Written answers

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      44. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on housing will meet next. [36983/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      79. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the revised National Digital and AI Strategy. [36984/26]
    • Cabinet Committees
      94. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [36985/26]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has undertaken any examination of additional tax measures for family carers and persons with disabilities, in recognition of the...
    • Fuel Prices
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he intends to take to address the cost of home heating oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38914/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to bring forward an amendment to section 50 of the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 to facilitate the use distributed ledger...
    • Tax Code
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering introducing limits on time losses that can be carried forward against current profits for taxation purposes; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Coverage
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the progress made towards ensuring more homes have access to flood insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39639/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the contingency measures being considered to mitigate potential impacts on the Irish economy with regard to the risks identified in the Annual...
    • Tax Code
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for reform of deemed disposal tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39408/26]
    • Haulage Industry
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been paid out to date to hauliers under the extended diesel rebate scheme. [39405/26]
    • Tax Credits
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider, in the context of Budget 2027, the introduction of a 20% tax relief on children's sports memberships; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reducing the VAT on electricity to 0% for households; if he has raised the changes that would be required to the EUs VAT directive with...
    • EU Budgets
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount Ireland contributed and received from to the EU Multiannual Financial Framework in the years 2020 and 2025; and the projected amounts for 2027 and...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of calls received by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the past three years; the average call waiting times and call abandonment rates in each...
    • Tax Code
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to further increase the lifetime limit for the reduced 10% CGT rate for entrepreneurs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39654/26]
    • Tax Credits
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is exploring the potential of a tax credit for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39409/26]
    • Tax Code
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the small gift exemption for capital acquisitions tax from €3,000 to €5,000 from each person per year given it...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to claims that Ireland's SMEs are being held back by a tax system that stymies growth and ambition; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Credit Unions
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the development of the Credit Union Sector Strategy Project, following its recent launch; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his rationale for ruling out introducing an entity level tax on vulture funds using IREF structures to own residential property, despite his own...
    • Rental Sector
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on financial support for renters, given that rental inflation is at its highest level on record; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a flat rate tax of 20% on overtime pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39657/26]
    • State Savings Schemes
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the introduction of a new savings and investment account; when the framework for this scheme will be published; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered introducing a windfall tax on energy companies; if he has raised this with other EU member states; if he will make this a priority during...
    • Financial Services
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance if the situation that has arisen with the liquidation of a company (details supplied) will prompt a review of the way in which the Central Bank oversees the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance if steps are being taken to establish a national flood insurance scheme to protect homeowners, renters and businesses increasingly exposed to flood risk; and...
    • Disability Issues
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the work to review and replace the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme, particularly in light of ongoing concerns regarding the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he plans to take in response to research published by his Department finding that employment among 15-29 year-olds in ICT fell by over 20% between...
    • Departmental Policies
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in developing the investment account framework and the 2026 roadmap on retail investment taxation, consideration will be given to age-specific or...
    • Economic Policy
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of fiscal space currently available to respond to a potential energy-driven cost-of-living shock; whether provision has been made for additional...
    • Insurance Industry
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the implementation of the Motor Insurance Transparency Code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39600/26]
    • Tax Data
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that was collected in all fuel taxes for the first four months of the past five years, by type. [39407/26]
    • International Sanctions
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance regarding his Department's responsibility for implementing sanctions relating to Russian actions in Ukraine, whether his Department prepared or received any...
    • Departmental Data
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 2480 of 6 May 2026, if he will confirm that his Department was contacted by the journalist who broke the story relating...
    • Social Media
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking on foot of his Department's advice to introduce new regulations that would ensure social media companies vet who can post adverts...
    • Tax Collection
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that was collected in USC in 2025, broken down by income brackets with a range of ten thousand, for example, €10,000 - €20,000,...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures currently in place within the Revenue Commissioners to support taxpayers who experience difficulties engaging with digital systems due to low...
    • Tax Rebates
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted any analysis regarding the amount of rebates and tax credits which people are entitled to, but do not claim; the amount which...
    • Departmental Strategies
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance when the new Ireland for Finance Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39423/26]
    • Tax Code
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will expand the help-to-buy scheme for first-time buyers under the Revenue Commissioners' remit to those purchasing second hand properties; and if he...
    • Insurance Industry
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Cabinet sub-group on insurance reform will next meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39636/26]
    • Tax Code
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has examined the issues around deemed disposal for Irish investors and come up with possible solutions to the issue; and if he will make a...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to simplify tax administration for the SME sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39879/26]
    • Financial Services
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the issues AIB customers have experienced with funds (details supplied); if he has engaged with the Central Bank or the...
    • Tax Code
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning any new tax changes in light of enhanced energy prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39659/26]
    • Banking Sector
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the process regarding the proposed sale of the remainder of the State’s stake in PTSB to the BAWAG Group; and if he will make a...
    • EU Budgets
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his engagement regarding the EU Multiannual Financial Framework post-2027. [39895/26]
    • Tax Code
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to recent assertions that enhanced reporting requirements introduced in January 2024 are causing small businesses and restaurants to scale back...
    • Departmental Strategies
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance for a report on his engagement with stakeholders with regard to the new Ireland for Finance Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39631/26]
    • State Savings Schemes
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the proposed implementation of a personal savings and investment account; the current stage of consideration; the anticipated timeline...
    • Insurance Industry
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the action plan on insurance reform, including actions to reduce average motor insurance costs; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance whether consideration has been given to the introduction of additional tax incentives aimed at encouraging investment in renewable energy technologies and...
    • State Savings Schemes
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm the details of the new proposed savings and investment scheme; when it is likely to be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Insurance Industry
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Action Plan for Insurance Reform 2025-2029; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39396/26]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is legal for Revenue Commissioners to request households to pay local property tax on modular homes constructed in back gardens that are on the same...
    • Insurance Industry
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the progress made on the Action Plan for Insurance Reform launched last July; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39637/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure the new Ireland for Finance Strategy includes new measures and structures to prioritise the competitiveness of the Irish funds industry; and...
    • Tax Collection
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected increase in VAT revenue on home heating oil as a result of the increase in home heating oil price. [39795/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance the action that is being taken by his Department to improve financial literacy in Ireland, particularly in terms of activity like switching financial products...
    • Tax Code
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the VFI proposed on-trade sustainability scheme as a means of helping rural pubs; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the measures his Department will take to address the rising cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40151/26]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Programme for Government
      223. To ask the Taoiseach the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant specifically responsible for...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      224. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the status of a gift (details supplied) to the Ceann Comhairle in 2018 and in storage in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • International Bodies
      225. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the privileges and immunities provided to the International Claims Commission for Ukraine and its personnel will apply in any way...
    • Passport Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 6 May 2026, if passport applicants who hold a gender recognition certificate issued under the...
    • Departmental Data
      227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of Irish embassies and consulate general offices worldwide that currently has a translator post filled within their...
    • Departmental Meetings
      228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she plans to visit Austria prior to Ireland holding the Presidency of EU. [38794/26]
    • Programme for Government
      229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the mechanisms in place in her Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant...
    • Departmental Funding
      230. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has committed any emergency funding or humanitarian aid to the World Health Organisation or affected communities in response to...
    • Consular Services
      231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will report on the safety and evacuation plans for any Irish citizens, diplomats, or aid workers currently in the Democratic Republic...
    • Passport Services
      236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to a passport application (details supplied); the actions she will take to expedite this application; and if...
    • Foreign Policy
      237. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps she will take to guarantee the protection and safe return of Irish citizens (details supplied), illegally abducted while on board...
    • Passport Services
      244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to examine and expedite a passport application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39116/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      261. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE staff, by grade currently working in the Passport Service as of 15 May 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Communications
      262. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has contacted the new Scottish First Minister recently. [39391/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      263. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has considered publishing departmental scorecards or dashboards outlining the status of European Union directive transposition...
    • Departmental Policies
      265. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to recent comments on Israel's Technion University (details supplied) if her attention has been drawn to the involvement of that...
    • Foreign Policy
      270. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether his Department recognises that cases involving Irish citizens in non-Hague jurisdictions, where court orders cannot be effectively...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      271. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39965/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      272. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the diesel and jet fuel refined from Russian oil and imported into Britain is subject to the waiving of sanctions under licence GBSAN0004...
    • Departmental Data
      273. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of child passport applications processed by the passport service in each of the past five years; the number and proportion of...
    • Departmental Policies
      274. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she intends to review the process for renewing child passports for widowed parents, who are currently required to submit death...
    • Departmental Data
      276. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of EU transposition deadlines relevant to her Department in the years 2019 to date in 2026; if such deadlines were met; if not,...
    • EU Presidency
      277. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she envisages Ireland, during its European Union Presidency, being able to ensure that the EU awards higher priority to its efforts to...
    • Departmental Data
      279. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports issued by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2025, and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Legislative Process
      280. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a timeline for the enactment of the General Scheme for the Maritime Area Planning (Marine Protected Areas)...
    • Departmental Schemes
      281. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has engaged with the operators of the deposit return scheme regarding accessibility concerns raised by...
