Written answers

Tuesday, 12 May 2026

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      56. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Climate Action, Environment and Energy will next meet. [30324/26]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Fees
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the Programme for Government commits to phasing out the student contribution fee over the lifetime of this Dáil, and Budget 2026...
    • Third Level Costs
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the merits of creating a student finance model that would provide interest free loans to students that do not qualify for SUSI...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 comment)
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on his engagement with HEIs in relation to the Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment Framework; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Accommodation
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give favourable consideration to index linking SUSI maintenance grants in line with rising accommodation costs and the cost of living; and if...
    • Further and Higher Education
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the application of SUSI's "equivalent or lower qualification" rule in cases where a Level 9 psychology conversion programme...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline future plans for aiready.ie and for upskilling programmes in artificial intelligence. [34391/26]
    • Further and Higher Education
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the work his Department is doing to encourage careers in the ORE sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34808/26]
    • Third Level Fees
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the cost of third level fees in each of the years 2024, 2025, 2026; if he intends to reduce fees; and the timeframe in which...
    • Student Accommodation
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expand the eligibility of the student accommodation assistance scheme to include renter students who fall outside SUSI eligibility and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if will review and engage with stakeholders in relation to apprentice wages given the current cost of living crisis; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Fees
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is planning to abolish college fees this year in light of the worsening affordability crisis; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is giving consideration to a reduction in fees or support grant to assist apprentices who pay a pro-rata registration fee...
    • Third Level Costs
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the improvements he has made to student financial supports and SUSI for eligible students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34708/26]
    • Further and Higher Education
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the new Offshore Renewable Energy Career Chart will support delivery of the skills pipeline identified in the Offshore Wind Skills Action...
    • Youth Services
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to enhance the supports that are provided to learners with special educational needs, specifically within Youthreach services; and if...
    • Student Accommodation
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress made under the National Student Accommodation Strategy. [34853/26]
    • Third Level Education
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third-level applications received by the Central Applications Office, and the non-completion rate for the full duration of a course...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is concerned about the impact of AI tools on third level exam integrity; the measures that are being taken to address this; and if he will...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the delays with having qualifications recognised and validated by the relevant authority for the purpose of taking up...
    • Irish Language
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role his Department is playing in ensuring we meet the objective of 20% of recruits to the public sector being competent in Irish by 2030, as...
    • Further and Higher Education
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the creation of a loan scheme for healthcare students that would see their debts written off if they choose to stay...
    • Teacher Training
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is considering initiatives to support and encourage hybrid teaching models in tertiary education to better equip students with...
    • Third Level Fees
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to reduce third level contribution fees over the course of this Government; to outline his plans for delivery; and if he will...
    • Further and Higher Education
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives being taken to incentivise Irish graduates to remain or return to Ireland, particularly in the medical and engineering...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with further and higher education institutions on the impact of AI on further and higher education; and if he will make...
    • Education and Training Provision
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the current status of the proposed Swords College of the Future; the progress that has been made since the project...
    • Further and Higher Education
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to align higher education course provision in Cork with the needs of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland-backed employers...
    • Student Accommodation
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of consultation that took place with student unions before the announcement of the Student Accommodation Strategy; if any of their...
    • Third Level Fees
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reduce college fees for the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34711/26]
    • Education and Training Provision
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress in developing the new further education and training campus in Kilkenny; the expected completion date of the...
    • Third Level Costs
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he acknowledges the economic difficulties facing-third level students and their families; and the actions he will take to lessen the burden on...
    • Student Accommodation
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update as of May 2026 on the National Student Accommodation Strategy 2026-2035; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to combat sexual harassment and abuse in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34806/26]
    • Third Level Fees
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify if reductions made in student fees in previous budgets will remain in place for the next academic year; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has engaged with the NTA to ensure that there is sufficient bus and train routes, and capacity for students who commute to...
    • Medical Research and Training
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the work of his Department in making graduate entry medicine courses more accessible; and if his Department is...
    • Student Accommodation
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his proposals to ensure adequate provision of accommodation for students. [34825/26]
    • Teacher Training
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the primary school teaching course now offered by the National Tertiary Office to include the number of places that will be...
    • Third Level Fees
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will cut college fees for third level students before September 2026. [34732/26]
    • Education and Training Provision
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed major building project at Cavan Institute will proceed to the next stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34848/26]
    • Education Costs
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to update the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34829/26]
    • Third Level Fees
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date by the Government in reducing the student contribution fee; to confirm that it remains Government policy to continue...
    • Further and Higher Education
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any planned large-scale investments in higher education infrastructure at Maynooth University; the predicted benefits of this; and...
    • Medical Research and Training
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline proposals to introduce a loan scheme for those undertaking graduate entry medicine courses; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Further and Higher Education
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the merits of requiring all third level institutions to install solar panel installations to support the operation of the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans to deliver new, permanent accommodation for Dunboyne College of Further Education, Dunboyne, County Meath; and if...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had engagement in relation to policies in HEIs that allow for students who have suffered sexual violence or harassment to be supported...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the targeted reskilling or upskilling programmes that are currently being developed or expanded for workers in sectors most exposed to AI-driven...
    • Further and Higher Education
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the projects in the Further and Higher Education Sector that will progress under his Department's Capital Programme in 2026;...
    • Student Accommodation
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on student accommodation in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34710/26]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to improve pay and working conditions for apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34854/26]
    • Language Schools
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given his comments (details supplied), the steps he is taking to ensure enforcement of regulations in the sector; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Research and Training
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on his plans for a new funding scheme for students on graduate entry medicine programmes. [34390/26]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Employment Data
      220. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated number of people who are working from home in the State. [35331/26]
    • Departmental Bodies
      221. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department or any bodies and agencies under his aegis use software and or products from a company (details supplied); and the duration and cost of the contract;...
    • Departmental Staff
      222. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil and public servants employed by his Department in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [33959/26]
    • Civil Service
      223. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an equivalent role within the European...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      224. To ask the Taoiseach the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his Department’s Vote; whether any categories of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      225. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33965/26]
    • Defence Forces
      227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including Defence Forces infrastructure projects, delivered under the remit of her...
    • Passport Services
      229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department records or monitors repeat requests for documentation from passport applicants; if so, to provide any available data...
    • Departmental Policies
      230. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a detailed update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34245/26]
    • Civil Service
      233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any mechanism in place within her Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an...
    • Defence Forces
      235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including Defence Forces infrastructure projects, delivered under the remit of her...
    • United Nations
      236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which the UN and member states ensure ethical sourcing and improved working conditions regarding cobalt mining in the DRC. [34788/26]
    • Passport Services
      237. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the procedures in place within the passport service regarding verification of entries into the log book in a Garda Station; the reason...
    • Defence Forces
      238. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including Defence Forces infrastructure projects, delivered under the remit of her...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      239. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to her Department’s...
    • EU Agreements
      240. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Ireland's plans to enhance EU-Singapore partnership and relations during Ireland's upcoming presidency of the EU; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      241. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her Department's position on the alleged undemocratic elections held in Myanmar in December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to review an application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35324/26]
    • United Nations
      243. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on whether Ireland is doing enough to contribute to global peace and security through the UN; and the reasons for same. [35341/26]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Departmental Funding
      244. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if private schools can avail of SEAI grants for energy upgrades. [35165/26]
    • EU Directives
      245. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department belatedly published an appropriate assessment screening report required under the EU Habitats...
    • Fisheries Protection
      246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the Owenriff (Barna) River system No. 140, was not legislated for (details supplied) by either the conservation...
    • Angling Sector
      251. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of meetings of the Angling Consultative Council of Ireland (ACCI)/Angling Advisory Group (AAG) that have taken...
    • Energy Policy
      252. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the SEAI solar PV for medically vulnerable households scheme for Electric Ireland customers is being advertised...
    • Departmental Projects
      253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all capital projects including energy and environmental infrastructure projects delivered...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      254. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures being taken by his Department to encourage the use of plug-in solar nationally; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Projects
      255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all capital projects including energy and environmental infrastructure projects delivered...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      256. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to my oral parliamentary question of 16 April 2026 where I did not receive a definitive answer, the completion...
