Written answers

Tuesday, 13 January 2026

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      115. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the development of the next-generation sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1237/26]
    • Regional Development
      122. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there have been any expressions of interest in the past five years in the development of the vacant IDA site in Fermoy, County...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      123. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures currently in place within his Department to support small and medium-sized enterprises in Dublin Bay North facing rising...
    • Tourism Industry
      124. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the potential negative impact of the proposed short-term letting and tourism Bill 2025, in particular on rural areas; and if he will...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      125. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the impact of the SME test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1591/26]
    • Regional Development
      126. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for the development of the vacant IDA site at Ballyadam, Carrigtwohill, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Functions
      128. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the work of the small business unit in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1535/26]
    • Living Wage
      129. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider the three-year delay to the introduction of the living wage, which has been postponed until January 2029; if...
    • Job Losses
      130. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the potential redundancies of 400 AI workers taking place at a company (details supplied); if his...
    • Tourism Promotion
      131. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to increase the tourism potential of Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1410/26]
    • Job Losses
      132. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding discussions on a company (details supplied), which has confirmed closure, and supports for workers; and if he...
    • Regional Development
      133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a new midlands regional enterprise plan is forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1593/26]
    • Economic Growth
      134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a report on the implementation of the new Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tourism Funding
      135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to communities included in the Wild Atlantic Way initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regional Development
      136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a new south-west regional enterprise plan is forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1746/26]
    • Tourism Policy
      137. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made on developing a long-term tourism strategy; the way in which it will address challenges such as climate change,...
    • Tourism Industry
      138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to address the decrease in tourist numbers in 2025 and the overreliance on the North American market in the Irish tourism...
    • Tourism Promotion
      139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on efforts to expand international marketing campaigns and improve air and sea connectivity to support...
    • Work Permits
      140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the review in relation to work visa arrangements for individuals in high-demand roles, such as in the STEM area - in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his engagement with companies developing AI technologies to ensure that responsible and ethical tools are being developed; and if he...
    • Tourism Promotion
      142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his proposals to cultivate cross-Border tourism. [1757/26]
    • Business Supports
      143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for additional supports for SMEs and investment in overseas in-market promotion to deliver on the Action Plan on Market...
    • Tourism Policy
      144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on any plans his Department or State agencies under his aegis have to improve accessibility and disability-friendly...
    • Economic Growth
      145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the assessments his Department has made on the impact of the housing crisis on recruitment and retention of staff, investment in...
    • Regional Development
      146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated for the smart regions enterprise innovation scheme in the southern, eastern and midland regional programme; and...
    • Tourism Industry
      147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which he will continue to support tourism SMEs in establishing themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flexible Work Practices
      149. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the impact on workers’ quality of life of forcing remote workers to return to work; the measures he will take to...
    • Regional Development
      150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the progress made under the West Regional Enterprise Plan to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Minimum Wage
      151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will end exemptions from the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1619/26]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the work of the Cost of Business Advisory Forum on a comprehensive review of the cost structure for SMEs; and if...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to attract new foreign direct investment, particularly in emerging sectors such as green...
    • Regional Development
      154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-hosted visits to each county in 2025. [1722/26]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs Enterprise Ireland supported in each county in the Border region in 2025; how this compares with each county in...
    • Industrial Development
      156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives he or his Department or associated State agencies have taken to encourage prospective new owners to establish a...
    • Tourism Industry
      157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to support the tourism industry in Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1236/26]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support revising the law to grant workers a right to work remotely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1618/26]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department is supporting Irish SMEs looking to enter international markets; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Business Supports
      162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the assessment his Department has completed on the effectiveness of the increased cost of doing business grant for SMEs; whether...
    • Business Regulation
      163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way he is ensuring that small and micro-businesses are not disproportionately affected by regulatory burdens compared to larger...
    • Tourism Promotion
      164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to increase the tourism potential of County Meath. [64062/25]
    • Business Supports
      165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered specific supports for retailers in rural towns facing declining footfall, bank closures and higher logistics...
    • Tourism Industry
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the incentives available for hoteliers to build new hotels as it is currently not feasible; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Business Supports
      168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the assistance being given to SMEs and start-ups on the recently published Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity,...
    • Tourism Policy
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work his Department has done to examine the introduction of a hotel bed tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1714/26]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department is taking to support SMEs facing persistently high energy costs, particularly in energy-intensive sectors...
    • National Minimum Wage
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to end all subminimum wages for apprentice workers. [67837/25]
    • Tourism Industry
      172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any engagement he has had with an organisation (details supplied) that seeks to encourage businesses to pass...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the capital investment strategy, and the new business and tourism initiatives that he has recently announced. [1846/26]
    • Poverty Data
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the level of in-work poverty in the State has been brought to his attention; if he will consider an increase in the minimum wage...
    • Employment Support Services
      175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is concerned about the rising rate of long-term unemployment, and youth unemployment, which stands at nearly three...
    • Tourism Industry
      176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the assessment his Department has made of the estimated 6% decline in visitor numbers nationally in 2025, as reported by tourism...
    • Tourism Promotion
      177. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department has taken to promote tourism in east County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1407/26]
    • Health and Safety
      178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the large increase in workplace fatalities in 2025; the actions being taken to ensure a reduction; and if he will make...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to grow and support indigenous businesses; his views on an expanded role for local authorities in this regard; and if he...
    • Consumer Prices
      180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any engagement he has had with the major supermarkets in relation to significant price increases on many of...
    • Regional Development
      181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps been taken by the IDA and his Department to increase the number of visits by prospective companies in County Laois to...
    • Work Permits
      182. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has been consulted on the potential impact of proposed measures to make family reunification more difficult for...
    • Tourism Industry
      183. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the new rules that will apply for short-term letting from May 2026; if the short-term let register has been launched; if it is open...
    • Regional Development
      184. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps been taken by his Department and the IDA to get a replacement industry for a factory (details supplied) in Portlaoise; and...
    • Business Supports
      185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he is taking to reduce the cost of doing business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1742/26]
    • Data Centres
      186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the research his Department is carrying out to assess the economic impact of data centres in Ireland; and if he will...
    • Regional Development
      188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a new mid-east regional enterprise plan is forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1530/26]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the concrete measures his Department is taking in 2026 to reduce cost pressures on SMEs, particularly energy, insurance and labour...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to aid IDA Ireland in securing new foreign direct investment for Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Work Permits
      191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the review of the critical skills occupations list and ineligible occupations list; whether the review will take into...
    • Employment Rights
      192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the Government’s plans for implementing the EU directive on adequate minimum wages and collective bargaining; the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Protected Disclosures
      193. To ask the Taoiseach the number of successful prosecutions secured under section 24 of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment), Act 2022 (the provisions of the Act that relate to making the...
    • Economic Data
      194. To ask the Taoiseach the number of businesses with a turnover of less than €250,000 per annum; the breakdown of the sectors they operate in. [2481/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      198. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with those projects; and whether...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      199. To ask the Taoiseach the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in tabular form, in each of the years between 2015 and...
    • Data Protection
      201. To ask the Taoiseach the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. [74904/25]
    • Public Spending Code
      202. To ask the Taoiseach the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code to the Infrastructure Guidelines,...
    • Public Sector Pay
      203. To ask the Taoiseach the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible; whether this scale has changed in...
    • Departmental Advertising
      204. To ask the Taoiseach the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022 to 2024, by year and budgeted for 2026....
    • Departmental Staff
      205. To ask the Taoiseach the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is responsible; the cost of these staff for...
    • EU Presidency
      206. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the European Council; the line items...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      207. To ask the Taoiseach the total proposed capital spend under the Shared Island Fund between 2026 and 2030; the amount of this is to be allocated to transport projects; and could these...
    • Departmental Budgets
      208. To ask the Taoiseach the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each of the past ten years, and to the...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      210. To ask the Taoiseach the progress to date in developing workspace hubs as provided for under the Shared Island Initiative; and when it is expected that such enterprise spaces will be...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      212. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken down by description and amount paid....
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      213. To ask the Taoiseach whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer by a court or tribunal,...
    • National Security
      222. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the work of the Ministerial Council on National Security. [2420/26]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      223. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years which were completed on time and...
    • Departmental Contracts
      224. To ask the Taoiseach to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of consultancy contracts, the largest...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Consular Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations the Irish Government made to their British counterparts to ensure the rights of a person (details supplied) are being...
    • Middle East
      227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list the postal codes located in the so-called "occupied Palestinian territory", including East Jerusalem, which she and her Department...
    • Human Rights
      228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74003/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement there has been with the European Union on progressing the Israeli settlements (prohibition of importation of goods) Bill...
    • Climate Action Plan
      230. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will provide a detailed breakdown of monies allocated towards climate finance in 2026; if she will provide a final estimate of the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in her Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with...
    • Departmental Consultations
      234. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether standards or service-level targets exist for her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department, in responding to...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures her Department is taking with respect to ongoing violence in Sudan and in particular, to protect civilians; and if she will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the office rental costs per annum for staff in her Department and for each agency or organisation under her remit, in each of the years...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      237. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to allegations in relation to the mistreatment of an Irish citizen (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      243. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the payroll cost of her Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular...
    • Human Rights
      244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action Ireland is taking to protest the deportation of a person (details supplied) who documented the repression of the Uyghur people in...
    • Middle East
      245. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on whether the resolution 2803 is delivering the adequate humanitarian response required in Gaza in conjunction with the 10...
    • Passport Services
      246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an EU citizen applying for an Irish-born child’s first time passport is required to provide a P60 or similar Revenue Commissioners...
    • Data Protection
      247. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of data breaches recorded by her Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. [74896/25]
    • Consular Services
      248. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Consul General based in New York has met formally with the new Mayor of New York city; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Trade Agreements
      249. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to request an emergency meeting with the European Commission, the Agriculture Commissioner and the Trade Commissioner to debate the...
    • Public Spending Code
      251. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of projects in her Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code to...
    • Public Sector Pay
      253. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in her Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible;...
    • Departmental Advertising
      254. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department, and within each agency for which she is responsible, for 2022 to 2024,...
    • Departmental Staff
      255. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in her Department and within each agency for which she is responsible;...
    • EU Presidency
      256. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated cost to her Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the...
    • Legislative Process
      258. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the timeframe for the introduction of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      259. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of Exchequer funding allocated by her Department in each of the past three years to international development and...
    • Passport Services
      264. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is she is aware that the new Irish passport card has been refused at airports in Europe (details supplied). [1167/26]
    • Foreign Policy
      265. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on the recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. [1275/26]
    • Trade Promotion
      266. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will consider the establishment of a trade office in Taipei, along the lines of the existing EU office or those of other EU member...
    • Diaspora Issues
      267. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount the Government has spent on initiatives to encourage the diaspora to return home in each of the years 2023, 2024, and 2025; the...
    • Military Aircraft
      269. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps she will take to inspect US military aircraft landing in Ireland to verify the veracity of their manifest; and if she will make a...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      272. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps she will take to prevent ships using Irish waters, including the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone, for transit, en route to Russian...
    • United Nations
      273. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an emergency meeting of both the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly will be called so that a...
    • Military Aircraft
      274. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to confirm if US Navy aircraft flew over Irish sovereign airspace this year; if it is still Irish policy that foreign military aircraft are...
    • EU Meetings
      277. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions she will take to raise the ongoing intervention in Venezuela by the United States at EU Council level; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      280. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of her Department’s Vote for each of the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      282. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total number of diplomats posted abroad; the number of those that are posted to the US, India and China respectively; and if she will...
    • Foreign Policy
      284. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether she agrees with the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro by the US authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Trade Relations
      285. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by her Department in 2025, broken down by...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      287. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the...
    • Middle East
      294. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to highlight with her counterpart in Israel a demolition order in the occupied West bank (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      295. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or...
    • Passport Services
      297. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application can be expedited (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2304/26]
    • National Security
      298. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on her Department’s input to the development of the national security strategy; when the strategy is likely to be...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      299. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by her Department or its agencies over the past three years which...
    • Departmental Contracts
      300. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail the annual spend on external consultants by her Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of...
    • Foreign Policy
      302. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding her Department’s travel advisory for Irish citizens against travel to Ecuador; the basis for this decision;...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Fisheries Protection
      310. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to reverse the decision to ban salmon draft net fishing in 2026 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authorities
      311. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the full range of powers available to local authorities to tackle the problem of dog dirt; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fishing Industry
      312. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in light of the opposition by anglers to the proposed new catch and release bye laws, if he will take action on the issues...
    • Fisheries Protection
      313. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the Joint Committee investigation into the Munster Blackwater fish kill; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      317. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports available for a community group who missed the drawdown date of the Climate Action Fund due to a lack of...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      319. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      320. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the introduction of statutory requirements obliging landowners to clear and maintain certain...
    • Fisheries Protection
      322. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons a catch and release policy has been introduced on the Owenea river, County Donegal; the reason the Loughros...
    • Fuel Poverty
      323. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the engagement between his Department and EnergyCloud Ireland in relation to the use of surplus renewable electricity that...
    • Departmental Bodies
      325. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the oversight arrangements and performance indicators that apply to the CRU, including any agreed targets for compliance...
    • Departmental Consultations
      326. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department in...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      327. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the development of marine protection areas should be based on the principle of co-creation whereby...
    • Departmental Schemes
      328. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reopen the grant for replacement of oil tanks and boilers that closed in August 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      329. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each...
    • Fisheries Protection
      330. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which the decision was reached for fishing on the Blackwater making it catch & release for 2026; and if he...
    • Fishing Industry
      332. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to consider a buyout of all draft nets on the Blackwater and country wide; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Policy
      334. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he plans to introduce a new policy statement on the importation of fracked gas; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      335. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the construction of offshore windfarms, whether built, in the course of being built, or planned;...
    • Planning Issues
      336. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce secondary legislation to implement scale of fees, capping the costs of environmental planning...
    • Departmental Schemes
      337. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications refused under the warmer homes scheme in 2024 and 2025, respectively; the percentage of...
    • Inland Fisheries
      338. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland has commenced selling 2026 salmon licences online and through distributors without...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      344. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by...
    • Energy Prices
      345. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions his Department is taking to reduce energy costs for households. [74648/25]
    • Wind Energy Generation
      346. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the decommissioning of a wind farm (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Building Energy Rating
      352. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the public consultation on Ireland’s national building renovation plan will be launched, having regard to the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      354. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to research by a group, showing that 7,551 salmon migrated to the Corrib system in 2025;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      358. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74871/25]
    • Data Protection
      359. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Energy Prices
      360. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the factors contributing to the significant increases in the price of heating oil in 2025 compared with 2024,...
    • Waste Management
      361. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the concerns of smaller and local waste collectors at the consultation on the feasibility of...
    • Energy Prices
      362. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to introduce targeted energy credits for people with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75044/25]
    • Public Spending Code
      363. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public...
    • Departmental Staff
      364. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which he or...
    • Departmental Advertising
      365. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount expended on advertising and promotion by his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible,...
    • Departmental Staff
      366. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which...
    • EU Presidency
      367. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated cost to his Department and each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s...
    • Departmental Schemes
      369. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if under the SEAI warmer homes scheme, properties built with cavity block cannot be considered for external house wrap to...
    • Environmental Schemes
      370. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on SEAI’s business energy upgrade scheme; and the breakdown of grants awarded broken down by size...
    • EU Funding
      371. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding the State received from the European just transition fund in 2025; and the sectors that have...
    • Grant Payments
      372. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report on the new grants to homeowners to break up retrofitting costs; when these grants will be made available; if...
    • Climate Action Plan
      374. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he is taking to react to the Climate Change Advisory Council's criticisms of the sectoral adaptation plans; and...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      375. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the carbon budget process; if an independent peer review will take place as recommended by the...
    • Electricity Grid
      376. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the engagements he has had with Eirgrid and ESB regarding housing connections; the number of new homes that will be...
    • Waste Management
      378. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of increased charges for household waste services issued by a provider (details supplied); if he is aware...
    • Building Energy Rating
      379. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure that red brick houses are more energy efficient and to ensure they are covered by the SEAI scheme....
    • Energy Prices
      380. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the dates upon which he received arrears data, in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Recycling Policy
      382. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the dates on which he and-or his officials met with representatives from the deposit return scheme; if the value of...
    • Departmental Budgets
      385. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which a Supplementary Estimate or Supplementary Estimates were sought in respect of his Department’s...
    • Trade Data
      387. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the pccupied territories by his Department in 2025,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      388. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      395. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of Ireland's participation in COP30, including travel and accommodation for the delegation. [2157/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      396. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists,...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      398. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past...
    • Departmental Contracts
      399. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the...
    • Departmental Projects
      400. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a list, for each of the past three years, of the top ten projects per annum delivered by his Department or its...
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Navigation Orders
      401. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when air traffic controllers were alerted to the drone activity surrounding President Zelenskyy’s visit to Ireland; and if she will make...
