Written answers

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Staff
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the...
    • Fuel Sales
      4. To ask the Taoiseach the quantity and value of peat and peat-based fuel imports (including briquettes) for each year from 2021 to 2025 inclusive, as recorded by the Central Statistics Office,...
    • St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
      5. To ask the Taoiseach the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be provided on these costs including on...
    • Employment Rights
      6. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department or any body under its aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise misclassification of self-employment; if so, to...
    • National Risk Assessment
      7. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the planned publication of the 2025 National Risk Assessment. [20431/26]
    • Departmental Data
      8. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department uses a service (details supplied). [20569/26]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      9. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff during their St Patrick’s Day trips in...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Consular Services
      13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in light of the significant escalation in hostilities involving Iran and adjoining states between 28 February and 1 March 2026, during which...
    • International Bodies
      15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on the United States ending the International Fund for Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Consular Services
      16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up to date advice for Irish citizens in the Gulf and Middle East; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18463/26]
    • Departmental Consultations
      18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether she has engaged with her French counterparts regarding reports that France will expand its nuclear arsenal; and if she will make a...
    • Nuclear Proliferation
      19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions the Government have taken at EU level over the past 12 months to advance nuclear non-proliferation; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff from her Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026;...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade following the closure of borders around Gaza her plans to assist with provision of aid to the region; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her plans to review the Occupied Territories Bill. [18710/26]
    • Council of Europe
      27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a list of companies providing sponsorship to Government for Ireland’s hosting of the Presidency of the Council of the European...
    • Official Travel
      28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total anticipated costs associated with her foreign travel for St Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be provided...
    • Departmental Functions
      29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18902/26]
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her department has received any communication from the OSCE-ODIHR for Short-Term Observers for the Election Observation Mission to...
    • Departmental Meetings
      31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland was represented at the Hague Group meeting in Amsterdam this week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19026/26]
    • Passport Services
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will expedite a passport application (details supplied), given the imminent travel dates; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Functions
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a comprehensive update on the work undertaken as part of Ireland's role in chairing the Nordic+ group; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Meetings
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on meetings and other engagements between Ireland and the Nordic Baltic 8 group; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Middle East
      35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a breakdown of the cost of the €800 fee for charter flights to evacuate Irish citizens from the Middle East; and if she will make...
    • Foreign Policy
      37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on the situation in Cuba; if she has raised the calls of an organisation (details supplied) for de-escalation and constructive...
    • Passport Services
      38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the average processing time for first time passports for infants; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Visa Applications
      40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of people that have applied under the working holiday visa scheme from Argentina; the limit on the number of applications in any...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Passport Services
      42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a passport application (details supplied) as the applicants travel date is imminent; and if she will make a statement...
    • Military Aircraft
      43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if inspections of US military planes and planes under the command of the US military have taken place in Shannon Airport this year; and if...
    • Consular Services
      50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her Department are supporting and assisting Irish citizen residents in the Gulf region, specifically in relation to those who are eager to...
    • Foreign Policy
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will address concerns regarding the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Meetings
      52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of occasions in 2025 and to-date in 2026 where the Irish Ambassador based in Madrid has met formally with the Mayor of Madrid, in...
    • Legislative Programme
      53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her plans in relation to passing the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill...
    • Social Media
      54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to many Irish people who were upset at her Department's recent social media video regarding Saint Brigid; the...
    • Irish Aid
      55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of funding received by organisations (details supplied) from Government funding in the past ten years. [20253/26]
    • Passport Services
      56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a renewal passport application submitted on 23 February 2026 will be processed on time for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by her and all members of her staff during their St...
    • Passport Services
      61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the procedure for changing a name on a passport, specifically if someone is looking to use their Irish language name; and if she will make a...
    • Human Rights
      63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her plans to raise a matter (details supplied). [20770/26]
    • Diaspora Issues
      64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she can address a proposal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20797/26]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the protection and promotion of democracy underpins Ireland's approach to overseas development aid. [20810/26]
    • Consular Services
      66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the full extent of Ireland's diplomatic representation in India; and any plans to increase that representation. [20811/26]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Fisheries Protection
      68. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address the concerns raised by charter boat operators regarding the proposed three fish bag limit for...
    • Energy Policy
      69. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline plans to ensure that 3% of publicly owned buildings with a total useful floor area of more than 250m2 are...
    • EU Regulations
      70. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the EU-wide digital recreational fisheries reporting system, RecFishing, which was launched on 9 January 2026,...
    • Grant Payments
      71. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason that the replacement heat pump grant was announced by the SEAI as allowable from 3 February 2026, only for a...
    • Inland Fisheries
      72. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to request from Inland Fisheries Ireland the rationale for the proposed full closure of the River Boyne to salmon anglers,...
    • Grant Payments
      73. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether applicants must complete BER assessments pre and post works following applications for SEAI warmer home grant; the...
    • Construction Industry
      74. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the new construction waste levy which is leading to significantly increased costs for...
    • Consumer Protection
      75. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to protect consumers from immediate increases in the price of oil by companies using current world events as an...
    • Departmental Staff
      76. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022...
    • EU Regulations
      79. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a notifying authority has been designated for Ireland as required under the EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542; if a body...
    • Environmental Policy
      80. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to reduce the current environmental management cost (vEMC) levy on tyres from its current rate to a...
    • Environmental Schemes
      81. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 24 February 2026, the reason a person (details supplied) has been denied...
    • Official Travel
      82. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown...
    • Inland Fisheries
      83. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for maintaining the special local draft net licence fee at €545 for Loughros Mór estuary when an...
    • Grant Payments
      84. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he would support the continuation of the reverse vending machine grants under the Re-Turn scheme for retailers who set...
    • Departmental Contracts
      85. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the oversight of works done by SEAI recommended contractors when the works are 100% funded by Government grants and who...
    • Departmental Funding
      86. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports available to people who are unable to afford the upfront costs of retrofitting their homes prior to receiving...
    • Data Centres
      87. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which data centres operating in the State will first be required to report on their carbon emissions pursuant...
    • Building Regulations
      91. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the National Building Renovation Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19282/26]
    • Grant Payments
      92. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to support the SEAI in reducing delays in the SEAI grant process; and if he will make...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      94. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to...
    • Fisheries Protection
      95. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 3 March 2026, if his attention has been drawn to the longest extended period...
    • Inland Fisheries
      96. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that no public consultation took place in relation to the proposed closure of...
    • Fuel Prices
      99. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has given consideration to releasing NORA fuel reserves to ease price and supply pressures; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Policy
      100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19556/26]
    • Energy Prices
      101. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the impact on the cost of electricity, with growing demand for electricity from data centres has been brought to his...
    • Departmental Projects
      103. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding opportunities available for projects relating to citizen science; if his Department have engaged with groups...
    • Departmental Data
      104. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the Accelerating Renewable Energy taskforce; the dates on which the taskforce has met since its...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      105. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the dates on which he exercised his power to request additional information from the distribution system operator as...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions taken to date to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to use surplus renewable energy to assist...
    • Energy Prices
      115. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households currently assessed as being in energy poverty (reported as c. 550,000); the number in electricity...
    • Housing Schemes
      118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to expand eligibility criteria for the SEAI warmer homes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Climate Action Plan
      120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given the statutory requirement under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 to publish an...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      123. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given the Environmental Protection Agency’s assessment that current and planned measures will result in Ireland...
    • Waste Management
      124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the long promised €75 annual support payment to support waste collection costs for persons...
    • Housing Schemes
      125. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of oil boilers and gas boilers installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2025...
    • Departmental Budgets
      126. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the capital budget allocation for his Department in 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [20034/26]
    • United Nations
      127. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether Ireland remains committed to UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, namely ensuring access to affordable, reliable,...
    • Fisheries Protection
      128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action his Department is taking to legislatively protect invasive/non-native bream (Abramis brama) stocks in Lough...
    • Environmental Policy
      130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider amending section 61 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 to require that all licensed...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      132. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households that have availed of the solar PV for the medically vulnerable scheme for each of the years it...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      133. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether households are still required to have been registered on the life support category of the priority services...
    • Climate Action Plan
      136. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the second consultation process for Ireland's draft Social Climate Plan (details supplied); and if...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of carbon that has been emitted by transport used by him, the Junior Ministers in his Department, and their...
    • Departmental Programmes
      143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he would consider expanding the membership of the Biomethane Implementation Group, which has been established to...
    • Departmental Reports
      144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department did not publish, on 24 February 2026, the full submission received from the Lough Corrib Pike...
    • Departmental Funding
      145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department has not provided any grants or financial aid to the Federation of Irish Salmon and Sea Trout...
    • Departmental Schemes
      146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a probability threshold of 85% was initially chosen as a datum governing Lough Corrib SAC for the draft Wild...
    • Waterways Ireland
      147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish a specific timetable for the development of a management plan for the Great Western Lakes, particularly...
    • Electricity Generation
      150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; to provide a timeline for its progression...
    • Exploration Industry
      151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals to issue exploration licences in respect of potential energy reserves in Irish territorial waters; and if he...
  • Department of Defence
    • Pension Provisions
      152. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of workers who retired from the public service in each of the last three years who have a fast accrual element to their public...
    • Defence Forces
      153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the proposals she is implementing in relation to recruitment in the Defence Forces; the number which have been recruited for each of the years...
    • Naval Service
      154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline Ireland’s Naval Defence capabilities and assets; to compare it with five years ago; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces
      155. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline Ireland’s Defence Forces (army) capabilities and assets; to compare it with five years ago; and if she will make a statement...
    • Air Corps
      156. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline Ireland’s Air Corps defence capabilities and assets; to compare it with five years ago; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff from her Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and...
    • Defence Forces
      160. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the implementation of the Regeneration and Development Plan of the Reserve Defence Forces; and if she will make a...
    • Air Corps
      163. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the super medium helicopter programme; when a model will be selected given that the programme is now two years old; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      164. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if her Department will provide assurances and a commitment that funds are available for all the programmes on the detailed implementation plan;...
    • Naval Service
      165. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of naval vessels docked in Dún Laoghaire Harbour during 2020 to 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19069/26]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      166. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if her Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Defence Forces
      167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the security duty allowance will be paid to Irish reservists for all activities undertaken during the Irish presidency of the EU.; and if she...
    • Air Corps
      168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date on which Government approval was granted for the procurement of the Falcon 6X aircraft; whether a formal memorandum was submitted to...
    • Defence Forces
      173. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the annual number of applicants to the Reserve Defence Forces in each year from 2018 to date in 2026; the number accepted for training in each...
    • Departmental Policies
      180. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the statutory basis, if any, under which troops may be deployed as aid to the civil power following the expiry of the Emergency Powers Act 1976...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      183. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she has paid to offset any of the carbon emitted due to St Patrick’s Day trips in 2026; and the amount paid. [20641/26]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Departmental Strategies
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the progress of the first National Safety Camera Strategy, when he expects it to be published; and if he...
    • Road Safety Authority
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions his Department has planned to reform the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18248/26]
    • Road Safety
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans his Department has to reform wider road safety governance given that many different road safety responsibilities are spread...
    • Road Projects
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 352 of 4 February 2026, the funding allocated to and drawn down by Waterford City and County...
    • Departmental Funding
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the efficiency of funding allocations for bridge rehabilitation in County Clare, given that several structures including...
    • Road Network
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the significant cost increase for the Lough Alewnaghta road protection scheme (CL/CCAR/26/002) from €45,000 in 2025...
    • Departmental Funding
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the expenditure of over €126,000 on bridge inventory and maintenance inspections in County Clare over the...
    • Road Network
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Clare County Council received one of the lowest per-kilometre capital allocations for national roads in the State in 2025,...
    • Departmental Funding
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the justification for allocating €100,000 to a new scheme at R478 Liscannor Village in 2026, given that recurring structural...
    • Road Safety
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason regional and local roads in North Clare (specifically L5248, L1098, R476) remain in poor condition despite overall funding...
    • Road Safety Authority
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will re-evaluate the role, structure, and accountability of the Road Safety Authority in light of recent figures showing that...
    • Driver Licences
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a matter regarding a drivers licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18335/26]
    • Driver Test
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he can provide the waiting list timeline in respect of each test centre in County Galway, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify when a new contract for Luas operations and maintenance will be put in place, in view of the urgency; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of maintenance contracts using public funds that his Department or his agencies has where a company (details supplied)...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the TFI Child (5–8) Leap Card which is currently not being accepted on the MU1 and MU2 town bus...
    • Driver Test
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports currently available to persons with ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and other neurodivergent conditions to assist them in...
    • National Car Test
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times in each NCT centre serving the Kilkenny and Carlow region, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure along major routes in Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Network
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when traffic calming measures, including resurfacing of road, provision of footpaths, pedestrian crossing, and so on, will be carried out...
    • Bus Services
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently review the current diversion of the 32X service along the Clontarf Road; the expected duration of this diversion; to...
    • National Transport Authority
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department or the National Transport Authority has examined the option of developing an overground shuttle rail link between...
    • Rail Network
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether consideration has been given to acquiring a defined rail corridor between Clongriffin and Dublin Airport, across largely...
    • Housing Policy
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department has assessed the potential use of modular housing to accommodate workers involved in major infrastructure projects...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which road collision data is compiled; the agency or body that is responsible for compiling these statistics; if his...
    • Road Safety
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the National Safety Camera Strategy; when it will be published; the number of average-speed camera zones planned for...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure that Transport Infrastructure Ireland continue to employ a significant number of Kerry County Council general operatives,...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fatal and serious road traffic collisions each year since 2010 where an unborn baby has died following the collision. [18532/26]
    • Departmental Programmes
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is considering opening a new round of applications for the Safe Routes to School Programme for schools that did not apply in...
    • Road Safety
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the merits of creating delineated regulations within the existing road traffic act that would differentiate between someone...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the last time a review was carried out of the appeal mechanism for the penalty points system for road traffic...
    • Departmental Programmes
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Public Service Obligation Programme, in particular the introduction of the new route 33 service to...
    • Road Network
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts his Department is making to address traffic congestion on the M50; the steps his Department is taking to ensure a faster...
    • Road Tolls
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to address a case (details supplied) in which a motorist is being fined over €1,100 for five missed tolls, despite engaging with...
    • Aviation Industry
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department has taken to ensure that Ireland has properly enforced Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 in relation to aviation...
    • Road Safety Authority
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport following the decision in December 2025 to abandon the planned restructuring of the Road Safety Authority, to state which body or...
    • Departmental Staff
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in...
    • Parking Provision
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to invest in a new parking facility at Thurles train station to accommodate people who use the public transport system...
    • Road Safety
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his plans to improve road safety and decrease road deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18667/26]
    • Rail Network
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail will cover the costs in the interim to shorten the gap between platform five and train carriages at Connolly Station, as...
    • Bus Services
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Bus Éireann PSO double decker coaches, double decker buses that came into the fleet in each of the years 2024, 2025...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that CIÉ are taking to advertise for new retail units to open at Busáras Station. [18680/26]
    • Public Transport
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 7 July 2025, for a status update on the proposed pedestrian bridge connecting Tramore Valley...
    • Bus Services
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of outbound journeys taken each month on the 73 bus in Dublin since 2025, between 6pm and end of service, in tabular form; and...
    • Driver Test
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the inspection or monitoring which is undertaken by his Department to ensure that approved driving lessons are in compliance and...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he considers it appropriate for Transport Infrastructure Ireland to refuse to meet with a Municipal Committee of Kildare County...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an up-to-date status on the CIÉ superannuation scheme for those who have not received an increase in their pension for...
    • Driver Test
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 4 March 2026, his views on the merits of expanding the operating hours of RSA operated...
    • Official Travel
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be...
    • Road Network
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of average-speed camera systems currently operational on the national road network;the plans to expand their deployment to...
    • Road Safety
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has identified the highest-risk road sections for fatal and serious collisions on the national and regional network;...
    • Electric Vehicles
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will pursue a formal exception for short-term car rental operators in EU negotiations in relation to the zero-emission vehicle...
    • Taxi Regulations
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to ensure that app-based taxi platforms provide accurate information and prevent misleading practices that inflate...
    • Public Transport
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, or the National Transport Authority, to engage consultants to further explore...
    • Bus Services
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to address the issue of a bus service (details supplied). [19031/26]
    • Rail Network
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the men’s bathrooms in Tullamore train station have been closed since Covid-19 and that the disabled bathrooms...
    • Public Transport
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update in relation to the proposed works on Spollanstown Bridge, Tullamore, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to enable disabled passengers to travel without advance notice where station infrastructure or staffing limitations...
