Written answers

Tuesday, 10 February 2026

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Climate Action Plan
      44. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the first progress report of Climate Action Plan 2025. [5896/26]
    • National Economic and Social Council
      64. To ask the Taoiseach his assessment and response to the NESC report, 'Connecting People to the Energy Transition'. [5897/26]
    • Disability Issues
      92. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first meeting of the Delivery and Monitoring Committee for the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030, which he chaired on...
    • Departmental Reports
      98. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on implementation of the well-being framework published by his Department. [5809/26]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      103. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his attendance at the European Council on 18-19 December. [74070/25]
    • Departmental Strategies
      108. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department’s Statement of Strategy for 2025-2028. [74527/25]
    • Official Travel
      112. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his visit to China on 4 to 8 January 2026. [1108/26]
    • Cabinet Committees
      115. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will next meet. [3770/26]
    • Child Poverty
      122. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress his Department is making in tackling child poverty. [6126/26]
    • Disability Issues
      127. To ask the Taoiseach for an overview of the 'Budget 2026: Spotlight on Disability' report recently published by his Department. [3768/26]
    • World Economic Forum
      132. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [6111/26]
    • Departmental Bodies
      136. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the work of the Cabinet offshore energy clearing house. [6127/26]
  • Department of Finance
    • World Bank
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason former Minister for Finance chose to pledge €141.1million to the World Bank in 2025, €10 million more than the World Bank requested,...
    • Derelict Sites
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he has met with the Revenue Commissioners to discuss the proposed derelict sites charge. [10022/26]
    • Economic Policy
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on his Department’s commitment to establish a savings and investments forum. [9548/26]
    • Banking Sector
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase competition in the retail banking sector following the withdrawal of several major banking institutions in recent years; the steps he is...
    • Economic Policy
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of individual savings accounts, similar to those already underway in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Exchequer Savings
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the current value of the Future Ireland Fund; the current value of the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Yield
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the amount of carbon tax collected for the years 2024 and 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9554/26]
    • Film Industry
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering including a specific test for quality employment, which is developed in cooperation with workers in the film industry in addition to all...
    • Interest Rates
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he plans to reduce interest rates being charged to mortgage holders who mortgages were sold to non-bank lenders after the financial crash. [10023/26]
    • Financial Services
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the up-to-date position on the establishment of a national Fintech hub, to foster and support Fintech initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the move from once-off cost-of-living supports to permanent measures has been assessed in terms of its impact on people with disabilities;...
    • Housing Schemes
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people who availed of the help-to-buy scheme in Galway in 2025; if he plans to review the current price thresholds for the scheme; and if he...
    • Tax Data
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of earners in Ireland now paying the higher rate of income tax; the way that figure compared with 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Land Issues
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the effectiveness of current financial disincentives to stop land hoarding and property speculation; if he is planning any other...
    • Derelict Sites
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners will take over collection of the derelict sites levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9740/26]
    • Childcare Services
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality to develop mechanisms through the tax system to help lower the cost of...
    • Insurance Coverage
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being considered by his Department to ensure that flood insurance cover is made more accessible to households at risk of flooding or those that...
    • Banking Sector
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason former Minister for Finance ignored pre-Budget 2026 advice from officials within the Department of Finance, to introduce profitability bands to the...
    • Derelict Sites
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the current position regarding the introduction and application of taxation measures relating to vacant and derelict properties; whether indicative timelines...
    • Legislative Measures
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2025; when he expects it to be passed into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9537/26]
    • Tax Exemptions
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will end the inequity in access to the bike-to-work and taxsaver public transport schemes whereby workers on the standard rate of tax receive lower...
    • Insurance Industry
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans his Department has in 2026 to help reduce the cost of insurance premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9941/26]
    • Exchequer Savings
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the establishment of the Future Ireland Fund; the intentions of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9951/26]
    • Tax Code
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider increasing the thresholds on capital acquisitions tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9950/26]
    • Fiscal Policy
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the contingency plans he has in place in the event of a downturn in tax revenues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9538/26]
    • Energy Prices
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged at an EU level to discuss allowing member states to set the VAT on electricity at 0% under the EU VAT Directives as a means to assist with...
    • Tax Code
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider reintroducing indexation for capital gains tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9949/26]
    • Social Media
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking on foot of his Department’s advice to introduce new regulations that would ensure social media companies vet who can post...
    • Fiscal Policy
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Ireland’s ability to maintain the downward trajectory of the debt-to-GNI* ratio, as required in the Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural...
    • Credit Unions
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if the process for the delivery of a strategy for the credit union sector has commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9529/26]
    • Fiscal Policy
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans in place to activate the estimated €170 billion in Irish deposit accounts, to advance the objectives of the Savings and Investments Union;...
    • Financial Services
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the Ireland for Finance strategy; when the next version of the strategy will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9547/26]
    • Tax Code
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if the removal of the deemed disposal rule for certain classes of investments will be considered for Budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Schemes
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the house price ceiling to qualify for the help-to-buy-scheme. [10093/26]
    • Tax Collection
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has approved, or intends to approve, in principle, any policy direction arising from the Revenue Commissioners' consultation on the modernisation of...
    • Illicit Trade
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the further measures being considered by his Department to combat the illicit tobacco trade, considering the year-on-year decrease in the volume and value of...
    • Derelict Sites
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the current geographic scope of the Living City Initiative and other tax reliefs relating to the refurbishment and conversion of above the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of tax relief similar to that on dialysis machines, for oxygen machines for the treatment of lung fibrosis; and if he...
    • Energy Prices
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount by which he proposes to raise the price of petrol, diesel and home heating oil through increases to the carbon tax, in each year until 2030....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make the carer's allowance and carer's benefit tax exempt and non-means-tested, the same as other social welfare supports including disability...
    • Tax Yield
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised through the carbon tax in the years 2019 to 2024; and the amount projected to be raised in the years 2025 to 2030, by year. [10073/26]
    • Tax Code
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to review DIRT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9955/26]
    • Insurance Coverage
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider establishing a State-led insurance scheme to assist householders who cannot avail of home insurance due to prior flooding events; and if...
    • Credit Unions
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of credit unions who have invested in the Credit Union Approved Housing Body fund since its inception; the amounts invested;...
    • Rental Sector
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make the rent tax credit available to HAP tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9558/26]
    • Tax Reliefs
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason taxpayers in the South are not able to claim tax relief for their child's student accommodation costs incurred at universities in the North; if...
    • Regeneration Projects
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Living City Initiative expansion for Dundalk and Drogheda will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9739/26]
    • Tax Yield
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance the total 2025 tax receipts in income tax, VAT and corporation tax; the way in which these compare to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Insurance Industry
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to launch a transparency code as included in the Action Plan on Insurance Reform as the first priority action; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Government and the Central Bank are acting in accordance with the recommendations set out in the Oireachtas Joint...
    • EU Presidency
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on his preparations for Ireland’s EU Presidency; the way in which he plans to oversee budgetary discussions on the next Multiannual...
    • EU Budgets
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his engagement regarding the EU Multiannual Financial Framework post-2027. [10075/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the up-to-date position on publication of a national financial literacy strategy to support improved financial knowledge and understanding; and if he will...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the further measures he intends to introduce in 2026 to support households facing significant increases in mortgage repayments due to interest rate hikes; if...
    • Tax Code
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if any consideration or investigation is underway since Budget 2026 to assess the appropriateness of a VAT reduction to stimulate the construction sector; and...
    • Middle East
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the progress he has made with regard to divesting State monies from companies which derive profits from their activities in the occupied...
    • Fiscal Policy
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the potential of schemes to allow savers to invest more of Ireland's substantial household deposit savings into products which directly...
    • Tax Yield
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in stamp duty for residential properties in 2025; and the proportion of this amount applicable to first-time buyers. [10094/26]
    • Tax Reliefs
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing tax incentives or reliefs to encourage developers to invest in building hotels in rural Ireland; and if he will make a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Child Poverty
      235. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress his Department is making in tackling child poverty. [9928/26]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      236. To ask the Taoiseach for an overview of the 'Budget 2026: Spotlight on Disability' report recently published by his Department. [9929/26]
    • Energy Policy
      237. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the work of the Cabinet offshore energy clearinghouse. [9930/26]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      238. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability manager and a cyber...
    • Departmental Bodies
      240. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10163/26]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      241. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 1152 of 4 February 2026, the costs to date, including start-up cost of Ireland's Covid-19 evaluation; if he will provide incurred...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Correspondence
      242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to comments made at an event (details supplied), if there has been any further correspondence from the UN Special Rapporteur on...
    • Departmental Policies
      243. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to comments made at an event (details supplied), if he will provide details of how the IHRA Definition was ‘formally...
