Written answers

Thursday, 19 February 2026

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his assessment of the impact of his Department’s SME test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13383/26]
    • Employment Data
      14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the key findings of the Annual Employment Survey 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13360/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to build national capacity within regulators and industry in advance of the full commencement of the EU AI Act;...
    • Tourism Policy
      17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline any engagements he or his Department has had with any stakeholder or body under his Department’s aegis on a matter...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he considers that the AI advisory council should have a dedicated role for, or membership of, civil society organisations, such as...
    • Business Supports
      20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with retail representative bodies regarding the challenges facing the sector in 2026; the policy responses...
    • Industrial Development
      21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the reinstatement of the IDA advance planning permit for the proposed advance building at the Creagh site in...
    • Business Supports
      22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the work the Cost of Business Advisory Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13080/26]
    • Employment Data
      24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the employment rate in County Mayo; and if he will outline how this compares with other counties. [12161/26]
    • Employment Rights
      25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department will consider introducing protections for workers in the case of severe weather events in order that they are...
    • Tourism Industry
      26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the measures being put in place to grow tourism in Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13257/26]
    • Work Permits
      28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the measures undertaken by his Department to reduce the backlog for employment permit renewal applications...
    • Business Supports
      29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people who have applied for the emergency humanitarian flooding scheme in each of the past six weeks; and if he will...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the national AI office will have advisory panels in place for routinely collaborating with young people, older people and disabled...
    • Work Permits
      32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on current processing times for all employment permit types; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13390/26]
    • Tourism Policy
      33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to progress with legislation to restrict short-term lets in towns with more than 10,000 people; and if he will make a...
    • Trade Promotion
      34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the implementation of the new Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity. [13314/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the setting up of the proposed national AI office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13369/26]
    • Job Losses
      36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on a factory (details supplied); the progress on support for workers; the future plans for the site; and if he will make...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the social enterprise model and encourage entrepreneurship that delivers both...
    • Tourism Promotion
      39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the new tourism policy “A New Era for Irish Tourism” will support tourism development in Louth; and if...
    • Job Creation
      40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the creation of a national strategy to attract fully locationless remote jobs to Ireland. [13313/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the proposed national AI office will be up and running by August 2026; if it will provide the immediate, coordinated,...
    • Regional Development
      43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the measures taken thus far to secure a tenant or tenants for the fully completed, advanced technology building on...
    • Work Permits
      44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the maximum quota for general employment permits for workers in the tourism and transport sectors; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Minimum Wage
      45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to reform the national minimum wage legislation to ensure that apprentices and young workers are not paid below the...
    • Consumer Prices
      46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering introducing price caps to set maximum prices for basic foodstuffs and energy; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Industrial Development
      47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives he, his Department or associated State agencies have taken to encourage prospective new owners to establish a business...
    • Tourism Promotion
      48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the Cork city tourism plan and its implementation. [12462/26]
    • Business Regulation
      49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department is assessing the provisions of the EU omnibus simplification package; concerns arising out of the...
    • Regional Development
      50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs supported by Enterprise Ireland in Kilkenny in 2025; the number supported in Carlow in 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Tourism Promotion
      51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's efforts to promote tourism in east County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11993/26]
    • EU Regulations
      52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures in place to ensure that materials from labour camps in Xinjiang in China are restricted for entry to Ireland and the...
    • Work Permits
      53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of permits for dairy farm assistants that have been processed in counties Cavan and Monaghan since the start of 2026; if...
    • Employment Rights
      54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to amend employment legislation to improve employment rights and job security of film workers; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Data
      55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs supported by Enterprise Ireland in Galway in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12895/26]
    • Tourism Policy
      56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to encourage much-needed private investment into the serviced tourism accommodation sector; and if he will make a statement...
    • Business Supports
      57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the funding for local enterprise and regional development in his Department’s Sectoral Capital Plan 2026-2030...
    • Enterprise Policy
      58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if specific additional financial supports will be introduced in 2026 to assist in the development of enterprise centres in view of...
    • Employment Data
      59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people employed in State-supported companies (companies that are client firms of state agencies such as Enterprise...
    • Online Safety
      60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to ensure that social media artificial intelligence tools cannot be used by sexual predators to...
    • Work Permits
      61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the maximum quota for general employment permits for workers in farming and the food industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will be recommending that the State explore publicly owned AI resources and technologies; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs the IDA supported in Kerry last year; the plans for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13374/26]
    • Regional Development
      64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new south-east regional enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12894/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reasons the proposed Oifig Intleachta Shaorga na hÉireann, or the AI Office of Ireland, has been placed under the remit of...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      67. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated in his Department’s NDP to support home-grown enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Artificial Intelligence
      68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative measures he is planning to implement to ensure that artificial intelligence adaptation does not lead to job loses; and...
    • Business Supports
      69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his strategy to address the rising cost of doing business, in particular for the SME sector; his plans for 2026 that will aim at...