    • Waste Management
      282. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that some waste collection services have added a temporary fuel surcharge; his views on whether the waste...
    • Programme for Government
      283. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil...
    • Fishing Industry
      284. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the hardship the pollack three fish restrictions per 24 hour period will cause the...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      285. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of public money, including from the Central Fund and any other sources, expended on the acquisition of...
    • Data Centres
      289. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis for recent public comments reported in the media (details supplied) that the data centre sector employs...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      290. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of all proposed offshore wind farm projects off the Irish coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      296. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason consumers continue to pay for renewable (wind) energy through the public service obligation to wind farms that...
    • Water Pollution
      297. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the publication of the Western Lakes Management Plan, considering the recent appointment of a new...
    • Fisheries Protection
      298. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the inland fisheries bye-laws in existence for ten years or more that are currently being reviewed by his officials; and...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      305. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current position regarding the timeline for the installation of solar panels for the medically vulnerable under the...
    • Legislative Measures
      306. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 24 March 2026, for an update on the proposed Electricity (Supply) (Amendment)...
    • Fuel Sales
      307. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the amount of jet fuel and diesel imported per exporting country, in tabular form. [39920/26]
    • Departmental Programmes
      308. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of Ireland's Third Sustainable Development Goals National Implementation Plan, which went out for Public...
    • Mining Industry
      309. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current status of the proposed geoscience Bill or any successor legislation relating to mineral exploration and mining...
    • Energy Conservation
      311. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the target number of homes the Government seeks to retrofit to a BER B2 or above by 2030; if the target remains 500,000...
    • Electricity Grid
      314. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the long-term delays being experienced by those building once-off houses in securing electricity connections;...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      315. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if in the context of the Government’s determination to provide substantial additional residential units, he will...
    • Energy Policy
      320. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of the Heat (Networks and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 (Heat Bill), which is listed as priority...
  • Department of Defence
    • Programme for Government
      321. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the mechanisms in place in her Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant specifically...
    • International Relations
      322. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the recent Memorandum of Understanding between Ireland and the United Kingdom has been placed before the Dáil (placed in the Dáil...
    • Defence Forces
      323. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether she intends to publish the Strategic Workforce Plan for the Defence Forces in full; whether any sections are expected to be withheld or...
    • Air Corps
      326. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of authorised pilot posts currently approved within the Air Corps; the number currently filled; the number vacant; and the...
    • Defence Forces
      328. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether the Department or Defence Forces have conducted any operational capability assessment or formal risk assessment relating to current Air...
    • Air Services
      333. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether any operational doctrine, rules of engagement, or policy framework has been approved governing the deployment of armed capabilities...
    • An Garda Síochána
      339. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether the Service Level Agreement governing Garda Air Support Unit operations under military aviation frameworks will be published; and if she...
    • Air Services
      340. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether any external independent review has been conducted concerning the governance implications of military-operated aircraft supporting...
    • Defence Forces
      342. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether the Government intends to publish a revised national military aviation strategy or rotary-wing capability doctrine arising from the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Pension Provisions
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has engaged with the Department of Transport, CIÉ and relevant pension stakeholders regarding delays or...
    • Bus Services
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a sign will be erected in Ballydavid, County Kerry to show where the Local Link stop is for visitors returning to Dingle (details...
    • National Car Test
      348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the number of NCT failures from 2015 to date, broken down by test centre; the breakdown of the top five most common...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38757/26]
    • Programme for Government
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant...
    • Greenways Provision
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of public money that has been spent to date on the Boyne Greenway, including consultancy, planning, legal and administrative...
    • Public Transport
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all capital projects including road, public transport, and active travel infrastructure projects delivered...
    • Bus Services
      358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to roll out a major programme of 'new bus stops' across County Meath at locations that have been highlighted by county councillors; and...
    • Public Transport
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when integrated contactless payment will be implemented across the public transport system; the total expenditure to date on upgrades to...
    • Road Safety
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Meath County Council has drawn down any of the €20 million made available for the procurement and installation of road safety...
    • Bus Services
      361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the rollout of a service (details suppled); if the funding provided for new bus routes in Dublin west in 2026 means that...
    • Rail Network
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the expected annual cost of maintaining the 6.50am rail service between Athenry and Galway beyond July 2026; when a decision...
    • Bus Services
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a new bus service will be implemented between Athenry and Galway; when a decision will be made in relation to this; the expected...
    • Electric Vehicles
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline measures to increase the number of public electric vehicle charging points around the country. [39124/26]
    • Road Safety Authority
      365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the Road Safety Authority has completed any internal review, audit or ICT assessment concerning the status, monitoring or...
    • Driver Licences
      368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether any complaints, concerns or escalation requests have been received by his Department regarding delayed, unanswered or lost driver...
    • Public Transport
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority has considered the introduction of an interim lower cost contactless payment solution, including...
    • Rail Network
      378. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a second train line will begin construction in Clara; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39297/26]
    • Bus Services
      380. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the proposed assessment of Tullamore bus service has been completed; when it is hoped the details will be published; and if he will...
    • Rail Network
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take steps to fund train trolley services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/26]
    • Air Services
      384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the level of funding provided to an airport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39338/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the research or policy development that has been carried out by his Department in the area of autonomous vehicle use in Ireland into the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      386. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount the NTA has spent on EV subsidies for the taxi industry in each of the years 2023-2025 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Bus Services
      387. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure a direct bus service from Waterford to Dublin following the withdrawal of route 4; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Transport
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure public transport connectivity between Waterford and Wexford following the curtailment of route 40; and if he will...
    • Electric Vehicles
      389. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is intended that EV charging points will be installed at locations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      390. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of females at administrative officer and above grades within his Department, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Parking Provision
      391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the car-park at Malahide DART station was last re-marked. [39389/26]
    • Road Network
      393. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of licensed vehicles on the roads in Ireland, broken down per year from 2016 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      395. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road fatalities in each of the years 2016 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rail Network
      396. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the CPO's to be carried out for the delivery of DART+ West; the timeline for the CPOs to be undertaken, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      397. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the number of motorcycle related fatalities recorded in 2025 and to date 2026; if incidents involving pedestrians...
    • Road Safety Authority
      399. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the RSA has contracted a university (details supplied) to undertake a survey into truck driving in Ireland; the reason a British...
    • Public Transport
      400. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any agreements for cross-Border travel between transport services in this State and the North of Ireland regarding the use...
    • Departmental Reviews
      401. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the commencement of the review of the Galway Metropolitan Transport Strategy; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Bus Services
      402. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the specific measures taken to date towards the implementation of the new Galway bus network; and if he will make...
    • National Transport Authority
      403. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the budget for public transport operations provided to the National Transport Authority for 2026; and if he will...
    • Departmental Programmes
      404. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the development of a new 'Connecting Ireland, Rural Mobility Plan'; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport
      405. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to pause BVLOS operation licences in Cork and Dublin pending the publication of the draft code from the working group on UAS; and if he...
    • Rail Network
      406. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status and expected timeline for progressing the proposal in the All-Island Strategic Rail Review to install a curve at...
    • Departmental Schemes
      407. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to Tipperary County Council under active travel schemes in each year from 2020 to date; the projects...
    • Public Transport
      409. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the cut-off point of 16 hours of lectures/class time per week for eligibility of the student Leap card is...
    • Driver Licences
      411. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of motor insurance companies refusing to recognise foreign driving license exchange receipts issued by the NDLS as proof...
    • Rail Network
      412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider the inclusion of Portlaoise Train Station in the Dublin commuter fare zone structure, either by extending Zone 4 or by...
    • Public Transport
      413. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine the feasibility of transitioning the public transport network to a 24/7 service, including rail infrastructure; and if he will...
    • Parking Provision
      415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles clamped at Irish Rail station car parks in Drogheda and Dundalk in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement...
    • National Transport Authority
      416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport Authority or Iarnród Éireann will review early morning rail services between Athenry and Galway...
    • National Transport Authority
      417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether Iarnród Éireann or the National Transport Authority have undertaken any review of fare structures on the Athenry-Galway...
    • Public Transport
      418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will amend the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 to include Louth for the purpose of sustainable transport planning; and if he...
    • Rail Network
      419. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the details of his precise functions in respect of the planning and resourcing of new rail stations outside of the greater...
    • Parking Provision
      420. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles clamped at each Irish Rail station car park in 2024, in tabular form. [40111/26]
    • Transport Costs
      421. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the average fare per trip in each of the red zones, Dublin commuter zones, short hop zone, Cork green zone and...
    • Public Transport
      422. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the number of passengers in each of the red zones, Dublin commuter zones, short hop zone, Cork green zone and...
    • National Transport Authority
      424. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport Authority or Iarnród Éireann has examined the feasibility of introducing 24-hour DART services...
    • Public Transport
      425. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department has assessed the impact the absence of late night and 24-hour public transport services across parts of north...
    • Pension Provisions
      426. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question 423 of 12 May 2026, if the CIÉ board decision in 2009 in the context of the Transport Act 1950 was...