    • Road Safety
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has assessed the potential benefits of deploying average speed camera technology on high risk routes across the State...
    • Disability Services
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether requiring disabled passengers to disclose their disability and request assistance in advance to access rail services has been...
    • Rail Network
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the status of the proposed reopening of the Mullingar–Athlone railway line; the extent to which...
    • Bus Services
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the long standing issues with getting a bus service to a location (details supplied); his views on the...
    • Road Safety Authority
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total annual expenditure on road safety by the RSA and Transport Infrastructure Ireland respectively, in each of the past five years;...
    • Air Services
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department will ensure that the recent European Commission ruling concerning night-flight limits at Dublin Airport...
    • Bus Services
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current cost of a high capacity coach that is suitable for rural bus routes, if he will provide funding to the NTA to purchase a...
    • Road Safety
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the progress to commence and update relevant regulations and codes of practice in respect of the seizure of...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin City Council and the other Dublin local authorities currently have access to collision location data from 2019 onwards; the...
    • Road Safety
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is taking to address road safety; whether her Department will support the creation of a statutory road safety...
    • Road Network
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount spent on road infrastructure in each region under the current National Development Plan, in each of the past five years,...
    • Rail Network
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the new 6.50am rail service leaving Athenry train station for Galway will be continued as a permanent service; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm receipt of correspondence from an individual (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19346/26]
    • Disability Services
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the current rail accessibility system, which requires disabled passengers to request assistance in advance in order to travel,...
    • Rail Network
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding any engagement he is having with Irish Rail in relation to a disruption in services (details supplied); and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of pre-booked assistance requests received by Irish Rail annually for each of the years 2019 and 2025 and to date in 2026, in...
    • Legislative Process
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparation the Government has regarding the Clean Corporate Vehicles legislation; the supports that will be provided for impacted...
    • Departmental Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide funding for the M50 Liffey Crossing Active Travel Project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19390/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has calculated the estimated cost of a €5,000 per vehicle scrappage scheme for private diesel cars registered...
    • Vehicle Registration
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of private diesel cars registered before 2015 that are currently licensed and taxed in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Transport Policy
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his efforts to accelerate the transition to electric and sustainable transport; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electric Vehicles
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of publicly available EV charging points in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19398/26]
    • Insurance Industry
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that insurance companies are not honouring the no claims bonus’ of drivers who have epilepsy when they have periods...
    • Disability Services
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of assessments carried out on current Irish Rail accessibility policies, including advance notice requirements and mandatory...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Rail Network
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider pro rata refunds for season rail ticket holders following failures of rail services and the known constraints of the bus...
    • Road Network
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide sufficient funding to Clare County Council to carry out essential works on the R460 road between Corofin and Lough Bunny which...
    • Road Safety
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he is taking to reduce road deaths aside from the RSA Vision Zero Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Policies
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19603/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles detected by Gardaí with non compliant number plates each month since October 2025, by county and Garda...
    • Public Transport
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19652/26]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether any obligation exists on local authorities to conduct a road design review following a fatal road traffic collision on a road...
    • Taxi Regulations
      312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will investigate changes to commission fares by a company (details supplied); the specific oversight in regulating...
    • Road Safety
      313. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the frequency which the ministerial committee on road safety meets; and to provide a list of the dates of meetings in each of the years...
    • Bus Services
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount invested in an existing service (details supplied) from 2020 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Transport Policy
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the work of his Department in the development of a transport demand management scheme for the greater Dublin area, in...
    • Bus Services
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department is working to encourage the delivery of commercial bus services. [19780/26]
    • Transport Policy
      320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update regarding the roll-out of next generation ticketing. [19781/26]
    • Rail Network
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport which railway stations have been selected for funding for retrofitting and accessibility improvements. [19782/26]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the establishment of a transport security force. [19783/26]
    • Public Transport
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to ensure the cyber-resilience of Ireland’s public transport network systems from external threats. [19784/26]
    • Electric Vehicles
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the merits of creating a dedicated fund to provide EV charging infrastructure at all local authority buildings that will be...
    • Air Services
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied in relation to the provision of easy, accessible, step free access from all aircraft to the exit/entrance of Dublin...
    • Public Transport
      332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application for a small public vehicle license; the reason a fee for a resit of the examination requirement is...
    • Bus Services
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider amending a bus service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19840/26]
    • Driver Licences
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason persons changing an English driver licence to an Irish driver licence are having their licence for heavy goods vehicles...
    • Road Network
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any assessments have been carried out nationally of the condition of local roads; the proportion that are deemed in poor condition;...
    • Rail Network
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons the Dublin to Rosslare rail line has the poorest quality of rail carriages; the reason no consideration is given to providing...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      339. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a possible official park and ride facility at junction 22 on the M11 just north of Gorey given that an unofficial one...
    • Road Network
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provision made for the cleaning of the cycle lanes along the road from Gorey to Inch and from Gorey to Clough in North Wexford; and...
    • Departmental Meetings
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of meetings which have taken place between him or officials in his Department and an organisation (details supplied) in 2025;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to urgently examine correspondence from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19880/26]
    • Road Safety
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure the deployment of average speed cameras on high-risk routes as a matter of urgency; and if he will make...
    • Road Network
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support and fund a programme to redesign the 50 highest risk road sections with published timelines for implementation; and if...
    • Rail Network
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in the context of the All Island Strategic Rail Review or any other policy work, his Department has given consideration to the...
    • Road Safety
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times and the dates the issue of capturing driver numbers in court for penalty point or disqualification offences has been...
    • National Car Test
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of NCT appeals lodged in each of the years since 2015; the cost of lodging an appeal; and whether his Department has reviewed...
    • Driver Test
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting time for a driving test applicant (details supplied) from January 2025 to date in 2026, broken down by month, in...
    • Insurance Industry
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a change in legislation from 31 March 2025, given that persons wishing to buy or renew their motor insurance must provide the...
    • Aviation Industry
      361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the Government has received any communication from the United States Government, the US Department of Transportation, Airlines...
    • Transport Policy
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department is aware that a formal complaint (ID:91249) was filed with the European Commission on 2 March 2026 alleging that...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the DAA has issued a formal instruction to a company (details supplied) to conduct a review of the North runway departure routes;...
    • Traffic Management
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of his plans for a forum to reduce congestion, whether he is aware that the ESB has moved staff from its airport offices back to...
    • Road Safety
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the roll out of new automated speed cameras at road accident black spots across the country. [20100/26]
    • Bus Services
      368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update from the NTA on the promised pilot of a bus service from Annacotty-to-Annacotty Business Park; the expected start for the...
    • Rail Network
      372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a direct train from Sallins to Grand Canal Dock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20177/26]
    • Road Signage
      374. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider providing additional markings on the M7/M8 diverge, to ensure it is sign posted well in advance to inform drivers...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      376. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if aircraft are to spray reflective particles in Irish airspace space as per the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment...
    • Active Travel
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the guidelines governing the reinstatement of boundaries and other property features following a compulsory purchase order (details...
    • Bus Services
      378. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the Tánaiste's explicit commitment in Dáil Éireann on 5 March 2026 (details supplied), if he will provide...
    • Road Signage
      380. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has examined the way road signage could be redesigned to provide parity between Irish and English text; whether any...
    • Electric Vehicles
      381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his plans to facilitate kerbside home electric charging points for residents who do not have a driveway; and the...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for a licence will be granted (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20436/26]
    • Road Safety
      383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the National Safety Camera Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20557/26]
    • Rail Network
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of each category of train tickets for Dublin Connolly-Sligo services that were sold in 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff during...
    • Bus Services
      392. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the funding that has been invested in new bus routes versus existing services from 2020-2026 in Dublin, by year, in...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      394. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rollout date of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20765/26]
    • Transport Policy
      396. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider reforming the motor tax online payment system to facilitate bulk purchases and renewals of motor tax by corporate...
    • Road Network
      397. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Cork - Limerick motorway project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20818/26]
    • Bus Services
      398. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the NTA in relation to adding pick up and drop off locations for the current Citylink direct bus from Galway to...
    • Departmental Data
      399. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions in each of the past five years on which Luas services were delayed due to road traffic collisions or incidents...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      400. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department has engaged with the NTA to ensure live service disruptions on public transport is communicated on other platforms...
    • Road Network
      401. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 18 February 2026, if he will ensure that further consideration is given to the request of...
    • Road Safety
      402. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further consideration can be given to the implementation of safety measures on routes (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Greenways Provision
      403. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason wheelchair-accessible bicycles are not routinely available on State-funded greenways; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Data
      404. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of making the carer's allowance and carer's benefit tax-exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20750/26]
    • Disability Issues
      405. To ask the Minister for Finance if there will be a review of the motorised transport grant scheme to allow for the inclusion of electric vehicles (EVs), given that EVs are currently exempt...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      406. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make the carer's allowance and carer's benefit tax exempt similar to other social welfare supports in recognition of savings these carers offer the...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      407. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 452 of 17 February 2026, the position regarding the assessment and analysis that is carried out in relation to balancing...
    • Departmental Staff
      410. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details...
    • Tax Code
      413. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the tax treatment of investments in Exchange Traded Funds, including Green ETFs, including the deemed disposal rule and exit tax; and if he...
    • State Bodies
      414. To ask the Minister for Finance if the current IT infrastructure project for the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman is within budget; to confirm that payments paid to date to external...
    • Official Travel
      415. To ask the Minister for Finance the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be provided on these costs...
    • Tax Code
      416. To ask the Minister for Finance if the current VAT rate for printed and digital maps will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18912/26]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      417. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a breakdown of the number of mortgage holders paying an interest rate over 6%; the number paying an interest rate over 7%; the number paying an...
    • Tax Reliefs
      421. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider introducing a tax relief for PAYE individuals who engage the services of an accountant for the purposes of their tax return and incur fees...
    • Tax Data
      422. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money raised through deemed disposal taxes in the years 2020 to 2025 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Budget 2026
      423. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to publish the roadmap on investment taxation reforms referenced in Budget 2026; whether that roadmap will examine the operation of the deemed...
    • State Savings Schemes
      424. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the proposed State-backed savings and investment scheme aimed at encouraging greater household participation in long-term investment;...
    • Tax Yield
      425. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 17 February 2026, if a further review is underway by his Department and Revenue to provide more clarity on the...
    • Tax Code
      426. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of further reductions in the taxation rate that applies to Irish and equivalent offshore funds, and Irish and certain foreign life assurance...
    • Tax Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department tracks the total amount of tax revenue collected annually from electricity supplied to businesses in each of the past five years; the...
    • Energy Prices
      429. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government has examined the impact of VAT and other Exchequer-imposed charges on commercial electricity costs in the context of heightened energy price...
    • Tax Data
      430. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of reverting carbon tax on home heating oil back to the levels of each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025...
    • Tax Code
      434. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the flat rate of tax for farmers is decided on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19229/26]
    • Tax Data
      435. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify if local authorities are obliged to pay the residential zoned land tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19276/26]
    • Tax Yield
      437. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue earned from VAT on large energy users in each of the years 2015 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [19391/26]
    • Tax Avoidance
      439. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for bringing in the deemed disposal rule as an anti avoidance measure in the Finance Act 2006; if there was any evidence of significant levels...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      440. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 19 February 2026, to clarify if a payment break is registered as a missed payment; and if he will make a...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      441. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or any body under its aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise misclassification of...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      442. To ask the Minister for Finance if all NAMA files will be sent to the National Archives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19539/26]
    • Tax Collection
      443. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the continued application and scheduled increases of the carbon tax on petrol and diesel, at a time when motorists are already facing...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      444. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged with the Central Bank of Ireland regarding the use by regulated financial service providers of facial image capture, facial...
    • Insurance Industry
      450. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the motor insurance transparency code is voluntary, despite this not being mentioned in the Action Plan for Insurance Reform 2025–2029; when...
    • Tax Data
      451. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing excise to the same level on petrol, diesel and marked gas oil to the same level as the reduced rate in 2024, from 1 April 2026,...
    • Banking Sector
      452. To ask the Minister for Finance to specify the interest rate on the €200,000,000 million loan from the EIB to the SBCI; to provide an exhaustive list of all of the lending partners of...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      453. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 4 of March 2026, the interest rate and/or annual return on investment for each commitment, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Data
      455. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the number of detections of domestic vehicles containing agricultural green diesel in each of the years from 2020 to date in...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      456. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering delaying the scheduled increase in carbon tax in light of the recent unprecedented increases in oil, diesel and gas prices linked to...
    • Tax Code
      459. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the anomaly whereby self employed workers are excluded from availing of tax free commuter supports under TaxSaver, despite representing a...
    • Tax Reliefs
      460. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a pension tax relief matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19948/26]
    • Insurance Industry
      461. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps his Department is taking to tackle the financial burden facing households and homeowners seeking home insurance. [20015/26]
    • Tax Reliefs
      464. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding any review ongoing of the pension tax relief earnings cap of €115,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20095/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      467. To ask the Minister for Finance to respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20234/26]
    • State Claims Agency
      468. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claims and amount relating to same that the State Claims Agency (SCA) have settled before court proceedings in each of the years 2019 to 2025...
    • Tax Code
      469. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish the approach to the taxation of retail investment referenced in Budget 2026; whether that publication will include specific proposals...
    • Housing Schemes
      477. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to extend the help-to-buy scheme to second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement...
    • Credit Unions
      479. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of contributions by credit unions to the deposit guarantee scheme for each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to-date in 2026; and if he will make a...
    • Financial Services
      480. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase staffing at the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman's Office, in view of the fact that many people are waiting years for a...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      482. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff during their St Patrick’s...
    • Insurance Industry
      486. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons motor insurance premiums can rise significantly for policyholders who have had no claims, no accidents, no penalty points, and no change in their...
    • Housing Schemes
      487. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the current cap to the help to buy scheme to ensure that the cap is inline with house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      488. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the removal of deemed disposal was excluded from Budget 2026, despite official recommendations; if he is minded to reform or abolish this policy;...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Government Procurement
      492. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform , further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 24 June 2025, in which he confirmed that the Office of Government Procurement had ceased...
    • Departmental Meetings
      493. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider facilitating a meeting with a campaign group that is seeking to create an Irish Academy of Fine Arts (details...
    • Office of Public Works
      495. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average occupancy rate of OPW managed office space both inside and outside Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Cultural Institutions
      496. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the ongoing renovations of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham; the total amount expended on the works to date; when...
    • Departmental Staff
      498. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff from his Department seconded to a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details...
    • Office of Public Works
      500. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the OPW properties that were used as domestic dwellings by members of An Garda Siochana between 2000 and 1 March 2026; to provide the...
    • Departmental Data
      501. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a person (details supplied) has been issued with a financial bill while a clerical error appears to have been made by the...
    • Public Appointments Service
      502. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of males and females, fluent in Irish, that applied for the most recent executive officer public appointment service...
    • Office of Public Works
      504. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE staff, by job title, and gender, employed by the OPW working at Dublin Castle as of 3 March 2026, in tabular form....
    • Public Sector Pensions
      506. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the public sector single pension scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      510. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to confirm that the River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020 is no longer on the priority legislation list for drafting; and if he will...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      511. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 3 March 2026, the reason the Minister for State, confirmed in Dáil Éireann during...
    • Official Travel
      512. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      517. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of instances where applicants have accidentally uploaded more than one document and therefore been excluded from a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      518. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position on the installation of the interim flood measures for Enniscorthy; when will they be finalised; the date they will...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      520. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total infrastructure capital allocation to every county in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [19321/26]
    • Road Projects
      522. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the proposed second bridge for Celbridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19376/26]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      523. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      524. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of flood defences including timelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19615/26]
    • Heritage Sites
      525. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the relocation of the Turoe Stone; the expected timeline for commencement and completion of the project; and if...
    • Departmental Bodies
      526. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the membership of the Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforces; the dates on which the taskforce has met since its inception, in tabular...
    • Tax Code
      528. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline where the carbon tax that is collected goes; the schemes it specifically funds; the exact amounts redistributed to...
    • Legislative Measures
      531. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Exchequer cost associated with the proposed unwinding of the remaining provisions of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public...
    • Heritage Sites
      533. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected completion date of the works on the Round Tower in Kells, County Meath; when the protective wrap will be removed (details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      534. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any consideration has been given by him for the publicly funded Institute of public administration plans to acquire new multi million...
    • Prison Service
      535. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to confirm the security resistance classification and glazing classification which apply for windows installed or to be installed under...