    • Air Corps
      402. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the air corps will operate at night; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74036/25]
    • Naval Service
      403. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Irish naval ships deploy drones; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74037/25]
    • Air Navigation Orders
      406. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence regarding the recent visit of President Zelenskyy if there were civilian craft in the area when the drones were sighted; and if she will make a...
    • Naval Service
      409. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the naval reserve launch is being used for harbour patrol; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74043/25]
    • Defence Forces
      410. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether her Department keeps any statistics on the inclusion of those with ADHD or on the autism spectrum in the Defence Forces, including the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      411. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in her Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with those...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      412. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether standards or service-level targets exist for her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department, in responding to correspondence...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      413. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the office rental costs per annum for staff in her Department and for each agency or organisation under her remit, in each of the years between...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      414. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when her Department alerted air traffic controllers at Dublin Airport to the drone activity surrounding President Zelenskyy’s visit to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      415. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the payroll cost of her Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular form....
    • Public Sector Pensions
      416. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if her Department will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will ensure that the person is not liable for the debt. [74785/25]
    • Defence Forces
      417. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of promotions from the rank of regimental quartermaster sergeant to sergeant major within the Army which occurred in the years 2024...
    • Naval Service
      418. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of promotions from the rank of chief petty officer to warrant officer within the Naval Service which occurred in the years 2024 and...
    • Data Protection
      419. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of data breaches recorded by her Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. [74892/25]
    • Air Navigation Orders
      420. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if footage of suspected drones spotted during President Zelenskyy’s visit to Ireland will be released; and if she will make a statement...
    • Public Spending Code
      424. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of projects in her Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code to the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      425. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in her Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible; whether...
    • Departmental Advertising
      426. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department, and within each agency for which she is responsible, for 2022 to 2024, by...
    • Departmental Staff
      427. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in her Department and within each agency for which she is responsible; the...
    • EU Presidency
      428. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost to her Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the European...
    • Defence Forces
      430. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel inducted into the Permanent Defence Force; and the number remaining in service at six months, 12 months and 24 months...
    • Naval Service
      439. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the coordinates of the LÉ William Butler Yeats which was reported to have been off the coast of Dublin Bay on 1 December 2025, when...
    • Air Corps
      442. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position of the Air Corps with regard to operational capability; if they can operate 24/7; if not, if they are operating a restricted...
    • Naval Service
      446. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the possibility of recruiting marine engineers from fishing boats or commissioning some of the larger fishing vessels for defence will be...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      447. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence in relation to the drones that were reportedly sighted on the evening of 1 December (details supplied) if there is any footage of these drones;...
    • Departmental Budgets
      449. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of her Department’s Vote for each of the past...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      451. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the occupied territories by her Department in 2025, broken down by...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      452. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether her Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      459. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if her Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers;...
    • Defence Forces
      461. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to seek a detailed explanation for the delays with sending a Redress of Wrongs dated 22 July 2021 to the Workplace Commission by the Defence...
    • National Security
      466. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on her Department’s input to the development of the national security strategy; when the strategy is likely to be...
    • Defence Forces
      467. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she will provide an update on the purchasing of counter unmanned aerial system equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Contracts
      468. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which her Department publishes calls for companies to express an interest in supplying military equipment to the State; and if she...
    • National Security
      469. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the recent signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with Finland on defence co-operation; the plans for a formal working...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      470. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence her plans to publish the National Defence Procurement Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2399/26]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      471. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by her Department or its agencies over the past three years which were...
    • Departmental Contracts
      472. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail the annual spend on external consultants by her Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of consultancy...
    • Defence Forces
      474. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the security duty allowance will be paid to Irish Reservists for all activities undertaken during the Irish presidency of the EU. [2502/26]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Greenways Provision
      477. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken by his Department to support the development and promotion of greenways as tourism and regional economic assets;...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend the Road Traffic Act 2016 to include nitrous oxide on the list of offences involving certain drugs for the purpose of...
    • Rail Network
      479. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the Luas tram procurement programme announced by Transport Infrastructure Ireland in August 2023; if a contract has...
    • Road Safety
      489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the situation in relation to the use of Class I Urban vehicles on motorways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73889/25]
    • National Transport Authority
      497. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints received by the NTA about issues relating to public transport, by means of transport, each year for the past...
    • Bus Services
      500. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage average of F spine buses that do not meet their schedule times. [73937/25]
    • Transport Policy
      503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new vehicle assistance scheme will be implemented to replace the existing disabled drivers and passengers scheme; when this new...
    • Bus Services
      504. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details provided); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73958/25]
    • Rail Network
      505. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if issues at Attymon Train Station will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73971/25]
    • Bus Services
      506. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rollout date of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73977/25]
    • Active Travel
      510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if active travel investment programmes can fund walking infrastructure projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73985/25]
    • Driver Licences
      511. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Brazilian driving licences could be directly recognised or exchanged, similar to arrangements already existing with European nations...
    • Bus Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislative changes required to enable the operation of the M4 eastbound bus priority measures pilot scheme. [74005/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      513. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total expense incurred on the TFI live app for each of the past five years; the total spent to date in 2025; and the projected...
    • Road Projects
      515. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the necessary funding to resurface the N86 road from Camp to Dingle in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of ongoing concerns from passengers using northside DART services regarding the clarity and audibility of platform and...
    • Air Services
      521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Dublin airport can allow passengers to carry 2 litres of liquid on flights while Shannon and other airports only allow 100...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      522. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he intends on addressing these concerns; and if he will make...
    • Bus Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department will take to expand bus services in Stepaside, Glencullen, and Kiltiernan beyond current BusConnect plans, in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated...
    • Rail Network
      525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current progress on the development of a Luas line in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74241/25]
    • Bus Services
      526. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current progress on BusConnects across Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74242/25]
    • Driver Test
      527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting times are for driving tests by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74247/25]
    • Departmental Consultations
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to...
    • Road Safety
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the passenger-protection measures the NTA currently requires from operators in non-fault incidents; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schools in Wicklow and Wexford that were unsuccessful in an application for the safe routes to school programme; and if he will make...
    • Rail Network
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider reopening the Waterford-Rosslare rail line, as recommended in the All-Island Strategic Rail Review; his views on the ongoing...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the years...
    • Cycling Facilities
      546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the Fitzwilliam cycle route project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74473/25]
    • Electric Vehicles
      547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on supporting the use of private residential on-street EV charging in Dublin for properties without private parking; and if he...
    • Active Travel
      550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total budget for active travel projects across Ireland, in each year, for the past five years. [74502/25]
    • Bus Services
      551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the provision of a bus shelter on a route (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Irish citizens returning from abroad who previously held full Irish driving licences are required to wait months for licence...
    • Bus Services
      556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when quarter 3 and quarter 4 data will be available for a route to determine whether it is performing within the contractual obligations...
    • School Transport
      557. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the decision process (details supplied) for the funding for the Safe Routes to School programme; and if he will...
    • Road Projects
      562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allocate funding to Clare County Council in order that a comprehensive review of the N68 road (Ennis to Kilrush) will be...
    • Rail Network
      563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Luas to Lucan project; the expected milestones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74610/25]
    • Bus Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which BusConnects Corridors will interface with future light rail routes to ensure optimal compatibility; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular...
    • Bus Services
      571. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on an article (details supplied) that reported 1,264 cancellations of number 13 bus in the past two months; the reason for...
    • Rail Network
      572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding available for additional seating and shelter (details supplied), from 2020 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if...
    • Road Projects
      575. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Thurles inner relief road has been submitted for tender; if not, when it is expected to be advertised for tender; to provide a...
    • Taxi Licences
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average time for a taxi license application to be processed from start to finish; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Services
      577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider extending a bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74796/25]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the provision of a carpark at Parkwest train station; when it will be provided as committed to; and if he will...
    • Road Safety
      579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of junctions nationally equipped with automatic red light enforcement cameras; the number equipped with average speed or fixed...
    • Public Spending Code
      580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of scheduled Route 15 bus services that were cancelled or delayed by more than 15 minutes in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025,...
    • Rail Network
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the deployment of a traffic management system, TMS, within the new national train control centre, NTCC;...
    • Data Protection
      583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner....
    • Active Travel
      584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if retrospective funding will be considered to ensure, under active travel infrastructure, the provision of additional public toilets at...
    • Road Network
      585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason private operators are being denied access to a State facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the provision of park-and-ride facilities on the M7 and M9 motorways; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Network
      587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and TII have advanced a dedicated bus land and-or emergency lane on the N7 motorway; the progress which has been made;...
    • Greenways Provision
      588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a feasibility study will be carried out in respect of developing a greenway along the route of the old railway line from Headford to...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport , further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 18 November 2025, the number of court disqualifications matched manually by the RSA on to...
    • Bus Services
      591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to request the NTA to provide a LocalLink bus service between Beaufort village and Killorglin town in County Kerry (details supplied);...
    • Rail Network
      597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the decision to cancel the Wexford–Waterford rail line as part of the strategic rail review will be reviewed; and if he will...
    • Taxi Regulations
      598. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 18 December 2025, to report on the meeting (details supplied) between the Department of...
    • Bus Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider offering an option on the TFI App for passengers to report buses being late or not showing up; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the statutory instruments required to give legal effect to the May 2025 CIÉ Pension Agreement; and when he...
    • Public Spending Code
      607. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code...
    • Greenways Provision
      608. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a progress report the South Kerry Greenway; if he will ensure the project (details supplied) is expedited; and if he will make...
    • Road Projects
      609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to urgently re-examine the need for a foot bridge connecting Killarney railway station and Killarney bus station (details supplied); and...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      611. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the precise date on which he or his Department first became aware of a governance dispute between the board of DAA and a person (details...
    • State Bodies
      620. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the changes, if any, he intends to make to shareholder oversight, escalation protocols or performance evaluation of boards within...
    • Bus Services
      621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide additional funding in 2026 to the National Transport Authority for additional Local Link routes in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Road Projects
      622. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to expedite works on the N70 Ring of Kerry road and footpaths in Cahersiveen town that are in an extremely shocking and dangerous...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road traffic accidents recorded on the N25 between Waterford and Cork for each of the years 2020 to 2025; the accompanying...
    • Public Sector Pay
      629. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible;...
    • Departmental Advertising
      630. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022 to 2024,...
    • Departmental Staff
      631. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is...
    • EU Presidency
      632. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the...
    • Driver Licences
      634. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific auditing measures that are in place to verify the integrity of South African licence exchanges beyond digital database...
    • Greenways Provision
      636. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to expedite the Tralee to Listowel Greenway in County Kerry; when work will commence on this project; when it will be completed; the...
    • Transport Policy
      637. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made by the end of 2025 in achieving the following three 2030 sustainable mobility targets, outlined in the National...
    • Climate Action Plan
      639. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions taken with respect to the target set out in the Climate Action Plan 2023-25 to increase the use of alternative fuels in...
    • Electric Vehicles
      640. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if clarification has been provided yet as to the amount of public charging capacity on the public charging network for the number of EVs...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      641. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Corrective Action Modelling Project that his Department is developing to correct the trajectory of carbon...
    • Departmental Strategies
      643. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the 'Moving Together' strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1053/26]
    • Transport Policy
      644. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is taking to implement intelligent transport systems technologies in a cohesive manner; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      646. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current rate of construction inflation that his Department uses to model capital costs; if his Department has forecasts for...
    • Departmental Strategies
      647. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when work will commence on a successor strategy to the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan 2022-26; when the successor plan will be...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      648. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a breakdown in number and type of the offence behind disqualification for drivers who were unmatched on the national vehicle and...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      649. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road traffic collisions and fatal accidents that involved a disqualified driver in the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form....
    • Road Traffic Offences
      651. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 2 October 2025, the number of mutual recognition (MR) cases received from both Northern...
    • Penalty Points System
      652. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of court notifications since 2020 that he received from the Courts Service of drivers convicted of penalty point offences; the...
    • Legislative Measures
      653. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the national vehicle and driver file Bill 2025 which was due to be enacted by the end of 2025, has been drafted; the timeframe for...
    • Penalty Points System
      655. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 18 November 2025, to clarify his statement that ‘the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      658. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 177 to 184, inclusive, of 16 October 2025, No. 265 of 4 November 2025 and No. 212 of 13 November...
    • State Bodies
      664. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE revenue protection managers employed by Iarnród Éireann as of 5 January 2026, in tabular form. [1159/26]
    • Bus Éireann
      665. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE revenue protection managers employed by Bus Éireann as of 5 January 2026, in tabular form. [1160/26]
    • Driver Licences
      666. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department is aware of any drivers’ licences cancelled in the recent crackdown on fraudulent pass grades for driving...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      675. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if insurance companies have the ability to check whether a driver has been disqualified prior to the issuing of a policy of motor...
    • Driver Test
      677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has brought about an end to the use of online apps that, for a fee, can secure driving test cancellations and skip the waiting...
    • Bus Services
      685. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the frequency of the No. 7 Bus Átha Cliath route with a view to increasing the divide to at least one bus every 15...
    • Military Aircraft
      687. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to inspect aircraft carrying official US military personnel or property, landing in Ireland to verify the...
    • Road Safety
      689. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the development of the first National Safety Camera Strategy within his Department; the timeline for...
    • Bus Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made in expanding Local Link services in Cork; whether additional routes, increased frequency, or evening and...
    • Active Travel
      692. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the active travel projects that are planned or underway in towns and villages in Cork; the way in which rural communities are being...
    • Rail Network
      693. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investment that is planned to improve rail services serving Mallow to Tralee via Banteer, Millstreet, Rathmore and Killarney,...
    • Transport Policy
      694. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to address the current capacity and access issues within the transport sector for people with disabilities; and if he will make...
    • Air Safety
      695. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to implementing standardised reporting procedures for anomalous or non-cooperative aerial observations by...
    • Rail Network
      697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the DART+ North Project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1374/26]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      698. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the Road Safety Authority resumes the publication of anonymised, collision location data for public, research and...
    • Driver Test
      702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people waiting to sit their driving test at Dungarvan test centre as of December 2025; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      704. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to allow for the exchange of certain or all US drivers licenses (details supplied) for Irish licenses in line with reciprocal...
    • Bus Services
      705. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times the two double decker buses operating on Route 424, Galway to Lettermullen have broken down or been out of service...
    • Greenways Provision
      706. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will prioritise funding for section 3 Ennistymon to Miltown Malbay and section 4 Miltown Malbay to Moyasta of the proposed Clare...
    • Road Safety
      707. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the national camera based enforcement strategy will be opened for public consultation; the reasons for delay in publishing the draft...
    • Military Aircraft
      709. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the draft report on the flight of Israeli war planes will be published; the reason for the delay in publishing since March 2025; and...
    • Transport of Animals
      710. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is developing a common policy across public transport for pets. [1605/26]
    • Traffic Management
      711. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce congestion pricing in Dublin city centre. [1613/26]
    • Bus Services
      713. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which and when he anticipates the overcrowding on the 316 bus route in County Clare will be alleviated; when the new bus stop...
    • Transport Costs
      718. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated total fare revenue nationally if public transport fares are to increase by 10%, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      722. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the PSO provision for bus services, by county from 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Spending Code
      723. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 4 December 2025, and accepting that the High Court declined to grant certiorari in respect...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the spending on service control training with transport operators regarding RTPI accuracy, from 2020 to date,...
    • Road Safety
      733. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the first and full year cost of operating a camera at a traffic light, broken down by CapEx and OpEx, in tabular form. [1664/26]
    • Electric Vehicles
      736. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the publications of recommendations by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to on street charging cables...
    • Rail Network
      737. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated total population that will have access to the MetroLink line for commuting and travel; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Bus Services
      738. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provision being made for new bus routes and a bus service for the Clonburris SDZ. [1704/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      739. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each of...
    • Bus Services
      741. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update regarding the rollout date of the N8 airport bus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1836/26]
    • Motor Industry
      742. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide his response to the European Commission’s automotive package and his assessment of the package’s likely impact...
    • Bus Services
      743. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1856/26]
    • Public Transport
      747. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the Programme for Government commitment to establish a transport security force to address antisocial behaviour on...
    • Rail Network
      754. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of new DART carriages ordered to date under the DART programme, including the most recent order announced in December...
    • Public Transport
      759. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the TFI Anseo pilot programme, including which service areas it is operating in (such as Achill, Killarney and...
    • National Transport Authority
      766. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the final funding distribution to the NTA under the Sectoral Investment Plan will be confirmed in full, and to set out the expected...
    • Transport Policy
      770. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of work to improve accessibility of public transport services for persons with disabilities, including planned...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      777. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether as part of the redesign of the Rush Lusk Railway Station entrance and the railway order application for the DART+ Coastal North...
    • Middle East
      778. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken down by...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      779. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the...
    • Bus Services
      786. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide data on bus stops (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2160/26]
    • School Transport
      791. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an updated list of all schools in County Louth currently participating in the Safe Routes to School Programme; and if...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      792. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or...
    • Road Safety
      794. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering the rolling out of further average speed zones nationwide; the lessons from existing zones regarding the...
    • Greenways Provision
      801. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will ring-fence Clare Greenway funding for sections three (Ennistymon and Miltown Malbay) and section four (Miltown...
