Written answers

Tuesday, 19 May 2026

  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Provision
      146.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce regulations setting a minimum timeframe for local authorities to ensure that casual vacancies in social...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      151.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to introduce planning guidelines for the development of solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Commercial Rates
      153.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered introducing measures to support riding centres in meeting commercial rates liabilities, including the...
    • Housing Policy
      154.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any assessment of the legislative changes required to support meaningful enforcement of...
    • Housing Provision
      157.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all social housing projects that have been completed in Kildare in the past year; and if he will make a...
    • Regeneration Projects
      158.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on delivery of the north-west quarter regeneration in Cork. [37511/26]
    • Rental Sector
      160.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has undertaken in relation to planning exemptions under proposed short-term lets legislation; when he will...
    • Departmental Policies
      161.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his engagements with representative countryside, conservation and rural stakeholder organisations, farming...
    • Housing Policy
      162.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the provision of allocated housing for those that work in frontline public sector jobs including teachers, nurses...
    • Regeneration Projects
      163.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the new Towns and Cities Regeneration Investment Fund will support towns in Kildare North that were previously...
    • Local Authorities
      165.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the work of the Local Democracy Taskforce; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Policy
      166.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when updated rural housing guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37216/26]
    • Regeneration Projects
      168.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reverse the decision not to proceed with regenerating the Oliver Bond flats; if he will prioritise repairs and...
    • Housing Policy
      169.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position on the review of the housing assistance payment scheme; when it will be concluded and the report...
    • Turf Cutting
      170.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the specific statutory provisions currently used to restrict or prohibit private domestic turf cutting by...
    • Defective Building Materials
      171.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commit to funding targeted support hubs for children and families impacted by the defective concrete crisis, given...
    • Community Development Projects
      174.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to ensure there is adequate public greenspace, playing pitches and playgrounds in growing communities...
    • Housing Policy
      177.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to mitigate against the impact of the Iran war on the supply and price of housing; and if he will...
    • Water Services
      180.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to establish a new procedure for large developments where...
    • Housing Policy
      182.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the growing gap between wages and house prices, including the affordability gap facing...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      183.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review of the 2006 wind energy development guidelines; when new guidelines will be published; and if he...
    • Housing Policy
      184.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2026; if there will be an increase in funding; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Heritage Sites
      185.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that will be taken to promote a site (details supplied) and the other extensive archaeological sites in the...
    • Housing Provision
      188.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the tenant in situ scheme for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; if he can commit to...
    • Housing Policy
      190.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will re-introduce a development levy waiver for new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37504/26]
    • Wastewater Treatment
      191.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the work undertaken to date as part of the Developer-Led Wastewater Services Infrastructure Initiative...
    • Housing Policy
      192.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific legislative, regulatory or planning barriers identified by his Department that continue to limit the delivery of...
    • Housing Schemes
      193.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority in 2024 and 2025 under the housing adaptation grant for older people and people...
    • Planning Issues
      194.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the status of planned reforms to the planning system to ensure that appropriate childcare facilities are...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      195.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to amending the provisions relating to Section 42 licences under the Wildlife Act 1976, issued...
    • Planning Issues
      196.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be ensured that the current rezoning project being carried out by local authorities will result in the social and...
    • Housing Provision
      197.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the target of the 7,500 affordable purchase and cost rental homes for 2026; the reason only 935...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      198.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on a review of eligibility criteria and the identification of priority areas for grant aid schemes...
    • Housing Policy
      200.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on plans for housing options for older people properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37522/26]
    • Homeless Accommodation
      201.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the total expenditure in 2025 on emergency homeless accommodation, with a breakdown for the amount paid out to...
    • Parking Provision
      202.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local authorities have adequate powers and flexibility to respond to parking pressures arising from new developments,...
    • Housing Provision
      203.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans for social and/or affordable housing for Arklow, County Wicklow, with projected completion dates; and if he will make...
    • Housing Policy
      205.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the work of the Housing Activation Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37515/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      206.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of first-time buyers in Galway that have benefitted from the first home scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Provision
      207.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on when his Department will provide the funding to Donegal County Council to proceed with affordable...
    • Planning Issues
      208.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when will the planning exemptions be introduced to allow for modular homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fire Safety
      209.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the interim fire safety defects remediation scheme. [37506/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      211.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the provision of affordable housing schemes in East County Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Provision
      213.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes developed, including by approved housing bodies, specifically for disabled people, and separately, people...
    • Land Development Agency
      215.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the expanded role of the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37518/26]
    • Fire Service
      216.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in the State currently receiving a pension for having worked as retained firefighters. [26565/26]
    • Housing Policy
      217.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the increasing number of people presenting to Kerry County Council as homeless following...
    • Rental Sector
      220.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the planning policy statement for short term lets. [37510/26]
    • Defective Building Materials
      222.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on when a scheme will commence to relocate nine families, living in defective concrete block homes away...
    • Housing Schemes
      223.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority run rightsizing schemes that are in place for owner-occupiers nationally to support the housing...
    • Housing Provision
      224.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the infrastructural upgrades deemed necessary to support planned housing delivery in Kildare North; the basis on...
    • Housing Schemes
      228.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of public expenditure on Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) and other rent supports paid directly to private...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      229.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the updated renewable energy planning guidelines will be published; the current status of their preparation and...
    • Housing Policy
      230.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional measures he will introduce to ensure that HAP recipients are not discriminated against by landlords who refuse...
    • Rental Sector
      234.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific measures he will take to address the growing unaffordability of cost rental rents and unviability of cost rental...
    • Housing Policy
      235.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when clarity and formal guidance will be provided to local authorities regarding the planning and regulatory treatment of...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      238.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will broaden the eligibility areas for the Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (Septic Tank) Grants; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      239.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Exchequer funding provided under the first home scheme in each year since its launch; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Provision
      240.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg West SDZ. [37507/26]
    • Defective Building Materials
      241.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has undertaken an assessment of the number of applicants affected by defective concrete blocks who have...
    • Vacant Properties
      242.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility criteria for the vacant property refurbishment grant, including the Vacant Above The Shop Grant; whether micro...
    • Housing Policy
      243.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures in place for local authorities to bring vacant housing stock back into use; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      244.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the proposals and associated targets to deliver age-friendly housing in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [37537/26]
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      246.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 5 March 2026, to provide an update on the progression of national planning...
    • Housing Policy
      247.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce statutory regulations for online property bidding platforms and estate agents to deal with potential...
    • Housing Provision
      248.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes by new builds and acquisitions delivered in Counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number of...
    • Defective Building Materials
      250.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends placing a cap on redress for apartment and duplex construction defects; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Social Media
      251.To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied) [37210/26]
    • Departmental Contracts
      252.To ask the Taoiseach if his Department or any bodies and agencies under its aegis use, or have in the past used, software and or products from a company (details supplied); the duration and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      253.To ask the Taoiseach to provide a copy of the recent correspondence issued by the Minister for Public Expenditure; National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to his Department referred to...
    • Departmental Staff
      254.To ask the Taoiseach the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of Ireland’s presidency of the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Overseas Development Aid
      255.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland provides financial assistance or development aid to the government of Senegal or any of its agencies; if this will be reviewed in...
    • Abortion Services
      257.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department maintains any formal written definition distinguishing abortion services, post-abortion care, abortion-related...
    • Consular Services
      267.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of applications made to the Irish embassy in Abu Dhabi for Irish citizens located in Doha, Qatar to attend the consular clinic at...
    • Departmental Meetings
      268.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of engagements between her Department and the government of Indonesia in 2025 and to-date in 2026. [36895/26]
    • Passport Services
      269.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will review passport renewal requirements for widowed parents who must repeatedly submit bereavement documentation for their...
    • EU Regulations
      270.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she supports the use of the European Union's blocking statute (Council Regulation (EC) No 2271/96) to protect EU operators from the...
    • EU Presidency
      273.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in preparation for Ireland's hosting of the EU Presidency from July to December 2026, a venue outside of Dublin, such as Killarney, has...
    • Passport Services
      276.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an online passport application for a person (details supplied) living in the North that was submitted on 1 March 2026 will issue on time...
    • Social Media
      280.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if she...
    • Human Rights
      285.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her assessment of reports from Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based monitoring organisation, that the Iranian regime has deliberately...
    • Departmental Staff
      287.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by her Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      288.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to issue a detailed up-to-date response to an urgent matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37469/26]
    • Passport Services
      289.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will review the case of persons (details supplied); the status of the applications; if the applications will be expedited given the...
    • EU Membership
      290.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will support Montenegro's path towards European Union membership (details supplied) and give a detailed response to all the issues...
    • Passport Services
      292.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); the status of the passport application; if the application will be expedited; and...
    • Trade Relations
      297.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of bi-lateral Ireland/Taiwan trade on an annual basis 2020-2025; the measures that will be introduced to support an increase in...
