Written answers

Tuesday, 28 July 2026

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • National Security
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Ministerial Council on National Security has met since its establishment; and the arrangements in place for the Council to meet on a regular basis....
    • Cabinet Committees
      2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Children and Education will next meet. [54752/26]
    • Census of Population
      3. To ask the Taoiseach the timeline for the holding of Census 2027; when the preliminary results are due to be published. [54664/26]
    • EU Presidency
      4. To ask the Taoiseach the number of EU Presidency policy and administrative officers now employed on temporary contracts across his Department, in Ireland and abroad; if these individuals can...
    • Climate Action Plan
      5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Climate Action Progress Reports; when the Climate Action Progress reports for Q1 and Q2 in 2026 will be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Employment Data
      7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in each county, broken down by economic sector, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [58877/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      8. To ask the Taoiseach whether his Department intends on launching a smaller Shared Island Fund for minor capital works projects; if a church meets the criteria for repair works (details...
    • Departmental Policies
      9. To ask the Taoiseach the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation in...
    • Departmental Bodies
      10. To ask the Taoiseach the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55589/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      11. To ask the Taoiseach the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training, introductory or advanced use; and to...
    • Central Statistics Office
      12. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office compiles or publishes data on the citizenship or nationality of persons convicted of homicide offences in the State; and if such data is...
    • Climate Change Policy
      14. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 16 July 2026, to report on the work of the “working group to evolve the evidence base on the potential costs of...
    • State Properties
      15. To ask the Taoiseach the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use; the length of time each property...
    • Departmental Bodies
      16. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil proceedings in which the Chief State Solicitor's Office is currently on record, by year of commencement, in tabular form; and the number of such...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      18. To ask the Taoiseach the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in 2025 and to date in 202. [57215/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      19. To ask the Taoiseach the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any bodies under the aegis of his...
    • State Gifts
      20. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary value; and the procedures followed in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      21. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his aegis’ in preparation for...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      22. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; and if AI is ever used in reply to...
    • Taoiseach's Communications
      23. To ask the Taoiseach if he uses personal emails for Government business. [58687/26]
    • Census of Population
      26. To ask the Taoiseach whether consideration is being given, as part of preparations for future census questionnaires, to expanding the information collected in relation to intellectual...
    • Central Statistics Office
      27. To ask the Taoiseach whether the Central Statistics Office has engaged with disability representative organisations, the HSE or relevant Government departments regarding the adequacy of...
    • Departmental Funding
      28. To ask the Taoiseach to outline funding plans for the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Dublin City Taskforce’s report, including budget allocated to this in 2026...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Council of Europe
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of designing, developing and producing the visual identity and logo for Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union...
    • Departmental Policies
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 30 June 2026, if she will make a statement on matters raised. [55440/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to support the Global Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, individually and within the European Union; and if...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59041/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she supports the calls of an organisation for the immediate release of a Palestinian paediatrician (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Third Level Admissions
      37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the diplomatic pathways and evacuation assistance currently available to Palestinian students who have secured academic places in Irish...
    • Departmental Communications
      38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department has been contacted by, or has itself contacted, any companies regarding the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied...
    • Passport Services
      39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on a query regarding a passport application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55050/26]
    • Middle East
      42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update regarding the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2026...
    • Online Safety
      43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to the findings of the EU Commission Report into online safety (details supplied); the actions she will take...
    • Birth Certificates
      45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding an application for a foreign birth certificate (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Passport Services
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether a child born abroad to a parent with a UK passport (details below) that was raised in Ireland qualifies for an Irish passport; and if...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE staff by job title based at the Irish embassies in Canberra, Mexico City, Oslo and Wellington. [55483/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether she has received direct correspondence dated 22 June 2026 and 14 July 2026 relation to an Irish citizen in detention in Germany...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efficiency and reform proposals that her Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service...
    • Departmental Bodies
      50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under her Department, in tabular form. [55581/26]
    • Departmental Meetings
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she met formally with the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince during her recent visit to the Gulf region. [55616/26]
    • Consular Services
      52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount collected in consulate fees from each Irish Embassy in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [55617/26]
    • Human Rights
      53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) and other political prisoners in Moroccan jails; and whether she will...
    • Irish Aid
      54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding that has been allocated by Irish Aid to the provision of anti-retroviral drugs and the prevention of HIV, particularly in the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will consider opening an Irish Embassy in Peru. [55803/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training, introductory...
    • EU Presidency
      57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will actively use the EU Council Presidency to coordinate EU wide action on enforcement of the Paris Protocol, which...
    • Trade Agreements
      58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's trading relationship with Kuwait; and the steps being taken to improve this relationship. [56284/26]
    • Fines Administration
      59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cases in which Ireland has been found by the Court of Justice of the European Union to have failed to comply with European Union law...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons that applied to become Ireland's new Honorary Consul based in North Carolina; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • British-Irish Co-operation
      62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is she aware of the campaign by descendants and relatives of prisoners of war, including Irish men, on the Japanese transit vessel, the Suez...
    • Departmental Staff
      63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE quantity surveyors and senior quantity surveyors that are employed by her Department as of 16 July 2026, in tabular form....
    • Diplomatic Representation
      64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the dates to date in 2026 where the Irish Ambassador based in Athens has met formally with the Mayor Athens, in tabular form. [56583/26]
    • Passport Services
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Passport Office will consider a passport application of a newborn baby who is breastfeeding if an emergency application is submitted...
    • State Properties
      67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use; the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Departments plans to expand Ireland's diplomatic presence across South Africa. [56922/26]
    • Middle East
      69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will include trade in the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2026 as...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the correspondence her Department has issued and / or received from a company (details supplied) regarding the Israeli Settlements in the...
    • Departmental Data
      72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within her Department and in bodies under the aegis of her Department in 2025...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the usage of artificial intelligence within her Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any bodies...
    • Passport Services
      74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will scrap the requirement for a widowed parent to provide a signed affidavit each time they renew a child’s passport, and...
    • Departmental Communications
      75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when she last spoke formally with the Irish Ambassador to Thailand; the topics discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Passport Services
      76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if assistance can be provided for an individual (details supplied) in accessing an appointment with the Ukrainian Embassy regarding passport...
    • Foreign Policy
      77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the State’s position on the sovereignty and status of Western Sahara; the engagements undertaken by the Department with...
    • Passport Services
      79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the documentation and procedures that will apply to Irish intended parents seeking to return to the State with a child born through surrogacy...
    • Northern Ireland
      81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will raise with the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland the need to progress without delay the proposals in the joint...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will raise with the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland the need for the UK Government to respond in a meaningful way to the...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the supports available to assist the Undocumented Irish in the United States who face particular difficulties concerning their status; and if...
    • Foreign Policy
      85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that have been taken by her Department to ensure human rights compliance by Indonesia in respect of West Papua, during negotiations...
    • Middle East
      86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions being taken by her, during Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union, to advance the “two-pronged approach”...
    • EU Presidency
      87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a detailed breakdown of her Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for attendees and...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in her capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary value;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by her Department and all bodies under her...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within her Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is ever used...
    • Ministerial Communications
      91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she uses personal emails for Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58679/26]
    • Departmental Programmes
      94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Affairs the amount of official development assistance allocated to programmes in 2025 and 2026, by country and programme where available; the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and location of Irish embassies, consulates and other diplomatic missions currently in operation; the number of staff employed at...
    • EU Meetings
      99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on her and other departments engagement with the EU and US as regards the possibility of tariffs; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Meetings
      100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on her and other departments engagement with industry and employees in relation to the possibility of tariffs; and if she will...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will provide an update on any recent engagement there has been between her Department and the Palestinian Authority; and if she will...
    • Passport Services
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the current number of passport applications that are in processing, the total number of passports issued to date in 2026; and if...
    • EU Meetings
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will provide an update on any recent engagement her Department has had with the EU regarding Palestine; and if she will make a...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her Department is aware of any plans by the EU to reduce the overseas aid budget; the engagement her Department has had with the EU on...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will detail the recent engagement her Department has had with the EU regarding Russian aggression in Ukraine; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures are...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Marine Protected Areas
      110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the resources being put into the development of legislation for the creation of the Marine Protected Areas (General Scheme...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will examine the proposal from an organisation (details supplied) to expand support for on-farm renewable energy,...
    • Environmental Schemes
      112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports that are available for innovative Irish solutions that encourage reusable packaging, reduce single-use waste,...
    • Legislative Process
      114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will publish the revised Heat (Networks and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024, as announced on 10 July 2026....
    • Litter Pollution
      115. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the sampling, survey and scoring methodologies of the national litter pollution monitoring system have been...
    • Departmental Funding
      117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the funding that has been provided to Wexford County Council in the past five years to implement local...
    • Departmental Budgets
      118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total value of unredeemed deposits retained by Re-turn in each year since the scheme's launch; the mechanism by which...
    • Departmental Staff
      119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total remuneration paid to senior management of Re-turn in each of the past three years; whether the Department has...
    • Environmental Schemes
      120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current status of Re-turn's proposal to allocate €60 million of unredeemed deposits to a plastics recycling...
    • Legislative Measures
      121. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the general scheme of the private wires Bill; when he expects legislation to be...
    • Environmental Policy
      122. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the environmental licensing framework to provide explicit powers to require fly management measures...
    • Environmental Investigations
      123. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if responsibility for investigating serious fly infestations affecting neighbouring households is clearly assigned between...
    • Environmental Policy
      124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will examine the feasibility of introducing a national repair bonus scheme similar to France's bonus...
    • Departmental Communications
      127. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the level of engagement his Department has had with Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and other enterprise...
    • Departmental Funding
      128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the two capital grant support programmes referenced in the National Biomethane Strategy will open for applications;...
    • Departmental Reports
      129. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Biomethane Implementation Group will publish its operational delivery plan; the updated timelines for the...
    • Environmental Policy
      130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the number of anaerobic digestion plants currently in construction or undergoing upgrades; the projected...
    • Inland Fisheries
      133. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the investigation by Inland Fisheries Ireland of the recent mass fish kill on the River Glyde; if...
    • Electricity Grid
      134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of renewable energy projects currently connected to the electricity grid in County Clare; and to provide...
    • Environmental Policy
      135. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the protections he will make for peatlands, blanket bogs and other environmentally sensitive habitats within any revised...
    • Waste Management
      136. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department plans to publish, or otherwise formally recognise, a list or register of organisations that qualify as...
    • Food Waste
      137. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given the evidence from other jurisdictions that mandatory food waste reporting is a low-cost and effective driver of food...
    • Departmental Projects
      138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure,...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the eligibility criteria of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s micro-generation...
    • Departmental Bodies
      140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding any product or service purchased from Japan by his Department in 2025 or to date in 2026, broken...
    • Energy Policy
      142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households in energy poverty that have been directly supported through measures arising from the National...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the volume of renewable electricity dispatched down in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Recycling Policy
      144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total value of unredeemed deposits under the deposit return scheme in 2025 and to date in 2026; the amount retained by...
    • Energy Conservation
      145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the projected contribution of HVO and other sustainable biofuels to decarbonising home heating; whether HVO will be...
    • Energy Policy
      146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of warmer homes scheme applications received, approved, rejected and completed in 2024, 2025 and to date in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of...
    • Departmental Programmes
      148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered expanding Action 15 of the National Hydrogen Programme Implementation Plan working group on the legal...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a maritime area consent application (details supplied); and his views on MARA's application processing...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of free solar panels that have been installed for homeowners who are registered under the life support category...
    • Electricity Generation
      151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of the potential impact of introducing full indexation for renewable...
    • Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan
      155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority has sufficient resources to implement the Competitive Maritime Area Consent...
    • Electricity Grid
      156. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of Exchequer funding provided for electricity grid reinforcement in each of the past five years; and the funding...
    • Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan
      162. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the projected contribution of offshore wind generation to Ireland's electricity demand by 2030 and 2050; and the breakdown...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      163. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to reduce Ireland's dependence on imported fossil fuels through the accelerated deployment of...
    • Electricity Grid
      164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether sufficient regulatory and grid infrastructure is in place to deliver the Government's offshore wind ambitions; and...
    • Data Centres
      165. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding any work ongoing within his Department to minimise the impact that data centres have on the energy...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to "explore ways to use surplus renewable energy to...
    • Data Centres
      171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has conducted any review of the water demand of data centres; if this data is collected; and if not, the reason....
    • Climate Change Policy
      172. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to give a detailed up-to-date response to climate change concerns by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Inland Fisheries
      173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the independent review of the governance arrangements and operations of Inland Fisheries Ireland committed...
    • Protected Disclosures
      174. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of protected disclosures received by his Department or its predecessor relating to Inland Fisheries Ireland in...
    • Departmental Staff
      175. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the safeguards in place across bodies under the aegis of the Department to protect employees who report suspected...
    • Protected Disclosures
      176. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of protected disclosures relating to Inland Fisheries Ireland that are currently under investigation or active...
    • Departmental Projects
      178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the work ongoing by his Department in the tailings pond in the Silvermines, County Tipperary; the cost of...
    • Departmental Policies
      179. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to find a sustainable solution to industrial cooling; and if he will make a...
    • Climate Action Plan
      180. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to ensure we have a more robust climate action strategy to help communities deal...
    • Food Waste
      181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether a food business that has an existing commercial arrangement or partnership with a surplus food redistribution...
    • Data Centres
      183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether his Department, EirGrid or the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has carried out any assessment of the impact...
    • Recycling Policy
      187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to clarify matters (details supplied) regarding the operation of the deposit return scheme. [56457/26]
    • Just Transition
      188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that has been allocated to a region in County Kildare (details supplied) under the EU Just...
    • Waste Management
      191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of household waste collection operators currently providing kerbside glass collection services nationally; the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider expanding the small-scale renewable electricity support scheme to include biomass and gasification...
    • Departmental Programmes
      195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the proposed biomethane capital grant programme under the Irish Nature and Climate Fund; and if he will make...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current status of work to develop the regulatory and technical standards required to facilitate the use of plug-in...
    • Vacant Sites
      198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last...
    • Poverty Data
      199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated number of households in County Kerry experiencing energy poverty; and the equivalent figure for each of the...
    • Departmental Data
      200. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of domestic electricity disconnections for non-payment recorded in County Kerry in each of the past five years,...
    • Sustainable Energy Communities
      201. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of homes that received SEAI retrofit grants in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by scheme...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      203. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount collected by communities in County Kerry through community benefit funds associated with renewable energy...
    • Energy Usage
      205. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the average annual household expenditure on electricity and home heating in County Kerry; and the way in which this...
    • Departmental Schemes
      206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current average waiting time for the home surveys that are required to access the Sustainable Energy Authority of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the correspondence his Department has issued and-or received from a company (details supplied) on Israeli Settlements in...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      209. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence...
    • Climate Action Plan
      211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 16 July 2026, the reason for the delay in delivering each of the 36 legacy...
    • Defective Building Materials
      212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has conducted, commissioned or reviewed a specific impact assessment on administrative barriers faced by...
    • Illegal Dumping
      214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the ongoing issues of illegal dumping and littering at clothing recycling banks and bottle banks in...
    • Data Centres
      215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the policy surrounding e-waste, particularly around data centres; the way in which the tracking from cradle to grave is...
    • Climate Action Plan
      219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the timelines for consultation on, and publication of, Ireland’s Social Climate Plan, and the...
    • Energy Policy
      220. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the energy affordability action plan in relation to the diversion of surplus renewable energy to...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the Government's progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Climate Action Plan
      223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the Climate Action Strategy and supports available to help communities deal with heatwaves, periods of drought and flash...
    • Data Centres
      225. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of data centres in Dublin and the rest of the State; the average energy usage per data centre; the average...
    • Waste Management
      226. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions his Department is taking to assist waste companies in the disposal of nitrous oxide canisters; if a strategy...
    • Departmental Priorities
      227. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on Ireland’s policy priorities ahead of COP31 and Ireland’s position leading negotiations for...
    • Energy Policy
      228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the National Energy Affordability Taskforce is examining additional targeted measures to reduce home heating oil...
    • Departmental Budgets
      229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts...
    • State Gifts
      230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential...
    • Departmental Data
      231. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      232. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams;...
    • Ministerial Communications
      233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58673/26]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update, as of July 2026, on Ireland’s target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      237. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the current balance of the market cap fund; a detailed breakdown of a recent or planned...
    • Climate Action Plan
      238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the current balance of the climate action fund; a detailed breakdown of a recent or planned...
    • Departmental Data
      240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current level of unredeemed deposits related to the Re-turn scheme, by county; the plans in place to use this funding...
    • Recycling Policy
      241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to address concerns related to the access and reliability of Re-Turn machines; the steps being taken to rectify this; and...
    • Departmental Data
      242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of the number of businesses that have applied and been successful in securing an exemption...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      243. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the money from the Sceirde Wind Project has been recouped by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      244. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether he will review the current SEAI grant supports for rooftop solar installations with a view to introducing...
    • Departmental Policies
      245. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether all households registered as vulnerable in Ireland, including renters, are afforded the same protections against...
    • Departmental Data
      246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for further detail on a consumer's ability to register as vulnerability, based on a situation (details supplied) where a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      249. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the profits Re-Turn has made since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59445/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      251. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Reports
      254. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on the scrapping of the LTAV fleet; the estimated cost of the scrappage process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55029/26]
    • Waste Management
      255. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost to her Department, of clean-up operations arising from illegal encampments and dumping on the Curragh Plains for each of the years 2016...
    • Defence Forces
      258. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason she was unable to attend the 64th cadet class commissioning on Thursday, 25 June, in Haulbowline (details supplied); and the reason...
    • Departmental Policies
      260. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the efficiency and reform proposals that her Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      261. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under her Department, in tabular form. [55577/26]
    • Defence Forces
      262. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress made in her examination of the decision of the European Committee of Social Rights, published on 9 February 2026, which found that...
    • Air Corps
      265. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether the contract for Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems capabilities, which her Department stated in December 2025 was in final negotiations to...
    • Defence Forces
      266. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the Military Radar Programme announced on 17 December 2025, including the long-range land-based primary radar, ground based air...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      267. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training, introductory or...
    • Air Corps
      268. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if her Department can report on the amount paid to the private contractor that is supplying an out of hours ATC service to the Irish Air Corps...
    • Defence Forces
      271. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps she is taking to improve retention in the Defence Forces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55990/26]
    • Military Neutrality
      275. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Government is planning to imminently dismantle the Triple Lock, the legal mechanism that regulates the deployment of Irish troops...
    • Vacant Sites
      276. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      277. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of WTE IT specialists at the grade of Higher Executive Officer that are based within her Department as of 16 July 2026, in tabular...
    • Departmental Data
      278. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within her Department and in bodies under the aegis of her Department in 2025 and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      279. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the usage of artificial intelligence within her Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any bodies...
    • Defence Forces
      280. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 10 June 2025, if she will provide an update on the Irish Defence Force’s army force design...
    • Naval Service
      281. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service Vessels assigned to Haulbowline that were operationally available on the first of each month during 2025 and to date...
    • Maritime Safety
      282. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of maritime surveillance operations undertaken in the waters off County Cork in relation to critical offshore and subsea...
    • Departmental Data
      283. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which foreign naval or state-operated vessels were monitored within Ireland's Exclusive Economic Zone off the Cork...
    • Defence Forces
      284. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of requests received from Cork County Council for Defence Forces support during severe weather and flooding events in each of the...
    • Naval Service
      285. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the progress of the Multi Role Vessel Programme in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57953/26]
    • Defence Forces
      286. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress her Department has made on increasing recruitment in the Defence Forces in the past 12 months. [57954/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      289. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether she has engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitilisation on reinstating the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      290. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount her Department has spent on recruitment advertisements for the Defence Forces in the past 12 months, broken down by whether the cost...
    • Departmental Data
      292. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Defence Forces who have retired or been discharged in each of the past five years. [58528/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      294. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a detailed breakdown of her Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for attendees and...
    • State Gifts
      295. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in her capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary value; the...
    • Departmental Data
      296. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by her Department and all bodies under her aegis’...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      297. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within her Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is ever used in...
    • Ministerial Communications
      298. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she uses personal emails for Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58675/26]
    • Air Corps
      299. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current availability of Air Corps aircraft and personnel to assist the emergency services in responding to major forest and wildfires;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      300. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the implementation of the Strategic Framework for the Transformation of the Defence Forces; the measures completed to date;...
    • Maritime Safety
      301. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures being taken by her Department to protect critical subsea infrastructure, including undersea communications cables and energy...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      302. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Forces are incorporating artificial intelligence technologies into operational planning, intelligence analysis...
    • Defence Forces
      303. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if she will provide an update on peacekeeping operations involving members of the Defence Forces; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • United Nations
      304. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagement her Department has had with the UN authorities in relation to the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      305. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether she is considering updating Army Pensions Act; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59154/26]
    • Defence Forces
      306. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans for the improvement of the pay and conditions in the Defence Forces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59155/26]
    • Naval Service
      309. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service ships which are operational and currently able to patrol Irish waters; the plans to put more in operation; and if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      311. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures are...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which pricing for public EV charging rates are set; the measures his Department is taking to ensure public EV charging remains...
    • Pension Provisions
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed increase in pension entitlements for retired CIÉ employees under the CIÉ 1951 pension...
    • Coast Guard Service
      320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to acquire a station building for a coast guard service at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Network
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the most recent assessment of the condition of critical infrastructure assets in Cork county, including roads, bridges and...
    • Programme for Government
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to ensure Gardaí have sufficient powers to tackle the misuse of e-scooters...
    • An Garda Síochána
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the proposed legislative changes regarding the standard against which a garda's driving is measured during pursuits will be brought...
    • School Transport
      325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider expanding the Safe Routes to School initiatives to additional primary and post primary schools; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the number of publicly accessible EV charge points currently in operation, by standard, fast and high-power chargers, by...
    • Departmental Policies
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether consideration is being given to introducing statutory protections or greater legal certainty for Garda members who, acting in...
    • Road Safety
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the sale of e-scooters will be regulated; the penalties to wholesalers or other businesses for selling e-scooters that...
    • Departmental Policies
      337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of illegal scrambler incidents; if additional legislation is being considered;...
    • Road Safety
      338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government are considering a ban on e-scooters in all public places; if additional safety requirements are being considered; if...
    • Legislative Measures
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the proposed legislation intended to grant greater legal protections to members of An Garda Síochána when...
    • Electric Vehicles
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received under the 2025 SEAI electric vehicle scrappage grant scheme, broken down by dealership and county;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the basis on which funding under the 2025 SEAI electric vehicle scrappage grant scheme was allocated on the opening day of applications,...
    • Emergency Planning
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether a dedicated emergency response fund exists to support local authorities where isolated infrastructure failures, including road...
    • Electric Vehicles
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on future levels of grant assistance available for the purchase of electric vehicles; the plans to expand the national...
    • Bus Services
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken by Government to increase the number of electric buses in operation across the State; the proportion of the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of domestic, commercial and public EV charging points in each county, together with the funding allocated to each local...
    • Departmental Schemes
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify the relationship between the proposed vehicle adaptation scheme (VAS) and the existing disabled drivers and disabled...
    • Driver Test
      349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting times for driving tests in each centre in County Wexford; the number of applicants currently waiting beyond ten to...
    • Military Aircraft
      350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 709 of 13 January 2026, when this report will be published; the reason for the delay; if he plans...
    • Taxi Licences
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider policy changes in the review of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013 to include the transfer of licences to other family...
    • Bus Services
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of providing free public transport on bus services for U18s, U22s and U25s in Budget 2027. [54901/26]
    • Road Signage
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the evidence base underpinning his position that current bilingual signage is fit for-purpose; if any assessment has been carried out of...
    • Road Safety Authority
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of investigations by the Road Safety Authority into suspected tachograph manipulation, tachograph card misuse or other...
    • Driver Licences
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving licence application (details supplied) will be expedited and awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54997/26]
    • Road Safety Authority
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware or reports that new figures from the RSA show that 85% of driver fatalities in Ireland occur on rural roads; the measures...
    • Rail Network
      358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a response will issue to matters raised on passenger capacity on Irish Rail Services (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Budget 2027
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to seek additional funding for the recently closed EV scrappage scheme in Budget 2027, considering the original scheme was...
    • Departmental Data
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department maintains a national dataset distinguishing e-scooter accidents involving compliant devices (20kmh, 400 watt, 25kg...
    • Greenways Provision
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a Greenway Sustainability Payment A to all landowners impacted by the south Kerry Greenway; to take into consideration the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      369. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the proposed new vehicle adaption scheme is replacing the existing disabled drivers and passengers scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Parking Provision
      370. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the eligibility criteria for the disabled parking permit scheme; whether the scheme provides for applications from persons with severe...
    • Road Safety
      371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rules in place to restrict the warning signage which can be in place on commercial or agricultural vehicles; and if there are...
    • An Garda Síochána
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans, in conjunction with the Garda Commissioner, to develop a driving permit specific to members of An Garda Síochána...
    • Coast Guard Service
      374. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the planned extension to the Arklow coastguard station. [55313/26]
    • Bus Services
      375. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the second bus on route No. 314 has not been showing up (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Transport Authority
      376. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of funding that was provided by NTA to Wexford County Council for the provision of active travel staff in the years of 2025 and...
    • Programme for Government
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the programme for Government commitments within his remit relating to...
    • Bus Services
      378. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether Bus Éireann or the National Transport Authority has conducted an assessment of passenger demand on the 101X service from...
    • Public Transport
      380. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans being put in place to address the lack of public transport connection between Dublin Airport and Connolly Station (details...
    • Road Projects
      381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a project (details provided), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55413/26]
    • National Transport Authority
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the NTAs interaction with a developer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55414/26]
    • Driver Licences
      383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to address the difficulties faced by Irish citizens living in the UK who are no longer able to be...
    • Traffic Management
      384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the monetary value his Department attributes to the connectivity provided by hub and transfer traffic at Dublin Airport; the analysis or...
    • Electric Vehicles
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the increased costs associated with charger electric vehicles. [55437/26]
    • Bus Services
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide detailed reasoning behind the fare increase on buses in Cork City that will be introduced shortly; to detail the conversations...
    • Rail Network
      391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE staff by job title of the external project team working on behalf of Iarnród Éireann in respect of DART North...
    • Air Services
      392. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to his statement during the Second Stage debate on the Dublin Airport (Passenger Capacity) Bill 2026 on 23 June 2026 (details...
    • Rail Network
      394. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given the significant increase in the population of Shankill and Woodbrook, the actions he will take to assess demand and boost capacity...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      395. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to combat antisocial behaviour on public transport services in Dublin city (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Public Transport
      396. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public...
    • Departmental Data
      399. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55590/26]
    • Rail Network
      400. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the ongoing absence of an onboard water service on the Dublin Heuston to Westport rail service; if he has raised this...
    • Bus Services
      401. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide all planned, approved or proposed bus service enhancements in County Cork in 2026 and 2027; the current status of each; the...
    • Public Service Obligation
      402. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus driver, mechanic and craftworker vacancies currently affecting PSO and local link services in Cork County, by operator;...
    • National Transport Authority
      403. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the €940 million current allocation to the NTA in 2026 is being allocated by programme, operator, county and...
    • Public Transport
      404. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the latest passenger number for each TFI Local Link service in Cork County for 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the percentage...
    • Road Projects
      405. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the up-to-date status of the N/M20 Cork to Limerick project; to confirm the project phase; the amount spent to date; the 2026...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      407. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fatal and serious road collisions recorded in 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 in County Cork; the number involving...
    • Departmental Data
      408. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current RTFO rate applying in 2026; the projected annual RTFO rate to 2030; the estimated physical blend of biofuel in petrol and...
    • Programme for Government
      409. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on each Programme for Government commitment assigned to his Department, including the lead unit, delivery milestone,...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      410. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of all park and ride projects under consideration or development by the NTA for Cork, including location, current...
    • Departmental Data
      411. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the revenue received per year, for each of the years 2019 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by the State, for the use of Shannon Airport by...
    • Road Signage
      412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of ongoing concerns regarding inadequate bus stop signage in Knock village, County Mayo, including the absence of clear...
    • Bus Services
      413. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on plans to install shelters at bus stops in Knock village, County Mayo, particularly at locations where...
    • Public Transport
      415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the connectivity between Bus Éireann services and Irish Rail services at Claremorris, County Mayo, with a view to...
    • National Transport Authority
      417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding is available under current National Transport Authority or local authority programmes to improve bus stop facilities in rural...
    • Public Transport
      418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the implementation strategy under the current Greater Dublin Area Transportation Strategy 2022 to 2042 will be published for...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      419. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training,...
    • Ferry Services
      420. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the longstanding ferry route from Dublin to Douglas, Isle of Man, operated by a company (details supplied) has had...
    • Bus Éireann
      421. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide, or request from Bus Éireann, the number of promotions awarded in each of the past five years, broken down by grade,...
    • Public Transport
      428. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase public transport connectivity between two areas Blanchardstown and Swords; and if he will make a statement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      429. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles detected by Gardaí with non-compliant number plates; the number of fixed charge notices issued to drivers for...
    • Taxi Regulations
      432. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in light of the ongoing shortage of taxi services, particularly in rural areas where many people face difficulties accessing...
    • Departmental Data
      433. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the marine Natura 2000 sites will be included on admiralty charts; the interim measures the MSO will provide in the absence of a...
    • Rail Network
      434. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of each category of train tickets for Dublin-Limerick train services that were sold in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular...
    • Electric Vehicles
      435. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the way in which he proposes those without off-street parking will be able to access home charging for EVs; and the way...
    • Rail Network
      436. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a catering trolley for the Mayo-Dublin railway line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56235/26]
    • Dublin Bus
      437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE qualified vehicle body repairers employed by Dublin Bus as of 16 July 2026, in tabular form. [56278/26]
    • Public Transport
      438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the consideration of establishing a dedicated transport policing service, similar to the British...
    • Road Safety Authority
      439. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the RSA report (details supplied); the number of these fatalities that were reported to the Health and...
    • National Transport Authority
      441. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason TII and the NTA will not attend a briefing with the full council in Kildare as previously requested; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the planned increase in the frequency of the 133 bus service operating between Wicklow and Dublin via Rathnew;...
    • Rail Network
      445. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the proposed extension of the Luas network to Bray; the anticipated timeline for the project, including the...
    • Public Transport
      446. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider the creation of a direct route between Blanchardstown and Swords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56363/26]
    • Greenways Provision
      447. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to give favourable consideration to providing financial support similar to the early sign-on sustainability payment for all landowners...
    • Public Transport
      448. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement his Department has had with companies (details supplied) following the announcement of up to 500 redundancies and planned...
    • Departmental Funding
      450. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide funding for a long range hedge cutter and specialist equipment and personnel to cut trees in a location (details supplied);...
    • Bus Éireann
      451. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of double decker coaches and double decker buses in the Bus Éireann PSO fleet as of 17 July 2026; if he will the provide...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      452. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has spoken formally with the chairperson of the United States National Transportation Safety Board to date in 2026. [56497/26]
    • Bus Services
      453. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will review bus route 314 which serves Limerick to Ballybunnion (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      455. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his meeting with an organisation (details supplied). [56555/26]
    • Rail Network
      456. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 18 June 2026, and the reply to the topical issue on Thursday 16 July 2026 on Metro...
    • Public Service Obligation
      458. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of funding provided for PSO transport services for each of the years 2023 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form;...
    • Budget 2026
      459. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department’s current spending projection for 2026; whether there is a projected overspend compared with the funding that his...
    • Budget 2027
      460. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the planned levy for Budget 2027 will affect funding for public transport services; to confirm the levy that is being...
    • Departmental Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 14 July 2026, to outline the person or body responsible for independently assessing whether...
    • Departmental Funding
      463. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all defects for national roads logged on to the TII defect management system in 2025 and to date in 2026 in County Clare;...
    • Road Projects
      464. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the planned upgrade of the N81. [56597/26]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      465. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he is taking given that Transport Infrastructure Ireland is opposed to the development of housing at Fassaroe, Bray, County...
    • Public Transport
      466. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new and enhanced Connecting Ireland services delivered in 2025 and planned for 2026 for County Cork; the passenger numbers...
    • Bus Services
      467. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full details of changes that are yet to be implemented to a bus service (details supplied) to include new route details along with...