    • Passport Services
      244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to introduce a reduced rate for pensioners or the option to apply for a three year or five year passport, as currently people in receipt of...
    • Departmental Policies
      245. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her Department’s position on a matter (details provided); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9211/26]
    • Trade Agreements
      246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will give a clear and unambiguous commitment to the House that Ireland will stand by its position regarding the EU–Mercosur...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      247. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within her Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability...
    • Ukraine War
      249. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on and her plans to engage in further awareness raising of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine noting that the 24 February...
    • Departmental Reports
      251. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the recommendations of the Draghi Report on EU Competitiveness which fall within her remit; to specify which of those recommendations have...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      252. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will raise the case of a political prisoner in Iran with the Government and embassy of that country, or with his international...
    • Departmental Advertising
      260. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the process by which the Saint Brigid’s Day 2026 advertising and digital media campaign was commissioned by her Department; the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      265. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under her remit. [10155/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      266. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10184/26]
    • Departmental Contracts
      267. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 4 February 2026, the total budget allocated to the contract held by her Department for the...
    • EU Funding
      269. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department has raised concerns with the European Commission regarding proposed cuts of EU humanitarian funding to Sahrawi...
    • Departmental Consultations
      270. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Consulate General based in Miami has met and or spoken in an official capacity with the Mayor of Orlando to-date in 2026. [10302/26]
    • Passport Services
      271. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount collected in passport fees in each month of 2025 and to-date in 2026; if she will include a breakdown by amount and fee type, in...
    • Trade Agreements
      273. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government plans to make a submission to the European Court on Mercosur; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6720/26]
    • Middle East
      275. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland has raised at EU level the Knesset bills introducing a form of racialised capital punishment against the Palestinian people;...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Wildlife Conservation
      276. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to assist Cromane and Brandon fishermen in regard to the salmon conservation measures for 2026 (details supplied); and if...
    • Electricity Grid
      277. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether planning requirements, management company approval processes or electricity grid connection arrangements have been...
    • EU Regulations
      278. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position Ireland has taken in EU discussions regarding the European Commission’s proposal to impose a daily...
    • Housing Schemes
      279. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he can advise in relation to an application for the warmer homes scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      280. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports or grants that are available to a single mother working part time who owns a BER G rated property with a gas...
    • Departmental Staff
      281. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      282. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9443/26]
    • Departmental Data
      283. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of national gas demand, by sector included from data centres for the years 2023 to 2025; if...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      284. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether grid congestion, delays in renewable energy connections and gaps in offshore wind infrastructure delivery have...
    • Environmental Policy
      285. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons the sectoral emissions ceilings for the period 2026 to 2030 have not yet been finalised, notwithstanding the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      288. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether regulatory or policy restrictions on private wire electricity connections have been assessed in terms of their...
    • Electricity Grid
      290. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the adequacy of long duration electricity storage capacity has been assessed in the context of renewable...
    • Fishing Industry
      291. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the proposed Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations for 2026 will alter the licence...
    • Electricity Grid
      292. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the projected electricity demand, by sector to 2030 and the assumptions underpinning these projections; and if he will...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      295. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the full delivery chain required for offshore wind deployment; the elements presenting the greatest delivery risk; and if...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      296. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of renewable energy projects that have sought private wire electricity connections in each of the past five...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      298. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of offshore wind projects that have received maritime area consent but have not progressed due to port, grid or...
    • Electricity Grid
      300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the delivery capacity of State bodies responsible for electricity grid development, planning and offshore...
    • Housing Schemes
      305. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the new individual energy upgrade grant for windows and doors is available to households who have ordered windows and...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      307. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that was allocated for the solar PV scheme for medically vulnerable customers; the number of...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      308. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his...
    • Housing Schemes
      309. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review eligibility criteria for new windows and door grants, particularly wall insulation requirements, to...
    • EU Regulations
      310. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline progress with respect to the implementation of the EU Methane Regulation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Energy Prices
      311. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the difference between taskforce on energy affordability, and the cross departmental group of energy poverty in the last...
    • Electricity Grid
      312. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which his Department plans to address vulnerabilities in the State's electricity transmission grid highlighted...
  • Department of Defence
    • Fishing Industry
      313. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the deployment of towed array sonar; whether it is compatible with existing vessels; or if new vessels will be needed to...
    • Departmental Staff
      314. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within her Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      315. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which her Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9445/26]
    • Defence Forces
      316. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she is aware that members of the Defence Forces with over 21 years’ service are currently being discharged; if she is aware of any...
    • Departmental Bodies
      317. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under her remit. [10151/26]
    • Naval Service
      318. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the capital works projects currently ongoing at Haulbowline Naval Base; and when each of those capital works projects will be completed, in...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      319. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the capital works projects currently ongoing at Casement Aerodrome; and when each of those capital works projects will be completed, in tabular...
    • Commemorative Plaques
      320. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rationale for her Department not engaging with the Office of Public Works or with Áras an Uachtaráin in relation to a proposal to...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • An Garda Síochána
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that the nightly file from his Department to An Garda Síochána includes the disqualification status of every driving...
    • Parking Provision
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the blue badge scheme for accessible parking to include those with epidermolysis bullosa; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Regulations
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the regulations he has indicated will implement a total ban on the use of scrambler bikes and other off-road vehicles in public...
    • Legislative Process
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sections of the Road Traffic Act 2023 that have not been implemented/commenced to date; the reason for the delays; the regulations...
    • Public Service Obligation
      325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm if PSO flights from Donegal to Dublin will continue as they are or if any changes will be made in the near future; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied) and his plans to the address the matter. [9210/26]
    • Road Projects
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department plans to approve the Strategic Assessment Report for the Cork southern distributor link multi-modal route, in light...
    • Road Safety
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislation or regulation that governs the permitted brightness levels of car lights; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the governance controls in place to monitor and regulate the use of VIP or platinum packages by DAA board members,...
    • Pension Provisions
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will amend the CIÉ superannuation scheme for those who have not received an increase in their pension for the past 18 years...
    • Bus Services
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to address a number of issues in the Tralee area (details supplied), including additional bus routes and the provision of clear signage...
    • Departmental Staff
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which his Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9458/26]
    • Road Network
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he is taking to ensure that the effective closure of the M11 at Kilmacanogue as witnessed on 28 January 2026 does not happen...
    • Rail Network
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the offence of 'failure to obey traffic rules at railway level crossing' only incurs two penalty points while 'failure to obey...
    • Road Safety
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road deaths and injuries which involve crashes where one or more vehicle drivers (including of...
    • Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan
      348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether a coordinated national strategy is in place or in development to provide offshore renewable energy marshalling and laydown...
    • Ports Policy
      349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of port infrastructure development required to support offshore renewable energy, including offshore wind marshalling...
    • Insurance Industry
      350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver numbers that have been added to the Irish Motor Insurance Database in 2024 and in 2025; the number of driver numbers...
    • Rail Network
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider a route extension (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9653/26]
    • Coast Guard Service
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify if his Department recognises an organisation (details supplied) as representing coast guard members who are now members of...
    • Departmental Regulations
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether new legislation to regulate e-scooters will restrict their use on public footpaths, greenways, and in public parks; and if he...
    • Bus Services
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a bus service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9688/26]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request TII to provide E150,000 to allow Kerry County Council to submit a planning application (details supplied) to...
    • Road Safety
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the speed limit for a junction will be reduced (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9808/26]
    • Aviation Industry
      361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of private jet flights which landed and departed in the State from 2023 to 2025 respectively, under the 'Business Aviation'...
    • Rail Network
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of each category of train ticket sold for Dublin-Waterford train services in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [9839/26]
    • Parking Provision
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce a code of practice for parking operators as exists in other jurisdictions (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Greenways Provision
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money invested by his Department, through Transport Infrastructure Ireland, in greenways, each year since responsibility...
    • Programme for Government
      365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that have been taken to fulfil the commitment in the Programme for Government to 'commission an independent feasibility study...
    • National Development Plan
      366. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out, in respect of the Blarney, Glanmire and Ballyvolane growth corridors in Cork City and County, which public transport and...
    • Departmental Data
      371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total allocation made by his Department and Transport Infrastructure Ireland for works in respect of the N72 in 2026; if he will...
    • Disability Services
      372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of taxi operators in Killarney, County Kerry that have received the grant to enable them to equip their taxis for wheelchair...
    • Road Safety
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it can be ensured proper skirting and drainage works takes place on our primary, secondary, tertiary and local roads to ensure the...
    • Transport Policy
      374. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if plans are in place to develop a motorway and a rail service between Dún na nGall agus Gaillimh (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      375. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has requested or secured funding from European Union Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in respect of the Dart+ West and Dart+...