    • European Union
      539. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the source of funding used by the State to discharge financial penalties imposed on Ireland by the European Union arising from...
    • State Properties
      542. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to advise if lands (details supplied) vested in the State, following the dissolution of the registered owner, are covered under a policy...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      543. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff during...
    • Heritage Centres
      547. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the tender process for the new visitor centre at Trim Castle; if the project has gone to tender; and if not, when will...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Inland Fisheries
      548. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans Fáilte Ireland has in place to promote the future of Inland Fisheries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      549. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of meetings which have taken place between him or officials in his Department and an organisation (details supplied) or...
    • Departmental Projects
      550. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the support provided by his Department and its agencies to a company (details supplied) in 2025; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      552. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to support an application for priming finance by (details supplied) under the Enterprise Ireland's smart regions enterprise...
    • Energy Prices
      555. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding significant increases in oil prices being charged, with an almost 50% increase since last order in some cases;...
    • Departmental Staff
      556. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date...
    • Employment Rights
      559. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to publish the outcome of the public consultation on the proposal to extend the late working hours exemption for...
    • Energy Prices
      560. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will regulate for any fuel price increases to be curtailed until the old fuel stocks have dissipated; and if he will make a...
    • Tourism Promotion
      561. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE staff, by job title, and gender, working in the events and festival department of Fáilte Ireland as of 3 March...
    • Work Permits
      563. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether employment permit applicants in the manufacturing sector are covered by a sectoral employment order; whether applicants in...
    • Road Safety
      564. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the most recent research that was carried out into best practice and workplace governance regarding driving...
    • Energy Prices
      567. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he has taken to prevent price gouging in the prices of petrol, diesel and home heating oil following reports of suppliers...
    • Departmental Data
      569. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an update can be provided for a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18814/26]
    • Official Travel
      570. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be...
    • Energy Prices
      571. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if in view of recent increases in oil prices (details supplied), he has had any engagement with the Competition and Consumer...
    • Universal Basic Income
      572. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has conducted any assessment on the viability of introducing a universal basic income model including the financial...
    • Rental Sector
      573. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to concerns (details supplied) in relation to short-term lets. [19089/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      574. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in relation to the Industrial Relations Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers Bill 2021, he can...
    • Enterprise Policy
      575. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider establishing a national Exporter Recognition Symbol that Irish exporting firms could display at their premises,...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      577. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Intellectual Property
      578. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm whether the State has formally designated the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland as the national competent...
    • Energy Prices
      579. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will investigate issues of alleged price gouging from gas and oil companies since the escalation of violence in the Middle...
    • Tourism Industry
      581. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason there is no single, national register of verified accessible tourism attractions and accommodation, despite...
    • Tourist Accommodation
      582. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether accommodation supply is now recognised as core tourism infrastructure; how inclusive and sustainable tourism can be delivered...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      583. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with the European Commission regarding the implementation of the EU Artificial Intelligence...
    • Energy Prices
      584. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions his Department is taking, in conjunction with relevant regulators and Departments, to address potential price gouging by...
    • Legislative Programme
      586. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status and expected timeline for the progression of the Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      587. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20267/26]
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      588. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures being undertaken by his Department to promote the take up of fibre to the home fibre broadband amongst Irish SMEs,...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      589. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff during...
    • Employment Rights
      593. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied with the adequacy of statutory sick pay in the context of the cost of living crisis; his views on the financial...
    • Business Supports
      595. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are in place for businesses that engage in import to export trade that rely on passage of goods through regions of...
    • Employment Data
      596. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the assessments that have been carried out by his Department on the impact of aging demographics on specific employment...
    • Industrial Relations
      597. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department will bring forward to address the lack of access to the industrial relations system faced by people who...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if transport has been arranged for a vulnerable student in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Abuse
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for each of the supports announced during the apology he made for survivors of industrial schools. [20567/26]
    • School Transport
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school buses that have been part of the Bus Éireann fleet for each of the last five years. [20891/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a status update of the proposal by a school (details supplied) to develop two ASD modular units within the existing play area of the school;...
    • School Enrolments
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase secondary school capacity in Malahide. [18257/26]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding a school's request for DEIS status; the criteria applied in assessing eligibility...
    • Schools Building Projects
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new schools building projects and extensions currently underway in Kerry, by stage and date the project entered that stage,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post primary schools in County Donegal that received funding for works under the emergency works scheme in 2024-2025...
    • Schools Building Projects
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new school development projects in County Wexford currently in stage 3 of the development process; the date each project entered...
    • Education and Training Boards
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the progression of the proposed headquarters project (details supplied); the current stage of development, engagement with...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 16 July 2025 and her predecessors reply in the context of the protection of school children, in...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the protection of school children, is she aware of the fact that the previous Minister of Housing, Local Government and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the current criteria governing the sanctioning of autism spectrum special classes, in view of a situation at a primary school...
    • Departmental Schemes
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an Emergency Works Grant application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18336/26]
    • Education Costs
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools asking parents for 'voluntary contributions', by county, in tabular form. [18341/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a policy (details supplied), a consequence of which sees smaller minority-faith based schools disadvantaged in respect of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the provision of school buildings for a school (details supplied). [18344/26]
    • Departmental Meetings
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of meetings which have taken place between her or officials in her Department and an organisation (details supplied) or bodies which...
    • Departmental Contracts
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of maintenance contracts using public funds that her Department or her agencies has where a company (details supplied) carry...
    • Education Policy
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to open reader classes/reading school placements in South Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18366/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the opening of a new special school in Monasterevin, Co. Kildare , [18367/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of a school building (details supplied). [18382/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new special school (details supplied) has been provided with the necessary resources to provide education to students attending on a full...
    • Schools Building Projects
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the large-scale capital project for a school (details supplied); when tender assessment will be completed; whether...
    • Special Educational Needs
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis for the introduction in 2024 of the revised special needs assistant (SNA) deployment toolkit and guidelines used by the National...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Teaching Council’s recognition of the postgraduate programme “iPGCE with iQTS: SEND – Postgraduate...
    • Special Educational Needs
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the acute lack of ASD unit places for children attending schools in County Wexford, and in the south east...
    • Schools Building Projects
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding new modular classrooms for a school (details supplied) in Celbridge, County Kildare; the number of units that will be...
    • Employment Rights
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to address the lack of statutory protections for job sharing or flexible work arrangements for parent carers working in...
    • Departmental Staff
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff from her Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and...
    • Home Schooling
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No's 538, 539, 540 and 541 of 10 February 2026 (details supplied), the measures her Department is taking to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding the pause on the allocation of additional special needs assistant posts; and whether this pause applies to schools...
    • School Enrolments
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide guidance to parents who are finding it difficult to secure a second class school placement for their child in their locality (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a letter of eligibility has been issued to enable a child (details supplied) to attend a special school; to clarify if this matter has now...
    • School Accommodation
      657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline contacts her Department has had in respect of the accommodation needs of a school (details supplied); if she appreciates the concerns...
    • School Transport
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school transport scheme review, and when any recommended changes will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Language
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils enrolled in Irish-medium education at primary level and post primary level in Longford-Westmeath, in tabular form; and if...
    • Departmental Reports
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time it has taken to complete an addendum report review; when her Department expects to complete this process (details supplied);...
    • Special Educational Needs
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department is taking to increase the number of specific speech and language disorder / developmental language disorder special...
    • Schools Building Projects
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently intervene in a matter regarding a school building in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teacher Training
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training provided to teachers at both primary and secondary level regarding dyslexia, how to recognise if a student is experiencing this...
    • Special Educational Needs
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the educational supports available to students with dyslexia at primary and secondary level; if all supports are available in all...
    • Schools Building Projects
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give consideration to, and reply to, points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18793/26]
    • Child Abuse
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the redress scheme for survivors of historical child sexual abuse in primary and secondary schools; when more information will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a status update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18820/26]
    • School Staff
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the school secretary and caretaker dispute; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18823/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the rollout of the education therapy service for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to access to school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18846/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is concerned about the proposed move of a special school (details supplied); to outline where the school will be relocated; and if...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the work ongoing within her Department to reduce the student teacher ratio in primary schools; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the work ongoing within her Department that seeks to increase the provision of special education teachers to ensure the best possible...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the national average student teacher ratio in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18862/26]
    • School Accommodation
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date situation regarding her Department’s additional school accommodation scheme for a school (details supplied); and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child with mixed abilities who accepts a placement in a mainstream primary school and is granted access to a special needs assistant...
    • Official Travel
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total anticipated costs associated with her foreign travel for St Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be provided on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mixed-abilities special education classes that will be required from September 2026 in the constituency of Fingal West; the number...
    • School Staff
      712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the teaching allocation schedule for primary schools will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18917/26]
    • Teacher Training
      714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional qualifications needed for teachers to teach in a Gaelscoil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18919/26]
    • School Transport
      715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial assistance is available to parents who are required to make long journeys following on from the cessation of a bus service (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when additional reading classes will be made available in schools, particularly in North Kerry, for children with severe dyslexia and literacy...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      718. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18963/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed building extension for a school (details supplied). [18994/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 24 February 2026, if she will review the correspondence (details supplied); if she will answer the...
    • School Accommodation
      721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule on a county-by-county and school-by-school basis in respect of the number of modular classrooms in use; the annual...
    • Schools Building Projects
      723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a comprehensive list of all schools in Wicklow that are either currently undergoing renovations, awaiting extensions or awaiting new...
    • Special Educational Needs
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Wicklow have applied for additional special school classes or places; the total number requested by school; whether...
    • Schools Building Projects
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 25 September 2025, whether the Department has completed its review of the requirement to establish a...
    • School Enrolments
      727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning that has taken place in her Department in relation to projected population growth in Malahide, Portmarnock and Kinsealy in County...
    • School Facilities
      728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of all schools that have received funding for a gym since 2020; the amount each school was granted, in tabular form;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria being used to assess the Energy and Condition Survey and the weight that will be afforded to this survey when assessing the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be approved for an ASD class for a school (details supplied); and the reasons this school has not been approved to date. [19061/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update in relation to the proposed new school building at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any difference between the exam papers for the Junior and Leaving certificate exams for students of gaelscoileanna and English...
    • Special Educational Needs
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider establishing a special secondary school in a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19095/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the application for additional accommodation from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a timeline for the installation of urgent ramp accessibility works at a school (details supplied); and if her Department sanctioned...
    • Schools Building Projects
      744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money allocated to new build schools and new extensions to schools for art work in 2020 to 2025 and to date 2026, in tabular form;...
    • State Examinations
      745. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek clarification from the State Examinations Commission (SEC) as to why the proposed RACE accommodations for a student (details...
    • Youth Services
      746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department is engaging with the youth forum which will take place in the lead-up to Ireland's Presidency; if she can provide...
    • Schools Building Projects
      748. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the proposed new school building for a school (details supplied); the stage the project has reached within the Department's...
    • School Accommodation
      750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider visiting a school (details supplied), to meet with students, parents and staff and to observe firsthand the challenges...
    • Schools Building Projects
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the Department the position regarding the timeline for a project (details supplied). [19179/26]
    • School Accommodation
      753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current accommodation capacity of a school (details supplied); the school’s current and projected enrolment figures; and the steps her...
    • School Discipline
      756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that being taken to support schools in developing solutions to enhance student engagement while minimizing digital disruptions. [19186/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the extension project at a school (details supplied) which is currently at Stage 2B; the cause of the continuing delay in...
    • School Accommodation
      758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the capacity issue in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19235/26]
    • School Staff
      759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the grant or allocation provided to schools (details supplied) for each substitute teacher cover has increased in each of the past 20 years;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of funding for an autism class for a school (details supplied), when it is expected that this autism class will be...
    • School Enrolments
      764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with a school (details supplied); the measures she is putting in place to boost...
    • Schools Building Projects
      765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building projects approved in every county, in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [19326/26]
    • School Transport
      767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a county-by-county breakdown of the number of children availing of the school transport scheme for primary, secondary and special...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 25 February 2026, if she will provide assurance that an ASD class will be provided for a school...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the position regarding the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an issue presenting for a school (details supplied); the reason for delay in attending to the issue identified...
    • School Transport
      772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made for a school transport application for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the delay; and...
    • Youth Services
      773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National Youth Work Advisory Committee as prescribed under Section 17 of the Youth Work Act 2001 will be reconstituted; if plans for its...
    • School Facilities
      774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding additional infrastructure such as additional transport and after-school facilities for North Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently increase the funding levels of the minor works scheme, in line with the huge increases in the costs or repair and maintenance...
    • Special Educational Needs
      777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the acute lack of ASD unit places for children attending schools in County Wexford and in the south east generally; the steps...
    • Schools Building Projects
      779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline when a school (details supplied) will be issued with approval to proceed to Stage 2a; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of school management in relation to the lack of permanent accommodation at a school (details...
    • School Transport
      782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to children in the Tullamore/Killina pilot online schools admission system who are being accepted to school in...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to engage with a school (details supplied) which has specific needs in excess of those covered under the Deis Plus band; to advise them on the...
    • Youth Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for reconstituting the National Youth Work Advisory Committee, a statutory body under Section 17 of the Youth Work Act 2001; to clarify...
    • State Examinations
      787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body that took the decision and the reason for excluding compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects...
    • Scrúduithe Stáit
      793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dáta go sonrach a ghlac an tAire Oideachais agus Óige le cinneadh an Choimisiúin um Scrúduithe Stáit neamhaird...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Education and Training Boards
      797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to any issues within Education Training Boards providing employees with a contract of employment due to...
    • Departmental Funding
      798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 339 and 341 of 5 March 2026, to provide a breakdown of the ‘Social Inclusion Miscellaneous’...
    • Schools Building Projects
      799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has been in contact with a national school (details supplied) following the recent announcement relating to its capital...
    • School Staff
      800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the requirement for primary school teachers to complete Croke park hours; if this is set out as a requirement in their...
    • Special Educational Needs
      808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of early intervention classes in special schools, by county, in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • School Curriculum
      810. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on issues that have been raised in relation to curriculum in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason provision is not being made for an extension to a new school building (details supplied), despite having been agreed last year. [19585/26]
    • Departmental Communications
      813. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19611/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans have advanced for a new school building in Cork (details supplied); to provide clarification on the delays associated with the project;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the outcome of a recent SNA review which was carried out at a school (details supplied); if the outcome is not yet available...
    • Schools Building Projects
      816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a situation regarding a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19667/26]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams, emergency works schemes, or capital supports which are available to a school (details supplied) for the purposes of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills reason two SEN classroom extensions requested by her Department are not now being provided alongside an ongoing project (details supplied); if...
    • School Transport
      820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider providing transport funding for schools who qualify for a championship (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teacher Training
      821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that teachers are being supported to teach STEM; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19741/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) has been waiting for a permanent school building for 15 years despite progress such as her...
    • Departmental Data
      823. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the €300 million to be used as a contingency fund for 2026 to 2030 period under the NDP Sectoral Plan; the way in...
    • Irish Language
      825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support the continued professional learning of teachers with respect to the Irish language; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports which have been provided under the redress measures she announced on Friday 6 March 2026, as against what was already in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to statements from the National Council for Special Education that special class places are available in Cork, to clarify the number of...
    • Irish Language
      830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider scrapping the exemption system for the Irish language given that no evidence supports this practice and that no such system...
    • Teagasc na Gaeilge
      831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an ndéanfaidh sí machnamh ar an gcóras díolúine don Ghaeilge a chur ar ceal, i bhfianaise nach bhfuil aon taighde a...
    • Residential Institutions
      832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for calling the package of supports announced for the survivors of Ireland's industrial and reformatory schools after the Survivors...
    • Schools Building Projects
      833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that a school building project remains in progress (details supplied); the current position and a timeline for progress to the next...
    • School Facilities
      834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding additional school accommodation facility at a school (details supplied); if the school has requested an ASD...
    • Schools Building Projects
      835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that a school building project (details supplied) remains in progress; the current position; the timeline for progress to the next...
    • State Examinations
      836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider a formal review of the higher-level maths curriculum to ensure greater gender equality; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 5 March 2026, to provide the timeline for when a school (details supplied) will receive further...
    • School Facilities
      839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns raised in correspondence regarding resource deficits at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Psychological Assessments
      840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is correct that NEPS assessments are not available to students in a school (details supplied) as a result of there being no psychologist...
    • Special Educational Needs
      842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will sanction an application from a school (details supplied) for an autism class in order to ensure that six students who...