    • Rail Network
      469. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the provision of additional morning and evening train services through Millstreet station to facilitate commuting to and...
    • Public Transport
      472. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has examined technological solutions to facilitate integrated payment across all public transport and shared mobility...
    • Bus Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected date for contract completion under the Electric Bus Charging Infrastructure Framework; the anticipated commencement date for...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      477. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fatal, serious injury and minor injury collisions recorded on the N22 between Macroom and Ballincollig in each of the years...
    • Public Transport
      480. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for expansion of service on the TFI Local Link service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56653/26]
    • Road Safety
      482. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has engaged with local authorities regarding the expansion of urban speed limit zones and the introduction of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      483. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to establish a national vehicle-transition scheme similar to the ICE2EV pilot scrappage scheme; if he plans to introduce a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      484. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the National EV Charging Infrastructure Strategy 2026-2028; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56801/26]
    • Rail Network
      487. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the LUAS operations contract is up for renewal; if it has been renewed in the recent past; the person or body that has been the...
    • Departmental Funding
      488. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to County Kerry for regional and local roads in each of the years 2021 to 2026; and the roads projects...
    • Vacant Properties
      489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use;...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the staff grade levels of personnel of the airport search unit at Dublin Airport [56914/26]
    • Driver Licences
      491. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to Directive (EU) 2020/61 and the subsequent S.I. No. 467/2013 - Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) (Amendment) (No.4)...
    • Bus Services
      494. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans under the BusConnects Network Redesign to establish a bus route between Swords and Beaumont Hospital; to provide a timeframe...
    • Public Transport
      495. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on plans under the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan to improve public transport services in Ardclough,...
    • Road Safety Authority
      496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the Road Safety Authority’s review of the road traffic collision data sharing policies; and the date the body will...
    • Budget 2027
      497. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the Leap card fair in the upcoming budget; the amount of an increase which is expected; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      498. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on Dart+ Southwest; when works are expected to take place; the funding associated with this; when passengers can expect to...
    • Bus Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fines issued to Dublin Bus and Go Ahead for late or incomplete services; the number of cancelled services from both...
    • National Transport Authority
      502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if National Transport Authority plans to fund the installation of a shelter at Dublin Bus pole number 738. [57103/26]
    • Driver Test
      503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average waiting times for driving tests nationally; the measures his Department is taking to reduce such wait times; if he is...
    • Departmental Data
      504. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the correct pathway through which individuals can submit complaints regarding changes to flight paths, frequency, and noise...
    • Road Tolls
      506. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans regarding the next toll increase in January 2027; if he will defer same until a later date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Bodies
      507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 16 July 2026, if in the meetings lists with Irish Rail or the NTA, the cost overruns...
    • Departmental Schemes
      508. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received, approved and refused under the road transporters scheme, by county and by category of operator; the...
    • Rail Network
      510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 15 July 2026, if the updated projected cost range will be reported on in Q3 in 2026; and if...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      511. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      512. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any...
    • Departmental Funding
      513. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of funding allocated to the National Transport Agency that directly or indirectly funds projects which are located in...
    • Electric Vehicles
      514. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 19 June 2026, the number of publicly available recharging points per county in 2023, 2024...
    • Bus Services
      516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions being taken by the National Transport Authority to improve the reliability of the 115 Bus Éireann bus service serving...
    • Rail Network
      518. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the new battery operated trains on the northern commuter line will be fully accessible for power assisted wheelchairs and manually...
    • Bus Éireann
      520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his proposed solutions for the lack of adequate disability access to buses on Bus Éireann route 345, travelling between Scarriff,...
    • Legislative Measures
      521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the measures on electric scooters agreed by Government on 20 July 2026, including the extension of the prohibition on use...
    • Traffic Management
      522. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No.143 of 17 December 2025, if his Department and Transport Infrastructure Ireland have received a...
    • Driver Test
      523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driving test; and the number of persons waiting for a theory test in county Cork, by test centre, in...
    • Bus Services
      526. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount the NTA spent on installing real-time bus information displays on public footpaths within Dublin in 2024, 2025 and to-date in...
    • Driver Licences
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of drivers disqualified in court that have surrendered their licence to the RSA, as required by law, since (and including)...
    • Military Aircraft
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is aware of reports that a flight (details supplied) illegally transported military aircraft parts, including F-35 components,...
    • Public Transport
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 339 of 16 December 2025, the new or enhanced services that were delivered to date in 2026; and to...
    • Rail Network
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update specifically regarding funding for DART+ South-West; if financial support is being sought or considered with a view...
    • Driver Licences
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that when a person applies for renewal of their driving licence early, they then lose that time from their licence (details...
    • National Transport Authority
      539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the National Transport Authority (NTA) regarding the lengthy delays and, in some cases, lack of responses to...
    • Active Travel
      540. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department plans to introduce a new shared mobility voucher schemes as proposed in the National Policy Statement on Shared...
    • Rail Network
      541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated timeframe to progress the recommendations within the Strategic Rail Review which will see public rail transport resumed in...
    • Road Projects
      542. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current earliest construction start and end dates of the N2 Clontibret to the Border and Ardee to Castleblayney road projects. [58006/26]
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      543. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to investigate the CIÉ Executive Board decision from 2009 not to grant further increases in CIÉ Pensions, given the...
    • Road Network
      544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide, in tabular form, the total funding allocated to each local authority for national, regional and local road maintenance and...
    • Rail Network
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the Railway Order application for Phase 2 of the Cork Area Commuter Rail Programme, including electrification, the new depot and...
    • Bus Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport authority have undertaken an assessment of the feasibility of introducing a Transport For Ireland town bus...
    • Public Transport
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether consideration has been given to the role a Transport for Ireland town bus service in Tullamore could play in improving...
    • Departmental Schemes
      554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the local area hackney scheme (LAH), the reason successful applicants must bring a valid SPSV insurance certificate to the...
    • Parking Provision
      555. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the draft Strategy completed by Irish Rail and given to the NTA on priority areas for railway station parking; and...
    • Legislative Measures
      558. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on horse carriage legislation for Dublin; if his Department will be introducing its own legislation to allow for the...
    • Active Travel
      559. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a formal review of the Active Travel Programme is to be undertaken to assess the programmes contribution to progress against the 2030...
    • Greenways Provision
      562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a formal review of the Greenway Programme is to be undertaken to assess the programmes contribution to progress against the 2030...
    • Active Travel
      568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering the inclusion in future funding for active travel schemes a requirement to measure emissions and the...
    • Road Safety
      569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a review of the speed limits on greenways, paths and public areas where there is no physical separation of pedal or...
    • Departmental Regulations
      570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review of the regulations governing L1e-A e-mopeds (pedal or throttle assisted) is being undertaken or considered. [58412/26]
    • National Transport Authority
      574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport following the NTA public consultation on pets and public transport that completed in February 2026; when the report and recommendations...
    • Road Signage
      575. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is planning to review the requirements for audible signals at traffic lights which are essential for blind people....
    • Departmental Policies
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review is planned of the National Policy Framework for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. [58420/26]
    • EU Regulations
      578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the designated authority is required to keep records of UAV incidents. [58422/26]
    • Airport Policy
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department was warned, or a risk assessment was carried out, regarding potential job losses at Shannon Airport or other regional...
    • Motor Industry
      582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has any plans at present to review the motor tax system for pre-2008 vehicles, in order that they may also be taxed...
    • Taxi Licences
      583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of taxi licences are currently in circulation; and the number of licences in circulation in each of the past five years. [58583/26]
    • Rail Network
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the delivery of the Cork Luas; when he expects the system to begin construction; when he expects it to begin operation;...
    • Bus Services
      587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline, per route in the Cork city area, the percentage of journeys for which a bus was late or did not arrive in 2025 and 2026....
    • Ports Policy
      588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department have examined assertions made in the media regarding non-charging for storage at the Port of Cork, as well as...
    • EU Presidency
      590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for attendees...
    • Departmental Data
      591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      593. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is ever...
    • Ministerial Communications
      594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58688/26]
    • Driver Test
      597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the Road Safety Authority is currently meeting its service level objective of issuing driving test invitations within ten weeks;...
    • Bus Services
      604. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Cork BusConnects project as of July 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58873/26]
    • Airport Policy
      605. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagements he has had with officials in Cork Airport and the DAA with regard to increase routes to and from Cork Airport and...
    • Road Projects
      606. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Mallow relief road project, as of July 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58875/26]
    • Active Travel
      609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual funding allocated under the Active Travel Programme to each local authority in each of the past ten years; the details of each...
    • Bus Services
      610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual passenger numbers, service kilometres, routes operated, and Exchequer funding provided for Bus Éireann public service...
    • Taxi Licences
      611. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair accessible taxis licensed in each county in each of the past ten years; the total number of SPSV licences in...
    • Rail Network
      612. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an overview of the additional funding being allocated to allow Irish Rail to strengthen infrastructure around the greater...
    • National Transport Authority
      613. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to fund the NTA on a multi-annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58935/26]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the substantially complete park-and-ride facility at Fassaroe will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58936/26]
    • Rail Network
      616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for when the DART will run to Wicklow town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58938/26]
    • Bus Services
      617. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of all penalties levied against bus providers for under performance since 2020, broken down by operator...
    • Public Transport
      619. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to review the fare zones currently in operation across the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      620. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the number of EV charging points installed across Wicklow in 2020-2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      622. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount that has been expended on the MetroLink project to date; when the final budget will be finalised; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline plans for deployment of electric buses that are currently in storage; the plans to buy additional buses in the coming years;...
    • Public Transport
      624. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the planned roll out of a transport police force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58949/26]
    • Electric Vehicles
      627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding plans to expand the national network of electric vehicle charging infrastructure to improve accessibility and...
    • Rail Network
      628. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if plans are in progress to resume catering services on the Galway to Dublin train line; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Network
      631. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how annual regional and local road funding allocations to local authorities are calculated; whether the scale of County Galway's road...
    • Rail Network
      632. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the western rail corridor works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59034/26]
    • Bus Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions which will be taken to increase capacity on bus services for commuters in Dublin North-West; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Licences
      638. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the foreign licence exchange system; the average length of time it takes to receive an Irish drivers licence after the...
    • Road Network
      639. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional funding available from his Department to upgrade the R312 in Mayo in recognition of the importance of this route for the...
    • Bus Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the replacement CityLink Ballina to Galway bus service does not stop in Straide, as the Expressway route 52 once did; if his...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      641. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the necessary Statutory Instrument, to give the collective agreement made this year for CIÉ pensioners legal effect; and if he...
    • National Transport Authority
      642. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport Authority has plans to install Leap Card vending machines in the arrivals halls of Dublin Airport and...
    • Dublin Bus
      643. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his attention has been drawn to reports (details supplied) that has experienced persistent cancellations, ghost buses,...
    • Active Travel
      644. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been allocated, or is planned to be allocated, for Active Travel, greenway and cycling infrastructure projects in...
    • Departmental Funding
      647. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures are...
    • Transport Policy
      650. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposal agreed on 20 July 2026 to provide greater legal protections to members of An Garda Síochána when...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Expenditure
      651. To ask the Minister for Finance whether an application has been made, or is intended to be made, to recover the costs incurred by the State in maintaining the vessel MV Matthew from the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      652. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the taxsaver commuter ticket scheme, to take account of workers who require to travel to work locations less than five days a week, for whom...
    • Tax Credits
      657. To ask the Minister for Finance to urgently consider correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57047/26]
    • Tax Reliefs
      659. To ask the Minister for Finance to amend the standard capital superannuation benefit guidelines so that standard non-cash benefits-in-kind such as health insurance received during statutory...
    • Tax Code
      661. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to reports that non-VAT registered farmers selling to other non-VAT registered farmers in marts incurring additional tax due to a reduction in...
    • Housing Schemes
      662. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will assess the impact that the current help to buy scheme eligibility criteria are having on the delivery of one-off rural housing by first-time...
    • Tax Code
      664. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to removing actively farmed land from residential zoned land tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59100/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      665. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 25 June 2026, his plans for the State to take ownership of any money taken from dormant investment funds under a...
    • Tax Yield
      666. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos 338 and 339 of 23 July 2024, the estimate of the annual revenue forgone as a result of share buybacks not being affected...
    • Tax Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Finance the median value of residential property based on the LPT excluding local authorities and AHBs. [54965/26]
    • Defective Building Materials
      673. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of abolishing the concrete products levy. [55030/26]
    • Tax Credits
      674. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of making the research and development tax credit payable to small and micro companies within 12 months. [55031/26]
    • Pension Provisions
      675. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue raised by reducing the pension relief earnings limit from €115,000 to €60,000. [55032/26]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      677. To ask the Minister for Finance to examine a Revenue Commissioners case in respect of a person (details supplied) who has been threatened with legal proceedings and believes no moneys are...
    • Tax Code
      678. To ask the Minister for Finance to implement a broader review of capital acquisition tax thresholds to better reflect contemporary family relationships and living arrangements; and if he...
    • Budget 2027
      679. To ask the Minister for Finance to ensure that low and middle income workers are a priority in budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55125/26]
    • Tax Code
      680. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to address the inequity between the treatment of exchange-traded funds for tax purposes, and the taxation of other gains from the disposal of...
    • Banking Sector
      681. To ask the Minister for Finance when finance (details supplied) will open to new applicants for the finance products they provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55191/26]
    • Tax Code
      682. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to capital gains tax and the exemptions that are available, the number of individuals/companies that actually paid the headline 33% rate in 2025;...
    • Tax Reliefs
      683. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue raised by introducing a 25% or 50% cap, respectively, on corporation tax relief utilised in a single year by all banks, in first and...
    • Tax Yield
      684. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue raised in first-and full-year terms in 2027 from increasing the rate of residential stamp duty from 1 to 2% for residential property of...
    • Tax Reliefs
      687. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 322 of 17 September 2025, to provide a full breakdown of the ‘other’ category in income tax deductible...
    • Tax Data
      688. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected total tax revenue and overall Exchequer balance for 2026; the way in which these projections compare with outturns and forecasts for 2025; and...
    • Sovereign Debt
      690. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of servicing the national debt at current interest rates; the way in which annual cost compares with the cost five years ago, taking...
    • Housing Schemes
      691. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of first time buyer households in Cork County that have availed of the help to buy scheme in 2024 and 2025; the way in which this uptake in Cork...
    • Inflation Rate
      692. To ask the Minister for Finance the current annual rate of consumer price inflation and the projected average inflation rate for the remainder of 2026; the way in which these figures compare...
    • Disability Issues
      693. To ask the Minister for Finance for the up-to-date position on changes being considered under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme to ensure that the scheme is replaced with a...
    • Credit Unions
      695. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within his remit relating to credit unions since the...
    • Fiscal Policy
      696. To ask the Minister for Finance to give detailed consideration to the proposals outlined by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55376/26]
    • Tax Code
      697. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department or the tax strategy group has assessed the revenue potential of a levy on transfer and self-connecting passengers at Irish airports,...
    • Fiscal Policy
      698. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give detailed consideration to a submission from a national body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55435/26]
    • EU Programmes
      699. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 30 June 2026, if he will make a statement on matters raised. [55439/26]
    • Tax Credits
      700. To ask the Minister for Finance if given the evidence to support the benefits of physical activity and in particular strength training for all cohorts but particularly people over the age of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      701. To ask the Minister for Finance the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      702. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy applications, approvals and drawdowns to date in 2026, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Yield
      704. To ask the Minister for Finance the excise duty taken in by the State from alcohol from 2020 to 2026 per year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55569/26]
    • Departmental Data
      705. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pubs licensed in Ireland, broken down per year from 2023 to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55570/26]
    • Tax Yield
      706. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount raised through deemed disposal taxes in 2026 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55571/26]
    • Departmental Bodies
      708. To ask the Minister for Finance the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55580/26]
    • Tax Code
      709. To ask the Minister for Finance the length of time the annual capital gains tax personal exemption has been set at €1,270; and whether he has plans to increase it in Budget 2027....
    • Tax Yield
      710. To ask the Minister for Finance the total gross rental income declared on form 11 income tax returns for each of the years from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [55731/26]
    • Tax Data
      712. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of taxpayer units declared rental income on form 11 income tax returns for each of the years from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in...
    • Departmental Staff
      724. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training, introductory or advanced use;...
    • Tax Code
      725. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures in place to encourage individuals to leave works of art to public galleries or institutions in their wills; if such donations could be exempt...
    • Tax Yield
      729. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2027 if the 2% USC rate was reduced to 1.25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56073/26]
    • Derelict Sites
      730. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the original proposal for the derelict sites tax was to retrospectively apply to outstanding levies; and whether the Revenue Commissioners will now...
    • Tax Code
      732. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the proposal from an organisation (details supplied) to permanently remove actively farmed land from the Residential Zoned Land Tax; if he...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      740. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost incurred by the Revenue Commissioners in respect of the maintenance, berthing, crewing, insurance, survey and management of the vessel MV...
    • Tax Code
      747. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of reducing the livestock VAT rate to 4.5%; and if he has the powers to reduce it. [56506/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      752. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his Department-led review of the fund and investment industry in Ireland; including a specific assessment of the deemed disposal rule;...
    • Tax Code
      753. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding any review of the tax rate payable on the profits on financial investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56608/26]
    • Fiscal Data
      755. To ask the Minister for Finance the current level of Ireland public debt as a percentage of GNI*; the way in which this has changed over the past decade; the measures being taken to ensure...
    • Tax Yield
      756. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted a risk assessment or scenario analysis of a potential significant decline in corporate tax receipts over the next five years;...
    • Financial Services
      757. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints received by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (details supplied) in each year since 2021, in tabular form; the number...
    • Tax Credits
      762. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the home carer tax credit to single carers in paid employment and the increase to the credit to €2,250; and if he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      765. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm that a ‘Fresh Start’ principle that allows previously divorced, separated, or insolvent individuals to be treated as first-time...
    • Tax Exemptions
      766. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the income tax exemption threshold under the microgeneration support scheme from €400 to €600 per annum for...
    • Tax Reliefs
      768. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional tax reliefs or incentives for working families under consideration as part of Budget 2027, including changes to existing tax credits,...
    • State Properties
      771. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use; the length of time each...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      772. To ask the Minister for Finance to address the cost of living crisis by introducing cost of living measures as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56910/26]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      773. To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which the Revenue Commissioners were notified of, or identified, an error in returns made by a company (details supplied); the date on which the...
    • Legislative Measures
      776. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on plans to amend the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 and other legislation to facilitate the adoption of tokenisation in...
    • Tax Code
      777. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update and timeline for publication of the planned Roadmap on Taxation of Retail Investment. [57115/26]
    • Climate Action Plan
      780. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the merits on financially incentivising the use of HVO fuel instead of diesel to support achieving our climate emission targets; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      782. To ask the Minister for Finance to estimate the annual cost of raising the personal exemption on capital gains tax from the existing €1,270 per annum to €2,500 per annum. [57155/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      783. To ask the Minister for Finance the correspondence his Department has issued and-or received from a company (details supplied) regarding the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      784. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in 2025 and to date in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      785. To ask the Minister for Finance the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any bodies under the aegis of...
    • Housing Schemes
      786. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy claims approved since July 2020, by county; the number of applicants associated with these claims; the number of claims by...
    • Tax Credits
      787. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of rent tax credit claims made in 2024, 2025, and to date in 2026, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Yield
      788. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount that could be raised by increasing the dividend withholding tax on REITs and IREFs from 25% to 33%; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      789. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of capital gains tax relief under section 604A; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57351/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      790. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans to introduce a mechanism for museums and art galleries to benefit from a gift aid facility, in line with the model which exists in the North of...
    • Tax Code
      792. To ask the Minister for Finance to reform the inequity of the inheritance tax system, to address the anomalies that exist and ensure equality for all families and loved ones of childless...
    • Customs and Excise
      793. To ask the Minister for Finance the schedule and increments by which the reduced rates of excise duty on petrol and diesel will be restored following the Government decision of 29 June 2026...
    • Universal Social Charge
      794. To ask the Minister for Finance to introduce a cost-of-living measure for workers by abolishing the USC for those earning less than €50,000 per year, given that it was originally...
    • Tax Yield
      795. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a correction was made to betting duty payments in quarter 2 of 2024; the reason it resulted in an increase in receipts; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      797. To ask the Minister for Finance to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57483/26]
    • Tax Yield
      798. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full year yield that would generate if the Excise Duty on a packet of 20 cigarettes increased by 40 cents; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Customs and Excise
      800. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of the next phase of implementation of EU custom reforms in Ireland. [57837/26]
    • European Union
      801. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on Ireland’s position on preserving the principle of delegation as part of discussions on the EU Market Integration and Supervision...
    • Fiscal Policy
      803. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering the introduction of fiscal measures to incentivise the commuter take-up of shared mobility services. [57842/26]
    • Tax Credits
      804. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to an increase in the single person child carer credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58004/26]
    • Tax Code
      805. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times he intends to increase carbon tax on petrol, diesel, green diesel and home heating oil until 2030; the total amount in each instance; and...
    • Fiscal Data
      806. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount contributed to the EU MFF by Ireland in each of the years from 2019 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the total receipts; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Sector
      809. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the mortgage restriction whereby when a couple are applying for a mortgage, the mortgage can be refused because of the age of the older partner even...
    • Customs and Excise
      810. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of nitrous oxide canisters that have been seized by Customs in each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by year, in tabular form; the...
    • Universal Social Charge
      811. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of exempting occupational pensions from the USC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58514/26]
    • Tax Reliefs
      812. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has examined the introduction of additional tax reliefs for families facing significant childcare costs; whether international models...
    • EU Presidency
      813. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for attendees and dignitaries;...
    • Departmental Data
      814. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary value; the procedures...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      815. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his aegis’ in preparation...
    • Ministerial Communications
      817. To ask the Minister for Finance if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58678/26]
    • Tax Code
      820. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department intends to carry out a full review of the levy imposed on private occupational pensions; and if there are plans to restore any of the monies...
    • Tax Credits
      821. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the tax credit regime in place to support the Irish film industry; his plans for the future development of this sector; and if he will...
    • Insurance Industry
      822. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the work of the recently established flood insurance protection gap working group; their terms of reference and planned work programme;...
    • State Assets
      823. To ask the Minister for Finance to address ISIF's investment in companies on the UN's database of businesses operating in illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories; the...
    • Ministerial Communications
      825. To ask the Minister for Finance if he received a response to the letter he sent on the 20 of June 2026 to European Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque relating to the recommendations...
    • Tax Reliefs
      826. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made to the Revenue Commissioners to date for the mortgage interest tax relief scheme; the number of successful and unsuccessful...
    • State Assets
      827. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has active investments with that are operating in illegally occupied Palestinian...
    • Departmental Schemes
      828. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the help to buy scheme to reflect rising house prices in counties such as Galway, where the median asking price has increased substantially...
    • Tax Code
      829. To ask the Minister for Finance what measures his department is considering to reduce the tax burden on small and medium-sized enterprises in towns such as Tuam, Athenry, Gort, and Loughrea...
    • Departmental Schemes
      831. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the policy rationale for the requirement under the help to buy scheme that a first-time buyer's mortgage must be at least 70 per cent of...
    • Tax Reliefs
      837. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the REIT tax relief drawn down in 2023, 2024 and 2025 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59200/26]
    • Insurance Industry
      838. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an assessment of the State's ability at attracting more companies offering public liability insurance into the market to ensure savings for policy...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details on any interaction his Department or other departments have had and any legal advice that they have sought to end any involvement of the...
    • Insurance Industry
      840. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an assessment of the impact of the Duty of Care and PIAB legislation on insurance premiums for customers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Credits
      841. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures for the number of people who have availed of the rent tax credit in this tax year, broken down by county; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      842. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's plans to engage with Northern and British authorities on the issues facing cross border workers and employers and particularly cross-Border...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      844. To ask the Minister for Finance if he was aware that Luxembourg informed the Irish Central Bank that it will not continue to approve the prospectus for Israeli war bonds. [59241/26]
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      845. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will in light of the fact that the role of facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds will now default back to Ireland will intervene to stop Ireland...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Coastal Protection
      846. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in addition to funding for coastal protection works at Rossbeigh Beach, Glenbeigh, County Kerry, if he will provide funding for...
    • State Properties
      847. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State-owned properties currently vacant in counties Wicklow and Wexford; their locations and the duration of vacancy; and...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      848. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and value of flood relief schemes completed, underway and planned in each local authority area, together with the current...
    • Public Sector Staff
      849. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to task the Public Service Transformation Delivery Unit with prioritising the 20% target for new recruits to be proficient in...
    • Flood Risk Management
      850. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will instruct the Office of Public Works to remove the classification of a flood zone on an area in County Clare which has not...
    • Public Services Provision
      851. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the key performance indicators currently in use to assess public service reform programmes; the baseline targets set under each...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      853. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail all major infrastructure projects approved or commenced in Cork county since 2020; the projected and actual delivery...
    • Departmental Policies
      854. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that are currently funded to address inequalities in digital access across the country; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      855. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the methodologies used in cost-benefit analysis for major capital projects; to provide examples of projected versus realised economic...
    • Departmental Consultations
      856. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details of public consultation processes undertaken in relation to infrastructure projects in Cork county since 2024,...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      857. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding allocated for flood relief projects in County Cork from 2020 to 2026, including projects in Cork north-west prioritised...
    • National Development Plan
      858. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of all capital projects under the National Development Plan under his Department’s remit including OPW that...
    • Departmental Funding
      859. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a schedule of all AI related projects funded through the Public Service Innovation Fund and Digital Transformation Fund since...
    • Departmental Staff
      860. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training,...
    • Office of Public Works
      861. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works is currently using AI technologies in the management of public buildings, heritage sites, maintenance...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      862. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works has undertaken any AI impact assessments in respect of AI-enabled systems used for flood forecasting;...
    • Office of Public Works
      863. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the nature of refurbishment works that the OPW carried out at Abbeyleix Garda Station in the years of 2025 and to date in 2026, in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      864. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the proposed new Garda station at Northern Cross. [55436/26]
    • Office of Public Works
      865. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the long-term plans for the old Intreo office on the Navan Road, Dublin 7; and if the OPW will consider leasing the facility to local...
    • Departmental Data
      867. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list all Government departments and agencies that are currently based in rented accommodation; and the cost of annual rent for each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      869. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 544 and 619 of 30 June 2026, the way in which the forecasted overspends of the Department of...
    • Expenditure Reviews
      871. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public...
    • Departmental Data
      875. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55586/26]
    • Office of Government Procurement
      876. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of tenders that the Office of Government Procurement put out for the provision of hospitality staff during Ireland's...
    • Departmental Data
      877. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding any product or service purchased from Japan by his Department in 2025 or to date in 2026, broken down by...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      878. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures currently in place to ensure fair access for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to public procurement opportunities;...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      879. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the current projected timeframe for each flood relief scheme intended to protect settlements in east Cork affected by Storm...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      880. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered designating large scale geological energy storage projects under the Critical Infrastructure Act 2026 process; and...
    • Departmental Data
      881. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to re-instate the supplementary pension for members of uniformed services which was abolished under the post-2013...
    • Office of Public Works
      882. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has received a request from An Garda Síochána or the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and...
    • State Properties
      883. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of State-owned properties that are currently vacant, by county; the number of months they have been vacant for;...
    • Office of Public Works
      884. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding allocated to maintaining vacant properties owned by the OPW, broken down by property since they were originally vacated; the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      886. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the flood relief projects currently under construction and funded by the OPW; and the timeframe for each of those projects be completed,...
    • Protected Disclosures
      887. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the provisions introduced by the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022, which amended the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, can be...
    • Pension Provisions
      888. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average pensionable years of service upon retirement, by gender of employees of the public service; the average annual public...
    • Office of Public Works
      889. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of buildings in the Office of Public Works estate that are fully wheelchair accessible; the number that are not; the...
    • Departmental Data
      890. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount paid from public funds in lump sum fines and daily or periodic penalty payments arising from judgments of the Court of...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      891. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a service (details supplied) was listed on the Office of Government Procurement framework for the provision of cleaning services...
    • Departmental Data
      892. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the trend in total public expenditure over the past decade; the way these trends compare with key economic indicators including GDP...
    • State Properties
      893. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of publicly-owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use;...
    • Departmental Staff
      894. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE qualified legal advisers currently working within his Department, in tabular form. [56921/26]
    • Expenditure Reviews
      895. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process of establishing a Budget Oversight Group under Phase 5 of the new Expenditure Control and Escalation Process; the person or...
    • Departmental Data
      896. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if minutes will be published for the two new Budgetary Oversight Groups in the Department of Education and Youth, and the Department of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      897. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the correspondence his Department has issued and-or received from a company (details supplied) regarding the Israeli Settlements in the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      899. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      900. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any...
    • Departmental Policies
      901. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update in respect of the Digital Public Services Plan 2030 plans to commit to the digitalisation of 189 applicable key public...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      902. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he can provide an update as to the usage of the Guidelines for the Responsible Use of AI in the Public Service; if his Department is...
    • Office of Public Works
      903. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Departmental policy in relation to the use of glyphosate-based herbicides by the Office of Public Works; and...
    • Expenditure Reviews
      905. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details of the rate of expenditure control levy applied across all Government departments; the estimated value of the levy in...
    • Office of Public Works
      907. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE qualified health and safety advisors that are directly employed by the OPW as of 15 July 2026; the civil service grade...
    • Commemorative Events
      908. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans to commemorate the escape of Red Hugh O'Donnell from Dublin Castle; and if he will consider erecting a plaque onsite to...
    • Office of Public Works
      909. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works has undertaken or plans to undertake, a coastal erosion risk assessment in Rush, County Dublin; if...
    • Departmental Data
      914. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of Exchequer funding, grants, service-level agreement funding and other public monies provided to non-governmental...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      919. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      920. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is ever...
    • Ministerial Communications
      921. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58684/26]
    • Industrial Relations
      924. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether provision has been made, or is being considered within Budget 2027 to facilitate a negotiated settlement of outstanding...
    • Departmental Data
      925. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures currently in place to prevent businesses engaging in cartel like behaviour in the sharing of public contracts; if sanctions...
    • An Garda Síochána
      927. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the former Hollywood Garda Station in Wicklow; if title issues have been resolved; and if he will make a...
    • Office of Public Works
      928. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on levels of vacancy across OPW properties; the properties vacant in the Phoenix Park, including the former Garda...
    • Housing Provision
      929. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration has been given to increasing the amount of funding allocated for strategic infrastructure projects in Galway East,...
    • Local Authorities
      930. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding is available to support cybersecurity and digital infrastructure within local authorities; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      931. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Government has conducted an assessment of the risks and opportunities associated with artificial intelligence across the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      932. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net cost to the exchequer of a 1% increase in the public sector pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59164/26]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      933. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on phase two of the wad river flood alleviation scheme, including the current stage of the project; the anticipated...
    • Office of Public Works
      935. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail all the OPW-owned sites in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59407/26]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      936. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail, each allocation made to Louth County Council under the OPW's minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection...
    • Pension Provisions
      938. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the interdepartmental working group looking at the procedures for qualifying for the payment of an...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      940. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding CFRAM in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59412/26]
    • National Development Plan
      941. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the management of the NDP rollout and breaking into project financing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Social Media
      943. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he will examine the introduction of dedicated legislation regulating commercial influencers, including statutory advertising...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      944. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he will legislate to require commercial images that have materially altered a person’s face or body, or that have been...
    • Online Safety
      945. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether consideration has been given to prohibiting manipulative digital commercial practices aimed at children, including fake...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      946. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total level of Exchequer expenditure allocated to supporting foreign direct investment, relative to expenditure allocated to...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      947. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department had with Irish writers, publishers and musicians regarding the impact of artificial intelligence on...
    • Programme for Government
      948. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to “work to progress recommendations of the Shannon...
    • Job Losses
      949. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether a collective redundancy notification has been received from a company (details supplied) under the Protection of Employment...
    • Climate Change Policy
      950. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures in place to ensure that large-scale industrial developments, including data centres, operate in a manner that supports...
    • Tourism Industry
      951. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to safeguard Ireland’s vibrant and essential tourism industry, particularly in regions such as County Kerry (details...
    • Departmental Data
      952. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of exports from firms located in County Cork, broken down by sector and destination market, for each of the years 2022 to...
