laboratory, by discipline and Grade of their employment; the vacancies that exist in each discipline...
    • Dental Services
      934. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of senior dental surgeons who are employed by the HSE part-time or full-time and who provide for those who have special needs based in HSE...
    • Infectious Diseases
      935. To ask the Minister for Health if persons seeking to enter or reside in the State are currently required to undergo medical screening or testing for infectious diseases or viruses; if not,...
    • Hospital Procedures
      937. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the contract between the HSE and a company (details supplied) regarding the provision of imaging scans; if there are caps on the...
    • Obesity Levels
      939. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the rise of both childhood and adult obesity, the policies of her Department and Government plans to reduce obesity; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      940. To ask the Minister for Health in view of another recent failure to provide nursing cover for Tory Island, when commitments will be fulfilled regarding the provision of nursing cover on the...
    • Hospital Admissions
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions for drug-induced psychosis, by drug type, hospital, and year from 2022 to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disease Management
      942. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department would outline the reason that the DESMOND diabetes training held in the Celbridge Health Centre is no longer running, given it provided...
    • Care of the Elderly
      943. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the opening of the dementia unit in Heather House in Cork. [61073/25]
    • Cancer Services
      946. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the implementation of a report concerning the upgrading of radiotherapy services provided by the St. Luke’s network and...
    • Nursing Homes
      947. To ask the Minister for Health the plans she has to increase the number of dementia specific nursing home spaces in the CHO3 area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61085/25]
    • Health Services
      950. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to make permanent the pilot Community Access Support Team in Limerick; if it will be expanded; if additional central funds will be provided in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      951. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for completion of the additional 96-bed unit at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61089/25]
    • Health Services
      952. To ask the Minister for Health the plans which are in place to support the health service and hospitals in the mid-west region during, and in advance of, the Ryder Cup 2027, during which an...
    • Mental Health Services
      953. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assertive outreach or on-street mental health intervention teams provided or funded by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Policy
      954. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand the community access support team, CAST, pilot model in budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61114/25]
    • Hospital Charges
      955. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through public parking charges at a hospital (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Health Promotion
      956. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of HSE stop-smoking services from a centre (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Hospital Staff
      957. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant neurologists based at Tallaght University Hospital in 2023 and 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Care Services
      958. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the capacity of palliative care services within Kildare; the number of WTE staff, by job title, currently working within this service;...
    • Hospital Services
      959. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of Exchequer funding paid to private hospitals in 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, including all payments made through the National Treatment...
    • International Protection
      960. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE costs attributable to international protection applicants, by service that is GP/primary care (including GP visit cards), pharmacy/medicines, public...
    • Health Services Staff
      961. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the retention and emigration of newly qualified doctors and nurses for each graduation year since 2010 to date in 2025; the number who...
    • Nursing Homes
      963. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a nursing home support payment is approved for a person (details supplied). [61200/25]
    • Departmental Communications
      964. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of the past five...
    • Medicinal Products
      965. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to roll out a long-acting injection to prevent HIV, as was done by NHS England recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61225/25]
    • Vaccination Programme
      966. To ask the Minister for Health if she accepts medical analysis that the shingles vaccine can reduce the risk of developing dementia in older people; if she plans to add this vaccine to the...
    • Data Protection
      967. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify Ireland's current position on the key issues of Bolar and Regulatory Data Protection/Market Protection with regard to the European General...
    • Dental Services
      969. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalents within HSE dental services in both Cavan and Monaghan, by role, vacancy status, including the duration of any vacancy, in tabular...
    • Site Acquisitions
      972. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has ever engaged with the owners of site (details supplied) drawn plans for or considered purchasing the site; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Gender Recognition
      974. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used to allow indeterminate to be placed on the gender section on a birth notification form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61301/25]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      976. To ask the Minister for Health the number of lipid profiles ordered through primary care (GP and primary care clinics) in each of the years 2019 to date in 2025, by CHO area and by quarter,...
    • Primary Care Services
      986. To ask the Minister for Health if a GP service will operate in the new Adamstown primary care centre; when these services will be operational; how local residents can apply to be patients of...
    • Abortion Services
      987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out during 2024 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, by gestation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Equipment
      988. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which it is intended that an MRI machine will be operational in Monaghan Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61337/25]
    • Abortion Services
      989. To ask the Minister for Health when a baby is born alive through an abortion procedure, according to clinical guidance, the health professionals which should be present in the room and...
