Written answers

Wednesday, 16 September 2026

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Contracts
      74. To ask the Taoiseach the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known to have provided material support to the...
    • State Properties
      75. To ask the Taoiseach in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and the timeline for measures to be completed....
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to the delays in processing a first-time passport application (details supplied); the actions she will take...
    • Departmental Contracts
      80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of any contracts in place between her Department and agencies under her remit with a company (details supplied) known to have...
    • Departmental Data
      81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports that have been issued from the years 2020-2026 which included a gender marker that was not M (male) or F (female)....
    • EU Enlargement
      82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis for any delay in the opening of thematic clusters related to accession of Moldova into the EU. [65142/26]
    • Passport Services
      86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to the delays in processing a first-time passport application (details supplied); the actions she will take...
    • Disability Issues
      87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in cases in which a building under her control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; her plans to remedy this; and the timeline...
    • Departmental Funding
      89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the total level of funding that has been provided to the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) programme, broken down by year,...
    • Electricity Generation
      97. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures being developed to enable households, electric vehicles, heat pumps and domestic batteries to participate in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      98. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current average waiting time from application to survey under the SEAI warmer homes scheme; the measures being taken to...
    • EU Meetings
      103. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Ireland is advocating at EU level for the introduction of either a de minimis threshold exempting micro-enterprises...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      104. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to his recent comments to provide an update on any proposals under consideration by his Department to roll out...
    • Departmental Meetings
      107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the engagement his Department has had with representatives of Irish micro and small businesses regarding the impact of...
    • Energy Policy
      109. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether any assessment has been undertaken of the potential for geothermal energy projects in County Cork; and if any Cork...
    • Departmental Contracts
      113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details...
    • Energy Policy
      114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding any further initiatives proposed by his Department to increase the support for offshore wind...
    • Energy Prices
      116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his current plans to regulate increases in prices from energy suppliers. [64969/26]
    • Energy Conservation
      118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to address delays in accessing BER assessments, particularly for homeowners seeking to apply for...
    • Energy Prices
      119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the preparation of the Energy Affordability Action Plan. [65227/26]
    • Energy Conservation
      121. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he can advise on the full list of current schemes in place which are administered by the SEAI to assist businesses in...
    • Energy Usage
      122. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the obligation rates proposed in the forthcoming renewable heat obligation scheme will see no...
    • Building Regulations
      124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      127. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total value of financial support provided to wind energy generation in the State in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and...
    • Climate Action Plan
      128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for a further update on the timelines for consultation on, and publication of, Ireland’s Social Climate Plan and...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      129. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the work of the working group established to address technical, safety and other issues, in advance of...
    • Energy Prices
      132. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has met with Bord Gáis or SSE Airtricity to discuss their latest price hikes; if so, when he met them; if not,...
    • Data Centres
      133. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the latest report on the CRU which proposed that data centres should be offered cut price gas in return for...
    • Environmental Schemes
      136. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail in tabular format on a county by county basis the number of businesses in each county that have received...
    • International Agreements
      138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that Ireland has agreed to co-host, alongside Tuvalu, the second Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels...
    • Environmental Schemes
      140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the obligation rates proposed in the forthcoming renewable heat obligation scheme will see no...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the Arklow bank wind farm report (details supplied); the progress made to deliver offshore wind energy; and if...
    • Electricity Grid
      143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update of the grid as outlined as part of PR6; if he has met with EirGrid and ESB to discuss and...
    • Departmental Data
      144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he is taking to prepare for COP 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65759/26]
    • Flood Risk Management
      145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the protections he has put in place for households to withstand increasingly extreme weather as we head into the winter...
    • Departmental Data
      146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the additional measures for example, WAM he had planned to address Ireland’s emissions (details supplied); to...
    • Departmental Reviews
      148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the land use review; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to assure the people of East Clare that his Department will not issue prospecting licences in the local area for gold,...
    • Departmental Reports
      150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Grid Options Report for the South Coast will be finalised and published. [65963/26]
    • Departmental Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the demands data centres place on Ireland’s critical infrastructure; the plans to increase...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      164. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which her claim that Irish defence spending has increased by 43% over the last two years was calculated; and if she can provide the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Taxi Regulations
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the obligations on app dispatch operators to show a taxi driver the exact final fare charged to their passenger (details supplied); the...