    • Trade Missions
      953. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies from County Cork that participated in Enterprise Ireland supported trade missions in 2024 and 2025; the...
    • Departmental Data
      954. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of exports from County Cork to the United States, United Kingdon, Canada, India, Australia and key ASEAN markets in each of...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      956. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has given consideration to providing additional supports that are available to small businesses in Galway east...
    • Job Creation
      958. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports being put in place to attract new employers to County Wexford and the surrounding region; and if he will make a...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      960. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to ensure that rural enterprises and businesses in County Wexford remain funded; and if he will make a...
    • Intellectual Property
      961. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures being taken to protect the copyright, intellectual property rights and economic livelihoods of Irish artists in the...
    • Ministerial Communications
      962. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on a meeting (details supplied); who was in attendance; the matters discussed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Projects
      963. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department has completed an assessment of the potential for regional bioenergy clusters in counties with strong...
    • Work Permits
      964. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to review a work permit for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55159/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      965. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when finance (details supplied) for SMEs will reopen for applications for the finance products they provide; and if he will make a...
    • Work Permits
      966. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the current employment permit rules and criteria; if the employment length rule will be examined; his views on...
    • Consumer Protection
      968. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections, investigations, compliance notices and prosecutions undertaken by the CCPC regarding undisclosed...
    • Job Losses
      969. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in light of redundancies in an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin; if he will call on the company to fully engage with...
    • Employment Rights
      974. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures in place to ensure that employers undertaking collective redundancies comply with their obligations under the Protection...
    • Wage-setting Mechanisms
      975. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the action plan to promote collective bargaining required under Directive (EU) 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages; the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      976. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public...
    • Departmental Data
      977. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55579/26]
    • Job Creation
      983. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs which have been created in Dublin west by Enterprise Ireland during each of the past ten years, in tabular form;...
    • Corporate Governance
      985. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE forensic accountants and enforcement lawyer posts that have been filled at Corporate Enforcement Authority as of 15...
    • Employment Rights
      986. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanisms in place in an Irish context to prevent against targeted redundancy measures against certain cohorts of employees with...
    • Protected Disclosures
      989. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken by his Department to ensure that genuine whistleblowers (details supplied) are not boycotted or deprived of...
    • Employment Rights
      990. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if consideration has been given to producing guidance or minimum...
    • Departmental Regulations
      991. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider introducing a statutory minimum implementation period between the signing of an Employment Regulation Order and...
    • Work Permits
      992. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current average processing times for employment permit applications, renewals, and appeals; the actions being taken to reduce the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      993. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training,...
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      995. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the NSAI root cause analysis under the Housing Implementation Fund to identify constraints on the agrément...
    • State Bodies
      997. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland plans to open an office in Abu Dhabi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56069/26]
    • Data Centres
      999. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any incentives or obligations under review within his Department that would support data centres in the use of...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      1002. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-supported jobs in County Clare in each of the past five years. [56176/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1003. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new businesses registered in County Clare in each of the past five years. [56177/26]
    • Tourism Industry
      1004. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of tourism capital funding allocated to attractions in County Clare during each of the past ten years. [56178/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1005. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in County Clare exporting goods and services with support from Enterprise Ireland. [56179/26]
    • Job Creation
      1006. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department is taking to create jobs in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56180/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1007. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant industrial units in County Clare currently owned by State agencies. [56181/26]
    • Tourism Promotion
      1009. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated to tourism development projects in Donegal in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1010. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the name of external security companies contracted by IDA Ireland to provide security personnel at its business parks; and the...
    • Local Authorities
      1011. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is funding available for a local authority to develop a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits
      1012. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the current 50:50 employment permits rule as it applies to the nursing home sector; if he will consider...
    • Employment Rights
      1013. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to respond to a person (details supplied); if will consider legislation that would enforce such considerations; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Data
      1017. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous...
    • Industrial Development
      1018. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA Ireland site visits to each county: the number of jobs in IDA client companies in each county, in each of the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1019. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names of external companies that are contracted to provide cleaning and security personnel to his Department in the years of...
    • Export Controls
      1020. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to list each occasion on which the Department has stated that its examination of alumina exports to Russia was nearing finalisation...
    • Departmental Data
      1021. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 14 July 2026, the data his Department relied in identifying the discrepancy between the...
    • Regional Development
      1024. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide details of all successful applications from Cork county under the Regional Enterprise Development Fund and the smart...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      1025. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagements undertaken by IDA Ireland during 2024 and 2025 in seeking foreign direct investment opportunities for locations...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1026. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans in place to enhance tourism infrastructure and visitor experiences along the N22 corridor between Ballincollig and...
    • Tourism Industry
      1027. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of funding allocated in Cork county under sustainable tourism development programmes in each of the past three years; the...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      1028. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives being undertaken to support enterprise development and commercial occupancy in the town centres of Macroom and...
    • Employment Data
      1030. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the sectors in Cork county currently experiencing the greatest labour and skills shortages; the measures being taken to address such...
    • Enterprise Policy
      1031. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the implementation of the South-West Regional Enterprise Plan insofar as it relates to Cork county; the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1032. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available for food, agri-tech and agri-business companies operating in Cork North-West; the number of enterprises that...
    • Food Industry
      1033. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of capital investment assistance approved by Enterprise Ireland and other agencies under the remit of his Department for...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1036. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to assist family-owned food manufacturing and agri-business enterprises with succession planning, digital...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1043. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1044. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any...
    • Legislative Measures
      1045. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department will consider introducing legislation to ensure money held by ticket platforms for live music events and...
    • Employment Rights
      1046. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to address to the increasingly widespread use of fire and rehire practices and mass redundancies...
    • Work Permits
      1049. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on an employment permit appeal application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1050. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether, in light of the proposed changes to the passenger cap at Dublin Airport, Fáilte Ireland will increase its promotion of...
    • Job Losses
      1051. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter regarding redundancies (details supplied) [57617/26]
    • Work Permits
      1052. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider adding the occupation of healthcare assistant to the critical skills occupations list, in view of the continuing...
    • Job Losses
      1054. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of reports that a manufacturing plant (details supplied) is due to close, resulting in job losses in a small rural...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1055. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the review of the grow digital voucher scheme. [57836/26]
    • Export Controls
      1057. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to clarify the situation regarding the alumina plant in County Limerick; the steps being taken to ensure materials being exported...
    • Job Creation
      1058. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the plans for development by the IDA on lands a locations (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Export Controls
      1059. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of dual-use goods exports to Israel for the period 1 January 2025 to 1 July 2026, in tabular form. [58496/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1060. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the expected timeline for the completion of the review of furniture fire regulations; if his Department has assessed the...
    • Fire Safety
      1061. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has assessed the environmental impacts of continued reliance on petrochemical polyurethane foam and associated flame...
    • EU Presidency
      1062. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for...
    • State Gifts
      1063. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1064. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1065. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1066. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58677/26]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      1069. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the proposed reform of the Local Enterprise Offices; the details of the proposed reforms; the timeline for...
    • Business Supports
      1070. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the recommendations included in the Cost of Business Advisory Forum Report; the impact these recommendations will...
    • Industrial Development
      1071. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA Ireland client companies, IDA-supported jobs and IDA site visits in each county in each of the past ten years, in...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      1072. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and value of Enterprise Ireland supports approved for companies in each county in each of the past ten years, together...
    • Workplace Relations Services
      1074. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in view of reports by an organisation (details supplied) the measures he has taken to investigate these breaches and ensure workers...
    • Job Creation
      1078. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration is being given to provide more grants targeted at creating employment or by directing investment to lesser...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      1079. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the additional supports being considered for independent retailers in Galway East facing increased labour, insurance and energy...
    • Enterprise Policy
      1085. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the work of the IDA in County Louth in the past 12 months, including the work done to try to prevent...
    • Economic Data
      1086. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the state of sectors in the economy such as pharma, technology and med-tech; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Enterprise Policy
      1087. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work being done by his Department, in conjunction with other Departments, on the development of an all-Ireland enterprise hub;...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1088. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work his Department has done to increase cross-Border tourism; if work is under way to market the Newry, Mourne, Gullion, Cooley...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1089. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work being done by his Department, and the engagement with other Departments and Government agencies, to address concerns around...
    • Tourism Funding
      1091. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of tourism-related capital and current funding allocated to each local authority area in each of the past ten years, by...
    • Industrial Relations
      1093. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress that has been made on the Action Plan to Promote Collective Bargaining since its publication; and if he will make a...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1095. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline whether Fáilte Ireland has any plans to work with Cork City Council and local community organisations to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1096. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      1099. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the school bus ticket application; if the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current works that are taking place at a school (details supplied) [56146/26]
    • Departmental Programmes
      1101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress of the solar for schools programme; the number of schools that have availed of the programme to date, in a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual Exchequer cost of restoring the special education diploma allowance to all teachers who have completed the recognised special...
    • School Transport
      1103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the names and locations of the 11 new pilot school transport routes that are to be introduced under the school transport scheme; to...
    • Teacher Training
      1105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available for graduates undertaking private professional master of education programmes in teacher shortage subjects,...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      1106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she intends to review the qualification recognition and equivalency process for teachers with verified overseas teaching qualifications...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding ongoing work in relation to putting in place support mechanisms for children classed as twice exceptional that also have...
    • School Transport
      1112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if accommodation can be made for a new pick up point in Tinure, County Louth, on a school bus route (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills each nationally available programme during 2026 through which students collect, geolocate, classify or analyse real-world scientific...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      1114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the criteria used by her Department to award incremental salary credit to returning Irish teachers with overseas experience;...
    • After-School Support Services
      1115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she is taking to support the provision of afterschool activities linked directly to primary school; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      1119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the number of applications for school transport in County Wexford for the 2025-2026 academic year; the number of pupils who...
    • School Admissions
      1120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with additional needs in County Wexford who are currently without a suitable school place for the upcoming academic year;...
    • Industrial Relations
      1121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the contractual basis on which her Department decided to withdraw the agreed local bargaining (pay) measure for special needs...
    • School Staff
      1122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) is due to lose a teaching post despite having been granted DEIS Plus status in 2026; whether...
    • School Equipment
      1123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has conducted an audit of recognised post-primary schools that require students to purchase or lease a laptop or digital...
    • School Textbooks
      1126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding provided under the free schoolbooks scheme since its introduction, in each county, at both primary and post-primary level, for...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has undertaken any review or evaluation of the impact of the free schoolbooks scheme on the overall back-to-school costs...
    • School Equipment
      1129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have informed her Department that they require one-to-one student laptops. [55010/26]
    • School Admissions
      1130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the date for the opening of the online portal for applications for special school places for the 2027-2028 school year has been moved...
    • Teacher Training
      1131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has assessed the Postgraduate Diploma in Inclusive and Special Education (PDISE) offered by Maynooth University for...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by her Department to determine which higher education institutions are recognised and funded under Circular 0035/2025 for...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      1137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Teaching Council will review a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55109/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers employed in primary and post-primary schools in County Clare in each of the past five years; and the current number of...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pupil-teacher ratio in each primary and post-primary school in County Clare. [55150/26]
    • School Staff
      1142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts allocated to County Clare schools under DEIS, special education and language support programmes. [55151/26]
    • School Textbooks
      1143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has undertaken, or intends to undertake, a review of the eligibility criteria for the post-primary schoolbooks scheme to...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the full membership of the AI External Advisory Taskforce will be published; if all members have now been appointed; if she will provide...
    • School Admissions
      1145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child in County Kildare (details supplied) will receive a special school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55312/26]
    • School Transport
      1146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay in the commencement of a school transport route (details supplied); the reasons for the substantial delay in this...
    • Programme for Government
      1147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the Programme for Government commitment of bringing pupil teacher ratio levels down to European norms of 19:1; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      1148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the online portal for school transport applications will be amended to allow applicants to nominate a pick-up and drop-off location...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the next steps she will take for a school (details supplied); to outline a timetable for the commencement of construction; and if she will make...
    • School Staff
      1153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be additional funding provided to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare to employ a caretaker and a second secretary given...
    • School Accommodation
      1154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by her Department to prioritise additional school accommodation applications, particularly where applications relate to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to reduce delays in progression of school building projects currently at Stage 2a and Stage 2b in Cork north-west; the...
    • School Accommodation
      1156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools awaiting approval for prefabricated or modular accommodation for September 2026 in Cork north-west; the number of these...
    • School Transport
      1157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in implementing the recommendation of the School Transport 2030 Report; the timeline for removing or amending the nearest...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up to date position of the education therapy rollout; the number of special schools included to date; the number of these located in Cork...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to strengthen digital literacy, AI awareness and misinformation education across primary and post-primary schools; and...
    • School Staff
      1162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position on the implementation of teacher supply measures announced in 2025, including the proposal to allow eligible teachers to...
    • Programme for Government
      1163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects to provide a consolidated update on each Programme for Government commitment assigned to her Department; the timeframe for this...
    • Traffic Management
      1164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department has had with Cork County Council and the Department of Transport regarding traffic management and road safety...
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      1165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to support schools in tackling bullying, cyberbullying and online harassment; the resources available to schools in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 30 June 2026, to advise on the project progression for a new school building project (details...
    • School Transport
      1168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering changes to the method of payment for school bus escorts, given the financial pressures the current model places...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efficiency and reform proposals that her Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service...
    • School Accommodation
      1174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) under the additional school accommodation scheme; whether funding will be provided...
    • School Admissions
      1175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new special classes and new classes in special schools that will be opened in Dublin West for September 2026 across secondary and...
    • Departmental Communications
      1176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under her Department, in tabular form. [55578/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      1177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE structural engineers employed within her Department as of 14 July 2026, in tabular form. [55619/26]
    • School Staff
      1178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers on the substitute supply panel in Donegal at present; and the number in 2022, in tabular form. [55620/26]
    • School Accommodation
      1179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following a submission of stage 2b paperwork under the ASA scheme by a school (details supplied), the estimated timeline and when a decision is...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 15 July 2026, to provide information on the identified level of need for a special education place...
    • School Facilities
      1181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if condition surveys have been undertaken at schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55709/26]
    • School Transport
      1182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport routes for children with additional needs over the past five years, in tabular form. [55747/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the application for an extension for a school (details supplied) will be finalised, as funding was granted in excess of three years ago and...
    • Pension Provisions
      1184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on discussions to resolve the pension dispute for school caretakers and secretaries. [55800/26]
    • School Facilities
      1185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policies that exist to ensure a minimum level of space for sporting and recreational purposes are provided in the construction of new...
    • School Staff
      1186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered conducting a review of requirements for part-time teachers and carers (detailed supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Home Schooling
      1187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review on the decision not to grant July home tuition for a child (details supplied) will be carried out; and if she will make a statement...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training, introductory or...
    • School Transport
      1189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a school bus ticket is granted to a student (details supplied). [55884/26]
    • School Facilities
      1192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding options available to schools to improve school access and safety for pupils through the development of a new entranceway or vehicle...
    • School Accommodation
      1193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of an additional school accommodation application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      1194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider and reply to correspondence outlining concerns regarding Teaching Council registration for Irish teachers returning from abroad...
    • School Transport
      1195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school transport options available to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55901/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed new school building (details supplied). [55902/26]
    • Education Policy
      1197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on her Department's preparation, in conjunction with the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, of a...
    • School Transport
      1198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being implemented to ensure that the school bus services are in full operation in all areas for the start of the 2026-2027 school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on existing school building projects in Dublin and Wexford which are not yet approved; the current stage of each; and if she will...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on pupil to teacher ratios of classrooms in primary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55981/26]
    • School Staff
      1205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education teachers and SNAs allocated to schools in County Wexford for the past three years; the increases that have been...
    • School Transport
      1206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the implementation of the school transport review; the measures she is taking to ensure every child who wants a place on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is concerned at decisions made for SNA allocations which are not meeting need in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      1210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Wexford without special school transport for the 2026-2027 school year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the €20 million Youth Fund. [56011/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      1212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the 1.5% local bargaining pay increase and improved leave arrangements were made conditional on accepting the wider SNA Workforce...
    • School Transport
      1216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school transport application for a child (details supplied); whether a decision has been made; and if she will make a statement...
    • Pension Provisions
      1217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the incremental credit that a primary teacher post-1995 has received for work abroad can be superannuated on retirement for pension purposes;...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      1218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that the redevelopment of a school (details supplied) will be delivered in a way that will accommodate co-education provision in the...
    • School Accommodation
      1219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pre-fab classrooms per national school in Dublin west; and the number of children per school. [56148/26]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      1220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has received an EWS application to repair burst pipes at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Residential Institutions
      1221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the supports that were committed to be delivered for survivors of industrial and reformatory schools (details supplied);...
    • School Transport
      1222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school transport options available to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56158/26]
    • Animal Welfare
      1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a practice in some schools for which animal welfare concerns have been raised (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      1224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to request a review of the Teaching Council's registration process for teachers who obtained their teaching qualifications and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for assistive technology in Dublin that were granted in each of the years from 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in...
    • School Transport
      1230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average age of school buses that have been part of the Bus Éireann fleet in each of the past three years, in tabular form. [56214/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given the case of a school (details supplied) and the uncertainty regarding the timeline in relation to the promised new ASD Unit in that...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 310 of 16 July 2026, if she will facilitate a meeting with a former teacher in relation to the pay dispute...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the opening of a school (details supplied) in Bray; if the school remains on schedule to open in September 2026; when...
    • Departmental Policies
      1237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on her Department's consideration of the need for a new post-primary school in Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on planned investment in additional school buildings in Louth for schools (details supplied); and the stage each project is...
    • Departmental Data
      1241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department holds data on the number of primary and post-primary schools that are not fully wheelchair accessible; the funding...
    • Departmental Funding
      1242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided to date for the storage of mobile phones in post-primary schools; the number of schools that have availed of this funding;...
    • Departmental Policies
      1243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will commit to ensuring the developing teacher post remains allocated for a school (details supplied) given the...
    • Departmental Data
      1244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year costs if 300 additional special needs assistants were recruited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56536/26]
    • School Transport
      1245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school transport options that are available to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56556/26]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      1246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider giving digital access to all DEIS schools for JCSP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56568/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on and proposed timeline for the extension of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56664/26]
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department covers the legal and administrative 'contract variation' costs imposed by public-private partnership (PPP) operators when a...
    • Education Policy
      1250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 561 of 16 July 2026, if her Department is currently considering altering the procedures for primary...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      1251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which wastewater capacity will be provided for a new special school (details supplied). [56778/26]
    • Budget 2027
      1252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support in Budget 2027 the expansion of a school-based experiential learning programme, delivered by an independent, not-for-profit...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a pre-budget campaign (details supplied); the actions she will take to address the specific issues outlined;...
    • School Staff
      1257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an initiative that seeks to address the number of teaching posts that are not filled across the country; and if she will...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding work ongoing within her Department to reduce the student-teacher ratio in secondary schools; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding work ongoing within her Department that seeks to increase the provision of special education teachers to ensure the best...
    • School Enrolments
      1264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of approved school places required in County Kerry at primary and post-primary level over the next five years; and the schools where...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the number of special education places available in Kerry; the demand for special educational needs places in Kerry;...
    • Library Services
      1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently address an number of issues raised in relation to children's books in school libraries (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      1268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use; the...
    • School Costs
      1269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average expenditure of schools in County Kerry on electricity and heating in each of the years from 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the request by a school (details supplied) to provide a large-scale communication board to support students,...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for new schools or school extension within Dublin Mid-West due to the population increases; the funding associated with these; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the SNA allocations for each second level school in Dublin Mid-West for the 2025 to 2026 and 2026 to 2027 school years, in tabular form; and if...
    • School Textbooks
      1278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered extending the free schoolbooks scheme to all children in secondary education, including fee-paying schools; and...
    • School Transport
      1279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the provision of a school bus service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57108/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in which free period products are now provided, broken down by primary and post primary; the current cost; her plans to...
    • Education Schemes
      1281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of teachers and parents regarding the way in which the home based summer provision scheme was...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a school (details supplied) within the Department’s capital programme; the originally projected delivery timelines...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students enrolled per class for a school (details supplied) for each of the years 2024, 2025 and 2026; the staff ratio for the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within her Department and in bodies under the aegis of her Department in 2025 and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the usage of artificial intelligence within her Department; the categories of usage;the usage of artificial intelligence within any bodies under...
    • School Transport
      1287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether provision exists within the school transport scheme for children with special educational needs for consideration to be given in cases...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address issues pertaining to a school in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57260/26]
    • Departmental Circulars
      1289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in light of circular 0054/2026 (details supplied) whether she has plans to restore such allowances to post primary teachers under Budget 2027;...
    • School Transport
      1290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school transport options available to two siblings (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57263/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average class size in Kerry in each of the past five years. [57273/26]
    • School Admissions
      1292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if local families in Rathcoole, Saggart, Citywest and surrounding areas who are experiencing difficulty in securing primary or post-primary...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress made to date on the planning application for works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      1299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to improve financial literacy among students in primary and post-primary schools; whether consideration is being given to...
    • Departmental Data
      1300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, median, maximum and minimum primary school class sizes for the Cork City and Cork County council area from 2019 to date in 2026, in...
    • School Staff
      1301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 28 May 2026, if she will approve funding for a fixed-term mainstream class teacher at a school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the special school place for a person (details supplied). [57648/26]
    • Budget 2027
      1304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she will take in budget 2027 to address primary teacher shortages and overcrowded classrooms, given their impact on student...
    • Data Protection
      1305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of data breaches experienced by her Department from 2024 to 2025 and to date in 2026; if a breakdown will be provided on the nature...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review correspondence (details supplied); if she will address the issues outlined; the actions her Department are taking on this issue; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the additional school accommodation project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      1317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the applications received for the school transport scheme in each of the past five years, broken down by applications...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the large-scale project at a school (details supplied); the consideration that is being given to the sustainability report...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for delivery of SEN repurposing projects under the School Capital Programme in Dublin mid-west (details supplied); if the projects...
    • Departmental Funding
      1332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 18 June 2026, if an update is available in relation to the SEN repurposing project for the school;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the additional school accommodation project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      1336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of teachers currently in receipt of the special education diploma allowance, broken down by education sector and by county, in...
    • School Transport
      1339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has undertaken any analysis of the geographical distribution of unsuccessful school transport scheme applications in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional accommodation scheme application for a school (details supplied); the stage of the application currently; when it is...
    • School Funding
      1341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to strongly consider an emergency works scheme appeal for a school (details supplied) to repair hazardous and unsafe flooring and carpeting...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      1342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application to the Teaching Council for post primary qualifications assessment (details supplied); if the application will be...
    • School Curriculum
      1343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a schools folklore collection could be re-instated for school children, of primary age, similar to the 1937 and 1939 scheme which stands as...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building projects on the Department’s Capital Programme, as of the latest date for which figures are available,...
    • School Accommodation
      1346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the details of every school approved for modular accommodation where the accommodation has not yet been delivered, as of the latest...
    • School Transport
      1347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure by her Department on the purchase of school buses, broken down by county, year and number of buses purchased, since 2022 to date...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD classes approved but not yet opened, as of the latest date for which figures are available, broken down by county, together...
    • School Accommodation
      1351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools using rented or temporary accommodation as their primary teaching space, as of the latest date for which figures are...
    • School Enrolments
      1352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools operating above their stated capacity, as of the latest date for which figures are available, by county, in tabular form....
    • School Funding
      1354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received and approved under the emergency works scheme, together with the total funding allocated, by county and year...
    • Irish Language
      1355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she has reconsidered, or intends to reconsider, her Department’s policy that no new Gaelscoileanna or Gaelcholáistí...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she accepts the recommendations contained in the Department’s School Transport 2030 – Review of the School...
    • School Transport
      1357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has considered, or intends to consider, amending the eligibility criteria for the school transport scheme to recognise...
    • School Staff
      1359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mental health professionals currently working directly in post-primary schools, broken down by county and school; whether her...
    • Departmental Policies
      1363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her Department’s consideration of permitting persons aged over 70 years to drive school buses; the current status of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD classes that have opened and are operational in Dublin 9 and 11 for each of the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form. [58015/26]
    • School Transport
      1365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process in place to ensure bus services will be in place prior to the commencement of the school term for students. [58016/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date when the review of the school transport scheme was commissioned; the date it was received by her; the date it was published; and the...
    • School Equipment
      1367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on reports that a number of schools have made compulsory the purchase of tablet computers by parents and/or guardians for post-primary...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to reducing class size, given the recent response to my Parliamentary Question whereby the 23:1 pupil-teacher...
    • School Transport
      1369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport and an escort will be provided for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58238/26]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      1370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2027 if the number of full-time psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service increased to 255; and if...
    • School Transport
      1371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planned increases in school bus provision for September 2026 term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58498/26]
    • National Council for Special Education
      1372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals to the NCSE by county; and the amount of successful appeals over each of the last five years. [58512/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals made to the primary staffing appeals body regarding loss of a teacher(s) by county; and the number of successful appeals...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed breakdown of her Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for attendees and...
    • Departmental Data
      1375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in her capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary value; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by her Department and all bodies under her aegis in...
    • Departmental Policies
      1377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within her Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is ever used in...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she uses personal emails for Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58676/26]
    • School Staff
      1381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school secretaries and caretakers currently employed in recognised primary and post-primary schools; the number who remain outside...
    • National Council for Special Education
      1383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children whose parents completed the NCSE parents notify process for admission to a special class or special school during the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether consideration is being given to developing the parents notify process into a single national application and matching system for special...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she will be taking to reduce class sizes and give every child more attention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58805/26]
    • Education Policy
      1388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she will be taking to support inclusive education and meet growing pupil needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capitation Grants
      1391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be considering an increase to the capitation grant, given the grant amount has remained at the same level for 13 years; and if she...
    • School Costs
      1393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be considering an increase to the ancillary services grant, given the grant has remained stagnant while costs have increased; and if...
    • Education Policy
      1394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her proposals to attract primary school teachers who were trained in Ireland but now work abroad back to the teaching roles in Ireland; and if...
    • School Funding
      1396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering the introduction of a school supplies scheme for primary school teachers, given the narrow budgets schools have to operate...
    • Education Policy
      1397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures her Department is planning to support training, workload protections, and resources for the implementation of the senior cycle...
    • Teacher Training
      1401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department have plans to reduce the Professional Master of Education from two years back to one year, in order to cut down the high...
    • Education Policy
      1403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department have plans to review and compress the lengthy teacher pay scales so educators reach their maximum earning potential faster;...
    • Budget 2027
      1410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with officials of the Teachers Union of Ireland with regard to Budget 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      1417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58899/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools, post-primary schools, special schools, special classes, special education teachers and special needs assistants...
    • School Staff
      1429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional measures being considered in budget 2027 to increase the number of special needs assistants in mainstream and special schools;...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      1432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the case of a school (details supplied) that is awaiting the commencement of works under the climate action summer...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a full breakdown of legal costs and court settlements in cases involving families seeking appropriate school places for children, on...
    • School Staff
      1434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the analysis that has been carried out by her Department to assess the deficit of Irish-speaking teachers to staff primary and post-primary...
    • Departmental Projects
      1436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review has been carried out of the applytoschool.ie pilot enrolment; if it is intended to roll this system out any further; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD units in primary schools in Wicklow; the number of requests that have been received from schools to establish further ASD...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school building project will proceed to the next stage ( details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59040/26]
    • Youth Services
      1439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered increasing support for youth organisations in Galway whose funding has yet to match inflation, particularly...
    • School Enrolments
      1440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who, as of the latest available date, have not secured a school place for the 2026/27 academic year; the number of these...
    • Education Schemes
      1442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who have been approved for the home tuition grant scheme due to the unavailability of an appropriate school place in each...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on all school capital projects in Galway East, including new school buildings, extensions, refurbishments and other works...
    • School Accommodation
      1445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline her Department's plan and timeline for delivering additional school places in Ballincollig (details supplied), including the...
    • Youth Work Projects
      1446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans in her Department, including budget 2027 plans, for an assessment of the funding of youthwork services in the State; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the plans and timelines for the expansion of the school inclusion model and school based therapies for special schools, for autism...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to streamline the school building programme application model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59210/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to provide additional autism units at primary and secondary schools in County Louth for the September 2026 intake of...
    • School Transport
      1454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to update the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59214/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to update the educational system at primary and secondary level to cater for students with mild learning disabilities; and if she will...
    • School Staff
      1456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to update the SNA allocation process in primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59216/26]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      1457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of emergency work funding to fix a fire safety issue for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      1458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is engaging with a school’s (details supplied) request for modular accommodation that can facilitate the opening of two...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 on 2 July 2026, the current stage of the tender evaluation process for the permanent school building...
    • Departmental Funding
      1460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures are...
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • EU Presidency
      1463. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the total budget allocated to Cultúr 2026, the cultural programme accompanying Ireland's Presidency of the Council of...
    • Budget 2027
      1465. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to support a Pre-Budget submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56908/26]
    • National Cultural Institutions
      1466. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an update on the progress, estimated completion date, costs incurred so far and expected completion costs for...
    • Departmental Funding
      1467. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when the small scale festivals grants will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54932/26]
    • Sports Funding
      1468. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the total amount of funding allocated under the 2024 Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; the total amount drawn down by...
    • Telecommunications Services
      1476. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the level of coordination that exists between his Department, ComReg, telecommunications providers, and An Garda...
    • Arts Funding
      1480. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the total cost to the State of the co-production of a play (details supplied), including any capital or programme funding...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1481. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when full telephone and broadband reception will be available at Dromid, Waterville, County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Online Safety
      1484. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the findings of the EU Commission Report into online safety (details supplied); if the...
    • Culture Policy
      1489. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department will work with organisations (details supplied) and others in order to include road bowling on the...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      1490. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure,...
    • Departmental Communications
      1491. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form....
    • Departmental Staff
      1492. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of external recruitment campaigns for posts at the grade of higher executive officer within his Department that...
    • Arts Policy
      1493. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of the challenges facing Irish publishers and authors in securing...
    • Sports Events
      1495. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether Sport Ireland was consulted before the decision to host a One Day International (ODI) series against Afghanistan;...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      1497. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has considered the investment of €1.9 million sought by TG4 to upgrade its news studio in...
    • Culture Policy
      1498. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to initiate a formal process to have the Claddagh ring recognised under Ireland's framework for intangible cultural...
    • Departmental Staff
      1499. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1501. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the amount of funding provided by Sport Ireland to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years of 2025 and...
    • Departmental Staff
      1503. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of WTE qualified historians employed by his Department as of 15 July 2026, in tabular form. [56300/26]
    • Social Media
      1506. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether a Data Protection Impact Assessment has been completed in respect of any proposed age assurance or age...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1507. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the planned launch date for applications under the proposed arts capital scheme. [56600/26]
    • Sports Funding
      1508. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the specific agreed mechanisms between his Department, the Department of Education and Youth, the NDFA, and PPP consortia...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      1509. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the measures he will take in Budget 2027 to support the sustainability of the independent radio sector; and if he will...
    • Media Sector
      1510. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the measures his Department is taking to support the sustainability of local and regional newspapers and digital news...
    • Vacant Properties
      1511. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last...
    • Sports Funding
      1512. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the funding allocated to each county under the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme and any successor scheme, and under...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1513. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the current and capital budget allocation for an organisation (details supplied) in the years of 2025 and 2026, in tabular...
    • Departmental Functions
      1514. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the amount of capital and current funding allocated by his Department and it's agencies to arts, culture and heritage...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1515. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department has assessed the inclusion of towns in County Cork, including Macroom and Millstreet, in any future...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1516. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the measures being taken by his Department to improve mobile phone and data coverage in rural parts of Cork north-west;...
    • Swimming Pools
      1517. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department has undertaken an assessment of swimming pool capacity in County Cork; the identified deficits in...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1518. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1519. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence...
    • Culture Ireland
      1520. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the number of applications and the number of successful applicants for funding from Culture Ireland each year since its...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      1527. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the plans, if any, that exist to establish a storage facility for the collections of the national cultural institutions;...
    • National Library
      1530. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the plans to allow the National Library of Ireland to capture and archive .ie domain websites, or to require such work as...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1531. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department will urgently investigate the continued lack of available broadband at a village core housing estate/...
    • Sports Funding
      1532. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when he expects the next round of Community Sport Facilities Fund and the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund to open...
