Written answers

Tuesday, 7 July 2026

  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Funding
      5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to explain the apparent reluctance to adequately fund the Department of Education and Youth, particularly in view of the...
    • Office of Public Works
      15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the schedule of works for the OPW renovation works at the Round Tower, Kells, County Meath; the estimated cost of this work;...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the new expenditure control process; whether this new process will impact capital expenditure; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Ballinasloe flood relief scheme, including proposed interim flood protection measures for Derrymullen and Sarsfield...
    • Departmental Bodies
      19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on overpayments made by the NSSO to former Government Ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Office of Public Works
      20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on OPW efforts to secure a site for a new Garda Station at Laytown, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update in relation to the Blackpool flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51268/26]
    • Departmental Projects
      23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he has introduced to ensure value for money in respect of public capital projects. [51483/26]
    • Public Transport
      24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to prepare and publish a list of the types of infrastructure which will be designated as critical infrastructure; and if he...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is proposed to intensify the level of co-operation on a cross-Border basis in relation to flooding and draining issues; if there...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which his Department is ensuring that public infrastructure delivery is keeping pace alongside housing delivery in areas of...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department has undertaken, or plans to undertake, an assessment of the cumulative public infrastructure investment...
    • Departmental Projects
      30. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a report on OPW projects in Galway West in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51484/26]
    • Departmental Priorities
      31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to update public procurement rules to promote collective bargaining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51537/26]
    • National Development Plan
      32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 10 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he...
    • Public Sector Reform Review
      35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on reform of the ethics in public office legislation, given that the review of the statutory framework was completed...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the spend in 2025 on leasing buildings by the OPW, the estimated cost in 2026 and whether all of these spaces are fully utilised...
    • An Garda Síochána
      37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the proposed new Garda station at Northern Cross in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51490/26]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Nenagh flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51079/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      39. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the proposed new Garda divisional headquarters at Northern Cross. [51121/26]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      40. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the latest update on the Midleton flood relief scheme; if it is the intention to go for planning in Q4 2026; and if he...
    • Public Parks
      41. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to open Rattoo Round Tower, Ballyduff, during National Heritage Week (15-23 August) and improve public access; and if he will...
    • Public Sector Pay
      42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the Government's position for the forthcoming public sector pay talks. [51002/26]
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      43. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline any deadline provided to Government departments regarding proposals to cut planned spending; and the timeframe in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in relation to the new payment rates...
    • Departmental Projects
      45. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the delivery of the Accelerating Infrastructure Action Plan; the next steps; and if he will make a...
    • Office of Public Works
      46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown, by project, of all capital expenditure under the Office of Public Works in County Cork in each of the...
    • National Development Plan
      47. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome (NSO) 2 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects the rate of expenditure growth to moderate in coming years; if the moderation will be greater on the current or capital...
    • Departmental Reports
      49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a report on the Best Practice KPI Guidance for Regulators of Critical Infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the progress made to date in the implementation of the individual property protection scheme across east Cork;...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Clifden flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51485/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a report on his recent attendance at the National Economic Dialogue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51527/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to confirm the amount the Government has spent on infrastructure projects in Cork in each of the years from 2022 to 2025 and to date in...
    • National Development Plan
      54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date under the National Strategic Outcome (NSO) 9 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has carried out a risk assessment in advance of publishing a tender to establish a new framework agreement (details...
    • Flood Risk Management
      57. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a timeframe for a further update on efforts to end flooding at Lough Funshinagh; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Development Plan
      59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a detailed and specific update on the constraints imposed on implementing the NDP due to grid capacity issues; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      60. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on investment into critical infrastructure in Galway county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51524/26]
    • Flood Risk Management
      61. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on proposed flood prevention measures being implemented in Castlemartyr, Midleton, Mogeely, Killeagh, Rathcormac and...
    • National Development Plan
      64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome (NSO) 8 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress to date in advancing a proposal to have a successor to the Peace Plus Programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Data Centres
      66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to designating any data centres as critical infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51478/26]
    • Flood Risk Management
      67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify whether the Critical Infrastructure Bill 2026 provides for the designation of flood protection infrastructure as...
    • Departmental Data
      69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the work underway to ensure Departments are measured on outcomes delivered for citizens rather than expenditure incurred; and if he will...
    • Pension Provisions
      72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department has undertaken, or plans to undertake, an assessment of the impact of the removal of the supplementary pension...
    • National Development Plan
      73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome (NSO) 7 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Risk Management
      74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a report on the work approved under the minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme in Louth; and if he will...
    • Passport Services
      75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the overall cost of the new passport office in Navigation Square, Albert Quay, Cork City. [51015/26]
    • Departmental Data
      76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures used to assess progress under the “Digital and Innovation at Scale” pillar of the Better Public Services...
    • Departmental Projects
      77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the critical infrastructure projects he is considering to curb budget overruns caused by external market factors; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to ensure that departmental budget requests are based on total spending in the previous year; that any previous budgetary...
    • Departmental Reports
      79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a report on the Benefits Realisation Framework for infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51520/26]
    • National Development Plan
      80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome (NSO) 5 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Risk Management
      81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department’s plans and timelines to develop flood defence embankments on the Lower Shannon River (details supplied); and if he...
    • Heritage Sites
      82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will undertake a feasibility study relating to the exhumation of 'The Invincibles', buried at Kilmainham Gaol; and if he will make...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Policies
      83. To ask the Taoiseach the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025. [50810/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      84. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a date for the meeting he recently committed to with the families and survivors of the Creeslough explosion. [51172/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      85. To ask the Taoiseach if he will establish a working group tasked with reviewing mental health services for people with intellectual disabilities within his Department’s Disability...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      86. To ask the Taoiseach to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme...
    • Departmental Data
      87. To ask the Taoiseach the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project, year and value. [51775/26]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Policies
      90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the main policy achievements of her Department since 22 January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50802/26]
    • Humanitarian Aid
      91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the emergency humanitarian aid including financial assistance, specialised equipment, logistics supports, technical expertise, or personnel,...
    • International Relations
      93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of occasions in 2025 and to date in 2026 where the Irish ambassador based in Indonesia has met formally with the Indonesian...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has considered reports by international organisations raising concerns about living conditions and fundamental rights in the Tindouf...
    • International Relations
      98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department will, as Belgium has, cease offering local consular services to dual-citizens illegally occupying land in the Occupied...
    • Immigration Support Services
      99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the assistance her Department is providing to the family of a detained Ukrainian national (details supplied); the efforts...
    • International Relations
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to the continued refusal by the Algerian authorities to permit a comprehensive census and formal...
    • EU Presidency
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total cost incurred in the design, development and production of the logo for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European...
    • Passport Services
      107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an online passport application for a person (details supplied) living in the North that was submitted on 19 April 2026 will issue on time...
    • Departmental Reviews
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will expedite the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide the web link to her Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will raise EU coordination of humanitarian assistance to Sudan in the context of the relevant Council meetings as part of Ireland's...
    • Departmental Data
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on efforts to reach a target of 0.7% of gross national income in overseas development aid; when her Department hopes to...