    • Departmental Policies
      259. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34184/26]
    • EU Directives
      260. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when submissions received as part of the Department’s September to October 2024 consultation on the optional...
    • Electricity Generation
      261. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of the potential impact of plug in mini solar systems on electricity...
    • Civil Service
      263. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on...
    • Pension Provisions
      264. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the request submitted by EirGrid for Ministerial consent to a pension increase under the EirGrid...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      266. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the development of the Marine Protected Areas Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34566/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      267. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the current status of the National Heat Policy Statement, including the expected timeline for its...
    • Departmental Projects
      268. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the development and expected publication timeline of the Roadmap to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Heating...
    • Energy Policy
      270. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in which instances are window replacements included in the warmer homes scheme; if a defective double glazed window can...
    • Departmental Schemes
      271. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of homes to date that have been retrofitted using funding derived from carbon tax receipts; the total amount of...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      272. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects to publish the responses received as part of the Department’s September to October 2024...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      273. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of the potential benefits of plug-in mini solar systems for...
    • Fishing Communities
      275. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail the scientific advice and evidence underpinning the decision to reduce the allowable catch under the...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      276. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all capital projects, including energy and environmental infrastructure projects, delivered...
    • Departmental Budgets
      277. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      278. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government what assessment has been made of the implications of the EU Commission ruling regarding the incentivisation of domestic...
    • Data Centres
      286. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the levels of fines or other compliance measures he is considering for the failure of data centres to comply with articles...
    • Electricity Generation
      287. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline to enact the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35320/26]
    • Energy Prices
      288. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the National Energy Affordability Taskforce will report. [35338/26]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      289. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the EU Renewable Energy Financing Mechanism. [35339/26]
    • Climate Action Plan
      290. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Climate Action Plan will be published. [35800/26]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      291. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including Defence Forces infrastructure projects, delivered under the remit of her...
    • Air Corps
      294. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the approved establishment strength and current overall personnel strength of the Air Corps for each year from 2023 to date in 2026; and if she...
    • Foreign Policy
      299. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to give a detailed up to date report in regard to the triple lock and Irish neutrality (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      300. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding any mechanism in place within her Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an equivalent...
    • Emergency Planning
      301. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the rollout of the emergency preparedness booklet being sent out to all households; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces
      302. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Defence Forces Equitation School in the years of 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in...
    • Grant Payments
      305. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence her views on the refusal of a SUSI grant for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35039/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      306. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to her Department’s Vote;...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Energy Prices
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); his plans to tackle rising energy costs in a substantial way; and if he...
    • Pension Provisions
      308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the absence of a cost-of-living increase for Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) pensioners; the reason such an...
    • Bus Services
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current up-to-date position regarding the Clongriffin to city centre core bus corridor scheme; and when will this project progress to...
    • Public Transport
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase capacity on routes through the Clonburris and Adamstown area for both bus and train routes; and if he will...
    • Fuel Prices
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a fuel package; if he is considering the inclusion of the taxi and hackney sector on the fuel package given the...
    • Tourism Promotion
      316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No.199 of 16 April 2026, regarding Ireland's current position (details supplied); whether he has...
    • Greenways Provision
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of public money that has been spent to date on the Cork to Kinsale Greenway, including consultancy, planning, legal and...
    • Driver Test
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34038/26]
    • Public Transport
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all capital projects including road, public transport, and active travel infrastructure projects delivered...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether any policy, directive or contractual provision exists within Córas Iompair Éireann or its subsidiary companies which...
    • Transport Policy
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to formulate a policy on the use of drones for delivery purposes [34183/26]
    • Road Network
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the preliminary business case for the Mallow relief road remains on schedule for submission in Q2 2026; and if he will make a...
    • Traffic Management
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department has considered interim active travel or traffic management measures to alleviate congestion in Mallow town pending...
    • Air Services
      332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine his views on passenger caps (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34235/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide funding to a voluntary organisation in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34236/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34243/26]
    • Bus Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to roll out a major programme of 'new bus stops' across county Kerry at locations that have been highlighted by County Councillors; and...
    • Waste Management
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if bin and waste collection companies will be eligible to apply for the road transporters support scheme; if they are eligible, would a...
    • Bus Services
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider providing night services on a bus route as an area awaits the rollout of BusConnects (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Road Projects
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 28 April 2026, whether the Government has conducted any assessment of deploying 500 or more...
    • National Transport Authority
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the timeline associated with the pre-feasibility study for the Luas Poolbeg; if he will report on his engagement with the...
    • Rail Network
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the maximum capacity of a rail service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34328/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an...
    • National Car Test
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting time to receive an NCT date in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34452/26]
    • Bus Services
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting time to receive a driving test in County Meath for the years 2020 to 2025, and to date in 2026; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the status of the Navan rail line project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34455/26]
    • Bus Services
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to improve reliability and frequency of the NX (Navan to Dublin) bus service; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been allocated for maintenance and improvement of regional and local roads in county Meath in the current budget...
    • Bus Services
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing additional park and ride facilities in Meath to ease congestion; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Issues
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current vehicles that are eligible for the disability toll exemption scheme; if his Department is giving any consideration to adding...
    • Driver Test
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will indicate whether a driving test appointment can be expedited given...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he will examine the use of private wires, modular substations and depot based DC microgrids to accelerate the delivery of...
    • National Transport Authority
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will install Leap Card vending machines in both terminals of Dublin Airport and in Dublin Port. [34581/26]
    • Road Safety
      368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a detailed update on the progression and implementation of the 12 primary actions and 77 support actions of the Phase 2 Action Plan...
    • Rail Network
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is aware of the frequency and duration of recent DART service curtailments for maintenance works, particularly on the...
    • Driver Test
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide further testing staff to the drivers licence test centre in Killarney given the wait time is over four months currently...
    • Road Safety
      379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure that Fingal County Council installs safe paths and cycle lanes in Chapel Road, Kinsealy, County Dublin to ensure residents have...
    • Bus Services
      381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify a matter relating to BusConnects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34706/26]
    • Departmental Projects
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all capital projects including road, public transport, and active travel infrastructure projects delivered...
    • National Transport Authority
      383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to contact the NTA to seek an update on a broken real time monitor on Kildare Street (Stop 747) which has been broken for over two...
    • Bus Services
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the local link to include Churchill, County Kerry on route 278; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34787/26]
    • Departmental Projects
      386. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all capital projects including road, public transport, and active travel infrastructure projects delivered...
    • Rail Network
      387. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of safety concerns raised by rail passengers regarding the short notice given for train departures from distant platforms,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the exclusion of feed mill operators and other own account transport operators within the agricultural supply chain...
    • Bus Services
      394. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current estimated cost of the Tivoli bus depot; the length of time it will be used for; and the timeline for opening it. [34920/26]
    • Electric Vehicles
      397. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Cork will have electric bus charging infrastructure. [34923/26]
    • National Car Test
      398. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Car Testing Service operates under any pass or fail rate targets or key performance indicators linked to test outcomes;...
    • Rail Network
      407. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated date upon which the reopening of the western rail corridor between Athenry and Claremorris will be completed. [35028/26]
    • Departmental Data
      408. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of rail tickets purchased in County Mayo in each of the past ten years, and the total amount spent by customers on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      413. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions his Department is undertaking to address anti-social behaviour on public transport especially on intercity train services;...
    • Departmental Staff
      415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the poor staffing levels of small train stations in County Galway; the impacts this poor staffing level is having on...
    • Pension Provisions
      416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Statutory Instrument required to implement the agreed 2025 pension increases for CIÉ pensioners will be published in Iris...
    • Departmental Budgets
      417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his Department’s...
    • Road Safety
      418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the banning of the use of scramblers in public places; whether the Gardaí have sufficient powers to enforce this...
    • Road Network
      421. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department is considering proposals to address a barrier (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reviews
      422. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if this matter can be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      425. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on the commitments to allow flexible pickups on Local Link and other bus routes in rural communities, as appropriate,...