    • Rail Network
      803. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of complaints received that both ticket vending machines at Skerries railway station have not been accepting card payments...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      807. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years...
    • Departmental Contracts
      808. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of...
    • Departmental Projects
      809. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list, for each of the past three years of the top ten projects per annum delivered by his Department or its agencies which...
    • Bus Services
      810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electrified buses Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann have in service respectively; the number not in service; the number of garages...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      811. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department is measuring the emissions impact of the bypass that is being built by the State for an event (details supplied);...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      812. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity Guidance; if the Government has assessed whether this scheme complies with EU law (Art....
    • Tax Exemptions
      813. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of making the carer’s allowance, including the half-rate carer’s allowance, exempt from tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Funding
      814. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason his predecessor effectively vetoed a proposal to borrow €100 million for defence spending under the Security Action for Europe (SAFE)...
    • Tax Reliefs
      815. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of extending the scope of tax relief at the standard rate of tax to routine dental treatment to cover preventative and rehabilitative treatments...
    • Tax Code
      817. To ask the Minister for Finance the safeguards and oversight mechanisms in place to ensure special purpose entities/section 110 companies are only used to create a bona fide securitisation...
    • Banking Sector
      823. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage share and value of securitised mortgages held by each bank in the State; the share of securitised mortgages that have been used as collateral...
    • Tax Code
      824. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 20 March 2025, the reason Jersey does not appear on the list of double taxation agreements; if other...
    • Banking Sector
      825. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of market assets pledged by Irish banks to the ECB as collateral by Government securities, asset-back securities, corporate bonds, banks bonds...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      826. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with those projects; and...
    • Departmental Consultations
      827. To ask the Minister for Finance whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to correspondence from members...
    • Tax Exemptions
      828. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will provide medical exemption for VAT for the athletic rehab therapy sector. [74385/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      829. To ask the Minister for Finance the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the years between 2015 and 2025...
    • Insurance Industry
      830. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct the Central Bank to issue guidance requiring insurers to recognise documented foreign no-claims bonuses, given that some insurers already...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      832. To ask the Minister for Finance the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular form. [74626/25]
    • Tax Code
      833. To ask the Minister for Finance to reduce income tax for working families with children under five, given the unique financial pressure during these early years; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      835. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme. [74846/25]
    • Tax Rebates
      836. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a refund on some VAT items; if the Revenue Commission will reconsider a VAT refund for the items; and if he...
    • Data Protection
      837. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. [74895/25]
    • Budget 2026
      838. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has calculated the impact of Budget 2026 on the disposable income of disabled households; if so, to provide those calculations; and if he...
    • Banking Sector
      839. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 377 of 16 of December 2025, to detail each obligation that no longer applies to covered institutions as a direct result...
    • Public Spending Code
      840. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code to the Infrastructure...
    • Tax Code
      841. To ask the Minister for Finance the EU laws his officials were referring to when they advised against targeted VAT changes in their pre-Budget 2026 submission as described in the media...
    • Public Sector Pay
      842. To ask the Minister for Finance the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible; whether this scale has...
    • Departmental Advertising
      843. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022 to 2024, by year and budgeted...
    • EU Presidency
      845. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which it is responsible arising from Ireland’s Presidency of the European Council; the line...
    • Departmental Meetings
      847. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to statements made by his predecessor (details supplied) if the former Minister for Finance met with the CEO of non-lending non-banks known as...
    • Tax Credits
      848. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of renters who claimed the renters tax credit in 2025; the average value of the tax credit claimed; and the breakdown of the number of claims...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      849. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of sheriff warrants issued by the Revenue Commissioners in 2025; and the total amount of tax involved in those warrants. [1154/26]
    • Tax Exemptions
      850. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase income tax exemption limits for persons over 65 years of age. [1192/26]
    • Tax Code
      851. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners insist on the 1% stamp duty rate on new residential properties being applied to the selling price of the new property as opposed...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      852. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address concerns and consider a proposal (details supplied), regarding State-backed saving products to preserve their real purchasing power over...
    • Fiscal Data
      853. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax expenditures evaluations that will take place in 2026; if they will be made publicly available; and if so, when will they be published; and if he will...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      857. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to utilise State Savings products to support housing delivery; the expected level of funding to come through the ISS for housing delivery; and if he...
    • Departmental Budgets
      858. To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each of the past ten years,...
    • Tax Yield
      860. To ask the Minister for Finance the total estimated corporate tax take and the percentage that will be 'saved not spent' that is, used to pay down debt or transferred to a sovereign wealth...
    • Banking Sector
      861. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 5 November 2025, if he will ensure that employment is protected and the branch network retained in the event of...
    • Tax Code
      862. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the Class A threshold in Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT) to include bereaved partners in longstanding...
    • Debt Collection
      863. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the current practice with respect to the creation of an import declaration and the payment of VAT and import duties by a courier company; if it is...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      864. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken down by description and...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      865. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer by a court or...
    • Illicit Trade
      872. To ask the Minister for Finance whether Revenue has identified particular towns, road corridors or entry points in the Border region where illicit roll-your-own tobacco activity is...
    • Customs and Excise
      879. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the number of enforcement and trade facilitation staff at Dublin Airport in each of the years 2019-2025; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      880. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and if so, to...
    • Banking Sector
      882. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken by his Department to ensure that banks and financial institutions continue to provide accessible, non-digital banking services for...
    • Illicit Trade
      883. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will obtain the position of the Revenue Commissioners on a policy matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2303/26]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      886. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years which were completed on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      887. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of consultancy contracts,...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works
      889. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 6 March 2025, to provide an update on works to upgrade a Garda station (details supplied);...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      890. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Thomastown flood relief scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73924/25]
    • Coastal Protection
      891. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the planned funding of coastal protection works at Cahore, county Wexford; the future funding plans to develop these further; and if he...
    • Coastal Erosion
      892. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans and budgets provided in 2026, 2027 and 2028 to address coastal erosion. [73999/25]
    • Office of Public Works
      893. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a list of addresses, properties and sites owned by the Office of Public Works which are vacant or derelict; and the reasons, in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      895. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated...
    • Departmental Consultations
      896. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if standards or service-level targets exist for his Department, or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to...
    • National Monuments
      897. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of Bunadobber Mill, County Mayo (details supplied); and the details of any plans or intended actions for its...
    • Departmental Offices
      898. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the years...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      900. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular...
    • EU Directives
      901. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it has been brought to his attention that the EU whistleblower protection directive mandates that member states provide free,...
    • Tax Data
      902. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason carbon tax revenue, which was hypothecated for environmental and climate action purposes, was allocated to the Department of...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      903. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the allocated money that will be taken from the infrastructure, climate and nature fund to support the development of...
    • Data Protection
      904. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner....
    • Office of Public Works
      905. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the significant practical challenges which exist with regard to the reinterment of a person (details supplied) in Glasnevin Cemetery...
    • Departmental Projects
      906. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 18 December 2025, to report on the work of the accelerating infrastructure taskforce; the...
    • Budget 2026
      907. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total fiscal savings to the Exchequer from not repeating the once-off supports provided in Budget 2025, including electricity...
    • Public Spending Code
      909. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of projects that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code to the...
    • Ombudsman and Information Commissioner
      910. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the safeguards which are in place to ensure the operational independence of the Ombudsman, the Information Commissioner, the...
    • Departmental Staff
      918. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which he or she is...
    • Departmental Advertising
      919. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022 to...
    • Departmental Staff
      920. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is...
    • EU Presidency
      921. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which it is responsible arising from Ireland’s Presidency of the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      923. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to expedite the Tralee flood relief scheme in County Kerry; when works will commence; the estimated timeframe for the proposed works to...
    • Coastal Protection
      928. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the urgent coastal protection works at Rossbeigh Beach in County Kerry will be carried out; they will be carried out prior to the...
    • Departmental Reports
      933. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the origin of the statistics on hours lost due to congestion on page 21 of the ‘Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action...
    • Departmental Budgets
      938. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of the 2025 Capital Budget allocation for the OPW that was spent; and if any underspent allocation will be automatically...
    • Office of Public Works
      939. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list all the OPW-owned sites in Galway, in tabular form. [1265/26]
    • Heritage Sites
      940. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in light of increasing visitor numbers to Athassel Abbey, County Tipperary, he will direct the Office of Public Works to assess...
    • Court Accommodation
      941. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the progress and current timeline for the development of the Children's Court building on Hammond Lane; and if he will...
    • Office of Public Works
      942. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has received or is considering proposals for the use of a vacant OPW-owned building physically adjoining a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      943. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which a Supplementary Estimate or Supplementary Estimates were sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each of...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      945. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to accelerate the delivery of critical infrastructure and housing in line with the recommendations of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      946. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken down...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      947. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      954. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to his Department’s share ownership in Uisce Éireann, whether his Department will conduct a feasibility study,...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      955. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      957. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years...
    • Departmental Contracts
      958. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of...
    • Departmental Projects
      959. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list, for each of the past three years of the top ten projects per annum delivered by his Department or its agencies which...
    • Civil Service
      960. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the civil service mobility scheme; when the scheme will be opened to the professional/technical grades; and if he will...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Noise Pollution
      961. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current regulations governing the use of petrol-powered leaf blowers in urban areas; the restrictions on hours of operation and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      962. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to address AI displacement and a decrease in quality jobs in the tech sector; and if he will make...
    • EU Regulations
      964. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to address the excessive use of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), otherwise known as...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      965. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated...
    • Departmental Consultations
      966. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to...
    • Consumer Rights
      967. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to lower the threshold at which the artists resale rights apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74273/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      968. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the...
    • Industrial Development
      970. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount the IDA invested separately into facilities/industry in locations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tourism Promotion
      971. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had any engagements with Fáilte Ireland regarding Dunguaire Castle; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Work Permits
      972. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a general employment permit renewal (details supplied) can be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74863/25]
    • Data Protection
      973. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Departmental Staff
      974. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE qualified legal advisors working within his Department in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Industrial Development
      975. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits the IDA carried out with prospective companies to each county in the years 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and...
    • Public Spending Code
      977. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending...
    • Public Sector Pay
      978. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are...
    • Departmental Advertising
      979. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022 to...
    • Departmental Staff
      980. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is...
    • EU Presidency
      981. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of...
    • Business Supports
      983. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the analysis undertaken by his Department of the cumulative impact on Irish small and medium-sized enterprises of recent and...
    • Data Centres
      984. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the research his Department is carrying out to assess to economic impact of data centres in Ireland; when this research...
    • Consumer Protection
      985. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason companies (details supplied) have not been fined for facilitating the sale of tickets above face value; the reason this...
    • Employment Rights
      986. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for a policy of leave for those who experience early pregnancy loss (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social Media
      987. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the use of AI systems to generate explicit deepfakes of real, identifiable people without their...
    • Consumer Prices
      989. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has investigated vet practice competition and pricing to assess if it is a competitive market. [1607/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      991. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each...
    • Departmental Policies
      993. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the signing of the National Charter for Digital Inclusion by a company (details supplied) will translate into...
    • Digital Hubs
      994. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the additional €23 million for Ireland’s European digital innovation hubs will expand AI,...
    • Departmental Budgets
      995. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if additional financial support will be made available to local authorities and community groups to develop enterprise centres or...
    • Departmental Data
      997. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA and Enterprise Ireland client visits to County Laois in the past 12 months; the progress on securing new investment...
    • Tourism Funding
      998. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to tourism-related enterprises in County Laois, including those connected to heritage, outdoor recreation and...
    • Legislative Programme
      999. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has assessed the potential of stronger remote working legislation to retain graduates and skilled workers in...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1001. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department is supporting local authorities and tourism agencies in developing infrastructure to host major...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1002. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will examine the financial burden on businesses and non-EEA employees associated with the €1,500 cost of...
    • Wage-setting Mechanisms
      1003. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will abolish the exemption of apprentices from the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67678/25]
    • Tourism Policy
      1004. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department plans to target Irish tourism overseas in its capital investment strategy under the National...
    • Departmental Functions
      1005. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department plans to continue to support Irish SMEs with the introduction of improved AI and other cutting edge digital...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1006. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he could provide a breakdown of his Department’s €4.7 billion capital investment strategy, ‘Start Up...
    • Departmental Data
      1007. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current average waiting time for a WRC adjudication hearing to be heard from the time the complaints are submitted; and if he...
    • Business Supports
      1009. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports and measures available to small businesses impacted by retail crime and break-ins; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1011. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1012. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against...
    • Tourism Policy
      1019. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how enterprise supports are being aligned with tourism development to maximise economic spill-over for local suppliers, service...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1020. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or...
    • Work Permits
      1022. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it can be ensured that an employment permit refusal appeal (details supplied) is granted, and that the individual in question is...
    • Departmental Policies
      1023. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he is aware of instances of companies using payment in lieu of notice to avoid employees attaining two years’ service...
    • Departmental Projects
      1024. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1025. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of...
    • Departmental Projects
      1026. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list, for each of the past three years of the top ten projects per annum delivered by his Department or its agencies...
    • International Agreements
      1027. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a referendum will be held to ratify the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, the International Agreement for which was signed...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1028. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the progress of the Retail Crime Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2479/26]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Projects
      1029. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1570/26]
    • School Transport
      1030. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the use of Class 1 Urban buses for school contracts which sees children without seat belts carried on roads which have speed limits over 65...
    • Departmental Funding
      1032. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any funding stream to support the provision of an all-weather dome structure to cover an existing pitch facility in a...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1033. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive additional pay owed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73974/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 383 of 9 December 2025, if she will provide the information requested in the question (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Funding
      1035. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for tree planting and biodiversity at the site of (details supplied); if there could be planting of trees along the periphery wall for...
    • European Court of Human Rights
      1036. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she accepts that survivors affected by the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in a case (details supplied) continue to lack...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1038. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement on the removal of the need for an AON for children with additional needs to receive an appropriate school place; the timeline for...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1039. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in her Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with those...
    • School Facilities
      1040. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an emergency works application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74188/25]
    • School Admissions
      1041. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child in Donegal will be provided with access to their chosen school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      1042. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74218/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1043. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address recruitment and retention issues in the education sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74248/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1045. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will formally announce the reforms to the way in which teachers get CID, changing from the current two consecutive years for...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1046. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether standards or service-level targets exist for her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department, in responding to correspondence...
    • School Accommodation
      1047. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary question No. 287 of 4 December 2025, the average timeframe in which applications for additional accommodation by...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1048. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the funding for the extension approved and previously promised for a school (details supplied) will proceed; if she will meet with the school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department was aware that a new special educational assessment would be required for children to access a special class, school or unit...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has not progressed past design stage. [74310/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1058. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed approach to eliminating pressure on assessment of need waiting lists; who will conduct educational assessments of children; the...
    • Pension Provisions
      1062. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the calculation of the total pension contribution using the 18.4% calculation methodology for a school secretary should they be admitted to the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1063. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 16 July 2025, if she will provide a copy of all of the undertaken review correspondence with the...
    • Departmental Data
      1064. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of parent notifications submitted by families in the Dublin 1 area in 2025. [74338/25]
    • School Transport
      1074. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the rollout of pilot school bus schemes; her plans for expanding the schemes that are envisaged for the 2026-2027 school...
    • School Facilities
      1075. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions being made for pitches and other sports facilities in the construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      1076. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools will be able to apply for DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74374/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1078. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the locations/routes of the additional 11 school transport projects that her Department, in collaboration with Bus Éireann,...
    • National Council for Special Education
      1079. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the entire northwest of Ireland, Sligo, Mayo, Donegal, Roscommon, Leitrim and Cavan was excluded from the NCSE recruitment drive for...
    • Departmental Data
      1080. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the service plans for children with special needs from cradle to grave in Cavan and Monaghan, schools for special needs respite services, adult...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1082. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the office rental costs per annum for staff in her Department and for each agency or organisation under her remit, in each of the years between...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1083. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria and the specific budget allocation for the €3 million in enhanced school leadership to enable the creation of additional...
    • School Admissions
      1084. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider centralising applications for first-year primary and post-primary school places; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1085. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in reference to the Government’s announced reforms to the assessment of need process, to specify the framework or criteria will replace...
    • School Staff
      1092. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently examine a matter (details supplied) in respect of pension entitlements for school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1093. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74506/25]
    • School Enrolments
      1098. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis for the 1 October 2025 deadline for applications requiring a letter of eligibility from the National Council for Special Education for...
    • School Transport
      1102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74544/25]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an existing route and capacity (details supplied) will be reviewed to determine whether adjustments can be made to accommodate additional...
    • School Transport
      1104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to facilitate a meeting with the management of a school bus service (details supplied) [74546/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of issues presenting for a school (details supplied); if her Department will urgently intervene to ensure the continued...
    • Departmental Data
      1110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that an email address is the official communication channel for Oireachtas members for a body (details supplied); the extent...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statutory role and duties of a Special Educational Needs Organiser (SENO), including how decision making and accountability operate in...