    • Departmental Strategies
      70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on progress in the development of a new national life sciences strategy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure the national AI office has a dedicated role for, or a board with members from, disabled people’s...
    • Legislative Measures
      72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on providing the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission with new powers as set out in the Action Plan on...
    • Work Permits
      73. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to update the list of critical skills work visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13325/26]
    • Tourist Accommodation
      74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of bed nights available in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12536/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      75. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure that the national AI office will have the necessary levels of independence, technical experts and resourcing to...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      76. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department has put in place to assist SMEs with rising energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Enterprise Policy
      78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the justification for the continued roll-out of the built to innovate initiative, with €6.8 million in public grants approved...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      80. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures being put in place to help businesses, particularly SMEs, identify their supervisory authority under the distributed...
    • Tourism Promotion
      81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment , to provide a detailed update on his Department’s strategy to reverse the identified €1 billion year-on-year decline in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he would support the establishment of a citizens’ assembly on artificial intelligence digitalisation and technology to...
    • Departmental Functions
      84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the work of his Department’s small business unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13382/26]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of SMEs that have closed in County Meath in each of the past ten years. [12168/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department’s emphasis on promoting AI will influence how the proposed Oifig Intleachta Shaorga na hÉireann, or the...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the immediate measures his Department is taking to mitigate the severe financial pressure on the small and medium enterprise sector...
    • Regional Development
      89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new west regional enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12896/26]
    • Tourism Promotion
      90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to increase the tourism potential of County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Disability Services
      95. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the critical staffing collapse within the Children’s Disability Network Team (CDNT) in Clonmel; if she...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      107. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how the new €135 million programme of State-led early learning and childcare services will support increased capacity and...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      108. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department's efforts to improve accessibility in rural towns and villages for people with disabilities; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      110. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the efforts her Department is making to address the shortage of childcare places in Cork east. [13389/26]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      111. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider establishing a cross-Border assessment-of-needs scheme, similar to the existing cross-Border dental and...
    • Disability Services
      113. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of respite hours provided to families in Mayo in the past year; the measures her Department is taking to provide...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      114. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will prioritise Irish-medium services in the development of State-led early years facilities; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      115. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on CDNT waiting lists for assessments and therapies in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      116. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a provider withdraws from core funding, if they can remain in other schemes, such as the national childcare scheme; and if she...
    • Disability Services
      119. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of adults with an intellectual disability awaiting residential placement, per health region, and for a...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      120. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement her Department has had with the Office of the Attorney General regarding the ratification of the Second Optional...
    • Childcare Services
      121. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress to date in identifying the locations of the eight pilot public childcare facilities; and if she will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      123. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to improve access to children's disability network teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      124. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has met with the Special Advocate following her report into the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will...
    • Childcare Services
      125. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider purchasing a building (details supplied) for the purposes of establishing a community childcare facility; and...
    • Disability Services
      126. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on the progress being made to establish community neurological rehabilitation multidisciplinary teams for children who...
    • Children in Care
      127. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons who have ceased fostering in each of the past ten years; the number of persons who have begun fostering in...
    • Disability Services
      128. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the programme for Government measures that are in place to recruit and retain staff in the disability sector; and...
    • Childcare Services
      129. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the efforts being made to increase the provision of childcare services in Cork East; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      132. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to reduce the backlog for assessments of need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13364/26]
    • Childcare Services
      133. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the provision of affordable childcare across Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      135. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for assessment of needs in Dublin Mid-West; the steps being taken to reduce waiting times;...
    • Childcare Services
      136. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline the funding allocated for childminding development grants; the number of applicants who will be supported; and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      137. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when details of the next building blocks scheme will be published; the likely timescale for the opening of applications; and if she...
    • Childcare Services
      138. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a schedule has been set to reach the planned €200 per month maximum childcare cost as set out in the programme for...
    • Disability Services
      140. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the measures her Department is taking to reduce therapy waiting lists for disabled persons. [12949/26]
    • Childcare Services
      141. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address the growing crisis of 'childcare deserts', and the 40,000-long waiting list for children under three; if she...
    • Disability Services
      142. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline her plans to increase respite services for children in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      143. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number, and age, of ECCE scheme applicants in the towns of Leixlip, Maynooth, Celbridge and Naas in the past five years, in...
    • Childcare Services
      144. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the regulations for childminders will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13217/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      146. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to consult with representative organisations in relation to the Disability (Amendment) Bill 2025; and if she will make a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      147. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether a formal co-ordination or mediation framework exists between her Department, the Department of Health and the Department of...
    • Disability Services
      148. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to increase the early provision of SLT facilities to children in the Down's syndrome community in Carlow and...
    • Childcare Services
      149. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the specific steps she is taking to deliver additional not for profit childcare places in the Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      150. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the likely timeline for when State-led learning centres could be seen in our communities; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Children in Care
      151. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of foster parents or foster placements in County Mayo. [12185/26]
    • Childcare Services
      152. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child through the national childcare scheme; if she will...
    • Children in Care
      153. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports that will be made available to foster families in the south-east to replace the services from an organisation (details...