    • International Relations
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of occasions in 2025 and to-date in 2026 where the Irish Consulate General based in Sydney has met formally with the Chief of New...
    • Departmental Data
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the implementation of EU sanctions against the Russian shadow fleet. [51747/26]
    • United Nations
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the omission of persons with disabilities from the draft United Nations Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity; if she...
    • International Programmes
      124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union will be proposing Irish civil servants to participate in the Autumn 2026...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Energy Conservation
      125. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the financial supports that are available for the replacement of solid fuel stoves; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      126. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the Taoiseach’s statement in Dáil Éireann on 10 June 2026 that cigarette butts outside State...
    • Fisheries Protection
      128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 3 March 2026, the weight he places on the salmon catch data from angling...
    • Energy Policy
      130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of providing a €500 energy credit to each private household; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Waste Management
      132. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to publish the year-long study sent to him regarding the feasibility of transitioning the waste collection...
    • Departmental Reports
      133. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over...
    • Legislative Programme
      134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the transposition of Article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791 will occur within the Summer Legislative...
    • EU Directives
      136. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the result of the letter of formal notice sent by the European Commission on 21 November 2025 in relation to the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to Ireland’s co-hosting of the Second Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, if his...
    • Departmental Websites
      140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that litter.ie, is no longer operational and that the domain is currently offered for sale by a third...
    • Fisheries Protection
      141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the appropriate assessment screening produced by his Departmental officials for the Pollack Fishing...
    • Departmental Contracts
      145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department,...
    • Building Energy Rating
      148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for requiring a new building energy rating assessment where a homeowner applies for a second grant under the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Corps
      150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the names of specialist military courses that Air Corps personnel went to Canada given those specialist military courses are not available...
    • Departmental Policies
      151. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the main policy achievements of her Department since 22 January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50798/26]
    • Departmental Data
      152. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to advise on a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50897/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide the web link to her Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across her Department, by project, year and...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • National Car Test
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of the average wait times for NCT tests by NCT test location; if he will provide statistical data in...
    • Bus Éireann
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time heavy vehicle mechanics employed by Bus Éireann as of 29 June 2026; if he will provide the corresponding...
    • Departmental Policies
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50811/26]
    • Bus Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the NTA has engaged with a company (details supplied) regarding bus infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to sustainability hubs, broken down by cap ex and op ex funding in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form....
    • Electric Vehicles
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide information in relation to EV grants (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form.; and if he...
    • Public Transport
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proportion of the public transport fleet that is wheelchair accessible broken down by service; to provide a breakdown of all the...
    • Departmental Funding
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the connecting Ireland rural mobility plan; to provide a detailed breakdown of all associated costs broken down by...
    • Public Transport
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projected cost of providing all settlements with a population over 300 with at least three return services per day 7 days-a-week...
    • Electric Vehicles
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocation to local authorities to install on street EV charging infrastructure in each of the years 2020 to date. [50841/26]
    • Rail Network
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full and first year cost of establishing a trolley service on trains on Ireland's rail network; his plans to establish a trolley...
    • Public Transport
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update of the stages of the Connecting Ireland rural bus scheme; the number of routes that have been rolled out and which...
    • Departmental Data
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will provide a response to the queries raised therein; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to continue the EV grants into 2027, as this is a matter of some concern and interest to the Irish Motor Industry; and if...
    • Taxi Regulations
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns that blind and visually impaired taxi users may incur higher fares where drivers rely solely...
    • Rail Network
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he has been informed by the National Transport Authority that the Metrolink project may be opened in phases; whether he has been...
    • Departmental Data
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts being made to increase enforcement against dangerous driving of scramblers and of the prohibition of scrambler use in public...
    • Bus Services
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions in each of the past five years in which a bus service was cancelled or curtailed due to an on-board software...
    • Public Transport
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions his Department is taking to expedite the national roll out of contactless payment systems on public transport, in particular...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the toll revenue collected by Transport Infrastructure Ireland from the M50 in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form. [51007/26]
    • Public Transport
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that there is currently no local link or public transport service operating between Taughmaconnell, County Roscommon and...
    • Road Projects
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the upgrade of the N59 between Oughterard and Bunakill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51068/26]
    • Rail Network
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has full and final costings on the redevelopment of Ceannt Station Galway; the difference between the agreed contracted...
    • Tax Code
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person is expected to pay such high road tax for a car with low emissions (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered extending the young adult travel card to categories (details supplied) [51111/26]
    • Electric Vehicles
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of grants provided for EV grants, broken down by local authority in each of the years 2020 to date; the breakdown of the total...
    • Public Service Obligation
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to eliminate all fares across all PSO service for under 18s, broken down by service type, in tabular form. [51114/26]
    • Active Travel
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department will review the eligibility criteria under the active travel programme to ensure that smaller rural towns and...
    • Public Transport
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has plans at present to legislate for a universal payment system for public electric vehicle charging points, or to...
    • Departmental Functions
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify in the context of Circular 14/2021 the role of the Project Management Office in his Department; and if he will clarify...
    • Departmental Data
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in respect of IT projects (details supplied) to include delivering and or development third party; the...
    • Disability Issues
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated total cost of abolishing fees for disabled persons’ parking cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated average cost of a new double-deck battery-powered electric bus; the estimated cost of conversion of urban buses to...
    • Road Tolls
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of abolishing the M50 toll; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51342/26]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of abolishing parking charges at park and ride facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) was denied a driving test; if he will confirm the insurance documentation that is acceptable to a...
    • Departmental Reports
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with...
    • Transport Costs
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will acknowledge the significant financial difficulties faced by many pensioners who rely on older vehicles due to the lack of...
    • Driver Test
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average wait time in each of the past 24 months in the RSA Tallaght driving test centre, in tabular form; the steps he is taking to...
    • Road Network
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase funding allocated to local authorities for community involvement schemes, given their important role in maintaining...
    • Bus Services
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider running a pilot late-night bus service on the 350 and 351 bus routes to cater for passengers who attend festivals and...
    • Rail Network
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the departure of the Galway to Ennis train at 17.52 has been delayed every working day for the past four weeks due to the...
    • Road Projects
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the development of the M20 Cork-Limerick Motorway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51700/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated costs in 2027 of doubling the number of personnel working within the air accident investigation unit and railway accident...
    • Departmental Schemes
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of grants for accessible vehicles available from the NTA that have been approved in a county in each of the past three years;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project, year...
    • Rail Network
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 174 and 175 of 30 June 2026, if he will confirm whether the emerging preferred route study for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the payment to road hauliers who have submitted applications and all supporting documentation required for the road transport...
    • Bus Services
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that guaranteed funding was not put in place to allow the introduction into service of the announced BusConnects routes in...
    • Transport Policy
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on efforts to support the shared mobility sector in Ireland and to incentivise commuter take-up of shared mobility...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Strategies
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he is taking, or plans to take, to reduce the estimated annual economic cost of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, FASD, to the State, which has...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners have not responded to a request for a tax clearance certificate for a deceased person (details supplied) to allow their...