    • Emergency Departments
      992. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented to the accident and emergency department of CHI Crumlin between the hours of 5 p.m. on 31 October 2025 to 1 a.m. on 1...
    • Hospital Staff
      993. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant dermatologists based at Tallaght University Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Medical Qualifications
      994. To ask the Minister for Health to intervene and pause the board’s decision to adopt the proposed standards and criteria for counsellors and psychotherapists by the counsellors and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the plans which are in place to support persons with long-Covid when the long-Covid payment ends in December 2025; if she plans to continue with the payment...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      996. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available for community groups to install defibrillators in their area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61361/25]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      997. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s plans and timeframe for the introduction of a national lung cancer screening programme using low-dose CT scanning, in line with...
    • Healthcare Policy
      998. To ask the Minister for Health if training or guidance is available to help managers and workplace wellbeing officers support employees who experience pregnancy loss, with regard to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61403/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health the specific types of blood tests that are covered by a medical card; the tests that are excluded; if her Department has issued guidance to GPs on the correct...
    • Hospital Staff
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultant epileptologists employed by the HSE and based in Cork University Hospital; if they are full time or part time for each of the...
    • Dental Services
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of senior dental surgeons, employed part time or full time, and who provide for those who have special needs, based in HSE CHO4 area for each...
    • Emergency Departments
      1005. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the capital investment planned for Beaumont Hospital’s emergency department compares with other major Dublin hospitals in terms of...
    • Ambulance Service
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of emergency ambulances available to serve Dublin city and county; the average response times for life-threatening incidents in the Dublin...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancies by job title within Clare Older Persons Services as of 31 October 2025; the estimated timeframe for filling each of those vacancies, in...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists, by grade, based at Ennis Primary Care Centre in the years 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Mental Health Services
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on waiting lists for initial assessments for mental health services in the Roscommon-Galway constituency; the average waiting...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being implemented to reduce hospital waiting times in the Roscommon-Galway region, particularly at Portiuncula and Roscommon University...
    • Ambulance Service
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted a review of ambulance response times in rural areas of Roscommon and Galway; the actions being taken to improve emergency...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in Galway and Roscommon that have missed critical developmental checks in the past 12 months; whether her Department has assessed the...
    • Home Help Service
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made by the HSE to recruit staff for the home support services being delivered in Carlow and Kilkenny; the estimated number of extra staff...
    • Dental Services
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of dental services to medical card holders as thousands of medical card holders across the country cannot currently afford to...
    • Health Promotion
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the need to provide additional supports to persons attempting to quit vaping; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61568/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health if she will allocate additional funds to the mental health budget. [61569/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent CT scan will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in St. James's Hospital. [61597/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for medication by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61600/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the issue that a national transfer system does not exist for health and social care professionals only for clerical and management grades;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the treatment at Cappagh Hospital; if she will ensure that the necessary treatment is expedited for this...
    • Departmental Funding
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health the baseline budget for Local and Regional Drug and Alcohol Task Forces in each year 2023 to 2026; the breakdown of the core LDATF funding; the additional...
    • Budget 2026
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health if the €1.7 million additional community-based funding allocated in Budget 2025 has been incorporated into the 2026 baseline for Local Drugs and...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health the funding per capita for Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Forces operating in high-risk areas including Finglas-Cabra, Ballymun, the Canal Communities, Tallaght...
    • Budget 2026
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Budget 2026 contains no emerging needs allocation for Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Forces, despite clear evidence of new patterns of drug use for...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health the level of foresight or future planning that operates within her Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input these individuals or teams...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to maintain special leave with pay for healthcare workers injured on the frontline during the pandemic; if not, if she still plans to end this...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for continuous glucose monitoring technology submitted to the primary care reimbursement service by the patients diabetes nurse specialist...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61690/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the changes that have been made to the podiatry services in County Galway; if patients are now experiencing longer wait times between appointments;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the current eligibility criteria for access to continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices for people living with diabetes; the number of people...
    • Health Services Staff
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether multiannual ring-fenced funding for diabetes care will be introduced in Budget 2026 to support the expansion of diabetes specialist teams...
    • Health Strategies
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development and publication of Ireland’s national diabetes strategy; the timeline for publication; the consultation process...