    • Human Rights
      299.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade where Ireland is actively strengthening bilateral relations with a country, her views on whether it reasonable to ask how unresolved human...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Litter Pollution
      300.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he plans to increase the maximum fine that local authorities can apply for dog fouling offences under the litter...
    • Energy Prices
      301.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the CRU’s review of pricing in Ireland’s energy market; if the Government has...
    • Departmental Schemes
      303.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Electric Ireland remains part of the solar PV scheme for medically vulnerable customers; and if he will make a statement...
    • Waterways Issues
      305.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 19 and 20 of 25 March 2026 that the TEGOS report indicates that the Boyne salmon...
    • Departmental Communications
      306.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has any usage policy on, or if it sanctions for official purposes, the use of messaging apps (details...
    • Energy Conservation
      307.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the radon risk assessment and mitigation are not explicitly included within the National Residential Retrofit...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      308.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the Celtic Interconnector; the timeline for completion; the planned routes through international and...
    • Grant Payments
      309.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider extending the eligible categories for persons to receive the warmer homes grant through the SEAI to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      310.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the safeguards currently required by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland for homeowners making substantial upfront...
    • EU Presidency
      313.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of additional staff employed or who will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      314.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to address concerns raised in relation to wind farms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Climate Change Policy
      315.To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the planned public event and timelines for both the submission of Ireland's social climate plan and...
  • Department of Defence
    • Airport Security
      316.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the spend by her Department in upgrading security infrastructure at Shannon Airport in 2026, 2025, 2024 and 2023; and the additional security...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      318.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 21 April 2026, if she is now in a position to supply the data requested; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      322.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any military personnel from either the Air Corps and or Naval Service went to France for specialist military training in each of the years...
    • Air Corps
      323.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the procurement mechanism used for the acquisition of the four Airbus H145 helicopters for the Air Corps; whether the acquisition was conducted...
    • Departmental Policies
      333.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if her Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      334.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on purchasing replacement musician instruments for Defence Forces School of Music in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form....
    • Departmental Properties
      335.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she is aware of the condition of a property a person (details supplied) is residing in; if she is aware of the persons desire to regularise...
    • EU Presidency
      336.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide assurance that the State is prepared to address any potential drone attack without breaching necessary security provisions, including...
    • Departmental Staff
      337.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by her Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      338.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress being made by his Department in relation to permitting the use of private EV charge points for electric vehicle users without...
    • Departmental Schemes
      339.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timeline for the design, consultation and implementation of the proposed new grant-based vehicle adaptation scheme....
    • Departmental Staff
      340.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional staffing, operational or administrative resources provided to the Bus Éireann Cork office following the acknowledged...
    • Airport Security
      341.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the spend by his Department in upgrading security infrastructure at Shannon Airport in 2026, 2025, 2024 and 2023; and to list the...
    • Road Safety
      342.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the significant road-safety risks outside a school (details supplied); and if he will outline what immediate measures...
    • Bus Services
      344.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give an update on changes that will be made to bus stop number 526011 at Cloonarkin Drive in Oranmore village; and if he will...
    • Departmental Reviews
      345.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the terms of reference, timeline and reporting arrangements for the independent review ordered into the Train Management System project;...
    • Road Network
      349.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide extra funding for roads to Tipperary County Council, given the increased fuels costs that are impacting the amount of...
    • Immigration Support Services
      351.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports that are currently in place and provided by his Department or agencies within his Department to support BOTPs and Ukrainian...
    • Road Network
      352.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update regarding a roads project in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36924/26]
    • School Transport
      353.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 6 May 2026, to state plainly the circumstances where passenger service vehicles that do not...
    • Rail Network
      354.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the DART West project; the timelines for CPOs to be undertaken; the timelines for procurement; the estimated time for...
    • Driver Licences
      355.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a licence will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37107/26]
    • Bus Services
      356.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the ongoing disruptions and cancellations affecting the 132 bus service operating between Dublin and Bunclody via...
    • Departmental Staff
      357.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for limiting the recent extension of the retirement age for public service drivers to drivers employed by CIÉ companies...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      358.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for increasing the clamp release fee from €80 to €125 a 56% increase in March 2022; whether any assessment was...
    • Departmental Data
      359.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total revenue generated from clamp release fees by local authorities in each of the past five years; the number of vehicles clamped...
    • Departmental Reviews
      362.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether a broader review of parking enforcement mechanisms including clamping and towing is planned; and whether alternatives to clamping...
    • Departmental Policies
      363.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if he...
    • National Transport Authority
      364.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of cases where long-serving taxi drivers are being refused extensions to the permissible vehicle age limits by the National...
    • Public Transport
      365.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider exempting public transport services from toll charges; the estimated cost of such a measure; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      366.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports available to elderly persons who wish to sit the driver theory test; if he will address the difficulties faced by those who...
    • Driver Licences
      367.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to expedite an application for a licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37313/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      368.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position regarding the implementation of pension increases for retired Córas Iompair Éireann pension scheme members;...
    • Driver Licences
      369.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to expediting a driving licence exchange application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Process
      370.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) Bill 2026; when this Bill will progress to the next stage; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      371.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Electric Vehicles
      373.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review correspondence (details supplied); if he can advise on any increase to these EV grants for domestic dwellings; the details of...
    • Road Safety Authority
      374.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a dedicated email or phone number for Oireachtas Members wishing to contact the Road Safety Authority; and if so, the details...
    • Road Network
      375.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Eastern Bypass reserve lands. [37741/26]
    • Public Transport
      376.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on planned or proposed Luas projects in south County Dublin. [37742/26]
    • Driver Licences
      382.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will ensure the error on the driving licence in question is corrected; if...
    • Public Transport
      383.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he is taking to increase public transport access for those living in Wicklow/Wexford to hospitals; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      384.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he expects the rollout of the A-Spine to produce higher frequency bus services than the present routes serving the Swords area;...
  • Department of Finance
    • Universal Social Charge
      385.To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money it is estimated will be collected from the USC this year; and to provide as good an estimate as possible of the amount that would have been...
    • Departmental Data
      386.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 2480 of 6 May 2026, how an article released in the media referring to this Parliamentary Question, which appeared in...
    • Tax Reliefs
      390.To ask the Minister for Finance to significantly increase the €400,000 tax free allowance in inheritance tax in order that a son or daughter can avail of, and that childless couples...
    • Tax Data
      391.To ask the Minister for Finance to urgently address an anomaly that exists with the current taxation system in respect of capital acquisition tax when applied to partners in comparison to...
    • Departmental Policies
      395.To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      397.To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department or the Revenue Commissioners maintain aggregate data, or will estimate, the total amount of income tax recouped by the Exchequer from...
    • Financial Instruments
      398.To ask the Minister for Finance if the new Irish for Finance Strategy will include specific measures and new structures to prioritise the competitiveness of the Irish funds industry; and if...
    • Departmental Reviews
      399.To ask the Minister for Finance f his Department has reviewed the need to update the ICAV Act to facilitate tokenisation and to support the digital transformation of the funds sector; and if...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      400.To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanisms currently being used by the Central Bank of Ireland to monitor compliance with the updated Consumer Protection Code mandating the release of...
    • Tax Collection
      401.To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax received on all fuel and energy, including electricity, in each of the past ten years. [37388/26]
    • Legislative Process
      402.To ask the Minister for Finance to address matters in the context of the forthcoming Tax Appeals and Fiscal Responsibility (Amendment) Bill 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      403.To ask the Minister for Finance to immediately review and expand the applicable area for the Living City Initiative in Cork city. [37439/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      404.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of Ireland’s presidency...
    • Departmental Schemes
      405.To ask the Minister for Finance if applications to the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will continue to be accepted and processed in full pending the introduction of the new...
    • Tax Data
      406.To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the application of a 0% VAT rate to laptops and tablets required for educational purposes; if he has engaged with the European Commission...
    • Departmental Data
      407.To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a new proposal from an organisation (details supplied); his response to same; if it will be considered ahead of Budget 2027;...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      408.To ask the Minister for Finance if his predecessor met with a person (details supplied) in 2025; if so, if this was recorded on the lobby register; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      409.To ask the Minister for Finance the position of the Government regarding the proposed AgoraEU programme within negotiations on the European Union Multiannual Financial Framework...
    • Insurance Industry
      410.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will stop insurance companies loading house insurance premiums for homes in areas which have never flooded and areas which are now protected by flood...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • An Garda Síochána
      411.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of kennels built on private dwellings for canines used in canine units of An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison...
    • Departmental Budgets
      426.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of the expected spending cuts for each Government Department as a result of recent overspends in the Department of...
    • Civil Service
      428.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that are currently on a panel from the most recent civil service principal officer with fluency in Irish...
    • Heritage Sites
      429.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a further update on the progress being made in relation to the proposed relocation of the Turoe Stone; the current status of the...
    • Departmental Policies
      430.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if...
    • Coastal Erosion
      431.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to engage as a matter of urgency with coastal erosion experts to investigate the severe erosion to the spit at Rossbeigh Beach, County...