    • Ministerial Communications
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance when he last spoke formally with the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. [50792/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50801/26]
    • Business Supports
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the measures in place or planned to support businesses in rural communities to remain viable. [50884/26]
    • Tax Code
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year yield if the residential zoned land tax increased to 7%, if the land's annual value is based on 2025 figures. [50946/26]
    • Cost of Living Issues
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals under consideration to alleviate the rising cost of living in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50969/26]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual loss to the Exchequer arising from VAT fraud, including missing trader intra-community fraud and carousel fraud, in each of the years...
    • State Assets
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies listed on the United Nations database of business enterprises operating in the occupied Palestinian territory in which the State holds...
    • Tax Code
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance the formula used for calculating the flat rate of tax for farmers; and the reason the flat rate changes from year to year while the livestock rate remains the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance to give urgent consideration to an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51179/26]
    • Tax Credits
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance the total annual cost to the Exchequer of the rental tax credit in 2024 and 2025; the projected cost in 2026; the number of people claiming rent tax credit in...
    • Tax Code
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of abolishing USC for all earners and replacing it with a higher income social charge of 10% on all earnings over €100,000...
    • Tax Credits
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated total cost of a refundable tax credit to those on low and irregular incomes who do not fully utilise all of their existing credits; and if he...
    • Tax Yield
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated total revenue from raising the effective corporate tax rate to 20% for companies with revenue above €750 million; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of jet fuel VAT and excise exemptions in 2024 and 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51306/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the Web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model...
    • Tax Reliefs
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the current capital gains tax annual exemption threshold of €1,250, having regard to the fact that it has remained unchanged for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project, year and value; and if he...
    • Tax Reliefs
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department, or the Revenue Commissioners, have examined the feasibility of assessing the returns of form IU(3E) as a means of better calculating the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Policies
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50807/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of the purchase order systems used across Departments, agencies and other public...
    • Public Sector Pay
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker earning under €100 thousand receives a pay increase of...
    • State Pensions
      281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will look favourably on an appeal submitted by a person (details supplied); to provide an update on the status of the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether, pending completion of the statutory review of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (as amended), his Department has assessed...
    • An Garda Síochána
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the timelines and funding for the delivery of the proposed new Garda station in Sligo; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reports
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line...
    • Departmental Data
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform having regard to the definition of “machine-readable format” in S.I. No. 376/2021 and to Government Open Data Policy, to...
    • Departmental Staff
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE operations and event executive personnel employed by OPW as of 26 June 2026, in tabular form. [51710/26]
    • Office of Public Works
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the nature of refurbishment works that the OPW carried out at Ennis Friary in 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [51711/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project,...
    • Departmental Data
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the list of cases in which he has rejected increases proposed by line departments for chief executives in commercial State...
    • State Pensions
      293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the rules regarding the single pension scheme; the reason researchers in technological universities are prevented from...
    • Legislative Programme
      294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Government have yet to designate any project as critical as per the terms of the Critical Infrastructure Act 2026; and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Government will designate phase 1 of the University Hospital Galway redevelopment as critical as per the terms of the Critical...
    • Seirbhísí agus Tacaíochtaí Gaeilge
      296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cén méid a caitheadh ar chúrsaí Gaeilge do státseirbhísigh chuile bhliain le cúig bliana anuas,...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Policies
      297. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50800/26]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      298. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of IDA sites, by county; the number of sites that are vacant; and the average vacancy rate of sites in the last five...
    • Enterprise Policy
      299. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work his Department has carried out to investigate the reason many rural pubs are closing their doors; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      300. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which recent developments in Ireland’s external trade performance, including the decline in exports in April...
    • Trade Unions
      301. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to intervene with an organisation (details supplied) with a view to the company accepting and implementing the recommendations that...
    • Workplace Absenteeism
      302. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the high levels of absenteeism being faced by employers when it comes to employees submitting online medical...
    • Employment Rights
      303. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his advice to employers when medical certs being issued to employers are doing so without sufficient clinical assessment and in...
    • Construction Industry
      304. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons employed in Ireland in high tech construction; the way in which that sector is defined; and the contribution...
    • Enterprise Policy
      305. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports in place to assist Irish businesses in using quantum computing to address enterprise opportunities and challenges; and...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      306. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the range of supports available to SMEs to make greater use of green technology. [51185/26]
    • Media Sector
      307. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a full list of all ‘trusted flagger’ under the digital services act with Coimisiún na Meán; and...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      308. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the policy objective and any evidence that it represents good value for public money to award a 1% discount on Microfinance Ireland...
    • Work Permits
      311. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on an employment permit for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51460/26]
    • Freedom of Information
      313. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      314. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is concerned by reports that 22% of pubs reduced staffing levels during the past 12 months due to cost pressures; and if he...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      315. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the details of presentations or written submissions provided by companies (details supplied) to him or his departmental...
    • Energy Conservation
      316. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the attendees, agendas, and scheduled meeting date of the “Annual Data Centre Sector Roundtable”, which was...
    • Trade Relations
      317. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific steps his Department is taking to address the distinct competitiveness risks posed by global shifts such as the US...
    • Legislative Process
      318. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the commitment to progress the General Scheme of the Co-Operative Societies Bill 2022; when he expects this bill to...
    • Enterprise Policy
      319. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project,...
    • Economic Data
      322. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has conducted an economic assessment of the value and contribution of digital advertising, including personalised...
    • Enterprise Policy
      323. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has conducted an assessment of the costs facing Irish SMEs in complying with digital regulation. [51839/26]
    • Job Losses
      324. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received a notification from a company of their intention to contemplate collective redundancies at the firm’s...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      325. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a company (details supplied) has received any form of grant aid or support from Enterprise Ireland or IDA since 2020; the nature...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Health Services Staff
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE psychologists employed by national educational psychological services as of 29 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures...
    • Departmental Data
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the main policy achievements of her Department since 22 January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50799/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a visually impaired child in a school (details supplied) who was not sanctioned an SNA and therefore cannot...
    • Disability Services
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to ensure full wheelchair accessibility in all primary and post-primary schools; the number of schools not fully compliant...
    • School Admissions
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure a student (details supplied) will get a place in an appropriate school in the local area by September 2026. [50862/26]
    • School Facilities
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the next steps she will take for the schools cluster programme; the implications for class sizes especially in rural schools; and if her...
    • School Enrolments
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of small rural schools in each county over each of the past twenty years; the annual enrolment in each school in the same time period;...
    • School Accommodation
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied) for additional school accommodation in a primary school; when a decision is expected; and if the...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on an appeals process (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50905/26]
    • School Facilities
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any potential plans for new schools in the Kellystown area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50906/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive permission to go to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50917/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that has been provided for the incredible edible programme annually since it launched, in tabular form. [50986/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average length of time that it takes for her Department’s buildings section to complete the assessment of a Stage 2B report; and if...
    • Departmental Meetings
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nature of the stakeholder consultation to commence in June 2026 to identify further tranches of school capital projects to proceed to tender...