    • Traffic Management
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Whether his Department has received any recent traffic monitoring data from Cork County Council, the National Transport Authority or...
    • Ports Policy
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware and supportive of the plans for a redeveloped Port in Galway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of the current local link services in each county. [64179/26]
    • Taxi Regulations
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered introducing statutory limits on dispatcher commission fees for regulated metered SPSV trips. [64214/26]
    • Public Transport
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the development of the Galway Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (GMATS); the current stage of work being undertaken...
    • Pension Provisions
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position in relation to the CIÉ pension scheme; if the process has been completed; the date for payments under this...
    • Driver Licences
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the requirement for a medical fitness certificate for professional driving licence applicants to be completed by a medical...
    • Bus Services
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider the introduction of an additional bus on a route (details supplied). [64141/26]
    • Electric Vehicles
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he and his Department are planning a new grant or incentive scheme following the closure of the ICE to EV Grant in July 2026...
    • National Transport Authority
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport Authority has a workforce and skills plan to address identified capability gaps; the recruitment targets...
    • Public Transport
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific skills shortages and capacity constraints identified as posing a risk to delivery of the State's transport infrastructure...
    • Climate Action Plan
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding research carried out by his Department into the merit of promoting the use of HVO fuel for transport to support a...
    • Public Transport
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding any engagement he had with the NTA prior to the announcement of forthcoming price increases on public transport...
    • Pension Provisions
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to provide for an increase in CIÉ pensions to reflect the significant increases in the cost-of-living in...
    • Public Transport
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to reconsider the introduction of a 15% increase in adult public transport fares given the current cost-of-living crisis. [64459/26]
    • Departmental Data
      212. 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 for each local...
    • Bus Services
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the provision of the Letterkenny town bus service in County Donegal that has been promised since September 2025, [64535/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a road transporters support scheme applicant (details supplied) will be allowed to request payment for additional months or will be...
    • Public Transport
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to reconsider the increase on fares on public transport. [64561/26]
    • Departmental Schemes
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the appeals process under the road transporters support scheme will open to applicants who wish to make an appeal on their case....
    • Public Transport
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to address the concerns that the recently announced rise in public transport fares will discourage the use of...
    • National Transport Authority
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport Authority has submitted a request for funding in 2027 for the proposed bus service connecting Charlestown,...
    • Bus Services
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department plans to establish a local link route to serve Mourneabbey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64611/26]
    • Bus Éireann
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann has a dedicated phone line available for people, particularly older people, who are unable to purchase bus tickets...
    • Rail Network
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will undertake a feasibility study on the development of a North Drogheda railway station and a new railway station in...
    • Public Transport
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to urgently reconsider the increase in public transport fares by 15% in 2027 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Transport Authority
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the recent purchase of 132 buses by the NTA, the number of publicly-owned buses that are currently not being used; when they...
    • Rail Network
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport If he will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) concerning recent rail fare increases and operations within...
    • National Car Test
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting time for an NCT appointment, by county; the number of vehicles currently overdue an NCT due to a lack of available...
    • Tax Collection
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount collected in motor tax from vehicles registered in County Clare in each of the past five years; and the amount invested...
    • Public Service Obligation
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the decision to increase the Public Service Obligation fares by an average of 15% from January 2027 is consistent with...
    • Departmental Budgets
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to instruct his Department to take account of recent weather conditions when issuing road repair budgets due to the negative impacts on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known to have...
    • Driver Licences
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will provide an update on the driving licence application which has...
    • Departmental Funding
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider increasing funding to the National Transport Authority to support the expansion of public transport services in...
    • Rail Network
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if CIÉ has received compensation in relation to an insurance claim arising from two bridge strikes on the Barrow Bridge, New Ross in...
    • Public Transport
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to estimate the cost of eliminating public transport fares for student Leap Card holders and for under-25 Leap Card holders; and the cost...
    • Tax Exemptions
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the motor tax status of Ukrainian registered vehicles currently driving in the State; when the temporary exemptions from Motor Tax and...
    • Driver Licences
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason skilled workers from the Philippines cannot exchange their driving licences (details supplied). [64972/26]
    • Public Transport
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the Dublin Commuter Zone to include Athy and Monasterevin so that workers and commuters can avail of more...