    • EU Presidency
      1535. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1536. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1537. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1538. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams;...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1539. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58674/26]
    • Culture Ireland
      1542. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide the criteria Culture Ireland must adhere to when awarding funding; if they must provide reasons for a refusal...
    • Legislative Measures
      1543. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an update on moves to bring RTÉ under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will...
    • Sports Funding
      1544. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the funding allocated under the Women in Sport Programme to sporting organisations in Galway East, in tabular form; and if...
    • Arts Funding
      1545. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department is considering additional funding for community arts centres and cultural venues in County Galway...
    • Broadcasting Charge
      1546. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the engagement his Department has had with TG4 regarding future investment in the Irish language broadcasting; and if he...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1547. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether ComReg, or any other statutory body, has responsibility for reviewing, auditing or determining the reasonableness...
    • Sports Funding
      1548. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the value of Sports Capital and Equipment Programme funding approved in each local authority area in each funding round...
    • Arts Funding
      1549. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the value of arts, heritage and cultural funding allocated to each local authority area in each of the past ten years, by...
    • Budget 2027
      1550. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether he intends to seek and increase in Arts Council funding as part of Budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Online Safety
      1551. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department is considering amending existing online safety laws to grant Coimisiún na Meán more...
    • Arts Policy
      1552. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether he has engaged with the Minister for Social Protection on securing income disregards for grants from the Arts...
    • Departmental Policies
      1553. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether he will introduce a European works levy on streaming platforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      1555. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport to provide the full year costs for the basic income for the arts scheme for each year that it has run; a breakdown of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1556. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1559. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the timetable for publication and implementation of updated Wind Energy Development Guidelines and...
    • Fire Safety
      1561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the recent devastating fire in Killarney National Park, if designated barbeque areas will be considered (details...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      1562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether staffing constraints within State agencies are contributing to delays in the consenting and licensing of renewable...
    • Planning Issues
      1563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional funding that will be provided in Budget 2027 to strengthen the capacity of local authorities to process...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      1564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to use Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place homelessness and housing exclusion...
    • Environmental Policy
      1568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken in response to the referral of Ireland by the European Commission to the Court of Justice of the...
    • Water Quality
      1569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to fund improving water quality, including in rivers and lakes, in Budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Environmental Policy
      1570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to assist communities in dealing with heatwaves, and periods of drought; and if he will...
    • Disability Issues
      1571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if she is aware of a potential gap in care, whereby an adult with an intellectual disability must apply for their future...
    • Environmental Schemes
      1572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider introducing a grant to support households to purchase rainwater harvesting systems, in order...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      1575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the status of the Invasive Species Policy; the specific actions that are being taken in County...
    • Environmental Schemes
      1576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on action in relation rhododendron and cherry laurel in County Wicklow; if there is a broader...
    • Environmental Policy
      1577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the reintroduction of the red kite to County Wicklow; the number of birds each year since the policy...
    • Environmental Schemes
      1578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the grant funding available to resident's groups or organisations towards the cost of establishing rewilding...
    • Flood Risk Management
      1579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the National Flood Forecasting and Warning Service; the level of funding allocated and spent each...
    • Housing Policy
      1580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has assigned capital funding for enabling infrastructure in Athenry, Tuam and Gort to support planned...
    • Local Authorities
      1581. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has assessed the regional distribution of Exchequer funding to local authorities over the past five...
    • Housing Schemes
      1584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 7 July 2026, the reason small landlords in the current RAS with existing rented...
    • Planning Issues
      1585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the ratification of the proposed exempted development regulations for residential dwellings. [54800/26]
    • Water Supply
      1586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the correspondence between his Department and Uisce Éireann in relation to continued loss of water supply in...
    • Housing Schemes
      1588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether under the croi conaithe scheme, particularly as it applies to Islands, a community council could qualify for the croi...
    • Land Development Agency
      1589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding any mechanism in place to ensure that any new build under the management of the LDA has fully...
    • Housing Policy
      1594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to tackle dereliction and vacancy in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54891/26]
    • Rental Sector
      1595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the mechanisms in place to ensure that any rental properties advertised as being available Monday to...
    • Departmental Data
      1597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proportion of P and A agreements on average that are allocated to debt repayment; and the other categories they are...
    • Disability Issues
      1598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review current planning and housing design guidelines to ensure that the needs of families with disabilities are...
    • Housing Schemes
      1599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale for maintaining the first home scheme property price ceiling for County Kildare at €475,000; the data...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, as part of the current review of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme following the publication of I.S. 465:2026,...
    • Housing Policy
      1601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules and regulations surrounding maintaining mixed tenure in cases of acquisition in housing estates (details supplied);...
    • Disability Issues
      1602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are required to reach a decision on medical or disability-related housing appeals within a defined...
    • Environmental Policy
      1603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the work of the Sustainable Hunting of Wild Birds Forum since its suspension in March 2026; and if he will...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      1604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the policy regarding the application of commercial rates to premises operated by charities; whether any recent...
    • Animal Welfare
      1605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cause and nature of a “severe” injury suffered by a hare on day two of Rathkeale and Limerick city coursing...
    • Heritage Sites
      1609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the hours that tours are available of Glenveagh Castle in Glenveagh National Park will now be extended given that staff...
    • Heritage Schemes
      1610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any public funding (excluding the Historic Structures Fund) for temporary or permanent perimeter security...
    • Island Communities
      1611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protocols in place to respond to major emergencies on offshore islands, including the arrangements for total evacuation;...
    • Departmental Policies
      1612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to deliver commitments to independent community living where the availability of supported housing is significantly...
    • Building Regulations
      1613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make a statement on Heads 2 and 6 of the General Scheme of the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill 2024;...
    • Rental Sector
      1615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the continued contraction of the private...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has examined the operation of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 in respect of retirement villages and similar...
    • Departmental Funding
      1617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure,...
    • Departmental Data
      1618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55584/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      1620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the drawdown to date by Cork County Council under the 2026 Social Housing Second Hand Acquisitions Programme; the number of...
    • Housing Provision
      1621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes made available under Part V for Cork County in 2025; the number of these made available for social,...
    • Housing Policy
      1622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position on an action plan for housing options and rightsizing for older people; when it will be published;...
    • Property Registration
      1624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current number of Tailte Éireann registration applications pending, by year of lodgement and application type; the...
    • Housing Provision
      1626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes delivered by Cork County Council in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, broken...
    • Housing Schemes
      1629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in receipt of HAP in County Cork; the average payment made in each household size or category; the...
    • Departmental Data
      1630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected housing output for 2026, broken down by social, affordable, cost rental and private housing; and if he will...
    • Housing Provision
      1631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the quarterly monitoring arrangements in place within his Department to track delivery on housing supply, by each local...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of conservation rangers, district conservation officers and other National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, staff...
    • Heritage Projects
      1633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the heritage and conservation projects in County Cork awaiting approval or a funding allocation; the current stage of each...
    • Environmental Schemes
      1634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the Government has considered the introduction of a grant scheme or other financial supports for household rainwater...
    • Departmental Reports
      1635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report into the fire in Killarney National Park in 2021 will be published; the reason for the delay in making it...
    • EU Presidency
      1636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on planning for the high-level housing summit to be launched during the Irish Presidency of the EU...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      1637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure under the domestic wastewater treatment systems grant scheme in each year since its establishment; the...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      1640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he will instruct his Department to investigate cases of families being given notices to quit and made homeless but...
    • Housing Provision
      1641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when social housing applicants can avail of the new protocol that allows victims and survivors of domestic, sexual and...
    • Water Quality
      1642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 30 June, the timelines for finalising the draft guidance and terms of reference...
    • Turf Cutting
      1643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full legal basis upon which the High Court injunction was sought in 2025 against turf cutting activities on bogs (details...
    • Environmental Policy
      1644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has carried out an assessment of compliance with Article 4(4) of the Habitats Directive in relation to...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of...
    • Planning Issues
      1652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the transition to ten-year development plans under the Planning and Development Act 2024 as amended; if he...
    • Housing Schemes
      1654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered reforms to the cost rental equity loan scheme such as cross subsidisation; and if he will make a...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      1655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the implementation of the Approved Housing Bodies Strategic Forum Report including the amalgamation...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Departments engagement with the European Construction Strategy particularly with regard to modern...
    • Planning Issues
      1657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the review of Part V processes obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55952/26]
    • Departmental Data
      1659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget and staff numbers of the Office of the Planning Regulator in each of the years 2019 to 2025 and to date in 2026;...
    • Housing Policy
      1662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has commissioned, funded or received research, including through a programme (details supplied), or...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding under the domestic well grant scheme can be awarded retrospectively in cases where homeowners were required to...
    • National Parks
      1664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of capital works projects currently ongoing at each National Park under the remit of his Department; when each of...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      1665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he last met formally with the CEO of Gas Network Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56067/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      1666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is no discrimination of recipients of HAP from renting properties;...
    • Housing Provision
      1667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to update the income threshold for social housing, particularly in the Gorey-Kilmuckridge Municipal District of...
    • Housing Schemes
      1668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change the practice of county councils being permitted to use discretionary powers to force sole traders seeking...
    • Departmental Data
      1669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE senior archaeologists employed by his Department as of 16 July 2026; if he will provide the same figures as...
    • Fire Service
      1670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the Fire Services Bill; when this Bill will progress to the next stage. [56286/26]
    • Housing Policy
      1671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to maximise Ireland's uptake of available European Union funding streams for the delivery of...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement that has taken place between his Department and relevant European institutions regarding the European...
    • Housing Policy
      1673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has identified specific housing projects, programmes or targets that could be supported through additional European...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a homeowner who paid engineers’ fees under the original defective concrete blocks grant scheme, and who has...
    • Property Registration
      1676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications currently awaiting processing by Tailte Éireann; the breakdown of these applications by...
    • Environmental Policy
      1681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken in response to the opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union,...
    • Water Supply
      1683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to strengthen Ireland's water resilience during periods of drought, including those relating to...
    • Environmental Policy
      1684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current and planned measures to protect biodiversity and support pollinators, native habitats and wildlife across the...
    • Legislative Programme
      1686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions outstanding contained in the Dublin Bay Bill 2021; his view on the need for a coordinated approach to development...
    • Electoral Process
      1688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline who has responsibility for enforcing the laws in relation to election posters in respect of the height of their...
    • Housing Provision
      1689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether there is a common policy in the calculation of council rents across all local authorities; whether carer’s...
    • Departmental Data
      1690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided, for the removal of Japanese knotweed; the number of incidents that have been treated; the...
    • Housing Provision
      1691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether Cork City Council has sought additional funding for any housing projects above that already approved in the past two...
    • Fire Service
      1692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on plans to raise the retirement age further for retained firefighters. [56599/26]
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      1694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the development of solar energy planning guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Authorities
      1695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering a request from a local authority to employ additional staff (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      1696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to increase the proportion of Part V homes made available for affordable purchase or cost rental for...
    • Water Services
      1699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of recommendations made by An Fóram Uisce to Uisce Éireann in each of the past five years; the number of...
    • Housing Policy
      1704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date and reason officials in his Department removed ‘collect an estimated €26 million in unpaid levies due...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the stage the funding for Spring Lane and Ellis Yard redevelopment, County Cork is at; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      1708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units currently vacant in County Kerry; the average duration for which these properties have...
    • Derelict Sites
      1709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the derelict sites levy is operating effectively; his views on the level of debt being written off; and...
    • Housing Provision
      1710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households on the social housing waiting list in County Kerry on 30 June 2026; the corresponding figures for...
    • Departmental Data
      1712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last...
    • Housing Provision
      1718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing completion target for County Kerry; the number of homes completed to date; and the expected completion...
    • Departmental Data
      1719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total public expenditure on the Cork Event Centre project in each year since 2014, in tabular form; the status of the...
    • Housing Provision
      1720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new-build social homes delivered in each county in each of the years 2021 to date in 2026, including delivery...
    • Housing Policy
      1721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce an asbestos certificate, similar to a BER, that confirms or denies the presence of asbestos in a...
    • Fire Service
      1722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of retained firefighters in each local authority area, each year for the past five years, in tabular form. [57075/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there will be a review of the Sustainable Residential Development and Compact Settlement Guidelines given the difficulty...
    • Housing Provision
      1724. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to support victims and survivors of domestic violence who do not qualify for social housing in...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1726. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to align the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme with SEAI energy efficiency programmes;...
    • Housing Schemes
      1729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns that elderly people living alone in a circumstance (details supplied) if the...
    • Property Registration
      1732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the delays regarding queries submitted to Tailte Éireann including using the Oireachtas email; if he...
    • Water Services
      1733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to fund improved water infrastructure in budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57353/26]
    • Commercial Rates
      1734. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual rate on valuation for commercial rates set by each local authority, and the development contribution rates...
    • Water Services
      1735. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the number of parliamentary questions in 2025 and to date in 2026 that have been asked of him but were...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      1737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of CPO processes initiated and completions in each local authority in the State for the past three years; and the...
    • Housing Provision
      1738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of voids brought back in to use by Cork City Council and Cork County Council per month, over the past three years....
    • Housing Schemes
      1739. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total amount of Local Authority Home Loan applications by local authority and the amount of successful...
    • Energy Conservation
      1740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total amounts of units retrofitted by local authority area for each of the past five years. [57552/26]
    • Housing Schemes
      1742. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress of the regeneration of the Noonan's Road and surrounding streets regeneration. [57554/26]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1744. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will launch a new recruitment campaign in quarter 4 of 2026 for park rangers; and if he will make a...
    • Local Government Reform
      1745. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Local Democracy Taskforce report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57571/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      1746. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has received correspondence from Fingal County Council asking him to bring forward an amendment to the legislation...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      1747. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the methodology used for the regional renewable electricity capacity allocations in National Policy Objective 74...
    • Environmental Policy
      1748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the locations and biodiversity measures for all instances where local authorities have proposed biodiversity measures...
    • Housing Schemes
      1749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the current status of Fingal County Council's proposal to his Department for social housing at Tuckett's Lane,...
    • Housing Policy
      1751. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the mechanism and research behind the setting of the cost rental housing income limits; and if he will...
    • Water Conservation
      1755. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he will examine measures to increase the harvesting and storage of rainwater, given growing concerns about water...
    • Departmental Funding
      1756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated by his Department to Wicklow County Council in each of the last five years; if he will...
    • Disability Services
      1757. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with Wicklow County Council regarding the housing adaptation grant for older people and the reported...
    • Environmental Investigations
      1758. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers of local authorities with regard to quarries; who is responsible for inspections of quarries; who is responsible...
    • Local Authorities
      1759. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by each of the local authorities on consultants in the past five years; and if he will provide a breakdown...
    • Fire Service
      1761. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the training that is being made available to firefighters, in the event of a fire at a solar farm; if funding for future...
    • Housing Provision
      1762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to cases whereby there is a lack of flexibility for qualifying for a cost rental scheme...
    • Housing Schemes
      1770. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Croí Cónaithe (Cities) Scheme applications, approvals, completions and expenditure by county and year...
    • Housing Provision
      1771. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes commenced, completed and occupied in each county, together with the average purchase price...
    • Departmental Data
      1773. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing adaptation grant applications, approvals and payments, by county and year since 2022, in tabular form....
    • Local Authorities
      1776. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail all research commissioned or undertaken by his Department regarding dampness and mould in social housing and its...
    • Housing Schemes
      1782. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of all social and affordable housing projects in Ardmore and the surrounding area which have been...
    • Commercial Rates
      1783. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Schedule 4 of the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2023 provides for the exemption of property used exclusively for...
    • Land Issues
      1784. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out any analysis of the average timeframes within which Tailte Éireann completes land...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1791. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure on the housing assistance payment scheme in each year since 2014, broken down by local authority, in...
    • Housing Provision
      1793. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure on the delivery of social housing by local authorities and approved housing bodies in each year since...
    • Tourism Policy
      1795. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his Department have given further consideration to enable local authorities in Dublin to introduce a hotel bed...
    • Housing Provision
      1796. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his targets for the delivery of social and affordable housing in County Monaghan in each of the years 2019 to 2025 and to...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      1797. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he is supporting councils and public bodies to take a collaborative approach to the removal of invasive...
    • Housing Provision
      1802. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing projects delayed due to judicial review, planning issues, infrastructure constraints or other...
    • Rental Sector
      1804. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenants who experienced homelessness following the termination of a tenancy, by county and year since 2022,...
    • Housing Provision
      1805. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of second-hand homes acquired by each local authority for social housing purposes, together with the average...
    • Fire Stations
      1809. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department’s engagement with Waterford City and County Council regarding the proposed...
    • Emergency Services
      1811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department provides funding to local authorities to support voluntary organisations providing emergency search...
    • Housing Policy
      1815. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the work of the Working Group examining the ban on pets in social housing; and if it has met its H2 2026...
    • Planning Issues
      1822. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of decisions by An Coimisiún Pleanála is monitored over time; to provide details by the average...
    • State Bodies
      1824. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of average staffing levels in An Bord Pleanála, for each of the years 2015 to 2026, in tabular form;...
    • Legislative Measures
      1825. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government or an update on the timeline for the introduction and implementation of the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill...
    • Housing Provision
      1827. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new local authority homes built in Ireland in each of the past ten years; and if a county by county breakdown...
    • Disability Services
      1829. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has reviewed the operation of the HMD Form 1 process for applicants seeking social housing support on...
    • Domestic Violence
      1831. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department is working with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration and local authorities to ensure...
    • Water Conservation
      1832. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider supporting local authorities to fund provision of water butts to households, to assist with...
    • Housing Provision
      1833. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the targets that were set for Cork County Council and Cork City Council for Social Housing in each of the past five years and...
    • EU Presidency
      1836. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for...
    • Departmental Records
      1837. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1838. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under...
    • Departmental Policies
      1839. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1840. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58682/26]
    • Local Government Reform
      1843. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of municipal councils proposed for County Offaly under the Local Democracy Taskforce recommendations; whether any...
    • An Coimisiún Toghcháin
      1845. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made by An Coimisiún Toghcháin in reviewing local electoral areas following the publication of the...
    • Housing Provision
      1847. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made regarding inspections being carried out on existing local authority housing stock; and if any...
    • Departmental Funding
      1852. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided by his Department for regeneration works in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 for an estate...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1854. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends carrying out a review of the HAP and homeless HAP rates for Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fire Safety
      1858. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to ban the use of disposable barbecues across Ireland's national parks; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      1859. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will publish a five-year national community living strategy for adults with an intellectual disability,...
    • Housing Schemes
      1860. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social, affordable, cost-rental and private dwellings completed in each local authority area in each of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1863. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the value of funding approved under the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund, Rural Regeneration and Development Fund and...
    • Departmental Communications
      1866. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department's engagement on the future of the land for sale at Lugnaquilla; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      1867. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the application under the social housing investment programme regarding the Rehills site in Wicklow;...
    • Fire Service
      1870. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to address concerns related to sub-standard PPE being a risk to firefighters; the studies that have been carried out...
    • Mayoral Election
      1871. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has examined the potential merits of introducing a directly elected Mayor for Dublin with executive...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1874. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it can be ensured that defective concrete block grants are paid in a timely manner to avoid delays in works being...
    • Housing Provision
      1875. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide updates on proposed housing developments in Galway east, including the expected commencement dates, the...
    • Housing Policy
      1878. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken by his Department to support single-income first-time buyers seeking to build or purchase their own...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1883. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost of providing emergency accommodation for people experiencing homelessness in Dublin to date in...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1884. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times his Department met with organisations (details supplied) in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      1885. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the National Rightsizing Policy; the stakeholders that have been engaged to date; the timeline for...
    • Energy Conservation
      1886. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the criteria for deciding priority for the National Retrofitting Programme; the way the projects are picked and...
    • Land Development Agency
      1889. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way, considering recent proposed changes to reduce LDA tenure mix, he plans to meet housing targets for affordable...
    • Waterways Ireland
      1893. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct Waterways Ireland to provide water tap services, pump out machines, postal services and refuse services...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      1898. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of plans he has to hold a referendum on the right to housing as per the recommendations by the Housing...
    • Land Development Agency
      1899. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the value of drawdowns by developers under the auspice of Project Tosaigh; the number of units delivered, by...
    • Fire Stations
      1900. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposed new Cork City fire station in Curraheen, for which €13 million in capital funding was...
    • Housing Schemes
      1901. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units directly delivered by local authorities, approved housing bodies, the LDA, the number...
    • Housing Provision
      1902. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider the introduction of a housing waiting list for affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Schemes
      1905. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an impact assessment was undertaken prior to the decision to remove the financial contribution scheme from the Department...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1906. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement and consultation that took place with stakeholder groups that represent older people (details supplied) prior...
    • Housing Policy
      1907. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the reasoning underpinning the decision to remove the financial contribution scheme from the Department of Housing...
    • Vacant Properties
      1911. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of commercial properties recorded as vacant in each local authority area in each of the past ten years, together...
    • Departmental Funding
      1912. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further funding will be provided for projects (details supplied) to enable the upgrading of infrastructure; and if he will...
    • Defective Building Materials
      1915. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend eligibility for the DCB grant scheme to Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland in homes built using...
    • Housing Policy
      1919. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on any plans for further funding of local authorities for the housing adaptation grant schemes,...
    • Construction Industry
      1922. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an assessment has, or is, being carried out on the modern methods of construction used at a housing project (details...
    • Housing Policy
      1924. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to conduct a local-authorities-based review of estate management issues and solutions; and if he will...
    • Energy Conservation
      1925. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason retrofitting targets in Louth are lower than targets achieved in previous years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      1926. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of properties purchased through Louth County Council under the tenant in situ purchase scheme; the total...
    • Departmental Funding
      1927. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans to deal with the change in CAS funding now being part of the overall local authority social housing acquisition...
    • Departmental Data
      1928. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail the social, affordable and cost rental housing targets and delivery in County Louth, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1929. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Departmental Policies
      1932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the policy and regulations governing the financial support offered to applicants under the HAS 2 and HAS 3 will be...
    • Redundancy Payments
      1933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times the Government provided statutory redundancies for businesses that could not afford it; the number of...
    • Disability Issues
      1934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions his Department has carried out following the Cost of Disability-Strategic Focus Network Summit; and if he will...
    • School Meals Programme
      1935. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider using existing meals-on-wheels services provided through local community based organisations in the...
    • Departmental Policies
      1936. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to introducing a dedicated re-training and education support scheme for people who have spent...
    • International Protection
      1937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for international protection and beneficiaries of temporary protection who received employment...
    • Maternity Leave
      1939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department has examined the feasibility of requiring employers to provide enhanced maternity leave pay above the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that has been given to expanding the range of courses eligible for grant support for participants in...
    • Construction Industry
      1941. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the work being done to resolve the problem of bogus self-employment in the building sector;...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      1942. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare claims currently awaiting a decision, in each scheme in County Wexford; the average waiting...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1943. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding a jobseeker's claim; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      1944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the minimum period of time that land has to be transferred to a family member before a pensioner who is retired applies for...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will undertake a review of the €20,000 PhD stipend disregard for recipients of disability allowance and blind...
    • Departmental Policies
      1949. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the introduction of a cost of disability payment; and to provide details on same. [55231/26]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to urgently examine and allow a DCA payment in the case of a person (details supplied) [55232/26]
    • Programme for Government
      1951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within his remit...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1956. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55487/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure,...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1958. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form....
    • State Pensions
      1959. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2027 if the maximum rate of State pension (contributory) increased by €18 per week. [55621/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      1960. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of external recruitment campaigns for posts at the grade of higher executive officer within his Department that...
    • Paternity Leave
      1961. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the campaign calling for 8 weeks of paid paternity leave to be provided for in Ireland...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      1966. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department records the outcome of each referral made to a Community Employment vacancy, including whether the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance, invalidity pension, illness benefit and partial capacity benefit...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1972. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will establish a unit within his Department to deal specifically with disability and self-employment; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1973. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for jobseeker’s benefit that were refused in each of the first six months of 2026, per...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      1980. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer’s allowance for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; including arrears; and if...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      1981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons employed under a CE scheme in County Westmeath as of 1 July 2024, 1 July 2025 and 1 July 2026, in...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      1982. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff by grade based at Ennis INTREO Office as of 17 July 2026; if he will provide the same figures as of...
    • Programme for Government
      1983. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress and latest engagements he has had with the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality on the Programme for...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1984. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will investigate the assessment of the disability allowance...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the child support payment by €10, €12 or €14 for children under 12,...
    • Community Welfare Services
      2003. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of every additional ten community welfare officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56693/26]
    • Social Welfare Rates
      2004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing child benefit by €20 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56694/26]
    • Social Welfare Code
      2005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a €55 per week cost of disability payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the current administration of the disability allowance scheme sufficiently encourages recipients to participate in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      2007. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      2008. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider the way in which greater support can be provided to persons acting as a carer for a family member while also...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      2009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on persons in receipt of bereaved partner's pension payments not being eligible for illness benefit; and if he...
    • State Pensions
      2010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine pension entitlements in respect of a couple (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      2011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to issue a jobseeker's allowance payment and all arrears due to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Properties
      2013. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and-or last...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      2014. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of pensioner households in County Kerry in receipt of fuel allowance; the number refused fuel allowance...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      2015. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families/individuals that MABS (Money Advice and Budgeting Service) has assisted in County Kerry during the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      2016. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider a case for assistance under treatment benefit for a person (details supplied); his views on whether the...
    • Job Losses
      2020. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for persons at risk of job loss at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      2021. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disability allowance application will be approved for a person (details supplied). [57197/26]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      2022. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2024. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people who have availed of parent's benefit each year since 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      2036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people now enrolled in auto enrolment, by county; the total value of contributions collected to date;...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      2038. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current weekly payment rate for the State pension, carer’s allowance, disability allowance and jobseekers...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2039. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to conduct a review of maternity benefit (details supplied); if any consideration is being given to an...
    • Civil Registration Service
      2040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a death, birth or marriage certificate can be paid for with cash or card; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending the six-week continuation period for social welfare payments to 12 weeks; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      2043. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a social welfare payment despite being unemployed for the summer due...
    • Departmental Consultations
      2044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the proposed timeline for the publication of the public consultation on pay-related parent's leave; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2046. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider changing the mean assessment figure for the blind pension in Budget 2027 in line with the means...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      2047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether consideration can be given to a backdated payment of carer's allowance (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2048. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the merits of eliminating the means test for the carer’s allowance; the research his Department has...
    • Social Welfare Code
      2050. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of an emergency once off disability payment of €400, €450 and €500 for...
    • State Pensions
      2053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are circumstances that contributions paid after a person is over 66, still in employment can be used so those...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assistance available to people where their gas or oil boiler breaks down, and there is no grant support available from...
    • State Pensions
      2055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints, reviews or representations received by his Department during the past ten years from persons who...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      2076. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a disability allowance application was denied (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      2077. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether consideration is being given to extending the fuel allowance season beyond the measures announced for Spring 2026 in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      2078. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department has examined the adequacy of maternity benefit and paid parental leave supports available to working...
    • Departmental Policies
      2079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether his Department has assessed the contribution made by grandparents and extended family members in supporting...
    • Employment Schemes
      2080. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is referred to an organisation (details supplied), may request to be returned to Intreo; and the way they...
    • Departmental Contracts
      2081. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the contract his Department with an organisation (details supplied) concludes; and if he intends to renew this...
    • EU Presidency
      2083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts...
    • Departmental Data
      2084. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams;...
    • Ministerial Communications
      2087. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58686/26]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2090. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current processing timeframes for new applications for disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      2095. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting timeframes for a decision to be made on an appeal by the social welfare appeals office; and if he will...
    • State Pensions
      2096. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional measures are under consideration to support people in receipt of a pension in rural areas such as Galway East...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2097. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to recipients of carer's allowance that may engage in employment or self-employment for up...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the process by which his Department contacts the British Work and Pensions Department seeking contribution...
    • Employment Data
      2108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the nature and extent of engagement his Department has had with other Government agencies and Departments in...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      2109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the work and access scheme; the numbers that are using it; and his plans to increase this...
    • Employment Schemes
      2111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has plans for his Department and Intreo staff to engage with employers and those with disabilities to facilitate a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      2112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the current waiting times at the Appeals Office; and if additional resources will be allocated to it; and...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      2113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has plans to improve processing times for those who do not have year-long contracts and must avail of social...
    • Departmental Policies
      2114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the plans to reduce and remove the means test for carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      2115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current application status of a person (details supplied) who submitted their application online and submitted...
    • Departmental Funding
      2116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Foreign Policy
      2119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has engaged, or plans to engage, with the Jordanian authorities in relation to the ongoing Garda...
    • Probate Applications
      2121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he or officials in his Department have raised with the UK authorities the delays in the issuing of Grants of Probate...
    • Residency Permits
      2122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in cases in which an employee is issued with an IRP card, when they apply for their atypical skills permit and the location...
    • Visa Applications
      2123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that a long stay spousal visa application is approved without further delay (details supplied). [56670/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether the Government has conducted an assessment of the risks posed by artificial intelligence to national security, public...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      2130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a current assessment on the dangers faced by the State from possible hybrid and cyberattacks on...
    • European Union
      2131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail the recent engagement his Department has had with the EU regarding migration in Europe; and if he will make...
    • Legal Aid
      2132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the disposable income threshold to access Civil Legal Aid of €18,000 will be increased; and if he will make a...
    • Immigration Policy
      2133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason biometric data of migrants is not shared with authorities in Britain; and the plans he has to address this. [54835/26]
    • Visa Applications
      2134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of visa applications (details supplied); the steps his Department is taking to expedite these specific cases to...
    • International Protection
      2140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the policy currently being enforced in an IPAS centre (details supplied) which prohibits food from being...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given that emergency Covid powers were exercised on an unprecedented scale, his views on whether it is acceptable that neither...
    • Emergency Services
      2143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of calls that were made to the emergency services regarding domestic violence, by county; the average response...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      2144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints relating to anti-social behaviour involving e-scooters in Tallaght and Citywest, County Dublin since...
    • Traffic Fines
      2147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines issued from the date the camera was activated to the date the speed limit changed to 80 km p/h at the...
    • Residency Permits
      2148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options available for a person from Belarus who has an expired passport but cannot return to Belarus to renew it due to...
    • Departmental Data
      2149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the recent meeting held in Brussels between European Commission officials, representatives of EU Member States...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the catchment area size population for each Garda station in the country, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • International Protection
      2153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on a matter (details supplied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55051/26]
    • Residency Permits
      2157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite an IRP card renewal application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Agreements
      2160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications (details supplied) under the Turkish Association Agreement that have been decided each month from...
    • Prison Service
      2161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions being taken to reduce overcrowding in the Irish prison system. [55106/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      2163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Gardaí allocated to the Garda stations in Clondalkin, Ronanstown, Lucan and Rathcoole in each...
    • Traffic Fines
      2165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of motorists caught exceeding the speed limit on a static camera at locations (details supplied), from 1 May 2025...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members assigned to each Garda station in County Clare in each of the past five years; and the current...
    • Domestic Violence
      2168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic violence incidents reported in County Clare during each of the past five years. [55154/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      2170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will devise a policy whereby payments made to the Criminal Assets Bureau, arising from the proceeds of crime, will be...
    • Departmental Data
      2172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who were charged with both a s.3 Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 offence and a s.15 or s.15A Misuse of Drugs Act...
    • Visa Applications
      2174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application (details supplied) given the urgent need to provide family assistance in Ireland; and if he...
    • Court Judgments
      2175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sentences made under Section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Hate Offences Act) 2024 since its initiation; and if he...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of each action in the National Action Plan Against Racism 2023-2027, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      2178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the nature of the ongoing issue and timeframe for IRP renewal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Crime Prevention
      2179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the further measures planned to support families experiencing drug-related intimidation; and whether additional resources will...
    • International Protection
      2180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the international protection appeal status of a person of interest in an ongoing homicide investigation has any bearing on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently trained and authorised to pursue scramblers and e-scooters following risk assessment,...
    • Departmental Reports
      2182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the evaluation carried out on the recommendations of the report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost in 2027 if the number of horses in the Garda mounted unit were doubled. [55484/26]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he has received direct correspondence dated 22 June 2026 and 14 July 2026 in relation to an Irish citizen in detention...