    • Schools Building Projects
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction of the promised new school building for a school (details supplied) will commence; and if she will provide a clear timeline for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans her Department has to deliver ASD classes in Malahide for the 2026/2027 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the Longford-Westmeath constituency that have received approval for a new school building but where construction has not...
    • State Examinations
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the serious concerns raised regarding the implementation of the new Senior Cycle Science Assessment and Accreditation of...
    • Public Transport
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Special Transport Grant is available to young adult service users who are no longer in school (details supplied). [20036/26]
    • Irish Language
      854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to account for the historic development of the Irish-language exemption policy in the education system; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ongoing review of the special needs assistant contract will be completed; if this review will include consideration of updated...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application of a school (details supplied) made under the climate action summer works scheme 2026 (category 7 climate...
    • State Examinations
      857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students will be charged the full cost of leaving certificate fees in June 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20102/26]
    • Scoileanna DEIS
      859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider including a school (details supplied) in County Meath in DEIS Band 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20104/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 629 of 10 February 2026, if correspondence will be forwarded to the personnel in her Department who is...
    • School Enrolments
      862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision can be made to allow a pupil (details supplied) to repeat sixth class as the pupil in question will only be aged 11 on enrolling at...
    • Education Welfare Service
      863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a student with profound visual impairment, whose 2018 functional vision assessment by the National Council for Special Education...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      867. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review an application from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20220/26]
    • Mental Health Policy
      871. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures which apply where a student with a disability experiences significant distress or makes a mental health disclosure linked to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      872. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure additional funding is allocated to a school project (details supplied). [20226/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      873. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if long term substitute SNAs have been given consideration and formally recognised within the SNA redeployment scheme; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      875. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the additional accommodation application submitted by a school (details supplied). [20255/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      876. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive correspondence from her Department regarding an application; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      877. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child in County Kildare (details supplied) will receive a special class place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20389/26]
    • School Uniforms
      879. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the review of Circular 32/2017 will introduce national guidance requiring schools to provide reasonable accommodation within uniform...
    • Special Educational Needs
      880. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No’s 487, 489 and 490 of 3 March 2026, the number of early intervention preschool classes for autistic...
    • School Admissions
      881. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the remedy that is open to parents, or her Department, to ensure that schools (details supplied) set out in their admission policies the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      882. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of early intervention preschool classes for autistic children in Special Schools, by county, from 2014 to date in 2026, in tabular...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      883. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times she and her predecessor, and their respective officials have met with tech companies since January 2025, particularly in...
    • Home Schooling
      884. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home school community liaison co-ordinators (HSCL) that are employed, by county, in the years 2025 and 2026 to date; and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      886. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the progression of a sanctioned two classroom SEN extension to facilitate autism classes in a school (details supplied)....
    • Schools Building Projects
      887. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason urgent funding has not been provided from her Department to a school (details supplied) to replace two derelict prefab classrooms, in...
    • Education Welfare Service
      888. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the filling of the post for the Education Welfare Officer in the Finglas area; her plans to expedite this appointment;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      889. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 12 November 2025, to provide a further update on the matter, including an updated timeline; and if...
    • School Enrolments
      890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school capacity is set by each school or by her Department. [20532/26]
    • Departmental Data
      891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for when the stage one report will be approved for a school (details supplied); and when the school will move onto stage two. [20534/26]
    • School Staff
      892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an updated CID Circular is expected to be issued; if it will address issues where teachers provide service for years without access to...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by her and all members of her staff during their St...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      897. 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. [20680/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      900. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 414 of 3 March 2026, if the Minister can further respond to correspondence received (details supplied); and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      901. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that consideration will be given to awarding a school (details supplied) three additional SNAs given the fact that the pupils of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      902. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the building project for a school (details supplied) a post primary project categorised as an extension and refurbishment; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      908. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to matters raised in correspondence regarding the planned opening of special classes in a school (details supplied); the associated...
    • State Examinations
      912. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has approved the NCCA draft specifications for Leaving Certificate English, which sets out a fundamental change in the English curriculum...
    • Departmental Data
      913. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a school (details supplied); if her Department investigate the matter; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to establish a new reading school for children with dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20832/26]
    • Education Schemes
      918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20859/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether or not fees (details supplied) will be waived and; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20922/26]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      921. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is proposed to include additional primary and second level schools in the DEIS Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Educational Reform
      922. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to create an Irish Academy of Fine Arts (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      923. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 24 February 2026, to list the artforms classified as ‘other’ in...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      924. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide funding for a project (details supplied) from the Large Scale Infrastructure Fund; and if he will make a...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      925. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if the next round of Sports Capital Programme, which is due to open in late May, early June 2026, will link areas to the...
    • Departmental Staff
      926. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022...
    • Departmental Data
      929. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the CEOs or equivalent he has formally met with from each State agency under the remit of the Department to date in 2026,...
    • Official Travel
      931. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown...
    • Sports Events
      933. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the engagement his Department has undertaken in relation to a sporting event (details supplied) taking place in Croke Park;...
    • EU Presidency
      934. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he can provide details on the youth forum which will take place in the lead-up to Ireland's Presidency and the online...
    • Employment Rights
      935. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he has met with representatives of a union (details supplied) who represent workers in RTÉ; if so, the dates; if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      936. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the mechanisms that will be in place to ensure that where production is outsourced to the commercial sector, there is full...
    • Pension Provisions
      937. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding the payment of the long awaited pension increase for An Post pensioners; and if he will make a...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      938. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if disabled artists who are newly registered as self-employed will not be disadvantaged under the basic income for artists;...
    • Grant Payments
      939. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when the next round of the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) will open for applications; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Facilities
      940. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding the delivery of recreational infrastructure such as swimming pools, football pitches and other...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      941. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will reinstate the Basic Income Scheme (BIA) and give some financial certainty and a sense of security to artists...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      942. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his attention has been drawn to residents (details supplied) who have been using the dial-up method for internet access...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      943. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      945. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if consideration will be given to removing the three out of six year eligibility rule under the new basic income for the...
    • Pension Provisions
      946. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the current timeline for agreed pension increases for EIR and An Post retirees; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      947. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to consider implementing a policy to ensure that all sports clubs are required to have clear comprehensive adult...
    • Departmental Funding
      948. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport his views on funding for local democracy reporters for the years 2025 and 2026; the criteria for papers to receive funding...
    • Social Media
      949. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will provide an update on the Government's engagement with other EU Member States regarding proposals to introduce an...
    • Departmental Strategies
      951. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the strategies in place to grow diving at a grassroots level in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      952. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the funding provided by Sport Ireland to the various water sports governed by Swim Ireland, by sport, in each of the years...
    • Departmental Funding
      953. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the funding provided to support diving at a grassroots level in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      954. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the public body which is responsible for ensuring the availability of broadband to a location (details supplied) which have...
    • Departmental Data
      959. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the current salary rate being paid to the chairperson and four commissioners of Coimisiún na Meán; the combined...
    • Departmental Reviews
      960. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will commission an independent review of the compatibility of Coimisiún na Meán's regulatory framework with...
    • Media Pluralism
      961. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he has examined Coimisiún na Meán's call for submissions on media literacy to counter disinformation,...
    • Pension Levy
      963. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department will provide a timeline for a decision on the pension increase of 2.1% for Eir (formerly Eircom and...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      964. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he agrees with the findings of a recent report (details supplied) that take up of fibre to the home broadband continues...
    • Legislative Measures
      967. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if the relevant building and telecommunications regulations are now legally aligned with the terms of the Gigabit...
    • Departmental Reports
      968. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether a county-level investment analysis from previous Community Sport Facilities Fund rounds has been completed to...
    • Departmental Policies
      970. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has considered introducing a dedicated capital stream for large regional facilities in major urban...
    • Departmental Funding
      972. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the funding for GAA clubs that has been withheld for facilities since June 2024 due to clubs not guaranteeing equal access...
    • Postal Services
      973. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of postal agencies using mini-riposte machines across the country; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      977. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his...
    • Dental Services
      981. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of consultant orthodontists and specialist orthodontists currently working in the public dental service in each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      982. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding a project (details supplied); the progress made to date; the expected timelines for completion; and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      983. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will clarify a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20742/26]
    • Departmental Projects
      984. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department is supporting a project (details supplied); the timelines and projections for its completion; and if...
    • Pension Provisions
      985. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will provide the up to date position with regard to An Post pensions; to provide a clear timeline on when the 7%...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Legislative Measures
      986. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of shark fin products and derivatives under Irish Law; the person or body responsible for enforcement; and if he...
    • National Parks
      987. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the refurbishment works that were carried out at each National Park during 2025; if each of those refurbishment works projects...
    • Turf Cutting
      988. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a bog (details supplied) is included in the Cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Provision
      989. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding any recent tripartite engagements between his Department, Dublin City Council and the developers of the...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      991. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 148,149,150,151,152 of 16 July 2025, if he will provide this Deputy with a complete...
    • Departmental Meetings
      995. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings which have taken place between him or officials in his Department and an organisation (details...
    • Departmental Contracts
      996. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of maintenance contracts using public funds that his Department or his/her agencies has where a company...
    • Defective Building Materials
      997. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 654 of 27 January 2026, the number of individual dwellings which were the subject of the...
    • Electoral Process
      998. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 645 of 20 January 2026, the reasons why he has no plans to propose amendments to the...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      999. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to elaborate on the January 2026 homelessness statistics by giving a breakdown of the lengths of time spent in emergency...
    • Housing Provision
      1000. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the recent opening of the state’s first purpose-built social housing with supports for older people...
    • Property Registration
      1001. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of growing delays in Tailte Eireann property registration times and the subsequent risks to the conveyancing...
    • State Bodies
      1002. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of staff in Tailte Eireann per annum, under the respective four main function sections of Corporate Affairs,...
    • Construction Industry
      1006. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if alternative EA MLA issued accreditation schemes other than the NSAI are acceptable for modern methods of construction; and...
    • Departmental Regulations
      1008. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will revise the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, amended in June 2016, to account for the cost-of-living...
    • Departmental Funding
      1009. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next round of URDF funding will open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18534/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1010. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding his Department's review of the current exempted development regulations; when he expects these changes...
    • Departmental Staff
      1011. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022...
    • Housing Provision
      1014. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide affordable housing in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18695/26]
    • Fire Safety
      1015. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management have reviewed protocols, procedures and preparedness of fire...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1017. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to housing assistance payment rent limits; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      1018. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the protocol to allow households fleeing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence to transfer time...
    • Housing Provision
      1019. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the implementation of a nationwide CBL system; the timeline for roll out of the new system; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      1020. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent to date by his Department to facilitate Ireland’s participation in the Marché International des...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1024. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the apartment and duplex defects remediation scheme will be in place and operational; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Provision
      1025. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to track and count the number of build to rent units which are being built; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments
      1026. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether all works must be completed for the payment of a Croí Cónaithe grant, even if the full grant amount has...
    • Official Travel
      1027. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown...
    • Rental Sector
      1028. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to address the unaffordability and the viability gap of cost rental; and if he will make a statement...
    • Local Authorities
      1031. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1242 of 8 September 2026, the position regarding the contents of the formal response...
    • Fire Service
      1032. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Clara fire station, County Offaly will be included in the new priority fire service infrastructural projects 2026-2030,...
    • Fire Safety
      1041. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the fire safety standards that apply to electronic access control or key card door systems in multi-unit residential...
    • Rail Network
      1042. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has assessed the potential role of reopening the Mullingar–Athlone rail line in supporting...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      1043. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all approved housing bodies (AHBs) in County Mayo, the levels of funding provided to each, either from...
    • Housing Provision
      1044. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in light of the ongoing homelessness crisis and the Government's decision to restrict the tenant-in-situ scheme; the specific...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1053. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19320/26]
    • Housing Provision
      1054. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes delivered in every county in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [19323/26]
    • Housing Policy
      1055. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the analysis undertaken by his Department comparing the cost to the State of providing emergency homeless accommodation with...
    • Housing Provision
      1063. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken by his Department to reduce the number of those on a Kildare County Council waiting list for a house;...
    • Housing Schemes
      1068. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to his recent announcement that over 11,000 social homes have been retrofitted since the introduction of the...
    • Local Authorities
      1070. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether current local authority IT systems used to collect housing and homelessness data record the reasons people become...
    • Planning Issues
      1073. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 822 of 17 February 2026, if he could provide a county/local authority breakdown of the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      1074. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1075. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department administers any funding schemes which can support provision of Christmas lights in rural towns and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1077. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications under the original defective concrete blocks grant scheme that reached the maximum grant payable...
    • Departmental Functions
      1078. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a description of the work of the Housing Activation Office; its workforce plan, objectives and KPIs; to provide a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1079. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the refund process for a location (details supplied) will commence as soon as possible to allow the...
    • Housing Policy
      1083. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the working family payment is included as assessable income under the Household Means Policy 2026, of which he...
    • Rental Sector
      1084. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department is considering legislative measures to provide greater clarity regarding the status of licence...
    • Local Authorities
      1087. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of serviced sites delivered by each local authority for each of the years 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [19797/26]
    • Planning Issues
      1088. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the National Planning Statement, which is required in order for the publication of the Planning...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      1092. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarity on the application of current planning regulations governing the installation of solar PV panels...
    • Housing Provision
      1093. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of, and average cost per unit, of new build social housing delivered in 2025 by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey,...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1094. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the way in which savings or deposits should be treated in an application for social housing given the application...
    • Property Management Companies
      1096. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the statutory oversight mechanisms that exist where a property managing agent appears to be operating in place of, or without...
    • Housing Schemes
      1098. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the financial contribution scheme; and the rationale to no longer fund this scheme. [20062/26]
    • Defective Building Materials
      1099. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the ongoing review of I.S. 465, the Irish standard used for the assessment and remediation of...
    • Housing Schemes
      1100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility rules for State supported home purchase schemes in respect of applicants over seventy years of age; the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in each of the past five years that were within five percent above the social housing income...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the apartment and duplex defects remediation scheme will be in operation; when he expects that applicants will be able...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      1108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the criteria for awarding protected status to any animal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      1110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has assessed the impact of the new tenancy rules introduced on 1 March 2026 on the volume of notices of termination...
    • Housing Policy
      1111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has plans to reform the capital assistance scheme as it applies to approved housing bodies providing accommodation...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the retrospective defective concrete blocks scheme; the timeline for the final approval and full sign...
    • Re-interment of Volunteers
      1119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to parliamentary questions submitted in 2025, for an update on the campaign to reinter the historical figures,...
    • Fire Stations
      1120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current position in relation to a new project in County Laois (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Policy
      1121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the income eligibility thresholds for HAP in light of increasing rents; and if he will make a statement...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      1122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the current industrial relations dispute within Tailte Éireann given the Government's...
    • EU Directives
      1127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Lough Corrib was never added to the protected area register under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD); the...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      1128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is implementing so that Lough Corrib and the Corrib River in County Galway can achieve a 'High...
    • Local Authorities
      1129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20744/26]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all removals from a list (details supplied) or exceeding the income threshold for 2025/2026 could be postponed until the...
    • Heritage Sites
      1131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any assistance is available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20805/26]
    • Housing Policy
      1132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the 2026 budget allocation for the tenant-in-situ scheme; and for housing acquisitions for each of the 31 local authorities;...
    • Tree Remediation
      1134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with community groups to restore native trees at a location used by the State (details supplied); and if not,...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress of the drafting and publication of the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill 2024, in...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of cases in which individuals with hearing impairments are being quoted over €5,000 for new hearing...
    • Pension Provisions
      1137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20595/26]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons a qualified adult allowance for a person (details supplied) has been reduced; the options that are available to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will recognise long-Covid as an occupational illness for healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social Insurance
      1140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) whose application for a free vision test was refused; and if he...
    • Divorce Process
      1141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis upon which the Office of the Registrar General requires the production of a third party’s birth certificate...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people in receipt of carer’s allowance for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position in relation to reviews of carer’s allowance carried out in 2026; specifically if a carer is reviewed and...
    • Departmental Surveys
      1145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the recently-launched survey on the cost of disability, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • Pension Provisions
      1146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason people in receipt of disability allowance, unlike people in receipt of invalidity pension, do not automatically...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to overpayments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people with a disability that had their free travel pass withdrawn after taking up employment in each of the...
    • School Meals Programme
      1152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific nutritional standards mandated by his Department under the School Meals Programme; the way in which compliance...
    • Legislative Measures
      1153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 2 December 2025, if he will provide an update on the working group formed by...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the impact the Basic Income for Artists has on disability payments; and if he will make a statement on the way in...