    • Bus Services
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the enhancement of the 130 bus in Kildare South. [64988/26]
    • Road Network
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the provision of a bus lane on the M7/N7 from J2 Kingswood to J4 Rathcoole. [64985/26]
    • Departmental Data
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied); if he is aware of these concerns; the measures he is taking to address this; and if he...
    • Road Network
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the provision of a priority bus lane on the M4. [64986/26]
    • Bus Services
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on a Sunday service for the 883 local link bus in Kildare South. [64987/26]
    • Public Transport
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide detailed reasoning for the announced increase to public transport fares from January 2027; if any engagement has taken place...
    • Rail Network
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Iarnród Éireann and the Railway Safety Commission to carry out an urgent review of the crossing at Kiltybo,...
    • Noise Pollution
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of concerns raised by residents of Lacken, County Mayo regarding increased aircraft noise and reports of low-flying...
    • Departmental Funding
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for a local link service in County Kerry for the active retired group in the Abbeydorney/Kilflynn area. [65079/26]
    • Bus Éireann
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Bus Éireann, Cork County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland regarding the provision of suitable bus...
    • National Transport Authority
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the National Transport Authority carried out an assessment of the cumulative impact on passengers at Balbriggan and Skerries of...
    • Bus Éireann
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann has plans for a wheelchair accessible stop in Donegal town, County Donegal; and the timeframe for this. [65133/26]
    • Rail Network
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail has received insurance money with respect to Barrow Bridge, counties Wexford and Kilkenny; if so, when works will commence...
    • Road Projects
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether Transport Infrastructure Ireland has assessed the compatibility of the Ballinacurra to Midleton Pedestrian and Cycle Route with...
    • Rail Network
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the passenger numbers at Balbriggan and Skerries railway stations in each of the years 2024 and 2025 and to date in 2026, the projected...
    • Bus Éireann
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann has plans for a wheelchair accessible stop in Donegal town, County Donegal; and the timeframe for same. [65155/26]
    • Disability Services
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he is taking to ensure that all public transport services are fully accessible without the requirement for wheelchair users...
    • Rail Network
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail will engage with local communities over the impact of electrification of the railway line and closures of level crossings...
    • Departmental Schemes
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an application (details supplied) submitted on 20 May 2026 under the road transport support scheme will be finalised. [65200/26]
    • Bus Services
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of additional passenger services that could have been operated had the 98 battery electric buses currently in storage been...
    • Road Safety
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give a commitment to a numbered, dated camera deployment plan, and the introduction of the National Vehicle and Driver File,...
    • Driver Licences
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to include American driving licences in the exchange process for an Irish licence for Americans who come home to Ireland. [65335/26]
    • Bus Services
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of daily services in each direction on the Ballina to Galway corridor that the National Transport Authority determined would...
    • Road Projects
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the Claregalway Bypass Relief Road Programme; the progress made to date; the next stages in the project lifecycle; the...
    • Haulage Industry
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding paid to date with regard to the road transporters support scheme; the number and percentage of applications which...
    • Public Transport
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drivers currently employed under PSO routes in Waterford; and the number considered a full cohort. [65416/26]
    • Road Projects
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the N72/N73 Mallow Relief Road remains on schedule for submission of a planning application to An Coimisiún Pleanála in...
    • Departmental Properties
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and the...
    • Bus Services
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 26 February 2026 and further correspondence in relation to same, the way in which the...
    • Public Transport
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 370 of 10 February 2026, to state clearly whether the Ballyvolane growth corridor is included in or...
    • Rail Network
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 10 February 2026, whether funding has been approved in principle or allocated for the...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Parliamentary Questions referred to the National Transport Authority for direct reply during 2026 that remain outstanding...
    • Rail Network
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current assessment of the reliability and remaining operational life of the existing train control systems; the expenditure incurred...
    • Departmental Regulations
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the technical and safety basis which was relied upon for treating e-scooters differently under the new regulations from electrically...
    • Departmental Policies
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the introduction of a Transport Security Force, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and when he...
    • Bus Services
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the provision of a town bus for Newbridge, County Kildare. [65458/26]
    • Bus Éireann
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA intends to have USB-C charging points installed on all new PSO Bus Éireann fleet. [65576/26]
    • Departmental Data
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new buses that entered into Dublin Bus fleet in 2025 and to-date in 2026; the number of buses withdrawn from Dublin Bus...