    • Visa Applications
      2185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure,...
    • Legislative Measures
      2189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the proposed coroners Bill to reform, update, amend, consolidate and extend the law relating to...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      2190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55585/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      2191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile liaison officer posts filled within Meath-Westmeath division as of 14 July 2026. [55623/26]
    • Legal Aid
      2192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 14 July 2026, the changes made to District Court criminal legal aid fees in each...
    • Departmental Data
      2193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 476 of 14 July 2026, the number of scramblers returned following the payment of the...
    • Immigration Status
      2195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 20 May 2026, if he will consider the issuance of temporary permission while the...
    • Residency Permits
      2196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken by his Department to address ongoing serious delays in the processing and issuance of Irish Residence...
    • Immigration Policy
      2199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to open a dedicated immigrant investor programme in respect of schools, healthcare facilities and sport, with rules and...
    • Visa Applications
      2200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to address delays in the processing of short-stay (C) tourist visa applications for individuals seeking...
    • Departmental Data
      2201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported breaches of barring orders and interim barring orders recorded by An Garda Síochána in each...
    • Legislative Reviews
      2205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has reviewed, or plans to review, the operation of section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new marked and unmarked Garda cars that were added to the Limerick roads policing unit fleet in 2025 and to date...
    • Legal Aid
      2207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total expenditure on criminal legal aid in each of the past five years, broken down by the District Court, Circuit Court,...
    • Court Sittings
      2209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of District Court cases adjourned since 1 July 2026 arising from the withdrawal of solicitors from the Criminal...
    • Legal Aid
      2214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria, metrics and timeline by which his Department will review the operation of the flat fee model for criminal legal...
    • Departmental Data
      2215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices issued for cycling-related offences since 2025; the measures being taken to ensure...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí within each district in the Dublin region that are currently trained in the use of Garda mountain...
    • Stardust Fire
      2218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who have applied for the ex gratia Stardust recognition payment scheme; the number of successful...
    • Immigration Policy
      2219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm the correct immigration pathway for a Ukrainian temporary protection beneficiary moving to a Stamp 1G as the spouse...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1376 of 9 June 2026, if his Department has since been provided with the relevant...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      2221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to open a physical domestic violence refuge house in County Longford; and if not, if this will be considered. [56325/26]
    • Deportation Orders
      2222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of return orders issued by his Department that have not been actioned in each of the past five years within the...
    • Departmental Data
      2229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons serving sentences for a sexual offences who were granted temporary release under section 2 of the...
    • Prison Service
      2231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if prison capacity or overcrowding is a factor considered by the Irish Prison Service when assessing applications for...
    • Departmental Data
      2233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons convicted of a sexual offence who were charged with a further offence while on temporary release in each...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 on 28 May 2026, if he has received the necessary information from Garda Authorities...
    • Legal Aid
      2237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal legal aid certificates issued in the Cork District Court area in each month from January 2026 to date,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offences involving the use, possession, production or threatening display of a knife or other bladed weapon...
    • Citizenship Applications
      2246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe between submission of an application for citizenship and the application’s registration on the system; if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new marked Garda vans added to the Clare-Tipperary Garda division in 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of...
    • Departmental Data
      2249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have arrived in Ireland at any port of entry, including Dublin Airport, without valid travel...
    • Citizenship Applications
      2250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine an ongoing situation with a citizenship application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      2251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the practical supports that will be put in place to help Ukrainian families currently living in a hotel (details supplied)...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      2252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic convictions recorded for driving without insurance; the number of convictions for driving...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members assigned to County Kerry on 1 July of each year from 2020 to 2026, broken down by Garda station....
    • Vacant Properties
      2258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of publicly-owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and-or last...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda retirements, and transfers into and transfers out of County Kerry in each of the past five years, in...
    • International Relations
      2263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he met with the Commissioner of New York Police Department during his recent visit to New York. [56916/26]
    • An Garda Síochána
      2264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all Gardaí assigned to armed support units nationwide are fully trained in emergency first aid. [56917/26]
    • International Protection
      2266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons refused leave to land at each port of entry in each of the years 2015 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider establishing a transfer or lateral-entry pathway for Irish citizens who are currently working as police...
    • International Protection
      2272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether a complaint or referral has been received by his Department or An Garda Síochána alleging a contravention of...
    • Asylum Seekers
      2274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland will be forced to take in a certain quota of asylum seekers each year; if so, the number; and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of scramblers, e-scooters, e-bikes and quad-bikes seized by an Garda Síochána to date in 2026; the number...
    • Courts Service
      2279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be an increase in funding for the bail supervision scheme in the Budget 2027; if this service will be rolled out...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda staffing levels throughout Dublin by DMR area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57046/26]
    • Peace Commissioners
      2285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of peace commissioners registered on the most recent roll maintained by his Department. [57072/26]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      2286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for successful naturalisation applications to be processed at present; and the number of applications...
    • EU Presidency
      2287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of garda personnel seconded to duties relating specifically to and for the duration of the EU Presidency. [57074/26]
    • Alcohol Sales
      2288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider legislating to allow bars, late bars and night clubs to extend their opening hours; and if he will make a...
    • Immigration Support Services
      2291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of ongoing issues with the immigration service delivery online portal, particularly in relation to applicants...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the grade and station and number of all Gardaí who have been taken from their regular duties to provide cover...
    • Community Welfare Services
      2293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is an individual or team in his Department overseeing the implementation of Local Community Safety Partnerships; and...
    • Coroners Service
      2294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the proposed transfer of responsibility for coroner fees to his Department; the timeframe within which...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      2295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence...
    • Family Reunification
      2297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the non-EEA family reunification policy for essential healthcare assistants and home care assistants...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crime incidents recorded by An Garda Síochána in each Garda division, together with the rate per...
    • Electric Vehicles
      2302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of electric scooters seized and the number of fixed charge notices issued in respect of electric scooters in the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide greater investment in An Garda Síochána in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Juvenile Offenders
      2304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of youth diversion projects per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57495/26]
    • Restorative Justice
      2310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of young people who participated in restorative justice sessions in 2025 and year to date in 2026; the costs...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      2311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding given to the probation service by his Department; if there will be an increase in funding in the upcoming budget;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants that are outstanding within Garda K District as of 13 July 2026; and if he will make a statement...
    • International Protection
      2314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the medical reasons in which an individual would not be transferred from an IPAS centre to an alternative location; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which his Department was first notified of the intended retirement of a Deputy Garda Commissioner; and if he will...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      2321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a request on naturalisation applications can be accommodated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Family Reunification
      2324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position on join family applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57597/26]
    • Visa Applications
      2326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a stamp 4, spouse of an Irish citizen will issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      2327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for naturalisation will be completed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Visa Applications
      2328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a stamp 4, spouse of an Irish citizen will issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57601/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      2329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will advise whether his Department is currently drafting a new explosives bill or is considering amendments to the...
    • Visa Applications
      2330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied). [57641/26]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      2332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offences charged under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 in relation to scramblers; the number of scramblers...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      2333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the number of ASBO's issued in since their introduction, by year and by county, in tabular form. [57659/26]
    • International Protection
      2334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts being made to work with airlines, taxi and bus regulatory authorities here and in Northern Ireland, to share...
    • EU Agreements
      2335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initial projected implementation cost of the EU Migration Pact between 2026 and 2030; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Staff
      2336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional staff recruited to implement the EU Migration pact; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      2337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of the cost of each citizenship ceremony that has taken place since 2000; the number of new citizens...
    • Visa Agreements
      2339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a mechanism under Irish immigration law by which a non-EEA national resident in Ireland on a Stamp 1G dependant...
    • Courts Service
      2344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of District Court criminal prosecutions in 2023, 2024 and 2025, that resulted in a conviction; and if he will make...
    • Legal Aid
      2345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide totals paid out in expenses for solicitors on the free legal aid scheme, for each of the past ten years and to date...
    • Domestic Violence
      2346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the recommendation contained in the study on familicide and domestic and family violence death reviews...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the number of reports to the Gardaí of incidences of spiking another person with a drug or substance...
    • Sentencing Policy
      2357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commit to implementing Ask 2 of a framework (details supplied) by ensuring that bereaved families in manslaughter...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      2358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the proposed relocation of Ukrainian residents from accommodation (details supplied) to other areas; whether...
    • Immigration Policy
      2359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his response to the findings of the study funded by his Department and published by an organisation (details supplied) in...
    • Domestic Violence
      2360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to update the House on progress made in implementing the recommendations on the Domestic Homicide Reviews in the Study on...
    • Missing Persons
      2363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of active missing person investigations relating to persons who went missing while in Tusla care and who have since...
    • International Protection
      2366. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for international protection who were recorded as being in employment in each year from 2020 to date...
    • Legal Aid
      2374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total expenditure incurred by the Legal Aid Board on legal aid and legal advice provided to non-Irish nationals in each...
    • International Protection
      2379. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expenditure incurred by his Department, and the International Protection Appeals Tribunal, arising from cases involving...
    • Family Reunification
      2382. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount paid to private solicitors, private barristers and external legal firms in immigration, international...
    • International Protection
      2383. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigration and international protection legal aid cases funded by the State in each year from 2020 to date, the...
    • Legal Aid
      2385. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount paid to the 10 highest-paid legal aid providers in immigration and international protection matters in each...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      2389. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether Ireland is an outlier in the EU in terms of the absence of a language requirement for people seeking...
    • Deportation Orders
      2392. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether a deportation order was made, considered, or in force in respect of a person (details supplied); if not, the reason no...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2393. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of foreign nationals convicted of serious sexual offences in each of the last five years; the number of those with...
    • International Protection
      2398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department or the International Protection Accommodation Service has received a formal expression of interest from the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2399. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Detective Superintendents posts filled within Louth-Cavan and Monaghan Division as of 14 July 2026, in tabular...
    • Visa Agreements
      2401. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider granting a person (details supplied) a visitors permission extension application; and the assistance they...
    • Residency Permits
      2402. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to review the urgent case of an IRP renewal applicant (details supplied) as they have been given a deadline of 27 July to...
    • International Protection
      2405. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time of applications and appeals for international protection, by quarter in each of the years 2020 to...
    • EU Presidency
      2406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for...
    • Departmental Data
      2407. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2408. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under...
    • Ministerial Communications
      2410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58683/26]
    • International Protection
      2413. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether officials within his Department have undertaken research, prepared briefing papers, attended meetings with the...
    • Prison Service
      2415. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently held on remand who have been awaiting trial for more than 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 24...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members currently trained and authorised to conduct tactical pursuits involving scrambler bikes,...
    • Departmental Properties
      2420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the transfer of River Lodge, Newtownmountkennedy from his Department to the HSE; the timeline for the...
    • International Protection
      2421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of all security-related costs at IPAS centres since 2023; to provide a breakdown of the ten...
    • Asylum Seekers
      2422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on ongoing litigation cases between his Department and accommodation providers for asylum seekers; the...
    • Court Accommodation
      2423. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the Wicklow Courthouse; to provide details of the funding that has been allocated for preparatory and...
    • Legal Aid
      2425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of legal professionals currently on the legal aid panel in Wicklow; the breakdown of these numbers each year since...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently assigned to each Garda station in Wicklow, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown of the...
    • Visa Applications
      2429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to examine the case of a join family visa renewal (details supplied) for the spouse of an Irish citizen; and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2430. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of the types and numbers of Garda vehicles that are currently in operation in Wicklow; and if he will...
    • International Protection
      2432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an overview of the existing contracts and properties in use for Ukrainian accommodation in Wicklow; when these...
    • Deportation Orders
      2435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to address the acknowledged difficulty in determining whether persons subject to deportation orders...
    • Visa Applications
      2438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to examine the case of an IRP renewal applicant (details supplied); whether consideration would be given to issuing a decision...
    • Media Sector
      2439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015 impacts the reporting of criminal proceedings by the...
    • Immigration Policy
      2441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he accepts that the Government's assertion that there is 'no evidence to link increased migration with an increase in...
    • International Protection
      2445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time applicants for International Protection are waiting for their first assessment; and if he will make...
    • Residency Permits
      2447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the growing backlog in the processing of Irish Residence Permit (IRP) renewal applications, which has...
    • Independent Review Mechanism
      2450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether, in light of the Court of Appeal's decision to grant a person (details supplied) a certificate of miscarriage of...
    • Prison Service
      2451. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes that were recorded where the suspected offenders were on bail in each of the last three years and in 2026...
    • Legal Aid
      2452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline any plans to deal with legal aid issues impacting on justice system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Visa Applications
      2454. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline any plans to update the visa IT/portal system, which has huge technical issues; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Probate Applications
      2455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the lengthy processing times for grants of probate at Probate Offices around the State; the plans there are...
    • Community Welfare Services
      2457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on community safety partnerships, and possible review mechanisms; and if he will make a statement...
    • International Protection
      2458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on processing times for IP applicants; and a timeline on proposed further changes, including...
    • Sporting Rights
      2459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline any legislative or other plans he has that will impact on the licensing and operation of firearms for hunting and...
    • Drug Dealing
      2461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or Departmental staff have any plans to examine the huge issues being caused by the illegal drug trade and organised...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members, Garda staff and community gardaí assigned to each Garda division and Garda district in each...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      2463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Wildlife Conservation
      2466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the research commissioned in connection with the Protection of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021 will be published; and if he...
    • Pesticide Use
      2467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the merits of implementing a national ban on the use of herbicides by local authorities; and if he will make a...
    • Farm Safety
      2476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of poultry manure importations from the north; and his proposals to ensure that this can continue to be operated in a...
    • Animal Welfare
      2477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline any existing rules and regulations in relation to the use of bird scarers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Wildlife Conservation
      2478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will publish the report commissioned by his Department in Galway University on the native Irish honeybee (apis mellifera);...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations, inspection protocols and guidance currently in place for the prevention and control of fly infestations originating...
    • Greyhound Industry
      2487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of all dogs whose year of birth was entered on the Rásaíocht Con Éireann traceability system...
    • Animal Diseases
      2488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, given the prevalence of osteoporosis in the egg industry, he will supply statistics on the number, or percentage, of birds that...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on the way in which birds sent to the slaughterhouse are collected and loaded onto the transport truck; if the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of targeted agriculture modernisation scheme or TAMS 3 grants that have been approved to farmers in County Kerry to build...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      2492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when finance (details supplied) for the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector will reopen for applications for the finance...
    • Marine Institute
      2493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he is ensuring that the recommendations from the Marine Institute report 'A Socioeconomic Study of Seaweed...
    • Fishing Industry
      2494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which a recent mass mortality event of farmed salmon took place at a location (details supplied); the number of the five...
    • Animal Breeding
      2495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department's on-farm badger biosecurity scheme is encouraging farmers to ‘fence off badger setts’,...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      2496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cause of ‘blood at the nostrils’ of horses during races; and the treatment provided to horses found to be bleeding...
    • Animal Welfare
      2497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the blocking of fox earths, an integral part of fox hunting is an offence under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, given...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 626 and 627 of 7 July 2026, whether the conclusion that 'the criteria for making an...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue under the 2025 farming for water scheme; the delays on progressing these payments; and if he will make a...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      2502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure,...
    • Departmental Communications
      2503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55573/26]
    • Animal Sales
      2504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sanitary and phytosanitary checks which were carried out at designated border control posts here on imports covered by...
    • Animal Diseases
      2506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the prices paid by licenced approved meat processing facilities on a weekly basis for TB reactors are reported to his Department...
    • Animal Breeding
      2507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections carried out at commercial dog breeding establishments in each of the past five years; the number of...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      2508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections, investigations and enforcement actions carried out in relation to organised sulky racing events in each...
    • Greyhound Industry
      2510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of Exchequer funding provided to Greyhound Racing Ireland in each of the past five years; the proportion of this funding...
    • Animal Diseases
      2511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers culled as part of the bovine tuberculosis eradication programme in each of the past five years, by county; and...
    • Animal Culls
      2512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in the rollout of badger vaccinations as an alternative to culling; the number of badgers vaccinated in each of...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training,...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55964/26]
    • Agriculture Industry
      2515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the public body that is responsible for independently validating the accuracy of milk testing used for payment purposes given that...
    • Animal Welfare
      2520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when penguins at an aquarium (details supplied) will receive their vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bord Bia
      2521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the mechanisms in place to ensure departmental oversight into the operations of Bord Bia; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      2524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria used by his Department to determine when an appropriate assessment (AA) is required in respect of aquaculture licence...
    • Greyhound Industry
      2529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which an Irish non-coursing greyhound (details supplied) is recorded in Rásaíocht Con Éireann traceability...
    • Animal Breeding
      2533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the new legislative changes he announced in May 2026 to improve standards for dog breeding establishments and strengthen welfare...
    • Land Issues
      2534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which his Department determines that there is “no evidence of farming” on leased commonage lands, in...
    • Pesticide Use
      2539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop a course for spraying pesticides (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56135/26]
    • Animal Diseases
      2540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TB herd restrictions imposed in County Clare during each of the past five years. [56174/26]
    • Agriculture Industry
      2541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual value of agricultural exports originating in counties Clare, Limerick, Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Tipperary. [56175/26]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider increasing TAMS funding to €100 million and establishing a separate, fully funded nutrient storage scheme...
    • Agriculture Supports
      2543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to support generational renewal in farming, including succession credits, improved reliefs and higher grant rates for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will respond to the call from an organisation (details supplied) for increased investment in tillage through a €65...
    • Farm Costs
      2548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) regarding rising farm input costs, including energy,...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide clarity on the proposals from an organisation (details supplied) for a rapid and well-funded fertiliser support...
    • Agriculture Supports
      2553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the compensation measures that will be made available for farmers affected by flooding on the Shannon Callows who did not receive...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether farmers and agricultural contractors are required to submit fuel receipts for five months or twelve...
    • Greyhound Industry
      2555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE sales and marketing executive staff by gender that are employed by an organisation (details supplied) as of 16...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      2556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE sales and marketing executive staff by gender that are employed by an organisation (details supplied) as of 16...
    • Horticulture Sector
      2558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume of horticultural peat imported into Ireland in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; the...
    • Farm Costs
      2559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will pay farmers who have applied for the fuel support scheme; and the rate of payment they will receive. [56505/26]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      2560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the figure of 8,123 referred to on page 6 of the Wildlife Unit End of Year Report for 2025 is incorrect, (details supplied);...
    • Animal Culls
      2564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify whether the figure of 39% described as new captures in vaccination areas in 2025 refers only to newly vaccinated animals...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      2565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the numerical, scientific and editorial verification carried out before the Wildlife Unit End of Year Report for 2025 that was...
    • Animal Feedstuffs
      2566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assessments his Department has carried out on availability of fodder ahead of the winter season; and if he will make a statement...
    • Veterinary Services
      2567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title in each regional veterinary office, by location, in tabular form. [56580/26]
    • Animal Culls
      2568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the implementation of the Deer Management Strategy Group's Report from 2023 [56595/26]
    • Fuel Poverty
      2569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments to successful applicants under the fuel income support scheme will be processed; the date by which these payments will...
    • Animal Breeding
      2570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the introduction of a cap on the number of breeding females permitted within a dog breeding establishment; and if...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a cross-departmental approach to support the growth of Ireland’s industrial hemp sector, addressing...
    • Animal Feedstuffs
      2572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement his Department has had with the animal feed industry regarding increasing the use of Irish-grown grain in in animal...
    • Farm Household Incomes
      2574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has undertaken a review of the adequacy of maternity leave supports available to self-employed female farmers;...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2575. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of CAP, ACRES and other farm support payments made to farmers in County Kerry in each of the years 2020 to date in 2026;...
    • Farm Inspections
      2576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms in County Kerry awaiting inspection outcomes or payment under ACRES; and the average processing time, in tabular...
    • Vacant Properties
      2577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers approved under ACRES, broken down by county; the number participating under the ACRES general and ACRES...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of ACRES participants awaiting balancing or scorecard-related payments; the value of outstanding payments; the counties...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and percentage of farm holdings registered in the names of women; the average size of those holdings compared to holdings...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total value of CAP payments received by gender of applicant in each of the past five years; the average payment to each gender;...
    • Farm Household Incomes
      2586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has undertaken any assessment of differences in farm income between male and female farm holders; if so, the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      2587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of female participants in green cert and related agricultural education programmes in each of the past five years;...
    • Agriculture Industry
      2590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the implementation group established to consider the recommendations of the Commission on Generational Renewal in Farming last...
    • Agriculture Supports
      2591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who availed of the succession planning advice grant in each year since its introduction; the total expenditure...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the number of active farms not claiming farming entitlements under CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any...
    • Greyhound Industry
      2597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether there are sufficient checks in place to ensure animal welfare standards are adhered to in the greyhound...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and the Government support additional TAMS funding in the upcoming budget in order to increase capacity for slurry...
    • Departmental Policies
      2602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department have plans to increase investments towards developing suitable markets for the projected increase in organic...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to increase combined supports in the suckler scheme to move towards €300 per cow in the upcoming budget.; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Policies
      2606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is no single co-ordination plan to deal with the ageing farming population; when he will address this issue; and if...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2608. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to prioritise access for young farmers to environmental and CAP scheme grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57417/26]
    • Departmental Reviews
      2609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if progress has been made in sourcing a market for sheep wool; his views on this matter (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to establish an emergency hardship fund, including funding for a fodder and tillage support scheme when required; and if he will...
    • Animal Welfare
      2612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he intends to appoint a dedicated Animal Welfare Inspector for County Mayo; whether he is satisfied that there are sufficient...
    • Brexit Supports
      2615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will access the Brexit adjustment reserve fund due to the decline in the volume of beef exports to the UK as a...
    • Animal Welfare
      2616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish an independent investigation into the enforcement operation that saw a large number of cattle euthanised, with...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated in relation to farm safety in the years 2020 to date, by year. [57938/26]
    • Animal Welfare
      2619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct his Department to examine a case (details supplied) and ensure that conditions are at an acceptable standard....
    • Agriculture Industry
      2621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the Government has set, or is considering setting, national or sectoral targets for reductions in Ireland’s bovine...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      2622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the measures being taken to manage the increasing deer population in County Waterford and the southeast;...
    • Departmental Data
      2623. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantity of fresh and frozen beef imported into the State in each year since 2020, broken down by country of origin; the country...
    • Food Safety
      2624. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in place to ensure that imported beef, including beef imported from Mercosur countries, complies with all European...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2625. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the independent review commissioned in respect of the Protection of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021; whether...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2626. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he or his Department has formally sought a derogation from European Union State aid rules to facilitate an emergency income...
    • Departmental Data
      2628. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of all current derogations, exemptions or special flexibilities available under European Union State aid rules...
    • Forestry Sector
      2630. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of hectares newly afforested in each of the years 2019 to date. [58163/26]
    • Fuel Prices
      2632. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his efforts to alleviate the pressures on famers arising from the cost of green diesel. [58166/26]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2633. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a dedicated farm succession scheme as part of Budget 2027 to support the progressive transfer of the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2634. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the requirement that a successor participate in a succession farm partnership for a prescribed period before the...
    • Departmental Funding
      2635. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an independent, multi-annual Exchequer funding stream for the Land Mobility Service, including the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2636. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional expenditure that would be required in Budget 2027 to ensure that increased participation in the national beef welfare...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2637. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation Ireland will receive from the EU agricultural crisis reserve to address increased fertiliser costs, whether the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2638. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures are being considered ahead of Budget 2027 to address the volatile nature of farm income; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Consultations
      2639. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there were discussions at the recent EU Agriculture Council concerning the funding of CAP post 2027 and the need to ensure...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2640. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for FISS in Carlow that were unsuccessful; the general reasoning for turning applications down; and if he...
    • Farm Safety
      2642. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocation in 2026 within his Department for farmers to apply for funding to cover the costs of installing farm safety...
    • EU Presidency
      2643. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      2644. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2645. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2646. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      2647. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58671/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      2652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the publication of the towards a just transition in agriculture and land use report and its recommendations, if his...
    • Departmental Funding
      2655. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the publication of the towards a just transition in agriculture and land use report and its recommendations, if the...
    • Food Labelling
      2657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is expected that PGI status will be approved in respect of boxty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58957/26]
    • Departmental Reports
      2658. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to Parliamentary Question No. 826 of 19 May 2026, if his Department has concluded its overall response to the report referred to in...
    • Legislative Measures
      2659. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following his Department's commissioning of independent scientific research on the native Irish honeybee if he proposes to implement...
    • Weather Events
      2660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department has considered providing additional supports to livestock farmers in Galway east in light of the impact of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is taking to ensure that farmers participating in ACRES in County Galway receive any outstanding payments without...
    • Weather Events
      2663. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether additional financial supports for tillage farmers affected by recent extreme weather events are being considered as part of...
    • EU Directives
      2664. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the recent engagements he and his Department have had with the EU regarding the nitrates derogation; and if he will make a statement...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      2665. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the recent engagements he and his department have had with the EU regarding possible changes to CAP payments; and if he will make a...
    • Weather Events
      2666. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the recent engagements he and his department have had on formulating an extreme weather event financial scheme for farmers; and if...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2667. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to resource the Agricultural Appeals Review Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59145/26]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2668. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to streamline the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59146/26]
    • Tillage Sector
      2669. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress being made to find suitable replacements for potato desiccants such as a product (details supplied); the results to...
    • Departmental Data
      2670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of CAP, ACRES, TAMS and other farm support payments made in each county in each of the past ten years; and if he will...
    • Fishing Industry
      2671. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and value of projects approved by Bord Iascaigh Mhara in each coastal county in each of the past ten years, broken down...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      2672. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the current marking scheme applied under the TAMS grant for solar panels, particularly the criterion relating to...
    • Horticulture Sector
      2673. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the financial supports provided in 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date for the horticultural sector, by scheme;...
    • Departmental Data
      2674. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the level of financial support by his Department for the organic farming scheme in each year since 2020; and the number...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      2675. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the supports available to horticulture growers under the CAP Strategic Plan; to provide a breakdown for the last five...
    • Departmental Data
      2676. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline for each year from 2020 to date, the number of growers paid under the CAP basic income support for sustainability scheme...
    • Horticulture Sector
      2677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost in 2027 of restoring the horticultural exceptional payment scheme and extending it for soft fruit; and if he will...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      2679. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures...
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Health Services Staff
      2682. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of vacancies, by job title within CDNT in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54884/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2683. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to implement the six-month assessment of need law for children waiting for an assessment of need; the children are waiting since...
    • Parental Leave
      2684. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to increasing the age limit for the cut-off of parental leave entitlements for parents to when the...
    • Disability Services
      2685. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there should be a more transparent and nationally consistent pathway into supported living, so that people with intellectual...
    • Parental Leave
      2686. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of employees of a large tech company(details supplied) in relation to the targeting...
    • Health Services Staff
      2699. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on recruitment of an additional senior dietician in the mid-west region to support CDNTs; and if she will make a...
    • Paternity Leave
      2701. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding any review ongoing into the merits of increasing the number of weeks of paternity benefit available; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      2704. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the 11.6 % reduction in disabilities WTE personnel numbers in the Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary south IHA between...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2705. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to expedite an assessment of needs application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56202/26]
    • EU Directives
      2706. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the transposition of EU Transparency Directive 2023/970; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      2709. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 713 of 30 June 2026, the number of new development posts allocated to each CDNT in County...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2710. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of providing a statutory pay for employees taking the five unpaid medical care days granted under the Work-Life...
    • Disability Services
      2711. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the case of an adult with high support needs, fully cared for by their family (details...
    • Detention Centres
      2713. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of young people who have been sentenced to a detention centre (details supplied) but received suspended sentences due to...
    • Parental Leave
      2714. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider changing the current parent leave entitlement for parents who have multiple births or have adopted more than...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      2715. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current processing times for enduring power of attorney, EPA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57794/26]
    • Disability Services
      2716. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the number of children waiting more than 12 months for a first intervention from a Children’s Disability Network...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2717. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children placed on waiting lists for assessment of needs in counties Cavan and Monaghan, respectively, in each of the...
    • Disability Services
      2718. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that an adult with an intellectual disability (details supplied) is facing discharge from their current...
    • Missing Children
      2719. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons who were recorded as missing while in Tusla care and who subsequently reached their 18th birthday without...
    • Parental Leave
      2726. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration is being given to extending the duration of paid maternity leave beyond the current entitlement; whether any...
    • Disability Services
      2727. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people currently waiting for a disability residential placement, by regional health area and level of assessed need,...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2730. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the Department or the HSE has assessed the number of ageing parents and family carers providing full-time care to adult...
    • Disability Services
      2731. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether all young people with intellectual disabilities receive an individual transition plan before reaching adulthood; whether...
    • Departmental Reviews
      2732. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the review of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will examine future planning for adults with intellectual...
    • Parental Leave
      2733. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration is being given to expanding supports for parents who wish to remain at home with young children during the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2734. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to reduce the financial burden of childcare on working families; whether further reforms to childcare...
    • Childcare Services
      2735. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare services are currently open in Cork City and/or Cork County; and the number of services that were open in...
    • Departmental Data
      2737. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of respite hours available to adults in south Lee; the type of respite provided; the number of people who have availed...
    • Disability Services
      2738. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of residential places provided for adults with intellectual disabilities currently, and the number available in each of...
    • Departmental Data
      2739. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people waiting over three months for their assessment of need to be initiated; and the number of people waiting over...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2743. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a full breakdown of legal costs and court settlements in cases involving families seeking assessment of needs for their...
    • Special Educational Needs
      2744. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm that an assessment of need will be urgently provided for a child (details supplied), noting the serious nature of this...
    • Childcare Services
      2746. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the provision of childcare facilities at the former convent in Listowel, County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Disability Services
      2747. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average and median waiting times for initial contact, initial assessment and commencement of intervention for children referred...
    • Departmental Data
      2749. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if Tusla plans to begin collating average weekly cost data by individual private residential childcare provider; the reason this...
    • Childcare Services
      2750. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the protections that exist for parents when childcare providers leave the core funding scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      2752. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to address delays in the Garda vetting process, particularly for the early education and childcare sector,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2753. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of ECCE services getting payments per child, by Core Funding, ECCE, Linc, and Graduate uplift. [55045/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2754. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons with a disability that are in employment in the public sector; the number in employment with mobility issues,...
    • Disability Services
      2755. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to review the case of a child (details supplied) regarding respite hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55107/26]
    • United Nations
      2756. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the timeline and process for her Department's commitment to ratifying the second optional protocol of the...
    • Disability Services
      2757. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE psychologists attached to Galway City West Children's Disability Network Team as of 13 July 2026, in tabular...
    • Health Services
      2759. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has undertaken an assessment of the availability of orientation, mobility and habilitation services for...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      2768. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has considered purchasing a site (details supplied) through a compulsory purchase order; and if she will...
    • Substance Misuse
      2769. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports that are specifically available for children living in households affected by parental substance misuse; and whether...
    • Departmental Data
      2770. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE physiotherapists posts, by grade that are filled at Spraoi children’s disability network team as of 14...
    • Departmental Surveys
      2772. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether, following the survey of the first two years of Equal Start, a report of the findings will be published and, if so, when it...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2773. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when she expects the next implementation action plan for First Five to be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2774. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to increase after school places in Dublin 12. [55389/26]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2775. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the efficiency and reform proposals that her Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure,...
    • Disability Services
      2776. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she is taking to improve disability services nationwide; if she will examine the need for increased and sustained funding...
    • Departmental Data
      2777. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the latest number of units that have been flagged to her Department regarding the State-led capital childcare programme as...
    • Programme for Government
      2778. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress made since the formation of this Government on each Programme for Government commitment relating to childcare, in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2779. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of early learning and childcare and school age childcare closures, by county in 2025, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Departmental Bodies
      2781. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under her Department, in tabular form. [55574/26]
    • Disability Services
      2787. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to urgently reinstate respite hours in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      2789. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the withdrawal of a childcare facility from the core funding model (details supplied); the...
    • Disability Services
      2802. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No: 2502 of 14 April 2026 and the HSE reply provided on 27 April 2026, if there is an update...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2803. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total expenditure incurred by her Department on external consultancy and advisory services for each contract; the name of the...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2804. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training,...