    • Departmental Meetings
      432.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he met formally with a person (details supplied) during his recent visit to San Francisco. [37277/26]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      433.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason no response was provided to concerns raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General that a significant proportion of...
    • Departmental Staff
      438.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Parking Provision
      439.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on efforts to increase parking provision for elderly and disabled people along Chesterfield Avenue in the Phoenix Park; and...
    • Office of Public Works
      440.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to commitments contained within the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2024 of the Houses of the Oireachtas that a review...
    • Flood Risk Management
      441.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps taken in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to source international engineering, project-management or flood-relief delivery expertise for...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Export Controls
      442.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm whether an article is accurate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36940/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      443.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a list of approved mentors for the new Startup Ireland National Accelerator Programme; how a person can be added to a list...
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      444.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the revised standard I.S. 465 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36732/26]
    • Waste Management
      445.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the recent fuel surcharge introduced by a company (details supplied) on customers; whether any oversight or...
    • Departmental Policies
      446.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and...
    • Consumer Protection
      447.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protections currently available to consumers who pay substantial deposits to contractors, including home retrofit and double...
    • Departmental Staff
      450.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Work Permits
      451.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the options now available to a company (details supplied) who require a work permit for an employee; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Facilities
      454.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of updated demographic plans for Mallow being prepared by Cork County Council in relation to the future development needs of a...
    • Departmental Policies
      455.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason dyslexic assessment of children in Ireland is solely carried out by educational psychologists, when current wait for a dyslexic...
    • Residential Institutions
      456.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department will publish a single consolidated operational guide for survivors of residential institutional abuse setting out all...
    • Departmental Data
      459.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average response time for representations submitted by Oireachtas members through an email address (details supplied) in 2024, 2025 and to...
    • School Management
      461.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether schools are required to maintain a formal register of external speakers and facilitators engaged with students, including details of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      464.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a live national dataset exists recording available special class and special school places by school, year group, county and category of...
    • School Accommodation
      465.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding an additional accommodation project under the school capital programme (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      466.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an appeal submitted to the NCSE (details supplied); when the school can expect a decision; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      467.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for update on a project (details supplied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36614/26]
    • School Staff
      468.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she is taking to ensure access to stable employment for newly quality teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36615/26]
    • Teacher Training
      470.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider including mandatory special education training and behaviour management as part of teacher training in Ireland. [36617/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      471.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of the schools for severe emotional behavioural difficulties, their principals and email addresses. [36619/26]
    • School Transport
      472.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in conjunction with the Minister for Transport, if she recognises that expanding school transport provision for a school (details supplied) would...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      473.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36673/26]
    • Education and Training Boards
      474.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite the provision of a sanction to Donegal ETB in respect of replacing the head of human resources; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      475.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when details will be released regarding the admissions process for the new special school to be located within a school (details supplied),...
    • National Council for Special Education
      486.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the NCSE Parent Notify process is subject to formal audit, compliance review or independent evaluation; if so, to provide the dates, scope...
    • Special Educational Needs
      487.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of behaviour support practitioner posts approved nationally for special schools; the number currently filled; the number vacant;...
    • Education and Training Provision
      490.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of eligible referrals to the iScoil programme that were refused in each academic year since 2022/2023; the principal reasons for...
    • School Accommodation
      493.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a school's (details supplied) application under the emergency works scheme; when decisions will be issued in the case as the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      494.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are currently in place and provided by her Department or agencies within her Department to support BOTPs and Ukrainian citizens;...
    • Home Schooling
      495.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding a homeschooling request for a family in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      496.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a school (details supplied) was designed and constructed in compliance with relevant planning and design guidelines for existing...
    • Undefined
      497.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36939/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      498.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 6 May 2026, to confirm the total cost to her Department arising from the remediation of defects...
    • Psychological Assessments
      499.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a child (details supplied) who is at risk of losing their school place due to the absence of a current...
    • Special Educational Needs
      503.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the emergency measures available for children who are deemed unsuitable for mainstream education and ASD units but who cannot access a special...
    • School Transport
      504.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a school transport ticket can be processed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37137/26]
    • School Accommodation
      505.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a proposal from a school (details supplied) which would create extra recreational space for the schoolchildren and free up...
    • Special Educational Needs
      507.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of growing concerns among parents regarding access to autism class placements and SEN supports in post-primary schools,...
    • Departmental Policies
      509.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      510.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocols and funding available through the emergency works scheme to support schools where prefabricated buildings suffer sudden and...
    • Departmental Data
      511.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new primary schools that have opened in County Roscommon for each of the years 2021 to 2025 respectively. [37266/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      512.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes in Dublin 13 area at primary level, by school, in tabular form. [37267/26]
    • Departmental Data
      514.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new primary schools that have opened in County Cavan for each of the years 2021 to 2025. [37269/26]
    • Undefined
      516.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37283/26]
    • Departmental Data
      517.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school level data to be released will include school level data for all multi-denominational schools and denominational schools. [37301/26]
    • School Equipment
      520.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy in relation to the use and provision of tablets to replace or supplement school books in secondary schools; if her Department provides...
    • School Transport
      521.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new bus route will be considered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37343/26]
    • School Facilities
      523.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the issue of funding for school libraries (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37411/26]
    • School Accommodation
      524.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will provide the funding to replace two derelict prefabs at a school (details supplied) that urgently need replacing ahead of...
    • Departmental Data
      525.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received, granted and refused by the Primary Staffing Appeals Board from 2020-2025; the criteria used by the board to...
    • Undefined
      530.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite a solution to a case within a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37434/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      531.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by her Department directly or under contract for the purposes of Ireland’s...
    • Departmental Reviews
      532.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has assessed the impact that reductions in ESOL and related community based English language supports will have on primary and...
    • School Transport
      533.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of school transport in an area will be addressed (details supplied) and allow for school transport in this case; and if she will make...
    • School Equipment
      534.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the application of a 0% VAT rate to laptops and tablets required for educational purposes; if she has engaged with the Minister for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      536.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 5 February 2026, if she will provide an update on her Department’s considerations on the site...
    • School Equipment
      537.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time it takes her Department to process an application for assistive technology for a child in primary and in post primary school; the number...
    • School Transport
      538.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently address a matter (details supplied) and allow for school transport in the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37667/26]
    • Departmental Data
      539.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school days that have been lost nationally and in DEIS primary schools in Tallaght, Dublin 24 to teacher training and in-service...
    • Departmental Policies
      542.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department accepts that repeated mid-term closures in schools are having an adverse effect on parents and children who depend on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      544.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 23 April 2026, to provide an update on her Department’s review of the scope of works and...
    • School Equipment
      545.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s position on secondary schools requiring parents to purchase iPads or specific digital devices; the steps she will take to...
    • School Staff
      546.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a candidate applying for a post of responsibility, can offer evidence from outside their immediate school context as evidence of their...
    • Special Educational Needs
      547.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department to engage with the family in order that the...
    • School Equipment
      549.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is permitted for a post-primary school to require parents to purchase a specific laptop model from a single designated supplier as a...
    • Departmental Funding
      553.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ICT-related funding streams provided to post-primary schools, including digital strategy and technology grants, and to clarify whether such...
    • School Equipment
      555.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue a national direction to all post-primary schools prohibiting compulsory laptop purchase schemes which require parents to buy...
    • Special Educational Needs
      559.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a lack of SNA supports for children with additional needs in some Gaelscoileanna is leading to parents withdrawing children...
    • Departmental Funding
      561.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is aware of the financial pressures faced by students and families arising from the cost of participating in extracurricular...
    • School Equipment
      562.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is appropriate, and in line with Department policy, for a home school liaison officer or any member of staff in a DEIS post-primary school...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      563.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an admhóidh sí go raibh claontacht san fhoclaíocht sa suirbhé a rinneadh chun measúnacht a dheanamh ar shuim...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 565
      565.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether youth services supported by her Department have raised concerns regarding nitrous oxide misuse among young people, including in Dublin;...
    • Departmental Policies
      566.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the rationale for seeking union membership details from applicants in respect of a post (details supplied); the basis for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      567.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 571, 583 and 592 of 12 May 2026, to please give a clear and detailed timeline for the opening of the...
    • School Transport
      568.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport route is being considered for students attending a school from surrounding areas (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Equipment
      569.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of an issue (details supplied) impeding teachers using digital resources in the classroom; if her Department has plans to address...
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Artists' Remuneration
      570.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will consider the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for the basic income for the arts scheme; the...
    • EU Programmes
      571.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he recognises the role of the proposed AgoraEU programme in supporting culture and independent media; and if he will make...
    • Sports Facilities
      574.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport for an update on the development of the new national velodrome and badminton centre. [36839/26]
    • Sports Funding
      575.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will assist a facility (details supplied) to access the Community Sport Facilities Fund 2026; if he will confirm that...