    • Departmental Data
      1113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide data on the current capacity of special schools and special classes in County Mayo; and the projected demand for September...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payroll cost of her Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular form....
    • Youth Work Projects
      1116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a youth project (details supplied) that provides targeted youth work for 14–18 year olds, and which has experienced a funding gap...
    • Departmental Data
      1117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an overview of the total provision of autism classes in secondary schools in County Clare at this time; her plans to address...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for an extension for a school (details supplied). [74685/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the NCSE assessment of local need to sanction an ASD class in a school (details supplied). [74686/25]
    • Departmental Data
      1120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new second-level special school is proposed for Cork; and the timeline for same. [74687/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      1121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding to a school (details supplied) under emergency works; and the reason a funding application was refused given the...
    • School Transport
      1122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74697/25]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a request from a school (details supplied) for replacement of a prefab with a modular building, given the...
    • Departmental Data
      1124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pre-school early intervention class held in a primary school (details supplied) is being re-classified as a primary autism class; the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the adequacy of the current five-stage complaints procedure agreed in 1993 between organisations (details supplied), given...
    • Departmental Data
      1127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances under which the Teaching Council may accept complaints without the school’s internal procedure being fully exhausted;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the effectiveness of Section 19 of the Education Act 1998 in enabling patrons to intervene when Boards of Management fail to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the person’s PME scheme application; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to a start date for the long-overdue construction of a permanent building for a school (details supplied); if she...
    • School Enrolments
      1134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Mayo was restricted to 100 student's enrolment for September 2025 when they had capacity to...
    • Departmental Data
      1135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Mayo does not provide wood work or metal work classes in an all boys school; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current rules that prevent students in special schools from accessing transition year or an equivalent additional year; if she will ensure...
    • School Enrolments
      1139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the 1 October deadline for applications requiring a letter of eligibility from the National Council for Special Education for...
    • Youth Services
      1144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to resource a new UBU-funded youth service covering the areas of Citywest, Saggart and Rathcoole; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure the provision of education to a child (details supplied) who has been without access to a school...
    • Departmental Data
      1146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of acting AP postholders not receiving remuneration since the beginning of the academic year 2025-2026; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for the summer works climate action scheme 2026 was assessed. [74824/25]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      1148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure a school’s (details supplied) application for emergency repair funding is processed quickly. [74825/25]
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      1149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the roll out of a national programme to provide stronger supports for children in the transition from primary to secondary school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an ASA application by a school (details supplied) for a new modular classroom; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      1151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department will assist teachers with the administration involved with AON reports; the way this will change with the new...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on school building works (details supplied); and when she or her Department was last in contact with the board of management of...
    • School Transport
      1153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which schools can apply for the pilot scheme for school transport; the number of schools that are part of the scheme; if it can be...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an application submitted by a school (details supplied); if this application can be expedited due to the extended waiting...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the building of an approved extension at a school (details supplied). [74873/25]
    • Education and Training Boards
      1156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Circular CL0072/2022, or any other Departmental circular relating to the scheduling of days, permits a school or ETB to direct a teacher to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to fund the upgrade of the DCG devices which are used for post-primary schools (details supplied). [74885/25]
    • Data Protection
      1158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of data breaches recorded by her Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. [74893/25]
    • Education and Training Provision
      1159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school places available in an area (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      1160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special school and special class places available in an area (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • School Patronage
      1162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a closed school (details supplied); if she will consider selling the school to the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Enrolments
      1163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied). [74988/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the proposed removal of requiring assessment of need reports to access special educational places, when the new criteria and...
    • Childcare Services
      1168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider implementing an early screening programme for children with dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75035/25]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to procure decodable readers for use by children with dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75037/25]
    • School Facilities
      1171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider issues regarding a new school campus (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75039/25]
    • Public Spending Code
      1172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of projects in her Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code to the...
    • School Facilities
      1173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a ramp was not installed as per the building specifications for work conducted in a school (details supplied); and the timeline for...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in her Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible; whether...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department, and within each agency for which she is responsible, for 2022 to 2024, by...
    • Departmental Staff
      1176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in her Department and within each agency for which she is responsible; the...
    • EU Presidency
      1177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to her Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the European...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department considers that Circular 0072/2022 (or any related Circular) can lawfully be relied upon by a school/ETB to require teacher...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a timeline for the development of two new post-primary schools in Ballincollig, County Cork on lands acquired by Cork County Council has been...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of public funding expended on school book rental schemes from their introduction, circa 2010, up to the launch of the free...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of names of special schools across the State that have an early intervention class. [1191/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 424 of 16 December 2025, the timeline for the provision of the lease to the school for signing, given the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the publication of the revised estimated volume in December 2025, if she can outline the Departmental funding allocation for youth affairs...
    • Childcare Services
      1185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the publication of the revised estimated volume in December 2025, if she can provide a breakdown on how the figures for the number of...
    • Youth Services
      1187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the publication of the revised estimates volume in December 2025, if she can provide detail on how and where planned youth service...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      1188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the quota for a NEPs assessment will be increased for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1220/26]
    • School Staff
      1189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the total number of teachers employed by her Department in primary school, by county and employment status, in tabular...
    • School Transport
      1194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of families that have children attending a school (details supplied) related to accessing school...
    • School Curriculum
      1195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is engaging with counterparts in Britain on curriculum development, teacher exchanges or shared educational initiatives [1260/26]
    • School Enrolments
      1196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a family who remain unable to secure a school placement for their child for the current school year (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Data
      1197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school secretaries in each Dublin 15 SPA (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1329/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the procedures for allocating the number of posts of responsibility and the remuneration for principalship and deputy...
    • National Council for Special Education
      1200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review the NCSEs procedures to ensure the NCSE will accept interim confirmation letters from CDNT psychologists where full reports are...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on building works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1385/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of school management in relation to significant waiting lists for a special class in a school...
    • Education Policy
      1208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a detailed update on a policy announcement made last year (details supplied); to provide a timeline for when guidance on this will be issued...
    • Departmental Data
      1209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed new city vocational school for Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1464/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1533/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the list of schools sanctioned for special classes for 2026-2027 will be published; the assurances she can give to parents of children with...
    • Education Policy
      1212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the target set for Q3 2025 in the policy for Irish medium education outside of the Gaeltacht to establish an Irish medium...
    • Departmental Funding
      1218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a funding stream for an initiative (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1573/26]
    • Departmental Projects
      1219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1574/26]
    • Childcare Services
      1221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistive technology can be provided for a child in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1671/26]
    • School Staff
      1222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the merits of creating a requirement for all schools to ensure that all job applicants receive a reply to a job application,...
    • Departmental Policies
      1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a review of the existing policy regarding recognition on the salary scale for teachers that qualified in Ireland but have...
    • Departmental Data
      1224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any initiative that seeks to encourage qualified teachers that are living abroad to return to Ireland; and if she will...
    • Teacher Training
      1225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of primary and post-primary teachers who engaged in Department-funded continuous professional development in each of the past...
    • School Textbooks
      1233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the schoolbooks scheme can be examined to take account of schools, particularly post-primary schools, that use chromebooks; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      1234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the school extension works for a school (details supplied); the date on which works will begin; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of her Department’s Vote for each of the past...
    • School Transport
      1238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence (details supplied); if it is possible to extend the school transport bus service referred to; and if she will...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a permanent appointment will be made at an early date in respect of a position (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • School Accommodation
      1240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the application by a school (details supplied) under the additional accommodation scheme; when a decision will issue; if...
    • School Funding
      1241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the multiple applications by a school (details supplied) under the emergency works scheme; when decisions will be issued...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be permitted to progress from stage 2b of the additional accommodation scheme for a new building; and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      1243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an extension for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1865/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the special education budget used for reading recovery, expressed as a value and as a proportion of the special education budget,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by her Department in 2025, broken down by...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer...
    • School Admissions
      1253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is aware of pressures for first year school placements in the areas surrounding Newcastle, County Dublin; her plans to ensure...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason proposals for a new secondary school for Newcastle, County Dublin have been refused up to this point; if her Department will...
    • School Staff
      1256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the figures of attrition rates in Ireland for both male and female primary school teachers for each of the years 2010 to 2025; and if...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      1258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether qualified secondary school teachers can do substitute work in primary schools; if individual primary schools have the right to refuse...
    • Education Welfare Service
      1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of education welfare officers employed in Dublin south central; if that constitutes a full complement of staff; the number of...
    • Early School Leavers
      1260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the new shared service employment framework for the school completion programme; and the expected timeline of completion....
    • School Transport
      1261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a transport-related issue (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2234/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SNA redeployment scheme will be operational for September 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2289/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a detailed update on her Department’s progress on the tender process for a Cork school since December (details supplied); the...
    • School Transport
      1266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child in Cork will receive their allocation of special school transport (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement she has had with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to their work on seizure safe schools; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      1270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider covering the costs of a substitute teacher from the first day of a teacher’s absence, particularly in the case of a...
    • School Admissions
      1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student will be offered a first-year place in a secondary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2407/26]
    • School Funding
      1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the work ongoing to identify a method of standardising the reduction to the ancillary-related grants for the longer term, where...
    • School Admissions
      1273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the process of offering school places to incoming first-year students will be deemed to be complete in those areas taking part in the Apply...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2413/26]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by her Department or its agencies over the past three years which were...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the annual spend on external consultants by her Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of consultancy...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a letter from a body (details supplied); her plans to engage and support the work of that body; and if she...
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Online Safety
      1283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has conducted or commissioned an assessment of the compatibility of the proposed age-verification...
    • Sports Funding
      1296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding the reopening of applications under the sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Arts Funding
      1299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if funding will be provided to a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74075/25]
    • National Archives
      1300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when a new National Archive Advisory Council will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74123/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each...
    • Arts Funding
      1304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will provide funding to secure the future of a complex (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by...
    • Arts Funding
      1306. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department will provide the €6 million in funding required to secure the continued operation of a...
    • Data Protection
      1307. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      1308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport his plans to support grassroots football development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1310. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when County Kerry will receive full broadband coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74981/25]
    • Arts Policy
      1312. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the 2022 Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts,...
    • Public Spending Code
      1313. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public...
    • Arts Funding
      1314. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the administrative process for the per cent for art scheme within a new public sector building. [75131/25]
    • Departmental Staff
      1316. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which he is...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1317. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible,...
    • Departmental Staff
      1318. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which...
    • EU Presidency
      1319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which it is responsible arising from Ireland’s...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1326. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when fibre broadband will be introduced in Listowel (details supplied); if he has engaged with the supplier on this issue;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1327. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a theatre in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1706/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1328. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s...
    • Arts Funding
      1330. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to funding shortfalls for a venue funded by the Arts Council (details...
    • Departmental Data
      1332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1333. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded...
    • Sports Funding
      1340. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding access by schools to sports capital grant funding, including whether a schools-only stream is...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists,...
    • Departmental Projects
      1343. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1344. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the...
    • Departmental Projects
      1346. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he has reviewed the findings of the night time economy pilots that concluded recently; his opinion on the findings;...
    • Pensions Reform
      1349. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the progress to date on ensuring that pensioners (details supplied) receive their pension increase due since January 2025;...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      1350. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if an environmental impact assessment has been undertaken in respect of the hosting of an event (details supplied); if the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2153/26]
    • Housing Policy
      1352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update regarding the proposed exemptions for building a granny flat for a family member onto an existing house. [2719/26]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 5 November 2025, to clarify whether his reply, in which he stated that he...
    • Vacant Properties
      1354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a timeline on the introduction of the "above the shop" vacant grant proposed; the criteria to qualify; and if he will...
    • Election Management System
      1360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to merge the voter registration websites checktheregister.ie and voter.ie; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      1361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the delivery of social and affordable housing in county Louth in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Tenants-in-Situ scheme will continue or has it been subsumed into the Second Hand Social Housing Acquisitions...
    • Local Authorities
      1365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide additional information and clarity on eligibility regarding the local authority engineers, who are qualified and...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Wind Energy Guidelines will form part of the National Planning Statement; if it will be published Spring 2026; and if...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Rental Sector
      1369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department is taking to ensure students living in private accommodation do not face further rent increases;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of ongoing difficulties experienced by elected members of local authorities, including Mullingar Kinnegad...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline on when the boundary review into local electoral areas will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Policy
      1383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the thresholds to qualify for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74354/25]
    • Vacant Properties
      1384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the minimum and average times that it has taken in 2025 from when a local authority home becomes vacant to when it is...
    • Constituency Commission
      1386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next Dail constituency boundary redraw will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74364/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of...
    • Departmental Data
      1389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Q3 affordable housing delivery figures will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74468/25]
    • Vacant Properties
      1390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the value of the vacant property refurbishment grants that have been issued in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 respectively,...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to re designate the Broadmeadow estuary at Corballis, Donabate an exclusion zone for shooting given this forms part of the...
    • Departmental Data
      1392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all EU infringement enforcement procedures against his Department; the date they were initiated; a...
    • Planning Issues
      1393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to commence all relevant provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2024 which would enable the Minister...
    • Architectural Heritage
      1394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financial supports available from his Department for conservation and restoration of historical and heritage buildings...
    • Health and Safety
      1395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address health and safety issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74541/25]
    • Planning Issues
      1396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 have been signed into law; if Section 10.6,...
    • Grant Payments
      1398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review the current practice where elderly and disabled people are in need of a replacement grant by the local authorities...
    • Rental Sector
      1399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rational for using Eircode routing keys in respect of the upcoming Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2025 concerning...
    • Departmental Data
      1400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year,...
    • Planning Issues
      1401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the warning letter issued by South Dublin County Council on 28 November 2025 under the Building Control Act in...
    • Local Authorities
      1402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if staffing, procurement or tendering issues within Kildare County Council are contributing to delays and cost overruns in...
    • Housing Provision
      1403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households currently on the social housing waiting list in Kildare south; the number of people who have been...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) in County Clare who has submitted an appeal on the defective concrete block scheme, will...
    • Data Protection
      1410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Water Services
      1411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding is available to join the Peake Mantua Amalgamation GWS with Corracreigh GWS; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Parks
      1412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the plans of the NPWS to invest in the amenities at Glenveagh National Park in the short-term and medium-term....
    • Fire Service
      1413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a risk assessment was carried out regarding the potential impact on public safety regarding the implementation of the...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      1414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that have been taken to date in response to the request for a SAC designation of a site (details supplied); the...
    • Quarrying Sector
      1415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policies which are in place to provide assurance and security of supply for quarried materials. [75061/25]
    • Public Spending Code
      1416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public...
    • Housing Provision
      1418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to significantly increase affordable housing targets for County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75135/25]
    • Derelict Sites
      1419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has taken any measures since assuming office against local authorities that have not been fulfilling their duties under...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he...
    • EU Presidency
      1423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which it is responsible arising from Ireland’s Presidency...
    • Tourism Policy
      1426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to reconsider the importance of tourism in County Kerry and especially Killarney town by reconsidering the short-term lets...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the An Coimisiún Pleanála - Plean IT system will be fully operational and fully accessible for members of the...
    • Vacant Properties
      1428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties by local authority area that have availed of the vacant property refurbishment grant under the...
    • Derelict Sites
      1429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full range of powers available to local authorities to address derelict properties; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Network
      1430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding options available for the construction of a second bridge over the Avoca river at Arklow, County Wicklow, in...
    • Housing Provision
      1431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average price of a new home in the Gorey local electoral area, County Wexford; the number of successful applications...
    • Housing Schemes
      1433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the significant difference in home prices across local authority areas, if he will consider introducing qualifying...
    • Rental Sector
      1434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the research undertaken by his Department on the potential impact on small landlords of changes to the residential rental...
    • Planning Issues
      1435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list, by each local authority which offers pre-planning meetings and the circumstances under which they will...
    • Housing Provision
      1436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the work of the housing delivery office including its current membership; the number of meetings it...
    • Fire Safety
      1438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the fire safety defects remediation scheme will fully open for applications; the eligibility criteria and timelines; if...
    • Tourism Funding
      1439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount each county council has spent on tourism in 2023, 2024 and 2025; the amount they have budgeted for 2026, by each...
    • Housing Provision
      1440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applicants on local authority housing waiting lists, including those receiving HAP and RAS payments,...
    • Rental Sector
      1442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of reports that REITs are increasing rental prices for car parking spaces adjoining homes at a rate that far...
    • Fire Safety
      1443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the interim remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes will come back into effect having...
    • Quarrying Sector
      1444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for legislation to specifically provide for planning with regard to quarries, including enforcement; and if he will...
    • Local Authorities
      1445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed in each local authority that are specifically focused on planning enforcement. [1463/26]
    • Student Accommodation
      1446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of third level students currently accommodated under the rent a room scheme by county, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Allotments Provision
      1449. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to recognise the positive impact that allotments and community gardens have had on Irish...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed apartment, duplex and multi-unit dwelling remediation scheme will provide for the remediation of all...
    • Rental Sector
      1451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the prohibition on pet bans in social and AHB housing will be extended to all rental accommodation, with normal wear and...