    • Departmental Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles impounded in the State in each of the past five years arising from unpaid toll charges; the number of such...
    • Taxi Regulations
      430. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the policy approach taken to taxi drivers who are not displaying their roof sign; whether his Department has conducted any analysis to...
  • Department of Finance
    • Statutory Instruments
      431. To ask the Minister for Finance the role his Department plays in enforcing or monitoring compliance with SI No. 149 of 2026 on restrictive measures concerning ISIL (Da’esh) and...
    • Legislative Measures
      432. To ask the Minister for Finance the legislative provisions governing the proper display and visibility of motorcycle number plates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39495/26]
    • Legislative Programme
      434. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the way the proposed legislation on vaping, from a proposed tax purpose, addresses the environmental impact of disposable vapes; and the steps...
    • Programme for Government
      435. To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the programme for Government; the civil servant specifically responsible...
    • State Savings Schemes
      436. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted a cost benefit analysis for the proposed new investment scheme; if not, his plans to carry out a cost benefit analysis; and if...
    • Exchequer Returns
      437. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 14 May 2026, if the Exchequer cash reserves, and other liquid assets held by the National Treasury Management...
    • Tax Collection
      438. To ask the Minister for Finance to ascertain the total amount paid in carbon taxes and related levies by rural households and small businesses in Offaly in 2025; and if he will make a...
    • EU Programmes
      439. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government supports the introduction of additional EU wide windfall taxes on oil and petroleum companies which have recorded significantly increased...
    • Sovereign Debt
      441. To ask the Minister for Finance the share of the ISIF directed portfolio that is currently stored in Irish sovereign debt instruments; the annual interest rate on the debt instruments; and...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      442. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 14 May 2026, the criteria necessary for a financial institution to qualify as a monetary policy counterparty with...
    • Tax Reliefs
      448. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the amount of tax relief the State has provided for electric vehicles in the years 2022-2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Insurance Industry
      450. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions his Department is undertaking to improve transparency for motor insurance customers to understand how a motor insurance company calculates their...
    • Sovereign Debt
      452. To ask the Minister for Finance the average cost interest of Irish debt issued each year since 2020; and the interest on any auctioned bonds in 2026. [39442/26]
    • Exchequer Returns
      453. To ask the Minister for Finance the target or projected rate of return on investment from the Future Ireland Fund. [39443/26]
    • Sovereign Debt
      455. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm that the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate, and Nature Fund do not hold an Israel sovereign debt. [39445/26]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      456. To ask the Minister for Finance in light of the recent Revenue survey on illegal tobacco consumption and the resulting estimated loss in excise revenue, if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      459. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that the 1% levy on life assurance investment policies further reduces the value of medical negligence or catastrophic personal injury awards...
    • Budget 2027
      462. To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of the scope for further cost-of-living measures in budget 2027; the way in which he proposes to balance targeted household supports with the...
    • Tax Code
      463. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to reduce the Exchequer's exposure to volatility in corporation tax receipts and to strengthen the resilience of the State's tax base...
    • Tax Yield
      464. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to the Exchequer from an increase of 50 cent and €1 in the excise duty on 20 cigarettes, and a pro rata increase in excise on other...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      467. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which geopolitical instability is contributing to increased import costs for energy, food, and key goods in Ireland; the estimated impact on the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      468. To ask the Minister for Finance to make carers payments tax exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31440/26]
    • Tax Code
      469. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will commit to changes in inheritance tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39769/26]
    • Tax Credits
      471. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a tax credit to support smaller rural pubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39660/26]
    • Tax Code
      473. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has undertaken, or intends to undertake, a review of the capital acquisitions tax lifetime tax free thresholds, with particular...
    • Tax Reliefs
      474. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to reforming the taxsaver commuter ticket scheme to allow employees whose employers do not participate in the scheme to claim...
    • Tax Yield
      475. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of taxation revenue collected from the mineral exploration and mining sector in each of the past ten years, broken down by corporation tax,...
    • Tax Reliefs
      476. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies who availed of KEEP each year since its introduction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40109/26]
    • Tax Yield
      478. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT collected on building materials and construction services in each of the past ten years. [40112/26]
    • Tax Code
      479. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first and full-year yield from each percentage point increase in the minimum effective tax rate of persons earning more than €400,000 per...
    • Tax Reliefs
      480. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated individual savings per relief and the total full-year savings to the Exchequer from applying only the standard rate of tax to all discretionary...
    • Universal Social Charge
      481. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of abolishing the 0.5% and 2% rate of USC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40203/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      482. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increase the help-to-buy ceiling to reflect current prices in the Dublin metropolitan area; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Reliefs
      483. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to personal income tax breaks for families on ICT equipment purchased for school use; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      485. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the application of a 0% VAT rate to laptops and tablets required for educational purposes, specifically and uniquely programmed for same (details...
    • Prize Bonds
      486. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); if he has discussed the matter with the company; and his plans to introduce regulations to address the situation of...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      489. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the renewed efforts toward a UK–Ireland cross-Border work framework, particularly addressing remote work taxation. [40265/26]
    • Banking Sector
      490. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that persons and families that are resident in the Republic of Ireland and working in Northern Ireland are being turned down for a mortgage by...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • EU Presidency
      491. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of the closures of cafes, other businesses and museums in the vicinity of Dublin Castle to accommodate Ireland's EU...
    • Departmental Funding
      492. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a project awarded funding under the Shared Island Civic Society Fund (details supplied); the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      494. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of works on the weir at Ballincollig Regional Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38785/26]
    • Programme for Government
      495. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the programme for Government; the civil servant...
    • An Garda Síochána
      496. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has carried out any recent assessment of the condition, capacity and suitability of Lusk Garda station with a view to...
    • Office of Public Works
      497. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the future plans for Shanowen Lands, Dublin 9, given it is currently owned by the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff
      498. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of settlement agreements sanctioned by his Department which would need to comply with Circular 09/2018, in the years 2020 to...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      499. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department has undertaken any review of the impact of the removal of the supplementary pension for post-2013 fast accrual...
    • Civil Service
      500. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered introducing formal performance management frameworks for Secretaries General and senior civil servants linked to...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      505. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the increased use of scramblers in the Phoenix Park has been flagged with the OPW; the actions that are being taken to address this...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      506. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to ensure adequate multi-annual capital investment in key infrastructure given persistent supply constraints and...
    • Office of Public Works
      507. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to deliver the National Children’s Science Centre, Earlsfort Terrace; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pensions
      511. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants currently enduring pension abatement due to their re-employed status within the public sector; the full...
    • Office of Public Works
      512. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of bicycle shelters installed across the State by the OPW on behalf of Government Departments, local authorities, and State...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      513. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Nenagh flood relief scheme; if the tender documents have yet issued, given it was expected they would issue...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Enterprise Support Services
      514. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to explore all possible funding avenues in respect of Killarney Innovation Centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government
      515. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the programme for Government; the civil servant...
    • Employment Rights
      516. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an employee working as a live-in carer may have a deduction made from their wages in respect of bed and board; and if so, what...
    • Work Permits
      517. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a non-EEA national, specifically a carer from India, may be granted an employment permit where the employer is a private...
    • Airport Policy
      518. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding development plans (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39337/26]
    • Work Permits
      519. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on the application renewal of a work permit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39530/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      522. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department has examined the adequacy of existing redundancy and income-support protections for workers displaced as a...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPs appointments per county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40294/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason approval was not granted for a modular build extension to accommodate special needs students on the waiting list for a school (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans regarding the potential acquisition of care centre building (details supplied) to support the future development and expansion of a...
    • School Transport
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the distance limits for school transport will be reduced as stated in the school transport strategic review; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date a special school (details supplied) will open; if it will be open in September 2026; and the way in which wastewater will be connected...
    • School Staff
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the teacher allocation for 2026-2027 for a school (details supplied) will be reviewed given concerns amongst parents regarding a split class...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38747/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an finished building project at a school (details supplied); and when it is like to be sanctioned for completion. [38760/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the second autism class planned for a school (details supplied) will be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38780/26]
    • School Funding
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if capital funding will be provided to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38784/26]
    • Education Schemes
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive final confirmation regarding the operation and allocation of places for the 2026 summer programme;...
    • Programme for Government
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The mechanisms in place in her Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the programme for Government; the civil servant specifically...
    • School Funding
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of primary schools that are currently running a deficit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38824/26]
    • Education Schemes
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide confirmation that the summer programme will be going ahead this year at a school (details supplied); the number of places the school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tenders have been returned for the new school building project (details supplied); if the project will commence construction in Q3 of 2026;...
    • School Staff
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the outcomes of the Special Needs Assistant, SNA, reviews conducted earlier this year will be communicated to schools; the reason for the...
    • Education Schemes
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total expenditure on English language supports for non-Irish national pupils in primary and post-primary schools in 2025; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the opening of a special class (details supplied) sanctioned on 12 January 2026; whether funding has been provided to launch this...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the breakdown of the €1.547 billion capital allocation for school infrastructure in 2026, by county; the number of large-scale...
    • EU Presidency
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the EU Presidency allocation of €4.217 million in the 2026 Education Vote; the specific education-related events...