    • Aviation Industry
      329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Aviation Safeguarding Framework, led by the Irish Aviation Authority (public consultation period ended on 31 October...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail plans to replace user-operated gated level crossings with automatic barriers, bridges, or other grade separated solutions...
    • National Transport Authority
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of all hybrid vehicles currently approved by the National Transport Authority (NTA) for licensing as Small Public...
    • Road Projects
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Claregalway relief road project; the current stage of development of the project; the work completed to date; the...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the passenger numbers recorded on rail services operating between Ballinasloe, Athenry, Oranmore and Galway over the past three years;...
    • Transport Policy
      338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being considered by his Department to improve public transport connectivity for growing towns and rural communities in...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      339. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a pension issue (details supplied); and the timeframe for payment to members. [65639/26]
    • Bus Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a viable public transport link between Connolly Station and Dublin Airport can be prioritised and put in place given a similar direct...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to reports of recurring difficulties with ticket validation gates at Ceannt Station; the number of...
    • Road Safety
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects all local authorities to have completed the implementation of revised urban speed limits under the national programme;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the national urban speed limit review and implementation programme. [65702/26]
    • Departmental Data
      349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if incidents of fainting on public transport are recorded; if so, the number of people who have fainted on public transport and details;...
    • Bus Services
      350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to introduce integrated ticketing for passengers travelling across Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link services,...
    • Departmental Data
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that have used each Local-Link bus services within Louth in the years of 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the cost of accessibility works related to Dart+ West (details supplied). [65801/26]
    • Driver Test
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65787/26]
    • Bus Services
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority has assessed passenger demand and capacity on the Ballina to Galway corridor since the withdrawal of...
    • Rail Network
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the delivery of Kellystown Train Station. [65921/26]
    • Ports Policy
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the completion of the new National Ports Policy; and will he make a statement on the matter. [65962/26]
    • Office of Public Works
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the OPW will install public toilets and a flag pole with an OPW flag at the coastguard station in Ballydavid County Kerry given the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Data
      361. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the annual capital gains tax exemption to €3,000. [64164/26]
    • Economic Policy
      362. To ask the Minister for Finance when recommendation 11.2 of the November 2022 Retail Banking Review will be implemented; the reasons for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Credit Unions
      363. To ask the Minister for Finance if he supports the removal of the €100,000 savings limit per credit union which is contained in Regulation 35 of Statutory Instrument 1 of 2016. [64162/26]
    • Tax Code
      366. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a threshold of €5,000 of savings before deposit interest retention tax is paid in light of the introduction of the...
    • Rural Schemes
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on discussions within Government regarding supports for the rural pub sector in advance of Budget 2027. [64155/26]
    • Tax Code
      368. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial, economic or other advice his Department has received regarding the operation and impact of the deemed disposal regime; the recommendations that...
    • Planning Issues
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance whether consideration will be given to permitting an individual property assessment where a town-centre building is outside a special regeneration area...
    • Tax Code
      377. To ask the Minister for Finance if he supports the introduction of a regional uplift to Section 481; whether officials in his Department have commenced engagement with the Department of...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      379. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the merits of financially incentivising the use of HVO fuel instead of diesel to support achieving our climate emission targets; and if he will...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      380. To ask the Minister for Finance to address the increase in pricing across the board. [63633/26]
    • Tax Reliefs
      381. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of extending health expense tax relief to counselling and psychotherapy fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64476/26]
    • Tax Code
      383. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual Exchequer cost of removing VAT from counselling and psychotherapy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64474/26]
    • Tax Exemptions
      385. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to repeat the RZLT exemption and deferral measures provided for in the Finance Acts of the past two years; if similar provisions will be...
    • Tax Code
      386. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has assessed the proposal to proceed with planned carbon-tax increases while reducing excise duty by an equivalent amount (details...
    • Tax Reliefs
      391. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to review the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax relief scheme and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64775/26]
    • Tax Code
      402. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek to suspend the €3 customs duty on low-value parcels from outside the European Union; if he will seek an exemption to this duty in...