    • Housing Policy
      1452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new measures for the delivery of age-friendly housing, that are not currently in place, being introduced in 2026; and if...
    • Housing Provision
      1453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding allocation for social housing acquisitions in 2026; the total funding for acquisitions by local authority;...
    • Local Authorities
      1459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which residents can work with their respective local authorities in respect to partially handing over of defined...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote...
    • Housing Provision
      1462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications received for affordable purchase homes under all affordable housing schemes administered by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1478. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale for limiting eligibility for the vacant property refurbishment grant (including above-the-shop accommodation)...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the consideration of letters of recommendation submitted by local authorities in regard to the enhanced...
    • Departmental Data
      1489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social, affordable and cost-rental homes completed in 2025, broken down by local authority; how these figures...
    • Housing Policy
      1490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the proposed six-year tenancy requirement contained in forthcoming...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists,...
    • Housing Schemes
      1499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the solutions that are in place for people who are over the income threshold for social housing but under the income...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the...
    • Departmental Data
      1504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authority housing vacancy figures for the year 2025, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2509/26]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Disability Services
      1506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has examined the introduction of a dedicated support scheme for parents with disabilities; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the proposal that schools should have greater autonomy over the hot school meals programme, with any savings...
    • Pension Provisions
      1510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Government’s position on proposals contained in the pensions authority’s recent consultation on PRSA...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the statutory basis on which his Department requires rent supplement or supplementary welfare allowance applicants to submit...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Departmental Data
      1524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the 55 cent fee that will be charged to account holders enrolled in My Future Fund; the details of how that...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      1528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which law or statutory instrument the implementation of the means test for the State pension (non-contributory)...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will make the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance available, without means test, to foster carers; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      1532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a path to pension is being considered for kinship carers as it is for foster carers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for maternity benefit that were unsuccessful in each year from 2020, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to equalise the treatment of PRSI contributors with that of medical card holders; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a cost estimate for extending the free travel pass to children in receipt of the domiciliary care...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to parliamentary question No. 179 of 11 June 2025, when the review of means testing in the social protection system...
    • Departmental Data
      1544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the Karshan disclosure opportunity guidance; if his Department was consulted before the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the merits of eliminating the means test for the carer’s allowance; the research his Department has...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      1546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will issue a hard copy of the Med 1 cert-incapacity for work medical certificate to this Deputy. [74884/25]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools in Donegal that have applied for the school meals scheme for the 2025-2026 academic year; and if he...
    • Data Protection
      1548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people on illness benefit for longer than two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74912/25]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to introduce an emergency winter payment for people with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75043/25]
    • Public Spending Code
      1554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he...
    • EU Presidency
      1558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s...
    • Pension Provisions
      1560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps he has taken to advertise the My Future Fund scheme; the steps specifically that have been taken to encourage...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide a dedicated telephone number or email address for a section (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the carers allowance review for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the carer’s benefit payment structure in cases where a full-time carer is providing intensive care...
    • Departmental Data
      1568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if support can be provided to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1524/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      1569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the State pension (contributory) eligibility rules as they apply to former members of religious orders...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the exact criteria applicable to an under 66 fuel allowance application; the current means test limit for such an...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of work to introduce a cost of disability payment; when he expects to move from research and design to...
    • Pension Provisions
      1577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will bring forward legislation to amend section 108 entitlement to pension of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the feedback his Department has received to date from businesses that are partaking in the auto...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance can be offered to a person (details supplied) with processing a working family payment claim; and if he will...
    • Child Poverty
      1586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on work underway to reduce child poverty, including progress against the Government's target to reduce...
    • Departmental Data
      1587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department collects data on the uptake of paternity and parent's leave by fathers and other parents, including...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the interactions between targeted poverty payments and supports for families such as working family payment, child support...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded...
    • Departmental Data
      1596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether arrangements to fund legal costs in employment disputes involving his Department, or bodies under its aegis, require...
    • General Register Office
      1597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with regard to his responsibility for the General Register Office, when the digitisation of death registrations from...
    • School Meals Programme
      1598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has been made aware of the challenges schools with fewer than 75 pupils face in securing school lunch providers...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department uses artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the...
    • Departmental Projects
      1603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list, for each of the past three years, of the top ten projects per annum delivered by his Department or its...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing times for each social protection payment, for the year 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      1606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government can reconcile the “Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All” campaign with an amnesty that forgives...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Data
      1607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of English language students enrolled in a facility (details supplied) who are currently in Ireland on a study visa...
    • Programme for Government
      1608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on measures being considered by his Department to address retail crime, as committed to in the programme for...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the 18.4% calculation for the former Garda Commissioner (details supplied) in respect of pension...
    • Visa Applications
      1612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of members of a community (details supplied) on delays in processing visa...
    • Domestic Violence
      1613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to situations where victims of domestic violence face losing their home and the steps he will...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, following recent calls for the establishment of a national register of wills, his plans to establish it; if there are any...
    • Departmental Data
      1616. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of criminal investigations opened under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1622. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of An Garda Síochána units handling technical analysis of electronic devices from subjects of interest...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement there has been between his Department, the Department of Children, Disability and Equality, the Department of...
    • Visa Applications
      1625. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken by his Department to improve the processing timeline of Join Family Visa applications; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      1629. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders that have been issued to date in the State, in tabular form, for each of the past 10 years....
    • Deportation Orders
      1631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken after a deportation order is issued whereby the individual does not self deport. [74119/25]
    • Residency Permits
      1633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for an EU treaty Rights application; the range of processing times for EU Treaty Rights...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1634. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify the position of citizenship applicants who had achieved the requisite three years residency but who have fallen...
    • Electronic Tagging
      1637. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the €2.1 million allocated in Budget 2026 for electronic monitoring relates solely to the 12-month pilot phase; and...
    • Prison Service
      1642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners given a custodial short-term sentence under 18 months; and for a breakdown of the number of...
    • International Protection
      1643. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average wait time for a first instance decision for international protection applicants. [74308/25]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding two applications (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing these applications; the...
    • Deportation Orders
      1646. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the assessment his Department has made of the impact of ECHR interventions on Ireland’s ability to enforce deportation...
    • Asylum Applications
      1648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether, prior to the Government’s decision for Ireland to opt into the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, his Department...
    • Courts Service
      1649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when construction will commence on the purpose-built Family Law Court complex at Hammond Lane, Dublin 7; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1650. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of...
    • Planning Issues
      1651. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level and degree of consultation the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment has had with him concerning all...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1652. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the replies to Parliamentary Questions Nos 761, 762 and 763 of 16 December 2025, in which it was stated that an...
    • Departmental Data
      1653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people in Irish prisons with a personality disorder diagnosis between 2020 and 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Prison Service
      1654. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he will take to reduce the number of people in prison on short term sentences of less than 12 months; and if he...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail whether his Department uses or have ever used any forms of artificial intelligence (details supplied) to assist with...
    • Inspector of Prisons
      1656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the latest Inspector of Prisons report into Limerick Prison; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1657. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí broken down by rank in each Garda division in the country; and the number of Garda retirements...
    • Legislative Programme
      1658. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when measures will be introduced to incorporate the Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer into domestic...
    • Visa Applications
      1661. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which applicants can track the status of their application when the ID-Pal Login method requires a passport to...
    • International Protection
      1662. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total expenditure by his Department, for 2025, in settlement payments, compensation, damages or negotiated payments...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1664. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the temporary accommodation provided at a location (details supplied), which was developed to house people from...
    • International Protection
      1665. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the current contract between the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) and a hotel (details supplied), is...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1666. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda traffic enforcement operations carried out nationally and in the Dublin Metropolitan Region in the years...
    • Immigration Policy
      1668. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a change of immigration permission application (details supplied); to expedite the same; and if he will...
    • Data Protection
      1669. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • International Protection
      1670. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances to date where a contract with providers of accommodation for people fleeing the war in Ukraine has...
    • Domestic Violence
      1671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding provided to each county to combat domestic violence over each of the past three years, in tabular form;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1672. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí, by rank attached to Donegal Divisional Drugs Unit as of 8 December 2025; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      1673. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in respect of the accommodation of people in the international protection process, the number of people currently accommodated...
    • Legislative Programme
      1674. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 653 of 9 December 2025, if the implementation plan due in January 2026 will specifically...
    • Domestic Violence
      1675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic abuse refuge accommodation units currently available in each county; the number of family spaces and...
    • European Union
      1682. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an updated list of measures Ireland has opted into under Protocol 21, and a list of the measures Ireland is...
    • Public Spending Code
      1684. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of accommodation at a centre (details supplied). [75119/25]
    • Residency Permits
      1686. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to consider offering a stamp 4 residence permit for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      1687. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to reconsider the decision on a leave to remain application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the categories of welfare payments that will render an applicant ineligible for naturalisation; and if he will make a...
    • Electronic Tagging
      1692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason, notwithstanding legislation enacted in 2007 providing for the electronic monitoring and tagging of offenders, a...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1698. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1699. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is...
    • EU Presidency
      1700. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s...
    • Human Trafficking
      1702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has been formally notified, directly or via international partners, of allegations contained in...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of disqualified driver offences recorded caught driving while under a driving ban in 2024. [1061/26]
    • Courts Service
      1711. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the policy rationale underpinning the current level and structure of court fees applicable in the superior courts; and how...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1713. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether S.I. No. 492/2014 (Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court (Fees) Order 2014) is currently under review; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardai assigned to roads policing units each month in 2025, by Garda division; the total number of Gardai...
    • Courts Service
      1718. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure used by the Courts Service to inform drivers of the requirement to surrender their licence to the Road Safety...
    • International Relations
      1719. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will intervene to ensure the immediate release of passports currently held at the Irish embassy in Moscow in respect of...
    • Legislative Programme
      1720. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the implementation of the implementation of schedule 3 of the Gambling Regulation Act 2024; and if he will...
    • Prison Service
      1725. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to address Mountjoy Prison inmates' complaints about the unavailability of gluten-free food; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      1733. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current rate of recidivism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1310/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      1735. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to consider implementing legislation to restrain the use of handcuffs for non-violent vulnerable offenders; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      1736. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visas and residency permits per category (Employment - General and Category 1, Student, Family Reunification...
    • Visa Agreements
      1740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any language or integration criteria applies for family reunification visas; if there are any proposals to amend or...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1741. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality following on from the recommendations of An Garda Síochána recruitment training capacity group that reported to him...
    • Departmental Data
      1743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the employment status of asylum seekers with permission to work and of those with leave to remain, including...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which a Supplementary Estimate or Supplementary Estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote...
    • Departmental Data
      1747. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of EU citizens who have been refused entry to Ireland in each of the past five years; and if he will make a...
    • Legal Aid
      1748. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current income eligibility limits for access to free legal aid services; whether any exemptions or discretionary...
    • Visa Applications
      1749. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite a visa application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1885/26]
    • Public Transport
      1750. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department is involved in the development of proposals or legislation to establish a transport security force; the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1751. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current staffing complement of Balbriggan Garda station, including the number of sworn garda members and civilian staff;...
    • Departmental Data
      1755. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1756. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded...
    • Departmental Data
      1763. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic abuse-related calls that were recorded by An Garda Síochána in 2025.; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1766. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding his Department’s work to develop a single unique identifier and standardising data...
    • Departmental Data
      1767. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of appointees to the Dublin South Central local community safety partnerships. [2210/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1768. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers...
    • Peace Commissioners
      1770. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a list of Peace Commissioners in Offaly, with their contact details, as per the most up to date roll of peace...
    • National Security
      1773. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the project to establish the new statutory national security authority; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Local Community Safety Partnerships
      1775. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the establishment of the 36 local community safety partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Security
      1777. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on his Department’s input to the development of the national security strategy; when the strategy is...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Ministerial Communications
      1781. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the European leaders he personally contacted in advance of the Fisheries Council seeking support for Ireland. [73713/25]
    • Departmental Programmes
      1782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has any events/initiatives planned to coincide with the International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026; if any...
    • Animal Welfare
      1783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an animal welfare organisation (details supplied) have had their annual animal welfare grant reduced; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Communications
      1784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a submission by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74002/25]
    • Animal Welfare
      1785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason funding was cut for an organisation (details supplied); if this will be reviewed and the funding be reinstated; and if he...
    • Live Exports
      1786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the 117 dairy heifers exported to Libya on 5 January 2025 were pregnant at the time of export; the procedures which were...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1798. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the negotiations he took part in prior to the EU’s decision on 13 December in relation to the fisheries deal; and if he was...
    • Local Authorities
      1799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the correspondence from Monaghan County Council (details supplied); the position of his Department on the concerns...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the aquaculture and foreshore management division (AFMD) in his Department determines the prioritisation of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the...
    • Electricity Generation
      1803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to promote grants for installing solar panels on farm buildings in rural areas; if he will consider allowing all grant...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1804. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      1805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the cross-departmental working group focused on navigating the complexities of State aid rules to create a...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      1806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with Coillte to ascertain the reason they disengaged from a long-term lease at a location (details supplied); if...
    • Nitrates Usage
      1807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration was given to assessing the human health impacts of extending the nitrates derogation; and if he will make a...
    • Data Protection
      1808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Departmental Staff
      1809. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE Forestry Inspector Grade 1 and Forestry Inspector Grade 2 posts that were filled within his Department as of 5...
    • Veterinary Services
      1810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the WTE staff by job title posts that are currently filled at the regional veterinary office based in Raphoe, County Donegal; and if...
    • Assisted Animal Reproduction
      1811. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he will expedite the ban on surgical artificial insemination in greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1812. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to respond to query (details supplied) regarding slurry storage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74963/25]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1813. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74975/25]
    • Fishing Industry
      1814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to request an emergency meeting with the European Commission, the Fisheries Commissioner and the Trade Commissioner to debate the...
    • Trade Agreements
      1815. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to request an emergency meeting with the European Commission, the Agriculture Commissioner and the Trade Commissioner to debate the...
    • Departmental Projects
      1817. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending...
    • Employment Rights
      1818. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 734 of 9 December 2025, if he is satisfied that this post given its independent position,...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1819. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1820. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022 to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1821. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is...
    • EU Presidency
      1822. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of...
    • Fishing Industry
      1824. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current number of fishing trawlers registered in Ireland, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75282/25]
    • Animal Sales
      1825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current legislative and regulatory framework governing the ownership, breeding, sale, and importation of exotic animals,...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      1832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to address the dangers to human life caused by roaming deer along all roads in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Forestry Sector
      1833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to increase forestry grants to landowners in 2026 who wish to plant some or all of their lands or additional lands; and if he will...
    • Farm Household Incomes
      1834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to take into consideration that farming is in under enormous pressure as an indigenous industry and introduce a series of measures...
    • Food Industry
      1835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide all figures and data in respect of producer organisations approved by this Department (details supplied), in tabular...
    • Animal Diseases
      1836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to eradicate TB in Ireland, if he will reconvene the TB forum as a matter of priority, (initially not in camera), with all...
    • Market Access
      1837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to ensure that a fair market is secured for sheep wool (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fishing Industry
      1838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on fishing quotas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1202/26]
    • Animal Breeding
      1841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his Department’s efforts to fulfil the Programme for Government commitments to address the disjointed...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1846. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the long delays in issuing ACRES payments to farmers; if the financial burden these delays are placing on farmers has...
    • Veterinary Services
      1847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will enable veterinary prescriptions to be filled at any veterinary practice and not tied to the prescription...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each...
    • Animal Welfare
      1850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an up-to-date report in 2025 on the number of horses currently registered in the State, by category and county; and if he will...
    • Trade Agreements
      1854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress to date in honouring the commitment in the Programme for Government to defend the interests of Irish farmers in all...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against...
    • Livestock Issues
      1863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider banning the live export of livestock given issues around the practices that have been raised (details supplied);...
    • Digital Archiving
      1864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress of the project to make former Land Commission records which are of historical interest available in digital format and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown, on a tranche-by-tranche basis, of the total costs incurred under each scheme operating within TAMS 3, from...
    • Trade Agreements
      1867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the Mercosur deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2222/26]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contingency measures for farmers' livelihoods the State has in place that may be impacted by the Mercosur deal; and if he will...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1869. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or...
    • Land Issues
      1871. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an ownership/responsibility issue can be examined in regard to Kilkeaveragh Pier, Portmagee, County Kerry, given Trinity College...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1872. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Employment Rights
      1875. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will examine the current statutory framework governing redundancy protections for pregnant employees; if she will consider...
    • Parental Leave
      1876. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the role her Department plays in public awareness campaigns for paternity leave and parent's leave, including targeted outreach to...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1878. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding an assessment of need appointment for a person (details supplied). [73922/25]
    • Childcare Services
      1879. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on her engagement with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1881. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting for assessment of needs, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1882. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress on the recommendations from reports or reviews into Tusla’s handling of child cases (details supplied); and if...
    • Children in Care
      1884. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement there has been with the community and voluntary sector, which deals with referrals from Tusla, to expand capacity in...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1885. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the implementation of the new model of care for complex family cases referred to Tusla; the timeline for the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1886. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the interactions her Department has had with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration regarding the creation of an...