    • Schools Building Projects
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the reduction in the number of school building projects completed in recent years as set out in her Department’s Vote...
    • Departmental Funding
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Revised Estimates include any specific ring-fenced funding to support small rural schools facing enrolment pressures or potential closure;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes launched in Dublin 15 in 2025 at primary school level, broken down per school; the number of places made available...
    • Residential Institutions
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an applicant’s (details supplied) forms under the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Act 2025 which were...
    • School Staff
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the teacher allocation for a school (details supplied) for the upcoming year; the reason this decision was made; if the...
    • School Enrolments
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to address the shortage of primary school places in a school (details supplied); the measures that are available to support...
    • School Curriculum
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to promote financial literacy in Irish schools. [39122/26]
    • State Examinations
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to Ukrainian school children due to sit Junior Certificate exams in June (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Special Educational Needs
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a special class (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39427/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria her Department used to identify schools for inclusion in the Pilot Scheme for Home School Community Liaison (HSCL); the reason that...
    • School Transport
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing inequality of access to education for children living on Inishbofin island; if her Department will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department accepts that the Newcastle/Rathcoole/Saggart/Citywest area is experiencing significant pressure on school place capacity; if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that summer provision is available to students with additional needs in schools where the programme has not...
    • Teacher Training
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific training required for post-primary teachers supporting students with additional educational needs; if additional training is being...
    • Special Educational Needs
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidance is available to schools where parents privately engage occupational therapists to support a child’s learning needs; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of public expenditure incurred in each of the years 2019 to 2025; the allocation or projected expenditure for 2026, in...
    • Education Policy
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position on the increasing practice in post-primary schools of requiring students to purchase a personal laptop as part of their education;...
    • State Examinations
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any element of the junior certificate cycle or leaving certificate curriculum requires students to have access to a personal laptop outside of...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on schools including schools participating in DEIS requiring families to purchase high-cost digital devices. [39517/26]
    • Education Policy
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidance has been issued to schools regarding procurement models for digital devices, including rental schemes, leasing arrangements, or...
    • Schools Building Projects
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date regarding additional accommodation project under the school capital programme (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Special Educational Needs
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39521/26]
    • Education Costs
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning or impact assessment carried out by her Department prior to the introduction of the revised senior cycle programme in relation to...
    • School Transport
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review an application (details supplied) for school transport. [39532/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planning and building unit's engagement with a school (details supplied) and the NCSE to deliver a special class sanctioned for...
    • Departmental Programmes
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary questions Nos. 413 to 420 of the 26 March 2026 the measures in place for her Department to identify "twice exceptional"...
    • Departmental Schemes
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider an emergency works scheme application for a school (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39540/26]
    • School Staff
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the ongoing inequities in the pay for principals of special schools given that principal allowances are currently calculated...
    • Departmental Schemes
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to implement the job evaluation scheme in ETBs; (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the teacher allocation for 2026-2027 for a school (details supplied) will be reviewed given concerns amongst parents regarding a split class...
    • Schools Building Projects
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is expected that a school (details supplied) will receive approval for their Stage 2A submission and move to Stage 2B of her Department's...
    • School Admissions
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal basis for her Department's position that guidance on best practice arrangements for opt-outs arise only from the Education (Admissions...
    • School Costs
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department will issue binding national guidance requiring any post-primary school operating a compulsory digital-device scheme to...
    • Departmental Funding
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether schools receiving ICT grant funding under the Digital Strategy for Schools are required to demonstrate that reasonable measures are in...
    • School Costs
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has assessed the number of students nationally currently accessing device loan schemes operated by post-primary schools;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department will review the adequacy of iScoil funding in light of the fact that 381 eligible referrals were refused places since the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department intends to establish an interim national educational pathway for children on reduced timetables, limited home tuition, or...
    • School Accommodation
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 7 May 2026, if she will review a matter (details supplied); the way in which the projected deficit...
    • School Staff
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to comment on the teacher allocation for a school (details supplied) for the upcoming year; the reason this decision was made; if the reduction...
    • School Attendance
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in primary and post-primary schools reported as absent for 20 or more days in the 2024-2025 school year; the breakdown...
    • School Accommodation
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 19 May 2026, to provide the figure for the highest amount of funding approved or issued by her...
    • Irish Language
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of primary school students being taught through the medium of Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39898/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the proposed extension to a school (details supplied) for which they have full planning permission, including...
    • Insurance Coverage
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline any schools other than community and comprehensive schools that are covered by State indemnity; or if his Department pays the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to fund the WALK PEER Supported Transitions programme beyond the end of 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teaching Qualifications
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers registered with the teaching council under route 4, the route designated for individuals who hold recognised special education...
    • School Discipline
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of section 29 appeals that have been received by her Department from parents seeking school places, by county, from 2020 to date, in...
    • Teacher Training
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to correspondence received (details supplied) in relation to the teacher refund scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when stage 2 of the multi-million euro extension project for special needs classrooms, sensory spaces, and enhanced learning support facilities...
    • School Costs
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to parents to assist with the purchase of school laptops for their children attending secondary school, if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she will review the eligibility criteria for assistive technology supports for children with additional educational needs, particularly...
    • School Staff
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a DEIS plus school (details supplied) is set to lose a mainstream teacher on the basis that it...
    • School Transport
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for limiting the recent extension of the upper age limit for drivers operating under the school transport scheme to certain categories...
    • State Examinations
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that a one-year extension has been granted to the new Leaving Certificate English specification at the request of the State Examinations...
    • School Curriculum
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she supports full CEFR alignment for the Irish curricula in primary and secondary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that 20% of those sitting the junior certificate in 2025 had an exemption for Irish her views on whether this as a very high rate; if she...
    • School Staff
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm the feedback that was provided to a school in Louth (details supplied) following the review submitted regarding SNA allocation; the...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in County Louth excluded from the DEIS plus scheme that have sought to appeal the decision made by her Department, to date....
    • Educational Disadvantage
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether direct engagement has taken place with the principals of seven DEIS primary schools in Drogheda (details supplied) following their public...
    • Schools Building Projects
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will issue for a project at a school (details supplied) to progress to stage 2A, noting that stage 1 approval was granted and the...
    • State Examinations
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures her Department will take to ensure appropriate accommodations for students with dyslexia, dyspraxia and other neurodivergent...
    • Special Educational Needs
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the removal of a teacher from a school (details supplied) given the SEN needs and the number of students in the school. [40254/26]
    • Departmental Properties
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process that should be followed to address an issue at a site (details supplied) owned by her Department. [40264/26]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an information request can be supplied to a teacher (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40268/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the decision was made to permit the issuing of NCSE eligibility letters in respect of applications received after the 1 October...
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Programme for Government
      647. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the programme for Government; the civil...
    • Film Industry
      648. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the position regarding the introduction of the unscripted film tax credit. [39123/26]
    • Sports Facilities
      649. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a once-off stand-alone grant to a sports facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Television Licence Fee
      651. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the steps being taken to reform or replace the current television licence system given the increasing number of households...
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      652. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the criteria used to assess whether the multiannual funding allocation to RTÉ is delivering measurable reform and...
    • Postal Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the timeline for when An Post will provide pension increases to members and deferred members of the An Post superannuation...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      655. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if an application reference number could be provided to an applicant to the basic income for artists scheme (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      656. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he has the power or discretion to fund a capital project allocation to a local authority backed project without match...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Child Protection
      658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has conducted any analysis of the relationship between family homelessness and child protection...
    • National Planning Framework
      659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give detailed consideration to the issues raised in correspondence from a local authority (details supplied). [39992/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the above-the-shop grant to micro-businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40304/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of first-time buyers in County Wexford that have benefitted from the first home scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Programme for Government
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the Department operates a formal forecasting model linking projected inward migration trends to projected emergency...
    • Housing Policy
      665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether projected inward migration figures are incorporated into social housing demand projections at national or local...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department collects, analyses or publishes homelessness presentation data by immigration, residency or citizenship...
    • Housing Schemes
      673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to examine an individual's eligibility (details supplied) for the affordable purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Provision
      674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of vacant local authority homes currently boarded up or awaiting refurbishment across all county councils;...
    • Vacant Properties
      675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the Statutory Instruments, circulars or other guidance notes underpinning the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant...
    • Housing Policy
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to allow those in approved housing bodies to purchase their homes, considering some are now over 30 years in these...
    • Local Authorities
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to state the total cost of the development levy and water connection waiver for each year it has been in operation to date;...
    • Housing Provision
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the substantial amount of time that applicants for housing medical priority are having to wait to obtain a...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there are currently no guidelines for industrial solar complexes; and when these guidelines will be established and...
    • Departmental Data
      694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Question No. 346 of 14 May 2026, to provide a brief description each under subhead and programme level outturns....
    • Fire Service
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current position in relation to the construction of a new project in County Laois (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the newly established invasive species bureau, formed between the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, and the...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Irish freshwater catchments were never designated as 'cyprinid' under Article 2 of Council Directive 78/659/EEC,...