    • Departmental Communications
      577.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department has any usage policy on, or if it sanctions for official purposes, the use of messaging apps (details...
    • National Broadband Plan
      578.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a comprehensive update on the delivery of high-speed broadband under the national broadband plan in County Mayo,...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      579.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he is aware of any engagement his Department has had...
    • EU Presidency
      580.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of additional staff employed or who will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the...
    • Emergency Services
      581.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the person or body a member of the public can contact in relation to a complaint in respect of a call operator on the 999...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      582.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the data collected as part of the administration and evaluation of the basic income for the arts scheme relating to survey...
    • Sports Events
      583.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport Ireland's strategy around attracting major international sporting events and developing the necessary infrastructure; and if...
    • Sports Facilities
      584.To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an update on the development of the national velodrome. [37825/26]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      585.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of craft apprentices registered in each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      586.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.698 of 28 April 2026, if his Department plans to make the Local Authority Regional...
    • Departmental Bodies
      587.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount expended in respect of the legal costs incurred by An Coimiúsín Pleanála in 2025 and in 2024; the...
    • Building Regulations
      589.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether national building regulations or technical guidance documents prescribe minimum toilet provision ratios for men and...
    • Local Authorities
      590.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Galway City Council will be given its homeless allocation for 2026; if he will address the increased demand for homeless...
    • Housing Policy
      591.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered increasing HAP payments in Galway; if he has considered increasing the homeless HAP flexibility from 35%...
    • Heritage Schemes
      592.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the grant system for the repair and conservation of thatched buildings was last reviewed or updated; whether the scheme...
    • Industrial Disputes
      594.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the industrial relations dispute within Tailte Éireann concerning the non-implementation of a pay agreement...
    • Departmental Schemes
      595.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the treatment of AVC pension contributions in the calculation of rent under the differential rent scheme (details...
    • Derelict Sites
      596.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether State agencies must pay the derelict sites levy. [37093/26]
    • Planning Issues
      598.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Planning Policy Statements on short-term letting, rural housing, Gaeltacht housing, islands housing will be published....
    • Housing Provision
      599.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the summary of social housing needs assessments for 2025 will be published. [37103/26]
    • Regeneration Projects
      601.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update and timeline for each stage of the regeneration projects in Dublin South-Central, in tabular form. [37121/26]
    • Local Authorities
      602.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1691 and 1695 of 14 April 2026, the number of new staff sanctioned for hire in Kildare...
    • Departmental Communications
      603.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details...
    • Housing Provision
      604.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his progress toward delivering affordable housing in Dublin West; the measures currently being advanced; and...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      606.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the RAPTOR (Recording and Addressing Persecution and Threats to Our Raptors) protocol and associated system for...
    • Local Authorities
      608.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans to reintroduce the financial contribution scheme for local authorities. [37366/26]
    • Departmental Bodies
      610.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average turnaround time for mapping applications; if Tailte Éireann will consider agreeing to a specified time to...
    • Regeneration Projects
      611.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all social housing estate regeneration projects currently being funded by his Department; when each...
    • Departmental Staff
      612.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes...
    • Departmental Bodies
      613.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made by the housing activation office (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authorities
      616.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider making it mandatory for local authority meetings to be live streamed, recorded and published for the public...
    • Planning Issues
      617.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure local councillors are given greater autonomy over the development of their County Development Plans; and if...
    • Departmental Surveys
      618.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what the indicative results on the ICT system show from stock maintenance surveys to date, given that his Department indicated...
    • Departmental Projects
      619.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...
    • Departmental Data
      621.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the number of social homes retrofitted in each of the past five years respectively. [26991/26]
    • Vacant Properties
      624.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to give an update on funding provided to local authorities to bring vacant housing stock back into use; the number of vacant...
    • Housing Policy
      625.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 513 of 6 May 2026, if supports are available to a person who has already received...
    • Property Management Companies
      627.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to ensure that a person (details supplied) receives a prompt and adequate response from the property agents to their request...
    • Student Accommodation
      628.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can ensure that student accommodation located in rent pressure zones is not subject to inflating service charges, as an...
    • Housing Provision
      629.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the €373 million allocated under the 2026 Second-Hand Social Housing Acquisitions Programme; how this...
    • Heritage Projects
      637.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current and planned development works at the Martello Tower at Meelick, County Galway; the proposals to extend the existing...
    • Departmental Bodies
      639.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role his Department has on the Developer Provided Infrastructure (DPI) Steering Group; the number of times this group met...
    • Defective Building Materials
      641.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if landlords with tenancies in place prior to 1 March 2026 will continue to retain the right to terminate a tenancy under...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      649.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on recent developments at an organisation (details supplied); and if he is satisfied that the funding provided by his...
    • Quarrying Sector
      650.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current planning laws regarding the development of quarries; the plans to reform these; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Wildlife Protection
      651.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of reports received by the NPWS concerning alleged unlawful habitat destruction in each of the years 2021 to 2026 to...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      652.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of any geographical areas that are currently without locally funded NPWS posts, as well as funded but not filled...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      654.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of free school meal providers nationwide; the breakdown of schools and their providers; the source of the meat and...
    • Social Welfare Code
      655.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider for the upcoming Budget 2027 amending the living alone allowance scheme to include single (never married)...
    • Departmental Staff
      656.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade and gender, currently answering telephone queries and processing free travel pass...
    • Departmental Data
      657.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare claims referred for fraud investigation in each year from 2021 to 2026, in tabular form,...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      658.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether any guidance, staff training programme, operational protocol or technical system has been introduced since 2022 to...
    • International Protection
      667.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports currently in place and provided by his Department or agencies within his Department to support BOTPs and...
    • Departmental Budgets
      668.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first year and full year cost of the emergency response payment; the estimated amount the payment will cost over the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      669.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding any review of the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37018/26]
    • Departmental Data
      673.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement claims in an area (details supplied) in the years 2022 to 2026, in tabular form. [37110/26]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      675.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether foster carers qualify for the Christmas bonus. [37117/26]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      677.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for applications for supplementary welfare allowance for the years 2023 to 2026, broken down by...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      678.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to urgently process and allow for an additional need's payment for a person (details supplied) who has submitted a file for...
    • Departmental Policies
      679.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details...
    • Departmental Communications
      680.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection If he has spoken formally with his UK counterpart to date in 2026. [37271/26]
    • Social Welfare Code
      681.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2027 if the child support payment increased to €91 per week for children aged over 12...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      683.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he is considering reform or abolition of the partner means test for disability allowance; the reason disability...
    • Departmental Data
      685.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the State pension (contributory) living in the Dublin Fingal west constituency, by...
    • School Meals Programme
      687.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department or the Schools Procurement Unit has received any complaints, reports, disclosures or allegations...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      699.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether consideration has been given to establishing a confidential reporting mechanism for suppliers, school staff or parents...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      701.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department has examined the administrative and financial costs associated with the annual continuation process for...
    • Departmental Staff
      702.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional staff employed or who will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      703.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to reinstate the disability allowance payment of a person (details supplied). [37638/26]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      704.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to increase the living alone allowance in the upcoming Budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37714/26]
    • Citizens Information Services
      705.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of volunteers registered with the citizens information centres before September 2022 and for each year after...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      707.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will advise on the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      710.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for programmes such as the New Futures Initiative, which assists lone parents in progressing to...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Legal Services Regulation
      711.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has formally consulted with the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) regarding the structural framework...
    • Visa Applications
      712.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he has raised, or intends to raise, with the British Government any concerns regarding temporary visa arrangements...
    • Statute of Limitations
      713.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he anticipates any changes to the two-year time limit for the initiation of a medical negligence claim; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      714.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person applying for international protection must include details of any transmissible diseases they may be living with,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      716.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list, by county, of named solicitors who are currently on criminal legal aid panels, in tabular form; and if he...
    • International Protection
      717.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount expended in respect of overtime to Gardaí to provide security at Shannon Airport in 2026, 2025 and 2024; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      718.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a person's citizenship application (details supplied); and when it is expected that a decision will be made on...
    • Departmental Bodies
      719.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality which Department, agency or statutory body currently holds responsibility for oversight, enforcement or regulatory review of...
    • Coroners Service
      721.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the current coroners working in Galway; if the role that was vacated in 2022 has been filled (details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      722.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 2164 of 14 April 2026, if he has received the relevant information from Garda authorities...
    • International Protection
      723.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports that are currently in place and provided by his Department or agencies within his Department to support BOTPs and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      724.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda community relations vans based within Kildare-Carlow division, as of 11 May 2026, in tabular form [36894/26]
    • International Protection
      725.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of an IPAS centre (details supplied) where residents have been without access to fridges for a number of weeks;...
    • Coroners Service
      726.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.380 of 7 May 2026, the reason for the delay to publish the Coroner's Report for 2025, which...
    • Visa Applications
      727.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will provide an update on the matter; if the application will...