    • Driver Licences
      376. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cancellations there have been by NDLS in Donegal in the past three years; the reason for cancellation; and the average...
    • Departmental Bodies
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10164/26]
    • Road Tolls
      378. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current situation with respect to the toll contract for the Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass on the M8 in County Cork; when it is expected...
    • Air Services
      379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a case of an elderly passenger (details supplied) who was medically unfit to travel, notified Aer...
    • Driver Test
      380. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered a review of driving tester distribution and infrastructure planning to account for the distribution of demand; and...
    • Departmental Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the dates on which he has met the RSA since taking up office; the dates on which he has met with the RSA over the course of the previous...
    • Bus Services
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide and update on the punctuality and reliability review for the 109 bus service on the M3 corridor into Dublin that commenced on...
    • Departmental Data
      384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting times with mean, median and mode, from date of application to date of NCT tests in every test centre nationwide, by...
    • Pension Provisions
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to expedite the payment of the CIÉ pensions increases without further delay given the pension agreement was reached on 15 August...
    • Ports Policy
      389. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the current status of the National Ports Policy; the reason for the delay in its publication; the revised timeline for...
    • Road Safety
      390. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide further details in respect of his plans to introduce the mandatory wearing of helmets and high visibility items in...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Data
      391. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Revenue Commissioners publish figures on actual Exchequer tax revenue generated specifically from carer’s allowance and...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      392. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline impacts of the Revenue Commissioners case (details supplied) on the arts sector; if he will provide specific guidance via his own Department, the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      393. To ask the Minister for Finance to review issues raised with this Deputy (details supplied); the steps his Department has taken or will take to counter same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      394. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing an equivalent flood insurance scheme as the flood re-insurance scheme in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      395. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual value of cigarettes confiscated by the State for non-payment of customs or other taxes or duties, for each year from 2016 to 2025 inclusive; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      397. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit are treated as taxable income for income tax purposes; to clarify under which tax...
    • Tax Reliefs
      399. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would consider introducing tax relief for PAYE individuals who engage the services of an accountant for the purposes of their tax return and incur fees....
    • Departmental Data
      400. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details in relation to levies applied to ESB worker pensions during the financial crash; whether these levies are still being applied; and if it is...
    • Departmental Staff
      401. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability manager and a cyber...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      402. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9448/26]
    • Insurance Industry
      404. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify, based on an article published in (details supplied) on 16 January 2026, in relation to the capital acquisitions tax treatment of life assurance...
    • Departmental Data
      405. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) are in receipt of monies from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF); if the company is allowed to use said monies to...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      406. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a foot health practitioner qualification is not recognised by the Revenue Commissioners as a qualifying medical qualification for tax purposes; the...
    • Tax Data
      407. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been a change to the Revenue classification for VAT on children’s clothing (details supplied); when this change happened; and if, given...
    • Office of the Ombudsman
      408. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there is such a backlog in queries relating to the office of the Ombudsman; and if he will provide a timeline of when a person (details supplied)...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      409. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to establish the reason the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), in violation of international law and in direct breach of the...
    • Departmental Data
      410. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications received and approved under (a) Transfer of Business relief and (b) Returned Goods Relief in respect of construction tools brought...
    • Credit Unions
      416. To ask the Minister for Finance the average credit union housing loan issued to end December 2024 and to end December 2025; the total amount of outstanding housing loans issued by credit...
    • Single Euro Payments Area
      417. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of SEPA instant payments made in Ireland to December 2025; and the average payment value; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      418. To ask the Minister for Finance the point at which it becomes a matter for the Houses of the Oireachtas when a statutory tribunal confirms an accountability gap that only the executive has...
    • Trade Data
      419. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the way in which Ireland can insulate itself from potential trade shocks that may arise from recent events in Venezuela. [1753/26]
    • International Relations
      420. To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of his recent visit to California in respect of Ireland’s economic and financial relationship with the State; the discussions held on...
    • Fiscal Policy
      421. To ask the Minister for Finance how fiscal policy will move beyond once-off supports to permanently reduce cost-of-living pressures for low and middle-income households; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Data
      423. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider broadening the scope of professions included in the guidelines for flat-rate expenses for self-supplied uniforms; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      424. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 397–403 of 27 January 2026, to clarify whether Section 851A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 prevents the...
    • Departmental Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10154/26]
    • Tax Data
      428. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of inheritance tax that has been paid by group a, group b and group c in each of the last ten years. [10194/26]
    • Departmental Data
      429. To ask the Minister for Finance the average value of businesses that have been inherited in each of the past ten years. [10195/26]
    • Budget 2026
      432. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the development of the roadmap referenced in Budget 2026 concerning the simplification and adaptation of the tax framework for...
    • State Pensions
      433. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline whether persons affected by changes in the methods of enforcement and/or taxation of a State pension while in receipt of an additional occupational...
    • International Relations
      434. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has considered the interaction between U.S. federal estate tax and Irish capital acquisitions tax where Irish residents hold U.S. situs...
    • Credit Unions
      437. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the appropriateness of the €100,000 limit on savings applicable to the credit union sector as outlined in regulation 35 of SI 1 of 2016 as...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      438. To ask the Minister for Finance whether a cross-agency review involving Revenue is underway in relation to an employment model, corporate governance, and franchise practices (details...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Protected Disclosures
      439. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the protections available to franchisees or workers of a company (details supplied) who make protected disclosures regarding corporate...
    • State Bodies
      440. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 15 January 2026, if he considers there to be an inconsistency between the idea that...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      441. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the oversight mechanisms in place within his Department to ensure that public procurement processes are protected from bid-rigging and...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      445. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on each ongoing, and proposed, flood relief scheme in County Donegal, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      446. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      448. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether a consistent cost benefit and fiscal sustainability assessment framework is applied across major energy, transport and...
    • Ministers and Secretaries Group
      450. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of overpayments to Ministers current and former; the total outstanding overpayments; the total outstanding overpayment...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      452. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he believes in the need for good-quality, publicly-available financial information of the non-profit sector in the interest of...
    • Undefined
      453. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied). [9681/26]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      454. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the immediate action being taken to expediate the Slaney flood relief scheme; and when the interim measures mentioned in his recent...
    • Coastal Protection
      455. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide emergency funding for coastal protection works at Rossbeigh Beach, Glenbeigh, County Kerry as a matter of extreme urgency...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      456. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide emergency funding for flood relief/protection works at Cromane Lower, Killorglin, County Kerry as a matter of urgency...
    • Departmental Properties
      457. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update and date of completion and commission of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9811/26]
    • Office of Public Works
      458. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of all capital works upgrades carried out at Dungarvan Garda station by the OPW since 2023, in tabular form. [9843/26]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the full set of stages of a flood relief scheme from inception to construction; the total number of projects at a point...
    • Departmental Meetings
      463. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10160/26]
    • Public Sector Pay
      464. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, as part of the next public sector pay agreement, he will resolve outstanding pension issues for retired medical scientists and...
    • Coastal Protection
      465. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of serious coastal erosion at Pilmore Beach, Youghal, County Cork; the action the OPW will take as a result; the funding...
    • Undefined
      466. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10485/26]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      467. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of the most recent bank holiday to the Irish economy. [9652/26]
    • State Bodies
      468. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether a cross-agency review involving the Workplace Relations Commission, the Corporate Enforcement Authority, and the Competition...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      469. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given by his Department working in conjunction with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration on...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      471. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland will be represented at the Global AI Summit in India in February 2026; if so, the nature of that representation; and if he...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      472. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department has received any briefings, reports, or risk assessments from the Competition and Consumer Protection...
    • Industrial Development
      476. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps the IDA is taking to attract pharmaceutical companies and multinational companies to the south; the plans in place to bring...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      485. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Data Centres
      487. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware data centres located here are being used to run an AI tool (details supplied). [9521/26]
    • Departmental Bodies
      488. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No’s 149 of 7 May 2025 and 156 of 7 October 2025, and having regard to confirmation (details...
    • Departmental Regulations
      489. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of regulations his Department plans to reduce, streamline or repeal in order to improve competitiveness; and if he will...
    • Trade Agreements
      490. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether, in light of the EU–India free trade agreement and associated EU mobility signalling, his Department has assessed the...
    • Public Sector Staff
      491. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE staff, by job title and gender, working in each Enterprise Ireland offices outside of the State, by location, as of...
    • Departmental Funding
      493. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if funding can be sourced to support the not-for-profit organisation (details supplied) to construct a new build extension to their...
    • European Union
      494. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department supports the creation of a new EU-wide legal statute, the "Innovative European Company" (as per the Draghi report...
    • Departmental Bodies
      496. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit....