    • Departmental Staff
      1156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022...
    • Residential Institutions
      1159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether a payment received under a State institutional redress scheme, including the mother and baby institutions payment...
    • Care Services
      1160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of applications for carer's allowance that were refused in 2025, in tabular form. [18685/26]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person becomes an approved supplier/fitter of wigs under the wig grant scheme. [18704/26]
    • School Meals Programme
      1162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the rollout of the hot school meal programme in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct procedure for employees of a company (details supplied) who obtain new employment during the statutory 30-day...
    • Employment Support Services
      1173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the funding of a training course for a person (details supplied) by her Department and Turas Nua....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a disability allowance appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Official Travel
      1175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of family carers who have benefitted under the long term carers contribution scheme ensuring a full State pension...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who received maternity benefit, paternity benefit and parent’s leave and benefit in 2025, in...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to link maternity benefit, paternity benefit and parent’s leave and benefit to wages, as has been done with...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the adequacy of the level of PRSI cover for hearing aids; if he will engage with the Minister for Health in...
    • School Meals Programme
      1183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of hot school meals that met each of the five basic nutritional values and none, that were assessed in the...
    • Citizens Information Services
      1184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide increased funding to the Citizens Information Board to support the expansion of their citizen...
    • School Meals Programme
      1185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a county-by-county breakdown of the number of children availing of the Hot School Meals Programme this academic...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the status of a domiciliary care allowance appeal for a person (details supplied), in view of additional extensive care...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      1188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the support schemes for the purchase of hearing aids; the change in that scheme for each of the years 2019,...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to reclassifying maternity credits as paid contributions for the purposes of treatment...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will provide an update on the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the correspondence (details supplied) regarding the eligibility for carer's allowance; if his Department...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that his officials have determined to date that must return pandemic unemployment payments (PUP); the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will clarify whether his Department uses debt collection agencies to recover social protection payments that were...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment entitlements for a person who is currently on disability allowance and will reach 65 years-of-age this year in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding a carers allowance application; if he will provide an update...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for disability allowance made by people with dementia aged up to 66 years-of-age for each of the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.362 of 2 December 2025, if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the free travel pass can be extended to cover travel costs for persons who attend day care services provided by the HSE...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names of external cleaning companies that have a contract with his Department to provide cleaning services within the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the qualifying criteria for the living alone allowance can be expanded so that a public sector pensioner (details...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of current State pension recipients benefitted from the long-term carers contribution scheme; and the additional...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to increased support for individuals reliant on hearing aids under the treatment benefit...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of deceased persons' estates from which his Department has sought repayment of social welfare payments, by...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has examined measures to protect entitlement to the free travel scheme for persons who lose eligibility...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      1217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1221. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he can outline the legislative basis that requires in-person attendance for the collection of jobseekers benefit; and if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review a decision on a carer's application in respect of a person (details supplied), in light of additional...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is satisfied by the adequacy of illness benefit in the context of the cost of living crisis; his views on reviewing...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1227. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of persons in receipt of the contributory and non-contributory pension; and the projected numbers for...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Staff
      1228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 3 March 2026, the actions he will take to address the specific staffing shortages...
    • Road Safety
      1230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has compared the costs of Go Safe speed cameras cost versus average speed cameras and static camera...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of dedicated Garda roads policing personnel currently deployed in the Dublin Metropolitan Region; the way in which...
    • Road Safety
      1232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will restore road policing to 2014 levels.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20990/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda community support vans that came into fleet in each of the years of 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026;...
    • Crime Prevention
      1235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he has examined the adequacy of the current governance framework for public safety in Dublin City Centre; whether...
    • Prison Service
      1236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he has been briefed, in any capacity, on the operation or regulation of the exchange-of-duty system within the Irish...
    • Protected Disclosures
      1238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the Department's policy regarding reviews of protected disclosure assessment decisions, including whether reviewers...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total expenditure by his Department in settlement payments, compensation, damages or negotiated payments arising from the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 748 of 4 February 2026, if he has received the relevant information from Garda...
    • Immigration Status
      1243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for a person (details supplied) for a student visa will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of meetings which have taken place between him or officials in his Department and an organisation (details...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of maintenance contracts using public funds that his Department or his agencies has where a company (details...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if having a GP visit card would have a negative impact on residency or a future naturalisation application; and if he will...
    • Budget 2025
      1247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality under which Vote was the deposit paid for the purchase of Citywest in August 2025 charged; whether it was allocated to Vote...
    • International Protection
      1248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether a period of residence as an international protection applicant under the International Protection Act 2015 is or has...
    • International Terrorism
      1249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether an organisation is a proscribed terrorist organisation in this State (details supplied); or if this organisation is...
    • Child Protection
      1250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide clarity on the legislative or regulatory frameworks that exist to address the use of online gaming platforms such...
    • Immigration Status
      1251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the status of an application (details supplied) in view that it is over 24 months since the...
    • Departmental Data
      1252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community service orders issued in each of the past ten years; and to provide a county-by-county breakdown of...
    • Youth Services
      1253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of youth justice interventions funded by his Department. [18496/26]
    • Crime Prevention
      1254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail crime prevention measures identified in the 2026 revised estimates. [18497/26]
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      1255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total euro value of grants provided from his Department for capital expenditure for installation and maintenance of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the commencement of Part 5 of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Act 2023; and...
    • European Union
      1260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been engagement between his officials and the European Commission in respect of the European Commission's...
    • Road Safety
      1261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fatal and serious road traffic collisions each year since 2010 where an unborn baby has died following the...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      1263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding claims of discrimination for refusal of entry or service against a licenced premises and recourse to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 838 of 4 February 2026, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda to...
    • Northern Ireland
      1269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Troubles Legacy Liaison Unit will provide family reports; and if so, if they will be subject to an applicable response...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protests which took place outside Leinster House that required additional Garda resources and physical barriers...
    • Legislative Programme
      1274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to change or amend the Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act 1904 with regard to the requirement to have a visitors'...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines issued to e-bike, bicycle or e-scooter users in the Garda Dublin Metropolitan Region, by type during the...
    • International Protection
      1277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 664 of 3 March 2026 regarding the designation of Britain as a safe third country, given...
    • Official Travel
      1278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St. Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown...
    • Family Reunification
      1279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application (details supplied) for a join family visa application. [18914/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for the cost of each murder case to the State for the past ten years. [18920/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of naturalisation applications received each year to date since 2010; the number granted, refused, withdrawn and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay on processing naturalisation applications from persons who have applied who originated from Iran,...
    • Departmental Data
      1284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for naturalisation received based on Irish descent and Irish associations (details supplied), in...
    • Visa Applications
      1286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an extension of a stamp 1G application (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      1288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm that the recently launched child maintenance calculator is intended as guidance only; that it is not intended to...
    • Domestic Violence
      1289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the provision of a women's refuge in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19014/26]
    • Prison Service
      1292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the additional block extension at Midlands prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19017/26]
    • International Protection
      1294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the tendering process related to the operation of the contribution charging model for IPAS residents in...
    • Legal Aid
      1297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to make legal aid available in discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, equal pay, and maternity and pregnancy...
    • EU Meetings
      1299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if turning off recommender algorithms by default and banning them completely for under-18s was considered by his Department as...
    • Deportation Orders
      1300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will reconsider the decision to issue a deportation order to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm that he has received a report from an organisation (details supplied) that was delivered to his Department in...
    • Departmental Projects
      1302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on plans to pay a researcher €270,000 to write a history of his Department; in particular if the appointed...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has been furnished with a copy of the protocol for the taser pilot in an Garda Síochána; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      1310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is taking to ensure international protection applicants are provided with accommodation so they...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported car thefts in the Dublin metropolitan region, per district; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      1314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current delays in immigration processing for international students in Ireland, the measures being taken to...
    • Family Reunification
      1315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected processing time for a family reunification application (details supplied) submitted on 31 March 2025, in...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      1316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members assigned to the Galway division as of each attestation in 2026, if further increases in Garda...
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      1318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether persons (details supplied) can attend an alternative citizenship ceremony on 14 and 15 April 2026, having been unable...
    • Departmental Policies
      1319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current legal status of so-called “non-crime hate incidents” in Ireland and any recent changes...
    • Data Protection
      1320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has undertaken any review of the adequacy of the current legal and regulatory framework governing the...
    • Visa Applications
      1324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a stamp 4 visa application for a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19628/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles detected by gardaí with non compliant number plates each month since October 2025, by county and...
    • Visa Applications
      1326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm that a visa application (details supplied) has been received; the status of the application; when a decision will...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of Garda reserve applicants who have passed the final interview in a Garda station but are awaiting vetting...
    • Visa Applications
      1330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to review a D visa application for a person (details supplied [19748/26]
    • Court Procedures
      1336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the actions he will take to address the concerns outlined in...
    • Legal Aid
      1337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of solicitors providing family law legal advice services under the Civil Legal Aid - Family Law Private...
    • Legislative Measures
      1344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify the obligations on owners' management companies under the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 in relation to holding...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked Garda roads policing vans in the fleet as of 10 March 2026; if he will provide same figures as of 31...
    • Prison Service
      1347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current process for appointing members to prison visiting committees following the 2023 review of prison visiting...
    • Visa Applications
      1348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of measures planned or ongoing to reduce the backlog in all forms of visa applications managed by his Department...
    • International Protection
      1349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he plans to expand the use of a premises (details supplied), as a centre under the international protection...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos 745 and 746 of 27 January 2026, if he will confirm the action his Department is taking...
    • Visa Applications
      1357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he will provide urgent assistance to Iranian academics, who have been accepted by Irish universities or hold valid...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to consider the situation where an additional firearm can be added to an existing firearm's licence with the...
    • Visa Applications
      1359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be any further extensions to the travel confirmation notice with respect to Irish residence permits (details...
    • Prison Service
      1362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the turnover and profits recorded by tuck shops in each State prison in each of the years 2023 to 2025 and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost incurred to date by An Garda Síochána in maintaining a 24-hour security presence outside the Russian...
    • Departmental Policies
      1364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide, for each engagement by the Irish Prison Service with podcasts, broadcasters, or media providers since 1 January...
    • International Protection
      1374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the governance arrangements within his Department and within the International Protection Accommodation Service for monitoring...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1382. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who resigned, as opposed to retired for each year from 1 January 2022 to...
    • Departmental Data
      1390. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family reunification applications that were granted in 2025; to provide a breakdown of those grants according to...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      1394. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff...
    • International Protection
      1398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20684/26]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1399. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases in which an individual was caught driving unaccompanied on a learner's permit in each of the past five...
    • Courts Service
      1400. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Galway Courthouse refurbishment project under the remit of the Courts Service; the progress made to...
    • Immigration Status
      1401. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of applications for an extension of student conditions (ESTC) received in each of the past five years to...
    • International Protection
      1408. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total sum spent on IPAS accommodation in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20904/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify whether the €12.5 million that was allocated in 2023, from the BAR fund to replace the Garda Air Support...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1411. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of workers who retired from the public service in each of the last three years who have a fast accrual element to...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Schemes
      1412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the consultation process started for the Improved Lightweight Performance Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1416. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review the slurry-spreading calendar given changing weather patterns, which can leave farmers not allowed spread slurry...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider increasing funding to the horse racing and greyhound industry in Ireland in the upcoming budget, due to the...
    • Farmers Markets
      1418. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the sale of cattle on the open market will be restricted as part of the new TB action plan, particularly in relation to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1419. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the Government received a full disclosure of lobbying activities of a person (details supplied) prior to nominating him for...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1423. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will financially support farmers, who farm lands that are designated as natural heritage areas, to purchase virtual fence...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the implementation of the 31 recommendations outlined in the report of the Commission on Generational Renewal in...
    • Animal Welfare
      1425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reports received of horse neglect, or cruelty due to the misuse of horses on public roads, by his Department from 2020...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1426. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to expedite aquaculture licence applications in respect of an applicant in County Kerry, (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Poultry Sector
      1427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current guidelines for poultry farming in Ireland in light of the number of farmers directly and indirectly affected by avian...
    • Official Travel
      1428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St. Patrick's Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date bovine viral diarrhoea, BVD, sampling, which started as a three-year scheme in 2012, will cease; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 7 October 2025, the reason his Department has ceased to engage with a retired worker...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the 2024 and 2025 expenditure for forestry and bioenergy-related programmes under Vote 30; whether any underspends...
    • Animal Diseases
      1435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 29 January 2026, to provide a cost for payment of TB compensation rates that fully...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the 2024 and 2025 expenditure for agri-environmental schemes under Vote 30; to detail whether any underspends occurred in...
    • Animal Diseases
      1438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department holds statistics on the mortality rate in Europe from blue tongue among sheep, if he will furnish this Deputy with...
    • Animal Sales
      1439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the significant discrepancies between the total number of common health entry documents for products of animal...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department considers import controls to be effective where sanitary and phytosanitary, SPS, checks are not documented on...
    • Animal Sales
      1446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason only two Irish establishments appear on the TRACES NT establishment directory for imports of products of animal origin;...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to his reply of 5 February, in which he stated that all consignments were subject to sanitary and phytosanitary, SPS,...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons for the significantly lower number of aquaculture licence determinations issued by his Department compared with forestry...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      1451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department or any body under its aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Fishing Industry
      1452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a detailed up-to-date report on pair trawling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19602/26]
    • Animal Breeding
      1453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government is considering adding the dogo argentino breed to the current restricted dog breeds list under the Control of Dogs...
    • Departmental Reports
      1454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to publish the report by a person (details supplied); the expected timeline for its publication; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Organisations
      1455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide each of the annual marketing plans approved by his Department for the marketing of the sport horse sector by the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to urgently issue an ACRES payment in respect of a person (details supplied) [19956/26]
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any discussions or expressions of interest with his Department for any future octopus farms in Irish waters; and if he...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the 11,618 non-coursing greyhounds whose year of birth was 2021 who were being tracked on Rásaíocht...
    • Animal Sales
      1460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the 172 tonnes of beef that was imported into Ireland, from Brazil in 2025 that went into the catering section;...
    • Animal Diseases
      1461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any plans to have a Cross Border Bluetongue Pilot Cooperation Project on a regional basis such as the Cross Border TB...
    • Pension Provisions
      1462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a pension and lump sum payment; if the matter will be expedited. [20572/26]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      1463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff during...
    • Maritime Safety
      1467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline any assessments carried out on behalf of, or used by, his Department measuring the impact of Arctic ice melting on marine...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of funding that has been provided by Rásaíocht Con Éireann to a charity (details supplied) in 2025;...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Disability Services
      1473. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps the Government are taking to prevent situations where children with additional needs are left in hospital simply because...
    • Residential Institutions
      1474. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of an application for funding for a person (details supplied) in terms of a long-term residential place; and if she will...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1475. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will report on his meetings with survivor groups since his intervention at the 2025 Bessborough Commemoration; her plans to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1478. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE senior dietitians posts currently filled within Limerick CDNT services, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1479. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of the proposed family resource centre in Carrickmacross; the likely timeframe for when the centre will become...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      1480. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of withdrawals from Core Funding in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 6W and 8 in each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to-date in 2026; and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1481. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when pre-school fees will reduce in line with the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18255/26]
    • Family Resource Centres
      1482. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason a family resource centre funding was not allocated to a centre (details supplied); the details of the criteria that the...
    • United Nations
      1483. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will confirm that all legal requirements necessary for the State's ratification of the UNCRC Optional Protocol on the Sale...
    • Childcare Services
      1484. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of meetings she or her officials attended regarding the establishment of the Tusla training college; the extent to which...
    • Child Protection
      1494. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in the context of the protection of school children, is she aware of the fact that the previous Minister of Housing, Local...
    • Scéimeanna Rannacha
      1495. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality an gcuirfear bearta breise i bhfeidhm chun cabhrú le forbairt naíonraí lasmuigh de cheantair Ghaeltachta, an bhfuil...
    • Children in Care
      1496. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in the care of the State (Tusla) who were identified as victims of human trafficking and identified as...
    • Child Safety
      1497. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality with reference to Operation Cosnaím, the number of formal notifications made by Tusla to the Garda National Protective...
    • Children in Care
      1498. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently listed as 'missing from care' who are suspected by Tusla’s Separated Children Seeking...
    • Disability Services
      1499. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to state the number of children born with Down syndrome in each year from 2010 to-date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Issues
      1500. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18510/26]
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      1501. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update in relation to the new Guardian ad litem national service and the recent stakeholder engagement she has had; if she...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1502. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently provide additional capital funding to a vital project in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Family Support Services
      1503. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the rationale behind Tusla's reported decision not to continue funding or supporting the specialist therapeutic fostering support...