    • Public Transport
      427. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to any measures being taken to provide upgraded and enhanced public transport...
    • Rail Network
      428. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason two-car regional units are still being allocated to the Limerick to Galway train route which is one of the busiest evening...
    • Departmental Data
      429. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans which exist to provide higher-capacity rolling stock on the Limerick–Galway route; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rail Network
      430. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason 22000-class intercity units have not been permanently assigned to peak Atlantic Corridor services despite repeated...
    • Driver Licences
      432. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the countries/states that are currently being considered for addition to the list of designated recognised states for the purpose of...
    • Bus Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on Connecting Ireland route 826 which will service Mullingar, Kinnegad, Edenderry, Clonbullogue, Bracknagh, Portarlington,...
    • National Transport Authority
      437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport Authority has engaged with Iarnród Éireann regarding the alignment of the proposed L36 and L37...
    • Departmental Projects
      439. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all capital projects, including road, public transport, and active travel infrastructure projects, delivered...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      441. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason paramedics and EMTs do not receive the same level of flat-rate uniform-related tax relief as other comparable frontline healthcare professionals;...
    • Banking Sector
      442. To ask the Minister for Finance whether an issue of 'unjust enrichment' occurs where a vulture fund gets more than a reasonable return on its investment in the context of a property...
    • Departmental Data
      444. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that the PAYE helpline's opening hours 9:30-13:30 make it difficult for PAYE taxpayers working full-time to access support; if he will consider...
    • Bus Services
      445. To ask the Minister for Finance the VAT treatment applicable to coach and bus operators based in the State compared with operators based in Northern Ireland providing similar cross-Border...
    • Departmental Funding
      446. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all capital projects and programmes funded or overseen under the remit of his Department, and bodies under its aegis, which have...
    • Energy Policy
      448. To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisages a timeline for the introduction of a scheme to support home-heating modification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34116/26]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      452. To ask the Minister for Finance if a van is liable for VRT if it has removable seats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34157/26]
    • Electric Vehicles
      453. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm that the proposed reduction in company Benefit in Kind on original market value for electric vehicles from €30,000 in 2027 would be paused...
    • Tax Avoidance
      454. To ask the Minister for Finance the action being taken to control the transporting of coal from Northern Ireland to the South, where said coal is being sold for cash without the payment of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      455. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider introducing as a matter of priority an Index Linked Lifetime Tax-Free Threshold available to all Citizens of €600,000; and if he will make...
    • Tax Data
      456. To ask the Minister for Finance to urgently review Ireland’s ETF Tax system prior to the upcoming budget, (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34228/26]
    • Cost of Living Issues
      458. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a detailed response to correspondence that summarises the seriousness of the cost of living crisis, where a family with two good jobs are finding...
    • Services Sector
      459. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the position regarding the application of a reduced VAT rate to beauty and wellbeing services; the consideration has been given to extending VAT...
    • Tax Exemptions
      460. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of calls for an increase to income tax exemption limits for those over 65 years of age; and if his Department is taking steps to address these...
    • Employment Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an equivalent role within the...
    • Tax Collection
      462. To ask the Minister for Finance the value and percentage share of total corporation tax receipts paid by the top one, top three, top five, top ten and top 20 corporate groups; the sectoral...
    • Departmental Funding
      464. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all capital projects and programmes funded or overseen under the remit of his Department, and bodies under its aegis, which have...
    • Tax Reliefs
      465. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a tax relief on student fees paid by parents who have no access to SUSI grants to ensure they can access some support for expensive third...
    • Tax Data
      467. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has carried out analysis on the tax take on HVO fuel as a result of higher prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35056/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      468. To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his Department’s Vote; whether any...
    • Financial Services
      469. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his Departments plans to support tokenisation in the Irish investment industry to ensure Ireland remains an attractive location for international...
    • Departmental Reviews
      470. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on his review of the taxation of retail investment with a view to ensuring that existing investors are included in future tax measure....
    • Tax Credits
      471. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated economic value of unclaimed tax credits/rebates in the State. [35334/26]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Data
      474. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether any public offices or public buildings are planning to relocate ahead of the 2030 target for public buildings to achieve a...
    • Industrial Relations
      480. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware that under Building Momentum that 3% was set aside for local bargaining; the reason his Department is blocking political...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      481. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department has undertaken a review of public procurement and contract management frameworks in relation to cost overruns and...
    • National Development Plan
      482. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all capital projects delivered under the National Development Plan and otherwise within the remit of his...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 485
      485. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34246/26]
    • State Properties
      487. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No.425 of 4 February 2026, if he will provide a further update on the accessibility of Dublin Castle...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      489. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 269 and 270 of 30 April 2026, to outline separately the current cost of the Midleton Flood Relief...
    • Civil Service
      490. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      492. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding any product or service purchased from Canada by his Department in 2025 broken down by description and amount...
    • National Development Plan
      493. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all capital projects delivered under the National Development Plan and otherwise within the remit of his...
    • Freedom of Information
      494. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on his plans for the reform of the FOI system; the progress that has been made on implementing the recommendations...
    • National Development Plan
      495. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all capital projects delivered under the National Development Plan and otherwise within the remit of his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      496. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his Department’s...
    • Office of Public Works
      499. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works (OPW) has been requested to assess or assist with the repair and stabilisation of the Peace Park in...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Bodies
      500. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all capital projects and programmes including those delivered through IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland...
    • Departmental Policies
      501. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is any progress on the development of a licensing system for saunas at beaches; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Consumer Protection
      502. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has examined the CCPC report which highlighted knowledge gaps, financial pressures and delays in conveyancing as ongoing issues...
    • Departmental Bodies
      503. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all capital projects and programmes including those delivered through IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      505. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports currently available to tourism businesses experiencing sharp increases in fuel costs; whether marine tourism operators,...
    • Legislative Measures
      506. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment regarding short-term lets legislation, the impact it will have on the remaining tourist accommodation stock, given that County Kerry...
    • Departmental Funding
      507. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding options available to celebrate in Portmagee the 100th Anniversary of the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh and the...
    • Civil Service
      510. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an...
    • Employment Data
      511. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated number of construction, engineering, electrical, maintenance and long-term operational jobs supported by large-scale...
    • EU Funding
      512. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of capital works projects funded by his Department that also received EU funding in the years of 2025, 2026; and...
    • Departmental Policies
      513. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status and anticipated publication timeline for the Roadmap for the Decarbonisation of Commercial Buildings; and if he...
    • Departmental Consultations
      514. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the public consultation on the Irish Furniture Fire Regulations; the timeline for publication; and if...
    • Departmental Bodies
      515. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all capital projects and programmes including those delivered through IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland...
    • Agriculture Industry
      516. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has engaged with the Departments of Transport and Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the support gap...
    • Legislative Measures
      517. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the merits of progressing the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers)...
    • Departmental Bodies
      519. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all capital projects and programmes including those delivered through IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      520. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his...
    • Consumer Protection
      521. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify whether the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Gift Vouchers) Act 2019 apply to benefits such as complimentary...
    • EU Regulations
      522. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline Ireland’s current position at EU REACH Committee discussions concerning proposed restrictions on lead ammunition;...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      527. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has reviewed a report (details supplied) and the recommendations relating to future AI jobs planning, enterprise AI adoption,...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of public houses, broken down by county, that applied for and were granted Increased Cost of Business and Power Grants;...
    • Employment Data
      531. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's definition of 'full employment' and if Ireland currently could be classified as having full employment. [35311/26]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Building Projects
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all school building, extension, refurbishment and other capital projects delivered under the remit of her...
    • Special Educational Needs
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department will ensure access to structured, evidence-based literacy instruction in all mainstream classrooms for children...
    • Schools Building Projects
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed building extension for a school (details supplied). [33985/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review correspondence (details supplied); and if she can provide an update on this application. [33987/26]
    • Bus Éireann
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the process for contractors receiving payment from Bus Éireann and the practice of withholding payments from...