    • Waterways Issues
      698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the works that will be undertaken this year and planned for 2026 on a restoration project (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Septic Tanks
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of septic tank inspections carried out in each local authority area in 2024 and to date in 2026, in tabular form;...
    • Building Regulations
      709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether consideration is being given to introducing Irish-specific statutory guidance on toilet provision ratios in public...
    • Departmental Schemes
      713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if his Department will intervene directly in this case; if...
    • Planning Issues
      715. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether planning permission can be extended where the construction company needs a short period of extension to complete...
    • Derelict Sites
      716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount currently outstanding nationally in unpaid derelict sites levy arrears; the amount outstanding by local...
    • Housing Schemes
      721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding allocated to Tipperary County Council under the tenant in situ scheme in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024,...
    • Vacant Properties
      722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties in County Tipperary in respect of which the vacant homes tax has been applied; the number of...
    • Energy Conservation
      723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the progress of Ireland’s transposition of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive as the...
    • Housing Provision
      726. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the first and full-cost of the social units purchased on the Glass Bottle Site on the Poolbeg west SDZ. [40008/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people in each county who are availing of the rent-a-room scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the review of the memorandum of understanding between the NARCG and NPWS; and if he will make a...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is proposed to reinstate the Sustainable Hunting of Wild Birds Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regeneration Projects
      731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the North-West Quarter regeneration, in Cork, by phase status, in tabular form. [40106/26]
    • Building Regulations
      732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the potential for supporting domestic reed harvesting for thatching, given that Ireland has abundant...
    • Planning Issues
      733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering legislative or planning reforms to facilitate higher density housing, including apartments and duplexes,...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      734. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for carer's allowance (details supplied) was refused; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that some people are transferred to the invalidity pension against their will, precluding them from taking...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2027 if the living alone allowance increased to €28.50 per week. [38792/26]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his position regarding the carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Programme for Government
      738. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil...
    • Departmental Policies
      739. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has concluded a review of means testing of social assistance schemes. [38861/26]
    • School Meals Programme
      740. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of the inability of some schools in County Clare and elsewhere, including a school (details supplied) to...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if decisions in relation to the heating supplement are or have ever been subject to an appeals process; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has conducted an assessment on the strain on the social welfare system from asylum-related arrivals from...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total expenditure on rent supplements and housing assistance payments for non-Irish nationals in 2025; and if he will...
    • School Meals Programme
      744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether schools participating in the hot school meals scheme are required to retain written conflict-of-interest declarations...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals currently transitioning from invalidity pension to the partial capacity benefit scheme; the average...
    • Departmental Funding
      751. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the upcoming funding opportunities available to a service (details supplied). [39430/26]
    • Social Welfare Code
      752. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the savings or capital thresholds that apply to disability allowance and related supports for persons with lifelong...
    • School Meals Programme
      753. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will intervene in the case of a school in County Clare (details supplied) which, owing to its peripheral location, is...
    • Social Welfare Code
      754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider allowing S contributions count towards PRSI contributions for Illness Benefit; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to workers who temporarily leave the workforce due to unemployment, caring responsibilities,...
    • Social Welfare Code
      756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the Programme for Governments commitment to reform the disability allowance payment and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an otherwise valid ARP claim may be refused solely because his Department's internal...
    • Fire Service
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider increasing the mandatory retirement age for firefighters from 62 years-of-age to the State pension age of...
    • Pension Provisions
      764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protections that are in place in respect of investments made by the three companies selected by the national automatic...
    • Social Welfare Code
      766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the homemakers scheme and grant those in the scheme, who are on a reduced contributory pension, the full rate of...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the living alone increase per year from 2020 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the telephone support allowance per year from 2020 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and...
    • Pension Provisions
      771. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a full review of the pension entitlement of a person (details supplied) could be carried out [40172/26]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update in relation to an appeal (details supplied). [40210/26]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      773. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the correspondence (details supplied); whether a dependent child aged 21 and in full-time third-level...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Policy
      774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether the forthcoming National Migration and Integration Strategy will include specific housing supply, homelessness...
    • International Protection
      775. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projected taxpayer cost of modular accommodation units for international protection applicants in 2026 and 2027; and if he...
    • Visa Agreements
      776. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied); when a decision will be reached given the application is pending for over...
    • Court Judgments
      777. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions under the Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Act 2024 that have taken...
    • Assisted Suicide
      778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on any work underway to introduce legislation to allow for assisted dying in certain restricted circumstances;...
    • Residency Permits
      779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expediate an Irish residence permit application (details supplied), given its impact on the completion of a property...
    • International Protection
      780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the specific supports and protections that will remain available for vulnerable beneficiaries of temporary protection,...
    • Visa Agreements
      781. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 858 of 12 May 2026, the number of visa applications submitted by Palestinian nationals...
    • An Garda Síochána
      783. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 624 of 21 April 2026, if he has received the necessary information from Garda Authorities...
    • Departmental Contracts
      784. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the name of the external companies that provide cleaning and security personnel to his Department in each of the years 2025 and...
    • Family Reunification
      785. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision on an application for family reunification will be reached (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government
      786. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil...
    • An Garda Síochána
      787. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of middle management positions within an Garda Síochána, including inspectors and superintendents;...
    • International Protection
      790. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of failed international protection applicants currently remaining in the State with appeals or judicial reviews...
    • Deportation Orders
      791. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportations carried out in the first four months of 2026 against the number of new international protection...
    • Direct Provision System
      792. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has conducted an assessment of the impact of large-scale direct provision centres on local Garda resources...
    • International Protection
      793. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated annual cost to the Exchequer of supports and accommodations for international protection applicants in 2026; and...
    • Immigration Support Services
      794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the value-for-money assessment carried out before allocating funds to non-governmental organisations...
    • Prison Service
      795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the composition of prison visiting committees for each of the prisons in the State; the name of each committee; and if he will...
    • Family Law Cases
      798. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to address ongoing difficulties in the enforcement of court ordered maintenance arrangements,...
    • Prison Service
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates in prisons or places of detention in Ireland that are required to sleep on camp beds, not including those...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the funding provided to date by Cuan to the National Women's Council; the purposes of each funding allocation; and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      811. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality is he aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if he will request his officials to investigate the matter; and if he...
    • An Garda Síochána
      812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí by rank attached to Louth-Cavan and Monaghan Divisional Drugs Unit as of 15 May 2026, in tabular...
    • Departmental Data
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines issued for speeding on the N25 near Glenmore, County Kilkenny between the speed of 80-90km per hour, 90...
    • International Protection
      815. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in connection with the State's use, acquisition or operation of a centre (details supplied), any issues have arisen...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      817. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the number of fixed charge notices and prosecutions issued in each of the years 2023 to 2025 for offences...
    • Visa Applications
      818. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing times for short-stay "C" visas for applicants from the Russian Federation in each of the past three...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      824. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the ongoing financial consequences faced by people with lifelong disabilities who received medical negligence...
    • Visa Applications
      826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing times for join family (non-EEA national) spouse visa applications and appeals; and the steps being...
    • Citizenship Applications
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a citizenship application will be completed (details supplied) given that it is 12 months since the application was first...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the number of detections and fixed charge notices issued for breaches of the HGV permit scheme in Dublin city,...
    • Prison Service
      830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a review carried out into the Irish prison system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39972/26]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      866. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the statutory responsibility for individuals who are released from prison with no fixed abode, including whether responsibility...
    • Immigration Policy
      874. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the guidelines in place for immigration department officers operating within Irish Airports; the...
    • Fines Administration
      878. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount paid in fines issued for speeding on the N25 near Glenmore, County Kilkenny from 10 November 2025 to 1 May 2026; and...
    • International Protection
      879. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if in the context of reforming the accommodation system for displaced Ukrainians compassionate consideration will be given to...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 881
      881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications processed and approved on a monthly basis; the number refused, broken down per visa type, per...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      883. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 751 of 19 May 2026, the staffing levels at the visa desk in Abuja; the number of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      884. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving members of an Garda Síochána have been convicted of a crime; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Properties
      885. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if construction works, survey works, or any works are currently being undertaken on the old Cork prison site. [40298/26]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      886. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the factors considered for approval under Section 16 for Irish association naturalisation in addition to meeting 50% of the...
    • Departmental Policies
      887. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the recent annual corruption perceptions index (CPI) rankings (details supplied) published by an...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive payment for the succession planning and advice grant; and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government
      890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant...
    • Farm Inspections
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm inspections carried out in 2025 related to biodiversity compliance versus those for animal welfare; and if he...
    • Animal Diseases
      892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding emergency financial supports for farmers facing bluetongue disease risks and associated movement restrictions;...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the interest of health and safety, to urgently provide the construction of a landing facility (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if small farmer incomes are protected in the context of the new CAP negotiations, in regard to stocking rates; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the combined landing dues, levies for pelagic stocks landings into Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre for the period 2019 to 2025; if...
    • Greyhound Industry
      897. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the mechanisms in place to monitor and track the welfare and current location of greyhounds that become the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason domestic dwellings are to be removed from TAMS 3 solar capital grants; if he has considered the impact this will have on...