    • Corporate Governance
      497. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether concerns regarding contradictions or omissions in a parent company 2024 audited accounts (details supplied) have been brought...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      500. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department has received complaints relating to allegations of bullying, coercion, intimidation, or unfair treatment of...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      503. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and or officials attached to his State aid unit reviewed and or scrutinised a decision of ISIF to support a company and the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams open to scouting organisations. [10402/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a special class that was pre-sanctioned by the National Council for Special Education in December 2025, in respect of a primary...
    • Schools Building Projects
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the capital project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9123/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application was received through Parents Notify before the 1 October 2025 deadline for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Bus Éireann
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow people contracted by Bus Éireann to drive buses for children with additional needs to continue to do so after they reach...
    • Bus Services
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department, alongside the Department of Transport, could ensure that capacity issues are addressed ahead of the next academic year to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the capital project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9129/26]
    • Capitation Grants
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding capitation funding (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9138/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline all emergency works approved for schools in Cork which are ongoing or awaiting construction; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Equipment
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of second-level schools introducing individual electronic devices for students because of a new senior cycle curriculum, and the...
    • Youth Services
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to meet the Government’s stated commitments to developing youth places and spaces, given the lack of funding the Government have...
    • School Transport
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the school transport scheme portal will launch for the 2026/27 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9149/26]
    • Departmental Data
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline all summer works approved for schools in Cork for 2025 and thus far in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9180/26]
    • School Staff
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work to allow a smooth redeployment of teachers throughout the ETB system; without having to resign from one ETB to re-apply for a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the Stage 2B submission made on 13 October 2005 for the additional accommodation project at a school (details supplied);...
    • Home Schooling
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which home-educated students will be graded on their Additional Assessment Component (AAC’s), particularly when the principle...
    • Departmental Schemes
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is included in the emergency summer works scheme for 2026; the way in which they can apply for this; and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the application by a school to replace their 50-year-old prefabs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on plans for a new ASD class in a school (details supplied); when this will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the ongoing demand from school transport escorts for fair pay and conditions, to reflect the importance of their work for young...
    • Schools Building Projects
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria, assessment process and decision-making framework used to select the 105 school building projects announced for delivery in 2026 and...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the refurbishment works for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9250/26]
    • School Enrolments
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the case of a child (details supplied); and the changes her Department will implement going forward to ensure this does not happen...
    • Departmental Schemes
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next round of funding under the education for sustainable development scheme for primary and secondary schools will be announced; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a child (details supplied) who does not yet have a SEN place for the coming school year; the actions she will...
    • School Staff
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will remove the obligation on principals of schools with under 60 pupils to teach, given the increased administration and operational...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9286/26]
    • School Enrolments
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on behalf of a person (details supplied), when the parents notify process was changed or introduced; the measures that were taken to ensure that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a possible ASD class for a school (details supplied). [9334/26]
    • School Staff
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has assessed the extent to which the current restrictions on the recognition of overseas and private sector teaching...
    • School Management
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the request submitted by the board of management of a school (details supplied), through its patron, to commence a formal...
    • School Transport
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 4 November 2025, if the independent assessment into the feasibility of removing the exclusion of...
    • Departmental Staff
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within her Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability...
    • School Enrolments
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the requirement for professional reports as part of the enrolment process for students seeking placement in special educational settings could...
    • School Staff
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9603/26]
    • Departmental Data
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to an incremental credit application for teaching service; the reasons for...
    • School Accommodation
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the serious accommodation problems at a Louth school (details supplied); the plans her Department has to address these issues;...
    • Teacher Training
      573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mandatory autism training undertaken by teachers and SNA’s; if the “introduction to autism” course for newly appointed...
    • State Examinations
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the interim additional-time scheme for students with specific needs in state examinations; the rationale for just 10 minutes extra for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the pilot scheme (details supplied) if she plans to introduce the scheme permanently; if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the development of a new school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9783/26]
    • Education Policy
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has completed the review of the stage 1 addendum report for schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the number of full time SNAs employed by her Department across the country, by county; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the school in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; if a permanent site can be provided for this school; and if she will...
    • School Enrolments
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the number of students assigned to the school in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport applications submitted in Waterford from 2022 to 2025; and the number of those applications that were approved...
    • School Equipment
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to address the use of AI tracking software in schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the DEIS review; when the review will conclude; the way in which schools outside of DEIS can engage in the process; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no schools in County Mayo were included in the most recent list of school building projects progressing to tender and construction for...
    • School Accommodation
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on the accommodation plans submitted by a school (details supplied) which have been with her Department for ten months...
    • Schools Building Projects
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the extension and upgrade to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9859/26]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether Youthreach experience as a resource person is counted for incremental credit when moving into a post-primary teaching role; if so, the...
    • School Accommodation
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the prefabricated classrooms approved in 2021 as a temporary measure at a school (details supplied); if their continued use has...
    • Special Educational Needs
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of ASD capacity in the Dublin 7 area for girls transitioning out of infant classes; if her Department...
    • Schools Building Projects
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 500 of 16 December 2025, the current status of the building project for a school (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied). [10019/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the capital works project for a school (details supplied); when a decision is expected on the stage 2A completion...
    • School Accommodation
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the second classroom in the ASD unit at a school (details supplied) has been sanctioned; when it is expected that this classroom will be...
    • School Staff
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no cover provided for primary school teachers who wish to avail of breastfeeding breaks; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Policies
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to ensure that primary school classes run smoothly when their teacher is availing of a breast-feeding break; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any review has been carried out in her Department in relation to the New Brunswick model of fully inclusive education; and if she will make a...
    • Irish Language
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to bring forward legislation to ensure that adequate provision is made for Irish medium education; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review has taken place regarding the ongoing reliance on prefabricated buildings at a school (details supplied); if her attention has been...
    • Departmental Bodies
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under her remit. [10152/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review Circular 08/02 determining eligibility for students requiring assistive technology under Circular 10 of 2013, to ensure that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can provide confirmation regarding the full scope of funding for a project (details supplied); if her Department intends to fund and...
    • State Examinations
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will extend the award of bonus marks to include continuous assessment components completed through Irish for students sitting the Leaving...
    • Departmental Policies
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the resources being dedicated to digital media literacy programmes that specifically aim to build resilience among young people against...
    • Schools Building Projects
      628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a project (details supplied); if her Department plans to fund and deliver the project within the current planning permission of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10204/26]
    • School Discipline
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown, by year and school level, of the number of reported incidents involving students bringing weapons onto school premises...
    • State Examinations
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the recent decision by the State Examinations Commission to provide only 10 minutes of additional time per examination for...
    • School Accommodation
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the NCSE supported special schools which are located in permanent buildings; those which are in interim accommodation; those which have modular...
    • Departmental Data
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently enrolled in each NCSE supported special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10283/26]
    • School Transport
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue with school transport can be resolved for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10284/26]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons currently in training to become a qualified psychologist with the National Educational Psychological Services. [10309/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she intends to publish the review of the Junior Certificate School Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10320/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 27 January 2026, the specific number of additional school places that will be created at a school...
    • School Enrolments
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is aware of pressures for school places at primary school level in an area (details supplied); if she is aware there is...
    • School Accommodation
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide replacement prefabs for the prefabs damaged by recent storms at a school (details supplied) given her decision that the school was not...
    • Departmental Data
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who have presented to the NCSE requiring a letter of eligibility after the 1 October deadline, introduced in 2025, by...
    • Special Educational Needs
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the discrepancy in post primary special education places (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students attending schools (details supplied) who reside in the Tyrrelstown-Mulhuddart SPA, broken down per school year group, in...
    • School Enrolments
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide guidance for parents unable to secure a primary school placement for their children in their locality. [10360/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a SENO will be appointed for North Wexford. [10369/26]
    • Parental Leave
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which teachers are able to exercise the flexibility envisaged under the EU Work-Life Balance Directive; whether any consideration will...
    • Departmental Data
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of early intervention classes in special schools, in each of the years 2014 to 2016, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department intends to ensure that new contracts for the school transport scheme will be issued without delay after the...
    • Departmental Policies
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to expand access to specialised provision of speech and language classes, given that evidence suggests that at least 10% of...
    • Healthcare Policy
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children with non-verbal IQ scores above 90 and severe dyslexia, but who cannot present a reliable verbal IQ due to speech...
    • Special Educational Needs
      657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application from a school (details supplied) to establish a second ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education Policy
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects to be in a position to outline plans for the inclusion of additional schools in the DEIS+ programme; and if she will make a...
    • School Enrolments
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to protect and support small schools in rural areas; the way In which demographic change and enrolment thresholds are taken...