    • Schools Building Projects
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school building project (details supplied) that is part of a school amalgamation of three secondary schools; and if she will...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm whether the designated email account (details supplied) remains active and monitored; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all school building, extension, refurbishment and other capital projects delivered under the remit of her...
    • Special Educational Needs
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of schools with special classes in Dublin 9 and 11, as this list is not available anywhere on the Department's or the NCSE's...
    • School Accommodation
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1237 of 14 April 2026, if the provision of additional temporary accommodation can be sanctioned for a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the portal to register for both school and home based summer provision will open at the same time; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a status update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34156/26]
    • School Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision to remove a teaching post for the school year 2026/2027 from a school (details supplied) can be reversed. [34176/26]
    • School Accommodation
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that a school (details supplied) will be permitted to progress to the next stage of its application within the additional...
    • School Enrolments
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills as to the envisioned enrolment over the next number of years for a school (details supplied); the estimated demand for places in the area; and if...
    • School Staff
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline in detail the proposed redeployment of SNAs in schools across County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist a school in County Kerry as a matter of urgency (details supplied) [34248/26]
    • Schools Administration
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently review primary school survey results in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34267/26]
    • School Staff
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the appeal submitted by the board of management of a school (details supplied), seeking the retention of a mainstream teaching...
    • Schools Building Projects
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of emergency works applications her Department received each year for each of the past five years; the number of refused applications,...
    • Child Protection
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on section 69 of the Government’s Action Plan submitted to the Committee of Ministers on 30 July 2025 in a case (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34321/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the drawdown of summer works scheme funding approved for a school (details supplied) in October 2025; the current status...
    • State Examinations
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the payment process for State examination fees; the reason the fees are not collected through schools as part of existing...
    • Special Educational Needs
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places that will be available in a special school (details supplied); if she will provide information on the application and...
    • Labour Court
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress of negotiations regarding pension parity, occupational sick leave, and bereavement leave for school secretaries and...
    • Education and Training Provision
      573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to reduce the time it takes to achieve a Professional Master's in Education (PME) from two years to one year, taking...
    • Departmental Data
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers that are currently undertaking a PME across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34403/26]
    • Departmental Circulars
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider implementing an updated circular for schools requiring students to use digital devices to ensure that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in County Meath who have applied for the emergency works scheme in the past 12 months; the status of each application; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to schools in County Meath under the summer works scheme in each of the past three years, by school; and if she...
    • School Transport
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications her Department has received for the school transport scheme from County Meath as of Tuesday 5 May 2026; and if she...
    • School Admissions
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in County Meath currently without a confirmed post-primary school place for the 2026/2027 academic year; the measures...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the average primary school class size and ratio in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34410/26]
    • School Staff
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of substitute teachers available to schools in County Meath; the impact of shortages on teaching provision; the steps being taken to...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has carried out an audit on the condition of school buildings in County Meath; the findings of such an audit; the funding that...
    • Civil Service
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any mechanism in place within her Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an equivalent...
    • Schools Building Projects
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary and post primary schools in County Meath currently undergoing construction works; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on applications under the Bus Éireann school transport scheme for pupils attending a school (details supplied); to...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34505/26]
    • School Staff
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Garda vetting is a component of the interview process for school teaching staff; whether this vetting process is informed by Tusla reports;...
    • School Equipment
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take immediate action to install fibre connection at a school (details supplied) to restore internet access following an extended...
    • Schools Building Projects
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a matter (details supplied) regarding a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34550/26]
    • School Accommodation
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the project (details supplied) for approval to enter a short-term rental arrangement for a room within their local community centre as...
    • Special Educational Needs
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes in Dublin 15 at primary school level, broken down per school, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all school building, extension, refurbishment and other capital projects delivered under the remit of her...
    • Parking Provision
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to engage with Fingal County Council on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34791/26]
    • School Staff
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures followed by Education and Training Boards when appointing principals and senior staff to special schools; the safeguarding,...
    • School Facilities
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her proposals for a school (details supplied) for whom emergency works were refused to repair their defective roof and are left with no other...
    • Special Educational Needs
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a special class for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34799/26]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she could clarify if there are any alternative assessment pathways when there is a shortfall of NEPS psychologists for those awaiting...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34888/26]
    • School Staff
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teaching services abroad can be superannuated for pension purposes on retirement in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for a new school building (details supplied). [34931/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Minister of State at the Department of Education with special responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion will meet with a group...
    • School Equipment
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any progress in ring fencing a portion of the ICT funding allocated to post primary schools specifically for the provision of...
    • School Curriculum
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the 'Key to the EU' programme developed through University College Cork for use in primary schools; if her Department would...
    • School Funding
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the email address (details supplied) provided to principals of schools granted DEIS plus status is not working [34990/26]
    • School Staff
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the schools granted DEIS plus and granted two deputy release days are covered by a substitute teacher; if it has to be two days per week; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a timeline for the addition of the dedicated autism class planned for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all school building, extension, refurbishment and other capital projects delivered under the remit of her...
    • School Funding
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding in terms of capitation and capital works available to a school (details supplied). [35023/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline, all primary and secondary schools in Dublin 2, Dublin 4, Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W with special classes; those under...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35042/26]
    • School Funding
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will bring forward the announcement of Schools to be awarded funding under the climate action summer works scheme 2026 (category 7 climate...
    • Departmental Funding
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to her Department’s Vote;...
    • School Funding
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a remote area grant can be offered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35133/26]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to move to construction phase; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Facilities
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to support a school (details supplied), which has been without broadband for over six weeks; the interim...
    • School Accommodation
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list and name the primary and secondary schools that are constituted entirely of modular / prefabricated buildings; the way she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if modular / prefabricated buildings are eligible for Emergency Works Grant supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35245/26]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the recently announced extension of HSCL provision, the criteria and data metrics that formed the basis of the decision to include or...
    • Schools Administration
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has any plans to mandate epilepsy training as part of teacher training curriculum; whether her Department has any plans to mandate...
    • Special Educational Needs
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of an application for a SEN classroom for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35310/26]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Invasive Species Policy
      667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of confirmed Asian Hornet nests identified in Ireland in 2025 and to date in 2026; the counties affected; and the...
    • Wildlife Protection
      668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is grant aid available for septic tanks in close proximity to char habitats, given that char fish are a protected...
    • Fire Service
      669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has examined the feasibility of increasing the retirement age for firefighters to 65 years (details supplied),...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all capital projects including social and affordable housing, water services, heritage and local...
    • Fire Service
      671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost and the implications that would arise from extending the voluntary extension of the retirement age to 65...
    • Departmental Meetings
      672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the establishment and meeting frequency of the five working groups (details supplied) committed to in...
    • Local Authorities
      673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in view of the commitment to 'significant resources in the 2024 Action Plan, to provide a breakdown of the way in which the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all capital projects including social and affordable housing, water services, heritage and local...
    • Planning Issues
      678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the research that was carried out by his Department prior to the recent changes to planning regulations for modular homes,...
    • Housing Provision
      683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 27 November 2025, for an update on the number of affordable homes being provided...
    • Rental Sector
      685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protection a small landlord has when a difficult situation arises (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide further information on the shared accommodation scheme pilot for young people in Cork City referenced in...
    • Business Regulation
      687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy framework governing the granting, revocation and review of outdoor seating or street furniture licences by local...
    • Vacant Properties
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant or derelict hotel and guesthouse properties in each county; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electricity Generation
      689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on current guidelines for local authorities installing solar PV on social housing; if local authority...
    • Land Issues
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current average processing times for Section 49 cases within Tailte Éireann; the number of such cases currently on...
    • Disability Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that there can be a significant gap between grants awarded by the local authority and the actual cost of...
    • Civil Service
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment...
    • Protected Disclosures
      694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when will there be a decision made on the protected disclosure that was submitted by a person (details supplied). [34498/26]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Parks and Wildlife Service have given consideration to acquiring the 1,500-acre land parcel for sale in...
    • Water Quality
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on measures taken by his Department to improve water quality in Ireland, specifically, actions relating to...