    • Disability Services
      2805. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether a statutory future-planning pathway will be established for adults with an intellectual disability living with ageing...
    • Nursing Homes
      2806. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people aged under 65 residing in nursing homes at the end of each year from 2021 to 2025 and currently in 2026; the...
    • Departmental Data
      2807. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for the estimated cost based on current funding for the early years sector, to increase national childcare subsidies to a level...
    • Programme for Government
      2809. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the gradual reduction of childcare costs as committed to in the programme for Government; the steps she has...
    • Childcare Services
      2810. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding developments towards reaching the commitment to reducing childcare costs to €200 per child, per...
    • Departmental Data
      2812. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005, by CHO area; the average wait time in each...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2815. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of staff employed in the early learning and childcare sector in County Cork; the average pay rates by qualification...
    • Departmental Data
      2816. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of registered childcare places in Cork county; the net increase or decreases in childcare places since 2022; the number...
    • Programme for Government
      2818. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her assessment of a policy proposal by an organisation (details supplied) suggesting that the State take on payroll for early years...
    • Childcare Services
      2819. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the date on which the fee increase assessment process for the 2025/2026 Core Funding Programme year was made available to Partner...
    • Departmental Data
      2821. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of partner services that have indicated an intention to withdraw from Core Funding for the 2026/2027 programme year; the...
    • Childcare Services
      2822. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider allowing providers greater flexibility to make reasonable fee adjustments where necessary, while ensuring...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2824. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether a fee increase assessment will be included in the 2026/2027 core funding scheme, similar to 2024, or a mechanism that...
    • Child and Family Agency
      2827. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 1 July 2026, to clarify, whether Tusla involvement is effectively required in practice...
    • Departmental Data
      2828. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of the €25 million allocated for respite services in 2026; the proportion of this funding allocated to...
    • Disability Services
      2829. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the transport options available to a person (details supplied) to travel to adult day services; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2831. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is aware of the current wait time issues in childcare caused by delays in the processing of Garda Vetting forms...
    • Departmental Data
      2832. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the locations overseas where CDNTs within CHO9 went on recruitment campaigns seeking to recruit additional staff to work within...
    • Childcare Services
      2833. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being considered to reduce childcare costs for families in Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      2834. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people waiting for CDNT services in the south-west region, by IHA at the end of July 2026 compared to July in each of...
    • Residential Institutions
      2837. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the statutory basis on which privately operated children's residential centres are registered and inspected by the alternative care...
    • Children in Care
      2840. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 935 of 12 May 2026, whether the figure of 243 registered centres refers to privately operated...
    • Residential Institutions
      2842. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the target date by which the Child and Family Agency intends to reduce dependency on private residential care placements; the...
    • Departmental Data
      2845. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently awaiting a residential care placement in respect of whom no placement has been identified; the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2846. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken under the current National Disability Strategy to improve the physical accessibility of public places and...
    • Disability Services
      2847. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to an individual living with a disability (details supplied); if she will provide guidance on the pathway to...
    • Departmental Data
      2849. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE early years practitioner posts filled at Springfield children's disability network team as of 17 July 2026, in...
    • Childcare Services
      2852. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding available to assist childcare providers with the costs of outdoor equipment, and indoor furniture such as Cots; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      2853. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE play leader posts that are filled at each children's disability network team within CHO3 as of 15 July 2026, in...
    • Disability Services
      2854. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in County Galway that as of July 2026 or the latest data available were awaiting a first assessment of need...
    • Legislative Programme
      2855. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality his views on whether the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 will appear on the autumn legislative programme; and if she...
    • Departmental Data
      2856. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the current funding streams for childcare; the additional funding provided in Budget 2026 and...
    • Departmental Funding
      2857. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding required to reduce the costs of childcare for parents to respectively €50 per week or €200 per...
    • Departmental Data
      2859. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing foster care allowance rates by €15 or €25, or alternatively index linking it to...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2861. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to support the provision and training of assistance dogs, including autism assistance dogs; whether...
    • Special Educational Needs
      2862. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) will get access to speech and language services in Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Vacant Properties
      2863. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous...
    • Special Educational Needs
      2864. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the accommodation for a person (details supplied). [56948/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2865. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting to access speech and language therapy in the CHO7 area, by CDNT; the number of those waiting more...
    • Special Educational Needs
      2867. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment of needs in the CHO7 area; the number of children waiting longer than 12 months; and...
    • Departmental Data
      2868. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time for an occupational therapist to make an assessment for a housing adaptation in the CHO7 area. [57052/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      2870. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for assessment of needs in Dublin Mid-West; the average waiting times for assessments in...
    • Departmental Data
      2872. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent by the State defending challenges from families who have not had an assessment of needs delivered within the...
    • Disability Services
      2873. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on whether the services and supports that exist for fully dependent adults are adequate when compared to those available...
    • Departmental Data
      2875. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within her Department and in bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      2876. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the usage of artificial intelligence within her Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within...
    • Departmental Data
      2877. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total funding allocated to core funding each year since its introduction, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2881. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of providers who have withdrawn from Core Funding to date in 2026 and; the number of new providers who have signed up to...
    • Childcare Services
      2892. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the national consultation event on childcare will be held; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57317/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2893. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total capital budget allocation for childcare in 2026; the total amount spent to date; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Programme for Government
      2894. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding progress towards the Programme for Government commitment to progressively reduce the cost of childcare to...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2896. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has engaged with childcare providers on transitioning to a public childcare model since October 2025; to provide a list of...
    • Departmental Data
      2899. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of the more than 40,000 child wellbeing checks ordered following the death of a child (details supplied) that have been...
    • Detention Centres
      2900. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of young people who were detained in a detention centre (details supplied) in 2025 and to date in 2026 the average...
    • Departmental Data
      2904. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE family support worker posts that were filled at Blanchardstown Children's Disability Network Team as of 15 July...
    • Health Services Staff
      2907. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures the HSE have undertaken to recruit and retain more staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57608/26]
    • Departmental Data
      2908. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting for therapies who were referred to the CDNT in Swords and Balbriggan; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      2914. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if any consideration has been given to organising the social sensory group sessions at weekends or evening times to accommodate...
    • Departmental Data
      2920. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of referrals for an AON that were made to Dublin North County Healthcare over the past three years, in tabular form; and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      2922. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of unallocated child protection and welfare cases in Tusla at the end of each year from 2020 to date in 2026, by region,...
    • Child Protection
      2925. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department or Tusla has carried out an assessment of the impact of staff turnover on child protection outcomes, case...
    • Disability Services
      2928. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in each LHO area as of 1 July 2026, or latest date...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2932. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children as of 1 July 2026, or latest date available that were awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2933. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of people on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list; the number waiting less than 4 months, the number...
    • Child and Family Agency
      2936. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons murdered or who died in suspicious circumstances from 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, that had previously...
    • Budget 2027
      2937. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for increased funding for the national childcare scheme in Budget 2026; the proposals to raise income thresholds for eligible...
    • Childcare Services
      2939. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when routine cleaning will be reinstated at a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57701/26]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2940. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the implementation of the State-led Early Learning and Childcare Capital Programme announced in January 2026, the...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      2941. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a reconciliation of all unaccompanied minors referred to or received by Tusla from 2020 to date in 2026, including the...
    • Nursing Homes
      2947. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions she is taking to address the situation whereby 1,209 people under the age of 65 are currently living in nursing homes...
    • Disability Services
      2948. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding the number of respite hours available to the carers of adults with disabilities or additional needs; how...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      2953. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when she last met the Irish thalidomide association; and if she will give a report of that meeting. [57944/26]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2956. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time in each health region for completion of the preliminary team assessment under the assessment of need...
    • Disability Services
      2957. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 23 April 2026, to provide an update on the progress made on the issues raised by a...
    • Housing Provision
      2958. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the latest engagements she or officials from her Department have had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage...
    • Childcare Services
      2959. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress to date on the programme for Government commitment to progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per...
    • Disability Services
      2961. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she or her Department have considered a model of funding similar to the school transport scheme for transporting users of day...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      2962. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need, by health region and integrated healthcare...
    • Disability Services
      2963. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on a waiting list for initial contact from a CDNT, by health region and integrated healthcare area, age...
    • Departmental Strategies
      2964. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the date at which she expects the National LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Strategy II 2024-2028 progress report for the first six months of 2026...
    • Disability Services
      2965. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in residential disability services who are placed more than 50 kilometres and more than 100 kilometres from...
    • Family Resource Centres
      2969. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being taken to support family resource centres in responding to increasing demand for their services; whether...
    • Disability Services
      2971. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting placement in residential disability services, broken down by HSE Health Region, county and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      2973. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current status of work to extend the Access and Inclusion Model to children below the current ECCE eligibility age; the...
    • Disability Services
      2976. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children and adolescents currently awaiting a residential disability placement; and the figures, by HSE Health Region...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      2994. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a reconciliation of all unaccompanied minors referred to or received by Tusla from 1 January 2022 to date; the number...
    • Children in Care
      3001. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla can extract from individual files the number of safeguarding incidents, serious concerns and Garda referrals...
    • Family Resource Centres
      3005. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department plans to increase the core funding for family resource centres in Budget 2027; and if she will make a statement...
    • Childcare Services
      3008. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childminders (details supplied) "known to" their local county childcare committee, by CCC area, in tabular form; and...
    • Disability Services
      3010. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the sanctioned WTE, filled WTE, vacant WTE, temporary agency WTE and recruitment status by discipline within the children’s...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      3013. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in tabular form the number of assessment of need applications received, completed within the statutory timeframe, completed outside...
    • Disability Services
      3015. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE clinical nurse specialist posts filled in each CDNT within CHO5 as of 21 July 2026, in tabular form. [58359/26]
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      3018. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the review enabled by the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act 2015 will take place. [58389/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3020. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will improve availability of a paper-based application form for the setting up of enduring power of attorney....
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      3028. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if any person or State agency has been investigated by her Department as a result of the treatment and death of the children in St....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      3029. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare providers who have left the NCCA ECCE schemes since September 2020 to date in 2026, by month; and if she...
    • Departmental Reports
      3030. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if academic research commissioned by her Department with UCD on the topic of socio-economic discrimination in Ireland was...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      3031. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the measures she is taking to ensure that the core funding scheme provides adequate and sustainable support to early...
    • EU Presidency
      3032. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of her Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for...
    • State Gifts
      3033. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in her capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3034. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by her Department and all bodies under her...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      3035. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within her Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is...
    • Ministerial Communications
      3036. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she uses personal emails for Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58672/26]
    • Child and Family Agency
      3039. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of times that TUSLA have had to be called for a child under 18 left unaccompanied in accident and emergency by hospital...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3042. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will publish a five-year national community living strategy for adults with an intellectual disability, prepared...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      3045. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown of the public funding commitment to early years education and care in each year since 2020 up to 2026,...
    • Childcare Services
      3046. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the number of childcare facilities withdrawing from core funding will she consider allowing the facilities to charge the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      3047. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the independent review of low pay in Section 39 organisations will commence as committed to in the 2025 WRC Agreement; if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      3048. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department plans to review the Access and Inclusion Model to ensure that children with additional needs can access...
    • Departmental Projects
      3049. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the feasibility study for the future of the Toghermore site in Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Childcare Services
      3050. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of registered childcare places in each county in each of the past ten years, together with the number of services,...
    • Departmental Data
      3051. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons receiving residential, respite, day and personal assistance services in each HSE health region in each of the...
    • Disability Services
      3052. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of vacancies, by job title in each children's disability network team based within Mayo; the expected timeframe for...
    • Departmental Data
      3053. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children in Mayo waiting for an assessment of needs; the length of time these children have been waiting for their...
    • Departmental Policies
      3054. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures that are being undertaken to ensure that Section 39 agencies do not need to reduce services and supports in order to...
    • Departmental Funding
      3055. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures...
    • Exchequer Payments
      3056. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total amount of Exchequer funding, grants and other public monies provided directly or indirectly to non-governmental...
    • Departmental Funding
      3057. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total amount of Exchequer funding, grants, service-level agreement funding and other public monies provided to non-governmental...
    • Child and Family Agency
      3058. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons who went missing while in Tusla care since 2020.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59539/26]
    • Childcare Services
      3059. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she has examined the introduction of additional targeted supports for families facing significant childcare costs; whether...
  • Department of Health
    • Mental Health Services
      3061. To ask the Minister for Health to give a State apology to the hundreds of families and individuals whose lives were ruined as a result of the CAMHS Scandal, through mismedication and...
    • Home Care Packages
      3062. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting a home help package in Kerry, broken down by area and by length of time waiting, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      3063. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons accessing a mental health service (details supplied) in Cork county in each of the past five years; the average waiting times; the...
    • Departmental Data
      3064. To ask the Minister for Health the data available to her Department on trends in anxiety, depression, self-harm and eating disorders among children and young adults aged 12 to 25 years over...
    • Health Services Staff
      3067. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant, approved and filled consultant psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, occupational therapist and nursing post within CAMHS teams...
    • Health Services
      3068. To ask the Minister for Health the service responsible for assessing and treating children with standalone ARFID in the north Tipperary area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      3070. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide funding for a national baseline audit of meals on wheels services, in view of the absence of comprehensive national data on service users,...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3072. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently awaiting occupational therapy in CHO7; and the number of those waiting longer than 12 months. [57054/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      3078. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and when a follow-up appointment will issue. [57118/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the occupational therapy first time assessment waiting list; and within that the number waiting less than 4 months; the number waiting...
    • Ambulance Service
      3082. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a person (details supplied) that has returned as planned to an ambulance base following a career break; if anything can be...
    • Health Service Executive
      3083. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE grants available for a para athlete who has been selected for the world championships in America for Para cycling having become national champion in...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3084. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people on waiting lists for occupational therapy, by length of wait, at the end of July 2026, in tabular form. [54768/26]
    • Health Services
      3101. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give consideration to correspondence (details supplied) and allow for skyclarys treatment for the progressive neurological condition Friedreich's...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3102. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to SMS messages that are being sent by the validation team at UHL asking individuals to confirm that they wish to stay on a...
    • Health Services
      3103. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the lack of availability to an oral immunotherapy treatment in Cork University Hospital for children with life challenging allergies (details...
    • Disability Services
      3104. To ask the Minister for Health given that the HSE recognises dementia as not a normal part of ageing, the reason people living with dementia are routinely referred to older persons'...
    • Health Services Staff
      3105. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether a value-for-money or cost comparison analysis between directly employed home support workers and externally procured providers has been...
    • Health Services
      3106. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether the home support authorisation scheme includes profit margin controls for private providers; if so, to provide details of those controls;...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3109. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients, not the percentage, in Mayo University Hospital waiting more than 8, 12 and 24 hours in the emergency department, in each of the past...
    • Departmental Data
      3110. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients admitted or discharged to or from Mayo University Hospital's emergency department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2026.;...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3111. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an updated timeline for the construction phases and governance structure of the newly established project board managing the 44-acre hospital site...
    • Primary Care Services
      3112. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the current primary care model of postnatal maternal support to extend structured clinical and mental health check-ins well beyond the...
    • Departmental Data
      3113. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients diagnosed with functional neurological disorder within the public health service in each of the past five years; the hospitals...
    • Health Service Executive
      3114. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE routinely collects national data on functional neurological disorder, including prevalence, referrals, waiting lists, treatment outcomes and...
    • Health Services
      3115. To ask the Minister for Health if a national clinical programme for functional neurological disorder has been established within the HSE; if not, the current status of any work towards its...
    • Hospital Services
      3117. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of specialist functional neurological disorder services currently operating within the public health service; the hospitals in which...
    • Departmental Data
      3118. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staffing currently assigned to each functional neurological disorder service, broken down by consultant, psychologist,...
    • Hospital Services
      3119. To ask the Minister for Health the referral pathway currently in place for patients diagnosed with functional neurological disorder; the hospitals that accept referrals for specialist...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3120. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting assessment or treatment in specialist functional neurological disorder services, by hospital; the average waiting...
    • Health Services
      3121. To ask the Minister for Health the dedicated public services that are currently available for children and young people diagnosed with functional neurological disorder; the locations of...
    • Hospital Services
      3122. To ask the Minister for Health the hospital groups and HSE health regions that currently have access to specialist functional neurological disorder services; the regions where no specialist...
    • Health Services
      3123. To ask the Minister for Health whether persons diagnosed with functional neurological disorder are routinely eligible for referral to community neuro-rehabilitation teams; if eligibility...
    • Health Services Staff
      3124. To ask the Minister for Health the formal education and training on functional neurological disorder that is currently provided by the HSE to neurologists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists,...
    • Mental Health Services
      3125. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of vacancies, by job title within CAMHS in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54881/26]
    • Departmental Properties
      3126. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all the HSE owned buildings in County Wexford that are currently for sale or going through a defined process to facilitate a sale; and if...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3128. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a hospital appointment (details supplied) as this person is very isolated as a result of their illness; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Cards
      3129. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the ongoing inequity in access to low vision aids for medical card holders in the midlands, including Offaly, where the HSE currently...
    • Health Services
      3130. To ask the Minister for Health if she has been informed that an organisation (details supplied) is working with 61 people in Offaly who are blind or vision impaired and who hold medical...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      3131. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a full breakdown of counties where low vision aids are funded through the GMS scheme without restriction; the reason the midlands...
    • National Children's Hospital
      3132. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2444 of 9 June 2026, the specific office or body that holds final authority to authorise day one opening of the National...
    • Vaccination Programme
      3133. To ask the Minister for Health the annual health budget expenditure for immunisation programmes and national population screening programmes in Ireland in each year from 2018 to 2025...
    • Medical Cards
      3134. To ask the Minister for Health if physical medical and GP cards are still issued when applicants are eligible or if it is an online card; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      3135. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54946/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      3136. To ask the Minister for Health for an update in the case of a person (details supplied) regarding registration with CORU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54949/26]
    • Budget 2027
      3137. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated in Budget 2027 to a charity (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54950/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3138. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the ongoing issue of children in acute mental‐health crises being left for extended periods in inappropriate hospital settings due...
    • Nursing Homes
      3145. To ask the Minister for Health the minimum period that land or property has to be transferred by an elderly person to a family member in order for the land-property to be excluded as an...
    • Health Services
      3146. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons an organisation sought access to undercover footage (details supplied); the costs incurred seeking permission to receive this footage; and if she...
    • Alcohol Advertising
      3147. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 872 of 16 June 2026, if she will correct the inaccurate information provided previously with respect to alcohol...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      3148. To ask the Minister for Health for a detailed update on the Government's considerations of further long-term supports for healthcare workers suffering with long-Covid; the options being...
    • Hospital Procedures
      3149. To ask the Minister for Health the reason faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) for symptomatic patients is not provided in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, or Louth County Hospital,...
    • Mental Health Services
      3153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 300 mental health posts funded in budget 2026 that have been filled; the number remaining vacant; and the grade and HSE Health Region...
    • Medicinal Products
      3163. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the approval process of givinostat; and the estimated timeline for its reimbursement by the HSE. [55035/26]
    • Hospital Services
      3164. To ask the Minister for Health whether the objective of providing continuity of maternity care through a named lead professional, as set out in the National Maternity Strategy, remains a...
    • Health Services Staff
      3165. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55052/26]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      3166. To ask the Minister for Health given the very long waiting times between diagnostic test and follow up appointment in many public IVF clinics, the legal basis for such clinics withholding a...
    • Hospital Services
      3167. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to standardise access to prenatal testing for all those attending public maternity services here. [55078/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3168. To ask the Minister for Health to list each consultancy contract entered into by her Department; the name of the contractor, purpose of the contract, output from the consultancy work and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      3172. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a policy approach to support healthcare workers with long-Covid. [55089/26]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      3173. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to monitor and enforce the alcohol advertising provisions of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 and the relevant regulations; the...
    • Nursing Homes
      3174. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a nursing home support scheme case in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55110/26]
    • Primary Care Centres
      3175. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in her plans to provide a primary care centre in Killarney, County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55122/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3176. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an ongoing recruitment embargo within mental health services; the posts affected by this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55129/26]
    • Hospital Services
      3177. To ask the Minister for Health if the Maternity Care Strategy provides for overnight partner or chosen support person access during the postnatal period, recognising the lack of uniformity...
    • Health Services Staff
      3178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies that are currently in the mental health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55142/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3179. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the vacant positions in the mental health services, by county, in both hospital and community settings, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Health Services Staff
      3180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of transfers that have been approved in the past 12 months in the mental health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55144/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3182. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) [55163/26]
    • Health Services
      3183. To ask the Minister for Health the funding which will be provided towards the women’s health action plan in respect of breastfeeding, particularly action 7k and 8F; and if she will...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      3188. To ask the Minister for Health the procurement process for the new shop facility at Louth County Hospital; the stages involved; the criteria applied; the expected timeframe for each stage;...
    • Health Services
      3189. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated on a full year basis for the 24 BreastCheck mobile screening units; the estimated full year cost of providing an additional unit; and if...
    • Programme for Government
      3190. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the programme for Government commitment to examine the introduction of free pelvic floor physical therapy sessions for women after childbirth;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      3191. To ask the Minister for Health if issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55182/26]
    • Hospital Services
      3192. To ask the Minister for Health if there is no funding for new hip and knee replacement procedures at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, Finglas; the funding that currently exists at...
    • Home Care Packages
      3193. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed statutory scheme for home support will be completed; the actions that have been completed to date as part of developing such a scheme; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3194. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if the appointment could be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55202/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young people waiting for an appointment with child and adolescent mental health services at the end of each year in 2023, 2024 and...
    • Health Services Staff
      3197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE community ophthalmic physicians posts filled within CHO2 community services as of 13 July 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      3198. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of an extra WTE consultant colorectal surgeon for the regional endometriosis services in Galway; and if she...
    • Mental Health Services
      3199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young people currently awaiting access to CAMHS in each county, at the end of June 2026; the average waiting time for first-time...
    • Industrial Disputes
      3208. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to ongoing industrial action at a facility (details supplied); the actions she will take to ensure that these employees get a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3210. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 9 July 2026, to clarify the reason the manager at Letterkenny University Hospital was tasked with the response...
    • Departmental Data
      3211. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the number of vagus nerve stimulation procedures which have taken place at a site (details supplied) in each of the past five years, and to...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3215. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of patients awaiting vagus nerve stimulation battery replacement procedures at a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Staff
      3216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior pharmacist posts filled at Portiuncula University Hospital as of 10 July 2026, in tabular form. [55234/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see a consultant rheumatologist at Galway University Hospital as of 10 July 2026, for a first appointment, in tabular form....
    • Mental Health Services
      3218. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment by CAHMS and CDNT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55239/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      3219. To ask the Minister for Health the reason certain items (details supplied) have been delisted from the drug payment scheme; if she will consider the financial impact this causes for those...
    • Health Promotion
      3221. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will introduce statutory restrictions on influencer and digital marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages high in fat, salt or sugar to...
    • Departmental Policies
      3225. To ask the Minister for Health whether she will examine a statutory prohibition on influencers promoting cosmetic surgery, invasive aesthetic procedures and unsubstantiated weight-loss or...
    • Ambulance Service
      3226. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new ambulance base at Gorey. [55323/26]
    • Health Services
      3227. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if the case will be urgently reviewed and considered for prioritisation; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      3228. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which families affected by substance use are represented in the development and implementation of the new National Drugs Strategy; and whether...
    • Mental Health Services
      3229. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to embed trauma-informed practice across HSE addiction, mental health and community services; the funding allocated for this work; and...
    • Departmental Data
      3230. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department intends to develop a national data collection framework on families affected by substance use, including the wider impacts on parents,...
    • Departmental Funding
      3231. To ask the Minister for Health the funding currently provided for community-based family support organisations working with families affected by addiction, broken down by county and by...
    • Mental Health Services
      3232. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to support frontline addiction workers experiencing secondary trauma and burnout, including access to clinical supervision and...
    • Health Services Staff
      3233. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists and speech and language therapist posts by grade that were filled at Wexford General Hospital as of 14 July 2026, in...
    • Health Service Executive
      3235. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE representative for the Local Community Safety Forum for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council will be appointed. [55373/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      3236. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the need for increased and sustained funding for personal assistance services, PAS, to support people older people to live independently...
    • Health Services
      3237. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55382/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      3239. To ask the Minister for Health her plans for patients to access belzutifan (welireg) for patients living with von hippel-lindau disease in Ireland. [55391/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      3240. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that has been allocated to implementing the hereditary cancer model of care in each of the years since its launch, including 2023 to...
    • Departmental Data
      3241. To ask the Minister for Health the actual number and the percentage of electronic referrals from a GP to lung rapid access clinics, by hospital, in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to...
    • Medical Cards
      3243. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for a person (details supplied); the way in which they can access counselling on a medical card; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      3244. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of electronic referrals from a GP to urgent symptomatic breast disease clinics by hospital in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to...
    • Mental Health Services
      3245. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of registered CAMHS inpatient beds; the number of those beds currently in operation; the number of beds not currently operational; the...
    • Health Services
      3249. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently intervene in the case of a person (details supplied); if a review of the case will be expedited in light of the serious risks. [55411/26]
    • Insurance Coverage
      3250. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether the current regulatory framework governing minimum benefits under the Health Insurance Act 1994 provides sufficient flexibility for older...
    • Home Care Packages
      3258. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase HSE funding for supported living packages so that community-based living can expand in line with identified needs. [55431/26]
    • Departmental Strategies
      3260. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the development and publication of the next National Cancer Strategy; the process for stakeholder and patient involvement; and if she will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      3262. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department have entered negotiations on a deal for the shingles vaccine (herpes zoster vaccine) for persons over 65 years of age as part of the...
    • Mental Health Services
      3263. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to create a shared communication corridor between CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental health services), University Hospital Limerick and...
    • Assisted Suicide
      3264. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the evaluation carried out on the recommendations of the report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying which are relevant to her...
    • Hospital Staff
      3265. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants by speciality that are signed up to public only contracts at Beaumont Hospital. [55481/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3267. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have received maternity care on a private or semi-private basis at a hospital (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the...
    • Ambulance Service
      3268. To ask the Minister for Health if she has given consideration to allocating additional funding to the NAS to provide an ambulance for Inis Oírr; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      3269. To ask the Minister for Health the compliance rate with key performance indicators and standards for each type of cancer treatment, by cancer centre, for quarter 1 and quarter 2 of 2026, in...
    • Coroners Service
      3271. To ask the Minister for Health the policy framework within which coroners operate, having regard to the practice of retaining organs following the conduct of a post-mortem examination;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      3272. To ask the Minister for Health whether premenstrual dysphoric disorder is explicitly recognised within the Women's Health Action Plan and Women's Health Programme; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      3273. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has considered the development of a national clinical pathway for the diagnosis and treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder; and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3274. To ask the Minister for Health the training or guidance provided to GPs regarding the recognition and management of premenstrual dysphoric disorder; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3275. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women awaiting gynaecology appointments where premenstrual dysphoric disorder is recorded as the primary or secondary reason for referral; and...
    • Health Services
      3276. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has identified specialist services or clinicians for the management of severe premenstrual dysphoric disorder; and if she will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      3279. To ask the Minister for Health the preparations that are being made to develop an updated national maternity strategy; when this will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3280. To ask the Minister for Health the efficiency and reform proposals her Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      3281. To ask the Minister for Health the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas Members to agencies under her Department, in tabular form. [55583/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      3282. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that the HSE spent under the high-tech drug scheme in 2025 and for the first six months of 2026, in tabular form. [55626/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      3283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant urologist posts filled at the Mater Hospital as of 15 July 2026, in tabular form. [55627/26]
    • Hospital Services
      3286. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding any engagement she had with maternity hospitals in relation to the phasing out of private maternity care; and if she will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3287. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider extending the age for free contraception, which is currently from 17 years to 35 years, to at least 40 years of age; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Data
      3290. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ankle surgeries carried out at Tallaght University Hospital in the years of 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [55675/26]
    • Health Services
      3295. To ask the Minister for Health the dietetic supports currently available to children with ARFID in the north Tipperary region, especially in light of the fact there is no dietician part of...
    • Health Services Staff
      3296. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work of the head of discipline dietician in the mid-west region; the specific work that has been carried out in the north Tipperary area;...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      3298. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria and methodology used by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in negotiating prices with private and voluntary nursing homes under the nursing...
    • Nursing Homes
      3300. To ask the Minister for Health the total annual expenditure under the nursing homes support scheme in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form;...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      3301. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the pricing system used by the National Treatment Purchase Fund to negotiate prices with private and voluntary nursing homes under the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3302. To ask the Minister for Health to allow for more time for, or cease the sending of, confirmation to remain on waitlist letters or face removal from the waitlists for hospital appointment...
    • Dental Services
      3303. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to review the Dental Act 1985 in order that all patients will be allowed direct access to dental hygienists; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      3305. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding negotiations ongoing in relation to the approval for reimbursement status of a drug (details supplied), which is used as part of the...
    • Health Services
      3311. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing blood-borne virus screening when individuals get a blood test at an emergency department; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3312. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to providing injectable PrEP for clinically suitable individuals for whom this form of administration would be greatly...
    • Health Services
      3313. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals received by a treatment centre (details supplied) in each of the past five years, broken down by programme and HSE health region; the...
    • Departmental Funding
      3317. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of HSE and Exchequer funding provided to a treatment centre (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the key performance indicators or...
    • Health Services
      3318. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE audits or reviews referral practices, waiting lists and admission criteria in publicly funded addiction services operated by a treatment...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3321. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a person who has been referred by his or her GP to a psychiatric hospital before being admitted, by community healthcare...
    • Health Services
      3322. To ask the Minister for Health whether the service level agreement between the HSE and a treatment centre (details supplied) requires the organisation to facilitate onward referral or...
    • Health Services Staff
      3325. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1060 of 12 May, to provide an update on the ongoing consideration of longer-term measures to support healthcare workers...
    • Data Protection
      3326. To ask the Minister for Health the number of data protection breaches which occurred in organisations that are under the aegis of the HSE under the Health Act 2004 and were reported to the...
    • Medicinal Products
      3331. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to fund biological drugs for the treatment of lupus; the status of two applications (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      3332. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the 11.6 % reduction in primary care WTE personnel numbers in the Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary south IHA between December 2025 and May 2026;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3333. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a scan will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55826/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women referred to specialist perinatal mental health services in each of the past five years; the average waiting time for assessment and...
    • Health Services
      3336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated pregnancy loss clinics operating nationally; the staffing levels within these services; the average waiting time for referral and...
    • Health Promotion
      3337. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to increase participation in CervicalCheck among younger women and underserved communities; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3338. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve access to hormone replacement therapy for women experiencing menopause and perimenopause; the measures in place to ensure the...
    • Departmental Data
      3339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of couples and individuals who have accessed publicly funded IVF services since the commencement of the scheme; the number currently awaiting...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women currently on waiting lists for assessment and diagnosis of polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome; the average waiting time involved;...
    • Departmental Data
      3344. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure that can be identified in respect of treatments, medicines, procedures and services provided to patients with erectile dysfunction in each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3346. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure incurred by her Department and the Health Service Executive, separately, on external consultancy and advisory services for each...
    • Health Services Staff
      3347. To ask the Minister for Health the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training, introductory or advanced use;...
    • Hospital Investigations
      3349. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the serious incident management process, fact-finding exercise and proposed wider review and improvement plan initiated by the HSE following...
    • Mental Health Commission
      3350. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1228 of 10 February 2026 and 1111 of 24 February 2026, the reason the Mental Health Commission does not publish...
    • Health Services Staff
      3352. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, by integrated healthcare area, the number of currently funded whole-time-equivalent posts in general adult community mental health teams in each...
    • Health Services
      3353. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the single point of access model for child services; the precise process for adjudicating cases where there is...
    • Hospital Services
      3354. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of serious concerns regarding the current state of the maternity services at UMHL (details supplied); the steps she plans to take in relation...
    • Health Services
      3355. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the campaign related to trans healthcare in Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3357. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will seek an update on the timeline for this person's operation; and if she will...
    • Medical Cards
      3358. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider changing eligibility criteria for medical card holders so that disabled people do not lose their access once they receive other State...