    • Education Policy
      661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will extend the newly announced wellbeing grant scheme to primary schools in County Laois; the criteria for inclusion in Strand Two of the...
    • School Accommodation
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to establish a Gaelcholáiste in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10466/26]
    • Education Policy
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocols which currently exist to allow for the sharing of needs-based assessment information between the HSE and schools, with parental...
    • Special Educational Needs
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has identified delays or gaps in supports for children with additional needs at key transition points, including early...
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Pension Provisions
      667. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when he expects approval for the September 2025 agreement between An Post and An Post Group of Unions regarding An Post...
    • Departmental Staff
      669. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      670. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the extent to which his Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9444/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      671. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport his view on the need for Ministerial approval to issue in a timely manner with respect to the most recent agreement between...
    • Museum Projects
      672. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 22 January 2026, if he is aware that the National Museum possesses the...
    • Sports Funding
      673. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the level of public funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the way in which...
    • Arts Funding
      678. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport his plans to establish a new arts and culture venue in Kildare north. [10049/26]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      679. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to detail the supports available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10119/26]
    • Departmental Bodies
      680. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his...
    • Departmental Data
      681. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of persons that attended each of the National Culture Institutions under the remit of his Department in 2025; if...
    • Departmental Reviews
      682. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding the pension increase for retired employees of a company (details supplied); if this is under review...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Water Quality
      685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the discussions between the Minister and the Northern Executive Minister for Agriculture, Environment and...
    • Housing Policy
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports which are currently available for first time buyers of second hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to clarify in primary legislation that where the practical hallmarks of a tenancy exist (exclusive possession of a...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an approved housing body cannot continue to provide property management services at (details supplied); and if he...
    • Housing Policy
      690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether funding is available for independent mediation between communities and local authorities. [9197/26]
    • Rental Sector
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protections that will continue to be in place for smaller landlords in the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Act...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will be formulating plans to address the recent declaration by the EU of sika deer as an invasive species;...
    • Planning Issues
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he will consider introducing national planning guidance or legislative requirements to provide for the installation of...
    • Rental Sector
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports or grants available to local authority tenants to replace exterior doors when the replacement of such is outside...
    • Planning Issues
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current timeline for bicycle storage to become exempted developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9417/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 14 January 2026, whether the level of funding allocated to the tenant-in-situ...
    • Departmental Staff
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9452/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes purchased under tenant purchase schemes by local authority area for each year from 2016 to...
    • Local Authorities
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Government funds made available to local authorities in each of the years 2024 and 2025 to support the refurbishment and...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made by the Government taking landmark legal cases against companies who manufactured and sold defective...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has met with stakeholders on the implication of SI 374/2024. [9679/26]
    • Electricity Grid
      705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether national housing delivery targets assume electricity infrastructure upgrades that have not yet received planning...
    • Housing Provision
      706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether coordination mechanisms exist between housing delivery bodies, local authorities and electricity network operators to...
    • Urban Development
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to proceed as a matter of priority with the development of a theatre and public plaza, on the Áras Phádraig site in...
    • Electricity Grid
      708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether projected housing completions to 2030 assume electricity grid upgrades that have not yet received planning approval or...
    • Housing Policy
      711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has engaged with the Departments of Enterprise, Justice, and Further & Higher Education on the...
    • Local Authorities
      712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he accepts that introducing revised engineering qualification requirements in July 2025, while being aware that...
    • Departmental Bodies
      713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to state the terms of reference for the national water conservation working group; and to provide details of their meeting and...
    • Housing Policy
      714. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to providing an exemption in the new tenancy framework for the principal private residences of...
    • Housing Provision
      715. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review issues raised with this Deputy (details supplied) in relation to housing and provide; and if he will make a...
    • Vacant Properties
      716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the timeframe for completion of works under the vacant property refurbishment grant, given the...
    • Planning Issues
      718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to address the housing crisis by changing national planning guidelines that prevent applicants who wish to build a family home...
    • Housing Schemes
      721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the cost ceilings provided to each local authority by his Department around the country for the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his...
    • Defective Building Materials
      723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the origin of guidance issued by the Housing Agency stating that homeowners cannot avail of a full technical review...
    • Housing Provision
      725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the data that is held or collated by his Department at national level regarding applicants to local authority housing waiting...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital budget allocation for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [10312/26]
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      728. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on wind energy guidelines; the reason for the delay to publications; the dates on which his officials consulted...
    • Vacant Sites
      729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address vacancy and dereliction in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defective Building Materials
      730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the inclusion of Dublin Fingal within the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme; the engagement that has...
    • Housing Policy
      732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the reintroduction of the waiver of development fees for persons building one-off rural dwellings where...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an approved housing body, in receipt of State funding, will not install a security entrance gate at a location...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      734. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how effectively the Hot School Meals Programme reaches children in rural areas, such as County Laois, including those...
    • Pension Provisions
      736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person can be reviewed (details supplied); if he will provide an update on the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps his Department has taken in recent years to notify carers of their tax obligations in respect of carer’s...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused an essential social welfare payment; if he will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the homeowner's once-off payment will be open for applications this year (details supplied). [9356/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which his Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9456/26]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      746. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1569 of 13 January 2026, whether he accepts that former members of religious orders who...
    • Departmental Data
      748. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of the percentage of women that have their salary topped up by their employer on maternity leave; and if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      749. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal by a person (details supplied) in relation to their carer’s allowance refusal will be determined; and...
    • School Meals Programme
      751. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he will take to address the exclusion of coeliac children from hot school meals; the measures he will take to...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      752. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the refusal of an invalidity pension application of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will confirm the date of signing of contracts with the investment managers contracted to invest funds on behalf of the...
    • Departmental Data
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for maternity benefit that were successful in each year from 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if...
    • Departmental Policies
      759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department is considering a policy change to bring Ireland in line with the rest of Europe in terms of granting...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to FOI decision FOI-2026-28668 stating that no documents exist regarding enforcement of PRSI liabilities arising from...
    • Departmental Data
      761. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his...
    • Departmental Policies
      762. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for disability allowance remaining a means-tested payment in Ireland, notwithstanding existing income...
    • Disability Issues
      764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce a cost of disability payment over the lifetime of the Government; and the way it will be calculated....
    • Departmental Data
      765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county or Dáil constituency in receipt of the old age pension. [10363/26]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the merits of allowing for a savings disregard in relation to the means test for carers allowance; and if he...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      771. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount spent on social welfare payments in the State in the calendar year 2025, per welfare payment, in tabular...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Passport Services
      772. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process for a UK citizen who is a long-term resident of Ireland to gain an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he will guarantee that Irish data will never be shared with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials (details...
    • Citizenship Applications
      781. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the application for citizenship for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sentencing Policy
      783. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he or his Department have considered any legislative proposals aimed at strengthening sentencing outcomes for offences...
    • Citizenship Applications
      784. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any grounds on which citizenship applications can be expedited; and if so, the process for applicants. [9224/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      785. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider seeking a constitutional change to ensure that counselling notes will be inadmissible in all court cases;...
    • International Protection
      786. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the Department’s current projections for the annual cost of accommodating international protection applicants...
    • Prison Service
      794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procurement reference number, procurement route, and approval pathway used by the Irish Prison Service for each engagement...
    • Family Law Cases
      804. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way he will ensure that children’s voices are given precedence when determining child access arrangements; and if...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Visa Applications
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reduce the current backlog for visitor and family visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9460/26]
    • Immigration Support Services
      808. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to consider implementing a system for the immigration service delivery to immediately return passports upon verification; and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm when a citizenship application will be completed, in view that it is 40 months since the application (details...
    • Departmental Equipment
      810. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the number of mobile dynamometer machines, per local election area, in each local authority that are available...
    • Gambling Sector
      813. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 will be fully commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9772/26]
    • International Agreements
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the assessment that has been made of the expected impact of the EU–India free trade agreement on long-stay visa...
    • International Protection
      816. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of any policy sanctioned by his or other Departments which allows for the confiscation of donations made to...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      817. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the efficiency of the reliance on paper-based forms as part of the Garda vetting process; if an update to digital...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      818. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will introduce mandatory sentencing for gender-based violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9869/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      820. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána currently suspended from duty; the number that have been suspended in each...
    • Departmental Data
      821. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits to the training college in the years 2024 and 2025, by intake and the number that attested;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      822. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown for 2024 and 2025 of the allocation of new attested Gardaí to division and station in those years;...
    • Road Safety
      825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí allocated to roads policing in each of the years from 2015 to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of the specialist units in An Garda Síochána; the number of Gardaí allocated to each...
    • Policing Authority
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of capital investment into new vehicles for An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years; the number...
    • An Garda Síochána
      828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of dedicated community Gardaí in each of the years from 2015 to-date in 2026; and if he will make a...