    • Housing Provision
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his Department's consideration of Fingal County Council's proposals for housing at Tuckett's Lane Park, Howth...
    • Housing Policy
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the process whereby Fingal County Council was informed by his Department that they must remove green roofs from...
    • Building Energy Rating
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of BER exempt domestic properties in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34638/26]
    • Fire Service
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is currently reviewing the mandatory retirement age for members of the Fire Service; the stage that review...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all capital projects including social and affordable housing, water services, heritage and local...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the new National Planning Statement on Solar Energy; and to provide a timeline for its publication. [34750/26]
    • Local Elections
      708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is to be a review of local election boundaries in advance of local government elections in 2029; and a timeline for...
    • Departmental Reports
      709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any update on the expected publication date of the Taskforce on Local Democracy report; and if he will make a...
    • Vacant Properties
      710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports, remedial measures or discretionary arrangements that are available to a person who purchased a vacant or...
    • Housing Provision
      716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has considered a CALF application for 60 houses in Carndonagh (details supplied); if so, his decision in relation...
    • Housing Schemes
      718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding any review ongoing of the housing assistance payment scheme within his Department with a view to...
    • Housing Policy
      729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the specific mechanisms being used by his Department to address the affordability of housing in the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all capital projects including social and affordable housing, water services, heritage and local...
    • Property Management Companies
      731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to introduce regulations surrounding the transparency of money paid to property management companies...
    • Heritage Schemes
      736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when announcements will be made in relation to the Community Heritage Grant and the overall budget available for this scheme...
    • Departmental Budgets
      737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his...
    • Turf Cutting
      738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will sign an activity requiring consent in respect of three bogs (details supplied) to allow families to cut turf...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is planned to establish the proposed new Countryside Forum for Nature; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Wildlife Regulations
      741. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the unilateral suspension of the Sustainable Hunting of Wild Bird Stakeholder Forum; if he...
    • Departmental Communications
      742. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what stakeholder groups or organisations have not yet been contacted in relation to any review of their Memoranda of...
    • Housing Policy
      743. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that he brought a memo to cabinet on 21 April 2026 on the retrospective funding of OMCs who have already funded the...
    • Housing Schemes
      745. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application has been made to the Housing Activation Office in respect of the next section of the Athenry Ring Road; when...
    • Departmental Functions
      748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the transfer of functions including responsibility for the Multiple Unit Development Act and the...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Pension Provisions
      750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if long-Covid and incapacity to work is recognised by his Department as eligible grounds for invalidity pension. [33981/26]
    • Social Welfare Code
      751. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the impact of leave in addition to maternity leave [34182/26]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      753. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will review the current disability allowance means test and earnings thresholds; whether any assessment has been...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for assistance regarding an exceptional needs payment to a person (details supplied). [34369/26]
    • Civil Service
      755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will expedite an application for disability allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on an appeal for supplementary welfare allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the refusal of an application for the working family payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Pensions
      760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 commitment to finalise an approach for benchmarking...
    • Social Welfare Code
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will include a target for the reduction of poverty among older people in the upcoming successor to the Roadmap for...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a constituent (details supplied) is forbidden from getting a second Community Welfare Payment when moving into a council...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any supports available to a person (details supplied) who is currently undergoing chemotherapy following a breast...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the continued means testing of the carer's allowance, given that caring is a constant, full time role that...
    • Social Welfare Code
      769. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress on the commitment to examine the modifications or changes that may be made to support women who currently fall...
    • Employment Schemes
      770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to ensure that those who are in receipt of unemployment assistance payments are offered paths into...
    • Departmental Data
      772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of centenarian bounties paid in each of the years from 2016 to 2025; the projections of the number of payments...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Projects
      773. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of all capital projects including Garda stations, courthouses, prison and immigration-related...
    • An Garda Síochána
      774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times that Gardaí attended a location (details supplied) in 2025 and to-date in 2026. [33980/26]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      776. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for naturalisation. [34064/26]
    • Departmental Properties
      778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of residential properties he is listed as owner of on behalf of his Department; the county locations of same; the...
    • Language Schools
      779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of English language schools removed from the ILEP in the past five years for breaching the rules; the reasons they...
    • Departmental Properties
      784. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of residential properties (that would be described as family homes) in the ownership of his Department, in each...
    • Departmental Websites
      788. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of issues associated with a website (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34191/26]
    • Immigration Policy
      789. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if his Department could offer guidance regarding such...
    • Immigration Status
      790. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to give a detailed progress report in regard to an ongoing application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      791. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on work to consider the case for a second Garda training college; the role that the tertiary system including...
    • Family Reunification
      792. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on concerns raised in respect of family reunification (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Courts Service
      793. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the operation of the court fees regime under S.I. No. 492 of 2014 to ensure that fees do not act as a barrier...
    • Asylum Seekers
      794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to give an update on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34265/26]
    • Restorative Justice
      795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 427 of 27 November 2026, to provide an update on the use of restorative justice in the...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the regulations and supports are in place to facilitate local authorities with the roll out of community CCTV cameras; and if...
    • Departmental Reviews
      798. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on his Departments implementation of any of the recommendations contained in the April 2025 report An Evidence...
    • Crime Prevention
      808. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of nitrous oxide cannisters that have been seized by an Garda Síochána in 2024, 2025 and to date 2026; the...
    • Victim Support Services
      809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the guidelines that are in place with regard to the entitlements under the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 to...
    • Civil Service
      810. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to...
    • Female Genital Mutilation
      811. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the number of prosecutions for offenses related to female genital mutilation in Ireland for each of the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the merits of creating greater civilianisation within An Garda Síochána to reduce the administrative...
    • International Protection
      819. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected average time from lodgement of an international protection application to final decision and removal under the...
    • Family Reunification
      821. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated number of family members expected to enter and reside in the State annually under the family reunification...
    • International Protection
      822. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated additional annual cost to the State of providing material reception conditions under the Reception Conditions...
    • Departmental Bodies
      826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the staffing levels, budget and first-year work programme of the newly established Office of the Chief Inspector of Asylum...
    • International Protection
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications still governed by the International Protection Act 2015 under the transitional provisions of the...
    • Data Protection
      828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has engaged with the Data Protection Commission regarding the use of ad hoc video recording by...
    • Family Law Cases
      829. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 7 October 2025, if he will provide an update on guidelines from the Judicial...
    • Departmental Strategies
      830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No’s. 421 and 422 of 7 October 2025, the status of the six recommendations to address...
    • Immigration Status
      831. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware and will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      832. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the transfer of oversight of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 legislation to the Department of Housing,...
    • Crime Prevention
      833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is exploring or implementing to tackle the growing threat of extremism in Ireland; and if he will...
    • An Garda Síochána
      834. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of Gardaí actively deployed to roads policing, by division, for each quarter since 2021, in tabular form; and...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      835. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to the development of the online digital evidence device management storage system allowing members...
    • International Protection
      837. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when will a decision will be made regarding International Protection Accommodation Centres currently based in hotels; when they...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      838. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 377 of 26 March 2026, if he will provide the number of instances in which a juvenile...
    • Work Permits
      840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite a work visa (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34784/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      841. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify whether he and/or his officials, in conjunction with An Garda Síochána’s leadership team,...
    • Legislative Measures
      842. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 7 October 2025, if he will report on the work of the Family Justice Strategy 2022...
    • Departmental Bodies
      843. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 424 of 7 October 2025, if he will report on the work of the Voice of the Child working...
    • Victim Support Services
      844. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement his Department has had with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34926/26]
    • International Protection
      845. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with respect of the Immigration Service, the factors or circumstances that have led to later applications, including those from...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his...
    • Road Safety
      850. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the banning of the use of scramblers in public places; whether the Gardaí have sufficient powers to...
    • Animal Welfare
      852. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures currently in place between An Garda Síochána, local authorities and animal welfare agencies to address...
    • Departmental Bodies
      853. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he will provide an update on the work of the Firearms Forum established by his Department, including the number of...