    • Departmental Reports
      1887. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the direct engagement, which has taken place between her Department and survivors affected by the safeguarding failures identified...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1892. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in her Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1893. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the allocation of funding to support a pay deal for early years educators and managers will be announced; when representative...
    • Ombudsman for Children
      1894. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will consider bringing the early years sector under the remit of the Ombudsman for Children's Office [74234/25]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1895. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number on assessment of needs waiting lists by county in tabular form including how many are waiting more than 6 months; and if...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1896. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether standards or service-level targets exist for her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department, in responding to...
    • Childcare Services
      1897. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to reform the national childcare scheme to cover children with complex medical needs who are deemed unsuitable for group...
    • Children in Care
      1898. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the national policy of the rights of children living in informal kinship care will be published; and if she will make a...
    • Equality Issues
      1901. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of the proposal to enshrine discrimination on the basis of socio-economic status as a non-discrimination ground, as...
    • Departmental Policies
      1902. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she has assessed the risk of serious unintended consequences arising from her reform proposals (details supplied); and if...
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      1903. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is concerned that her proposed reforms will diminish the independence of guardians ad litem as they will be State employees,...
    • Childcare Services
      1905. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide further details of phase one of the early years action plan; if she will provide specific details regarding how the plan...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1906. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will recommend the inclusion of the early years sector on the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment,...
    • Children in Care
      1908. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the longest period of time, in years, that any child has spent in State care since the establishment of Tusla in 2014; and to...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1911. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department monitors compliance with permanency planning timelines within Tusla at a national level; if so, the performance...
    • Children in Care
      1912. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has considered the introduction of statutory maximum periods within which a permanency decision must be made for...
    • Departmental Investigations
      1913. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in respect of services funded by her Department, the governance and oversight arrangements that apply where internal investigations...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1914. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she acknowledges that core funding provided to the early learning sector will not cover auto enrolment in the pension scheme...
    • Disability Services
      1915. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the service plans for children with special needs from cradle to grave in Cavan and Monaghan; the schools for special needs respite...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1917. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the office rental costs per annum for staff in her Department and for each agency or organisation under her remit, in each of the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1918. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 464 of 27 November 2025, if the investigation referred to by the Regional Chief Officer in...
    • Departmental Funding
      1919. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the funding difficulties for a services (details supplied); if she will review the funding to address the...
    • Departmental Data
      1920. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there is a vulnerable adults database in place, both intellectual and physical; the data her Department collects to support...
    • Disability Services
      1921. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s policy for supporting adults with intellectual disabilities after their primary carers die, given the large...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1923. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Mayo currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005, this year and each of...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1924. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children and young people under 18 years of age in County Mayo who have a formal autism diagnosis; and if she will...
    • Disability Issues
      1926. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if foetal alcohol spectrum disorder Ireland are included in the disability forum engagements. [74594/25]
    • Departmental Funding
      1927. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding her Department has provided for an organisation (details supplied) in relation to their work with those with foetal...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1928. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the payroll cost of her Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in...
    • Childcare Services
      1929. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the alternative funding streams available to a community-based project (details supplied) which previously relied in part on the...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      1931. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the 2025 funding allocation and shortfall given from what was originally sought for a charity (details...
    • Childcare Services
      1932. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason the national childcare scheme (NCS) which is available to children from 6 months of age and offers up to 45 hours per...
    • Parental Leave
      1937. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if flexible working and parental leave policies will be properly implemented, including allowing parental leave to be taken in...
    • Children in Care
      1938. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports in place for a young person in foster care through non family placement if they turn 18 while in 6th year and...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1939. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the waiting list for assessments of need, broken down by county, and by length of time waiting for an assessment in three month...
    • Data Protection
      1940. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of data breaches recorded by her Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Disability Services
      1941. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which the State regulates and monitors the use of restrictive practices (details supplied) in non-residential disability...
    • Childcare Services
      1942. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children which have been transferred outside the jurisdiction of Ireland for care; the legal basis; the settings and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1943. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Child and Family Agency funds, arranges or manages any care services other than those inspected by the Health...
    • Children in Care
      1944. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently awaiting accommodation in secure care units pursuant to court orders; the arrangements which have...
    • Adoption Services
      1945. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of adoptions, both domestic and international, that have taken place in the State in each of the past 30 years, by year;...
    • Budget 2026
      1946. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason budget 2026 prioritises long-term structural investment in disability services over immediate income supports, despite...
    • Library Services
      1950. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the process by which books are selected for inclusion in the My Little Library initiative; if there is a formal mechanism for Irish...
    • Disability Services
      1951. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if it has been brought to her attention that two brothers suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (details supplied) have had to...
    • Childcare Services
      1953. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of ELC services in each county division; the number of SAC services in each county division for 2023/2024 in tabular...
    • Housing Provision
      1954. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the joint protocol between the HSE and Tusla to ensure that children and young adults leaving care, particularly...
    • Childcare Services
      1955. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the vacant childcare places in ELC and SAC services for the years 2020- 2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2024-2025; and the overall...
    • Public Spending Code
      1956. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of projects in her Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending...
    • Childcare Services
      1957. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average national childcare fee in 2025 encompassing the NCS subsidy and parent contribution. [75124/25]
    • Legislative Measures
      1960. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider legislation to allow people dealing with severe menstrual symptoms to apply for paid time-off without the need...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1961. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of the process to be undertaken in the new educational assessments (details supplied); the person or body which...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1962. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total spend by her Department on private for-profit companies for each of the years 2021 to 2025 ; and the breakdown of this...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1965. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in her Department and the head of each agency for which they are...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1966. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department, and within each agency for which she is responsible, for 2022...
    • Departmental Staff
      1967. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in her Department and within each agency for which she is...
    • EU Presidency
      1968. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost to her Department and each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the...
    • Nursing Homes
      1970. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated number of people aged under 65 who entered nursing home care for each of the years 2021 to 2025, respectively; and...
    • Disability Services
      1971. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality , further to Parliamentary Question No.14 of 8 December 2025, and the publication of the National Services Plan 2026, if she can...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1975. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a capacity assessment will be given to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1058/26]
    • Disability Services
      1976. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children with profound disabilities awaiting respite in County Kerry; the length of time they have been waiting; and...
    • Health Services
      1978. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the delivery of 199 residential placements, 58 decongregation transitions and 45 transitions from nursing homes for people...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1979. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding Tusla applications (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1196/26]
    • Disability Services
      1980. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to address the serious and ongoing concern regarding the lack of physical and therapeutic supports available through the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1981. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the practice within CDNTs (details supplied) of assessing children strictly on a chronological basis without...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1982. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding issues relating to the locking away of files connected with mother and baby homes; the status of this...
    • Disability Services
      1983. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the progress made in addressing the Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026 so the action that seeks the...
    • Nursing Homes
      1989. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of individuals aged under 65 residing in nursing homes; the total number of individuals who have been...
    • Disability Services
      1990. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of disabled people who are in receipt of intensive support packages currently; the number of people who are currently on...
    • State Examinations
      1992. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports in place for students in care who turn 18 in the period leading up to the leaving certificate; the supports available...
    • Disability Services
      1993. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm the time to first contact, assessment, and intervention in relation to Community Disability Network Team (CDNT)...
    • Parental Leave
      1995. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is considering aligning the parental leave age limit of 12 years in the private sector as laid out in the...
    • Childcare Services
      1996. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to conduct an analysis on the impact of the 2024 fee adjustments on families who receive income assessed subsidies through the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      2000. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of her Department’s Vote for...
    • Childcare Services
      2002. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an overview of the capacity of creches in County Clare (most especially the Shannon / Newmarket-on-Fergus /...
    • Departmental Funding
      2003. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding awarded to organisations through the Children’s Disability Grant Fund has been received by the organisations; if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2005. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by her Department in 2025, broken...
    • Health Services
      2006. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for occupational therapy or psychologist support; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2008. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      2015. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there have been any private forensic reports undertaken at a site (details supplied); if she will provide this Deputy with...
    • Childcare Services
      2016. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the revised Early Learning and Childcare Planning Guidance will be issued; whether it will require childcare facilities to be...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2022. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      2024. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by her Department or its agencies over the past three...
    • Departmental Contracts
      2025. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to detail the annual spend on external consultants by her Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number...
    • Departmental Projects
      2026. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list, for each of the past three years of the top ten projects per annum delivered by her Department or its agencies...
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      2027. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the concerns of an organisation (details supplied) in relation to changes to the role of guardians ad litem; and...
  • Department of Health
    • Departmental Policies
      2028. To ask the Minister for Health if legislation is planned to ban the practice called vaping from public gathering places such as pubs, restaurants, shops, offices and so on; and if she will...
    • Wage-setting Mechanisms
      2029. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 828 of 25 February 2025 (details supplied), when and by whom the decision was taken to exclude medical scientists who...
    • EU Presidency
      2032. To ask the Minister for Health her priorities for the Irish EU Presidency regarding the EU cardiovascular disease health plan to be published shortly; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Strategies
      2033. To ask the Minister for Health how she plans to prioritise and implement the EU cardiovascular disease health plan in Ireland and channel EU funds to support this work; and if she will make...
    • Hospital Services
      2034. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which hospitals in the mid-west have in-hospital counselling services available to patients who may be enduring mental health problems; the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2035. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE expects to begin receiving new patients at the new surgical hub that will be based in Swords; and the types of procedures that will be performed...
    • Health Services Staff
      2036. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO9 where HSE employed orthoptists are based, in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [73856/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      2037. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated via restaurant/coffee shops sales at Beaumont Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [73857/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2038. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric psychologists posts that were filled at Portmarnock Primary Care Centre in each of the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025,...
    • Dental Services
      2039. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the waiting list to see a dentist at Swords Health Centre; and the average waiting time for same. [73859/25]
    • Pharmacy Services
      2040. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for removing funding for monitored dosage systems (blister packs); the assessment carried out on the impact this will have on vulnerable...
    • Departmental Funding
      2053. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether there was a cut to a service (details supplied) in 2025; to confirm the funding for 2026; the governance arrangements expected for this...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      2054. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to removing the need for a prescription for ostomy products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73899/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2056. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for closing a waiting list for an outpatient service at a hospital, including what approvals are required. [73911/25]
    • Health Services
      2058. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide any additional staff, a new location, or other resources to the National Gender Service. [73913/25]
    • Medical Cards
      2062. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (detail supplied) regarding prescription charges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73925/25]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      2063. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being undertaken by the HSE to ensure that all individuals who are diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, including those diagnosed as adults, have...
    • Food Safety
      2066. To ask the Minister for Health the number of official Food Safety Authority control or targeted audits FSAI has programmed from the years 2018 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • Family Reunification
      2071. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the assistance given to the evacuation of three Palestinian fathers (details supplied) to reunite them with their children, who came to...
    • Medical Cards
      2072. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify if those on disability allowance and in receipt of a medical card will be charged more for their medication as a result of the Government’s...
    • Nursing Homes
      2073. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74001/25]
    • Health Services
      2074. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has issued any written guidance, directions, circulars, or instructions to the HSE since 2018 concerning the automatic approval of...
    • General Practitioner Services
      2076. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the work being done to recruit more GPs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74032/25]
    • Dental Services
      2077. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement there has been with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the improved provision of dental services for medical card holders; and if she...
    • Hospital Staff
      2078. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the appointment of a clinical specialist sonographer (ultrasound) to the Louth County Hospital, Dundalk; and if she will make a...
    • Psychological Assessments
      2079. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a child in County Mayo (details supplied) who has been waiting over two years for a clinical psychology appointment; if she accepts that...
    • Medical Cards
      2080. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 905 of 9 December 2025, if her Department receives, holds, or reviews data from the primary care reimbursement service...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2083. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [74096/25]
    • Hospital Services
      2084. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will undergo surgery; the reason surgery has been delayed and cancelled previously; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2085. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in her Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with those projects; and...
    • Health Services
      2086. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on dialysis for more than five years in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74144/25]
    • Health Services Staff
      2094. To ask the Minister for Health the approved posts and available full-time equivalent staffing by healthcare professional type in each dialysis unit, by HSE run and third party units...
    • Health Services
      2098. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for those who received a deceased donor kidney transplant in each of the years, 2018 to 2024, from the time of first listing on the...
    • Organ Donation
      2102. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of people who presented to the living donor programme in Beaumont Hospital as willing potential living kidney donors who became actual living...
    • Health Services
      2103. To ask the Minister for Health the average time for being approved for kidney transplant to actually receiving a transplant in each of the years 2018 to 2024; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      2111. To ask the Minister for Health the reason peritoneal dialysis patients cannot receive peritoneal dialysis in St. James’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Strategies
      2113. To ask the Minister for Health with the launch of the HSE Climate Action Strategy 2023 to 2025, if there are plans in place to mitigate the environmental impact of dialysis by improved...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2114. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical guidance used to treat specific gynaecological problems experienced by women with kidney disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2115. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the average waiting times from referral to nephrologist to first appointment time, by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      2116. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the number of people on waiting lists to see a nephrologist, by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74176/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      2119. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to appoint a clinical GP lead for renal disease in primary care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74179/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2120. To ask the Minister for Health if, from 1 July 2025 adult GMS patients who have stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease are now included in the CDM Treatment Programme; and if patients who have...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2122. To ask the Minister for Health given that dialysis provision and related inpatient stays currently costs €125,000 per year per patient, the plans that are in place, or for the...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      2123. To ask the Minister for Health given the major in-centre treatment costs, if she will clarify when chronic kidney disease screening and treatment will become available in each of the 96 HSE...
    • Health Strategies
      2124. To ask the Minister for Health given the major treatment costs, when home dialysis and assisted dialysis will become available in each of the 96 HSE community health networks; and if she...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2125. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HIPE’s case mix system is tracking the cost of every dialysis session provided per in-patient stay; if not, if it is assigning an assumed...
    • Emergency Departments
      2126. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a copy of the clinical guidelines for assessment and treatment of kidney patients who present in emergency departments; if this is in use in all...
    • Hospital Services
      2127. To ask the Minister for Health given that a number of patients receiving dialysis are homeless or at risk of homelessness, if such patients will be automatically placed in the band 1...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2128. To ask the Minister for Health given the increasing frequency of storm related utility outages, the plans that are in place to protect vulnerable patients who are dependent on utilities for...
    • Departmental Data
      2131. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staffing levels in an organisation (details supplied) for each year 2020 to date in 2025, broken down by sanctioned posts, filled...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2133. To ask the Minister for Health the PSI’s annual operating budget and outturn; the breakdown of income sources including registration fees and any Exchequer funding, for each year...
    • Departmental Data
      2134. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pharmacy inspections carried out by the PSI in each year 2020 to date in 2025, broken down by inspection type including systems inspections,...
    • Grant Payments
      2141. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently intervene and allow for a transitional payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74230/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      2143. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is examining the expansion of the approved appliances and drugs under the long-term illness scheme in light of ongoing difficulties with the...
    • Health Services Staff
      2144. To ask the Minister for Health when the endometriosis hub in Cork will be fully staffed, to provide a breakdown of how many people have accessed the hub in 2025, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Departmental Data
      2145. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who availed of a cervical check by county over the last three years including 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Consultations
      2147. To ask the Minister for Health whether standards or service-level targets exist for her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department, in responding to correspondence from members...
    • Disability Services
      2148. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for children awaiting an occupational therapy assessment in County Longford; the number of children currently on the waiting list;...
    • Medical Cards
      2150. To ask the Minister for Health if a certificate of interest from a financial institution of all accounts be accepted and taken into consideration when assessing over 70s for a medical card...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2151. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the HSE’s plans for the expansion of the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) schools programme in 2026; the measures that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2152. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the current waiting times for children requiring an MRI under general anaesthesia in Ireland; the measures being taken to reduce these waiting...
    • Departmental Data
      2153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons awaiting a home help package in Kerry, by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      2157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurological staff vacancies there are within the HSE and the area they are in, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Strategies
      2158. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to include relugolix in the drugs payment scheme; and if so, the timeline for same. [74370/25]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      2159. To ask the Minister for Health if CORU will bring the athletic rehab therapy sector under its regulatory remit. [74384/25]
    • Hospice Services
      2160. To ask the Minister for Health to reassure the Iveragh Hospice Branch in County Kerry and the residents of Iveragh, that hospice beds in St. Anne's Hospital, Cahersiveen will not be closed;...
    • Departmental Data
      2161. To ask the Minister for Health the national datasets her Department requires for governance, planning, financial control, and performance oversight of all services funded under the health...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2164. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department estimates the annual cost to the Health Vote arising from delayed transfers of care linked to housing shortages; the methodology used by her...
    • Gender Recognition
      2165. To ask the Minister for Health the governance and policy framework approved by her Department for gender identity services for children and young people; the date of the most recent...