    • Proposed Legislation
      728.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to consider an amendment to the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2026 that would extend the guardianship...
    • Citizenship Applications
      729.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application (details supplied) given it is over 12 months since the application was submitted; and...
    • Departmental Policies
      730.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied);...
    • Visa Applications
      731.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason spouse visa timelines have jumped from one month to six; if a compassionate prioritisation can be provided for...
    • An Garda Síochána
      732.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the age profile of the Garda vehicle fleet attached to Garda National Immigration Bureau. [37278/26]
    • International Protection
      733.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individuals who presented as unaccompanied minors between 2023 and 2025 and were referred to Tusla by the...
    • Visa Applications
      734.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will review an application (details supplied), given the exceptionally long processing period; and if he will...
    • National Security
      735.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide assurance that the State is prepared to address any potential drone attack without breaching necessary security...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      736.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he will take to examine the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) was not informed of the death of a...
    • Departmental Staff
      737.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes...
    • Deportation Orders
      740.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details on the management of individuals subject to deportation orders who are present at a facility (details...
    • International Protection
      741.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and emergency protocols in place at a facility for handling medical or...
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      742.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of maintenance orders issued by the courts in each of the past five years; and the estimated proportion that went...
    • Court Orders
      749.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the oversight that exists to ensure that repeated non-compliance with court orders does not occur without enforcement action....
    • Diplomatic Representation
      750.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current staffing levels at the visa desk in the embassy in Pretoria; his views that staffing is sufficient to manage visa...
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      752.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in relation to pub licensing laws, consideration has been given to circumstances where a rural pub closes and the licence is...
    • An Garda Síochána
      753.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to roads policing units in March 2026 and April 2026, by Garda division; the current number...
    • Residency Permits
      754.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an individual who is resident in Ireland on Stamp 1 permission becomes incapacitated due to illness, if there is a pathway to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      755.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application (details supplied). [37748/26]
    • Prison Service
      757.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the works on the site of the Old Cork Prison to develop the proposed new prison. [37810/26]
    • Departmental Data
      762.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the case of a family (details supplied); the status of the application in question; if the matter will be...
    • Substance Misuse
      763.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether any review is being undertaken of the current legal framework governing the sale, supply and misuse of nitrous oxide;...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Live Exports
      764.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of live cattle shipments exported from Ireland to destinations outside the EU since January 2020; the number of these...
    • Agriculture Industry
      772.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail, on a per county basis, from 2010 to 9 May 2026, the number of herd number applications for companies where his Department...
    • Business Supports
      773.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the potential for supporting domestic reed harvesting for thatching, given that Ireland has abundant natural reed...
    • Agriculture Industry
      774.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the year-on-year percentage increases in the average cost per tonne of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilisers in...
    • Agriculture Supports
      781.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific supports available, or that will be made available, to smaller family farms and hill/sheep farmers who face...
    • Agriculture Industry
      782.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department will commission or publish an independent assessment of the cumulative effect of fertiliser price volatility on...
    • Departmental Funding
      784.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide the necessary funding to increase the number of specialist food detection dogs to be deployed at ports...
    • Departmental Staff
      785.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department plans to post an agricultural attaché to the Irish Embassy in Rome. [36899/26]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      786.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to address the plight of Irelands only native honey bee apis mellifera mellifera which is endangered due to the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      787.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific safeguards in place to prevent corporate entities or non-active farmers from acquiring agricultural land, obtaining a...
    • Forestry Sector
      788.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licence applications and actual plantings approved to date in 2025 and 2026, broken down by genuine...
    • Animal Welfare
      796.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding any engagement he has had with an animal welfare organisation (details supplied) in relation to animal welfare...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      805.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, given the clear and present need to ensure energy security, his Department is planning on accepting more applications than...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      807.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and...
    • Agriculture Industry
      808.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason animals will not be released back to a herd owner (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37238/26]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      809.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to urgently examine issues outlined in correspondence (details supplied); the measures he is putting in place to protect native honey...
    • Animal Welfare
      810.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of non-coursing greyhounds placed in foster care centres/care homes under a programme (details supplied) from 1...
    • Control of Dogs
      812.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans to update the dog licence fee exemption to include assistance dogs for those with additional needs; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      813.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      814.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he and his Department will take to prevent the tropilaelaps mite from entering Ireland by way of importing honeybees which...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      815.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37607/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      816.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his Department's report commissioned in relation to the native Irish honey bee; and if he will make a statement...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      825.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he, his Department, or officials have engaged with the European Commission, including Commissioner Costas Kadis, DG MARE...
    • Wildlife Protection
      826.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he proposes to introduce legislative measures as requested by beekeeping organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Food Security
      827.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline Ireland's current position on domestic food security.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37823/26]
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      828.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to early years education; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • European Union
      829.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Ireland supports the principle that investment in democracy, civic participation, equality, and independent media should form...
    • Child Protection
      830.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains any centralised audit, review or quality assurance process relating to emergency child removals carried out...
    • Childcare Services
      843.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if childcare providers in receipt of core funding are obliged under their funding agreement to maintain continuity of services for...
    • Disability Services
      844.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason the HSE does not currently collect the average duration of vacancies within Children's Disability Network Teams; whether...
    • Departmental Strategies
      851.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the implementation for the National Strategy for Women and Girls 2025 - 2030. [36882/26]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      852.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether a formal review of the operation of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme is scheduled; and if so, the timeframe...
    • Childcare Services
      858.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the role the local city and county council's and the community childcare committees have in providing local community childcare; and...
    • Care Orders
      875.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains statistics on the number of Emergency Care Orders involving children under one year of age in each year from...
    • Child and Family Agency
      878.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla conducts any retrospective case review where an Emergency Care Order involving an infant is subsequently discharged,...
    • Care Orders
      879.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether national guidance exists governing evidential thresholds and proportionality assessments for Emergency Care Order...
    • Child and Family Agency
      880.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether regional variation exists in the rate of Emergency Care Orders involving children under one year of age and whether...
    • Care Orders
      881.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration has been given to establishing an independent post-decision review mechanism for emergency child removals...
    • Commercial Rates
      882.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on plans to charge childminders and ECCE providers commercial rates; where this process is at; and if she will...
    • Childcare Services
      883.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the options for parents using childminders who are not yet registered with Tusla in terms of them being able to access...
    • Departmental Reviews
      884.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the review of childminding regulations will take place. [37086/26]
    • EU Directives
      885.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details of bilateral engagements undertaken by her or officials in her Department with Member States in relation to the...
    • Childcare Services
      887.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the process underway to select the first eight areas for State-led childcare services; and if she will make a...
    • Care Services
      888.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the new residential respite services that are being provided in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      891.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the policy for compassionate leave for preschool staff (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      892.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the case of a child (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for Children’s Disability Network...
    • Psychological Assessments
      896.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current average waiting time in the Dublin North region CH09 for psychological assessments through CDNT services; the number of...
    • Disability Services
      897.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if additional resources will be allocated to CDNT services in Balbriggan and North Dublin CH09 to address severe delays in speech and...
    • Childcare Services
      901.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality regarding special arrangements under the national childcare scheme for vulnerable children, facilities in the Dublin mid-west...
    • Departmental Policies
      903.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and...
    • Health Services
      904.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to deliver specialist community-based neurorehabilitation teams for paediatric neurological services; and if she will...
    • Departmental Funding
      905.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown of the funding allocated to disability in 2026 with the subcategory allocated to respite, home support, P.A....
    • Departmental Policies
      906.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will clarify whether it is the policy of the HSE to require a person with a physical disability, who is in receipt of personal...
    • Parental Leave
      915.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to representations received from a constituent, the rationale behind parent's leave being allocated on a per pregnancy basis...
    • Family Resource Centres
      916.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide additional funding for Family Resource Centres (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37299/26]
    • Child and Family Agency
      917.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of play therapists currently employed by TUSLA; the number that are qualified to work with complex trauma; and if she will...
    • Departmental Staff
      920.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by her Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Disability Services
      921.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether an assessment has been carried out into the impact that staffing shortages and recruitment delays within Children’s...
    • Child and Family Agency
      924.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the procedures followed by Tusla when it receives a referral concerning allegations or suspicions of child abuse involving a school...
    • Disability Services
      925.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on a post for a behavioural therapist in CDNT9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37648/26]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      926.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will publish in full the report on burials at the Bessborough Mother & Baby Home from the Commission's forensic...
    • Childcare Services
      928.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to staffing concerns in a childcare centre (details supplied); the actions she will take to engage...
    • Child and Family Agency
      934.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review correspondence (details supplied); if she will contact TUSLA to arrange a meeting; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      935.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration will be given to reviewing the core funding policy in circumstances where a new provider takes over an already...
    • Child and Family Agency
      936.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children referred to the National Placement Team in Tusla for whom a long-term residential placement has yet to be...