    • Childcare Services
      154. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare providers that have closed in County Mayo in each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      156. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average wait time in 2025 for a child to be seen for a first appointment by a CDNT. [12459/26]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      157. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will examine the feasibility of establishing a cross-border pathway for timely assessments for children with disabilities, in...
    • Disability Services
      158. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are additional supports available to assist with ageing parents of adult children with intellectual disabilities, as...
    • Childcare Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality an bhfuil sí ar an eolas faoi na deacrachtaí a bhaineann le hearcú foirne do chúram leanaí agus...
    • Equality Issues
      161. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how Ireland’s first National Equality Data Strategy will enhance the delivery of public services, particularly in identifying...
    • Childcare Services
      162. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the delivery of the public model of childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13305/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      163. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the difficulty posed by auto enrolment for TUSLA-funded projects (details supplied). [12268/26]
    • Disability Services
      164. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the efforts her Department is making to address the shortage of respite places for children with disabilities in Kerry. [13301/26]
    • Childcare Services
      167. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider purchasing a building (details supplied) for the purposes of establishing a community childcare facility; and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      169. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of community services awarded the building blocks grants in 2025; the number of these services that have subsequently...
    • Paternity Leave
      170. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider extending the duration of paternity leave in cases of multiple births for example, twins or triplets, in...
    • Childcare Services
      171. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has assessed the significant level of demand for childcare services in north Dublin in its plans for State-led...
    • Rights of the Child
      172. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current status of Ireland’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; the specific...
    • Disability Services
      173. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions she has taken to improve CDNT access in Cork. [12460/26]
    • Childcare Services
      174. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she has plans to introduce new rules to regulate non-refundable childcare deposits, given that they can be substantial,...
    • Children in Care
      175. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline her Department’s plans to invest in more Tusla mainstream residential cares centres for children and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      176. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to improve provision in the early years sector for children with disabilities; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      177. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline the scheme, or schemes, of grant aid that will be available this year for the upgrading or provision of new...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      178. 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 child care facilities will be...
    • Childcare Services
      179. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality an bhfuil sí ar an eolas faoi na deacrachtaí a bhaineann le hearcú foirne do chúram leanaí agus...
    • Children in Care
      180. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in State care; the number who are in foster placements; and the number who are in other placements....
    • Online Safety
      181. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has carried out any research on a social media ban for children, either in Ireland or internationally; and if she...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      182. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline any measures to support early years service providers to meet the increased costs of operating; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      183. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on how deposits for childcare services will be managed under Core Funding 2026-2027. [13316/26]
    • Disability Services
      185. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the lack of respite available to children with disabilities across County Donegal; and to outline her plans to...
    • Family Resource Centres
      187. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the criteria being used to select family resource centres for funding via the National Forum; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Legislative Process
      188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that has...
    • Departmental Data
      189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department has granted any form of recognition, accreditation, endorsement, or official status to the organisation (details...
    • Irish Aid
      190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the aggregate proportion of Ireland’s Official Development Assistance in each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 that was retained by...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Marine Protected Areas
      194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the Marine Protected Areas Bill; when the Bill will be published; whether Clew Bay, or areas within or...
    • Inland Fisheries
      195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the appointment of a new CEO of Inland Fisheries Ireland; when they are expected to take post; and if he...
    • Legislative Process
      197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that...
    • Climate Action Plan
      198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the publication of the Climate Action Plan 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Correspondence
      200. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the Climate Action Plan 2026; if he...
    • Seaweed Harvesting
      201. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which Ireland’s circular economy policy and legislation apply to the harvesting of seaweed as a finite...
    • Climate Action Plan
      202. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the Climate Advisory Council’s estimate that Ireland could face up to €26 billion in costs if...
    • Water Safety
      203. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government which agency has statutory responsibility for the installation, operation and maintenance of continuous monitoring...
    • Water Pollution
      204. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether his Department has conducted an assessment of Ireland’s current capacity to detect acute pollution events...
    • Departmental Funding
      211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration will be given to the funding by his Department of the EU LIFE Programme should funding be cut to projects...
  • Department of Defence
    • Legislative Measures
      212. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that has not...
    • Defence Forces
      213. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence her views on the recruitment of a person (details supplied) to the Defence Forces; the vetting procedures involved in light of their guilty plea...
    • Commemorative Medals
      214. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason a person who served in the Army from 1975 to1997 as a soldier (details supplied) will not receive their 1916 Commemoration medal...
    • Defence Forces
      215. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated average cost to the Exchequer of recruiting, inducting and training a General Service Recruit in the Permanent Defence Forces,...
    • Departmental Data
      217. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether service-specific retention targets have been set for the Naval Service and Air Corps in light of previous staffing pressures; the...
    • Defence Forces
      218. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of recruits discharged by purchase in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the average length of service at exit for such personnel; and...
    • EU Programmes
      219. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence her views on ensuring that defence investments in the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework fully respect national competences and...