    • Departmental Staff
      1504. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality all Ministers the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum...
    • Childcare Services
      1507. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the pilot and phased introduction of staffed local childminding networks, as committed to in the National...
    • Residential Institutions
      1508. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding increasing respite for the parents of a person (details supplied) with a view to securing a residential...
    • Disability Services
      1509. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding increasing respite for the parents of a person (details supplied) with a view to securing a residential...
    • Departmental Funding
      1516. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the access and inclusion model (AIM) will be extended to include children under three years of age from the commencement of...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1517. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions taken to date on the back of the HIQA report into Tusla North Dublin on non-compliance with each standard; and if she...
    • Disability Services
      1519. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm whether there is no housing coordinator in disability services in a specific CHO (details supplied); the length of time...
    • Departmental Priorities
      1520. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the priorities for her Department, specifically those relating to disability, ahead of Ireland holding the EU Presidency from July...
    • Official Travel
      1521. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total anticipated costs associated with her foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be...
    • Departmental Data
      1522. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of a person (details supplied) in relation to accessing their personal records...
    • Disability Issues
      1523. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 719 of 3 March 2026, the specific location of the additional 199 new residential placements;...
    • Departmental Policies
      1525. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the current situation under parent's leave and benefit (details supplied); if she will increase the leave for one...
    • Children in Care
      1526. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of recipients of the foster care allowance in each of the years 2020-2026, in tabular form. [19006/26]
    • Departmental Priorities
      1527. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans to finalise and enact the Equality (Miscellaneous Provision) Bill 2025 which would be a clear statement of...
    • Disability Issues
      1530. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of enduring powers of attorney registered and activated under the decision support service since its commencement in...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1535. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the Strategy Committee for the National Strategy for Women and Girls 2025-2030 has been convened; the date of its first meeting;...
    • Children in Care
      1541. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will reinstate and restore a service in full as a matter of urgency (details supplied), if she will provide the reason for...
    • Disability Issues
      1542. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for an assessment of needs for longer than 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 months, by county, in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1544. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 19 February 2026, if she can give an urgent update on this matter; the steps being...
    • Disability Services
      1548. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current waiting times for children in the Castlerea/Roscommon area to access assessment and therapy through the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1549. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if equine therapy facilities will be developed at the HSE’s Toghermore campus in Tuam, County Galway; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      1550. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1919 of 13 January 2026, if she can provide the information sought regarding a funding gap in...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1551. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to reverse the decision to seal the records relating to the mother and baby homes and release them; to fully investigate and, if...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      1552. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department or any body under its aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Disability Services
      1553. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the assessment of need appointment of a person (details supplied). [19517/26]
    • Disability Issues
      1555. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the implementation of the personalised budgets model for disabled people; to provide a timeline for the...
    • Disability Services
      1556. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which an individual can qualify for the funding for a private assessment, given public wait times currently; and if she...
    • Child Protection
      1557. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 991 of 17 February 2026, to consider the implementation of real-time disclosure of...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1558. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the changes being made, as part of Tusla reform of structures to access to therapies/professional support services in local...
    • Children in Care
      1559. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the changes foster carers will face due to changes being made by Tusla as part of the reforms the agency has underway; the number...
    • Disability Services
      1564. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to increase residential placements for children with additional needs in Limerick; and if she will make a...
    • Online Safety
      1566. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures contained within the Government's Digital and AI Strategy to address the misuse of artificial intelligence...
    • Health Services Staff
      1567. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19677/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      1568. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to introducing a dedicated parental leave framework for intended parents in surrogacy arrangements;...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1571. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that a number of Government Departments are withholding archives from the National...
    • Departmental Funding
      1572. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount distributed to every service provider in the country; the number of children and adults being catered for in those...
    • Residential Institutions
      1573. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons in residential care in the Cork/Kerry health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19756/26]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1574. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare places available in Cork; the steps she will take to meet the spiralling demand in the near future; and if...
    • Departmental Policies
      1577. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding maternity leave provisions for mothers of twins or multiple births;...
    • Scéimeanna Rannacha
      1578. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality an gcuirfidh sí scéim ar bun chun aitheantas a thabhairt do sheirbhísí luath-oideachas trí mheán na...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1579. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in light of a person (details supplied) suggesting that due to the current mother and baby home redress scheme being so poorly...
    • Pleanáil Teanga
      1580. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality an mbaileoidh sí sonraí maidir leis an teanga trína bhfeidhmíonn seirbhísí luathoideachais sa...
    • Oideachas Riachtanas Speisialta
      1583. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality an gcuirfidh sí painéal AIM le Gaeilge ar bun chun a chinntiú go mbeidh tacaíochtaí cuimsitheacha ar...
    • Disability Services
      1584. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cost of residential disability services provided by for-profit companies for each of the years 2021 to 2025; and for a...
    • Care Services
      1585. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total annual spend in residential care and respite service in the State for each of the years 2023 to 2025; the total number of...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1586. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on when a call for proposals will be made as part of the European Social Fund Plus: Employment, Inclusion, Skills and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1587. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether funding will be provided to a company to complete the refurbishment of a location (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Disability Services
      1588. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the specific actions being taken to address ongoing recruitment and retention challenges within the Children's Disability Network...
    • Departmental Projects
      1590. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way her Department intends to oversee and ensure timely delivery of disability capital projects in Cork which are currently at...
    • Health Service Executive
      1591. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which her Department will guarantee that the planned expansion of respite provision under the HSE National Service Plan...
    • Disability Services
      1592. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to provide localised respite services in West Cork to end the practice of families traveling across the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1593. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE speech and language therapists, by grade that were filled at Springfield CDNT as of 10 March 2026; and the...
    • Disability Services
      1594. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the waiting list for assessment of needs; the number of persons on the list; the length of time persons waiting for such an...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1595. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the ranking applied to a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20069/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1597. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 764 of 30 September 2025, the number of foster carers that ceased foster caring in 2025 and...
    • Children in Care
      1598. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of foster carers providing foster care in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to-date in 2026. [20135/26]
    • Child and Family Agency
      1602. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if additional funding will be provided to Tusla in order that an organisation (details supplied) who offer support and guidance to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1603. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is familiar with a charity (details supplied); the level of funding they received from the State per annum since 2023; the...
    • Childcare Services
      1604. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taking to alleviate parents in Kilcock who are struggling to locate childcare and afterschool services, given the...
    • Disability Issues
      1605. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the oversight mechanisms in place to ensure that assessment of need findings accurately reflect the functional impact of a child's...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1606. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of registered early learning and care places available in Galway City (details supplied), by age category, zero...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1611. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she will introduce mandatory autism and neurodiversity training requirements for Tusla social workers involved in child...
    • Disability Issues
      1616. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the review of the national personalised budgets will be completed by the NDA; when her Department will give further direction...
    • Health Service Executive
      1619. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE has not provided funding for the additional public holiday introduced on 1...
    • Disability Services
      1620. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will develop proposals to address the lack of funding for transport and replacement of vehicles for disability day services...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1621. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children or vulnerable persons which were identified as having been present or exploited at a facility (details...
    • Pension Provisions
      1629. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review a matter regarding pension entitlement for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      1630. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by her and all members of her staff...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1634. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No's 731, 732 and 733 of 3 March 2026, if she is satisfied that cases will be allocated to...
    • Childcare Services
      1635. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the need to ensure that adequate space is available for the second year of ECCE; if she has heard reports of parents...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1636. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the refusal of an application to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme (details supplied); the reason...
    • Disability Services
      1637. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage of overall funding for the Rehab Group that was provided through State funding from 2016 to 2025, per year, in...
    • Children in Care
      1638. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of registered foster carers for each of the years 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025. [20801/26]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1642. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to releasing the records of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, with proper...
    • Childcare Services
      1643. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the actions outlined for the childminding sector (details supplied), broken down per each action, in tabular...
  • Department of Health
    • Regulatory Bodies
      1645. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that funding is available for the implementation of options B and C outlined in the HIQA report into health services in the Mid-West region; and if...
    • Health Service Executive
      1646. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any discussions or plans to move the HSE Environmental Health Inspectors under the remit of the Food Safety Authority; and if she will make a...
    • Food Labelling
      1647. To ask the Minister for Health the work being carried out to improve labelling of origin on imported food products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20461/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1648. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE HSE employed podiatrist by grade working within Limerick Older Persons Services as of 2 March 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      1649. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity which currently exists for robot-assisted deep brain stimulation; if additional capacity has been sought; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE reproductive medical consultants based at Limerick Regional Fertility Hub as of 2 March 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1656. To ask the Minister for Health in light of reports that some pharmacies are now charging patients for the delivery of prescription medications, if she will outline the funding or supports...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1657. To ask the Minister for Health the services being provided at Ballyboden Primary Care Centre; the services that remain in deficit there; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1658. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is obliged, under existing legislation, policy, service level agreements, or national guidelines, to provide funding to agency care companies to...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1659. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1103 of 24 February 2026, if she will confirm the process for appointment of the Chair and Review Group members; the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1660. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will develop a scheme to allow parents of children who need access to autism assessment to procure an assessment privately, and be...
    • Medicinal Products
      1661. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will review the current position to ensure that patients who are prescribed obesity medication such as Ozempic by their GPs can access it through...
    • Health Services
      1662. To ask the Minister for Health the impact assessments which were carried out in 2020 when the developmental assessments of children, by public health nurses, were suspended during SARS Cov...
    • Health Strategies
      1663. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the publication of the AI for Care strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18278/26]
    • Health Services
      1664. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to extending free family planning to the provision of vasectomy services; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1665. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the preparation and expected publication of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) (Amendment) Bill 2024; and if she will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      1668. To ask the Minister for Health the specific measures which he will put in place to protect the independent, community-led role of Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces under the proposed...
    • Hospital Staff
      1669. To ask the Minister for Health number of additional consultant posts which have been approved for Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in each of the years of 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, by year,...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vehicles that were clamped within public car parks of the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in each of the years of 2024, 2025 and to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE suicide crisis assessment nurse posts filled within Cork as of 1 March 2026; and the number as of 1 March 2023, in tabular form. [18330/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      1675. To ask the Minister for Health to reinstate the recruitment pathways for qualified PHECC paramedics within the National Ambulance Service; the reason pathways to permanent employment were...
    • Health Strategies
      1677. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on developing and resourcing a national sepsis strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18349/26]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings which have taken place between her or officials in her Department and an organisation (details supplied) or bodies which are members of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1679. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of maintenance contracts using public funds that her Department or her agencies has where a company (details supplied) carry out works; and...
    • Ambulance Service
      1681. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to ensure that training paramedics promised a permanent post after successful qualification will receive one; and if she will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1686. To ask the Minister for Health whether an application for the inclusion of a cancer medicine (details supplied) in the HSE reimbursement scheme has been received; if she will expedite its...
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1687. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the report launched by a group (details supplied) in relation to the advertising of alcohol online and the potential impact...
    • Ambulance Service
      1689. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of employees of the National Ambulance Service in relation to their employment contracts (details supplied);...
    • Health Services
      1690. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that medical card holders residing in Dublin, Wicklow, or Kildare are generally not charged for dental care at DDUH, while other medical card...
    • Ambulance Service
      1691. To ask the Minister for Health the reason newly qualified paramedics have not been offered permanent contracts and instead have been informed that they must reapply for their current roles;...
    • Health Strategies
      1696. To ask the Minister for Health if, under the proposed regional structures in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029, all public funding for community-based drug services,...
    • Departmental Staff
      1697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people directly employed to work in her Department, by grade. [18413/26]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1698. To ask the Minister for Health if she will extend reimbursement for continuous glucose monitoring for type 2 diabetes patients, just as type 1 diabetes patients can; if she will examine...
    • Health Service Executive
      1699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of buildings owned by the HSE in County Carlow that are currently vacant; the addresses of these buildings; and their current status, in tabular...
    • Health Strategies
      1701. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been established to address the lack of psychological support for stroke patients, as highlighted in the National Stroke Strategy...
    • Health Services
      1702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cardiac rehabilitation centres that have access to psychological support for heart patients; the measures being taken to increase access to the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures that were cancelled by management at University Hospital Galway in 2025; the nature of the procedures cancelled; the reason for the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1713. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the application for reimbursement for the drug Skyclarys (omaveloxalone); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18485/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      1714. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the working group on the National Hearing Care Plan; if she has yet received the report from the working group that was due...
    • Ambulance Service
      1715. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a change to the long-established practice of offering permanent National Ambulance Service positions to paramedics who successfully complete...
    • Nursing Homes
      1717. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will consider introducing a cap under the fair deal scheme on charges applied to leased land and land transferred within five years of...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1718. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide details of the capital spend on permanent health infrastructure over the past ten years in GUH, the only Model 4 hospital in the west...
    • Departmental Policies
      1719. To ask the Minister for Health if she will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the special leave with pay scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid;...
    • Eating Disorders
      1720. To ask the Minister for Health the current timeline for completion and opening of the eating disorder unit, including key milestones and expected date of operational readiness at the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1721. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the abatement issues that have arisen for some retired HSE workers (details supplied); in light of the work and commitment that...
    • Medical Cards
      1722. To ask the Minister for Health if she will increase the qualifying income thresholds for a medical card for those over 70 years-of-age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18566/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      1723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff from her Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details...
    • Ambulance Service
      1726. To ask the Minister for Health the reason newly qualified paramedics in the National Ambulance Service are no longer being offered permanent posts on completion of training and are instead...
    • Nursing Homes
      1727. To ask the Minister for Health if a comprehensive guide is available to assist persons and families in understanding the role and requirements of appointing a successor under the fair deal...
    • Ambulance Service
      1728. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address concerns regarding the National Ambulance Service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18655/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list to see a consultant ophthalmologist at University Hospital Limerick. [18660/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1730. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in cognitive behavioural therapy and advanced nurse practitioner in psychotherapy posts filled at Shannon...
    • Dental Services
      1731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE orthodontists currently working within Clare dental services, in tabular form. [18662/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1733. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18668/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmic surgeon posts filled within the cataract unit of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, in tabular form. [18691/26]
    • National Children's Hospital
      1735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recruitment campaigns CHI undertook in the UK in 2025 and to date in 2026 to encourage Irish trained nurses, doctors, radiographers and so on to...
    • Dental Services
      1736. To ask the Minister for Health if each HSE dental clinic within CHO7 have dedicated decontamination rooms and full x-ray facilities, in tabular form. [18693/26]
    • Health Services
      1737. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the health related projects raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18694/26]
    • Home Help Service
      1740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older people awaiting home support services in the Burtonport, Kincasslagh, Annagry,Gweedore and Finn Valley areas of County Donegal; and if she...
    • Health Services Staff
      1741. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the level of autism-specific training available to general practitioners; if she will consider providing additional supports or educational...
    • Hospital Staff
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the severe staffing pressures currently affecting TUH Clonmel hospital’s ward, day ward, and paediatric assessment...
    • Health Services Staff
      1745. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of public health nurses in north Dublin, as compared to baseline capacity for 2026; the number of developmental checks done in...
    • EU Directives
      1747. To ask the Minister for Health if, under the EU Cross-Border Healthcare Directive, initial consultations with treating consultants abroad via video or phone call are specifically prohibited...
    • Property Registration
      1748. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider amending the fair deal legislation to allow persons in nursing homes who own a property in the UK to access the nursing home support...
    • Registration of Deaths
      1749. To ask the Minister for Health to introduce a baby loss certificate scheme for pregnancy losses before 23 weeks, which would be retrospective and voluntary in design, and would assist...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1754. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the arrangement under which validation of entry-to-practice qualifications for clinical measurement physiologists was undertaken by a body (details...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1756. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment which has been undertaken regarding the potential impact of the change in qualification validation arrangements on national consistency of...
    • Patient Transport
      1757. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that patient transport and care from the intermediate care operatives in the National Ambulance Service has been handed over to the private...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1761. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to review financial supports to allow for subsidised batteries for all long-term hearing aid users, similar to the system in the UK; the plans to...
    • Hospital Services
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health given the recognised ‘risk to patient safety’ identified in the recent HIQA report into urgent and emergency healthcare services in the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1763. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet received their urgent scoliosis surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18824/26]
    • Disease Management
      1764. To ask the Minister for Health for an update in relation to the decision to include familial hypercholesterolaemia to the list of cardiovascular risk factors screened for in GP settings in...