    • Children in Care
      942.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has visited any special emergency arrangements; if not, if she plans to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37833/26]
    • Child and Family Agency
      943.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has visited any TUSLA offices; if not, if she plans to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37834/26]
    • European Union
      944.To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she recognises the role of the proposed AgoraEU programme in supporting democracy, equality, civil society organisations and...
  • Department of Health
    • Departmental Policies
      945.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of concerns regarding the sale of products commonly referred to as "CALI pens", marketed as CBD vapes, including reports that some may contain...
    • Medical Cards
      946.To ask the Minister for Health whether she, or appropriate senior management staff from her Department, will meet with a person regarding issues experienced using the redress medical card...
    • Health Services
      947.To ask the Minister for Health whether any service-specific clinical governance framework exists in areas where the HSE has confirmed that no structured national data collection system is...
    • HIV Incidence
      953.To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department considers it acceptable that it does not receive national waiting-list data for PrEP services; whether this limits ministerial oversight...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      963.To ask the Minister for Health the current availability of child psychology, occupational therapy and physiotherapy services in Cherry Orchard Primary Care Centre; the number of children...
    • Healthcare Policy
      964.To ask the Minister for Health whether any internal HSE operational manual, assessment framework, decision-support document, checklist, or staff guidance exists for officials administering...
    • Departmental Data
      972.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any centralised register categorising treatment abroad scheme approvals by clinical urgency, specialty, or procedure type; and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      976.To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department intends to establish a national classification framework distinguishing medically necessary procedures from elective or quality-of-life...
    • Medicinal Products
      987.To ask the Minister for Health the number of medicines currently awaiting a commercial proposal from a marketing authorisation holder following an invitation by the HSE; the duration each...
    • Departmental Data
      995.To ask the Minister for Health the number of minors referred from Ireland to NHS Children and Young Person Gender Services in the United Kingdom in each year from 2020 to date in 2026, broken...
    • Healthcare Policy
      997.To ask the Minister for Health whether any formal written policy, clinical governance framework, or risk assessment governs referrals of minors abroad for gender-related healthcare; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      1002.To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish minors currently awaiting referral, assessment, or treatment through overseas gender-related healthcare pathways supported by the Treatment...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1003.To ask the Minister for Health whether any Irish clinicians currently participate in multidisciplinary assessment processes connected to overseas gender-related healthcare referrals for...
    • Health Services Staff
      1005.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE general dental surgeons based at Balbriggan Primary Care Centre as of 8 May 2026; If she will provide the same figures as of 1 June 2022, in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1012.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE centrally measures the proportion of hospital admissions attributable to obesity-related conditions; and if not, whether there are plans to...
    • Departmental Data
      1013.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual expenditure associated with obesity-related prescribing, including diabetes, cardiovascular and weight-management medications, in each...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1014.To ask the Minister for Health whether any assessment has been carried out regarding the projected impact of obesity-related disease on future acute hospital capacity demand and workforce...
    • Mental Health Services
      1017.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a serious complaint concerning the treatment of a nine-year-old non-verbal autistic child within CAMHS-ID; if an investigation has been...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1020.To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the creation of the new Limerick Hospital Development Board, which she said would be put in place following her announcement in March of a new...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1021.To ask the Minister for Health the total monetary value of rejected or unpaid pharmacy claims under the General Medical Services Scheme attributable to administrative or submission errors in...
    • Primary Care Services
      1023.To ask the Minister for Health the average time taken to resolve and reimburse corrected pharmacy claims originally rejected due to administrative or submission errors. [36743/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1027.To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of rejected pharmacy claims subsequently resubmitted successfully as corrected reclaims in each year from 2020 to 2026. [36747/26]
    • Primary Care Services
      1028.To ask the Minister for Health whether any review has been undertaken into whether pharmacy software compatibility issues contribute disproportionately to rejected or unpaid claims. [36748/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1030.To ask the Minister for Health the rationale and assessment process underpinning the 2022 reimbursement price uplift granted to Steri-neb Salamol 2.5mg/2.5ml. [36754/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1033.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional annual expenditure arising from reference pricing adjustments which increased reimbursement rates rather than reduced them. [36757/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1034.To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department or HSE publishes any annual review of reimbursement price uplifts and their impact on medicines expenditure. [36758/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1035.To ask the Minister for Health whether pharmacies or representative bodies are formally consulted before reimbursement rule changes or reference pricing adjustments are introduced. [36759/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1036.To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure by each individual hospital and hospital group on private ambulance services in each year from 2020 to date in 2026, in tabular form....
    • Ambulance Service
      1037.To ask the Minister for Health whether any national procurement framework exists governing the engagement of private ambulance providers by HSE-funded hospitals. [36779/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1045.To ask the Minister for Health whether any estimate exists of the total annual cost to the State of outsourced non-emergency patient transport services.; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1046.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of rejected or unpaid pharmacy claims recorded under the General Medical Services Scheme in each year from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form [36795/26]
    • Water Safety
      1051.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has conducted any assessment of the potential public health risks associated with long-term exposure to manganese levels between 50 µg/l...
    • Departmental Data
      1053.To ask the Minister for Health the number of manganese exceedance notifications received by the HSE in each year from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form. [36802/26]
    • Water Safety
      1054.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE records the geographic location of manganese exceedance notifications received from water suppliers. [36803/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1061.To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatre slots for respiratory procedures that were allocated each week to date in 2026 at the Mater Hospital. [36832/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1062.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE advanced nurse practitioners in diabetes posts filled at North Dublin Chronic Disease Hub as of 11 May 2026, in tabular form. [36833/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1063.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented at the urgent care centre at CHI Connolly for each month of 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [36834/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1064.To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapist vacancies currently existing in County Longford; the number of approved posts filled and unfilled; the measures being...
    • Departmental Data
      1065.To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be allocated to the HSE fertility hub in Galway, where waiting lists for appointments are currently at seven months; and if she...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1066.To ask the Minister for Health if each WTE consultant neurologists based at Beaumont Hospital carry out daily ward rounds in additional to doing outpatient clinics; and whether some...
    • Emergency Departments
      1067.To ask the Minister for Health the number of major treatment bays currently within the accident and emergency departments of both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin. [36897/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1068.To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St. James's Hospital for a first appointment. [36898/26]
    • Health Services
      1069.To ask the Minister for Health the supports currently provided by her Department or agencies within her Department to support BOTPs and Ukrainian citizens; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      1070.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of pharmacy claims rejected by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service in each month of 2024 and 2025, in tabular form, broken down by...
    • Medicinal Products
      1072.To ask the Minister for Health whether the primary care reimbursement service maintains data on incorrect or overturned claim rejections; and, if so, to provide the figures for 2024 and...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1073.To ask the Minister for Health whether any assessment has been carried out into the financial impact of rejected pharmacy claims on community pharmacies. [36914/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1074.To ask the Minister for Health whether any complaints, appeals, or representations were received from pharmacies regarding claim rejection accuracy or consistency in 2024 and 2025; and if...
    • Health Services
      1077.To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to a child diagnosed with FND. [36941/26]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1078.To ask the Minister for Health where a person with a diagnosis of FND can go to seek assistance in the purchase of medical equipment for example, a wheelchair. [36942/26]
    • Abortion Services
      1079.To ask the Minister for Health to provide, with respect to termination of pregnancy services for each year from 2019 to date, the total number of GP visit claims submitted for first and...
    • Health Services
      1080.To ask the Minister for Health if she has reviewed the findings of the National Women's Council research report Beyond Availability: Women's Experiences of the Free Contraception Scheme,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1082.To ask the Minister for Health the current status of negotiations between her Department and manufacturers of the shingles vaccine, which she confirmed in February 2026 had been requested to...
    • Departmental Communications
      1083.To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); the status of the outpatient referral; if the appointment will be expedited given the...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      1085.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total annual cost to the State of primary care laboratory testing in each year from 2020 to 2026, including any regional or modelled estimates...
    • Health Services
      1086.To ask the Minister for Health whether any assessment has been carried out regarding the potential financial impact of duplicate or unnecessary laboratory testing within primary care...
    • Primary Care Services
      1088.To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of primary care laboratory requests currently submitted electronically versus paper-based requests; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      1089.To ask the Minister for Health whether any laboratories currently operate duplicate test detection systems at the point of ordering; if so, to provide details by region or hospital group;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1090.To ask the Minister for Health the projected total cost of the National Laboratory Information System (MedLIS) rollout to completion in 2029; the expenditure incurred to date; and if she...
    • Primary Care Services
      1091.To ask the Minister for Health whether any national guidance exists regarding appropriate intervals for repeat lipid profile testing in primary care; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1092.To ask the Minister for Health whether any national audit has been conducted examining variation in laboratory test ordering patterns between regions, GP practices, or primary care...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      1094.To ask the Minister for Health what governance structures currently oversee laboratory demand management, utilisation monitoring and value-for-money assessment in primary care laboratory...