    • Defence Forces
      221. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether changes to eligibility criteria for recruitment into the Permanent Defence Forces are under consideration; whether non-citizen...
    • Departmental Strategies
      222. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 4 November 2025, the progress to date in developing a National Maritime Security Strategy; and if...
    • Defence Forces
      223. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the present enlistment in the Permanent Defence Forces; the proposals there are to increase recruitment and improve retention levels in 2026;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      224. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the importance of ensuring sovereignty of national defence capabilities, supply chain resilience, and knowledge transfer when it comes to...
    • EU Programmes
      225. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence considering that Ireland is a net contributor to the EU budget and as an increasing proportion of the next Multiannual Financial Framework is...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Air Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify if Shannon Airport is being used as a stopover point for flights chartered by the US’s Immigration and Customs...
    • Departmental Schemes
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is implementing and considering to support small transport companies who employ and train young people, given...
    • Legislative Measures
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address harness racing on our roads; to provide an update on the Horse-Drawn Carriages Bill; and if he will make a statement...
    • Air Services
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 12 February 2026, to clarify the definition applied by his Department to the terms...
    • Dublin Bus
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the strategies in place to address the limited bus priority and high volume of private cars using main bus corridors in Dublin during...
    • Legislative Process
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that has...
    • Penalty Points System
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of the 19% unmatched penalty points on the NVDF that were to drivers that should have been disqualified (details supplied);...
    • Cycling Facilities
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to date of the installation of cycle lanes and active transport throughout the State in the past ten years. [13528/26]
    • Road Network
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Kilkenny County Council and Carlow County Council will receive their allocation of funding for road maintenance; and if he will make...
    • National Transport Authority
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the old Airport Hopper route in Dublin; if the NTA has considered providing a public replacement service; the public...
    • Road Projects
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether planning for a road safety improvement project that requires acquisition of private land can be passed prior to any agreement for...
    • Road Safety Authority
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm whether all first, second and third-time learner permit holders have been written to by the Road Safety Authority following...
    • Driver Test
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the number of learner drivers on the waiting list to sit their test, broken down per driving test centre, from July 2025 to...
    • Departmental Funding
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to make emergency funding available to Kerry County Council to address a wall and public road that has been undermined by the Behy River...
    • Road Projects
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to make emergency funding available to Kerry County Council to address a bridge (details supplied) that requires emergency works; and if...
    • Rail Network
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on proposals to reform the rail industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13838/26]
    • National Transport Authority
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the rolling out of the bus stop installations programme the responsibility of the National Transport Authority across County...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport In light of the decision to abolish the passenger cap at Dublin Airport; if a company (details supplied) has formally advised his...
    • Tax Yield
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of equalising rates for three and six month motor tax payments with the rate of the 12-month payment. [13947/26]
    • Road Network
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the contract agreed between the State and direct route, in relation to the operation and maintenance of the Fermoy-Rathcormac bypass...
  • Department of Finance
    • Legislative Process
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that has not been commenced;...
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, FSPO, can accept a case regarding a mortgage if only a holder of a joint account or policy signs the...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he will consider increasing the DIRT exemption thresholds and raising the income limits for liability, including the current €36,000 threshold...
    • Tax Data
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of multi-property owners that own more than 100 residential properties and 1,000 residential properties, excluding local authorities and approved...
    • Tax Collection
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to address inheritance tax discrimination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13843/26]
    • Rental Sector
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance to reduce taxation on rental income as such a measure will encourage members of the public to invest in or construct rental properties; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenue raised from the eight-year deemed disposal rule on investment funds and ETFs in each of the years 2020 to 2025 inclusive; the estimated...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance if an initiative is feasible in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13944/26]
    • Universal Social Charge
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of removing USC on the first €45,000 in income in 2026. [13949/26]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider addressing the deemed disposal issue relating to exchange-traded funds in budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Credits
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of providing a €100 increase in the employee tax credit in 2026 on a first and full-year basis. [13966/26]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Freedom of Information
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date each FOI request was received by the Department in 2025; the date each request was concluded; and the manner by which it was...
    • Legislative Programme
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that has...
    • Data Centres
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the Government data centre in Backweston; the timeline for when it will open; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the flood relief measures his Department has put in place for a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the list of all flood relief and flood risk management projects in County Mayo since 2020, by each project: the name and location of the...
    • Coastal Protection
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on Ireland’s national assessment of areas at risk from sea-level rise over the next 20–50 years,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an exhaustive list of flood related compensation, paid from his Department's vote allocations over the past ten years; and if...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Inquiries
      281. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives he or his Department or associated State agencies have taken to encourage prospective new owners to establish a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      282. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the review of the critical skills occupations list and ineligible occupations list; whether the review will take into...
    • Legislative Process
      283. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      284. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department has conducted, commissioned or received any regulatory impact assessment, economic modelling or internal...
    • Business Supports
      288. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether the Cost of Business Advisory Forum established in June 2025 has specifically examined customs compliance costs, parcel...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      289. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether the forthcoming Enterprise 2035 strategy will contain specific measures aimed at reducing customs-related compliance costs...