    • Youth Services
      856. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Juvenile Liaison Officers attached to Kildare-Carlow Division as of 6 May 2026; if he will provide the same...
    • An Garda Síochána
      857. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of 4x4 vehicles currently in the Kildare-Carlow Garda Fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35214/26]
    • Visa Agreements
      858. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Palestinian nationals remain subject to visa requirements to enter the State while Israeli citizens may travel to...
    • Sports Events
      861. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the security screening process that will be in place for participants, management and supporters of Israel when they visit...
    • Departmental Data
      862. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide statistics on the number of firearms used in recorded crimes in each of the past years; and to further provide a...
    • Prison Service
      864. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage by citizenship of all prisoners currently held in Irish prisons. [35315/26]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      865. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the levels of co-ordination on national cybersecurity across all Government Departments; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Projects
      866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all capital projects including fishery harbour, forestry, agri-food and other infrastructure projects...
    • EU Funding
      867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether there is any public information available regarding the level of EU agricultural funding going to large farmers in Ireland....
    • Departmental Projects
      868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all capital projects including fishery harbour, forestry, agri-food and other infrastructure projects...
    • Departmental Reports
      869. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question 883 of 28 April 2026, the timeline for his Department's response and subsequent publication of the...
    • Departmental Projects
      870. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all capital projects including fishery harbour, forestry, agri-food and other infrastructure projects...
    • Animal Welfare
      871. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date regarding the submission from an organisation to curb dog attacks on sheep and lambs (details...
    • Animal Sales
      873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the restricted sales of cattle under the new TB Action Plan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Employment Rights
      874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an...
    • Departmental Communications
      875. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the details of meetings he, or a Minister of State, has had with representatives of Fingal County Council in the past...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding any engagement he has had with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Projects
      882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all capital projects including fishery harbour, forestry, agri-food and other infrastructure projects...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021; to provide a timeline for the Bill to be voted on; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the reason applications (details supplied) were not successful; if the outcome can be reversed as the applicant...
    • Animal Culls
      885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline any scientific evidence his Department is in receipt of that suggests badgers contribute to the spread of bovine TB,...
    • Teagasc Activities
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1417 of 4 November 2025, and the subsequent direct response issued by Teagasc confirming that...
    • Agriculture Industry
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide, in respect of the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF), the total amount of Exchequer and CAP funding the organisation...
    • Animal Welfare
      893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering strengthening the legislation and enforcement mechanisms relating to equine ownership and animal welfare, in...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all capital projects including fishery harbour, forestry, agri-food and other infrastructure projects...
    • Commonage Land Use
      895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the issues concerning 19 shares of commonage relative to lands at a location (details supplied) and recorded under a number of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his...
    • Animal Welfare
      897. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department maintains statistics on horse injuries, collapses or fatalities linked to sulky racing, including unofficial...
    • Greyhound Industry
      899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 299 of 15 April 2026, if it is correct to interpret information contained in the reply to mean...
    • Departmental Properties
      900. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of revenue his Department has received from rent from commercial units in each of the Fisheries Harbour Centre under his...
    • Agriculture Supports
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider imposing a rigid deadline of the 27 May 2026 for accessing the fuel income support scheme given the level of...
    • Agriculture Industry
      903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to support generational renewal in farming, particularly in light of rising land, machinery and input costs...
    • Animal Diseases
      904. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cumulative impact of the new TB testing rules introduced in April 2026, in conjunction with the current export restrictions,...
    • Livestock Issues
      905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered proposals to recognise native honey bee hives as livestock units under the Common Agricultural...
    • Food Industry
      906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale for the new regulations granting the Agri-Food Regulator additional powers to compel price and market information; the...
    • Animal Welfare
      907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has examined the recommendations contained within the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      910. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the scientific assessment into the threats posed by imported non-native honey bees, commissioned by his Department and...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Family Resource Centres
      912. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to give consideration to the Family Resource Centre National Forum Pre-Budget Submission (details supplied) as Family Resource...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      913. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including early years, childcare and disability infrastructure projects,...
    • Child Protection
      914. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 30 April 2026, the steps that will be taken to introduce a system of continuous...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      915. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including early years, childcare and disability infrastructure projects,...
    • Children in Care
      917. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average annual cost per child of a private residential care placement in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and if she will provide...
    • Departmental Contracts
      923. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the cost levels set in the 2024 tender process were benchmarked against other jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom;...
    • Children in Care
      924. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average weekly and annual cost per child of Special Emergency Arrangements in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and the total...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      933. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans in regard to the continued sealing of State records relating to mother and baby homes, and denying survivors and families...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      934. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the action being taken to address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Children in Care
      935. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the staff-to-child ratio and average length of stay in private versus statutory residential centres operated or funded by Tusla; the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      943. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1037 of 17 February 2026, if any progress been made in respect of an urgent matter (details...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      945. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review the process of assessments for Autism in children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      946. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when legislation will be published and introduced, amending the Institutional Burial Act to enable first cousins to provide DNA for...
    • Children in Care
      948. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of children in special emergency arrangements (SEAs), by Tusla region and age group. [34370/26]
    • Disability Services
      959. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the CDNTs within which there are family representatives adopted and in place; those for which there is a vacancy; the CDNTs in which...
    • Departmental Staff
      960. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding any mechanism in place within her Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      961. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the Building Blocks Grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34469/26]
    • Disability Services
      962. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the status and number of operational respite beds for children with disabilities in Meath; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      963. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe for the Government moving towards the target of €200 per month for childcare costs; and if she will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      964. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 2493 of 14 April 2026, if she will outline when local county childcare committees will receive...
    • Irish Language
      966. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to increase the provision of Irish-medium early years services in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      968. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare facilities the State has acquired in County Meath for the years 2020 to 2025, and to date in 2026; and if...
    • Protected Disclosures
      970. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when will there be a decision made on the protected disclosure that was submitted by a person (details supplied). [34497/26]
    • Childcare Services
      971. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which her Department plans to tackle the issue of children attending childcare facilities on a part-time basis (details...
    • Child and Family Agency
      972. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if findings of Tusla investigations form part of the Garda vetting process; if statutory bodies, such as the Teaching Council, are...
    • Childcare Services
      973. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding any support mechanisms in place to support families whose childcare facilities have withdrawn from the core...
    • Departmental Projects
      982. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including early years, childcare and disability infrastructure projects,...
    • Disability Services
      983. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on increasing respite for parents of a person (details supplied) with a view securing a supported residential...
    • Departmental Data
      984. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of single-occupancy residential placements for people with an intellectual disability, neurodevelopmental condition or...
    • Child Protection
      986. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the procedures and inter agency protocols in place between Tusla, the Department of Education and Youth and school authorities in...
    • Departmental Properties
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider the purchase of a building in Kilcock, County Kildare (details supplied) under the new €135 million programme of...
    • Departmental Funding
      988. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide figures for the funding allocated to a person (details supplied) in 2025 and for 2026; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Projects
      989. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the development of child and youth impact assessments, including the pilot planned for her...
    • Childcare Services
      990. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she considers it fair or reasonable that under the current Core Funding banding system, a childcare service falling...
    • Departmental Projects
      996. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including early years, childcare and disability infrastructure projects,...
    • Childcare Services
      997. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the lack of childcare services currently available in the Clifden area, County Galway; if she has...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      999. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to her...
    • Departmental Policies
      1000. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when Ireland will implement the European Union Disability Card Directive; the steps currently being taken by her Department towards...
    • Disability Services
      1001. 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...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding streams available to support the establishment of a new Family Resource Centre, including capital and operational...
    • Family Support Services
      1003. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of referrals for family support services in County Offaly in each of the past five years; the current waiting times for...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1004. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Family Resource Centres per capita in each county; the position of County Offaly relative to the national average;...