    • Home Care Packages
      1095.To ask the Minister for Health the number of private home support providers currently contracted by the HSE under the Home Support Authorisation Scheme, in tabular form by region. [37011/26]
    • Health Services
      1096.To ask the Minister for Health the number of audits, inspections, compliance reviews or safeguarding investigations carried out in respect of private home support providers in each year from...
    • Home Care Packages
      1097.To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances in which a private home support provider was found non-compliant with Garda vetting, qualification verification or training standards...
    • Health Services
      1098.To ask the Minister for Health whether any private home support provider has had a contract suspended, restricted or terminated due to safeguarding, governance or quality concerns since...
    • Health Service Executive
      1099.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE centrally records complaints, missed visits, safeguarding incidents or medication-related incidents involving privately contracted home support...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1100.To ask the Minister for Health whether unannounced inspections are carried out in respect of private home support providers operating under HSE contracts. [37016/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1101.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE publishes compliance or performance ratings for private home support providers funded by the State. [37017/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1102.To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) and ensure that the access to medicines for those with rare diseases will never be an...
    • Health Services
      1103.To ask the Minister for Health whether any independent external audit has been carried out since 2020 on counselling activity data submitted by HSE regions through the Corporate Information...
    • Mental Health Services
      1107.To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the risk that session-based counselling activity figures may overstate service reach where the same individual attends...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1108.To ask the Minister for Health whether any formal reconciliation report is produced comparing counselling activity data across Health Regions to identify anomalies, outliers, inconsistent...
    • Health Service Executive
      1109.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE Mental Health Services Key Performance Indicator Metadata document includes standard national definitions for referral, re-referral,...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1110.To ask the Minister for Health whether the Therapeutic Interventions Service Improvement Programme Board has been given a formal mandate to examine counselling data governance, regional...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1112.To ask the Minister for Health whether she will commit to publishing a national counselling services dashboard showing, by Health Region, referrals, re-referrals, unique clients, waiting...
    • Health Service Executive
      1113.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 19 March 2026, to provide an update on the commercial negotiations with the pharmaceutical company to provide...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1114.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of concerns regarding access to the specialist functional seizure service in St. James's Hospital; if she will clarify whether the ward is...
    • Health Promotion
      1115.To ask the Minister for Health whether she is aware of concerns regarding products commonly referred to as "CALI pens", marketed as CBD vapes, including reports that some may contain...
    • Health Services
      1116.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2663 of 14 April 2026, whether the expenditure figures provided relate solely to psychological services abroad or whether...
    • Health Service Executive
      1117.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a centralised database recording referrals abroad for gender-related care under the Treatment Abroad Scheme; and if so, which HSE...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1118.To ask the Minister for Health whether any audit, value-for-money review, safeguarding review or clinical governance review has been conducted in respect of gender-related referrals abroad...
    • Health Service Executive
      1119.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE can provide the jurisdictions and healthcare providers to which paediatric gender-related referrals abroad were directed under the Treatment...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1120.To ask the Minister for Health whether any external clinical guidelines, international protocols or evidence reviews were relied upon in approving gender-related referrals abroad for minors...
    • Health Services
      1124.To ask the Minister for Health to issue a discretionary medical card as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1125.To ask the Minister for Health to implement an assigned yearly budget for the implementation of the National Rare Disease strategy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1126.To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); the status of the medical card application in question; if the matter will be expedited;...
    • Health Services
      1127.To ask the Minister for Health the new residential respite services that are being provided in County Kerry, in relation to both children and adults will be provided (details supplied); and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1128.To ask the Minister for Health whether she will support the introduction of free MART (ICS formoterol) inhalers for children aged 12 to 17 years (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      1129.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1270 of 28 April 2026, when a response will issue from the HSE in relation to an urgent dental treatment issue (details...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1131.To ask the Minister for Health if a suitable wheelchair will be provided to a person (details supplied) without further delay. [37142/26]
    • Primary Care Services
      1132.To ask the Minister for Health the reason pelvic gynaecological MRI scans are excluded from GP visit card coverage; when other clinically-indicated MRIs and ultrasounds are covered; the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1133.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a hip replacement operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37149/26]
    • Primary Care Services
      1134.To ask the Minister for Health the current capacity to provide an update regarding the assignment of patients to a general practitioner under the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS);...
    • Health Services
      1135.To ask the Minister for Health the guidance or interim care pathways that are available to parents whose children have not been assigned a GP through the PCRS, despite eligibility; the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1136.To ask the Minister for Health the escalation procedures in place within the HSE when a patient particularly a child cannot be assigned a GP through the PCRS within a reasonable timeframe;...
    • Home Help Service
      1137.To ask the Minister for Health when the National Standards for Home Support Services will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37172/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1139.To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of home support were provide by directly by the HSE, and not by private contractors, in the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form....
    • Health Services
      1140.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of advanced biomechanical rehabilitation therapy for children with cerebral palsy, and that Irish children are currently travelling to Belgium...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1141.To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the National Clinical Programme for Gender Healthcare has trans healthcare falling under sexual health, as recently stated at the Oireachtas...
    • Health Services
      1142.To ask the Minister for Health for details of the significant work being done to stabilise existing trans healthcare services as recently mentioned at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1143.To ask the Minister for Health if the National Clinical Programme for Gender Healthcare is on track to be fully delivered in July 2026, as recently mentioned at the Oireachtas Joint...
    • Departmental Policies
      1144.To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1145.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric neurologist registrars based at CHI Tallaght, in tabular form. [37273/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1148.To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for a first appointment with National Counselling Service (NCS) in each county, for persons who suffered childhood abuse and have been...
    • Hospital Staff
      1158.To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the number of consultant rheumatologists serving Cork University Hospital (CUH) and South Infirmary - Victoria University Hospital...
    • Vacant Sites
      1159.To ask the Minister for Health her position on the management of vacant sites owned by the HSE and other public health organisations and how quickly they should be brought back into use, in...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      1160.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on timelines and funding for the planned move of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles St., Dublin 2, to St. Vincent's in Dublin [37298/26]
    • Departmental Surveys
      1161.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 3 December 2025, if the National Survey of the Experience of Home Support Workers and Nursing Home Healthcare...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1162.To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will review the exclusion of fezolinetant from the drug payment scheme, particularly for patients undergoing cancer treatment, as many rely...
    • Ambulance Service
      1163.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 382 of 11 February 2026, to instruct the National Ambulance Service to answer the question (details supplied). [37315/26]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1164.To ask the Minister for Health to outline the proposal for progressing the primary care centre for Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon which the HSE was given planning permission for 2021; and...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1165.To ask the Minister for Health to review a letter (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37349/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1166.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of public health nurses, by funded WTE and filled WTE; the number of public health nurses per community health network; the number of public...
    • Infectious Diseases
      1167.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a case at Mayo University Hospital (details supplied) where a patient tested positive for ESBL on 6 April 2026, but was not informed of this...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1173.To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to people in need of hearing aids; the steps that can be taken to ease the financial burden; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1174.To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to increase the uptake of the HPV vaccine in the Dublin north area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37385/26]
    • Medical Cards
      1175.To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will consider awarding medical cards to cancer patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37386/26]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1176.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 5 March 2026, to provide an update on the Strategic Review of General Practice; the timeline for publication; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1177.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1138 and 1205 of 6 May 2026, to provide a timeline for a role to be filled (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1179.To ask the Minister for Health the reason qualified behavioural psychologists are not recognised by the HSE as a chartered profession. [37435/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1181.To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancellations in 2025 and to date in 2026 respectively, by reason for cancellation in Cork hospitals, in tabular form. [37438/26]
    • Health Services
      1182.To ask the Minister for Health the supports currently in place, aside from available tax reliefs, to assist individuals diagnosed with coeliac disease in managing the additional healthcare...
    • Departmental Staff
      1183.To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by her Department directly or under contract for the purposes of Ireland’s presidency...
    • Cancer Services
      1184.To ask the Minister for Health if urgent medical treatment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37471/26]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1185.To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37472/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1186.To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used by the HSE to determine which posts are designated as non-frontline; if she will provide a comprehensive list of all roles currently...
    • Mental Health Services
      1190.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on plans to source a new site for a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37491/26]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1193.To ask the Minister for Health the support that can be provided for out-of-hours patient care when a GP has to withdraw from arrangements such as South Doc (details supplied). [37582/26]
    • Ministerial Communications
      1194.To ask the Minister for Health if she has sent, or intends to send, a letter to the Department of Finance in advance of Budget 2027 on correspondence (details supplied) as is customary by...
    • Disease Management
      1195.To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether Action 4 of the HSE position paper on FASD Prevention, published in September 2022, namely has now been completed (details...
    • Health Strategies
      1196.To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on Action 2 of the HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention, published in September 2022 (details supplied), the specific measures undertaken...
    • Health Services
      1197.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a family (details supplied) has been left to cover the cost and time of transporting a service user to and from Rehab Care, despite having free...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1198.To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether Action 5 of the HSE Position Paper (details supplied), which was due to be completed within three years of publication, has now...