    • Youth Services
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the sources of funding available within her Department from which organisations can seek funding to develop youth centres; the level of funding...
    • Special Educational Needs
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and percentage of special needs assistants currently employed who hold qualifications at Levels 6, 7, 8 and postgraduate level,...
    • Departmental Circulars
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards that will be put in place to ensure the revised SNA circular is implemented consistently across all schools and that SNAs are not...
    • School Funding
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that the climate action summer works scheme will continue to operate for primary schools; the current timeline for the announcement of...
    • Schools Administration
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that parental choice, and equality of access, informs the demographic demand analysis carried out on school planning areas. [51139/26]
    • Irish Language
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the method by which demand for the establishment of Gaelcholáistí is monitored and assessed; and the way this information is considered...
    • Special Educational Needs
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that 14 children have been left without a place in the reading class attached to a school in Renmore, County Galway, which is the...
    • School Admissions
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department requested a school (details supplied) to accommodate an additional junior infant class for the 2026-2027 school year; if...
    • Island Communities
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to grant island status to a school (details supplied). [50489/26]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her plans to increase the numbers of early intervention classes nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to ensure that sufficient autism class places are available in the local area of a school (details supplied);...
    • Schools Building Projects
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding funding for the completion of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost in 2024 and 2025 of capital spending to build and renovate schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51314/26]
    • Capitation Grants
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of capitation grant for primary and post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51344/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of increasing the number of special needs assistants by 1,500, 2,000, and 2,500 respectively, in tabular form; and...
    • School Costs
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of making primary- and post-primary education totally free, such as abolishing all charges (including voluntary...
    • School Transport
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer to provide free school transport to all primary and post-primary school students in 2026; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the new school build for a school (details supplied); if the project will commence before planning runs out in September;...
    • Pension Provisions
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of concerns that retired teachers who pay class A PRSI and are permitted to work up to 50-days without pension abatement are...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) received a DEIS Urban Band 2 designation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51399/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether funding has been provided to a school project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51406/26]
    • School Transport
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a student (details supplied) who has been refused school transport for the 2026-2027 school year; if consideration...
    • School Costs
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the correspondence (details supplied); the policy position regarding the requirement for secondary school students to purchase...
    • Departmental Reports
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the web link to her Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI...
    • Special Educational Needs
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the request to open two additional autism classes from a school (details supplied); if her Department accepts that there...
    • School Transport
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a query regarding the provision of a school transport bus route (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Staff
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional teaching resources which are targeted to be put in place for primary schools during the 2026-2027 term; and if she will confirm if...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for incremental credit relating to post-primary teaching services in private international schools outside the EU that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51689/26]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider an emergency works scheme application by a school (details supplied) to repair hazardous and unsafe flooring and carpeting which is...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next review of the DEIS school programme will take place given that it has been four years since the last extension of the programme...
    • Departmental Surveys
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and location of schools that have to date requested to be included in the first group of schools to action the Primary School Survey...
    • Education Policy
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering designating special schools as a specific sector, to account for the highly varied age groups contained therein;...
    • School Costs
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s position on the mandatory purchase and use of laptops by students at post primary level; if she is aware that schools...
    • Departmental Funding
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports in place to meet the cost of purchasing mandatory laptops for students at post primary level; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school's building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51731/26]
    • Departmental Contracts
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across her Department, by project, year and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has ordered a blanket pause on processing transport applications for special needs applicants. [51832/26]
    • School Admissions
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a child (details supplied) who has yet to receive a school place for the upcoming 2026/2027 school year; if her Department...
    • Schools Building Projects
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the building works at a school (details supplied); whether a new contractor has now been appointed to recommence...
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Departmental Programmes
      408. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50797/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      409. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when the 2% pension rise will be signed off for An Post pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51074/26]
    • Departmental Data
      412. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of TV licences that were purchased, per month, from January 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      417. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the total cost required to fund all accepted applicants and all unapproved valid submissions for all rounds of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      418. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over...
    • Departmental Funding
      419. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an update on his plans to support the night-time economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51597/26]
    • Departmental Contracts
      420. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by...
    • Departmental Bodies
      423. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of anti-doping rule violations recorded under the Sport Ireland Anti-Doping Programme, broken down by sport, in...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Schemes
      424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the extension to the fuel subsidy support scheme will open to the construction sector; and the Department that will be...
    • Housing Provision
      425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the priority the Government is giving to the delivery of affordable housing throughout County Kerry for working individuals...
    • Fire Service
      426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider raising the retirement age beyond 62 to 66 for a retained or a full-time fire fighter (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Policies
      427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50805/26]
    • Departmental Data
      428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria for a settlement to attain village status; and the number of such applications that have been made, by county, in...
    • Planning Issues
      429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way spatial planning policy is assisting or seeking to assist in the preservation and proliferation of public services in...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has reviewed the current criteria around the T-test (subsurface percolation test), which assesses subsoil...
    • Housing Schemes
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to allow for the replacement of old or defective double-glazed windows under the housing grant scheme, with new double-glazed...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider publishing a partial SAC management plan to cover salmon restoration actions for this environmental...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE biodiversity data specialists employed by National Parks and Wildlife Service as of 29 June 2026, in tabular...
    • Housing Schemes
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the date on which the vacant above the shop grant scheme became operational; the date on which applications first...
    • Rental Sector
      444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51006/26]
    • Property Management Companies
      445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the proposed transfer of responsibility for the regulation of owners' management companies and apartment...
    • Departmental Schemes
      447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are available from the Government and State agencies for old age pensioners in vulnerable positions whose...
    • Water Quality
      448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of projects approved from the €650 million allocated to his Department to support...
    • Electric Vehicles
      449. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns that local authority planning policies relating to residential driveways and the...
    • Housing Policy
      450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, as part of the new national planning statement, he will review or amend the provisions of the national roads guidelines...
    • Departmental Reviews
      451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct his Department to publish the 2017 review into Donegal County Council planning matters by a person (details...
    • Rental Sector
      454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the proposed rent increases for residents of a facility (details supplied), whereby monthly rents are...
    • Housing Provision
      455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has received any reports regarding governance or financial concerns relating to a facility (details...
    • Rental Sector
      456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he will consider introducing additional statutory protections for older persons living in approved housing body...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he intends to undertake a review of the approved housing body sector to examine governance, financial sustainability,...
    • Housing Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual cost of the housing assistance payment in 2024, 2025, and projected cost in 2026; and the number of tenancies in...
    • Defective Building Materials
      462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual cost of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme, the pyrite remediation scheme, and the interim remediation...
    • Housing Provision
      463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that was spent by local authorities on social housing maintenance in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025; the...
    • Derelict Sites
      464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average market price of a derelict property in 2024, 2025; the estimated price for 2026; the number of properties that...
    • Housing Provision
      465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year spend on retrofitting of housing by local authorities; the total number of units retrofitted in 2024,...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      468. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full-year cost of funding National Parks and Wildlife Services in 2024, 2025; the estimated cost in 2026; and if...
    • Arts Policy
      469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider adding public art as planning exempt under the revisions of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001...