  • Department of Health
    • Question Heading for question(s) 1010
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health if she will investigate the case of a couple (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35161/26]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on RSV Immunisation Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33963/26]
    • Departmental Projects
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including hospital, primary care centre and other health infrastructure works delivered by her Department...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available for the purchase of a PET scanner for Beaumont Hospital. [33976/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons based at Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital as of 28 April 2026. [33977/26]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO9 where GPs on GMS scheme have notified the HSE that they intend to retire within the next six months. [33978/26]
    • Hospital Equipment
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the recent reporting that over 80% of Ireland's radiotherapy machines require immediate or imminent replacement; and if she will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure a person (details supplied) will receive a discretionary hardship payment as an interim support, pending the outcome of the acarizax reimbursement...
    • Ambulance Service
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered the National Ambulance Service capital investment plan for the midwest for 2027, including staffing need, vehicle need, recurring cost...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health if children over the age of 12 years will be made eligible for free glass under the medical card scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34003/26]
    • Dental Services
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health her current plans to decrease orthodontic waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34004/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34018/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on appointment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34020/26]
    • Housing Provision
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 77 planned residential places nationwide that are earmarked for Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34043/26]
    • Hospital Transfers
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently allow for the transfer of a person (details supplied) to the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34046/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including hospital, primary care centre and other health infrastructure works delivered by her Department...
    • Home Care Packages
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that HSE home support (Clare) has approved a significant number of families for home care support which they are unable to provide due to staff...
    • EU Regulations
      1030. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the implementation of Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011 into primary and secondary legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including hospital, primary care centre and other health infrastructure works delivered by her Department...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health for assistance regarding an invalidity pension (details supplied). [34093/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) In County Donegal will receive a new date for an orthopaedic operation at Sligo University Hospital; the reason planned...
    • Ambulance Service
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied) [34098/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health whether Government is satisfied there is effective and consistently applied clinical governance oversight across HSE South West; whether identified clinical...
    • Health Services Staff
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff converted to direct HSE employment under the July 2025 agency conversion framework, broken down by HSE health region and staff...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health the reason maintenance and technical agency staffing expenditure increased from €12.4 million in 2024 to €68.2 million in 2025; whether this...
    • Health Services
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE records the reason for agency staffing expenditure by category, including vacancy cover, sick leave, maternity leave, surge activity, or...
    • Dental Services
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of dental hygienist courses provided nationally is sufficient to meet demand; if she has given consideration to the shortage of places and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the status of and funding for, the RSV immunisation programme for newborns for 2026. [34165/26]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total costs for the newly completed Killarney Community Nursing Unit, including all payments associated with the public private partnership...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment can be expedited for a person in Kerry who is suffering with vision problems and debilitating nerve pain since June 2025 (details supplied);...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health to provide data in relation to the extent of the alarming rise in coercive abortion in Ireland; and if she will outline plans to examine the problem,...
    • Departmental Data
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on agency staffing across the public health service in 2025 and to date in 2026, broken down by Health Region and staff category; and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a report that explores how Ireland can transform its public health system by shifting power closer to communities; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2778 of 14 April 2026 (details supplied), if she will confirm the length of time these vacancies have existed; if they...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health to give consideration to providing free vaccines for an older person on a pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34244/26]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently improve CCTV/security at Cork University Hospital so as to ensure that vehicles belonging to members of staff and indeed the public are not...
    • Medical Inquiries
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health further to a number of previous requests, to give a public apology to the hundreds of families that have been affected by the CAMHS Scandal in county Kerry,...
    • Ambulance Service
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an ambulance base in Killorglin as a matter of priority as this will significantly improve response times along with improving admission times for...
    • Hospice Services
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health whether Cork hospitals utilised surge capacity to date in 2026; and if so, which hospitals; when it was used; and whether additional security was deployed or...
    • Health Services Staff
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health if she has engaged with the Taoiseach following his meeting with healthcare unions and workers regarding long Covid; to confirm that the application of the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is suffering from a significant arthritic condition. [34287/26]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm if the infant RSV immunisation programme will continue for the coming year following a HIQA assessment on cost effectiveness; the...
    • Home Care Packages
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health when urgently required approved home support in December 2025 will commence for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the delay; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken by the HSE and National Ambulance Service following recent media reports concerning allegations of sexual assault involving a...
    • Care Services
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently intervene for the allocated care to be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34316/26]
    • Hospice Services
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health if she will comment on an issue raised by a constituent in Kildare South regarding radiation treatment (details supplied). [34327/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who is waiting on a hip replacement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34364/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding any mechanism in place within her Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an equivalent role within the...
    • Health and Safety
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health whether a cumulative or population-level public health risk assessment has been conducted in respect of repeated manganese exceedances in drinking water in...
    • Health Services
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health the reason focal therapy treatment has not been accepted as a treatment for prostate cancer. [34493/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the physician associate role will be published; the reasons for the repeated delays to its publication since the original due date of 31...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether a lease has been signed by the HSE for the Mayfield Ballyvollane Primary Care Centre with the developer of the facility in view of the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects to make a determination on the future of the RSV immunisation programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34503/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will establish a centralised reporting mechanism within the HSE to record all cases in which healthcare professionals are subject to criminal...
    • Departmental Data
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that has been used to fund My Options, in the categories of staff salaries, advertising, and other costs in 2025 and to date in 2026; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment steps that have been taken to fill outstanding posts in the Public Health Nurse section in the CHO6 area year-on-year since 2020; the number...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of concerns regarding the reported withdrawal or scaling back of the RSV immunisation programme for infants; whether any decision has been...
    • Departmental Data
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the number of infants diagnosed with RSV, the number of related GP presentations, emergency department presentations, hospital admissions,...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health why dyslexic assessment of children in Ireland is solely carried out by educational psychologists, when current wait for a dyslexic assessment is reported to...
    • Climate Change Policy
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are being put in place to protect vulnerable populations for heat related health risks resulting from heatwaves and climate change; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on purchasing new resources and/or equipment for the National Neurosurgical Centre at Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2024, 2025 and to...
    • Fire Safety
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health the last date an external in-person fire safety audit was carried out at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; and when is the next external in-person fire...
    • Hospital Staff
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE qualified intensive care nurses posts filled at CHI Temple Street as of 5 May 2026, in tabular form. [34579/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year costs to increase the number of Crisis Resolution Teams within the HSE to 10. [34580/26]
    • Abortion Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have had two or more terminations of pregnancy notified under the 2018 Act since 1 January 2019, by year and by whether the repeat...
    • Ambulance Service
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Ambulance Service (NAS) has failed to implement the recommendations of the 2020 independent Roles and Responsibilities Review, which...
    • Departmental Funding
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a comprehensive list of all non-statutory bodies receiving direct or indirect funding from her Department or the HSE in each of the years 2020 to...
    • Emergency Services
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether any independent review, audit, or evaluation of ambulance dispatch practices has been conducted by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council,...
    • Legislative Process
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to pass all stages of the Public Health (Single-Use Vapes) Bill 2025 before the summer recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34665/26]
    • Insurance Industry
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether it is acceptable that health insurance providers are entitled to penalise insured persons if they choose to upgrade their policies by...
    • Departmental Communications
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will commit to creating a social support group (details supplied) that will help deal with the serious issue of isolation particularly in...
    • Departmental Data
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including hospital, primary care centre and other health infrastructure works delivered by her Department...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider as a matter of policy providing an annual free allowance of compression sleeves to patients being treated for lymphoedema within the...
    • Nursing Homes
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents in designated centres for older persons who were issued with a discharge notice, notice to terminate their contract of care, or any...
    • Health Services
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently examine a matter and assist a family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34783/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the progress on the commitment to fund mental health supports across all Integrated Care Programme for Older People teams, as per the Programme for...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person considered to be a nurse specialist in Northern Ireland with ten years’ experience in Scotland and Northern Ireland is not...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people admitted to hospital who experienced a delay in being discharged home or into care elsewhere in 2026 to the end of March; and if she will...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the commitment to explore the establishment of a national safeguarding body to ensure the health, safety and welfare of vulnerable...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health if she will include asthma in the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34887/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE Consultant Anaesthesia with a special interest in Intensive Care Medicine posts filled at Kerry University Hospital as of 5 May 2026, in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [34924/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health when the external review that was supposed to be completed in August 2025 will be given to a family (details supplied). [34925/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for speech and language therapy with the Health Service Executive. [34927/26]
    • Disability Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list in Cork for residential services with learning disabilities or other disabilities who have parents or carers over the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health whether a tender for the Buncrana Community Hospital project was ever issued; if so, when; whether a contractor was appointed; if not, the reason public...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that there are no plans to cancel the RSV immunisation programme for infants in Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34952/26]
    • Emergency Departments
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 275 of 16 April 2026, if she will provide the number of patients, not the percentage, in Mayo University Hospital waiting...