    • Control of Dogs
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to conduct a review of dog breeds legislation, with a view to replacing it with proportionate, breed-neutral measures that...
    • Agriculture Industry
      902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39475/26]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Red Cover Silage Measure; whether funding is still available to farmers under this fund; if there are plans to...
    • Agriculture Industry
      904. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address an issue regarding the inputting of an incorrect date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Greyhound Industry
      905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the investigations that have been carried out by greyhound racing Ireland into the reported conditions at a premises (details...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      908. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if livestock trailers, including cattle trailers, are currently excluded from eligibility under the targeted agriculture...
    • Greyhound Industry
      916. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has been informed of the outcome of an investigation by officers in Rásaíocht Con Éireann, into...
    • Forestry Sector
      917. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration is being given to reviewing current afforestation licensing rules in relation to planting distances from overhead...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Tipperary participating in ACRES; the number awaiting payment; the total amount paid to farmers in...
    • Animal Welfare
      929. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made to deal with the rising cases of animal cruelty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39940/26]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the number of BISS applications made this year detailing activity class (details supplied), in tabular form. [39951/26]
    • Agriculture Supports
      931. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department intends to apply to the EU's CAP crisis reserve fund for funding to support farmers affected by the increase in...
    • Animal Diseases
      933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted recent research relating to BVD testing and calves coming out with a P1 result in terms of possible...
    • Animal Sales
      934. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if 18 month old bullocks that passed the tissue test as male calves and have a clear result cannot be sold when they are separated...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      935. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 828 of 19 May 2026, if she will respond to further correspondence received (details supplied);...
    • Wage-setting Mechanisms
      936. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of Ireland’s transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      940. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures she plans to introduce to address the issue of childcare in towns such as Kilcock; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Children in Care
      941. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children placed by Tusla with foster families through private-for-profit foster care agencies in each of the past five...
    • Disability Services
      946. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an urgent appointment with the CDNT; and if she will make a statement...
    • Paternity Leave
      947. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans to expand paid surrogacy leave to parents of new-born children born through surrogacy, either within Ireland or abroad;...
    • Departmental Priorities
      948. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the mechanisms in place in her Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant...
    • Departmental Data
      949. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 2521 of 14 April 2026, the position regarding the complaint (details supplied); and if she...
    • Childcare Services
      950. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the number of childcare centres that have withdrawn from the core funding scheme since it was established,...
    • Departmental Funding
      954. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on whether the existing core funding model is fit-for-purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38889/26]
    • Childcare Services
      958. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current part-time, sessional, or school-age childcare providers and full-day childcare, both community and private, in Dublin,...
    • Children in Care
      959. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if Tusla has considered establishing a national reporting framework for permanency pathways for children in care; and if so, the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      963. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a national audit or review has been undertaken since 2020 regarding permanency planning outcomes for children in care. [39094/26]
    • Children in Care
      964. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in long-term foster care without an application for guardianship, adoption or reunification...
    • Family Reunification
      968. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average duration of time children remain in State care before achieving reunification, adoption, or guardianship. [39109/26]
    • Children in Care
      969. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla maintains national data on delayed permanency decisions arising from court delays, foster care shortages, lack of...
    • Departmental Reviews
      971. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has conducted any internal review into the long-term outcomes of children remaining in State care for extended...
    • Women's Health
      978. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider introducing statutory leave entitlements for individuals undergoing IVF or other fertility treatments, given...
    • Children in Care
      979. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children who entered State care in each of the past five years and who were classified as homeless, in emergency...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      981. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of cases in which homelessness, insecure housing, overcrowding, or residence in emergency accommodation was identified as...
    • Children in Care
      982. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently in State care whose families are recorded as homeless or residing in emergency accommodation; and...
    • Disability Services
      984. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of physiotherapy posts currently vacant in CDNT 9; the waiting times for children requiring physiotherapy in CDNT 9; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      986. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies across CDNTs nationally, broken down by discipline; the number of vacancies in CHO 2 / HSE West; and the...
    • Child Protection
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the verification procedures undertaken when an unaccompanied minor communicates an intention to leave the State to join family...
    • Child and Family Agency
      988. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if Tusla independently verifies the identity and location of such family members before the child is considered to have left...
    • Child Safety
      989. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cross-border safeguarding mechanisms that are activated when a child in State care is reported missing and believed to have...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      990. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children who went missing from SCSIP care prior to receiving an initial trafficking risk assessment in each of the...
    • Child Safety
      992. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if an exit or pre-departure safeguarding check is conducted where a child indicates an intention to leave the State. [39583/26]
    • Missing Children
      993. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of reports made to the missing children forum regarding suspected trafficking since its establishment. [39584/26]
    • Childcare Services
      994. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address concerns that many experienced childminders may leave the sector due to the requirement from September 2027, for...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      995. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has carried out any assessment of the financial sustainability of small and sessional early years providers,...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1000. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has issued any formal governance expectations, oversight directives, reporting requirements or policy...
    • Childcare Services
      1005. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether a standardised national reporting framework now exists for expenditure on private residential childcare placements. [39856/26]
    • Child and Family Agency
      1006. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has identified risks arising from inconsistent historical expenditure categorisation relating to private residential...
    • Disability Services
      1007. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any formal national workforce-risk threshold exists concerning vacancy levels within Children's Disability Network Teams....
    • Child Protection
      1010. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has received all outstanding reports from the previous special rapporteur on child protection; when these reports will be...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1011. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla records expenditure on private residential childcare placements on a provider-by-provider basis internally,...
    • Childcare Services
      1012. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she will provide the ten private residential childcare placement providers that received the highest level of Tusla...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total amount spent by Tusla on private residential childcare placements in each of the past ten years. [39864/26]
    • Childcare Services
      1018. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has identified any risks associated with market concentration or dependency on a small number of private residential...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1019. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla publishes or intends to publish a central register of private residential childcare providers receiving public...
    • Disability Services
      1020. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Tipperary waiting for assessment of need, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy,...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1021. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions her Department is taking to address significant delays in the assessment of needs process (details supplied); the...
    • Disability Services
      1022. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the equine therapy facilities that will be developed at the HSE’s Toghermore campus in Tuam, County...
    • Childcare Services
      1023. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to childcare capacity shortages in Causeway, County Kerry; the measures being taken to increase...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1026. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a child (details supplied) can have an extra year on the ECCE programme before starting primary school; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      1027. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the progress, the plan and the timescale for reducing costs for childcare for parents; and if she will make a statement...
    • Children in Care
      1028. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether foster carers qualify for the Christmas bonus. [39964/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      1029. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the rationale for funding cuts to the issue of foetal alcohol syndrome this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      1030. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children with disabilities currently awaiting access to respite services in County Cork; the steps being taken to...
    • Disability Issues
      1037. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagements held with the Minister for Transport to improve accessibility on public transport; to report on the dates on which...
    • Disability Services
      1040. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Department receives routine reports on Children’s Disability Network Team vacancy duration, staffing deficits,...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1042. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if urgent intervention will be provided in the case of a child (details supplied) currently awaiting assessment through a...
    • Childcare Services
      1043. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare providers that are part of the core funding scheme, broken down by local authority area; and if she will...
    • Disability Services
      1049. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the location at which a company (details supplied) in collaboration with HSE South-West, established an adult respite house; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1056. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently no occupational therapist covering adult disability services in...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1057. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla disaggregates re referral data to distinguish between new concerns and repeat or unresolved child protection risks;...
    • Health Services
      1065. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of respite hours provided to families in County Donegal in each of the years of 2024 and 2025; the planned level of...
    • Departmental Policies
      1066. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration has been given to the development of accessibility guidance or universal design standards for reverse vending...
    • Disability Services
      1067. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will seek an earlier implementation of the new EU disability card, to ensure those unable to access a blue disability...
    • Childcare Services
      1069. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of the childminding registration system; the number of childminders registered to date nationally and in County Clare;...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1070. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Tusla staff who have left their positions; and the number of Tusla staff currently out on sick leave to date in 2026,...
    • Departmental Staff
      1071. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason the chief social worker role within her Department no longer exists; if she will consider restoring this role given the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1072. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of social workers, social care workers employed by Tusla in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and...
    • Child Protection
      1073. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of children to date in 2026 who have been allocated to a professional who is not a social worker, in tabular form....
    • Care Services
      1074. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people who have commenced the special care training programme, the number of these who have completed the three...
    • Child Safety
      1078. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider a unit in between residential care and special care to support children and young people as previously...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1079. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number who have applied for the rolling recruitment campaign for social care workers within Tusla; and the number of these...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1080. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will seek the powers of HIQA be extended to regulate and inspect private residential childcare services. [40241/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1081. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently living in residential care in HIQA-designated disability centres; the age profile of these...
    • Departmental Policies
      1085. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason children are being placed in residential care in HIQA-designated disability centres, including family crisis, absence of...
    • Childcare Services
      1086. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Question No. 927 of 19 May 2026, if any assistance is available to the parent of the vulnerable child (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1087. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality ​the position regarding the national childcare scheme (NCS), in particular on circumstances arising in a situation (details...