    • Defective Building Materials
      470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposed social housing defective concrete blocks remediation scheme; if approved housing body-owned or...
    • Housing Provision
      471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost (both CREL and all-in cost) of the delivery of a cost rental home in 2025. [51389/26]
    • Development Contributions
      476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total cost to the development levy waiver and water utility connection for each year the waiver has been in operation, the...
    • Housing Provision
      477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new social housing leases entered into in 2025; the average cost per year arising from these leases; the...
    • Legislative Programme
      478. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce legislation on a directly elected mayor for Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Projects
      479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which the preliminary business case for the Cork Event Centre, submitted by Cork City Council in December 2025,...
    • Housing Policy
      483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amendments to apartment design guidelines to protect inhabitants from the adverse health consequences of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000,...
    • Housing Provision
      485. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that existing small landlords are excluded from the new RAS scheme launched recently; the rationale behind this;...
    • Housing Policy
      486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to make it a legal requirement for title documentations including historic Tailte Éireann instruments,...
    • Local Authorities
      487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full funding provided to each local authority under the local government fund including whether the local authority was a...
    • Local Area Plans
      488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has considered the provision of a specific funding allocation to Galway City and County Council to fund...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce a mink eradication programme in the Lough Derg area, similar to the initiative established in the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm if ranched Atlantic salmon will be added to the Third Schedule, Part 2A of the European Communities (Birds...
    • Commercial Rates
      494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify whether Men's and Women's Sheds as charitable organisations are exempt from commercial rates. [51746/26]
    • Departmental Contracts
      496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are instances in which a person who availed of the back to work enterprise allowance for an upcycle business, but...
    • Departmental Policies
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50809/26]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a former Dublin Airport Authority employee (details supplied) has to wait two years for dental and optical...
    • Special Educational Needs
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department has given consideration to lowering the age of eligibility for free travel passes for SEN students...
    • Disability Issues
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people engaged with the cost of disability consultation via the telephone service where an individual with...
    • Departmental Schemes
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will review the eligibility criteria for the additional needs payment scheme to allow assistance to be provided in...
    • Pension Provisions
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Irish citizens that are receiving the State pension (contributory) but are permanently based outside of the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department records the reasons for which exceptional needs payments and other community welfare service grants...
    • Departmental Schemes
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received, the number of appeals submitted, the number of those appeals that were successful, the...
    • Disability Issues
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the €18,000 postgraduate stipend disregard used in disability...
    • Television Licence Fee
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households nationally that have a TV Licence exemption and do not have to purchase one, per month, from January...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all headline weekly social protection payment to €350, €400, and...
    • Pension Provisions
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of lowering the pension age to 65 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51272/26]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing child benefit by 10% and extending payment to all children aged 18 years or under,...
    • School Meals Programme
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all post-primary school pupils in public schools; and if he...
    • Tax Data
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by increasing the 11.05% employers PRSI rate to 13.05% on salaries...
    • Gender Recognition
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for a gender recognition certificate under Section 13 of the Gender Recognition Act 2015;...
    • Disability Issues
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the most recent numbers available for persons in receipt of a disability-contingent payment, both those in work and out of...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy rationale for excluding the self-employed statutory sick PRSI and illness benefit, given that self-employed PRSI...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000,...
    • Pension Provisions
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is an update on a non-contributory pension review on behalf of a constituent (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names of external security companies that provide security personnel to INTREO offices in the year 2025 and to-date in...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider extending the DCA payment to 18 years of age. [51827/26]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • An Garda Síochána
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public order unit vans allocated to each Garda division as of 29 June 2026, in tabular form. [50787/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50806/26]
    • Substance Misuse
      537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who have been charged under the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 for the misuses of...
    • Road Safety
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of motorists caught exceeding the speed limit on a static camera at a location (details supplied) from 27 May 2026...
    • Visa Applications
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50933/26]
    • Citizenship Applications
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a citizenship application by a person (details supplied) has not received a decision, despite initially applying 20...
    • International Protection
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for additional IPAS accommodation centres in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50990/26]
    • Residency Permits
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 497, 498, 499, 500, 536 and 537 of 23 June 2026, if he is aware that many applicants...
    • Legislative Measures
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the general scheme of the European Public Prosecutor's Office Bill; the date on which the general scheme was or...
    • Immigration Status
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants, per county who are awaiting decisions under family reunification and other immigration permission...
    • Work Permits
      554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for renewal of a Stamp 4, spouse of an Irish citizen will issue (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to extend the short stay visa waiver programme to South Africans; how often the list of eligible countries is...
    • International Protection
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applicants in each of the border, accelerated, standard, AMMR and inadmissibility...
    • Departmental Funding
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the National Integration Fund 2026 will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51160/26]
    • International Protection
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he is considering introducing the international protection child payment, outlined in the White Paper to End Direct...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the State is developing post-quantum cryptography in developing Ireland’s cyber resilience. [51188/26]
    • International Protection
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of male international protection applicants who have been left without accommodation on arrival each month from...
    • Further and Higher Education
      563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No’s 328, 330 and 331 of 24 June 2026,, wherein the Minister for Further and Higher...
    • Visa Applications
      565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of a visa situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51231/26]
    • Courts Service
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has collected or analysed data on the reasons for adjournments in District Court criminal legal aid...
    • International Sanctions
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 24 June 2026 and 682 of 16 June 2026, whether other individuals are currently...
    • Departmental Policies
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No’s 320 of 14 November 2023 and 364 of 2 February 2023, whether the policy referred...
    • An Garda Síochána
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vetting applications received regarding social housing applications in 2026; the number of applications yet...
    • Prison Service
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether, in line with the recommendation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to Ireland...
    • Visa Applications
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications currently awaiting decision, broken down by visa category; the average time such applications...
    • An Garda Síochána
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated first and full-year costs of hiring an additional 500, 1,000 and 1,500 Gardaí, in tabular form. [51436/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated first and full-year cost of doubling the funding for youth justice interventions; and if he will make a statement...
    • International Protection
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of staff in the International Protection Office and International Protection Appeals Tribunal; if his...
    • Victim Support Services
      585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the financial supports available to victims of crime and witnesses to cover the costs of travel to court and for accommodation...
    • Departmental Budgets
      586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total funding set aside by his Department to allow for the introduction of the EU Migration and Asylum Pact; and if he will...
    • Visa Applications
      593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on a visa application (details supplied) where an Irish work permit is already granted; and if he...
    • Departmental Budgets
      595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in...
    • Departmental Funding
      596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 591 of 30 June 2026, which did not address the specific matter raised regarding...
    • Departmental Programmes
      597. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to issue a formal letter of confirmation from the International Investment Programme where funding was awarded...
    • Visa Applications
      598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to review a change of visa application and to confirm that the 12-week continuity provision applies to the case (details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 21 May 2026, if he has received the relevant information from Garda authorities to...
    • Legislative Programme
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the proposed General Scheme of Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022; whether the Government intends to progress the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by...