    • Disease Management
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health to publish the total expenditure on diabetes care and diabetes-related complications in 2023 and 2024; to confirm the basis for cost calculations; and whether...
    • Health Services
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 333 of 15 October and 173 of 22 October 2025, the number and location of sites sought in the original questions. [61718/25]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of patients on community waiting lists by service in Counties Cavan and Monaghan, in tabular form; and the number waiting 0-6, 6-12, 12-18,...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health if Mayo University Hospital was scheduled to receive new dialysis machines in the past year; if so, the reason for the delay in their allocation; and when the...
    • Disability Services
      1049. To ask the Minister for Health the current waitlist time for overnight respite at a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61761/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health the most up-to-date position on all supplier-related financial liabilities for the HSE, including outstanding bills, trade creditors and accruals; and to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to fund a laptop for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61764/25]
    • Nursing Homes
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a fair deal application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61768/25]
    • Departmental Reports
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.1626 of 4 November 2025, the reason for the delay in her receiving the report from the National Hearing Care Plan Working...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for audiology services, by age cohorts, hearing assessments and procedures, and length of time on the list; and if she will make a...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health if she will direct that any future regulatory measures proposed by CORU or its registration boards are subject to full proportionality assessment, public...
    • Medical Inquiries
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2576 of 8 September 2025, the status of the external expert review group established to review children who may have...
    • Hospital Charges
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health the amount raised from car parking charges at University Hospital Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61795/25]
    • Ambulance Service
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health the measures her Department already have in place, and the additional measures planned, to ensure adequate physical and mental health supports for members of...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health the current protocols in place for cases where a patient presents at accident and emergency and reports suspected drink-spiking; the reason hospitals do not...
    • Health Services Staff
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists by grade based in primary care system within Donegal in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; the average...
    • Health Services
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO1 where HSE podiatry services are located; the number of WTE staff, by job title working in each of the HSE podiatry clinics; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on orthopaedic outpatient and inpatient waiting lists in all hospitals in Cork; the average and longest waiting times; the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant orthopaedic surgeons employed across Cork hospitals; the number of unfilled posts; when these vacancies will be filled; and if she...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health if operating theatre capacity for orthopaedic surgery in Cork hospitals is currently being fully utilised; if not, the reasons why; whether staff shortages or...
    • Hospital Staff
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that the orthopaedic departments in Cork hospitals have sufficient theatre and nursing staff to meet patient demand; the additional...
    • Female Genital Mutilation
      1073. To ask the Minister for Health the current level of funding allocated to the specialist clinic for survivors of female genital mutilation operated by the Irish family planning association;...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the planned new Dungloe primary care centre; the timeframe for when the Centre will be operational; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Charges
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health the amount raised from car parking charges at St Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61855/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments cancelled in Cavan and Monaghan hospitals in the years 2020 to date, by year, by hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the new ambulance and training facility base for Sligo, the stage the appraisal is at; when a design and planning application will be...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health if a procedure (details supplied) comes under the remit of the HSE in public hospitals here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61875/25]
    • Dental Services
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists and dental staff employed in the free HSE dental services providing emergency care for children under 16 years of age; the number...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for cataract surgery at University Hospital Waterford, by time band, in tabular form. [61911/25]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on an application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61935/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of the mobility allowance in the years 2020 to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61936/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on current staffing levels at a hospital (details supplied), including whole-time equivalent posts by staff category and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers diagnosed with long-Covid who have been deemed unfit to return to work; the current arrangements in place to support them...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the projected timeline for the disposal of property (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61951/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) in University Hospital Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61958/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health if the blood test department in St Vincent’s Hospital is going to close; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61969/25]
    • Medical Cards
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has considered the recent €10 increase in pension rates when determining the income threshold for qualifying for a medical card; if...
    • Domestic Violence
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are domestic violence officers in hospital emergency departments in most hospitals nationwide. [62036/25]
    • Hospital Services
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the schedule of weeks when a service will be available in Portlaoise in 2025 and 2026 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health if there were residential mental health facilities on the St Mary’s Campus; and if these have closed. [62086/25]
    • Care Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health the action she will take to allocate more resources to meet the essential needs of a person (details supplied), with an emphasis on more respite to enable...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements she has had with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Ireland (FASD) regarding their work in supporting children, young adults and families living...
    • Mental Health Services
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Mental Health and Older People has had with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Disability has had with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Ireland...