    • Ambulance Service
      1766. To ask the Minister for Health for her views regarding a total breakdown in service and accountability by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) in Limerick (details supplied); if she will...
    • Abortion Services
      1767. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to fund abortion provision, and to provide a breakdown of all expenditure on abortion provision, from 2018 to date in 2026, by all...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1768. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to ensure a smooth, efficient, and affordable transfer for nurses who have studied and trained abroad but wish to work as a nurse...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1769. To ask the Minister for Health if she has undertaken any analysis of the estimated cost of introducing a publicly funded elective egg freezing scheme; the projected annual cost based on...
    • Eating Disorders
      1770. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to increase the number of eating disorder beds available in the Mid-West region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18882/26]
    • Official Travel
      1771. To ask the Minister for Health the total anticipated costs associated with her foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be provided on these costs...
    • Health Services
      1772. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18903/26]
    • Hospital Services
      1776. To ask the Minister for Health to consider creating off campus treatment for women experiencing a miscarriage in a hospital (details supplied), to avoid these patients from receiving care...
    • Health Services
      1778. To ask the Minister for Health the existing public support pathways for adults with ADHD; the supports available to families who cannot afford private care; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      1779. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people suffering with long-Covid, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18934/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1780. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a proposed follow up of the FADA study to assess health and socioeconomic impacts; the way the HSE is co-ordinating care provision; and if she...
    • Health Services Staff
      1781. To ask the Minister for Health the training provided for medics in relation to long-Covid pathways; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18936/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      1782. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions available for research funding to investigate pathogenesis biomarkers and therapeutics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18937/26]
    • Health and Safety
      1783. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE applies and implements the HAS code of practice for indoor air quality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18938/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1784. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the €1.6 billion allocated to mental health services in 2026 budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products
      1793. To ask the Minister for Health if she will acknowledge concerns that Ireland continues to rank comparatively low in Europe for access to orphan medicines; the steps being taken to improve...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1794. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be given a date for an orthopaedic operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; the reason a referral...
    • Hospital Services
      1795. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given by her Department to the location of a future additional emergency department in the Midwest; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on pain management waiting lists for each hospital in the State, for one, two, three, four and five years respectively (in tabular form);...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1798. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the operation and rollout of the Medical Cannabis Access Programme (MCAP) in 2026; the number of patients currently approved; the...
    • Ambulance Service
      1799. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that 76 newly qualified paramedics within the National Ambulance Service, who have completed the BSc (Hons) in Paramedic Studies through...
    • Health Services Staff
      1805. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the labour court (details supplied) will be implemented; if all employed/retired staff that are eligible will be paid Immediately....
    • Home Help Service
      1806. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE employed home helps who have retired in each of the last three years in the CH07 area; the number of home help employees hired by the HSE...
    • Abortion Services
      1808. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born alive after abortion procedures from 2019 to 2025, broken down by which section of the Health (Regulation of Termination of...
    • Nursing Homes
      1809. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding plans to give families of fair deal residents an extra six months to pay outstanding bills due to the State to cover the cost of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1810. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied). [19037/26]
    • Pharmacy Services
      1811. To ask the Minister for Health if a regular scheduled rota for out of hours pharmacy service in Enniscorthy will be provided (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1812. To ask the Minister for Health if she will respond to correspondence sent to her by a public representative (details supplied) concerning a person with a traumatic brain injury; and if she...
    • Home Care Packages
      1813. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) who is due to be discharged from a hospital, where the family is not yet ready to receive...
    • Health Services Staff
      1814. To ask the Minister for Health when she intends to publish the final report of the workforce planning sub-group of the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group; and if she will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1818. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that the HSE recognises and responds to the time-critical nature of Friedreich’s ataxia during the current price...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1819. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government intends to refund or directly pay for privately sourced Paediatric Community Nursing Assessment Tool (PCAT) assessments in cases where...
    • Health Services Staff
      1820. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19109/26]
    • Departmental Properties
      1821. To ask the Minister for Health the State agency or body that is engaged in negotiations with the HSE in respect of the sale and transfer of a building (details supplied). [19126/26]
    • Official Travel
      1822. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will send a delegation to participate in the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) fifty-ninth session on 13-17...
    • Ambulance Service
      1823. To ask the Minister for Health if she will explain the legal basis upon which the HSE and National Ambulance Service have departed from a 15 year established practice of offering permanent...
    • Medicinal Products
      1829. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the supply shortages affecting atropine eye drops used in the treatment of progressive myopia in children; the steps being...
    • Patient Transport
      1831. To ask the Minister for Health if a bus service (details supplied) is facing a reduction of service to only three days a week; if so, the reason for this reduction; and if she will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1832. To ask the Minister for Health if, through the HSE West/ North-West Region, she can provide a list of all non-statutory organisations in County Mayo funded to provide the following services...
    • Health Services
      1834. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the disparity in discretionary payments under the primary care community services (PCCS) scheme for children with certain eye conditions and/or...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1836. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the neurology appointment for a person (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19194/26]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1837. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted an assessment of reports from the UK regarding loopholes in the law there which allow for the modifying of disposable devices...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1839. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19233/26]
    • Local Drugs Task Forces
      1840. To ask the Minister for Health further to the publication of the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026-2029, to outline the proposed governance, funding flows and accountability arrangements...
    • Ambulance Service
      1844. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department are taking to improve retention in the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19256/26]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1845. To ask the Minister for Health the opportunities for funding available to an organisation (details supplied) to continue to provide counselling sessions. [19257/26]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1848. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to larger disposable nicotine vaping devices that are becoming increasingly prevalent (details supplied);...
    • Hospital Services
      1852. To ask the Minister for Health the running cost of the Mount Carmel surgical hub in 2025; the allocation for this hub in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19304/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1855. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if any of the specific actions outlined can, or will, be advanced; and if she will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1857. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Programme for Government commitment to expand the RSV immunisation programme; the steps she is taking to deliver this commitment; and if she...
    • Medicinal Products
      1859. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to ensure HSE price talks for skyclarys take account for Friedreich’s ataxia time-sensitive progression. [19311/26]
    • Primary Care Services
      1861. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for physiotherapy services in the Castlerea Primary Care Centre catchment area; the number of patients currently on the waiting list;...
    • Mental Health Services
      1862. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of primary care counselling services in the Castlerea area, including waiting times for access to counselling supports; and whether there are...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1863. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for occupational therapy and dietetics referrals from GPs in the Castlerea area; and the steps the HSE is taking to improve access...
    • Health Services
      1864. To ask the Minister for Health the community supports are currently available in the Roscommon/Castlerea area for persons living with chronic psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia...
    • Health Services Staff
      1865. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels and operational capacity of mental health home treatment teams serving the Roscommon area; and whether there have been any...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1866. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for outpatient appointments in ENT, orthopaedics and cardiology for patients referred from the Castlerea area; and the actions being...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1867. To ask the Minister for Health the per-capita health capital spend in each region in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [19325/26]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1868. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed primary care centre in Portumna, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19330/26]
    • Home Care Packages
      1869. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for home care support in Longford and Westmeath, in tabular form. [19347/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1871. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the position regarding the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19352/26]
    • Food Safety
      1872. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths as a result of listeria for each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19353/26]
    • Services Sector
      1874. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the Government's position on proposals to provide legal recognition for a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      1875. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the development and recruitment for five new eating disorder hubs; the location of same; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service
      1876. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the shift in policy of the National Ambulance Service in relation to permanent contracts being granted to paramedics who...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in North Kildare awaiting paediatric and juvenile primary care psychology; the number waiting over six months, 12 months and two years;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1878. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs in North Kildare; the efforts being made by her Department to recruit and retain GPs in the area; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1879. To ask the Minister for Health the works planned to solve the parking issues at University Hospital Limerick; the plans to increase parking capacity; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1881. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an orthopaedic operation in February 2026 was cancelled in Letterkenny University Hospital for a person (details supplied); if a re-scheduled...
    • Health Services
      1882. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will outline the current status of this case and any expected timeframe for treatment; and...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1883. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures in total carried out under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in settings in Northern Ireland in each of the years 2023, 2024 and...
    • Health Services
      1888. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the general adult mental health service teams do not have the specialist expertise required to provide treatment for service users with ADHD; to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1891. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved and filled posts within specialist eating disorder services, including consultant psychiatrists, psychologists, dietitians, nurses and...
    • Health Services
      1897. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with eating disorders who have been approved for treatment abroad in each of the past five years due to a lack of specialist services in...
    • School Accommodation
      1899. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of school management in relation to the lack of permanent accommodation within the National Rehabilitation...
    • Medicinal Products
      1903. To ask the Minister for Health if she will facilitate a meeting with the campaign group that are seeking State funded reimbursement of skyclarys for patients with Friedreich’s...
    • Food Safety
      1905. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the total extent of recalls of baby formula in Ireland in 2026; broken down by quantity, brand and a timeline for when the recall...
    • Health Services
      1908. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be given an appointment for a psychologist and an occupational therapist in the primary care centre in Longford. [19457/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1909. To ask the Minister for Health to provide each vacant or unfilled post in primary care centres in County Longford, in tabular form. [19458/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      1911. To ask the Minister for Health the measures her Department is taking to ensure that permanent posts are available for graduate paramedics within the National Ambulance Service, in view of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1912. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (detail supplied) is waiting on an colonoscopy appointment in Cavan general; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19462/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      1914. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of emergency ambulances available to serve Carlow town and county; the measures being taken to address delays and increase ambulance...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      1916. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or any body under its aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise misclassification of...
    • Health Services
      1918. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence regarding the introduction of a €4 transport charge for attendees of a service (details supplied); if she will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1919. To ask the Minister for Health if she can assist in the case of a person (details supplied) regarding their urgent need for a mobility scooter.; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1920. To ask the Minister for Health if an old age pensioner with a medical card is required to pay the €25 fee for having bloods taken; if an old age pensioner with a medical card must...
    • Departmental Data
      1921. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1120 of 17 February 2026, the reason cancellations are not recorded centrally; if it is possible to collect this data;...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1923. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the proposed Primary Care Centre in Tullow is not included in the 2026 HSE Capital Plan; the current status of the project within the HSE capital...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1924. To ask the Minister for Health if she will add PMDD to the newly launched HSE Education Programme for Endometriosis given that they affect the same cohort of women and girls; and if she...
    • Ambulance Service
      1925. To ask the Minister for Health if she had any engagement with the National Ambulance Service recently following reports of changes to recruitment and the issuance of permanent contracts;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1927. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the promotion of a person despite the severity of the allegations against them (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service
      1928. To ask the Minister for Health to comment on the National Ambulance Service’s departure from its established practice of offering permanent contracts to paramedics upon completion of...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1929. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 548 of 22 January 2026, when a response will issue to this Question; the status of the old health clinic at Tinahely,...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1930. To ask the Minister for Health given her decision to alter the policy of co-location in respect of the Rotunda hospital, if she will clarify her Department's position is in respect of the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1931. To ask the Minister for Health to commit to simultaneously progressing planning permission processes for all three options outlined in the HIQA report into health services in the Mid-West...
    • Hospital Services
      1932. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address a situation at University Hospital Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19610/26]
    • Disability Services
      1934. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the expansion of adult ADHD services across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19629/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1937. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to amending the National Transfer Panel to ensure that trained public health nurses who wish to re-enter the panel can return...
    • Health Services
      1938. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed list of public hospital sites, providing CR; the number of WTE allocated to each site; to identify which locations were...
    • Medicinal Products
      1939. To ask the Minister for Health if a pricing and reimbursement application has been received by the HSE for zolbetuximab (Vyloy®); if the national assessment and decision process has...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1940. To ask the Minister for Health the decision-making process in providing live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) to schools on an opt-in basis rather than mandating participation; to...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1943. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the number of public health nurses in an area (details supplied); to confirm whether this number has decreased in the past five years; if this...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1950. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the age profile of the national linear accelerator (Linac) fleet. [19698/26]
    • Hospital Services
      1952. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on outsourced radiotherapy services in 2025; and whether this cost could be reduced through timely equipment replacement. [19700/26]
    • Hospital Equipment
      1953. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the strain on medical physics staff caused by large scale simultaneous Linac replacements, given the statement that such...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1955. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate actions that are being taken to address the fact that 6,175 people breached the recommended 28-day wait time for an urgent colonoscopy between...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1956. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the practice whereby endoscopy units are temporarily shut and repurposed for other hospital pressures, including emergency department...
    • Cancer Services
      1957. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment her Department has made of the impact on cancer outcomes arising from delays in accessing urgent colonoscopy. [19705/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1958. To ask the Minister for Health the long term strategy to expand endoscopy services in line with rising demand driven by an ageing population and increased public awareness of the need for...
    • Health Strategies
      1959. To ask the Minister for Health following the publication of the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029, the proposed governance and accountability arrangements for the regional...
    • Ambulance Service
      1962. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter regarding the National Ambulance Service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19722/26]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1963. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed breakdown documenting the way in which the children's school flu programme is funded; the annual overall cost of the programme;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1965. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be granted for a child (detail supplied) who requires APOS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19734/26]
    • Disability Issues
      1966. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that a child in Cork who is classified as Priority 1 has been waiting since January 2025 for an AAC assessment and device trial through the...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1971. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric social admissions by hospital, by year, from 2021 to 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Dental Services
      1972. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental staff, including dentists, dental nurses, and hygienists, currently employed by the Health Service Executive, by county and by grade in...
    • Medicinal Products
      1974. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a decision on the Acarizax reimbursement application (HSE100082) is expected; the stage the review process of the application is currently...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1975. To ask the Minister for Health to review the process for the drugs payment scheme with respect to claims for CPAP, assisted breathing device (details supplied). [19824/26]
    • Undefined
      1976. To ask the Minister for Health to review correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19826/26]
    • Home Care Packages
      1977. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of night support care as part of the HSE Home Support Package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19832/26]
    • Health Services
      1979. To ask the Minister for Health if risk assessments were undertaken in the process of service change in a section 38 organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Care
      1981. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide supplementary payments or other measures to healthcare support carers in the community who will not be able to afford to travel to parts...
    • Medicinal Products
      1983. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the negotiations around the inclusion of the shingles vaccine in the national immunisation programme; when she will make a decision on...
    • Health Services Staff
      1985. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent staff in sexual health service delivery in the HSE, by CHO, in each of the years 2021 to 2025, and to-date in 2026, in...
    • Departmental Properties
      1988. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department requires the Health Service Executive to maintain a centralised register of residential properties owned by the HSE which are vacant;...
    • Health Services
      1990. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed account of the efforts made to identify an appropriate service provider regarding the care needs of a child (details supplied)....
    • Home Care Packages
      1991. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours or persons availing of home care hours, from private home care providers contracted by the HSE, to provide such services in County...
    • Health Services Staff
      1993. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive has undertaken any national or regional analysis examining the relationship between funded staff...
    • Mental Health Services
      1996. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 50 beds and associated supports at the new Central Mental Hospital (CMH) have not opened, given the urgent need and concerns raised in a recent...
    • Family Law Cases
      1997. To ask the Minister for Health the legal measures or other options that are in place in a situation where a family member believes another family member is exercising coercive control over...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1998. To ask the Minister for Health to consider including stiff person syndrome on the long term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19903/26]
    • Home Care Packages
      1999. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently reverse the respite cut from four weeks to two weeks given the four weeks was a tremendous help to families and carers who give 24/7 care; and if...
    • Organ Donation
      2000. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to raise awareness of the new organ donation consent legislation as awareness levels are very low; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reviews
      2001. To ask the Minister for Health if she is reviewing the requirement on families to maintain indefinite responsibility for the care of a dependent adult with impaired decision-making...
    • Organ Donation
      2002. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to raise public awareness of new laws pertaining to organ donation; and the public information measures that will be put in place this year. [19915/26]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      2003. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for referring patients under the National Treatment Purchase Fund from the public waiting list at Beaumont Hospital for treatment in another...
    • Health Services Staff
      2004. To ask the Minister for Health the number of graduate audiologists recruited into HSE-funded posts in each of the years from 2021 to 2025; the geographic breakdown of those appointments by...
    • Health Strategies
      2007. To ask the Minister for Health further to the publication of the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026-2029, to outline the proposed governance, funding flows and accountability arrangements...
    • Medical Cards
      2011. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department receives aggregated national reporting from the Health Service Executive on the number of medical cards granted on a discretionary...
    • Ambulance Service
      2016. To ask the Minister for Health the recent changes to the practice of issuing permanent contracts to newly qualified paramedics in the National Ambulance Service; the reason for this change;...