    • Tourism Promotion
      290. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on current and planned tourism investment along the Wild Atlantic Way, including Fáilte Ireland and Shared...
    • Job Losses
      291. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports being made available to workers facing redundancy at a factory (details supplied); the progress on a possible...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      292. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has undertaken any research on the four-day working week; if he will publish that research; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      293. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update in regards to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13805/26]
    • EU Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his position on the proposed €450 billion allocation for competitiveness and R and D in the Multiannual Financial Framework to...
    • Online Safety
      295. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government plans to introduce legislative measures to increase transparency and auditability of recommendation algorithms used...
    • Work Permits
      296. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment permits issued in 2025 by sector; whether each sector is classified as experiencing a verified skills...
    • Business Supports
      297. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total amount paid out in flood compensation from the Vote allocation of his Department each year since 2011, in tabular form; and...
    • Job Losses
      298. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on efforts to secure alternative employment at a manufacturing plant (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the reduction of three SNA posts at a Kildare school (details supplied), when the NCSE review was supposed to pertain to only...
    • School Management
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department’s Circular 11/95 includes a State-mandated break time for primary schools, but not for post-primary schools,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the application for an ASD unit for a school (details supplied); if the application has been reviewed by her Department; the...
    • School Facilities
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to strongly consider an appeal under the emergency works programme for an application for a school (details supplied), that was refused, to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the new school building project for a school (details supplied); to outline when the second tranche of new school...
    • Youth Services
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if youth participation and outcomes in youth services will be presented via an open data dashboard, scheme, county/ETB, demographics, updated...
    • School Facilities
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 12 February 2026, to explain the process in which schools without suitable accommodation for newly...
    • Youth Services
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the proposed national youth sector reference group will interface with the interdepartmental/interagency group to ensure sector...
    • Special Educational Needs
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the establishment of more reading schools and reading classes in North Dublin area to cater for children with dyslexia; the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that has not...
    • School Management
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current timeline for the reintegration of a student into school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13519/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reduction of SNA's in Dublin 12 after the latest review, by each school. [13525/26]
    • School Staff
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an updated CID Circular is expected to be issued; if it will address issues where teachers are providing ongoing service over a number of...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Teaching Council process following a request by a third level institution for the accreditation of a course leading to a teaching...
    • School Staff
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to legislate for a change to Croke Park hours for teachers due to concerns that have been raised (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, with respect to the 2026/27 academic year, a full list of schools in Longford-Westmeath that have been sanctioned by the NCSE and her...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm if she received correspondence dated 27 January 2026 from a company (detail supplied) when she intends to respond to this...
    • Special Educational Needs
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether in recent special needs assistant review cycles, any revised guidance has issued to the National Council for Special Education...
    • School Transport
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the launch of a new school bus route between schools (details supplied); whether a commencement timeline is available;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      331. 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. [13572/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further supports will be given to the current cohort of schools not included in the phased roll-out of the education therapy service (details...
    • School Discipline
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has considered establishing a national reporting framework requiring schools to submit anonymised data on serious...
    • Education Schemes
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve access to special reading schools for children with significant dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special needs assistants (SNAs) who have worked on zero-hour contracts are not considered for incremental salary increases, even where...
    • Special Educational Needs
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of early intervention preschool classes for autistic children in mainstream schools and special schools which are being redesignated...
    • Schools Building Projects
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if urgent steps will be taken to address the dangerous condition of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Bodies
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appointment of a SENO for schools in the north Wexford area has been or will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13773/26]
    • Departmental Data
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools at primary and secondary level respectively, that operate on split campuses that require staff and students to travel...
    • School Facilities
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classrooms across the State currently operating out of prefabs; and the prefab classrooms that have been in use for longer than ten...
    • Special Educational Needs
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the development of an additional SEN class at a school (details supplied); and the engagement with the school to ensure all SEN...
    • Schools Administration
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps or research undertaken by her Department to assess or reduce the administrative burden on school principals.; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the planned school building programme at a school (details supplied). [13778/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether any formal or informal guidance has been issued by her Department or by the National Council for Special Education in the 2025–26...
    • School Admissions
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and the NCSE will engage with a person (details supplied) to ensure an appropriate school place is provided; and if she will...
    • Departmental Strategies
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what will happen when the current public-private partnerships in operation in schools cease; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Investigations
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 12 February 2026, the approach the IDG will take ‘to examine the levers and mechanisms that...
    • School Accommodation
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied) for required accommodation; if the application has been reviewed by her Department; the current...
    • Special Educational Needs
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an urgent sanction can be provided for a third mild special class at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statutory basis permits non-registered healthcare staff in schools to undertake clinical interventions ordinarily carried out by regulated...
    • Special Educational Needs
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures her Department is taking to increase autism class places in schools in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Pension Provisions
      384. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when Eir and An Post pensioners will be paid their overdue increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Process
      387. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Environmental Policy
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is aware of the “Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security: A National...