    • Health Service Executive
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of defamation cases, where litigation has been paid by the HSE, taken against family members of persons with disabilities where the person is...
    • Care Services
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals in receipt of respite services in Cavan and Monaghan in the years 2020 to date; the waiting list to access such services, by year...
    • Mental Health Services
      1112. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (detail supplied) to have an assessment to get correct medication. [62123/25]
    • Health Services
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) is moved to a location as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62124/25]
    • Insurance Coverage
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health if she has examined the recent findings reported by a newspaper (details supplied) that identified 35 private health insurance plans as offering poor value...
    • Ambulance Service
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the much-needed new ambulance and training facility base for Sligo; the stage the appraisal is at; when a design and planning application...
    • Departmental Reports
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Children’s Health Ireland has not yet published its 2024 annual report; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, according to the...
    • Dental Services
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the provision of special needs dental services in Nenagh; if she is aware that the post of special needs dentist has been...
    • Mental Health Services
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists in Kildare, by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric speech and language therapist posts that were filled within the primary care system within the former CHO7 areas in 2023, 2024...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health when the new community hospital will be opened in Killarney; when patients will be transferred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62266/25]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Contracts
      1125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by...
    • Departmental Data
      1126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide any available data on the proportion of graduates in each of the years 2000 to 2025 who emigrated within five years of graduation;...
    • Departmental Staff
      1127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE qualified accountants working within her Department in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [60969/25]
    • Grant Payments
      1128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if the decision regarding this person’s SUSI application will be expedited;...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider making provision for the establishment of a third level course for early years education through the medium of Irish in a...
    • Third Level Education
      1130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated average cost to the State of training a medical student and a nursing student to graduation; and to itemise these costs by...
    • Teacher Training
      1132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated average public cost of training a primary teacher and a post-primary teacher to full qualification, including teacher education...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of...
    • Grant Payments
      1134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the documentation which is accepted by SUSI for persons who are ‘hidden homeless’ that is couch surfing in other people’s...
    • Third Level Education
      1136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any universities in Ireland have or currently receive funding from China and/or have been persuaded not to study certain subjects or topics;...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships registered in Dublin northwest from 2022 to date in 2025, by LEA, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Third Level Admissions
      1139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students which are enrolled in Dublin City University for the 2025-2026 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      1142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 2090 of 4 November 2025, the timeline for the establishment of the sectoral working group mentioned; the...
    • Departmental Functions
      1143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the input these...
    • Technological Universities
      1144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the form of support his Department is giving to the Higher Education Authority who stated that the Technical University Dublin is in a...
    • Construction Industry
      1151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the introduction of a national trade licensing system for construction workers and contractors, similar to the model used in...
    • Grant Payments
      1153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in receipt of SUSI grants; the percentage each group represents of the overall student body, by threshold group (partial...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that the Commission for Regulation of Utilities excluded electric instrumentation tradespeople from registering with Safe...
    • Third Level Education
      1158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is aware that a recent Speak Out report states only one in eight third-level students who anonymously disclosed experiences of...
    • Grant Payments
      1159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department plans to expand the criteria for the SUSI grant to include persons who have become estranged from their family, and therefore...
    • Third Level Fees
      1160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending the scope for the free fees initiative, which caps undergraduate fees at €3000, or €2500 as of the...
    • Third Level Costs
      1161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of student assistance fund, funding his Department has provided to universities (details supplied) for the academic years...
    • Youth Work Supports
      1162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when discussions regarding the alignment of the Youthreach calendar year with the second level calendar year will be concluded; when an...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1163. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards,...
    • Departmental Communications
      1164. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of...
    • Library Projects
      1165. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will specifically ringfence funding that will enable the construction and delivery of a library in the Mahon, Blackrock,...
    • Rural Schemes
      1166. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when allocations under the 2025 town and village renewal scheme will be announced; if he will consider funding to a community...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1167. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projects that were funded under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme within County Clare in 2024 and to date in 2025,...
    • Departmental Functions
      1168. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of foresight or future planning that operates within his Department; who is responsible for long-term planning; the...
    • Library Services
      1169. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding provided for the afterhours library service in each of the past five years; if the system is operated centrally; and...
    • Community Development Projects
      1170. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the community services programme will reopen for applications; if his Department will accept expressions of interest at this...

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