    • Departmental Data
      1088. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of eight-week underattendance notifications Pobal has issued since the national childcare scheme commenced, by programme...
    • Teacher Training
      1090. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measure currently in place to provide training for primary and post-primary teachers in the management of epilepsy in students;...
    • Departmental Data
      1091. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of adults with disabilities within the catchments of the Dublin south-east and Dublin and north-east health regions...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Service Executive
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE provides funding for wheelchair docking stations and docking pins in adapted vehicles where these are clinically required for safe transport and...
    • Social Workers Register
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social care workers and social workers waiting to register with CORU. [40239/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for surgery in St. Vincent's Hospital; if they are on the routine or urgent waiting...
    • Ambulance Service
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health her position regarding the new national ambulance training college for the southern region; the location of the new site; the timeline for completion; and...
    • Medical Cards
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health if a person will be eligible to receive weight loss injections on the medical card (details supplied) [38707/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a decision by the HSE drugs group regarding the reimbursement of risdiplam for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy; and if she will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to ensure a person (details supplied) can be given an appointment with a neurologist as quickly as possible; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if she will advise on the process for transferring a person from a care home placement in the...
    • Home Care Packages
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); her position regarding the application for a rehabilitation placement at Monaghan Hospital; her...
    • Medicinal Products
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a decision by the HSE drugs group regarding the reimbursement of risdiplam for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy. [38725/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health the budget received by each hospital and community health organisation in 2024 and 2025 for non-emergency patient transport services; the reason that some...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s position on the scientific evidence regarding foetal nociception and sentience from 20 weeks’ gestation; whether clinical...
    • Departmental Data
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish data on born-alive outcomes following termination of pregnancies and the palliative care protocols applied in such cases; and if she will...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health whether she supports the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines on foetal pain management consistent with neonatal care standards; and if she will...
    • Legislative Measures
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health the present position with regard to vaping legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38742/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a decision by the HSE drugs group regarding the reimbursement of risdiplam for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy, given the Rare...
    • Hospital Staff
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE qualified medical dosimetrists posts filled at University Hospital Waterford as of 18 May 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of...
    • Ambulance Service
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for HSE/National Ambulance Service (NAS) apparently not giving employment to the fully qualified and PHECC registered paramedics on NRS panels...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment for neurosurgery can be provided to a person living in County Louth (details supplied). [38798/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of establishing each integrated healthcare area; and the projected annual cost of operating each integrated healthcare area compared to community...
    • Departmental Priorities
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms in place in her Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant specifically responsible...
    • Abortion Services
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health whether any HSE national policy, clinical guideline, serious incident framework, or safety protocol explicitly references signs of life following termination...
    • Health Services Staff
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be an independent assessment within the HSE of the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the division of the HSE or Department of Health that holds responsibility for estimating the number of patients clinically eligible for orphan medicinal...
    • Disease Management
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE maintains a national registry, prevalence estimate or centrally collated dataset for Friedreich's ataxia patients in the State. [38848/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health how reimbursement decisions for high-cost orphan medicines are financially planned where the HSE does not centrally retain data regarding the number of...
    • Ambulance Service
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health whether any patient safety review, adverse incident review, or clinical governance review has examined the impact of prolonged ambulance dispatch or...
    • Health Services
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department maintains a central register identifying all statutory, non-statutory, intermediary-funded, and externally governed bodies receiving funding...
    • Ambulance Service
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health which specific body or office holds ultimate responsibility for approving, setting, reviewing, and enforcing national ambulance dispatch standards in Ireland....
    • Healthcare Policy
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of introducing free MART (ICS-formoterol) inhalers for children aged 12-17 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38931/26]
    • Cancer Services
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is considering funding the use of 'focal therapy' for the treatment of prostate cancer; the timeline for a decision on this; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health if measures have been put in place to prevent persons entering the State who are travelling directly or indirectly from the Congo and other countries impacted...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list numbers for scoliosis treatment and spinal surgery for children in the midlands; the average wait time; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will issue to a person (details supplied) in relation to a matter regarding HSE staff who continue to have health issues post-Covid infection; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health the steps a person (details supplied) can take and the steps she will take to ensure they can access the surgery they require as quickly as possible; and if...
    • Infectious Diseases
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health the specific evidence of Hantavirus risk in Ireland that prompted its addition as a notifiable disease under the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider introducing a single clinically-led prioritisation system for ophthalmology referrals based solely on clinical need irrespective of...
    • Medical Cards
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health when specific medical cards will be issued to those who have applied under the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Act 2025; and if she...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients removed from orthopaedic outpatient waiting lists through administrative validation in 2025, broken down by hospital, waiting-time band...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE records the number of patients awaiting orthopaedic outpatient assessment for knee replacement, who are not yet counted on an inpatient or day-case...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health if the Waiting Time Action Plan 2026 includes specific targets for reducing orthopaedic outpatient waiting times; and if so, to provide those targets by HSE...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health if patients awaiting orthopaedic care receive written confirmation to distinguish that they are on an outpatient assessment list or an inpatient/day-case...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will examine the separate publication of outpatient and inpatient waiting lists, which understate the real waiting time experienced by...
    • Disease Management
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of confirmed lyme disease cases recorded annually in the State from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has assessed the clinical impact of reimbursement delays for patients with progressive neurological conditions where irreversible deterioration may...
    • Medicinal Products
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health the average duration of the pricing and reimbursement process for orphan medicines since 2020, from initial application to final decision. [39071/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE records cases in which a patient’s clinical condition significantly deteriorated while a reimbursement application remained under...
    • Health Services Staff
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, for each HSE hospital, approved mental health centre, CAMHS service, and community healthcare service, the total whole-time equivalent staffing...
    • Mental Health Services
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health whether continuity of clinician care within public mental health services is measured as a service quality or patient safety indicator and, if not, whether...
    • Health Services Staff
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the public-only consultant contract; the number of consultants now signed to the system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39125/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1242. To ask the Minister for Health whether any expenditure threshold exists within the treatment abroad scheme above which additional managerial, financial, legal or executive approval is...
    • Health Services
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health whether any audit, review, or expenditure-control process has examined referral concentration patterns, repeat provider usage, or high-cost treatment...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1258. To ask the Minister for Health whether any internal financial escalation process exists within the HSE or Department of Health for treatment abroad scheme cases exceeding specified...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Comptroller and Auditor General or HSE Internal Audit has issued any findings, recommendations or observations concerning expenditure governance...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has identified any governance, financial-control or accountability risks arising from the absence of publicly available approval thresholds...
    • Health Service Executive
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has established any expenditure cap, annual limit or financial-control mechanism applicable to individual treatment abroad scheme referrals....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health the dates on which the treatment abroad scheme was last audited by the HSE Internal Audit Office and by the Comptroller and Auditor General respectively;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health whether any assessment has been undertaken regarding the appropriateness of relying primarily on referring consultants for overseas treatment selection and...
    • Health Services
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has conducted any assessment of the long-term financial impact of increasing reliance on the treatment abroad scheme for procedures not...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1319. To ask the Minister for Health whether the absence of a national waiting list or central referral pathway for PrEP has been formally identified within the HSE or Department of Health as a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1320. To ask the Minister for Health whether any service-level target exists regarding maximum waiting times for access to public PrEP services; and if so, what compliance levels have been...
    • Health Services
      1325. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE records the number of persons transitioning from post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to PrEP who experience delays in accessing ongoing public...
    • Nursing Education
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health to address issues in relation to student nurses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39284/26]
    • Pharmacy Services
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects to see an on-site pharmacy at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39302/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1332. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen in Southdoc, Blackpool in the first four months of each of the years 2019, 2022 and 2026. [39309/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1333. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 917 of 6 May 2026, the reason individuals (details supplied) in County Sligo who attend day care centres are being...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a capital project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39339/26]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the completion of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39340/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health to give a detailed breakdown of home care waiting lists and waiting times across north Louth CHN; the measures being put in place to address same; and if she...
    • Hospital Staff
      1345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE registrars in rheumatology based at the Mater Hospital as of 18 May 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for cardiology services; the current number of persons on cardiology outpatient waiting lists, by hospital group; and the actions...
    • Health Services Staff
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE adult physiotherapists and adult speech and language therapist posts filled at Donabate health centre as of 18 May 2026, in tabular form....
    • Dental Services
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health , the specific measures being undertaken by HSE to encourage greater participation in the dental treatment scheme in north County Dublin; and the...
    • Health Services
      1352. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical report submitted by a consultant (details supplied) will be urgently reconsidered with a view to approving a patient for CGM via a dexcom...
    • Medicinal Products
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) whose application for approval of a prescribed weight-loss medication under the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1354. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the recruitment campaigns that have been rolled out in 2024, 2025, and 2026, to recruit additional home help carers for the HSE; and if she will...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary question No. 544 of 14 May 2026, if people can access their prescription such as a locker type dispenser that has been placed on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the current panel size of all general practitioners participating in the General Medical Services (GMS) scheme in North County Dublin; and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health the current population figures for persons aged over 70 years and children under eight years in north County Dublin that her Department and the HSE are using...