    • Youth Services
      841. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a review of the current youth justice strategy has taken place; if consideration has been given to updating the youth...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      842. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic collisions the Garda fleet have been involved in by vehicle type, and by division, in 2024, 2025 and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      843. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a citizenship application will be completed in view that it is over 30 months since the application (details supplied) was...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      844. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for naturalisation will be complete (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Communications
      845. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his...
    • Work Permits
      846. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a work permit/stamp 1G extension for an individual (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Language Schools
      847. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inspections, unannounced inspections, random spot checks or otherwise, carried out in relation to English...
    • Intelligence Sharing
      848. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his proposals to regulate the use of covert human intelligence sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10215/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the composition of the high-level review group which evaluated a proposal from the Commission on the Future of Policing in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      854. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline any current contracts his Department, or bodies under its aegis, have with a corporation or any of its...
    • Immigration Support Services
      855. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a response will issue to a person (details supplied) resident in Kerry who has made repeated written requests to the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      856. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 710 on 16 December 2025, if he has received the necessary information from Garda...
    • Sports Events
      860. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding licensing hours for premises showing live televised sporting events that take place after...
    • Visa Applications
      861. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current policy position of the Government in relation to the processing and approval of short term study visas for junior...
    • Citizenship Applications
      865. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a citizenship application (details supplied); the reason for delay in this application; and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      866. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of Garda applicants who have passed the interview and medical but are awaiting vetting clearance; and if he...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on concerns regarding the low thresholds for degressivity in the proposed Common Agricultural Policy post-2027; the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which sustainability is being integrated into the agri-food sector's roadmap to achieve export growth from €13...
    • Food Prices
      876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to enhance the powers of the Agri-Food Regulator to address profiteering in food price increases; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      877. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action being taken to address the most recent cuts to Ireland's fishing quotas, following on from previous cuts of 26% in 2024 as...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      878. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Animal Welfare
      880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections carried out by his Department, or on its behalf, relating specifically to the welfare of exotic animals...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine he reason applications for TAMS 3 for solar PV grants that have an apparent poor success rate; if he can provide data showing the...
    • Legislative Measures
      890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the enactment of the Protection of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021 to ensure the protection of native species;...
    • Departmental Data
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9794/26]
    • Fishing Industry
      892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a mussel seed fishery will be opened (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9826/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021 (details supplied); whether the review has concluded; his plans...
    • Departmental Data
      894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit....
    • Fishing Industry
      895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on the level of monitoring and inspections of the large EU registered pelagic freezer trawlers Dutch owned...
    • Agriculture Industry
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on his Departments research and analysis of the current closed period model for the restriction of slurry and chemical...
    • Greyhound Industry
      899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the greyhound track attendance statistics for 2025, covering both Greyhound Racing Ireland tracks and...
    • Agriculture Industry
      900. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reported incidents of inappropriate slurry spreading over the past year in each county; the outcome of investigations,...
    • Animal Welfare
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent animal cruelty reports due to illegal harness racing and sulky racing that is currently...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Parental Leave
      902. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage and number of women, who availed of their full entitlement of parents leave in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and if...
    • Disability Services
      905. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of group homes and residential disability services operating in the Cavan–Monaghan area, by those catering...
    • Parental Leave
      907. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will introduce the option to share/transfer parent's leave between parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      908. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred in 2024 for an assessment of needs at East...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      909. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of decision making assistance agreements, co-decision making agreements and decision making representation orders...
    • Departmental Communications
      911. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if further to statements (details supplied) she will consider the serious issues raised in related correspondence. [10401/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      912. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently engaged with or referred to Children's Disability Network Teams who are awaiting a diagnostic...
    • Disability Services
      913. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress she has made on implementing recommendations for disability support services; the specific improvements she has...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      914. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9222/26]
    • Disability Services
      915. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports and services available to assist a child in preschool, who is not deaf, transition from Lámh to ISL; if any such...
    • Departmental Communications
      918. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if proposals are being considered in relation to...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      919. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she intends to amend the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 to allow families remain as decision makers for children...
    • Child and Family Agency
      920. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of cases, in each of the past five years where Tusla initiated emergency child removal proceedings and where one or more...
    • Care Services
      929. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average and median duration, in each of the past five years, that children under one year of age remain in State care following...
    • Child Safety
      930. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the outcomes, in each of the past five years, of emergency child removal cases involving children under one year of age,...
    • Child and Family Agency
      931. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department or Tusla conducts any independent review, audit, or quality-assurance process of emergency child removal...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      932. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within her Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      934. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if any of the State’s acquisition of buildings intended for the purpose of developing early year facilities will be located...
    • Childcare Services
      936. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider reimbursement for parents who are having to arrange private psychological assessments for their children in...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      937. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the ongoing delays in AON assessments nationwide; the plans her Department has to address this situation; and if she...
    • Childcare Services
      938. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will provide not for profit community childcare facilities, on publicly owned land, given private operators are...
    • Disability Services
      939. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a person (details supplied) could avail of the respite facility attached to the school they are attending despite living in a...
    • Care Services
      941. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department or the HSE has conducted a needs assessment for residential group home provision for people with physical and/or...
    • Family Resource Centres
      942. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on any further announcements, beyond those already made, regarding the establishment of new family...
    • Childcare Services
      943. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the list of properties identified for refurbishment for childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9872/26]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      944. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on Action 44 of Nurturing Skills to examine development of a range of entry routes into the early...
    • Child and Family Agency
      945. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of private companies and charities registered by Tusla's Alternative Care Inspection and Monitoring Service as children's...
    • Care Services
      947. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of the recommendations made by the report into special care that have been implemented. [9911/26]
    • Child and Family Agency
      948. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason Tusla has not filled the position of data protection officer (DPO) since 2022; for how long it has had an 'interim' data...
    • Disability Services
      949. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the Programme for Government's commitment to develop a multi-year capital plan for residential living options for...
    • Departmental Functions
      950. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently address the issues raised in respect of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      951. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the services that are available for a child who has a brain tumour and requires a full-time nurse while attending preschool; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      952. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under her remit....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      953. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Meath waiting for an assessment of need at the latest available point in 2025 and 2024; the number...
    • Disability Services
      954. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for children’s disability network team services in County Meath, at the latest available point...
    • Departmental Budgets
      956. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated full year costs of providing 60,000 additional home support hours. [10313/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      958. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the funding supports made available by her Department for the establishment and continuation of parent and baby/toddler...
    • Disability Services
      959. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE speech and language therapist posts, by grade filled at Tymon CDNT as of 4 February 2026, in tabular form; and if...
    • Childcare Services
      960. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement her Department will have with the Land Development Agency as part of the move to State acquisition of childcare...
    • Magdalen Laundries
      961. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people who have applied for redress in respect of the Magdalene restorative justice ex-gratia scheme in each year...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      962. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for delay in processing payments for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10433/26]
  • Department of Health
    • Departmental Budgets
      963. To ask the Minister for Health the total sum of money allocated to fund the wait list action plan 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9152/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      964. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [9162/26]
    • Primary Care Services
      965. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she has in place to improve access to primary care in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9183/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      966. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to reduce ambulance response times in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9184/26]
    • Home Care Packages
      967. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to enhance elderly care services, particularly home care packages, in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9185/26]
    • Cancer Services
      968. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to address any delays in cancer screening programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9187/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      969. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation she has made in the health budget for preventive care initiatives targeted at County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      970. To ask the Minister for Health the funding she has allocated to mental health services in County Offaly in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9189/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      971. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for any ongoing staff shortages at the Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, County Offaly; the recruitment targets she has set for the facility; and...
    • Hospital Services
      972. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to address pressures on hospital services at the Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, County Offaly; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      973. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 11 July 2025, when children’s eye clinic services will resume in Portlaoise; if the recruitment process has...
    • Mental Health Services
      974. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria and process by which community based mental health and counselling services can be formally recognised by the HSE for referral purposes; and the...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      975. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1018 and 1019 of 20 January 2026, to confirm whether she accepts that CORU currently has no mechanism to receive or...
    • Mental Health Services
      976. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a case (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department to investigate the matter to ensure that the people affected are able to...
    • Ambulance Service
      977. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Clifden, County Galway has been left without any ambulance cover on a number of occasions recently (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      978. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the surgical hub for Letterkenny University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9235/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      979. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports available for a young person (details supplied), who requires surgery which cannot be performed in Ireland, the UK, Europe or...