    • Departmental Schemes
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projects that local authorities have applied for to-date under the Local Biodiversity Action Fund 2026; the breakdown in...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken by his Department to address ‘unfavourable’ conservation status of 90% of Ireland’s...
    • Turbary Rights
      392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the cessation of turf cutting compensation schemes as the payment period concludes for many applicants; if a...
    • Flood Risk Management
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the National Flood Forecasting and Warning Service; the amount expended on the development of the service to...
    • Rental Sector
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date his Department decided to conclude centralised monitoring of the ‘room for a student – local authority...
    • Defective Building Materials
      397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request an update from the DCB Appeals Panel to provide the number of appeals made to 31 January 2026; the numbers...
    • Water Services
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the grant supports to sink wells are eligible for houses that have been built prior to 2007, and have been connected to...
    • Legislative Measures
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that...
    • Defective Building Materials
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if can provide an update on the inclusion of homes in Skerries and Rush in the defective blocks scheme; the timeline for the...
    • Local Authorities
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding for Galway County Council in 2025, and each local authority in the State for comparison, in tabular...
    • Rental Sector
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department maintains an internal monitoring framework, dashboard or structured reporting mechanism which tracks...
    • Departmental Reviews
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether reviews were undertaken at the end of phase one and phase two of the National Landscape Strategy 2015–2025; if...
    • Departmental Strategies
      404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the release of the Coastal Change Management Strategy Report in 2023, to provide an update on the development of...
    • Housing Policy
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a formal policy decision was taken in 2025 to reduce or limit the use of tenant-in-situ acquisitions under the...
    • Housing Schemes
      407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant-in-situ acquisitions completed nationally in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the number approved but not...
    • Housing Policy
      408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the Department has undertaken any assessment of the impact of reduced tenant-in-situ acquisitions on entries into...
    • Housing Provision
      413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total annual population increase in each of the years 2022 to 2025; the number of residential housing completions in each...
    • Housing Policy
      417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local authorities can fund attic conversations for their own housing stock from their capital funding to provide...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the annual funding allocation to Circle Housing AHB for the years 2020 to 2025, and to confirm if there is a...
    • Rental Sector
      421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the administrative boundaries that will be used to determine towns in excess of 20,000 people for the purposes of...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Payments
      422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider a once-off emergency winter payment for disabled people, as it would provide immediate relief in the...
    • Legislative Measures
      423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that...
    • Pension Provisions
      424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total administration fees paid, over the span of a scheme participant enrolment in MyFutureFund, as a percentage of their...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific reasons an application (details supplied) and subsequent appeals, for carer’s allowance were refused; if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be approved immediately for the bereaved partner's contributory pension based on the...
    • Employment Support Services
      427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total actual expenditure incurred (as opposed to allocated or contracted amounts) to date in respect of clients...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount paid out in flood compensation from the vote allocation of his Department each year since 2011, in tabular...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Seized Property
      429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 858 and 859 of 10 February 2026, the number of scrambler bikes sold by An Garda...
    • Child Protection
      431. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has held any formal meetings since 1 January 2025 with the Department of Children, Disability and...
    • Departmental Meetings
      432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a person (details supplied) who has contacted his office with regard to his search for truth and justice...
    • Departmental Reviews
      433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 735 of 20 January 2026, the position regarding a timeline for the completion of the...
    • Legislative Measures
      434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section,...
    • Drug and Alcohol Testing
      435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual statistical data relating to alcohol test-purchase operations carried out by An Garda Síochána under the...
    • Immigration Policy
      436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person residing in Ireland permanently on a Stamp 3 (details supplied) can apply for a Stamp 4 in order to enable her to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of newly qualified Gardaí allocated to County Roscommon in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [13633/26]
    • Immigration Policy
      440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to opt into the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, his Department completed or commissioned any Ireland-specific written impact...
    • Departmental Data
      446. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it can be ensured that a person (details supplied) receives appropriate medical and mental health treatment as a matter of...
    • International Protection
      449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average processing time from initial international protection application to first instance decision; the average...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Disabilities Assessments
      512. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Kerry waiting for an assessment of need at the latest available point in 2024 and 2025; the number...
    • Disability Services
      513. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for children’s disability network team services in County Kerry, at the latest available point...
    • Legislative Reviews
      515. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update in the changes being made to the Wards of Court and the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act in the case of a person...
    • Legislative Process
      516. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section,...
    • Child Protection
      517. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department receives, on an annual or periodic basis, aggregated statistical reports from Tusla on the number of...
    • Child and Family Agency
      525. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the providers used for special emergency arrangements in 2025; the amount given to each; and the number of times each provider has...
    • Disability Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of long-term residential places available, by county for disabled people. [13638/26]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      530. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the payment of a building blocks improvement scheme 2023 grant for a creche (details supplied); and if she...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      531. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the latest figures for the number of children currently awaiting an assessment of need, per RHA, in tabular form, at the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      532. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the figure of four governance or safeguarding concerns received since 2020, as referenced in correspondence to the Deputy,...