    • Health Services
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to ensure children with scoliosis or other long-term physical conditions who require ongoing physiotherapy reviews are not left...
    • Primary Care Services
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health the last date on which a full contingency of staff was in place for paediatrics within primary care services in County Laois; the staffing levels in place at...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health whether Action 14 of the HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention, published in September 2022, namely “Explore potential for screening and appropriate...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for a person (details supplied) to gain access to surgery aboard given issues that have been raised; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an adult patient with Type 1 diabetes (details supplied) has been denied access to a critical, life-sustaining insulin pump; if her attention has...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1367. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider adding Crohn's disease to the long-term illness scheme, given the incurable nature of the disease and significant impact on patients'...
    • Health Services
      1368. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports available to patients with inflammatory bowel disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39552/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1369. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the full process and eligibility criteria for patients accessing the Northern Ireland Planned Healthcare Scheme; and to provide the number of...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1371. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the process and eligibility criteria for patients accessing treatment through the National Treatment Purchase Scheme; and to provide the number of...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1373. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether Action 9 of the HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention, published in September 2022, namely "Expand availability of Drug and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1374. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the State of progressing one clinical nurse specialist post to an advanced nurse practitioner post; the average difference in annual...
    • Departmental Data
      1375. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently examine a matter (details supplied;); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39608/26]
    • Prescriptions Charges
      1376. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing all prescription charges under the GMS scheme. [39640/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing reimbursement under the general medical services scheme for sublingual immunotherapy for house dust mite allergy;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved but unfilled posts across the HSE, by grade and health region; the way in which these compare to assessed service demand in each area;...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of delayed discharges recorded in Cork hospitals in the most recent available reporting period and the proportion of those delayed discharges...
    • Health Services Staff
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare assistants and home support workers who left employment in Cork in 2024 and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting assessment, counselling, opioid substitution treatment, adolescent addiction services and dual diagnosis supports...
    • Health Services Staff
      1397. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and dual diagnosis specialists assigned to addiction services operating within HSE South-West,...
    • Health Service Executive
      1398. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has carried out any workforce planning assessment regarding addiction services demand within HSE South-West; and if she will provide details...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for access to addiction counselling services in each HSE substance misuse team operating within HSE South-West. [39693/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains regional service demand projections for addiction services; and if so, whether projected staffing requirements have been identified...
    • Health Services
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE records instances in which persons presenting to addiction services also require mental health intervention for dual diagnosis conditions; and...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health whether any independent review, audit or service evaluation has been carried out into addiction service staffing adequacy within HSE South-West since 2020....
    • Departmental Data
      1404. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department maintains a central register identifying healthcare pathways or services in which no unified national audit system, outcome-monitoring...
    • Departmental Functions
      1406. To ask the Minister for Health whether any formal governance framework exists defining the respective responsibilities of the Department of Health and the HSE in circumstances where...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      1407. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has conducted any review examining the extent to which Parliamentary Questions relating to governance, safeguarding, audit or...
    • Departmental Data
      1408. To ask the Minister for Health whether any healthcare pathways have been identified by the Department or HSE as operating without complete national outcome datasets despite involving...
    • Departmental Functions
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department considers reliance on general HSE governance structures, in the absence of pathway-specific audit systems or national datasets,...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1412. To ask the Minister for Health whether any independent external review has examined the adequacy of national audit and oversight systems across healthcare pathways involving overseas...
    • Departmental Data
      1413. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department has identified any governance risks arising from fragmented or non-interoperable national healthcare datasets across different HSE...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1415. To ask the Minister for Health whether any formal safeguarding review process applies where minors are referred outside the State for healthcare interventions under HSE-funded schemes....
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health whether any national reporting mechanism exists for adverse incidents, safeguarding concerns, regret outcomes or complaints associated with minors referred...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department intends to establish a national classification framework distinguishing medically necessary procedures from elective, quality-of-life,...
    • Medical Cards
      1424. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider extending the medical card scheme to cover autism assessments for adults given the cost of such assessments can be a barrier for adults;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff converted to permanent employment under the July 2025 framework, by Health Region and staff grade. [39785/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health whether any HSE information systems operate with formally defined acceptable error-rate thresholds; and if she will provide details by system category. [39810/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health whether any internal risk assessment, service review, or operational assessment identified the absence of SCAN nurses in the HSE Mid-West as a deficiency,...
    • Health Services
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health whether any business case or service development proposal supporting the Mid-West SCAN expansion will be published. [39827/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE formally reviewed reimbursement, managed access, or pricing decisions relating to omaveloxolone (skyclarys) in France, Germany, Italy, Spain,...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health the specific timeline for the completion of the comprehensive scoping exercise regarding the preferred model for a dedicated Sexual Assault Treatment Unit...
    • Home Care Packages
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Tipperary waiting for home support hours; the number approved but not yet in receipt of hours; the average waiting time; and...
    • Health Promotion
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available through the HSE QUIT smoking cessation service for people seeking to stop using nicotine products; if these supports include smoking...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39966/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39994/26]
    • Care Services
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of respite services available to people resident in County Donegal; the hours the facilities are open; the number of people on waiting...
    • Medicinal Products
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a decision by the HSE drugs group regarding the reimbursement of risdiplam for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA); and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to prevent foetal alcohol syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40045/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations that were scheduled at Beaumont Hospital, the Mater Hospital, St. James's Hospital and CHI but were cancelled in the past five years....
    • Care Services
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting access to home support services in County Cork; the measures being taken to reduce waiting times and increase...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the backlog for patients needing vascular and cardiac procedures; the number of people in the State on such waiting lists; the actions that...
    • Mental Health Services
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health for a detailed update as of May 2026 on a CAMHS assessment for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40116/26]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts her Department or the HSE have made to secure supplies of a Covid-19 vaccine (details supplied); the specific steps taken since 2023 to obtain...
    • Medicinal Products
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a decision regarding the reimbursement of a treatment (details supplied) for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy; and if she will make...
    • Disability Services
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the reduction in funding to an organisation (details supplied); the process by which this funding decision was made; whether an...
    • Health Services
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dietician hours delivered in the community in 2025; the number of patients; the cost of delivering dietician hours in the community in 2025; and...
    • Care Services
      1480. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant home support staff posts in South Tipperary; the measures being taken by the HSE and Government to recruit additional frontline home...
    • Health Services Staff
      1485. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that are currently outstanding with CORU. [40247/26]
    • Care Services
      1487. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social workers who have been registered with CORU in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026. [40249/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health the current processing time for applications to register with CORU for social workers and social care workers. [40251/26]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1490. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to re-introduce the scoliosis screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40261/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1491. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for CAMH, per county. [40263/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider a proposal to allow elderly people who are not entitled to a medical card and who have paid PRSI all their lives be exempt from the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1493. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels across adult mental health services in County Louth, including psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work; the number of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has undertaken to explore the viability of expanding free access to the shingles vaccine to those aged over 65 years-of-age; and if...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department and the HSE are developing a strategic infrastructure programme to plan for replacement and expansion at public radiation oncology services,...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the correspondence (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the current review of the programme in question; if she will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1499. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed new elective hospital in Cork; i the current stage of planning, design and delivery; the expected timeline for construction and...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1500. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement her Department has had with Regional Hospital Mullingar regarding the need for additional parking onsite given the severe shortage for patients...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1501. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting lists for 0-18 primary care speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology in HSE Dublin and south-east...
    • Health Services Staff
      1502. To ask the Minister for Health the approved and filled whole-time-equivalent posts for 0-18 primary care speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently expedite an appointment for surgery on behalf of a person (details supplied). [40348/26]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Grant Payments
      1504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No.1132 of 24 February 2026, to provide further information regarding a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite the Kerry Marine Education and Training Campus to be established in Cahersiveen (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government
      1506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil servant specifically...
    • Third Level Admissions
      1507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places in third-level courses allocated to international students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38973/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); if he can provide any further information on possible assistance; and if he will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the further education, training, life-skills and supported employment pathways that are available for young people with Down syndrome or...
    • Departmental Data
      1511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish nationals, as distinct from EU and non-EU students, currently enrolled in accredited pharmacy programmes across all higher...
    • Technological Universities
      1512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline plans for a college (details supplied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40115/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the part-time counselling and psychotherapy education college courses eligible to apply for the SUSI grant; if none are eligible, the reason...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Irish Language
      1514. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports for families who wish to raise their children as native Irish speakers from birth; and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government
      1515. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure delivery on the commitments in the Programme for Government; the civil...
    • Rural Schemes
      1516. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to supporting a CLÁR application submitted by a community-based emergency response and rescue...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1517. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget allocation for the walks scheme developmental fund in the years 2025 and 2026 in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Schemes
      1518. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocated to projects in County Tipperary under the town and village renewal scheme, the Rural Regeneration and...
    • Irish Language
      1519. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht given the low level of families in the Gaeltacht raising their children in the Irish language, the supports given to families to...

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