    • General Practitioner Services
      980. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a campaign or strategy in place to increase GP capacity, particularly in growing towns such as Skerries; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      981. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant occupational therapist posts in Meath; and when these will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9257/26]
    • Health Services
      983. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently on a waiting list to see an occupational therapist (primary care) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      984. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people are currently on a waiting list to see an occupational therapist (CAMHS) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Services
      985. To ask the Minister for Health the interim measures in place for people waiting for an appointment with a primary care occupational therapist but cannot see one as the post is vacant; and if...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      986. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to restrict or reduce access free screening such as SH:24 for those who are asymptomatic; if so, the intentions behind such a move to reduce...
    • Healthcare Policy
      987. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for funding for surgery in the USA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9265/26]
    • Medical Cards
      988. To ask the Minister for Health the ways an individual can complete the medical card review; if there is a paper form alternative for individuals to complete the review of the medical card;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      989. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to basing the cost of the licence to sell cigarettes, currently at €1,000 on the volume of cigarettes sold; and if she...
    • Departmental Reports
      992. To ask the Minister for Health the number of progress reports her Department committed to publishing under the review’s governance framework; the number that were actually published;...
    • Care of the Elderly
      993. To ask the Minister for Health when the interRAI Single Assessment Tool will be fully operational nationwide for residents in long-term residential care; to provide the original...
    • Nursing Homes
      996. To ask the Minister for Health whether any legislative amendments required to link NHSS funding to interRAI-determined care needs have been drafted; the reason; and when such legislation...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health which recommendations from the independent review examining the role of voluntary organisations in publicly funded health and social care, published in 2019,...
    • Health Services
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no multi-annual funding framework has been introduced for voluntary healthcare providers despite explicit recommendations; and whether she accepts...
    • Nursing Homes
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has quantified the administrative and compliance burden imposed on voluntary nursing homes in recent years; whether any funding has...
    • Health Services
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health whether she accepts that increasing reporting, compliance and governance obligations have not been matched by increased frontline funding for voluntary...
    • Gender Equality
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health whether she was advised, at any point between 2020 and 2025, that there was no Department of Health or HSE policy governing the collection, verification, or...
    • Medical Inquiries
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure urgent access to a treatment where clinicians advise that delay risks irreversible loss of neurological and functional ability...
    • Hospital Charges
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department receives, holds, or reviews data relating to the total annual revenue generated from car parking charges at Cork University Hospital;...
    • Health Service Executive
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of residential properties currently owned by the Health Service Executive which are vacant; the number deemed surplus to requirements; the...
    • Departmental Properties
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health what formal engagement has taken place between his Department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Land Development Agency...
    • Health Service Executive
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health to identify the principal legal, financial, or administrative barriers preventing the timely reuse or disposal of vacant residential properties owned by the...
    • Health Services
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health whether she has received, requested, or reviewed the expert group assessment commissioned by the HSE Chief Clinical Officer on the implications for Irish...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the Department’s formal policy and methodology for evaluating international clinical guidance prior to its consideration or adoption within...
    • Departmental Staff
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within her Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability manager and a cyber...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which her Department examines third party supply chain vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity. [9451/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place from her Department to assist section 39 organisations to become more cyber resilient; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the supports which are available for pre and post-natal exercise programmes. [9464/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health the governance framework under which funding for chronic pain services is currently allocated, given that the HSE has confirmed that funding decisions are...
    • Health Services
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health if she accepts that the absence of national-level expenditure data for chronic pain services represents a gap in financial oversight; when her Department last...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has specified, or intends to specify, a minimum national dataset for chronic pain services, including waiting times, consultant...
    • Health Strategies
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health whether she intends to ring-fence funding within chronic pain services for older adults, in light of evidence showing high prevalence of untreated chronic...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive records the actual duration of trolley waits exceeding 24 hours for emergency department patients; if not, whether such...
    • Hospital Services
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health what national information systems are used by the Health Service Executive to record emergency department patient flow and trolley wait times; whether those...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health whether she accepts that responsibility for national policy, safeguarding standards, and governance frameworks for services involving children rests with her...
    • Health Service Executive
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department receives routine reports from the Health Service Executive on governance, safeguarding, activity levels, and outcomes relating to...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health the mean and median waiting time, by hospital group, for a first outpatient assessment in publicly funded chronic pain services at end-December 2025; and the...
    • Hospital Services
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant-led publicly funded chronic pain clinics in each hospital group; the approved whole-time equivalent staffing complement for each...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 995 of 20 January 2026, the rationale of the way the community pharmacy service can provide full medication...
    • Hospital Staff
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric neurologists available publicly, by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9588/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for first-time and follow-up paediatric neurology appointments nationally; the number of children waiting more than 6, 12, and 18...
    • Hospital Services
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health the level of paediatric neurology provision available to children living in the West of Ireland; the number of clinics held in the region; whether the current...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children from County Mayo currently awaiting paediatric neurology assessment; the average waiting time; the number of children waiting more than...
    • Hospital Services
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric neurology outreach clinics provided in Mayo and the wider Saolta Hospital Group area in each of the past five years; the number of...
    • Medical Cards
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been declined a medical card renewal despite significant medical complications; if she will instruct the HSE to...
    • Disability Services
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to their personal assistant budget; the status of this review; and if she will...
    • Ambulance Service
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances at each ambulance station in the state; the number for each of the past three years, including the location of each ambulance...
    • Disability Issues
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body responsible for oversight of compliance with the Disability Act in CHO 8; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9671/26]
    • Hospital Charges
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the abolition of parking fee charges in hospitals. [9674/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a delayed hospital appointment for a person in Dublin 9; the steps being taken to prevent such...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated price, per patient, of the standard flu vaccine and of the enhanced flu vaccine; if she will introduce a policy of offering both vaccinations...
    • Mental Health Services
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health to issue a detailed report in regards to the CAMHS scandal in both north and south Kerry, including all related costs to date (details supplied); when all...
    • Electricity Grid
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals and major healthcare facilities operating at or near maximum electricity capacity, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of health-related statements currently published on Wind Energy Ireland’s website (details supplied); if she will confirm whether the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which consultant staffing levels and specialist resources are allocated between University Hospital Galway and Mayo University Hospital. [9765/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to shorten the dietetics weight management waitlist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9785/26]
    • Medical Cards
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent increase of €20 in the State pension in Budget 2026 will result in pensioners being over the threshold for a medical card; if she will...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the rules governing pharmacy charges for blister-pack dispensing, including whether such fees must be explicitly itemised and displayed...
    • Health Strategies
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details with respect to the establishment of 11 regional structures under the National Drugs Strategy; to clarify the governance, funding...
    • Health Service Executive
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9816/26]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health when hip operations will be available in Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore (which were carried out in the recent past) under the National Treatment Purchase...
    • Hospital Staff
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant neurologists that are currently dealing and treating public only patients at University Hospital Waterford; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children referred for spinal surgery under outsourcing arrangements in 2025; the number of children who have been treated in 2025 and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologists and ophthalmologist registrars based at University Hospital Waterford as of 2 February 2026, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Equipment
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to install a second MRI scanner (details supplied) at Cavan General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9847/26]
    • Hospital Services
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the need for a dedicated paediatric neurology service within Mayo University Hospital or elsewhere in the west; if so, the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the HSE’s pause on the recruitment of physician associates; the reason for the continued delay in completing the review of the PA...
    • Health Service Executive
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent case (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9858/26]
    • Food Safety
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken in relation to the fact that infant formula that was removed from shelves across Europe was also sold in Ireland, despite...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to increase GP recruitment and retention in areas of population growth, including Blessington, Co. Wicklow; the supports...
    • Abortion Services
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE have carried out an internal review or investigation into the impact of the three-day waiting period provision within the...
    • Organ Donation
      1112. To ask the Minister for Health to report on current number of people opting out of organ donation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9899/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has any centrally approved governance, compliance, or safeguarding framework applicable to non-statutory bodies that receive direct...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health what risk assessment, safeguarding assurance, and service-quality oversight mechanisms are operated directly by her Department in respect of non-statutory...
    • Nursing Homes
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health if it has been brought to her attention that there is a gross lack of nursing home vacancies in the Mid-West region and that many families are finding it...
    • Departmental Data
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orders for detention in places of care sought from the High Court by the HSE in 2023, 2024 and 2025 through a firm (details supplied); and the...
    • Health Services
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available for a child who has a brain tumour and requires a full-time nurse while attending preschool; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health for a further update with regard to a reply received to a query regarding a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a much-needed hip replacement. [10123/26]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided to the national treatment purchase fund in 2026, by funding purpose; if there is a stay on funding for outsourcing or any other...
    • Departmental Projects
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under her remit. [10157/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to resolve the ongoing industrial action involving physiologists; the assessment of the impact of this dispute on diagnostic...
    • Departmental Reports
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health to outline when she received the Nayagam report (details supplied); when it will be published; and whether any redactions will be limited to only protecting...