    • Children First Guidelines
      536. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in State care who have been in care for more than two years, more than five years, and more than...
    • Children in Care
      537. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has issued any written guidance, circulars, or policy directions to Tusla concerning the maximum duration a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department accepts that the Children First Act 2015 and Children First National Guidance do not provide an express...
    • Children in Care
      546. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of money being spent by Tusla each year on special emergency arrangements between 2023 to 2025; the total number of...
    • Childcare Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department plans to deliver a State-run childcare facility in the Tulla-Kilkishen area of County Clare, given it has a...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      548. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of adults in County Wexford with an intellectual disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13964/26]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      549. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the initiatives and legislative change under way to deal with the backlog in the assessment of needs (AON)...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      550. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is formally notified, either directly or through structured reporting arrangements, of substantiated governance or...
  • Department of Health
    • Mental Health Services
      553. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available via the mental health capital plan for a specific mental health crisis unit for County Wexford; if so, if she can outline a...
    • Food Safety
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to inform the public if a product for human consumption is found to contain a cancer-causing substance, or any other human health issue;...
    • Mental Health Services
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the CAHMS vacancy for a psychologist for Gorey, County Wexford has been vacant for; the reason this position has not yet been filled; the...
    • Medicinal Products
      560. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Primary Care Reimbursement Service holds reimbursement claims data for salbutamol nebules dispensed under the general medical services scheme from...
    • Health Strategies
      565. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a new cardiovascular strategy; the expected timeline for its publication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13452/26]
    • Disability Services
      567. 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, where an increase was verbally agreed by...
    • Emergency Departments
      568. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the weekly urgent and emergency care reports for each ED from 1 January 2026 to-date; the reason these reports are not available publicly on the HSE...
    • Mental Health Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to immediately address the ongoing failures at the Central Mental Hospital, where patients continue to experience unacceptable...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the rates of non-attendance for bowel screening appointments for 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by individual hospital; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Process
      571. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline each section of enacted legislation where the responsibility lies with the Minister to commence that section, which has not been commenced;...
    • Ambulance Service
      572. To ask the Minister for Health for the average ambulance response time in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13531/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to address the gaps in the assisted human reproduction legislative framework that continue to affect LGBTQ+ families,...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available via the mental health capital plan for a specific mental health crisis unit for County Wexford following discussions on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      581. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the estimate for immunisation has increased from €10,788,000 in 2025 to €54,377,000 in 2026 in the Revised Estimates for Public...
    • Departmental Funding
      582. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, the full list of all non-statutory bodies in receipt of direct funding from her Department in each of the past five years; the annual amount...
    • Child Protection
      583. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department requires non-statutory bodies in receipt of direct funding to maintain a Department-approved safeguarding policy, a designated...
    • Departmental Funding
      585. To ask the Minister for Health whether funding agreements with non-statutory bodies include defined service-quality standards, measurable performance indicators, reporting obligations beyond...
    • Medicinal Products
      588. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims submitted under the General Medical Services Scheme, Drugs Payment Scheme and Long-Term Illness Scheme for salbutamol nebules or...
    • Emergency Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Health when 24/7 cover of the Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV) in Roscommon will be operational given that the advanced paramedic roster for the RRV is now full; and when...
    • Mental Health Services
      593. To ask the Minister for Health whether the 2021 consultant post in child and adolescent psychiatry approved under the National Gender Service Model of Care (2018), referenced in PQ 70457/25,...
    • Departmental Reviews
      598. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the National Gender Service Model of Care (2018), referenced in PQ 70457/25, formally commenced; the governance structure overseeing the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      600. To ask the Minister for Health what national clinical governance arrangements currently apply to specialist gender healthcare services for children and adolescents while the National Gender...
    • Pharmacy Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has conducted a formal risk assessment of the requirement that dispensing pharmacies must contact the primary care reimbursement service...
    • Medicinal Products
      604. To ask the Minister for Health whether there is a formal departmental policy providing for automatic reimbursement of clinically equivalent substitute medicines once the Health Products...
    • Pharmacy Services
      606. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the administrative burden placed on community pharmacies in circumstances where substitute reimbursement must be...
    • Medicinal Products
      607. To ask the Minister for Health whether national clinical governance guidance has been issued by her Department or by the HSE in respect of reimbursement decision-making during shortages of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      609. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has conducted any value-for-money or cost-comparison analysis between maintaining automatic substitute reimbursement mechanisms during...
    • Pharmacy Services
      610. To ask the Minister for Health whether any equity impact assessment has been conducted to determine whether patients without medical cards or without established drugs payment scheme...
    • Medicinal Products
      611. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has engaged with representative bodies for community pharmacists, respiratory clinicians, or patient advocacy groups in relation to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      613. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2074 of 13 January 2026, to list all written directions, circulars, guidance notes, governance frameworks or performance...
    • Healthcare Policy
      616. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has approved any national governance, safeguarding, and clinical governance framework for gender identity services for children and...