    • Nursing Homes
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health the contingency plans in place in the event that nursing home operators (details supplied) withdraw from, or cease operations at, their Irish nursing home...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health further to her announcement on 5 February 2026 of Government approval of a national electronic health record (EHR) system, whether her Department has...
    • Health Service Executive
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all capital projects, including hospital, primary care centre and other health infrastructure works delivered by her Department...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) is waiting on an MRI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35033/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE's plans for the former dispensary building in Ballynoe, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35036/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the approval of the drug ryeqo which is used in other jurisdictions in the treatment of endometriosis; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health the reason (details supplied) is waiting on speech and language therapy in Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35038/26]
    • Hospital Services
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether it is acceptable that a patient with a history of osteoporosis is faced with a wait of over a year for a publicly funded DEXA scan while...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) through the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [35043/26]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the level of funding which is currently in place for the National Treatment Purchase Fund in comparison with each of the years 2024 and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a State-issued medical exemption for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35045/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to her Department’s Vote; whether any...
    • Hospital Staff
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount paid to agencies for the supply of healthcare assistants to all hospitals in the State in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health if she will include the Varicella-Zoster (shingles) inoculation jab on the drug payments scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35145/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering an expert psychiatric service to be available on 24-hour basis to individuals who may require it, rather than a service only provided...
    • Health Services
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to support engagement between service providers and service users and their families to enhance the delivery of targeted...
    • Mental Health Services
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to consider the provision of mental health service access for people aged 65 years and older, acknowledging that needs...
    • Health Promotion
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health the supports currently available from her Department and the HSE to organisations that raise public awareness of serious illnesses, including meningitis, and...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details on the number of pharmacy graduates registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland in each of the past five years; if she...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown by county of the number of pharmacies currently participating in the Common Conditions Service; if she will specifically...
    • Medicinal Products
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline what steps her Department is taking to address the fact that brexpiprazole and lurasidone, two antipsychotic medicines now recommended as...
    • Health Services
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the date at which the final evaluation of the 18-month pilot phase of the supervised injecting facility in Dublin will commence; the timeline being worked...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on efforts to resolve the access road issue identified at St. Stephen’s Hospital, the proposed site of the elective hospital for...
    • Emergency Services
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health if a site has been chosen for a new Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) in the West North West Region; the date at which this service is expected to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric cardiologist registrars based at CHI Crumlin as of 6 May 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Official Engagements
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health the bilateral meetings she has had with her EU counterparts in the past six months, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35209/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant respiratory medicine that are currently only treating and dealing with public patients at Tallaght University Hospital; and if...
    • Home Help Service
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on home support waiting lists at end of March 2026; to provide a progress update on the development of the statutory home support...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the commitment in Sláintecare 2025+ to conduct an exercise to map Meals on Wheels and day centre provision against population, by...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which implementation of the new AI in healthcare strategy, ‘AI for Care – The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy for Healthcare in...
    • Dental Services
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of dentists participating in the dental treatment services scheme in Offaly as of May 2026; the number of dentists who have joined the...
    • Nursing Homes
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health whether there is any further avenue available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35266/26]
    • Civil Registration Service
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health when the post of grade V senior registrar/marriage solemniser will be filled for the Tullamore Civil Registration Office; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health to provide clarification in relation to the recent reported pause on HSE recruitment (details supplied), in particular the way in which it will apply to the...
    • Health Services
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health the average daily cost of running an inpatient bed in an acute hospital; and the average daily cost of running a community bed; and if she will make a...
    • Patient Transport
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 338 of 11 February 2026, to provide the breakdown across all hospitals for subcategories of patient transport such as...
    • Medicinal Products
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is concerned about the promotion and sale of obesity medicines to under-18s for cosmetic weight-loss purposes by black-market actors; and if she...
    • Hospital Services
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Crumlin/CHI are not taking GP referrals for dermatology services for children outside of Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health the annual bill for agency staff in each acute hospital, per staff type; doctor, nursing, support grades and administration for 2025, in tabular form; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health the level of agency spending per model four hospital in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of management staff recruited or redeployed as part of the HSE health region/integrated healthcare area restructuring, broken down by health region...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      1247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a case related to the provision of school for a child (details supplied); the actions he will take to ensure...
    • Dental Services
      1248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the training model where nearly 50% of dental places at UCC and Trinity are sold to non-EU students for over €60,000 per...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review the SUSI threshold disregard for students working as the recent increase from €8,424 to €8,830 is not adequate. [35186/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all capital projects, including further and higher education campus, ETB and research infrastructure projects,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for assistance with a DARE scheme application (details supplied). [33986/26]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the minimum wage for apprenticeships; whether he will increase the minimum wage for apprentices to encourage participation in light of the...
    • Departmental Data
      1253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all capital projects, including further and higher education campus, ETB and research infrastructure projects,...
    • Adult Education Provision
      1255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ALL Oversight Group and National Literacy Coalition will be meeting again; and the plan for restructuring same. [34099/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ALL Strategy mid-term review; and the consultation that is planned. [34100/26]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to increase the number of craft apprenticeship meetings from six per year held; to issue the national craft certificates to ensure much needed...
    • Ukraine War
      1258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to assist the Ukrainian community across the county with educational opportunities, (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Accommodation
      1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to prioritise and accelerate the delivery of purpose built student accommodation in Kerry, Cork and Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Transport
      1261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to engage with the Minister for Transport and improve transport links from rural areas to higher education campuses by identifying and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy rationale for excluding certain QQI validated undergraduate programmes delivered by private higher education institutions from...
    • Civil Service
      1264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to an equivalent...
    • Employment Rights
      1265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that there is no bereavement leave as part of Research Ireland's post-graduate scholarships and that bereaved researchers must...
    • Departmental Data
      1266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all capital projects, including further and higher education campus, ETB and research infrastructure projects,...
    • Departmental Reports
      1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Department last published an annual NTF evaluation report including counterfactual modelling of programme impacts, as recommended in...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times the NTF Advisory Group has met since July 2022; the number of employer representatives who attended each meeting; and the...
    • Business Supports
      1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce the time-limited National Training Fund rebate recommended by an organisation (details supplied) in 2022 to support...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional funding allocated to employer-led Skillnet networks and Regional Skills Fora Managers since 2022 to boost SME engagement and...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the roll that the Grangegorman Development Agency will undertake in developing capital projects in the Further Education...
    • Grant Payments
      1278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding or grant supports that are available to students from Ireland who are travelling to the United Kingdom to study musical theatre; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered excluding students' own income from summer employment/weekend work as part of the means test for SUSI grants; if he will...
    • Departmental Projects
      1280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all capital projects, including further and higher education campus, ETB and research infrastructure projects,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his Department’s Vote;...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline what additional pharmacy training places are expected to be made available at University College Cork as part of the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in receipt of the SUSI grant for 2025/2026 and each level thereof, such as partial fees, full fees, fees plus maintenance...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Data
      1286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of all capital projects - including those delivered under LEADER, the Rural Regeneration and...
    • Road Network
      1288. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to introduce a budget that will allow a local improvement scheme roads (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      1289. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of all capital projects including those delivered under LEADER, the Rural Regeneration and Development...
    • Civil Service
      1291. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding any mechanism in place within his Department that allows for civil servants to transfer on secondment to...
    • Departmental Data
      1292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of all capital projects including those delivered under LEADER, the Rural Regeneration and Development...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to his...
    • Departmental Funding
      1294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans to provide funding to ensure that rural communities have access to venues for local social and cultural events; and if...

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