    • International Protection
      606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that there has only been a small increase in the number of persons in direct provision under the responsibility of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether consideration has been given to introducing a streamlined, centralised or transferable Garda vetting system for persons...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total criminal legal aid expenditure in each of the past ten years; the number of practitioners undertaking criminal legal...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Policies
      613. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50794/26]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      614. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received, the number approved/awaiting decision under the latest targeted agricultural modernisation...
    • Beef Sector
      616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Brazilian meat can have a shelf life of six months and its equivalent in Europe cannot have a quarter of that; if there is...
    • Departmental Strategies
      617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the implementation of the National Tillage Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51189/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      618. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full-year cost of paying small farmers with an annual farm income of €20,000 or less a basic income payment of...
    • Beef Sector
      619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the shelf life of imported beef coming from Mercosur countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51555/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if everyone who entered the SIM scheme (details supplied) will be paid in full; to increase the funds for the scheme; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified financial accountants currently working within his Department as of 29 June 2026, in tabular form; and if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      623. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project,...
    • Agriculture Supports
      626. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department carried out any assessment of whether the 2023/2024 potato crop losses met the criteria for support under the...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Disability Services
      628. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); if the referral to disability services will be expedited; the...
    • Departmental Funding
      629. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost in 2027 if an extra 475,000 extra personal assistant hours were provided. [50790/26]
    • Home Help Service
      630. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost in 2027 if an extra 200,000 extra home support hours were provided. [50791/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      631. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the main policy achievements of her Department since 22 January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50795/26]
    • Family Support Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to establish a multi-annual parenting support investment fund, as recommended in the Triple P 2027 Budget Submission, in...
    • Childcare Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures her Department are taking to ensure that no childcare provider will be adversely affected by a possible reduction in...
    • Disability Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the existing staff cohort and existing staff vacancy level at CDNT team 6 central Galway and Galway city east, CDNT team...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      639. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a capacity assessment will be given to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51092/26]
    • Childcare Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the proposed establishment of a dedicated childcare agency; the current status of the proposal; the progress...
    • Child and Family Agency
      642. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of separated children seeking international protection being accommodated by or in the care of Tusla; the number of those...
    • Disability Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the specific steps beyond the commissioning of reports, that her Department and its agencies have taken to identify the number of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      646. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a breakdown of the State's expenditure on the provision of residential accommodation for each of the years 2021 to 2025...
    • Departmental Policies
      647. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the specific criteria and guidelines that are used in the planning and allocation of residential accommodation to adults with...
    • Disability Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential places provided to adults with intellectual disabilities, broken down between planned and unplanned for...
    • Departmental Reviews
      650. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider a review of the enduring power of attorney process to address the reluctance of many legal practitioners to engage with...
    • Childcare Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people working as childminders in Ireland at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51225/26]
    • Health Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on a case of a person (details supplied) who is unable to gain access to scheduled respite care; and the date by which...
    • Childcare Services
      656. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated full-year cost of increasing childcare subsidies to 100% of fees paid by parents availing of childcare subsidies; and...
    • School Meals Programme
      657. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all pre-school children in the ECCE scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total annual cost of wages for childcare workers; the number of childcare workers that are in receipt of Government support; and...
    • EU Funding
      660. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the ESF+ EIST funding scheme under the gender equality stream; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Family Resource Centres
      661. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding is available in her Department to fund the renovation of family resource centres, where a building has been identified to...
    • Departmental Funding
      662. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding is available in her Department to fund furniture, toys and outdoor equipment for early years services who have completed...
    • Childcare Services
      663. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the governance arrangements relating to the board of a childcare committee (details supplied). [51459/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      664. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the web link to her Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line...
    • Disability Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the State-funded GLÓR Speech and Language Therapy Programme is intended to be available to all eligible children and adults...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      668. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has reviewed the enduring power of attorney process to assess how user-friendly it is and identify...
    • Children in Care
      674. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 704 of 30 June 2026, in which her Department confirmed that permanency planning data is...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      675. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 485 and 486 of 28 May 2026, if room closures, rather than the service overall closure has any...
    • Childcare Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether core funding is paid for childcare capacity that is frequently though non-consecutively unavailable due to room closures; if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      678. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total amount paid to date and the total amount committed, to Maynooth University or to individuals in support of the...
    • Childcare Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will confirm whether providers who have left core funding (details supplied) will be penalised; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      680. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across her Department, by project,...
    • Childcare Services
      683. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 28 of 23 June 2026, if she will provide a list of the potential projects and their locations,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      688. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the nature of funding support sought under successful applications under the Sustainability Fund within her Department in each of...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      689. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount set aside for the Sustainability Fund in her Department in each of the years since it was introduced; and the amount paid...
    • Departmental Schemes
      690. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the grounds on which applications for funding under the Sustainability Fund were refused in each application since the fund was...
    • Childcare Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has engaged, or intends to engage, with An Post regarding the future of the former delivery service unit on...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards that exist to prevent vulnerable adults being effectively excluded from routine medical and financial decisions due to overly rigid...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of all CervicalCheck samples that will be now processed in the National Cervical Screening Laboratory; the percentage that will be sent abroad;...
    • Nursing Homes
      700. To ask the Minister for Health to consider introducing measures to assist nursing home residents who need to attend hospital appointments but can only be transported by ambulance due to...
    • Mental Health Services
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding allocated to adult mental health services in County Cavan in each of the past three years; and the extent to which this funding has...
    • Emergency Departments
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulatory assessment spaces currently within the accident and emergency department of Mullingar Regional Hospital. [50785/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE staff by job title posts currently filled at regional endometriosis services at Coombe Hospital, in tabular form. [50782/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the level of investment in mental health infrastructure in County Kilkenny for each of the years from 2023 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [50783/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant haematologists based at St. James's Hospital as of 29 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 1 July 2023, in...
    • Departmental Policies
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the main policy achievements of her Department since 22 January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50804/26]
    • Misuse of Drugs
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take in relation to nitrous oxide following the publication of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drug Use Final Report; her views on the...
    • Home Help Service
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to implement home support approved in November 2025 for an elderly person (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the...
    • Dental Services
      709. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 563 of 7 June 2026, if she will immediately sanction the funding of treatment outside of the State in a case (details...
    • Departmental Data
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries cancelled in Ireland in each of the past ten years; and if a breakdown by hospital can be provided on this figure, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Staff
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency nurses employed to work in HSE hospitals in each of the past ten years, by hospital, in tabular form. [50852/26]
    • Departmental Data
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled hospital appointments in Ireland in each of the past ten years, by hospital breakdown, in tabular form. [50853/26]
    • Abortion Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of adverse incidents reported to the State Claims Agency which related to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in each...
    • Health Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a lack of public dermatology appointments and services available to under-16s; her plans to rectify this issue; and if she...
    • Health Services Staff
      718. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2214 of 9 June 2026, to confirm the number of on-site audits of agency staffing suppliers conducted by the HSE in each of...