    • Health Service Executive
      2020. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Health Service Executive, or any public hospital within the State, has funded or paid tuition fees for students enrolled on a graduate programme...
    • Ambulance Service
      2021. To ask the Minister for Health to reconsider a change in policy for awarding permanent contracts in an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19978/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      2028. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the work of the Implementation Oversight Group established under the National Rare Disease Strategy 2025-2030, including its current...
    • Health Services
      2029. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce diagnostic delays for people with rare diseases, given evidence that the average time to diagnosis in Ireland exceeds six...
    • Health Strategies
      2030. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which her Department plans to expand Ireland's participation in rare disease research and clinical trials, particularly through the Rare Disease...
    • Health Services
      2031. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to increase rare disease education and training for healthcare professionals, including the integration of new HSE rare disease training...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      2033. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 25 February 2026, when an assessment will be conducted to justify or amend the current application of the...
    • Medicinal Products
      2034. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to ensure that givinostat is available at the earliest opportunity to sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      2035. To ask the Minister for Health if she will implement a plan to support individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including the development of specialist multidisciplinary teams, and...
    • Departmental Consultations
      2036. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the outcome of discussions and engagement between the DOH, HSE and IPU, on the changes to monitored dosing which have been paused which were...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2037. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for cataract surgery at the Mater Hospital; and the average waiting times for this type of procedure. [20023/26]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2038. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects submitted to HSE estates for Longford from acute, primary, community and so on over the past three years; and the status of...
    • Health Services Staff
      2039. To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancies by job title, at Balbriggan Community Mental Health Team; and when will each of those vacancies be filled, in tabular form. [20025/26]
    • Health Services
      2044. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which fire safety deficiencies requiring the closure of a unit (details supplied) were first identified; the date on which remediation works...
    • Departmental Data
      2047. To ask the Minister for Health the approved workforce model, including the number of whole-time equivalent posts, required to safely operate the 19-bed dementia-specific unit at a nursing...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      2048. To ask the Minister for Health when individuals (details supplied) partaking in the Covid-19 evaluation will receive confirmation of the reported private sessions that are due to take place...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2049. To ask the Minister for Health to review correspondence from a family regarding a letter received from HSE (details supplied); if this is the correct procedure given the circumstances...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      2050. To ask the Minister for Health the policy framework governing the multidisciplinary team assessment process which forms the clinical basis for applications under the treatment abroad scheme...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2052. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive conducts audits or reviews of MDT recommendations submitted in support of applications for gender...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2057. To ask the Minister for Health whether any clinical governance framework exists for monitoring referrals by multidisciplinary teams recommending gender affirmation surgery funded under the...
    • Home Care Packages
      2058. To ask the Minister for Health if she is concerned that increases in fuel prices will impact on the availability of staff in the homecare sector; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2059. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment which has been referred for a person (details supplied); if the parents of this person can receive an acknowledgement of...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      2060. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure by the Health Service Executive under the treatment abroad scheme in respect of gender affirmation surgeries undertaken outside the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2063. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive records clinical outcomes, complications, or follow-up care requirements for patients who receive...
    • Health Services
      2065. To ask the Minister for Health the options for funding available to assist adults who do not possess a medical card and who are employed fulltime, to meet the high cost of hearing aids; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      2067. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive records the time required to approve recruitment requests submitted under the processes established by...
    • Medicinal Products
      2073. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that the HSE recognises and responds to the time-critical nature of Friedreichs Ataxia during the current price negotiations...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2075. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); if she can provide an update on the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20173/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      2076. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 5 March 2026, the sites in which the 7 WTE staff provided for under 2025 PrEP funding are working; if funding has...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2077. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive maintains any national system for monitoring clinical outcomes, complications, or long-term follow-up...
    • Health Services
      2078. To ask the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that the NCPE is correctly constituted and has sufficient governance to ensure it can discharge its duties; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      2079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTEs now working in the rare disease section of her Department; the number of the posts which are filled; the number of vacancies there are; and...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      2080. To ask the Minister for Health the number of AAC devices funded by the State for each of the years 2022 to 2025; the length of time recipients typically waiting for the provision and...
    • Medical Records
      2081. To ask the Minister for Health the total annual budget allocated by the HSE for medical record transfer and management; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20188/26]
    • Health Services
      2082. To ask the Minister for Health the current clinical governance framework applying to gender identity healthcare services provided to children and adolescents in Ireland pending completion...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2083. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which and when a person (details supplied) can get an occupational therapy appointment as a matter of urgency. [20192/26]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      2084. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing new blind welfare allowance applications, and when this delay will be resolved. [20197/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2085. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult patients currently awaiting scoliosis surgery nationally; the average waiting time for such procedures; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2087. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult scoliosis surgeries that have been cancelled or postponed in each of the past three years; the reasons for these cancellations; the...
    • Health Strategies
      2089. To ask the Minister for Health if she will use the opportunity of the forthcoming United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) fifty-ninth session on 13 to 17 April 2026 to...
    • Dental Services
      2090. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative options that are available to parents with children awaiting urgent dental care procedures, who are currently on long public patient waiting...
    • Gender Recognition
      2093. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has approved or mandated the establishment of a national dataset for the purposes of planning, governance, oversight and evaluation of...
    • Employment Rights
      2099. To ask the Minister for Health the number of students in unpaid work placements in both the health care and education sectors; the total value to these sectors of this work; and if she will...
    • Gender Recognition
      2100. To ask the Minister for Health the formal methodological framework used by her Department when evaluating international clinical guidance prior to incorporation into national healthcare...
    • Medicinal Products
      2109. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure incurred by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service on salbutamol nebules dispensed under the General Medical Services Scheme in each...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2125. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid in legal costs to each of the top ten legal firms representing plaintiffs in medical negligence cases in 2024 and 2025; the number of cases...
    • Ambulance Service
      2127. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has issued any written policy guidance or governance framework defining what constitutes an unacceptable response time for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      2137. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the position with respect to healthcare workers suffering from long-Covid and Critical Illness Protocols. [20331/26]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      2139. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the planned Douglas Health Centre; and when it is expected to proceed to construction. [20338/26]
    • Health Services
      2140. To ask the Minister for Health the data available on the treatment abroad scheme; to provide a breakdowns per speciality or treatment available; and the reports made to her Department each...
    • Emergency Departments
      2142. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive has commissioned, received, or reviewed any internal audit, external audit, or independent validation...
    • Mental Health Services
      2147. To ask the Minister for Health whether a national standard definition is applied across the Health Service Executive for reporting counselling activity within the counselling in primary...
    • Health Service Executive
      2152. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Health Service Executive maintains a national data dictionary, reporting manual or technical guidance document defining the...
    • Mental Health Services
      2157. To ask the Minister for Health if the reporting relationship of the recently created role of director of psychology is to the director of health and social care professions or the regional...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2167. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20423/26]
    • Hospital Admissions
      2168. To ask the Minister for Health the number of model 2 hospital medical admissions via AMAU activity in 2025, in tabular form;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20433/26]
    • Abortion Services
      2169. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 958 of 18 November 2025, which confirmed that at least four babies were born alive after abortion who had reached 24...
    • Health Services
      2170. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports that may be available to someone suffering from Parkinson’s disease who requires a mobility scooter; and if she will make a...
    • Child Protection
      2171. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter regarding a CAMHS referral for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20472/26]
    • Dental Services
      2172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant orthodontists and specialist orthodontists currently working in the public dental service in each RHA; the number of whole-time...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting cardiac surgery in each hospital providing cardiac surgical services; the average waiting time in each hospital; and...
    • Medicinal Products
      2180. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has considered establishing an Early Access Programme for skyclarys, in light of the progressive and time sensitive nature...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      2181. To ask the Minister for Health the reason access to the HSE reimbursement scheme for continuous glucose monitoring sensors is restricted to patients who were initially diagnosed with type 1...
    • Hospital Procedures
      2182. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments, including surgeries and procedures, carried out at Galway University Hospital on a Saturday from 2023 to date in 2026,...
    • Hospital Staff
      2183. To ask the Minister for Health the number of permanent full-time job offers that Portiuncula University Hospital has offered to newly graduated nurses in 2025; and of the jobs offered, the...
    • Mental Health Services
      2185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of counselling and psychotherapy sessions available through a programme (details supplied) in 2026 for individuals impacted by defective concrete;...
    • Defective Building Materials
      2186. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are any bespoke services available through Children's Health Ireland (CHI) specifically for children suffering from respiratory conditions...
    • Medical Cards
      2187. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will consider expanding the eligibility for a medical card to older people who are suffering from a serious chronic illness, but who are...
    • Dental Services
      2189. To ask the Minister for Health if a dental appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20524/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      2190. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20529/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      2191. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20533/26]
    • Dental Services
      2192. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm the HSE plans for the part-time dental services based at the primary care centre, Kilbeggan, County Westmeath; if the HSE is withdrawing...
    • Health Services
      2193. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 5 March 2026, to provide further information regarding the Women's Health Service (details supplied); to provide...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      2194. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times to see a consultant paediatric nephrologist at CHI Crumlin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20589/26]
    • Health Services
      2196. To ask the Minister for Health the key measures in the Day Services Capital Plan for 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20591/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      2197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dieticians WTEs employed at the dedicated bariatric service for medical only patients at Galway University Hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      2198. To ask the Minister for Health if the EOLAS programme (details supplied) will be funded and delivered on a national basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20596/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2200. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20599/26]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      2201. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by her and all members of her staff during their St Patrick’s...
    • Health Services Staff
      2205. To ask the Minister for Health the plans and progress in relation to the provision of appropriate staffing at the primary care centre being built at Citywest. [20687/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2207. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the infrastructural challenges which result in people waiting longer than the recommended timeframe to access colonoscopies nationally; the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      2208. To ask the Minister for Health the national tendering process that is currently in place for new endoscopy infrastructure within the public system; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      2210. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage capacity each endoscopy unit nationally is currently functioning at; the plans to address any shortfall, by hospital, in tabular form; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      2211. To ask the Minister for Health the current ratio of healthcare workers available to perform colonoscopies by hospital nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20740/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      2213. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to a service for respite in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025, in tabular form. [20762/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      2214. To ask the Minister for Health her views on radiographer tutor retention; her plans to ensure adequate number of practice tutors to match recent increases to the numbers of student...
    • Education and Training Provision
      2218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of student radiographers undertaking clinical placements in HSE hospitals in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the projected...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2220. To ask the Minister for Health if she would consider introducing mechanisms to measure gross national happiness, and how national wellbeing can be assessed; and if she will make a statement...
    • Workplace Relations Services
      2222. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement the HSE and her Department have had with the Workplace Relations Commission in relation to the dispute concerning radiographer practice tutors;...
    • Mental Health Services
      2223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the waiting list for admission to the Central Mental Hospital; the average length of time each person has been waiting for...
    • Cancer Services
      2224. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate action that can be implemented in order to alleviate the financial hardship endured by patients where a cancer diagnosis ultimately results in a...
    • Medicinal Products
      2225. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE no longer provides funding for Novofine autocover needles; whether an alternative product will be considered for funding (details...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      2226. To ask the Minister for Health when mammography services at Mayo University Hospital will resume; if the previously indicated timeline of early 2026 has been met; the current status of the...
    • Health Services
      2227. To ask the Minister for Health if an autism assessment for a child (details supplied) will be expedited. [20923/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      2228. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE internal audit function is being, or has been, restructured following the move to regional health areas; if there are plans to move the function...
    • Health Services
      2231. To ask the Minister for Health if it can be ensured that an autism assessment is scheduled for a child (details supplied) as soon as possible.; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      2233. To ask the Minister for Health if an impact study has been carried out on the effects that wind turbines have on vulnerable groups including children with neurodiversity; and if she will...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Education
      2234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the future plans for the general arts courses in University of Galway; the meaning of “reimagining” courses; whether...
    • Departmental Staff
      2235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and...
    • Official Travel
      2238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to visit the East Coast of the United States during Quarter 2 in 2026. [18657/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      2239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE qualified architects employed by his Department as of 27 February 2026, in tabular form. [18658/26]
    • Education and Training Boards
      2240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind the recent changes to the literacy and community education budget allocations for the Education and Training Boards (ETBs),...
    • Third Level Fees
      2241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expanding eligibility criteria for the free fees Initiative to students who were born in and are citizens of Ireland but...
    • Departmental Programmes
      2242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on the Build Back Home campaign annually since its launch, broken down by year and by spending on international and national...
    • Official Travel
      2243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can be provided on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship places that were created under the Action Plan for Apprenticeships 2021-2025; his views on the success of the plan;...
    • Student Accommodation
      2245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be released for on-site student accommodation for a university (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Education
      2246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received any communication from organisations (details supplied) regarding the specific building conditions reported on 25...
    • Teagasc Activities
      2247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether students enrolled in full-time programmes delivered by Teagasc are eligible to access supports under the fund for students with...
    • Education and Training Boards
      2249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has made changes to funding to the Galway-Roscommon ETB for Adult English language classes; if he is aware of cuts to the...
    • Youth Services
      2250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to enhance the supports that are provided to learners with special educational needs in further education, specifically within...
    • Swimming Pools
      2251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to redevelop the old swimming pool on the South Campus of Maynooth University as a critical piece of local infrastructure; and if he...
    • Education and Training Boards
      2252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ETB teachers that have been laid off; the number of others that will follow due to changes in tendering processes; to outline the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      2254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or any body under it’s aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Third Level Education
      2255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider the creation of an academy for the fine arts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19588/26]
    • Third Level Fees
      2256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will review the residency criteria for the Free Fees Initiative and EU fee status as it applies to the children of Irish...
    • Youth Services
      2266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that will be taken to ensure that students attending the Youthreach centre in at a location (details supplied) are not academically...
    • Education Policy
      2267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected date on which the performance and evaluation framework for the National Demonstration Park for Modern Methods of Construction will...
    • Education and Training Boards
      2271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for removing the ringfenced allocation of €20 million for the provision of English language classes (ESOL) across the ETB...
    • Third Level Reform
      2272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the lack of provision of online versions of course material in some college courses that...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      2274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff during their St...
    • Departmental Programmes
      2278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects located within the Galway West constituency that are being funded under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme, the Higher...
    • Student Accommodation
      2279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the forthcoming student accommodation strategy paper; when it is expected to be published; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Research and Development
      2280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the extent of further and higher education and research links between Ireland and India; how those links can be further enhanced; and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his Department's policy approach to the use of generative AI by students and researchers across the further and higher education...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal
      2282. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta chun cúrsa oiliúna lán-Ghaeilge luathbhlianta a bhunú; agus an...
    • Departmental Staff
      2283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from his Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to...
    • Official Travel
      2286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total anticipated costs associated with his foreign travel for St Patricks Day; the delegation size; and if a breakdown can...
    • Departmental Funding
      2287. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the percentage of LEADER funding allocated to projects in the respective LAG areas; the amount drawn down; the amount of funding...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2289. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the take-up of the senior alert scheme for each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025; if he intends to make...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when consideration of the review of CLÁR areas nationally, undertaken in 2021 using the 2016 Census of Population data, will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2291. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount of funding allocated to respective local authorities in 2025 for all rural schemes provided by his Department...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      2292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department or any body under its aegis made a disclosure under Revenue's recent disclosure opportunity to regularise...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department administers any funding schemes which can support provision of Christmas lights in rural towns and villages;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      2294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the person or body with responsibility for the TidyTowns programme, including oversight and administration; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      2295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports currently available to connected hubs to assist with the employment of hub managers; whether funding is available...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the provision of panic alarms for elderly people will still remain under the remit of his Department; if it will continue to...
    • Irish Language
      2297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has engaged with a commercial service provider (details supplied) regarding their inability to correctly record...
    • Departmental Staff
      2301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE qualified accountants working within his Department as of 10 March 2026, in tabular form. [20027/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      2302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projects that were funded under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme in Longford in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in...
    • Departmental Staff
      2303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff recruited to his Department in the grades of Clerical Officer, Executive Officer, and Higher Executive...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      2308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to review correspondence (details supplied); if he will assist with the query by way of advice; and if he will make a statement...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      2309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of carbon that will be emitted on all transport and related actions undertaken by him and all members of his staff...
    • Departmental Projects
      2313. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the Inis Oírr Pier Redevelopment project; the progress made to date; the forthcoming stages of the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      2315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the Islands Minor Capital Works Programme in Galway West constituency; the progress made under the...

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