    • Departmental Data
      2166. To ask the Minister for Health the national datasets her Department requires for planning, oversight, and safeguarding of gender identity services for minors, including referral volumes,...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2167. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s policy for evaluating international clinical guidance prior to alignment with national healthcare frameworks; the assessments carried...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2168. To ask the Minister for Health the national reporting requirements approved by her Department for waiting times in publicly funded addiction services; the reason a comprehensive national...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2169. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has adopted any population-based workforce planning benchmark or consultant-to-patient ratio for the provision of chronic pain services; if...
    • Departmental Data
      2170. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time, by hospital group, for a first outpatient assessment in publicly funded chronic pain services at the end of Q4 2025; the longest...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2171. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of patients diagnosed with chronic pain who are managed without access to a specialist consultant-led pain service due to capacity constraints;...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2172. To ask the Minister for Health if the current number of whole-time equivalent consultants delivering chronic pain services meets any recognised international guideline, standard, or...
    • Departmental Data
      2173. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or the Health Service Executive maintains any national dataset recording cases where a baby is born alive following a termination of...
    • Departmental Policies
      2174. To ask the Minister for Health if maternity hospitals are required by her Department, the HSE, or the national women and infants health programme to formally notify the Department or the...
    • Departmental Data
      2176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of internal reviews, clinical audits, serious incident reviews or governance assessments commissioned or overseen by her Department or the HSE...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2177. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has sought legal advice since 2019 on the absence of a statutory reporting requirement for live births following termination of pregnancy;...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2178. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to tackle the delay in the symptomatic rapid assessment clinic in CUH; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74428/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2179. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the current waiting list times in Drogheda hospital for dermatology services from 2019 to date in 2025, per year, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2180. To ask the Minister for Health if the movement of dermatology services from Monaghan Hospital has added to the waiting list times in Drogheda Hospital; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      2181. To ask the Minister for Health her plans for any reforms to ensure that the dermatology services remain in Monaghan Hospital, along with a dermatologist in place; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      2182. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of the services currently available in Monaghan Hospital; in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74439/25]
    • Hospital Facilities
      2183. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of free rooms in Monaghan Hospital; the reason these room are not being utilised for clinics; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2184. To ask the Minister for Health the office rental costs per annum for staff in her Department and for each agency or organisation under her remit, in each of the years between 2015 and 2025...
    • Mental Health Services
      2185. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to increase the number of assistant psychologist jobs nationwide to support the provision of mental healthcare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      2186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for registration with the Irish Medical Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74472/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      2187. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding CAMHS services in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74485/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      2188. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider adding Jorveza (Budesonide) to the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74512/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      2189. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a child (details supplied) with CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74521/25]
    • Departmental Schemes
      2190. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the reimbursement claims for services under the PCRS scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74530/25]
    • Departmental Data
      2191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases recorded (details supplied) for a medical service in each of the years from 2019 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      2197. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of any mental health service funded by the HSE that is utilising AI generated content in response to service users; if she will investigate...
    • Departmental Meetings
      2198. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 916 of 16 December 2025, if she is conscious of the specific work that is done by an organisation (details supplied)...
    • Primary Care Services
      2199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under five years of age in County Mayo currently being supported through primary care teams, this year and each of the past five years;...
    • Health Services
      2200. To ask the Minister for Health the Departments with responsibility for the diagnosis, intervention therapy services, awareness raising, education and prevention of the condition and support...
    • Emergency Departments
      2203. To ask the Minister for Health when she will bring a memo to cabinet to outline the implementation plan and period for option C of the review of an organisation (details supplied) into...
    • Hospital Staff
      2204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant community health posts in UHL hospital group CHO by discipline, by grade and whole time equivalent, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • Medicinal Products
      2205. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that adults have access through the health service to burosumab for treatment for hypophosphataemia; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2206. To ask the Minister for Health the payroll cost of her Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular form. [74629/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      2207. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the work undertaken by the HSE to recruit a full-time psychologist for the community adult mental health team in Balbriggan;...
    • Medical Cards
      2218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discretionary medical cards awarded in the past three years to applicants whose income exceeded the threshold due to receipt of carer's...
    • Medicinal Products
      2220. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to an equivalent hormone replacement therapy scheme in another jurisdiction (details supplied); if she will conduct an...
    • General Practitioner Services
      2221. To ask the Minister for Health if there are sufficient GP services serving the Thurles area; the number of GP vacancies currently in existence in Thurles and surrounding hinterland; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      2222. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health supports available locally to residents of Thurles, including community counselling and specialist services; waiting times for access; if...
    • Health Services Staff
      2223. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment and retention initiatives in place for health professionals serving the Thurles area; the number of vacancies which currently exist across all...
    • Health Services
      2224. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on securing a new site for the replacement of a facility (details supplied); if the Health Service Executive has identified suitable greenfield...
    • Hospital Services
      2230. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a domestic/gender based violence team operating at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74750/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      2232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff and the grade employed in general medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and the number of staff vacancies currently within...
    • Health Services
      2250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of step-down beds available in County Louth in the years 2020 to 2025, by year, in tabular form; and the location of same. [74790/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2253. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied). [74793/25]
    • Health Services
      2254. To ask the Minister for Health the details of every residential care home provider in counties Sligo and Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74794/25]
    • Mental Health Services
      2255. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); if she will instruct her Department to conduct a public inquiry into psychiatric institutions;...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2256. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of the post-natal hub at Our lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda; when this hub will be operational and accessible to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2257. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if an appointment will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74823/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2258. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 10 December 2025, if she will provide details on the membership of the committee (details supplied); and if she...
    • Dental Services
      2259. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she and her Department are taking to address the 18 month waiting times for children who require dental treatment under general anaesthetic. [74831/25]
    • General Practitioner Services
      2260. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a GP can proceed to be considered to lease space for their practice to allow them to increase capacity for new patients (details supplied);...
    • Health Strategies
      2261. To ask the Minister for Health if the €5 million budget for the rare disease strategy has been carried over into 2026 and added to the €8 million allocated for 2026; if not,...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      2263. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 378 of 16 October 2025, if the HSE Service Improvement Programme’s review of the existing provision of limb...
    • Health Services
      2264. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision not to reimburse a treatment will be reviewed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74859/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      2266. To ask the Minister for Health when a new consultant will be appointed for the pain clinic in the Mater Hospital. [74865/25]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2267. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait time for a person to receive an appointment for the pain clinic in the Mater Hospital. [74866/25]
    • Vaccination Programme
      2269. To ask the Minister for Health the current cost of the seasonal influenza vaccine for students who do not qualify under the HSE free scheme; and if she will consider measures to reduce or...
    • Mental Health Services
      2270. To ask the Minister for Health the minimum qualifications required for individuals providing crisis counselling through a platform (details supplied); the proportion of staff or volunteers...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2272. To ask the Minister for Health whether artificial intelligence or automated decision support tools are used in any part of a service (details supplied), including message triage, risk...
    • Mental Health Services
      2273. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of simultaneous conversations each counsellor is expected or permitted to manage at any one time at a service (details supplied); the...
    • Hospital Transfers
      2274. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be referred to another hospital under the NTPF by Galway University Hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Data Protection
      2275. To ask the Minister for Health the number of data breaches recorded by her Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. [74898/25]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for partial knee replacement surgery at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      2277. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of children who received developmental checks carried out within 72 hours, at three months old, at six months old, at one year old, at two...
    • Hospital Staff
      2278. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant anaesthesiologists posts that were filled at Letterkenny University Hospital in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular...
    • Dental Services
      2279. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists which are providing care to medical card patients under the dental treatment service scheme, by county, in tabular form; the number of...
    • Mental Health Services
      2280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people which are detained in the Central Mental Hospital, other than under the Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006, as amended by the Criminal Law...
    • Disability Services
      2282. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults whose disability-related care abroad was arranged by the State in the past 36 months, the settings and countries; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      2283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children whose mental health treatment abroad was arranged by the State in the past 36 months, the settings and countries; and if she will make...
    • Disability Services
      2284. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children whose disability-related care abroad was arranged by the State in the past 36 months, the settings and countries; and if she will make...
    • Mental Health Services
      2285. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the State regulates and monitors the use of practices (details supplied) in relation to people other than in ‘approved centres’...
    • Mental Health Policy
      2288. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the State regulates and monitors the use of restrictive practices (details supplied) in older people’s non-residential care settings;...
    • Mental Health Services
      2289. To ask the Minister for Health for a comprehensive list or categorisation of residential care services that are known or believed to be operating without the necessary registration as a...
    • Health Services
      2290. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health care services, older people’s care services, disability services, respite services, end-of-life services, and addiction treatment...
    • Home Care Packages
      2291. To ask the Minister for Health the home care and home support services and service providers that are intended to be regulated under forthcoming legislation; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      2292. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which alleged restrictive practices (details supplied) have arisen in complaints to the HSE’s adult Safeguarding and Protection teams, in...
    • Departmental Meetings
      2293. To ask the Minister for Health if she or the CEO of the HSE will meet with a person (details supplied). [74952/25]
    • Hospital Staff
      2294. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to hire a new consultant for the pain clinic in the Mater Hospital; the expected start date for the new consultant; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2295. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait time for a person to receive an appointment for the pain clinic in the Mater Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74954/25]
    • Health Service Executive
      2297. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will consider the purchase of a closed school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74962/25]
    • Pharmacy Services
      2298. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) is advising pharmacists participating in the free HRT scheme to investigate if their patients are transgender where they...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2299. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74980/25]
    • Healthcare Policy
      2301. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74987/25]
    • Health Services
      2302. To ask the Minister for Health to consider aiding in the medical evacuation of a person from Gaza (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75015/25]
    • Medicinal Products
      2303. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of supply of estradot (estradiol transdermal) patches in the State; the duration and cause of any supply disruptions affecting this product...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2305. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the issues outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75034/25]
    • Hospital Services
      2306. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the development of a business case for the purchase of the software required for scoliosis surgery at the National...
    • Disability Services
      2307. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the lack of recognition of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, FASD, as a disability within the HSE, which is resulting in a person (details...
    • Ambulance Service
      2308. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Programme for Government commitment to advancing the full implementation of the recommendations of the HSE-Dublin City Council...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      2310. To ask the Minister for Health to consider the Labour Court recommendation to extend special leave with pay to workers with long Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75062/25]
    • Dental Services
      2311. To ask the Minister for Health the reason routine school dental check-ups have not taken place in a primary school in County Kilkenny (details supplied), resulting in a child aged ten years...
    • Disease Management
      2312. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department considered the procurement of an enhanced influenza vaccine for the 2025–2026 flu season; the advice received from the HSE and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      2315. To ask the Minister for Health the influenza vaccination uptake rates to date for the 2025–2026 season, broken down by age cohort and risk group; how these figures compare with the...
    • Health Services
      2317. To ask the Minister for Health the measures currently in place for those seeking delayed reconstruction surgery in a timely manner after a mastectomy (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Nursing Homes
      2319. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a new unit (details supplied) in Cork City; the timeline for hand over of this unit; if an application to register the service has been...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      2320. To ask the Minister for Health whether she has examined the potential for perceived or actual conflicts of interest in cases where a person who has exhausted a hospital’s internal...
    • Public Spending Code
      2321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of projects in her Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the public spending code to the infrastructure...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2322. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to streamline the procedure for the drugs payment scheme, to digitalise it, or to make less cumbersome for those using it; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      2323. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the position in respect of staff in the health services that are unable to attend for work on account of having long Covid; and if she will...
    • Ambulance Service
      2324. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency calls classified as purple and red in each of the past 12 months where the National Ambulance Service response time exceeded 60...
    • Health Services
      2330. To ask the Minister for Health to consider implementing a reimbursement programme for patients who have been forced to undertake private healthcare for endometriosis due to a lack of public...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2331. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the immediate supports and timeline for implementation of the new Endometriosis Framework; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      2332. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to develop a primary care centre in Midleton, County Cork. [75181/25]
    • Hospital Services
      2333. To ask the Minister for Health to assist in making all hospitals in Ireland autism friendly (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75187/25]
    • Public Sector Pay
      2334. To ask the Minister for Health the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in her Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible; whether this scale has...
    • Departmental Advertising
      2335. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department, and within each agency for which she is responsible, for 2022 to 2024, by year and...
    • Departmental Staff
      2336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in her Department and within each agency for which she is responsible; the cost of these...
    • EU Presidency
      2337. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to her Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the European Council; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      2339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently employed, by grade (assistant, staff grade, senior grade, principal grade) per head of population in each health region for the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 0-18-year-olds waiting in excess of one, two, three, four, five, six years and so on, for an initial assessment appointment with primary care...
    • Legislative Measures
      2343. To ask the Minister for Health whether the statutory power to prosecute under section 80 of the Health Act 2007 has been formally and lawfully delegated to the Designated Chief Inspector of...
    • Nursing Homes
      2344. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is satisfied that HIQA and the Office of the Chief Inspector of Social Services have applied regulatory enforcement powers consistently and...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      2345. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure by HIQA and the Office of the Chief Inspector of Social Services on legal services since 2020; the name of the legal firms retained; and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      2346. To ask the Minister for Health whether she or her Department were aware that a former member of the HIQA board (details supplied) left that board in July 2020 and subsequently took up a...
    • Nursing Homes
      2348. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prosecutions under section 80 of the Health Act 2007 that have been initiated against nursing homes since 2021; and the number that relate to...
    • Departmental Bodies
      2349. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will request HIQA to return before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee to further examine procurement, enforcement and governance matters...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2350. To ask the Minister for Health if information will be provided in relation to a series of matters raised in an email of 20 October 2025 from the office of the Minister of State for Older...
    • Insurance Coverage
      2351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private health insurance policyholders due to renew their policies between December 2025 and February 2026; the number and proportion of those...
    • Vaccination Programme
      2355. To ask the Minister for Health to list all primary schools and secondary schools who offered the opportunity for take up of the flu vaccine in school in each of the years, 2022, 2023, 2024...
    • Health Services Staff
      2358. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the companies involved in HSE overseas nurse recruitment; the amount spent for recruitment per employee and the amount paid to such recruitment...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2359. To ask the Minister for Health when the new Killarney Community Hospital building will be handed over to the HSE (details supplied); if an application to register the new community hospital...
    • Home Help Service
      2360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, by area and by length of time, in each quarter in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular...
    • Mental Health Services
      2361. To ask the Minister for Health to immediately publish the North Kerry and South Kerry CAMHS Lookback reviews, respectively; if agreement has been reached with all north and south Kerry...
    • Disability Services
      2362. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address the needs of a person (details supplied) and their family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1102/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      2363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of properties involved in the fair deal scheme that are currently rented out in the private rental market. [1103/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      2364. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to put a system in place, whereby any incremental rise in the old age pension, is matched by a similar rise in the qualifying income criteria for...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2365. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider measures to address the additional cost people using incontinence products face due to increased waste disposal costs, beyond the...
    • National Children's Hospital
      2366. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the National Children’s Hospital is scheduled for completion; the expected opening date, given that the HSE National Service Plan...
    • Health Services
      2367. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe for the delivery of 428 community beds and 177 acute beds as referenced in the HSE National Service Plan 2026; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      2368. To ask the Minister for Health when the five new surgical hubs are expected to open; the locations of these hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1148/26]
    • Disability Services
      2369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapist posts, by grade that were filled at Tramore Primary Care Centre in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [1155/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2370. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended each outpatient clinic at University Hospital, Waterford, in 2025; the frequency in which each clinic is held; and if the...
    • Health Services Staff
      2371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dietitians posts filled at Ferrybank Primary Care Centre, Waterford, in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [1157/26]
    • Hospital Services
      2372. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the Health Service Executive remains fully committed to engagement with the established working group comprising the HSE, and organisations in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2373. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request the HSE to provide the most up-to-date room fit-out designs, architectural plans and technical specifications for the three level 2...
    • Hospital Services
      2374. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the governance model for the three dedicated level 2 palliative care suites at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will outline...
    • Ambulance Service
      2377. To ask the Minister for Health if a 24 hour rapid response vehicle will be introduced at Tuam ambulance base; if there is provision for such a service in the 2026 HSE National Service Plan;...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      2378. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for a person (details supplied) who needs to avail of homeless services but has complicating factors; and if she will make a statement...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2379. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is only one oxygen supplier under the DPS scheme; if she is considering approving more suppliers to improve competition and access to the...
    • Departmental Data
      2382. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has statistics on the number of patients who need oxygen but who do not hold a medical card; the number of patients who apply each year for...
    • Hospital Staff
      2383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant community ophthalmologists for east County Galway that have been filled in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [1261/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2384. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of dental treatments provided through PRSI and the medical card. [1262/26]
    • Hospital Equipment
      2385. To ask the Minister for Health for a detailed report on the timetable for radiation oncology equipment replacement and expansion, by machine type per hospital. [1263/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      2386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant in infectious disease posts filled at Galway University Hospital as of 5 January 2026, in tabular form. [1264/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      2387. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of patients presenting to Sligo University Hospital accident and emergency department with mental health issues and how many of...
    • Departmental Funding
      2390. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or any agency under the aegis of her Department has provided funding to a charity (details supplied); if so, the total annual amount to date...