    • Health Services
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have availed of cross border directive for treatment abroad in relation to rheumatology services; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if any single national system enables the HSE to identify, across all HSE-funded sites, if a healthcare worker, whether directly employed, agency or locum, who...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      721. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent MRI at University Hospital Limerick will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50921/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied), who is a medical card holder and is pre diabetic, has been refused a drug prescribed by their GP; the financial...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      723. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a timeline to revise the HSE’s IVF public funding scheme, particularly the way the eligibility criteria to avail of the program excludes...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for an operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50937/26]
    • Disability Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review and expand the HSE's rehabilitation aids grant scheme to provide for the funding of specialised vehicle car seats and restraint systems...
    • Hospital Staff
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psycho-oncology posts that have been filled in 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [50947/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      727. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the pain management supports available to them in the...
    • Budget 2027
      728. To ask the Minister for Health to support a Pre-Budget Submission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50956/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the proposed changes to providing supplements that people require for their health without having to take prescribed drugs (details...
    • Health Services
      731. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm, in respect of the treatment abroad scheme, whether the public spending code applies to individual funding decisions and to programme-level...
    • Dental Services
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider reducing the period of time before which medical card holders can get new dentures from five years to three years where a need has been...
    • Medical Cards
      736. To ask the Minister for Health to consider additional information and issue a medical card to a constituent in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service
      737. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 2332 and 2333 of 9 June 2026, whether she is satisfied that the National Ambulance Service maintains no national...
    • Health Strategies
      741. To ask the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1010 of 16 June 2026, to specify each performance indicator currently used to measure the effectiveness of...
    • Healthcare Policy
      742. To ask the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1011 of 16 June 2026, whether a costed implementation plan exists for the national model of care for...
    • Health Strategies
      743. To ask the Minister for Health given that the obesity policy and action plan covers the period 2016 to 2025, the policy or framework that will succeed it from 2026; whether such successor...
    • Medicinal Products
      745. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter regarding prescription medication for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51005/26]
    • Community Development Projects
      747. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a request from a local group (details supplied); if she will outline the consideration that has been given to making vacant HSE properties...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the recommended best practice guidelines for paediatric hearing assessments, including timelines for screening and intervention; and the way in which these are...
    • Health Services
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which paediatric hearing assessments are outsourced, including the number and proportion of cases referred externally; and the total annual cost...
    • Health Services Staff
      751. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2792 of 14 April 2026, the number of instances since July 2025 in which a health region exceeded its agency expenditure...
    • Medicinal Products
      755. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2415 of 9 June 2026, to provide the data on the number of pharmacy reimbursement claims adjusted and the number...
    • Health Service Executive
      760. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1830 of 9 June 2026, which referred to "the ambition of driving towards self-sufficiency in workforce supply," to confirm...
    • Health Services Staff
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of new HSE clinical recruits that were internationally recruited in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by profession, in order...
    • Health Service Executive
      762. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1830 of 9 June 2026, the specific metric by which "self-sufficiency in workforce supply" is defined and measured; the...
    • Medicinal Products
      764. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2415 of 9 June 2026, to now provide those figures for each year, or to confirm that no such data is held by the Health...
    • Mental Health Services
      768. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment will take place with CAMHS for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51075/26]
    • Mental Health Policy
      769. To ask the Minister for Health her plans on establishing an independent inquiry into persons who were wrongly incarcerated and unlawfully detained in psychiatric hospitals; if not, the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      770. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for assessment with a consultant in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. [51108/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      771. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the work her Department is doing to progress the pricing and reimbursement application (details supplied) for welireg (belzutifan); and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if this case can be reviewed with a view to securing an appointment; and if she...
    • Health Services
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the long-term measures her Department are taking to prevent negative impacts from relocation on the health of Palestinian refugees accessing medical treatment...
    • Suicide Prevention
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the actions the Government is taking to prevent online forums or websites that encourage or facilitate suicide from being accessed in Ireland; whether...
    • Health Services
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the public care available to women who wish to have their hormones tested on an asymptomatic basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51178/26]
    • Industrial Disputes
      777. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the ongoing discussions between the HSE and clinical perfusion scientists regarding their pay scale and the measures being...
    • Health Services Staff
      778. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the timeframe for filling the vacant OT position in Conamara; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51191/26]
    • Medical Cards
      779. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the work her Department is undertaking to increase the income threshold for medical card eligibility for persons under 70 years-of-age;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the maternity and infant care scheme; to provide a timeline for the publication of the final report and recommendations following...
    • Health Services
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made by the HSE and the NWIHP to develop and fund evidence-based, equitable tongue-tie assessment and frenotomy services nationally; the plans in...
    • Hospital Facilities
      783. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the ownership and governance arrangements relating to the block of private patient rooms located on the campus of University Hospital...
    • Departmental Data
      784. To ask the Minister for Health further to the HSE’s confirmation that all clinical sites have been required to verify compliance with the public only consultant contract, the number...
    • Hospital Staff
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment that has been carried out of consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist staffing levels and midwifery staffing levels in Irish maternity services...
    • Departmental Data
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the public health system of performing a hip replacement; and if she will provide a detailed breakdown of all associated costs, including but...
    • Medical Cards
      791. To ask the Minister for Health to review the means test thresholds for medical cards for persons aged over 70; if she will consider the introduction of universal medical card eligibility for...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      792. To ask the Minister for Health if she will extend eligibility for national screening programmes, including BreastCheck, BowelScreen and bone density scanning, to persons aged over 70; and if...
    • Vaccination Programme
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider including the shingles vaccine in publicly funded vaccination programmes or under the drug payment scheme; the estimated cost of same; and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      794. To ask the Minister for Health to review the fairness of the drug payment scheme threshold, particularly the application of the same monthly cap to single-person households and to couples or...
    • Medicinal Products
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if she has engaged with the Minister for Finance regarding the application of VAT to certain vaccines and prescribed medical products; if changes are under...
    • Health Strategies
      796. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to strengthen preventative healthcare supports for older people, particularly in rural areas; including supports for physical...
    • Social Isolation
      797. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking, in conjunction with other Departments and agencies, to address loneliness and social isolation among older people; and if...
    • Health Services
      798. To ask the Minister for Health the level of access to primary care services for older people in rural areas; including physiotherapy and community-based supports; and if she will make a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children still waiting on autism assessment of needs; the estimated additional cost to clear assessment of needs waiting lists; and if she will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently on waiting lists for essential care in outpatient, inpatient and day case treatment in public hospitals; the estimated total...
    • Hospital Staff
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing and staffing 1,000 additional acute beds in a public hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51323/26]
    • Hospital Facilities
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing and staffing 100 additional level 3 ICU beds in a public hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of hiring an additional 100 speech and language therapists, 100 psychologists, 100 occupational therapists and 100...
    • General Practitioner Services
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully subsidising all GP care and eliminating primary care fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51328/26]
    • Hospital Charges
      806. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of abolishing emergency department charges for public patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51329/26]
    • Prescriptions Charges
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drug payment scheme threshold to €10 per month; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51330/26]
    • Hospital Charges
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated revenue from all parking charges at public hospitals in 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51332/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of introducing a fully funded universal contraception scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51333/26]
    • Medical Records
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the long delays being experienced by patients seeking to access their medical records given that under the Freedom of Information Act 2014...