    • Medical Research and Training
      3360. To ask the Minister for Health when the membership of the Clinical Trials Advisory Council will be appointed and announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56013/26]
    • Health Strategies
      3361. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on cancer research priorities as part of the current National Cancer Strategy 2016-2017; the breakdown of funding invested in cancer...
    • Health Services
      3362. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of cancer patients who had their first chemotherapy cycle between 1-15 days, 16-20 days, 21-25 days, 26-30 days and 31+ working days of being...
    • Health Services Staff
      3368. To ask the Minister for Health when the promised two suicide crisis assessment nurses for Kerry will be delivered; if they will be operational by quarter 3; and the reason for failure to...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3370. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the delivery of a minor injuries unit at UHK; when it will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56047/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      3371. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will review the case of a child (details supplied) who is eligible for the under 8 GP visit card scheme and has been accepted by a GP practice in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3372. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently on a waiting list for a GP place in north Kildare; the average waiting time for same; the number of those who have been waiting...
    • Health Services Staff
      3374. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in critical care medicine based at University Hospital Limerick as of 16 July 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3376. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an urgent appointment. [56075/26]
    • Disease Management
      3377. To ask the Minister for Health the designated national lead with responsibility and accountability for the development, co-ordination and oversight of paediatric asthma care in Ireland,...
    • Health Services Staff
      3379. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of medical consultants employed across all disciplines in 2023, 2024 and 2025; the total cost of consultant salaries in each year; and if she...
    • Hospital Equipment
      3381. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of CT, MRI and PET scanners currently in use by all hospitals; the average cost of a scanner; the total annual cost of operation in 2023,...
    • Health Services
      3382. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Clare regarding the five-day support which is in line with an approved support plan and...
    • Hospital Services
      3383. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE mid-west development board for the new acute hospital is to be formally established; if a timeline will be published. [56159/26]
    • General Practitioner Services
      3384. To ask the Minister for Health to implement targeted GP recruitment and retention incentives specifically for east Clare (details supplied). [56160/26]
    • Health Services
      3385. To ask the Minister for Health to extend structured postnatal care and maternal mental health check-ins well beyond the current six-week model, particularly in rural areas where GP and...
    • Nursing Homes
      3386. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allocated a nursing home place close to home in Cahersiveen or Valentia; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • EU Regulations
      3387. To ask the Minister for Health to outline Ireland’s position on the development at EU level of maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements; whether Irish...
    • Disability Services
      3388. To ask the Minister for Health if she will introduce a National Safeguarding Authority to ensure improved safeguarding duties, accountability mechanisms and oversight enforcement across...
    • Health Services Staff
      3389. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the recruitment of an occupational therapist in north Tipperary CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56195/26]
    • Disability Services
      3391. To ask the Minister for Health the interim supports available to children who require occupational therapist supports, as the north Tipperary CAMHS OT post is currently vacant; and if she...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      3395. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of the endometriosis surgery abroad interim scheme; the qualification criteria for this scheme; and the appeal or follow up...
    • Health Services Staff
      3396. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the recruitment has been ongoing for the occupational therapist post in North Tipperary CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Properties
      3399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant or derelict buildings owned or leased by her Department or by the HSE. [56220/26]
    • Health Services
      3400. To ask the Minister for Health the reason fewer than 5,000 interRAI assessments were carried out in 2025 to evaluate the healthcare needs of older and medically vulnerable persons when the...
    • Cancer Services
      3401. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of breast cancer cases whose referrals were triaged as urgent and met the national standard of two weeks for urgent referrals; the total...
    • Vaccination Programme
      3402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who received the MMR vaccines in 2025; the percentage that forms of the relevant age cohort; the reasons not all children received the...
    • Health Strategies
      3403. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Tobacco Free Ireland policy. [56224/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      3404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE owned properties that have been vacant for more than 12 months, per county. [56233/26]
    • Hospital Facilities
      3405. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planning application for the oncology day unit at Cavan General Hospital as outlined in the 2026 HSE Capital Plan; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Equipment
      3408. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of expanding or upgrading radiology equipment as outlined in the 2025 HSE Capital Plan at Cork University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick,...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3409. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of extending oncology units/day wards as outlined in the 2025 HSE Capital Plan at Portiuncula University Hospital, Naas General Hospital, Midland...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3412. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide clarity on the decision to remove access to private maternity services as part of Sláintecare; the details of the consultation which...
    • Health Strategies
      3413. To ask the Minister for Health whether radiation oncologists, radiation therapists and medical physicists will be included as members of the Working Group on a Strategic Infrastructure...
    • Medicinal Products
      3416. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline from application for reimbursement of new cancer medicines to a decision to reimburse in each of the years 2019 to 2025 and to date 2026, in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in counties Cavan and Monaghan currently awaiting a CT scan in Cavan Hospital for a period of 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months and for...
    • Medical Cards
      3421. To ask the Minister for Health if she will initiate a review of the decision to deny a GP visit card to an individual (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting a maxillofacial surgery appointment for patients in County Clare broken down by Hospital and by length of time, in...
    • Dental Services
      3424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting to see a dentist at Ennis Primary Care Centre;and the average waiting time to see a dentist. [56297/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      3425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrist and senior psychologists posts that are filled at Clare CAMHS as of 16 July 2026, in tabular form. [56298/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      3426. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a matter (details supplied); the assistance or services available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56306/26]
    • Primary Care Centres
      3427. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO2 that currently provide wound dressing clinics, in tabular form. [56317/26]
    • Hospital Services
      3428. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulatory assessment spaces within the accident and emergency department of Galway University Hospital. [56318/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      3429. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant respiratory physicians working in public health services; her plans to expand this number; the international recommended best...
    • Mental Health Services
      3432. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to meet the Sláintecare commitment to allocate 10% of the health budget to mental health by 2030; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      3434. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to establish and increase inpatient and outpatient mental health support services in west Cork to support the acute service in Bantry Hospital; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      3436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses working in mental health services in Cork South-West, from 2022 to date; the current number of vacant positions in the service in Cork...
    • Dental Services
      3437. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on waiting lists for access to dental treatment under sedation at the end of July 2026, by sedation type, by patient type, by wait time...
    • Hospital Services
      3441. To ask the Minister for Health the average time to admission, waiting-time distribution, and the number leaving without being seen via emergency departments, to date 2026, in Kerry, with...
    • Hospital Procedures
      3442. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations in quarters 1 to 4 in each of the years 2020 to date in UHK broken down by appointment/procedure...
    • Medical Cards
      3443. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in receipt of a medical card between the ages of 0-12 and 12-19, respectively, in tabular form. [56362/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      3444. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2281 of 9 June 2026, if her Department will direct the HSE to introduce value-for-money evaluation of recruitment...
    • Health Service Executive
      3445. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure by the HSE on consultant recruitment advertising in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by advertising channel including...
    • Health Services Staff
      3446. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary Question No. 761 of 7 July 2026, the reason the number of internationally recruited nursing and midwifery staff appointed through HSE...
    • EU Regulations
      3447. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently examine proposed EU measures that would set lower limits on the strength of vitamins and minerals in food supplements (details supplied); and if...
    • Legislative Measures
      3449. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider introducing a prohibition on the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children under 16 yeas-of-age, in view of the announcement by the...
    • Departmental Data
      3451. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the Food Safety Authority of Ireland holds data on the consumption of high-caffeine energy drinks by children in Ireland; the most...
    • EU Data
      3453. To ask the Minister for Health the findings of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs 2024 in respect of nicotine pouch use among adolescents in Ireland, which her...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3454. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department monitors sales volumes of nicotine pouches in Ireland, in view of reports of an almost five-fold increase in sales of one...
    • Social Media
      3458. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department holds or has commissioned any data on the association between social media use and mental health presentations among persons under 18...
    • Patient Files
      3459. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent to date in preparation for the digitalisation of all health records; the projected budgets over the next five years; and if she will...
    • Nursing Homes
      3461. To ask the Minister for Health when the opening-transfer of patients from Killarney District Hospital-St. Columbanus Home to the new Killarney community nursing unit will take place...
    • Disability Services
      3462. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons aged 0 to 18 years-of-age on primary care waiting lists for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3463. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners in CHO1 that have contracts with the HSE under the GMS Scheme, and have informed the HSE that they intend to retire within...
    • Health Services
      3464. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within Donegal where the HSE community specialist teams provide respiratory outreach service clinics and diabetes outreach service clinics, in...
    • Departmental Data
      3465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE posts, by job title that are filled within the pharmacy department of Mullingar Regional Hospital. [56492/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      3467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neck fusion surgeries carried out in Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [56494/26]
    • Health Services
      3468. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason a service has been withdrawn from a hospital in County Kildare (details supplied), and what actions she is taking to address this. [56507/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      3469. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the HSE has a plan to increase the capacity for stem cell transplantations within the Public Health Service. [56508/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      3470. To ask the Minister for Health the recommended best practice guidelines for paediatric hearing assessments including timelines for screening and interventions; and the way in which these...
    • Departmental Funding
      3471. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that funding will be provided in respect of capital costs, commissioning and the recruitment of the required specialist staff to proceed with the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3472. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm an opening date for the new Midleton CNU. [56519/26]
    • Primary Care Centres
      3475. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the work on the Midleton primary care centre. [56522/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3476. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the Owenacurra centre in Midleton, County Cork. [56523/26]
    • Patient Safety
      3477. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address patient safety concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [56526/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      3478. To ask the Minister for Health when the next national survey of food and nutrient intake in children will be carried out (details supplied); whether her Department has considered...
    • Emergency Departments
      3479. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of persons that presented to the accident and emergency department of University Hospital Limerick that were liable to the €100 fee in...
    • Hospital Services
      3480. To ask the Minister for Health to provide for each hospital that is currently providing faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) for symptomatic patients; the average waiting time from GP...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3481. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to open a new regional ataxia clinic at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56534/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      3482. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a campaign in relation to proposed amendments to the permissible use of vitamins and supplements at a EU level (details...
    • Hospital Staff
      3488. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Implementation Action Group 5 process addressing the pay banding and grading structures for senior nursing and midwifery managers,...
    • Home Help Service
      3489. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Galway awaiting home help services as of July 2026 or the latest data available; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      3491. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons and the average wait time on the waiting list for CAMHS in County Galway as of July 2026 or the latest data available; and a breakdown...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list, and within that, the numbers waiting less than four months; the number...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3493. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists and average waiting times for each type of cancer treatment at the University Hospital Galway cancer center; and the compliance rate with...
    • Health Services Staff
      3494. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on agency staff in 2025 and 2026 to date respectively in Cork hospitals by hospital and year, in tabular form. [56591/26]
    • Hospital Transfers
      3496. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on taxi services in Cork hospitals in 2026 to date; the number of these that took place; and the number that did not include a patient on...
    • Home Care Packages
      3497. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on private healthcare assistants for home care services in Cork in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, by year, in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3498. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding access to the HSE Critical Illness Protocol for healthcare workers suffering from long-Covid contracted in the course of their...
    • Health Services
      3499. To ask the Minister for Health for the integration of community audiology services into HSE care pathways to reduce audiology waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cancer Services
      3501. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for commencing the evaluation for the National Cancer Strategy 2017-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56654/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3502. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details on the Strategic Infrastructure Programme established to examine the replacement and expansion of radiation therapy equipment...
    • Cancer Services
      3508. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people triaged as urgent who attended a symptomatic breast disease clinic; the proportion who were offered an appointment in each of the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3509. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the operations they require; the current average wait for these operations; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products
      3510. To ask the Minister for Health if an antihistamine (details supplied) is available in Ireland; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56666/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      3511. To ask the Minister for Health if she has been consulted regarding proposed EU measures to introduce harmonised maximum levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements; the position...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3514. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure for HSE older persons home support compared to its budget in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56707/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      3515. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in which the outstanding complaints and investigations in relation to leaked recordings at the National Ambulance Service will be dealt with;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3519. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the efforts being made to incentivise the setting up of new GP practices given the chronic shortage of GP places; and if she will make a statement...
    • Care Services
      3521. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE respite beds available for County Laois in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026 ; if she is aware of the need for additional...
    • Disease Management
      3522. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the steps being taken to support the continuation and expansion of a service for people living with Parkinson's disease (details supplied); if...
    • Hospital Staff
      3524. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of consultant neurologists employed nationally; the number of vacant consultant neurologist posts across the health service; the progress...
    • Disease Management
      3525. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve supports and services for the estimated 18,000 people living with Parkinson's disease in Ireland, including access to...
    • Health Services
      3526. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve the provision of palliative care services for persons with dementia in County Laois; whether additional funding, staffing...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3528. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce waiting times for audiology services, particularly for people with medical cards; whether she will consider the introduction...
    • Mental Health Services
      3530. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to strengthen mental health crisis supports, including the development of 24/7 community-based crisis services and ensuring emergency...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      3533. To ask the Minister for Health to intervene on behalf of a person (details supplied); to allow for CIP payment in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56760/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3534. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on an appointment for a person (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56775/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      3535. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to ensure adequate staffing at University Maternity Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56776/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3539. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56784/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3540. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the delays in accessing orthopaedic surgery in Cappagh hospital due to lack of funding; if lists have been suspended and that only...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3541. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents waiting for an initial CAMHs appointment in Kerry, broken down by the duration of time waiting, in three months...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for an outpatient appointments at UHK, broken down by three month intervals, in each of the years 2020 to 20 July 2026. [56827/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      3543. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP posts, public health nursing posts and therapy posts currently vacant in County Kerry, in each of the years 2020 to 20 July 2026. [56828/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3544. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use; the length of time each...
    • Departmental Data
      3547. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost to delayed discharge at UHK in each of the years 2020 to date in 2026. [56870/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      3557. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE maintains records of the number of children with scoliosis travelling outside the State to access treatment unavailable in...
    • Departmental Data
      3558. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost incurred by the HSE and her Department in funding overseas treatment for children with scoliosis in each of the past ten years, in tabular...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3559. To ask the Minister for Health whether consideration is being given to extending funding supports for children requiring specialist scoliosis treatment outside the European Union where an...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women that are on the endometriosis waiting lists in County Kerry; the number that are on the national waiting list; the number that are waiting...
    • Home Help Service
      3563. To ask the Minister for Health if a relocation decision will be reversed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56909/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3564. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a consultant ENT surgeon for a first appointment at St Vincent's University Hospital. [56912/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      3565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE cardiac physiologists and cardiac radiographers posts filled at St James's Hospital as of 16 July 2026, in tabular form. [56913/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3566. To ask the Minister for Health her immediate plans to clear the current delay for post-cancer annual surveillance mammograms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56924/26]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      3567. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to address the growing volume of women who fall outside the age range for BreastCheck screening that require symptomatic and surveillance breast...
    • Health Services
      3568. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the impending threat of closure to a centre (details supplied); her views on ensuring this essential service remains in its current...
    • Clinical Trials
      3569. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a clinical trial (details supplied); and the steps being taken to ensure that Ireland does not fall behind other European countries in...
    • Hospital Equipment
      3570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in the coronary care unit at UHW that presently have integrated technology telemetry connections to the coronary care monitoring suite...
    • Hospital Services
      3571. To ask the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that all patients who have either received treatment or are awaiting treatment in the cath lab suite at UHW or that are short stay...
    • Departmental Data
      3574. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that are available in the cardiac day wards in Cork University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick, St. James's Hospital, St. Vincent's...
    • Ambulance Service
      3575. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of concerns regarding ambulance response times in County Mayo; the steps being taken to improve National Ambulance Service coverage and...
    • Health Services Staff
      3579. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to recruit and retain paramedics and advanced paramedics in County Mayo; whether additional ambulance resources are planned for the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3580. To ask the Minister for Health if she has been made aware of reports that the Saint Marie Goretti Ward at the Cluain Lir Care Centre, Mullingar, may be facing closure; if she will confirm...
    • Cancer Services
      3587. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to provide radiation services in the Midlands for cancer patients in recovery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56974/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      3588. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocation to a hospital (details supplied) in the years 2022 to 2025; the spending for each of those years; the funding allocated for the year...
    • Hospital Staff
      3589. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing at a hospital (details supplied) in the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; per job type and WTE funded and WTE filled; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3590. To ask the Minister for Health the current average wait time per speciality in a hospital (details supplied); the longest waiter per speciality; the number of patients waiting to be seen...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3591. To ask the Minister for Health the capital funding allocation for a hospital (details supplied) between the years 2022 to 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56979/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3592. To ask the Minister for Health the current arrangements with regard to equity and access in the specialist perinatal mental health services at a hospital (details supplied); if this is in...
    • Health Service Executive
      3595. To ask the Minister for Health the number of call outs by the HSE pest control services in the Dublin region in 2025 and in 2026 year to date. [56987/26]
    • Health Services
      3598. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently assist a constituent (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56992/26]
    • Medical Cards
      3599. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address a query for a constituent (details supplied); to allow for an interim medical card given that national appeals are taking upwards of three...
    • Care Services
      3600. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the supports available to HSE carers who are required to submit travel expenses online but have not been...
    • Medical Cards
      3601. To ask the Minister for Health to issue a full medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56996/26]
    • Home Help Service
      3602. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the significant number of people currently awaiting home support hours in Donegal; the recruitment measures underway within the HSE to...
    • Cancer Services
      3604. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is currently considering implementing measures to help clear the 10-12 week delay for post-cancer annual surveillance mammograms; and if she...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      3605. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is currently considering changing the BreastCheck screening age or taking other measures to address the fact that a growing volume of...
    • Hospital Procedures
      3606. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns that public hospital units are often unable to coordinate mammograms and ultrasounds on the same day for...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3607. To ask the Minister for Health if she will set out Ireland's current position at the EU PAFF Committee in relation to the development of maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3611. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment at the Centre for Obesity Management in St Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin;...
    • Disease Management
      3612. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assistance or schemes available for a person (details supplied) with type two diabetes in purchasing sensors; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      3613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse posts per CHO; and the number of posts filled and the number of vacancies, in tabular form. [57062/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a waiting list for orthodontic treatment in the CHO7 area; the average waiting time; and the number of those waiting more than 12...
    • Health Services Staff
      3615. To ask the Minister for Health the number of filled and vacant dietitian WTEs in the CHO7 area, in tabular form. [57064/26]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3617. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Kelvin Grove, Carlow; the plans in place for its use; and the date by which it will be brought back into use. [57066/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts in perinatal mental health services per CHO area; and the number of posts filled and the number of vacancies, in tabular form. [57067/26]
    • Home Care Packages
      3619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on a waiting list for home care packages in the CHO7 area; and the number of those who have been waiting more than six months....
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3620. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently on the waiting list for the Centre for Obesity Management; and the average waiting time to access services once a referral has...
    • Health Services Staff
      3623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full time Public Health Nurses covering the Donaghmede area of Dubin 13; and the contact details of same. [57101/26]
    • Hospital Equipment
      3624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI, CT and PET machines currently available for use at Beaumont Hospital. [57102/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3625. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for patients to access oncology services, the longest waiting time, broken down by hospital; the number of patients currently...
    • Medicinal Products
      3626. To ask the Minister for Health her views on proposed EU rules on vitamin and mineral supplements (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57105/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      3627. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a non-profit initiative to provide evidence-based care to patients with osteoarthritis (details supplied); the measures being taken by her...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3628. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on current works on a hospital (details supplied); when she expects these works to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      3629. To ask the Minister for Health the list of agencies in receipt of money for the provision of agency staffing services in each acute hospital; the cost of those services provided per agency...
    • Health Services Staff
      3630. To ask the Minister for Health the list of agencies in receipt of money for the provision of agency staffing services per regional health area; the cost of those services provided per...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      3632. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for the funds raised to date by Children’s Health Ireland and Children's Health Foundation through fundraising, following the integration of...
    • Health Services
      3634. To ask the Minister for Health the designated national lead with responsibility and accountability for the development, co-ordination and oversight of paediatric asthma care in Ireland,...
    • Hospital Staff
      3636. To ask the Minister for Health if she will maintain the pay link between the grades of advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) and advanced midwife practitioner (AMP) with assistant director of...
    • Health Service Executive
      3637. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the approval process for costs in excess of €10,000 within the HSE; if such costs can be approved by hospital CEOs and regional executive...
    • Hospital Staff
      3638. To ask the Minister for Health the number of eye clinic liaison officers, by hospital, in tabular form; and the plans to expand the number of eye clinic liaison officers in public...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      3640. To ask the Minister for Health the reason low vision aids are not covered under the local GMS budget in a number of counties in the south east (details supplied); if the necessary funding...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      3643. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons commencement of the retrospective surrogacy provisions contained in Part 12 of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act 2024 are contingent upon the...
    • Hospital Staff
      3648. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently employed in the dermatology department at Regional Hospital Mullingar, broken down by grade and whole-time equivalent; the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3649. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of car parking spaces available on the St. Mary's Campus, Mullingar; the categories of persons for whom these spaces are designated; the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      3650. To ask the Minister for Health the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within her Department and in bodies under the aegis of her Department in 2025 and to date in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      3651. To ask the Minister for Health the usage of artificial intelligence within her Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any bodies under the aegis of...
    • Departmental Data
      3652. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who have presented to emergency departments due to e-scooter related injuries in the years 2021 to present, by year, in tabular form; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      3653. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to ensure that the concerns of expectant parents and families are being directly considered during the phasing out of...
    • Health Services
      3655. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to include the information contained in the CSO report 'Measuring Distance to Services in Ireland 2026 - Health Services' in health service and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3656. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting a first outpatient neurology appointment at the Regional Hospital Mullingar, by the length of time waiting, zero to...
    • Hospital Staff
      3663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff WTE employed in Cork University Maternity Hospital in May 2026 and in December 2019 in medical, dental, nursing and midwifery, in tabular...
    • Departmental Funding
      3665. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail for each public hospital and for each voluntary hospital for each year 2019 to 2025, the gross Exchequer allocation to each; the net...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3666. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail for each public hospital and for each voluntary hospital for 2026, the gross Exchequer allocation to each; the net allocation to each, in...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3667. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of inpatients beds in each public/voluntary hospital including any beds currently/temporarily closed; the number of day case beds in each...
    • Home Help Service
      3668. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have been recruited through the healthcare assistant-home support recruitment campaigns in each county in 2026, in tabular form; the...
    • Hospital Services
      3671. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or HSE has assessed the impact of overnight partner restrictions on postnatal anxiety, depression, breastfeeding, dignity, safety and...
    • Ambulance Service
      3674. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 768 of 23 June 2026, to clarify if an onboard recording of the second incident exists (details supplied); if so, the...
    • Patient Safety
      3675. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 768 of 23 June 2026, the reason the employee concerned resigned; the date at which events occurred (details supplied);...
    • Hospital Services
      3677. To ask the Minister for Health if she will implement routine opt-out HIV testing in emergency departments; the timeframe for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57376/26]
    • Health Services
      3678. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to expand equitable access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and eliminate waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      3679. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of a HIV Action Plan; the timeline for publication; if she intends to provide sustainable funding for the voluntary...
    • Ambulance Service
      3680. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the development of additional entry pathways into the National Ambulance Service (details supplied); if consideration is being given to such an...
    • Hospital Services
      3681. To ask the Minister for Health the volume of samples processed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda laboratory that are from private clinics; if consultants on public only contracts...
    • Departmental Reviews
      3684. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 478 of 26 March 2026, the status of the review of helicopter emergency medicine services (details supplied); the...
    • Health Services
      3686. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a funding proposal submitted to the HSE (details supplied); the timeline for a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57387/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      3687. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to address chronic understaffing and stark regional gaps in podiatry identified in her Department’s Diabetes Policy and...
    • Hospital Staff
      3688. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 861 of 7 July 2026, the number of instances of breaches of the public only consultant contract which came to the...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      3690. To ask the Minister for Health the average weekly price negotiated by the National Treatment Purchase Fund with private and voluntary nursing homes under the nursing homes support scheme in...
    • Departmental Data
      3691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of living donor kidney transplants carried out in each of the years 2021 to date in 2026, in tabular form; the steps being taken to expand the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      3693. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing and funding allocated to Organ Donation Transplant Ireland in each of the years 2021 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      3694. To ask the Minister for Health if additional speech therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and rehab assistant posts will be provided at the new Killarney community nursing unit; if...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3695. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a radiotherapy unit at University Hospital Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57421/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients from Kerry who used the five radiotherapy suites at Cork University Hospital in each of the years since January 2020 and to date in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3698. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a recently launched report (details supplied) which outlines a critical roadmap for Ireland to meet its international commitment to end new HIV...
    • Hospital Procedures
      3699. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are national clinical guidelines regarding the use of a tenaculum during outpatient hysteroscopy procedures; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products
      3703. To ask the Minister for Health the total dispensing costs for individuals of a medication (details supplied) nationally for each month in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; to provide the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      3707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for reimbursement of continuous glucose monitoring systems submitted on an exceptional or case by case basis in each of the years...
    • Home Care Packages
      3708. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved for home support services in County Cork who are currently awaiting commencement of services; the number awaiting additional...
    • Dental Services
      3709. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE dentists assigned to CHO4 in each of the past three years; the current waiting times for school screening and treatment services for schools...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting cataract ophthalmology outpatient appointments, diagnostics and cataract surgery procedures in CHO4 as of the latest available...
    • Mental Health Services
      3712. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of a new medical facility (details supplied); the estimated capital cost; the projected completion date; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      3713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals in CHO area 4 diagnosed with cancer in each of the past five years; the number referred to Cork University Hospital and the Mercy...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS GP posts vacant in Cork County as of latest date available; the number of practices closed to new patients; the number of retirements and...
    • Health Services Staff
      3715. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses assigned to CHO area four in each year since 2023; the current vacancy rate; the current number of births and over 65s...
    • Hospital Services
      3716. To ask the Minister for Health the specific actions her Department is taking to address the extremely serious concerns regarding conditions within Beaumont Hospital's neurology and epilepsy...
    • Departmental Data
      3717. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the number of people resident in County Offaly who are currently attending or accessing Beaumont Hospital's neurology and epilepsy...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3718. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the implementation of the National Neurorehabilitation Strategy 2011 and the subsequent implementation plans published in...
    • Departmental Reviews
      3719. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether her Department has reviewed the recent inquest findings relating to the death of a patient (details supplied); the actions that...
    • Hospital Services
      3720. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the reported relocation of Beaumont Hospital's Patient Advocacy and Liaison Service (PALS) into a significantly reduced space; if she will...
    • Medicinal Products
      3722. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to correspondence received (details supplied) in relation to EU proposals regarding vitamin and mineral supplements; and if she will make a...
    • Primary Care Centres
      3723. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposed development of a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57489/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3724. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the progress made to date on the development of a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57490/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days that MUH was at black escalation levels, in 2025 and in 2026 to date. [57504/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in July 2021, 2022 and 2023 in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Cork by area; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      3740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology specialist nurses that are employed at Cork University Hospital in comparison to the national guidelines; and the steps she will take...
    • Health Services Staff
      3741. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatrists designated in a full-time capacity to the Carrigaline primary care centre; if there are locums; and her plans to recruit further...
    • Mental Health Services
      3743. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists to be seen by a psychiatrist at the Carrigaline primary care centre by waiting times of three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3746. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for pain management in CUH and the Mercy Hospital by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [57529/26]
    • Home Help Service
      3748. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for home help in south Lee, Cork; the number of patients that are approved for home help but have not been allocated care, and broken down by...
    • Mental Health Services
      3751. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for CAMHS in south and north Lee by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [57534/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3752. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for neurology in CUH and the Mercy Hospital by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [57535/26]
    • Dental Services
      3753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists operating under the DTSS who are operating in each of the HSE health regions and broken down by county. [57536/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3754. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for ophthalmology in CUH and Mercy Hospital, broken down by whether they are waiting by 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months. [57537/26]
    • Departmental Data
      3755. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons and the number of persons aged over 75 years of age respectively, who presented at an emergency department who spent more than 12...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3757. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for ophthalmology in CUH and Mercy Hospital, broken down by people waiting by two, three, four, and five years. [57540/26]
    • Dental Services
      3760. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for dentistry services in the CUH and Cork south Lee, broken down by people waiting by two, three, four, and five years. [57543/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      3762. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart and lung transplant operations that have been carried out in the first six months of 2026, in tabular form. [57602/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      3763. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2027 of providing five additional 24-7 ambulances for the Cork Ambulance Services. [57603/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3764. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists posts filled within Cork City Mental Health Service as of 21 July 2026; if she will provide the same figures as of...
    • Hospital Procedures
      3765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of knee replacement surgeries carried out at Cork University Hospital in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [57605/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see a consultant ophthalmologist at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital for a first appointment; and the average...
    • Ambulance Service
      3767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances in 2023 to 2025 and to date in 2026 when ambulances in Cavan and Monaghan did not arrive within the targeted timeframe; and the...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      3770. To ask the Minister for Health if the national treatment purchase scheme (NTPF) engaged individually or collectively with a nursing home group (details supplied) during 2024; the basis on...
    • Nursing Homes
      3771. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information & Quality Authority reviewed the evidence regarding the operation of a nursing home group (details supplied) in France before...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      3773. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider using existing meals on wheels services provided through local community based organisations in the process of expanding provision of...
    • Nursing Homes
      3774. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical governance arrangements planned to enable HSE clinical supports to be provided to private nursing homes in the context of the development of the...
    • Health Service Executive
      3775. To ask the Minister for Health if the common assessment approach to the needs of older people known as InterRAI is fully operational across all six HSE health regions; and if the electronic...
    • Hospital Services
      3776. To ask the Minister for Health if the 441 hospital beds categorised as ‘committed’ in Appendix 1 of the Acute Hospital Inpatient Bed Capacity Expansion Plan 2024–2031...
    • Dental Services
      3778. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the introduction of a network of HSE-operated mobile dental clinics to address the deficiencies in the current model of routine HSE...
    • Hospital Staff
      3779. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding advanced nurse practitioners; if she is aware of concerns expressed (details supplied) regarding remuneration; if she intends to break...
    • Ambulance Service
      3780. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the review of senior nurse management pay; when this review will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57684/26]
    • Health Services
      3786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have undergone serial casting treatment for scoliosis in each of the past five years; the number who achieved full spinal...
    • Departmental Data
      3790. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children diagnosed with scoliosis or other spinal deformities who have been removed from, or phased out of, active follow-up by paediatric...
    • Patient Files
      3792. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of the 19 maternity hospitals that are fully computerised/digitised, which can operate without paper files; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3793. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a consultant appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57720/26]
    • Food Safety
      3794. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the engagements her Department has had with the European Commission in relation to the proposed changes relating to maximum permitted levels of...
    • Abortion Services
      3796. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to issues in relation to accessing translation services at GPs for women who wish to avail of abortion services; and if she...
    • Medicinal Products
      3797. To ask the Minister for Health when saxenda (liraglutide) will be reimbursed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57778/26]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      3799. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider extending the current state funded IVF scheme to allow who had previous IVF Treatment to be admitted to the scheme; and if she will make...
    • Mental Health Services
      3800. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the sanctioned WTE, filled WTE, vacant WTE, temporary agency WTE and recruitment status by grade within the CAMHS service serving Waterford, as of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3802. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the number of persons awaiting a first outpatient urology appointment at University Hospital Waterford, broken down by waiting-time bands of under...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      3805. To ask the Minister for Health the expected implementation timeline for each individual provision of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill...
    • Health Strategies
      3806. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering developing a national clinical pathway for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND); if such a pathway could include equitable access to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      3807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims made and proceedings initiated against the HSE or hospital groups by persons or groups of persons whose loved ones died after contracting...
    • Hospital Staff
      3809. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the sanctioned consultant posts, filled posts, vacant posts and recruitment status by specialty at University Hospital Waterford, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Procedures
      3811. To ask the Minister for Health the monthly theatre utilisation rate, the number of scheduled theatre sessions and the number of cancelled theatre sessions at University Hospital Waterford...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting MRI by hospital and waiting-time band, together with the longest individual waiting time at each hospital, in tabular form....
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a first community psychology appointment by county and waiting-time band, in tabular form. [57855/26]
    • Dental Services
      3820. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting orthodontic assessment and the number awaiting orthodontic treatment, by county, age group and waiting-time band, in tabular...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a first audiology appointment by county, age group and waiting-time band, in tabular form. [57861/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3823. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting cataract surgery by hospital, age group and waiting-time band, in tabular form. [57862/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      3828. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the sanctioned WTE, filled WTE, vacant WTE, temporary agency WTE and recruitment status for mental health nursing services in Waterford, in tabular...