    • Departmental Policies
      620. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has approved a national KPI set for recruitment governance across services funded under the Health Vote, including vacancy definitions,...
    • Departmental Data
      621. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2162 of 13 January 2026, whether her Department requires the HSE to provide recruitment and vacancy data to the...
    • Hospital Transfers
      622. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2164 of 13 January 2026, whether her Department will require the HSE to report quarterly to the Department the estimated...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      623. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2164 of 13 January 2026, whether her Department has approved any standard national methodology for calculating bed-day...
    • Healthcare Policy
      624. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department requires maternity services to record and report, as a national patient safety governance measure, any instance where signs of life are...
    • Disease Management
      626. To ask the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 2312 to 2316 of 13 January 2026, whether her Department holds the HSE tender evaluation summary,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the Government’s long-term approach to supporting people suffering from long-Covid, in circumstances where specific illness benefit arrangements for...
    • Hospital Staff
      628. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the efforts being made to secure the services of an orthodontist for the regional orthodontic service based at Louth County Hospital,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      629. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the number, age range and category of patient currently waiting for orthodontic assessment and orthodontic treatment at the regional orthodontic...
    • Health Service Executive
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the full list of national workforce Key Performance Indicators currently agreed between her Department and the HSE for 2025; the date on which each KPI was...
    • Health Services Staff
      631. To ask the Minister for Health whether the average time taken to fill funded vacant posts, from approval to commencement in post, is monitored at national level; if so, the most recent...
    • Health Service Executive
      635. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that there are delays of up to ten working days arising in providing access to IT accounts for HSE staff returning to work after periods of...
    • Medicinal Products
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of medicines listed as being in short supply on the national medicines shortage list maintained by the Health Products Regulatory Authority;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      642. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department requires that lifetime modelling of avoided downstream healthcare costs, including reduced hospital admissions, surgical interventions,...
    • Health Service Executive
      644. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the extent to which population-level disease prevention benefits are reflected in cost-effectiveness evaluations carried...
    • Medical Cards
      646. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department receives annual or quarterly statistical reports from the Health Service Executive on discretionary medical card approvals and refusals...
    • Medical Qualifications
      652. To ask the Minister for Health when she will consider and publish the review of the physician assistant or associate role in the health service; if she will sanction the grade and role; the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of whole-time equivalent GPs practising in the State in each year from 2020 to 2025; the estimated population per GP ratio in each year; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of funding allocated in 2025 and to date in 2026 to commission external private providers under Service Level Agreements or Grant Aid...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the commissioning of external psychological service providers in HSE South West on primary care child psychology waiting lists; the reduction...
    • Mental Health Services
      657. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is Government policy to continue the commissioning of external private providers for primary care level child and adolescent psychological...
    • Healthcare Policy
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to progress the lymphoedema and lipoedema model of care further to successful outcomes from Proof-of-Concept services; and if...
    • Legislative Measures
      662. To ask the Minister for Health when the draft Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Strategies
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the aspects of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetics and Genomic Medicine that will be progressed in 2026; the funding that will be required to do...
    • Cancer Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the aspects of the Hereditary Cancer Model of Care that will be progressed in 2026; the funding that will be required to do so; and if she will make a...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the implementation of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) screening within the national newborn bloodspot screening programme; the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the exclusion of some general practices from the revised social deprivation practice grant (details supplied); if she will take urgent...
    • Healthcare Policy
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to the publication of a comprehensive framework outlining a programme for the diagnosis and treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder,...
    • Medicinal Products
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on a waiting list for pre-exposure prophylaxis, by clinic; and the wait time to be offered a new appointment in each clinic, in tabular...
    • Emergency Services
      677. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a copy of the HEMS Feasibility Study (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13940/26]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      678. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 351 of 10 December 2025, to respond to correspondence from HIQA which clearly states that criteria used in their Health...
    • Primary Care Centres
      679. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the intended location for the proposed Drimnagh primary care centre, specifically whether the site selected is at Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12,...
    • Hospital Facilities
      681. To ask the Minister for Health when new facilities and upgraded accommodation will be provided at a health care centre (details supplied) in view of the longstanding commitment to undertake...
    • Home Help Service
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not receiving enough home help hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13956/26]
    • Care Services
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that a respite service in Westmeath is being used by one service user as a long-term residential place and is preventing other service users...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      684. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2460 of 13 January 2026, to provide an update on the review of the Medical Cannabis Access Programme; if a chairperson...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Legislative Process
      686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section, that has not been...
    • Student Accommodation
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1268 of 10 February 2026, if he will provide an updated table (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Library Projects
      688. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be made available for the development of a library in Castletroy, Limerick City; and if he will make a statement...
    • Men's Sheds
      689. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a building (details supplied) will be community asset transferred for community use; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      690. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that section,...
    • Community Development Projects
      691. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the programmes or funding that have been provided to support rural communities and Gaeltacht areas along the Wild Atlantic Way for...
    • Rural Schemes
      692. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when details of the next CLÁR Programme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13971/26]

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