    • Food Safety
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the scientific validation undertaken by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in respect of the laboratory methods relied upon for the detection of salmonella...
    • Hospital Staff
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric neurologist posts filled at Cork University Hospital as of 30 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 30...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE addiction counsellors employed by HSE within CHO4 as of 30 June 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of 30 June 2022 in tabular...
    • Health Services Staff
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE staffing, by job title and funding that would be required to fully resource two additional adolescent dual diagnosis teams. [51425/26]
    • Departmental Data
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that presented to the accident and emergency department of Mercy University Hospital for each month of 2025 and to-date in 2026 in...
    • Health Services Staff
      825. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapist posts, by grade that have been filled within Cork Primary care system as of 30 June 2026; if she will provide...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      826. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on current waiting times for ophthalmology services; the current number of persons on ophthalmology outpatient waiting lists by Hospital Group;...
    • Hospital Staff
      827. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget for Cork University Maternity Hospital in 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [51429/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      828. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE staffing, by job title and funding that would be required to fully resource two additional early supported discharge teams in the community. [51430/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE emergency medicine registrars and consultant in emergency medicine posts filled at Mercy University Hospital as of 30 June 2026; and if she...
    • Freedom of Information
      830. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the web link to her Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model...
    • Disability Services
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a child (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Service Executive
      832. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the application which is currently on appeal with the HSE national...
    • Medicinal Products
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the review she intends to take of Ireland's system for approving access and funding for new drugs and medical treatments; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Dental Services
      835. To ask the Minister for Health to make an exception on behalf of a constituent (details supplied) who is in need of a new set of dentures. [51590/26]
    • Hospital Services
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the adequacy of diagnostic equipment in maternity hospitals; and the quality of imaging, in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51598/26]
    • Health Strategies
      837. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure adequate healthcare for persons in disadvantage; and her plans to expand the Inclusion Health programme between the Mater and St....
    • Departmental Correspondence
      838. To ask the Minister for Health if she will assist in scheduling an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51601/26]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      839. To ask the Minister for Health when section 226 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 will be commenced. [51602/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      841. To ask the Minister for Health her views on matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51616/26]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      842. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the steps being taken by her Department to ensure healthcare professionals suffering from long-Covid can qualify for a...
    • Departmental Data
      843. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 995 of 19 May 2026, the number of minors referred from Ireland to NHS children and young person gender services in the...
    • Health Service Executive
      847. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will allocate an appointment urgently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51638/26]
    • Patient Safety
      848. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will introduce a specific field within the National Incident Management System to identify patient safety incidents involving agency, panel, or...
    • Health Service Executive
      849. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to expedite an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [51646/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      850. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for an outpatient orthopaedic appointment for a person (details supplied); and if the case will be reviewed in order to determine if...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      852. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is her intention to commence Section 226 of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; to outline the work conducted by her Department on...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      853. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on a hospital transfer for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51705/26]
    • Hospital Services
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the number of rapid assessment spaces currently available within the Accident and Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric urology registrar posts filled at University Hospital Limerick as of 29 June 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Care Packages
      856. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene with the HSE to urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) in Killarney Community Hospital; if consideration will be given...
    • Medicinal Products
      857. To ask the Minister for Health if a pricing and reimbursement application has been received by the HSE for zolbetuximab (vyloy); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51755/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      859. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across her Department, by project, year and value; and if she...
    • Hospital Staff
      861. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details regarding a review being conducted by the HSE to ensure compliance with the terms of the public only consultant contract (details...
    • Hospital Services
      862. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to carry out a formal review of hospital services across the country with a view to upgrading current level three hospitals to level four status in...
    • Departmental Data
      863. To ask the Minister for Health if a fixed-price contract awarded to a company under contract HSE 24608 relates solely to consultancy, advisory, business case, procurement, programme...
    • Mental Health Services
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a replacement of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, originally expected to be completed in Q1 2025 now has a significantly longer timeline; the way...
    • Departmental Data
      871. To ask the Minister for Health further to the estimate in the National Rare Disease Strategy 2025-2030 that 300,000 people in Ireland live with a rare disease, whether her Department or the...
    • Health Service Executive
      873. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medicines for rare diseases or orphan conditions for which an application for reimbursement has been received by the Health Service Executive in...
    • Dental Services
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure effective and ongoing communication between the Health Service Executive, her Department and the Irish Dental...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      878. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has engaged, or intends to engage, with An Post regarding the future of the former delivery service unit on Griffith Avenue,...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • EU Presidency
      879. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of his Department's role in coordinating Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 July to 31 December 2026, if...
    • Departmental Functions
      880. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50803/26]
    • Education Schemes
      881. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a written report on a scholarship programme, together with an independent auditor’s report, thus ensuring that this report is...
    • Further and Higher Education
      882. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the National College of Ireland achieving full Higher Education Authority designation status. [51020/26]
    • Education Schemes
      883. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from County Cork in receipt of SUSI maintenance grants in the 2025-2026 academic years; the average processing time for...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      884. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship registrations in County Cork in each of the past three years, broken down by apprenticeship programme; the steps...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      885. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of the National Training Fund that is used toward AI upskilling; the plans to further engage in this area; and if he will make a...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      886. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which quantum computing is being integrated into Irish higher education and research; the measures to improve quantum literacy; and...
    • Education Schemes
      887. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of doubling maintenance grants and restoring the grant adjacency rate to 24 km; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Education Costs
      888. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated total student contributions paid by all higher education students in 2024 and 2025; the expected contributions in 2026; and if he...
    • Further and Higher Education
      889. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of ensuring all postgraduate research students receive a full-year €30,000 stipend; and if he will make a...
    • Language Schools
      890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that an English language school (details supplied) has closed down recently; the action that can be taken to prevent these sudden...
    • Education Schemes
      891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an applicant (details supplied) was deemed ineligible for DARE on the basis of not having a diagnosis of dyslexia and therefore, not...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI...
    • Education Schemes
      893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51627/26]
    • Further and Higher Education
      895. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list each funding instrument, PhD programme, fellowship, award, public engagement programme or research infrastructure programme under his...
    • Education and Training Provision
      898. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 2025 and 2026 Capital Budget Allocation for SOLAS, in tabular form. [51712/26]
    • Technological Universities
      899. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he last visited Letterkenny Atlantic Technological University; and the purpose of the visit. [51713/26]
    • Education and Training Boards
      900. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 434 of 19 June 2025, if he will provide an update on the proposed Strategic Infrastructure Upgrade Fund...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      901. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project, year and...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Functions
      904. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the main policy achievements of his Department since 22 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50808/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      905. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available and the supports provided by his Department to ensure that rural villages and communities retain their...
    • Departmental Schemes
      906. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether footpath construction and footpath improvement works are eligible for funding under the CLÁR programme; if he will...
    • Departmental Reports
      909. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide the web link to his Department’s Q2 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      910. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by...
    • Road Network
      913. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to increase funding allocated to local authorities for local improvement schemes, given their important role in...

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