    • Health Services Staff
      2391. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Questions No. 346 and 348 of 19 November 2025, if the assessment of the physician associate role, commissioned by the HSE, has been...
    • Disability Services
      2392. To ask the Minister for Health the reason adults resident in County Carlow are ineligible to access ADHD services located in neighbouring counties; if she will review this policy with a...
    • Care Services
      2394. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of persons (details supplied); the reason the family is advised that certain care hours are being provided when carers are not...
    • Health Services
      2395. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to a person (details supplied) to assist with medical bills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1358/26]
    • Eating Disorders
      2397. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent on the treatment of eating disorders in the United Kingdom in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1361/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      2399. To ask the Minister for Health when the national hearing care plan will be published; if the working group has considered bone-anchored hearing aid services in its considerations; and if...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      2400. To ask the Minister for Health if funding from the National Treatment Purchase Fund has been restored to a hospital (details supplied); if the audit report on the hospital’s...
    • Mental Health Services
      2401. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that will be given to the provision of counselling and psychotherapy services by an association (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2402. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which her Department first became aware of concerns relating to governance, oversight or patient safety in paediatric orthopaedic services at...
    • Dental Services
      2405. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Ireland has one of the highest ratios of dentists per capita in Europe; the measures in place to address the shortage; and if she will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      2406. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the planned ambulance base for Gorey, County Wexford. [1393/26]
    • Health Promotion
      2407. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount and percentage of the overall Departmental budget spent on positive health promotion by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2025,...
    • Freedom of Information
      2408. To ask the Minister for Health if she will raise with the Children’s Health Ireland the fact that it has responded to or acknowledged freedom of information, FOI, requests for the...
    • Legislative Measures
      2409. To ask the Minister for Health the date she is working towards, to introduce legislation concerning safeguard proposals relating to the deprivation of liberty; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2410. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 2579 of 8 September 2025, the position regarding the programme for Government commitment to review the drugs...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2411. To ask the Minister for Health for a start date for works on the upgrade for a health centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1425/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      2413. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will address the questions raised in correspondence; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      2414. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to modify the eligibility criteria to allow single women access IVF treatment via the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1467/26]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      2415. To ask the Minister for Health if she will recognise road-traffic collision and fatality data as public health data, given that such data relates to preventable deaths and injuries that...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2416. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE and her Department first become aware of the V10 national incident report form in relation to the murder of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Mental Health Services
      2422. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a CAMHS assessment for a child (details supplied); if the HSE will assess the real urgency to progress this particular case as there has been...
    • Dental Services
      2423. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 20 November 2025, to provide further details with respect to the small number of proposed amendments to the...
    • Nursing Homes
      2424. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 353 of 10 December 2025, to provide a timeline for handover of each of the seven community nursing units (details...
    • Health Services Staff
      2425. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 340 of 10 December 2025, the reason the majority of regional sustainability and energy officers are not on permanent...
    • Hospital Admissions
      2426. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that a new practice is in place in public hospitals with respect to admissions (details supplied); if a memo or directive has been issued to public...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      2427. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 970 of 9 December 2025, if a matter (details supplied) was brought to the attention of her predecessor or officials in...
    • Substance Misuse
      2428. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify if there are plans to reopen a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1503/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      2429. To ask the Minister for Health if it has been brought to her attention that there is a gap in the recruitment for Irish Edical Internship Training Programme for Irish citizens who were...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2430. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1506/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health crisis presentations to emergency departments in each of the years, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [1507/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      2432. To ask the Minister for Health if recent offers have been brought to her attention, reportedly made by or on behalf of the HSE to claimants affected by the May 2021 cyber-attack in the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2437. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for primary care psychology, by CHO, at the end of November and December 2025, in tabular form. [1520/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      2438. To ask the Minister for Health for a detailed update as of January 2026 on CAMHS assessment for child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1531/26]
    • Nursing Homes
      2439. To ask the Minister for Health the amount being paid to a nursing home (details supplied) weekly, for the provision of a bed through the fair deal scheme; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2442. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a surgery date for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1562/26]
    • Health Services
      2443. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the complaint to the Medical Council in relation to a surgeon (details supplied). [1575/26]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      2444. To ask the Minister for Health if CervicalCheck informs a patient which HPV type or how many HPV types were found in a patient that tests positive for HPV viruses; and if not, the reason;...
    • Health Services
      2447. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand the haemoglobin genotype testing more widely accessible and affordable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1583/26]
    • Home Care Packages
      2448. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in County Donegal waiting for home support in December from 2020 to 2025; and the number of people receiving less than their allocated...
    • Departmental Policies
      2449. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has undertaken to meet the Programme for Government objective to ensure that the administration of dermal fillers is only...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2451. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the lymphoedema and lipoedema model was provided for in Budget 2026; if not, whether consideration would be given to providing funding for...
    • Health Services Staff
      2452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have availed of supports from the international recruitment and relocation package since 2023 and who have taken up employment within...
    • Hospital Services
      2453. To ask the Minister for Health to engage with a hospital (details supplied) in relation to patient and the lack of treatment for their illness. [1669/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      2454. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the long-term illness scheme; if she will examine the case for including hypothyroidism as a qualifying condition, given its lifelong...
    • Hospital Services
      2455. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that a service is no longer operational in Cork University Hospital (details supplied); if so, the reason; if there are plans to reinstate...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      2457. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to introduce an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme for men; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1697/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2458. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the audit into governance and equity in patient access and waiting list management at Children's Health Ireland (CHI), which she previously told...
    • Health Services
      2459. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no hospital patient safety indicators reports for the South/South West Hospital Group have been published since June 2025; the timeline for...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2460. To ask the Minister for Health her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she is considering progressing the two specific actions outlined in correspondence; and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      2461. To ask the Minister for Health the reason more than 70,000 HPV vaccines were left to expire in 2024 instead of being diverted to a catch-up programme for people up to age 25 or to women...
    • Departmental Budgets
      2463. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of her Department’s Vote for each of the past ten years,...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2465. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposal to provide a new healthcare facility will progress to the next stage (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      2466. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in developing a service in Cavan-Monaghan similar to such provision in the north west (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2467. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of new critical care beds delivered in 2025; the number of replacement critical care beds delivered in 2025; the total current number of...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      2468. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the inclusion of SMA in the national newborn screening programme and to implement the heelprick test; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2469. To ask the Minister for Health if a more urgent hospital appointment will be offered to a person (details supplied). [1926/26]
    • Cancer Services
      2470. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 2533 and 2534 of 8 September 2025 and No. 3368 of 29 July 2025, the total number of children diagnosed with DMG and...
    • Nursing Homes
      2472. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding a request for nursing home care in a facility which operates under the fair deal scheme; if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2473. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by her Department in 2025, broken down by description and...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2474. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer by a court or...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2481. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of new acute hospital beds that are to be delivered through the National Development Plan 2026-2030; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      2483. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the current pause in recruitment of physician associates within the HSE; when the review of the profession will be concluded; and when...
    • Hospital Facilities
      2487. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of acute inpatient hospital beds across all voluntary and public hospitals as of 31 December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      2488. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to CAMHS in 2025; the number of children waiting longer than recommended timeframes for assessment and treatments; the average waiting...
    • Nursing Homes
      2489. To ask the Minister for Health if she has engaged with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding the potential impact of proposed tenancy reforms (particularly the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      2490. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to roll out the RSV vaccine to people over 70 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2229/26]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      2492. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to expand BreastCheck to those over 70 years old; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2231/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2496. To ask the Minister for Health if a more urgent appointment can be offered to a person (details supplied). [2237/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2497. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and, if so,...
    • Ambulance Service
      2499. To ask the Minister for Health her views on giving special status to the Castletownbere ambulance due to its geographical location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Home Care Packages
      2501. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting and the length of time currently waiting for home help care, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      2502. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2296/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2508. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for ophthalmology appointments and procedures, by county, in tabular form. [2302/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      2509. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 13 November 2025, the status of the implementation plan for the 2019 national oral health policy, Smile agus...
    • Departmental Data
      2510. To ask the Minister for Health the location of each of the 177 acute beds to be delivered under the 2026 HSE National Service Plan, in tabular form. [2308/26]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2512. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline for delivery of each of the surgical hubs in Dublin north, Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford, which, according to the HSE National...
    • Education and Training Provision
      2513. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the gap between expected activity and projected outturn in respect of GP trainees, outlined in the HSE National Service Plan 2026 (details...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2514. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the National Office for Trauma Services’ review of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service; if a final draft was issued to the...
    • Departmental Projects
      2516. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establishing an expert panel on the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service model (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      2517. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of consultant contracts in Children Health Ireland, by type, principal site and speciality, in tabular form (details supplied). [2315/26]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      2518. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1104 of 18 November 2025, if a similar “snapshot” can be provided for all patients included in the...
    • Legislative Measures
      2519. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commence section 232 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 in January 2026; if not, the expected timeline for commencement; and if...
    • Health Services
      2520. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown, by health region, of current eating disorder service provision, including WTE staffing by discipline and team type; and to set out the...
    • Eating Disorders
      2528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE posts approved, recruited and vacant within eating disorder services, by discipline and health region; and the length of time posts have...
    • Hospital Charges
      2532. To ask the Minister for Health the total revenue generated from parking charges at public hospitals in each of the past five years; for the breakdown, per hospital; the way in which this...
    • National Emergency Plan
      2537. To ask the Minister for Health the measurable improvements that have been made in national pandemic preparedness since 2023, including in stock levels of PPE, testing capacity, and speed of...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2538. To ask the Minister for Health the increase there has been in the number of community-based healthcare facilities and the services they provide over the period of her Department’s...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2540. To ask the Minister for Health based on her Department’s strategy statement 2023 to 2025, to outline progress, including clear data, as to improvements to equitable access to...
    • Health Services
      2542. To ask the Minister for Health the developments that are occurring within her Department and the HSE on the use of e-health and telemedicine. [2348/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      2543. To ask the Minister for Health based on her Department’s strategy statement 2023-2025, the internal process improvements and cost-efficiency measures have been rolled out since 2023;...
    • Health Promotion
      2545. To ask the Minister for Health the programmes in place in her Department or in the HSE to encourage greater uptake of physical exercise, gym membership, resistance training, running,...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      2546. To ask the Minister for Health the total costs to date of addressing the cyberattack on the HSE in May 2021; the measures that have been put in place to update ICT systems; her views on the...
    • Dental Services
      2547. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a dental appointment for medical card holders, broken down by RHA; the number of medical card holders currently awaiting dental...
    • Hospital Services
      2549. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of new acute inpatient beds delivered in 2025; the number of replacement acute inpatient beds delivered in 2025; the total current number of...
    • Health Strategies
      2553. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the National Stroke Strategy 2022-2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2400/26]
    • Care Services
      2554. To ask the Minister for Health whether early supported discharge from the Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar is available for stroke patients with a home address in County Offaly; and if...
    • Pharmacy Services
      2555. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community pharmacies registered in each county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2402/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      2557. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the establishment of the Strategic Collaboration Group as outlined in the Community Pharmacy Agreement 2025; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      2558. To ask the Minister for Health whether a transfer policy for clinical staff, such as physiotherapists, is currently operational for those employed by the HSE; and if she will make a...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      2559. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 414 of 17 December 2025, the status of a funding application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Projects
      2561. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by her Department or its agencies over the past three years which were completed on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      2562. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the annual spend on external consultants by her Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of consultancy contracts,...
    • Departmental Projects
      2563. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, for each of the past three years of the top ten projects per annum delivered by her Department or its agencies which were completed late...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2564. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting time for access to home help supports in County Leitrim; the number of people presently on the waiting list; the factors...
    • Mental Health Services
      2565. To ask the Minister for Health as per the HSE national service plan for 2026, if the national service plan will ensure the opening of all 20 inpatient CAMHS beds in the national...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Strategies
      2566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the €35 million ringfenced skills package announced in Budget 2026 will be allocated to meet the most acute needs of...
    • Ministerial Communications
      2567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his predecessor became aware of the exam papers for sale allegations; the actions he took when he became aware; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Education
      2569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in the case of QQI level 5 courses in healthcare/nursing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • EU Funding
      2570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department has sought the exclusion of Israel from EU-related funding opportunities related to defence; and if he will make a...
    • Education Schemes
      2572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the deferral of the proposed review of personal assistant services funded from the Fund for Students with Disabilities until the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for examinations for craft apprentices, including electricians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74047/25]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with those...
    • Student Accommodation
      2576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of any proposals to progress student accommodation for the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), Dún Laoghaire; the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new student housing strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74235/25]
    • Education and Training Provision
      2582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with the Minister for Health on workforce planning for speech and language therapy, psychology, oncology, and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers starting apprenticeship courses and qualifying as apprentices by county and course for 2025 and previous three years, in tabular...
    • Departmental Consultations
      2585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to correspondence...
    • EU Funding
      2586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the successful applications under the European Social Fund Plus for the years 2023 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the years between...
    • Education Policy
      2589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students applying to the CAO using the Baccalaureate. [74522/25]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payroll cost of his Department and of each organisation or agency under its remit individually, in 2015 to 2025, by year, in tabular form....
    • Data Protection
      2591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. [74897/25]
    • Education and Training Provision
      2592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding arrangements for courses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74969/25]
    • Sports Funding
      2593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of funding allocated to ETB soccer courses over the past five years; and the future plans for sports-related...
    • Public Spending Code
      2594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public Spending Code to the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      2595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are responsible; whether...
    • Departmental Advertising
      2596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022 to 2024, by...
    • Departmental Staff
      2597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is responsible; the...
    • EU Presidency
      2598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency of the European...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      2600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason, based on the new rules which mandate that adult educators can only work 20 hours teaching time and 15 hours non-teaching per week,...
    • Departmental Data
      2601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the number of foreign students in Ireland for each of the past ten years, by sector, including English language colleges; the...
    • Language Schools
      2602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on the number of English language schools operating in the State, per annum over the past ten years; the number enrolled per annum;...
    • Grant Payments
      2603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding access to SUSI grant support for students enrolled on part-time higher education programmes which carry a full academic...
    • Student Accommodation
      2604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and location of the student residential accommodation places that will be provided by the National Student Accommodation Strategy;...
    • Medical Internships
      2605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing pay for occupational therapy students currently providing services in placement programmes; and if...
    • Student Accommodation
      2606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the quantity of third level purpose built student accommodation in each year from 2018 to date; by location ; by higher education institution...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship registrations in the construction sector, by type in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      2610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in receipt of grant support under the SUSI scheme for each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by level of...
    • Departmental Budgets
      2612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each of the past...
    • Further and Higher Education
      2614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department can address the serious issue of long-term (CID) contract holders at FET institutes (details supplied) who are not getting the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken down by...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer...
    • Courses Accreditation
      2623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the QQI Trust Ed Accreditation process; the number of applications that were received, and the number that have been awarded...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers;...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      2626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years which were...
    • Departmental Contracts
      2627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of consultancy...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a one day a week class training model is being considered for craft apprentices to reduce the impact on employers as a result of the six week...
    • Third Level Staff
      2630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of academic and teaching staff which currently work in the TU sector; and the number of academic and teaching staff which currently...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Schemes
      2632. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans to reopen the local improvement scheme for non-public roads in the near future; the discussions held with the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2634. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether he is aware of agencies under his remit using artificial intelligence tools in place of artists and graphic designers...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2635. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to significantly increase the local improvement scheme (LIS) grant to Kerry County Council so as to clear the existing priority...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2636. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure...
    • Departmental Consultations
      2637. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to...
    • Community Welfare Services
      2638. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is aware of an organisation (details supplied) that is on the brink of closure; if he will seek emergency funding within...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2639. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      2641. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, following the publication of the feasibility study on a hotel (details supplied) the Government plans to proceed with the...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      2642. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfáiltíonn sé roimh an litir atá faighte ag a Roinn ó Iontaobhas na Gaelscolaíochta (litir i...
    • Data Protection
      2643. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of data breaches recorded by his Department in 2025; and the number that were reported to the Data Protection...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2644. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of capital spent from the islands allocation of his Department and predecessor Departments, by areas (details...
    • Public Spending Code
      2645. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of projects in his Department that were delayed in 2023 and 2024 due to the change of document from the Public...
    • Public Sector Pay
      2646. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General in his Department and to the head of each agency for which they are...
    • Departmental Advertising
      2647. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department, and within each agency for which he is responsible, for 2022...
    • Departmental Staff
      2648. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of press, media or communications staff currently employed in his Department and within each agency for which he is...
    • EU Presidency
      2649. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated cost to his Department and to each agency for which they are responsible arising from Ireland’s presidency...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2651. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projects that were funded under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme in Waterford, in 2025, in tabular form. [1161/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      2653. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2655. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2656. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2663. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      2665. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to investigate and give a full explanation as to the reason the Charity Regulator has not produced the documentation (details...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      2670. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three...
    • Departmental Contracts
      2671. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number...
    • Departmental Projects
      2672. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a list, for each of the past three years of the top ten projects per annum delivered by his Department or its agencies...

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