    • Home Care Packages
      3829. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours approved; the number delivered; the shortfall between approved and delivered hours; and the number of persons awaiting...
    • Hospital Procedures
      3830. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges at University Hospital Waterford by month since January 2022, in tabular form. [57869/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3831. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours in the emergency department at University Hospital Waterford before admission, by month since January...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      3832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatre sessions cancelled at University Hospital Waterford due to a lack of inpatient bed capacity, by month over the past three years, in...
    • Hospital Staff
      3833. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the sanctioned WTE, filled WTE, vacant WTE, temporary agency WTE and recruitment status for public health nursing services by county, in tabular...
    • Nursing Homes
      3834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved for nursing home support scheme funding who are awaiting placement due to the unavailability of a nursing home bed, by county,...
    • Mental Health Services
      3835. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned delivery of Jigsaw youth mental health services in County Waterford, including the expected opening date for a permanent...
    • Hospital Equipment
      3836. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1018 of 12 of May 2026, to provide an update on the progress of a linear accelerator (LINAC) replacement programme for a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3837. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the current wait times for hip operations at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57976/26]
    • Food Safety
      3839. To ask the Minister for Health if she has given consideration that Ireland’s representatives at the EU PAFF committee seek a temporary pause in the current process on maximum...
    • Hospital Equipment
      3840. To ask the Minister for Health when an MRI machine will be operational within Monaghan hospital; the reason for delays which may have occurred; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      3844. To ask the Minister for Health the current WTE allocation to dental and orthodontic services in Cavan and Monaghan; the number of which are vacant; the reason for and duration of such...
    • Mental Health Services
      3846. To ask the Minister for Health the pathways by which a person can access mental health supports in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the WTE allocation to each service; the number of which are...
    • Primary Care Services
      3847. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for initial appointments in Cavan and Monaghan across primary care services; by service; duration of wait; and if she will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      3848. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in which she intends to expand the eligibility criteria of the free contraception scheme. [57990/26]
    • Hospital Admissions
      3849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have presented to Tallaght Hospital due to complications from nitrous oxide misuse; for the years 2012 to present; by year, in...
    • Health Service Executive
      3850. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58034/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      3851. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 903 of 14 July 2026, if any further action will be taken at this stage; to outline in detail, the steps being taken by...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3852. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private consultancy rooms on the grounds of public hospitals, by site; the manner in which the rent is set for these rooms; if the rent rates...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3855. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on a waiting list for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by clinic; and the wait time to be offered a new appointment in each clinic, in...
    • Health Services Staff
      3858. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social care workers who have applied for registration with CORU (details supplied); the time it will take to process these applications; the...
    • Hospital Charges
      3859. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected by each public hospital in respect of car parking charges for visitors and patients in each of the years since 2020, in tabular form; and...
    • Cancer Services
      3861. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure spent on contracting out radiotherapy treatment for public patients to private providers in 2025 and to date in 2026, by hospital, in...
    • Dental Services
      3866. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists contracted to the dental treatment services scheme in each regional health area and integrated healthcare area, in 2025 and 2026, in...
    • Health Strategies
      3870. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the promised national oral health action plan, following publication of national oral health policy entitled Smile agus Sláinte, in 2019;...
    • Dental Services
      3871. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental school places in third level institutes in each of the years from the 2019-2020 academic year to 2025-2026 academic year, by third level...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      3873. To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rate for each public hospital in 2025; the national average for 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58075/26]
    • Health Services
      3875. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public hospitals that have implemented their own electronic health records; to list each site; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      3877. To ask the Minister for Health if data has been gathered from Section 39 organisations, funded by the HSE, to establish the level of staff for which auto-enrolment applies; if this data is...
    • Departmental Reviews
      3878. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 28 January 2026, to provide an update on her Department’s review of the Primary Care Centre Programme; if...
    • Departmental Data
      3879. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 992 of 16 December 2025, to provide an update on the number of agency posts converted to HSE posts from the 960 figure...
    • Hospital Facilities
      3882. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 776 of 21 October 2025, to provide an update on the delivery of the 297 acute beds provided for in the HSE National...
    • Health Service Executive
      3883. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the delivery of the 177 acute beds provided for in the HSE National Service Plan 2026, by hospital and region; the number delivered...
    • Departmental Reviews
      3886. To ask the Minister for Health following an internal review which found that the rostering of consultants on evenings and Saturdays remained low, if this matter has been remedied (details...
    • Health Service Executive
      3887. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 783 of 14 May 2026, to provide a breakdown of vacant posts in the HSE, by staff category (details supplied); the number...
    • Health Services Staff
      3889. To ask the Minister for Health if a person was appointed under the relevant terms and conditions of the public only consultant contract (details supplied); if this person is still engaged...
    • Health Services
      3891. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on National Electronic Health Record (EHR) project; the status of the vendors shortlist; the expected length of this process; following...
    • Health Strategies
      3893. To ask the Minister for Health to list the ten major programmes under her Department’s digital health reform agenda (details supplied); if there are any she would add to this list;...
    • Home Care Packages
      3900. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages, by health region and integrated healthcare area, in tabular form. [58102/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      3904. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for physiotherapy by health region and integrated healthcare area, age category and time waiting, in tabular form....
    • Primary Care Centres
      3913. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the proposed Primary Care Centre at Virginia, County Cavan; the timeframe within which it is expected to become operational; and if she...
    • Nursing Homes
      3914. To ask the Minister for Health if there are proposals to increase the numbers of nursing home places in the area of Virginia, County Cavan; the current status of any proposals; and if she...
    • Primary Care Centres
      3915. To ask the Minister for Health the services available at each primary care centre in County Monaghan, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58118/26]
    • EU Regulations
      3920. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department has taken to give effect to Ireland's obligations under Regulation (EU) 2021/2282 on health technology assessment, including the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      3922. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the publication of updated low-risk alcohol guidelines, in view of the two reports published by the Health Information and Quality Authority...
    • Patient Files
      3923. To ask the Minister for Health her response to the findings of the Health Information and Quality Authority's readiness assessment for data holders, published in March 2026, on Ireland's...
    • Mental Health Services
      3927. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of residences providing 24-hour staff support for people using mental health services that are operated or funded by the HSE; the number of...
    • Primary Care Services
      3932. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staffing in primary care services for 0-18s, as of 30 June 2026, by discipline, including psychology, occupational therapy, speech...
    • Health Strategies
      3936. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the Health Performance Visualisation Platform; whether a decision has been made to pause or discontinue its use or rollout, not to renew...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      3938. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of all mental health capital projects costing in excess of €1 million in the South West region since 1 January 2023; the location and...
    • Community Care
      3939. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the proposed Midleton Community Nursing Unit; the date the project received planning permission; the date works commenced on the build;...
    • Hospital Services
      3940. To ask the Minister for Health across all diagnostic imaging modalities, the number of scans outsourced by the HSE in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the associated...
    • Hospital Charges
      3943. To ask the Minister for Health the level of income raised by each HSE and section 38 acute hospital through private practice-related income in each year 2021 to 2025, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      3945. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Nayagam review and its expected completion date; and the amount spent on this to date. [58257/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      3949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated cancellations of spinal surgery appointments in each year from 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [58261/26]
    • Dental Services
      3951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists participating in the dental treatment services scheme at the end of each year from 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the number who...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3957. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure incurred on GP services provided under the medical card and GP visit card schemes to persons seeking international protection,...
    • Dental Services
      3958. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons seeking international protection, beneficiaries of temporary protection, and other persons accommodated under State-funded international...
    • General Practitioner Services
      3959. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards and GP visit cards granted to persons seeking international protection, beneficiaries of temporary protection, and other persons...
    • Hospital Admissions
      3960. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient admissions, outpatient appointments and emergency department attendances by persons seeking international protection and beneficiaries...
    • Dental Services
      3961. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual expenditure on primary care, dental care, hospital care, prescribed medicines and community health services provided to persons seeking...
    • Mental Health Services
      3962. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting to access each discipline within psychiatry of later life teams, broken down by discipline, HSE health region and integrated...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      3963. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals received for ADHD assessment, broken down by child and adolescent services and adult services, in each month since January 2025; the...
    • Hospital Staff
      3964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of newly-qualified full-time permanent job offers for occupational therapists at Tipperary University Hospital in 2025; and of the job offers, the...
    • Health Services Staff
      3965. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE positions, by job title currently within Tipperary Mental Health Services; and the expected timeframe for filling each of those...
    • Hospital Services
      3971. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents reported through the National Incident Management System by each hospital in the State in each of the past ten years, by...
    • Health Service Executive
      3972. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out in medical compensation by the HSE in each of the past ten years and to date in 2026, by CHO area or hospital group, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Deaths
      3973. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who died on hospital trolleys in each of the past five years and to date in 2026, by county, in tabular form. [58374/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      3974. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance call outs across the State in 2025, by county. [58375/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      3977. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled hospital appointments in each hospital in the country in each of the past ten years and to date in 2026, by hospital, in tabular form....
    • General Practitioner Services
      3978. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners working in each county in the State, in tabular form. [58379/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      3979. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an outpatient appointment, inpatient treatment and day-case treatment within Children's Health Ireland at the end of each year...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      3983. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals received for ADHD assessment in each of the past five years, and to date in 2026, broken down by children, adolescents and adults; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      3984. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults with autism currently awaiting mental health supports; the average waiting time for access to these services; and if she...
    • Primary Care Services
      3986. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to HSE counselling and counselling in primary care services in each of the past five years; the number of people awaiting their...
    • Hospital Services
      3987. To ask the Minister for Health the level of revenue and capital funding allocated to or spent at Cavan General Hospital in each years 2021 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [58442/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      3989. To ask the Minister for Health the level of approved staffing at Cavan General Hospital in each year 2021 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [58444/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      3990. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 3034 of 14 April and 409 of 21 May 2026, the approved WTE, filled WTE and vacant WTE in social work, psychology and...
    • Food Safety
      3991. To ask the Minister for Health whether she has had any engagement at European Union (EU) level regarding proposals that will set lower limits on the strength of vitamins and minerals in...
    • Hospital Services
      3992. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 24 June 2026, in which the Health Service Executive confirmed the occurrence of incidents at Connolly Hospital...
    • Departmental Data
      3993. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 24th June 2026, in which the Health Service Executive confirmed the occurrence of incidents at Connolly Hospital...
    • Hospital Services
      3994. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 24 June 2026, in which the Health Service Executive confirmed the occurrence of incidents at Connolly Hospital...
    • Eating Disorders
      3999. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline whether the inpatient bed capacity for adults with eating disorders report was published, the key findings of the report; and if she will...
    • Cancer Services
      4001. To ask the Minister for Health the compliance rate with key performance indicators and standards for each type of cancer treatment, by cancer centre, for each year 2022 to 2025, inclusive;...
    • Hospital Procedures
      4003. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people referred for urgent colonoscopy by hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [58557/26]
    • Cancer Services
      4007. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which people with lived experience of a cancer diagnosis, their carers, clinical staff, advocacy groups and so on, will be involved in the external...
    • Healthcare Policy
      4008. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work to examine biobanking in Ireland, and the potential for legislation to underpin it, as recommended by the Irish Health Research...
    • Hospital Staff
      4009. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent chefs, by grade, employed at Beaumont Hospital as of 18 May 2026; and to indicate the number directly employed and the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      4010. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeline for completion of the detailed design stage of the new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; when the construction tender is...
    • Health Services Staff
      4013. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded, filled and vacant speech and language therapist posts assigned to adult community rehabilitation and stroke recovery services in north...
    • Health Services
      4014. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is aware of reports that stroke survivors in north Dublin are unable to access speech and language therapy services due to staffing shortages or...
    • Mental Health Services
      4015. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young people waiting to access each discipline within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, by discipline, HSE health region...
    • Hospital Services
      4018. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community beds and step down beds available in South Lee in each of the years from 2023 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [58573/26]
    • Food Safety
      4019. To ask the Minister for Health the number of premises serving food that were inspected by the FSA in 2025 and 2026; the number that were deemed unhygienic; and the number of premises...
    • Departmental Funding
      4020. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to provide additional funding for a facility (details supplied) to address the increasing demand in Cork. [58577/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      4022. To ask the Minister for Health to directly employ two senior physiotherapists delivering specialist neurological physiotherapy services across Cork and Kerry. [58579/26]
    • EU Presidency
      4023. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of her Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for attendees and dignitaries;...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      4024. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in her capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary value; the procedures...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      4025. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by her Department and all bodies under her aegis’ in preparation...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4026. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within her Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is ever used in reply to...
    • Ministerial Communications
      4027. To ask the Minister for Health if she uses personal emails for Government business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58681/26]
    • Child and Family Agency
      4030. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that TUSLA have had to be called for a child under 18 left unaccompanied in accident and emergency by hospital in each of the last 6...
    • Health Services Staff
      4031. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand or increase the staffing levels within each National Counselling Service, local County office and the wider National Counselling...
    • Healthcare Policy
      4032. To ask the Minister for Health if she will be engaging with European partners to establish a European neurological health strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58845/26]
    • Home Care Packages
      4033. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received for homecare support in Wicklow in 2025 and to date in 2026; broken down by Municipal District, in tabular form; and if...
    • Disability Services
      4035. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received in 2025 and 2026 to date for respite care in Wicklow; the number of people awaiting for their respite care service to be...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      4036. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are on the waiting list for an appointment for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychology broken down by...
    • Dental Services
      4037. To ask the Minister for Health the number of independent dental practices who are currently signed up to the dental treatment services scheme in Wicklow; to provide a list of dental...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      4040. To ask the Minister for Health the number currently on the waiting list for adult physiotherapy in CHO 6 and CHO 7, Wicklow broken down by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Mental Health Services
      4043. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in CHO6 & CHO7 County Wicklow; the average waiting time, by length of time three, six, 12+ months, in...
    • Nursing Homes
      4044. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received under the fair deal nursing home support scheme in County Wicklow in 2025 and to date in 2026; and if she will make a...
    • Primary Care Services
      4045. To ask the Minister for Health the services provided in each primary healthcare centre in Wicklow, in tabular format; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58863/26]
    • Primary Care Centres
      4046. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the upgrade of a primary healthcare centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58864/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      4048. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will confirm what data is, was, or will be created in respect of (details supplied}; and if she will request that a full copy of this data be...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      4049. To ask the Minister for Health if a laboratory will sell, retain, or transfer any of the data held (details supplied); and if she will request that the laboratory will delete any and all...
    • Primary Care Services
      4054. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Primary Health Centre in Spiddal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58952/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      4055. To ask the Minister for Health the additional measures being considered to improve access to community mental health services in north Dublin, including increased staffing, reduced waiting...
    • Suicide Prevention
      4056. To ask the Minister for Health whether consideration is being given to expanding community-based suicide prevention services in north Dublin, including crisis intervention, bereavement...
    • Health Services
      4057. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the availability of specialist trauma services in north Dublin for children, adolescents and adults; whether additional...
    • Budget 2027
      4058. To ask the Minister for Health whether Budget 2027 proposals include additional investment in community mental health and suicide prevention services, particularly in areas with growing...
    • Health Service Executive
      4059. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns related to service providers in receipt of HSE funding transferring funds to other jurisdictions; if any reviews are currently in place to...
    • National Children's Hospital
      4060. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the new target completion date for the National Children's Hospital; the number of rooms now completed; the number of outstanding...
    • Parking Provision
      4061. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a full breakdown of parking charges and revenues at hospitals across the State since 2020; the plans in place to reduce charges; and if she will...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      4062. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; the progress that has been made by the National Screening Advisory Committee to...
    • Health Services
      4064. To ask the Minister for Health to address issues in relation to diabetic care in Wicklow in view of the transfer of some services to Dublin and patients being directed to access private...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      4065. To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal cases currently in progress in relation to delayed diagnosis of Endometriosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59008/26]
    • Health Services
      4066. To ask the Minister for Health to commit to providing a national brain injury case management service to reach every person with a brain injury regardless of location; the specific...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      4067. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Covid Inquiry; when it is expected to conclude and produce its findings; the amount expended on the process to date; and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      4068. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the development of a model for a vaccine damage scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59017/26]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      4072. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the actions being taken by her Department and the HSE to increase inpatient bed capacity at a hospital (details supplied) in order to meet...
    • Mental Health Services
      4073. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are plans to expand or develop HSE-led digital mental health supports for young people, particularly those who experience difficulties accessing...
    • Hospital Equipment
      4074. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the procurement process for a new positron emission tomography scanner for HSE west; the current status of the project, including...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      4075. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the feasibility study being undertaken in respect of the Toghermore site in County Galway; the stage the study has reached and the...
    • Cancer Services
      4077. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration being given in the development of the next national cancer strategy to expanding access to multi-biomarker testing using next-generation...
    • Departmental Funding
      4079. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Oral Health Office has not been allocated funding for patients, in particular paediatric patients, who are on public orthodontic...
    • Primary Care Centres
      4084. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO4 that currently provide child development checks, in tabular form. [59182/26]
    • Hospital Facilities
      4085. To ask the Minister for Health the last date an external audit of fire safety checks were carried out at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital; and when the next external in-person...
    • Dental Services
      4086. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE orthodontist posts filled within CHO4 as of 15 July 2026; and if she will provide the same figures as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Services
      4087. To ask the Minister for Health the number of opened and staffed critical care and high dependency unit beds at Cork University Hospital as of 15 July 2026, in tabular form. [59185/26]
    • Hospital Procedures
      4088. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to reports that delays to surgery in a hospital (details supplied) are being caused by funding issues; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      4090. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unfilled consultant, SPR, Reg and SHO posts in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59194/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      4091. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staffing levels in each community mental health team and CAMHS team, together with the approved staffing complement and vacancy...
    • Primary Care Services
      4093. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting primary care services, by discipline, Community Healthcare Network and length of wait, in tabular form. [59297/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      4095. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operational ambulance crews covering Co. Mayo each month from January 2025 to July 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59278/26]
    • Hospital Services
      4098. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated at the accident and emergency department at Mayo University hospital each month in 2026; the number of staff working at the...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      4099. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on trolleys at MUH each month from January 2025 until July 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59282/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      4100. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider adding moviprep to the list of drugs covered under the medical card scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59283/26]
    • Primary Care Services
      4101. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the opening of the new regional specialist adult ADHD service for Mayo, Galway and Roscommon planned to open at the Castlebar primary care...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      4103. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on inpatient waiting lists at Mayo University Hospital broken down by treatment category for each month in 2026; and if she will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      4104. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS-contracted general practitioners practising in each county in each of the past ten years, together with the number of GMS list closures and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      4105. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the implementation of the National Policy and Strategy for the Provision of Neuro-Rehabilitation Services; the progress made...
    • Health Services Staff
      4106. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of consultant neurologists employed by the HSE; the recommended number based on population need; the number of vacant posts; and the plans...
    • Health Services
      4107. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for access to community and inpatient neuro-rehabilitation services in each HSE health region; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff
      4110. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address workforce shortages across neurological services, including neurology, neuropsychology, specialist nursing and allied...
    • Health Services
      4112. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives currently under way to improve diagnosis, treatment and multidisciplinary care for persons living with rare neurological diseases; and if she...
    • Healthcare Policy
      4113. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to the development of a national neurological registry to improve planning, service delivery and research; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      4114. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to support the adoption of innovative technologies, including digital health and precision medicine, to improve outcomes for people...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      4115. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the major capital development programme at a hospital (details supplied), including the proposed new emergency department, the 95-bed...
    • Health Services Staff
      4116. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE currently on staff to deliver chemotherapy in each of the relevant hospitals in HSE Mid-West; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      4118. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for diagnostic imaging tests at the end of Quarter 1 2025, in tabular form. [59337/26]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      4122. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that there is no overcrowding at the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      4123. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on podiatry services in the Louth area; and the plans there are to ensure adequate personnel and services; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Dental Services
      4124. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress by the National Oral Health Office for orthodontists to provide care to Grade 5 dental patients; and if she will...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      4126. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider additional funding for addiction services provided through the North Eastern Regional Drugs and Alcohol Task Force; and if she will make...
    • Health Services
      4128. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider additional funding and a strategy to deal with obesity issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59362/26]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      4129. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the numbers of people who availed of the Northern Planned Healthcare Scheme from June 2024 to June 2025; if she will detail the types of treatment...
    • Health Services
      4130. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the range and nature of diabetes services available to Louth-based adults and children at hospitals; if there are plans to improve the...
    • Health Services Staff
      4131. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline any plans to introduce specialist public health nurses; the number; and at what cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Services
      4132. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the positions unfilled in primary care; and the number on waiting lists in each county, broken down by team and by length of time, in...
    • Mental Health Services
      4133. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the positions unfilled in CAMHS; the number on waiting lists in each county, broken down by team and by length of time, in tabular form;...
    • Primary Care Centres
      4136. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the plan and timeline to deliver a fully populated primary care centre in Dundalk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59370/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      4137. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the plan and timeline to deliver the ten-bed extension in the Drogheda DOP, Crosslanes; outline any plans to improve the acute mental...
    • General Practitioner Services
      4138. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the plan to deal with the lack of GP provision in Louth, and throughout the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59372/26]
    • Dental Services
      4139. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the plan to deal with the lack of dental services for those on medical cards and PRSI patients; and the engagement she has had with the...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      4140. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the current state of play with the MCAP scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59374/26]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      4141. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for a first appointment at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if she will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      4142. To ask the Minister for Health the current MenB Vaccine uptake rate among the eligible infant cohort in the HSE North East Region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59427/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      4143. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE executive chefs employed by HSE and are based at Louth County Hospital as of 14 July 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Dental Services
      4144. To ask the Minister for Health if the recruitment campaign for an orthodontist to work at the Dundalk Orthodontic Unit located at the Louth County Hospital campus in Dundalk has been...
    • Health Services Staff
      4148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies, of all clinical grades at the Mater Pain Management Clinic; the efforts are being made to fill those vacancies; the way patients on...
    • Departmental Projects
      4149. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the National Hearing Care Plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59434/26]
    • Hospital Facilities
      4150. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made to provide a shop/café facility at the Louth County Hospital, Dundalk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59435/26]
    • Disability Services
      4151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list; the number waiting less than 4 months, the number waiting 4-12 months; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      4154. To ask the Minister for Health the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures are available; the amount...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • EU Presidency
      4157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government has approved a plan or co-ordinated a programme for citizen science during Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European...
    • Education Schemes
      4158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for applications to the DARE scheme for a student (details supplied). [56454/26]
    • Departmental Projects
      4159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the work of his Department in establishing an online portal to replace the CAO system. [52410/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding his Department led initiatives in relation to preparing employees in the ever-changing jobs market due to AI technology...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      4161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship registrations in County Cork in each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by apprenticeship type; and if...
    • Education and Training Provision
      4162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of radiation therapy places in Irish third level institutes in each of the years from the 2019/2020 academic year to 2025-2026...
    • Grant Payments
      4163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) was awarded a SUSI grant band 4 rather than band 1, that was received in prior years, despite no...
    • EU Presidency
      4164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 879 of 7 July 2026, the criteria used by his Department or Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland to...
    • Student Visas
      4172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is aware of administrative and visa delays affecting a cohort of ten Palestinian students due to take up funded sanctuary...
    • Departmental Schemes
      4173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to bodies under his remit supporting people from disadvantaged areas to attend third-level education; to provide a...
    • Pension Provisions
      4174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review an application for a supplementary occupational pension for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      4175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide additional supports and information to assist young people with special needs access further and higher education courses; and if he...
    • Education Costs
      4176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the details regarding the re-introduction of fees for PLCs (details supplied). [55188/26]
    • Third Level Fees
      4177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the programme for Government commitments within his remit relating to third level...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the programme for Government commitments within his remit relating to AI research...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      4179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the programme for Government commitments within his remit relating to...
    • Education Costs
      4180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available for graduates undertaking Professional Master of Education (PME) programmes in teacher shortage subjects,...
    • Third Level Costs
      4181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for maintaining a reckonable income threshold of €64,000 for eligibility under the student grant scheme for postgraduate...
    • Research and Development
      4182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the full membership of the Quantum Implementation Group; and if there is any renumeration paid to members of this group. [55474/26]
    • Departmental Budgets
      4183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service...
    • International Students
      4184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to engage with an organisation (details supplied) over their concerns of international students owed money by businesses operating in Ireland...
    • Departmental Bodies
      4185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas Members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55582/26]
    • Third Level Admissions
      4186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students enrolled in higher education at undergraduate level and at postgraduate level respectively, broken down by gender, in...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      4187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to electrical apprentice exams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55862/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training, introductory or...
    • Student Accommodation
      4193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of public funding allocated and expended on student accommodation projects since 2020; the number of bed spaces delivered under each...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      4194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of employers registered to provide apprenticeship opportunities in each of the past five years, broken down by sector, company size...
    • Education Costs
      4197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently assist a student in County Kerry (details supplied) with the significant financial costs involved with an Erasmus Global mobility...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      4200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new apprenticeships to be offered in County Clare; the timeframe to have them up and running.; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Education Costs
      4201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a State-backed loan scheme for graduate entry medicine students; the timeline for these supports to be introduced; and if...
    • Departmental Properties
      4202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous use; the...
    • Departmental Priorities
      4203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans in place to accommodate students completing the level 7 social care degree at Carlow College (details supplied); and if he...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      4204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in 2025 and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within any bodies...
    • Education and Training Boards
      4206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total devolved grants allocated to each ETB, by ETB area in each of the years 2020 to 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Third Level Admissions
      4207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of dental school places in third level institutes in each of the years from the 2019-2020 academic year to the 2025-2026 academic...
    • Student Visas
      4209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student on a Stamp 1G dependent permission visa is eligible to enrol in a PLC course; if he can clarify the current position with the...
    • Third Level Fees
      4210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on his Department’s plans to reduce the student contribution fee as per the Programme for Government commitment....
    • Student Accommodation
      4211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of units and locations proposed for student accommodation under Phase 2 of the Technological Sector Student Accommodation Programme....
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      4213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non-craft apprentices awaiting off-the-job training with SOLAS, broken down by county; and the number waiting longer than three,...
    • Research and Development
      4215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding granted to organisations in Cork under his research and development funding streams, in each of the past three years; and...
    • EU Presidency
      4216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for attendees and...
    • Ethics in Public Office
      4217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential monetary value; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      4218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his aegis’...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI is ever used in...
    • Ministerial Communications
      4220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58680/26]
    • Education and Training Provision
      4223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the first phase of the expansion of higher education capacity in health and social care professions, the location of...
    • Grant Payments
      4225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria used to assess grant eligibility for mature students who reside with their parents but receive no financial...
    • Third Level Reform
      4227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to Irish citizens returning from abroad who wish to pursue a Level 9 qualification having received their level 8 in...
    • Third Level Admissions
      4228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the date on which CAO offers come out to give students and their families more time to prepare for starting third level...
    • Education Schemes
      4229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm if means testing for SUSI financial support for students renting out modular home units that under new regulations can be rented out...
    • Schools Building Projects
      4230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on remediation works at a school (details supplied); to provide an update in relation to the framework of architects,...
    • Departmental Funding
      4231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total Exchequer funding allocated to each technological university and university in each of the past ten years, together with student...
    • Departmental Reviews
      4232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on timelines, budgets and the terms of reference for a review of disability issues across further and higher...
    • Education and Training Provision
      4233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for capital investment in further and higher education facilities in County Louth over the next number of years, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Strategies
      4234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in Colleges of the Future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59348/26]
    • Departmental Priorities
      4235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a Colleges of the Future in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59349/26]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      4236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new apprenticeships; when they will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59350/26]
    • Education and Training Boards
      4240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on his plans to deal with issues being faced by adult educators across the ETB sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      4241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 100 non-governmental organisations that received the highest levels of public funding in the most recent year for which figures are...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Bodies
      4244. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the work currently being undertaken by the Comhairleach um Sheirbhísí Gaeilge; to provide details of its...
    • Burial Grounds
      4245. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of burial grounds operated by each local authority; the estimated remaining capacity in years of burial grounds in...
    • Departmental Priorities
      4248. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, further to the statement in the Programme for Government (details supplied) he will assist in progressing the development of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      4249. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether the TidyTowns programme (details supplied) provides participating committees with a common digital tool or methodology...
    • Community Development Projects
      4250. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on an application under the Community Centres Investment Fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      4254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application to the Community Centre Investment Fund (details supplied) will be approved; when a decision will be made; and...
    • Departmental Budgets
      4255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the budget for the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme increased by 10%, the estimated cost in 2027; and if he will make...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      4256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the development of language standards for the provision of public services through the Irish language; to...
    • Departmental Budgets
      4257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efficiency and reform proposals that his Department has submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure,...
    • Departmental Communications
      4258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the most up-to-date contact list for queries from Oireachtas members to agencies under his Department, in tabular form. [55587/26]
    • Departmental Staff
      4259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of external recruitment campaigns for posts at the grade of higher executive officer within his Department that were...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and proportion of staff who have completed AI-related training programmes since January 2024; the levels of training,...
    • Local Authorities
      4261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures being taken to address the urgent backlog in local improvement scheme applications for Cork County; to provide...
    • Departmental Funding
      4265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and details of funding drawn down for projects awarded under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme for the past...
    • Community Development Projects
      4268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of successful Community Centre Investment Fund applications in County Clare and the value of funding approved under...
    • Departmental Funding
      4269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated cost in 2027, if the budget for the CLAR Programme is increased by 15%; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      4271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of publicly owned buildings that were vacant on the latest date available, broken down by purpose and/or last previous...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      4272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total value of non-compliant public procurement identified within his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the usage of artificial intelligence within his Department; the categories of usage; the usage of artificial intelligence within...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      4274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grants, supports or incentives provided by his Department or by Údarás na Gaeltachta to an organisation (details...
    • Departmental Schemes
      4275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of funding for the senior alert scheme in each of the past five years; the number of applications approved in each...
    • Departmental Funding
      4276. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of expressions of interest received by Offaly County Council and their associated funding requests for CLÁR...
    • Departmental Schemes
      4278. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application (details supplied) to the Community Centre Investment Fund; when a decision is likely to be reached;...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      4282. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the Broadband Connection Points initiative, including the number of Broadband Connection Points...
    • Departmental Schemes
      4283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total funding allocated to each local authority under the local improvement scheme; the total amount expended; the total...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      4286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department intends to carry out a feasibility study or impact assessment on the introduction of a voluntary code for...
    • Departmental Strategies
      4287. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department is currently preparing or intends to prepare a national strategy to address loneliness and social...
    • Community Development Projects
      4288. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department are preparing to expand the community development programme to include an additional ten community development...
    • Local Authorities
      4290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department will review its reliance on multiple competitive, time-limited grant schemes for essential community...
    • Departmental Schemes
      4293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in respect of each active project approved under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund as of 30 June 2026, the county, date...
    • Local Area Plans
      4294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of roads and laneways currently awaiting works under the local improvement scheme in each local authority area; the...
    • Community Development Projects
      4295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applications received under the 2026 Community Centre Investment Fund, broken down by county and funding category;...
    • EU Presidency
      4296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a detailed breakdown of his Department’s budget for the EU Presidency; the details of any planned gifts for...
    • Departmental Regulations
      4297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a detailed breakdown of all gifts received in his capacity as Minister; the nature of these gifts and potential...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      4298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on media training or strategic consultants by his Department and all bodies under his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      4299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an overview of the AI policy in place within his Department; if AI has been incorporated into any work streams; if AI...
    • Ministerial Communications
      4300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he uses personal emails for Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58685/26]
    • Departmental Funding
      4303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grant funding made available by his Department to local resident's groups or organisations towards the cost of establishing...
    • Education and Training Provision
      4304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and value of tenders for an educational building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Priorities
      4305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on future plans for the community recognition fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Development Projects
      4308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the value of funding approved under the town and village renewal scheme, CLÁR, the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme,...
    • Departmental Funding
      4309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the value of LEADER funding approved by each Local Action Group in each of the past ten years, by project category and county, in...
    • Local Authorities
      4313. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the value of funding approved under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund and Town Centre First programme for each local...

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