    • Medical Cards
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for access to medical cards in Ireland remaining subject to a means test, particularly in light of the system in the United Kingdom where access...
    • Health Services Staff
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of a significant number of healthcare workers continuing to suffer from long covid as a result of their work in the Irish Health Service during...
    • Medicinal Products
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health when a NCPE re-commenced assessment will be completed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10188/26]
    • Hospital Services
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved, funded, filled, and vacant posts at University Hospital Waterford associated with emergency PPCI as of 8 April 2025; the level of...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the new Breastfeeding Strategy; and the timeline for publication. [10209/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the progress made with establishing the review of the Medicinal Cannabis Access Programme; if she will provide a timeline for the review and...
    • Health Service Executive
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a case where a person approved under the long-term illness scheme for continuous glucose monitoring supports was unable to access these...
    • Hospital Services
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health her views on calls for the reinstatement of a 24-hour chaplaincy service at hospitals across the State from concerned citizens. [10223/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients and staff at Navan Hospital and other HSE facilities in County Meath, from 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026,...
    • Ambulance Service
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance response performance for clinical status 1 incidents in the HSE Dublin and Northeast Health Region, including response times, proportions met,...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients in County Meath on primary care and community services waiting lists, broken down by service type, age group, and length of wait, from...
    • Home Care Packages
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in County Meath waiting for home support from December 2022-2025 or latest comparable date] and the number of people receiving less than...
    • Mental Health Services
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in County Meath waiting for CAMHS, broken down by length of wait, on a quarterly basis for 2022-2025, in tabular form. [10250/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the accessibility of Welireg (belzutifan) for patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10252/26]
    • Departmental Properties
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the current status and future use of the former St Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir; whether the HSE has undertaken or plans...
    • Health Services
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that her environmental health officers (EHOs) have no powers when a public nuisance is emanating from a private dwelling house (details...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in County Meath waiting for diagnostic tests including MRI, CT, ultrasounds and endoscopy, at the latest available data point, in tabular...
    • Dental Services
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity and access to public dental services in County Meath, including DTSS participation, claims activity and waiting lists for dental, orthodontic,...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs and GPs providing GMS services in County Meath, by local health area and per 10,000 population, on 1 December for each year form 2020...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people resident in County Meath waiting for a first outpatient appointment at Navan Hospital in each of the past three years 2023, 2024 and 2025...
    • Nursing Homes
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications from County Meath awaiting decision/placement under the nursing homes support scheme for each of the last three years 2023, 2024...
    • Dental Services
      1171. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Meath awaiting HSE public dental services, including special needs dentistry, for each of the past three years 2023, 2024 and...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the date when the Government will issue its response to the Citizen’s Assembly on Drug Use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10267/26]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2415 of 13 January 2026, if she accepts road traffic deaths and serious injuries as a public health harm requiring...
    • Cancer Services
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health if free cancer screening procedures for women could include those aged 70 years or over (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health if a serious matter in relation to a ten-year-old boy (details supplied) will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10276/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in a location by the HSE (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10280/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of all adult community mental health teams per IHA; the funded WTE posts; the vacant WTE posts; the numbers waiting to access each adult community...
    • Health Services
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding how cases of illness are monitored in relation to a recall of infant formula (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of births that occurred in each month of 2025 at Coombe Maternity Hospital, Rotunda Hospital and Holles Street, in tabular form. [10307/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapist, occupational therapist and physiotherapist posts, by grade, which have been filled at CHI Crumlin as of 4...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health when the follow up meeting with the HSE and the Board of Newport Day Centre will happen, which was agreed at a meeting on 19 December 2025; and if she will...
    • Medicinal Products
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health the current reimbursement arrangements in place for GLP-1 medications; to identify the products currently available under each scheme and the criteria for...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the work of the Commission on Care for Older People; the timeline for publication of its first report; if it has commenced work on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health if she or her Department intend to introduce a 'no wait card' or similar scheme to entitle customers with certain medical conditions to make use of staff...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that pharmacies have begun imposing a €20 monthly charge for the provision of blister-packed medications; the basis on which this fee is...
    • Medical Cards
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health whether patients diagnosed with cancer are automatically entitled to a medical card to ensure full access to necessary diagnostic tests, specialist...
    • Mental Health Services
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health the process for the involuntary admission of a child on the grounds of mental health crisis. [10366/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE staff, by job title currently working at the Supra-Regional Endometriosis Centre in Tallaght University Hospital; the WTE vacancies, by job title; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE occupational therapists, by grade posts filled at Springfield-Tallaght primary care centre as of 4 February 2026, in tabular form; and if...
    • Health Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to regulate spoken language interpretation within the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10393/26]
    • Disease Management
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify if private patients who were previously in a programme can be included in the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) programme (details supplied); the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 945 and 946 of 27 January 2026, the reason no clear next steps or timelines have yet been set out for the inclusion of...
    • Health Strategies
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health when the HIQA Expert Advisory Group on modifications to the BreastCheck screening programme will be established; when she expects the publication of the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health if welireg is available to public HSE patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease; the way they can access this treatment; the alternative treatments that are...
    • Coroners Service
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to standardise protocols for medicolegal autopsies under the Coroners Act 1962, to ensure consistency nationwide; and if she will make a...
    • Dental Services
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists currently employed by the HSE in Longford, by WTE, the locations to which they are assigned, in tabular form. [10423/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied) and expedite surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10424/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health the number of active rural medical dispensaries that are owned and operated by the HSE according to the most recent data available; and the amount of active...
    • Mental Health Services
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health to consider and respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding their experience attempting to access mental health care in recent...
    • Community Care
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of the options available to an individual who has been denied home care support but requires community support (details supplied);...
    • Health Services Staff
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses are employed full-time in Dublin south central. [10471/26]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health the measures which are in place to ensure continuity of supports for children with disabilities at key transition points, including early years to primary...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Mental Health Commission analyses or publishes comparative data on the regional use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in approved centres;...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the latest projected timeline for the delivery of a surgical hub at Sligo University Hospital. [10507/26]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Teaching Qualifications
      1237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's policy on recognising degrees, higher diplomas in Education, and Teaching Council registration for Youthreach resource persons;...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scholarships that may be available for a Palestinian citizen pursuing postgraduate medical studies (details supplied); and the way they can...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      1240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst, vulnerability...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish citizens who returned to the State as a direct or indirect result of the “Build Back Home” advertising...
    • Third Level Fees
      1246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated additional cost incurred by students and their families in the 2025 academic year arising from the level of the student...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of craft apprentices currently employed within the public service or semi-state companies such as ESB, Bord Na Mona and so on; and if...
    • Third Level Costs
      1249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures currently in place and any plans under consideration to reduce the financial burden on parents of students undertaking postgraduate...
    • International Students
      1250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the analysis which has been conducted on Indian student enrolments, post-study permission uptake, and student-to-work conversion rates in the...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9779/26]
    • Scientific Research
      1252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Irish Governments plans to facilitate the recruitment of expert US scientists following President Trumps decision to cease funding for...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending phase 2 PATH 4 pilot funding until the end of the National Access Plan in 2028, which would provide job security...
    • Language Schools
      1255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount held in the learner protection fund for English language schools in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Third Level Costs
      1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SUSI grant benefits are not offered to Irish students studying in the UK; whether the rent tax credit is available to Irish...
    • Departmental Priorities
      1260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10156/26]
    • Youth Services
      1261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that the 225-day calendar poses serious industrial relations risks due to long standing disparities in contracts, entitlements and...
    • Student Accommodation
      1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an updated version of the table on page 26 of the National Student Accommodation Strategy (2017), that details the actual supply and demand...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      1269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht sonraí a thabhairt maidir leis an €5.218 milliún a thug Údarás na Gaeltachta ar ais don...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      1273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff directly responsible for cybersecurity, as distinct from IT, within his Department; if a threat analyst,...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      1275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sé ráitéas maidir le dul chun cinn na n-iarratas ar líonraí Gaeilge atá istigh...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1276. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to significantly increase the funding allocation to County Kerry for local improvement schemes in 2026 in order to allow Kerry...
    • Vacant Properties
      1277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the supports available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10118/26]
    • Departmental Priorities
      1278. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit....
    • Departmental Schemes
      1279. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider amending the Community Centres Investment Fund to assist communities to purchase buildings in their area...
    • Irish Language
      1281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has written to the Minister for Transport, with regard to the official languages Acts, to discuss bilingual signage on...
    • Departmental Funding
      1282. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding schemes available to cover staffing costs for community organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      1283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the parameters for the Community Centre Investment Fund; and the organisations that may apply. [10403/26]

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