    • Health Services
      1199.To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the memory clinic at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; when it will resume; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      1200.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that there are currently only 63 dedicated mental health beds for older people in Ireland, and that 454 beds will be required to meet...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1204.To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on Action 12 of the HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention, published in September 2022 (details supplied); the specific measures...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1205.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 482 of 24 September 2024 and 2415 of 8 September 2025, the progress made in arranging an operation for a patient...
    • Health Services Staff
      1206.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a consultant post in a HSE service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37645/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1207.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the return of a CAMHS service in Ballinasloe, County Galway; the status of the business case for a consultant listed as a priority; and...
    • Departmental Properties
      1208.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on HSE lands (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37647/26]
    • Home Help Service
      1209.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that 4,761 people were waiting for home support services in February 2025, primarily due to carer shortages; the current waiting list figure;...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1211.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that delayed discharges caused over 145,000 lost bed days in 2025; the specific measures that are being put in place to reduce this figure;...
    • Health Strategies
      1212.To ask the Minister for Health the reason no definitive completion timeline for Sláintecare has been provided, despite the framework being proposed for implementation in 2021; the...
    • Health Promotion
      1213.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that malnutrition risk among older adults has increased by 59% since 2012, with ALONE recording a 34% rise in nutrition-related concerns in...
    • Health Strategies
      1214.To ask the Minister for Health given that loneliness is strongly associated with mental health difficulties and suicide risk among older people, when the Government will develop, fund and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1215.To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether Action 11 of the HSE Position Paper (details supplied) led by HSE Health & Wellbeing; National Women and Infants Health...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1217.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently waiting to attend cancer genetics services by waiting time period (0-six months, six-12 months, 12-18 months, 18+ months) in St...
    • Hospital Staff
      1219.To ask the Minister for Health the optimum staffing allocation per clinical post in the cancer genetics department in St. James's Hospital; the current status of these posts; the way...
    • Hospital Services
      1221.To ask the Minister for Health the actions, infrastructure and resources needed to deliver timely access to the cancer genetics department in St. James's Hospital [37672/26]
    • Departmental Offices
      1222.To ask the Minister for Health to update on the National Genetics and Genomics Office priority deliverables for 2026; the additional resources required to fully ensure the KPIs are achieved...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1223.To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on Action 10 of the HSE Position Paper (details supplied); the specific measures undertaken to date; the current status of implementation;...
    • Health Service Executive
      1225.To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will liaise with the HSE in relation to a public health concern (details supplied). [37699/26]
    • Mental Health Policy
      1226.To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding private psychiatric hospitals that cannot afford to provide community outreach for their patients in a manner similar to public...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1227.To ask the Minister for Health if the bed capacity at Tallaght University Hospital has been impacted by the delay in the new National Children's Hospital being built; the annual cost to the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1228.To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the approvement process for a drug (details supplied) for the treatment of bronchiectasis; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1232.To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide an intense pulsed light (IPL) laser and ocular surface scanner in University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1233.To ask the Minister for Health if a scan will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [37740/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1234.To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of multiple system atrophy of which the health authorities are currently aware; the number of people who are living with the condition and...
    • Health Strategies
      1235.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1268 of 28 April 2026, if the Women's Health Action Plan 2026-2027: Phase 3 will include plans to examine under...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1237.To ask the Minister for Health if Action 1 of the HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention (details supplied), published in September 2022 and due to be completed within three years of...
    • Disease Management
      1238.To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to establishing early access schemes for new medicines for the treatment of rare diseases; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pharmacy Services
      1240.To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the charging by pharmacists for blister packs given some pharmacists are now charging €5, €10 or €15 for these...
    • Departmental Data
      1242.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of missed appointments across the HSE in 2025; the action she is taking to reduce this number; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      1243.To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that there is currently no occupational therapist covering adult disability services in County Longford; the steps being taken to fill this...
    • Substance Misuse
      1244.To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department presentations, hospital admissions and addiction treatment episodes where nitrous oxide use was recorded as a contributing...
    • Ambulance Service
      1246.To ask the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal target timeframe between receipt of a 999 call and allocation of an ambulance resource, even...
    • Emergency Services
      1259.To ask the Minister for Health whether any areas of non-compliance, partial compliance, or repeated performance exceptions have been identified under the EMS Dispatch Standard since 2020....
    • Ambulance Service
      1260.To ask the Minister for Health whether any ambulance dispatch-time targets or performance thresholds are routinely missed at national or regional level; and if so, the most frequently...
    • Emergency Services
      1264.To ask the Minister for Health whether any national KPI framework exists measuring the impact of dispatch delays on clinical outcomes. [37867/26]
    • Health Services
      1265.To ask the Minister for Health whether the reports, findings, recommendations, or corrective-action requirements arising from IAED accreditation or re-accreditation reviews since 2020 will...
    • Ambulance Service
      1269.To ask the Minister for Health the number of incidents in which ambulance mobilisation exceeded internally monitored escalation thresholds in each year since 2020. [37874/26]
    • Emergency Services
      1271.To ask the Minister for Health the number of corrective actions, remediation plans or staff interventions initiated following dispatch compliance reviews since 2020. [37876/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      1273.To ask the Minister for Health whether any external audit reports, IAED assessments, Governance Validation Framework reviews, or accreditation findings relating to ambulance dispatch...
    • Health Services
      1277.To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE considers the 2016 NAS Baseline and Capacity Review findings regarding the attainability of HIQA response standards to remain valid in 2026....
    • Mental Health Services
      1278.To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve access to LGBTQ+-affirming mental health supports nationwide, particularly in relation to specific counselling supports; and...
    • Ambulance Service
      1281.To ask the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal dashboard, alert framework or escalation mechanism relating to prolonged ambulance allocation...
    • Health Services
      1305.To ask the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to address the redundancies at a service (details supplied) in counties Mayo and Galway; the reasons for the withdrawal or loss of...
    • Mental Health Services
      1307.To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for primary care psychology and counselling services in Mayo and Galway; the number of individuals currently on waiting lists in...
    • Courts Service
      1309.To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for individuals requiring court-related psychological reports or complex case management in Mayo and Galway; whether alternative...
    • Mental Health Services
      1310.To ask the Minister for Health whether an assessment has been carried out on the impact of the Helplink redundancies on rural mental health services in the west of Ireland; and the measures...
    • Medical Cards
      1313.To ask the Minister for Health the number of end-of-life medical cards issued, by age group, in each of the years 2024, 2025 to and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [37935/26]
    • Health Strategies
      1315.To ask the Minister for Health the annual estimate for funding the National Adult Palliative Care Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37937/26]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Costs
      1318.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the Donogh O'Malley scholarship scheme in his Department; the number of students who have benefitted from the scholarship in each...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1319.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships or traineeships in thatching that have been registered or completed in each of the past five years; the number of...
    • Language Schools
      1322.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to English language schools, the enforcement powers the ILEP has with regard to ongoing cases where refunds have not been paid to...
    • Third Level Costs
      1324.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is right for SUSI to refuse a grant to a student who is a member of the Reserve Defence Forces but is not employed by the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1325.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding that has been allocated to support the development of pharmacy laboratory and clinical simulation facilities at South East...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1326.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to ensure that pharmacy graduates from newly established programmes, including that at South East Technological University,...
    • Research Funding
      1328.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the research funding streams available to support the pharmacy research ambitions set out in the inaugural strategic plan of the department of...
    • Education Policy
      1329.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Adult Literacy for Life (ALL) Oversight Group last met; when the National Literacy Coalition last met; the reasons for the apparent...
    • Third Level Education
      1335.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will provide an update on the SUSI grant application in question; if the records...
    • Departmental Policies
      1336.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1337.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of craft apprenticeship registrations in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff
      1346.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1347.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the decision to end or substantially reduce ESOL provision for Ukrainians and other learners in County Donegal from March 2027,...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1349.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timelines for when the PBC will be completed for the Swords College of the Future; when the due diligence for the preferred site option will...
    • Education Schemes
      1350.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which the Erasmus+ funding allocation for a consortium (details supplied) was reduced by more than 70% compared with the mobility...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Road Signage
      1352.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when he will make a decision in relation to a recommendation by the Placenames Committee (details supplied); the date on which the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1353.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the 2026 budget allocation for the outdoor infrastructure recreation scheme. [36900/26]
    • Departmental Bodies
      1354.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE qualified solicitors working for the Charities Regulator as of 11 May 2026, in tabular form. [36901/26]
    • Community Development Projects
      1355.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the polices that are in place to support city and county councils and community groups to utilise community centres to their...
    • Departmental Policies
      1357.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Staff
      1358.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of...
    • Departmental Funding
      1359.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided for the re-introduction of the Scéim na mBóithre Áise in 2026; and if he will make a...
    • Parking Provision
      1360.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 12 May 2026, to engage with Fingal County Council on a matter (details supplied); and...

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