    • Departmental Data
      403. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pubs licensed in Ireland in each of the years 2000 to 2026 inclusive; the number of off-licences licenced in Ireland in each year in the same...
    • Tax Code
      405. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has undertaken economic or Exchequer revenue modelling of the abolition of the eight-year deemed disposal regime for investment funds and...
    • Departmental Policies
      406. To ask the Minister for Finance the conflict-of-interest, disclosure, recusal and post-employment safeguards apply in circumstances (details supplied); if any cooling-off period applies;...
    • Tax Code
      408. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans for the establishment of a working group to review and propose changes to the taxation of funds, life assurance policies and other investment...
    • Local Government Reform
      409. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on expanding financial powers to local councillors. [65064/26]
    • Departmental Data
      411. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who claimed the single person child carer credit in the latest year for which data are available. [65103/26]
    • Tax Code
      413. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected income from any new excise duties on novel nicotine products; the rates would apply per product type, including e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches...
    • Budget 2027
      416. To ask the Minister for Finance whether consideration is being given, in advance of Budget 2027 and the winter heating season, to introducing a subsidy or other financial support to reduce...
    • Tax Code
      417. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered amending the capital acquisitions tax dwelling house exemption by reducing the current six-year post-inheritance occupancy requirement;...
    • Tax Yield
      418. To ask the Minister for Finance the total carbon tax revenue collected in respect of kerosene and other oils used for home heating in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and...
    • Disability Issues
      420. To ask the Minister for Finance in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and the timeline for measures to...
    • Tax Yield
      422. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raise by implementing a new third rate of income tax of 43% on incomes above €140,000. [65494/26]
    • Vehicle Registration
      424. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider undertaking a fresh assessment of the potential introduction of personalised vehicle registration numbers in Ireland, including the...
    • Tax Code
      425. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his Department’s consideration of requests to amend section 626B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to align the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      428. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the insurability of wheelchairs in Ireland in terms of the liability for wheelchair users for any damage that may be caused by the use...
    • Tax Code
      430. To ask the Minister for Finance to examine the way in which a reduction in VAT on home heating oil would off-set the impact on consumers of the increased use of low carbon liquid fuel in...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      431. To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; the rationale for each of the major changes being proposed; if the current...
    • Tax Reliefs
      433. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the help-to-buy ceiling to reflect current prices in counties such as Wicklow; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Credits
      434. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated savings from removing tax credits from incomes above €100,000 on a tapered basis until they are fully removed at €140,000. [65817/26]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      435. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Ukrainian registered vehicles currently in the State; the number of Ukrainian vehicles that have been registered for VRT in the State; the...
    • Tax Code
      438. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 9 October 2025, if he is aware that same sex couples cannot apply for tax relief unless they meet two specific...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Court Accommodation
      439. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works is involved in the maintenance, refurbishment or capital development of Carrick-on-Suir and Cashel...
    • Departmental Contracts
      440. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known to...
    • Office of Public Works
      441. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of the OPW capital budget that has been spent in the first eight months of 2026; if he will provide the same figures for...
    • Public Services Provision
      443. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the alternative application processes available for older people who are unable to access or use online application systems; whether an...
    • Departmental Meetings
      444. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 61402/26, to provide an update on his meeting with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and...
    • Office of Public Works
      445. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE staff, by job title employed by OPW currently working at Portumna Castle and Gardens. [65309/26]
    • EU Presidency
      446. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount allocated and amount expended to date across all votes in respect of Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the...
    • Departmental Properties
      447. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and the...
    • Protected Disclosures
      448. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Government has assessed the effectiveness of the current protected disclosures framework where a safeguarding or operational...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      450. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Claregalway flood relief scheme; the current stage of the project; the works completed to date; the expected...
    • Flood Risk Management
      452. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will explore the possibility of installing a river level gauge at a location (details supplied). [65944/26]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Job Losses
      453. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement there has been with Aer Lingus and an organisation (details supplied) over recent announcements on staff cuts. [64152/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      454. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department is considering the development of new supports, grants, or advisory services to assist SMEs in adopting...
    • State Bodies
      457. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role of the Irish National Accreditation Board in accrediting conformity-assessment bodies under Commission Delegated Regulation...
    • Business Supports
      459. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and total value of grant supports, including priming grants, feasibility grants, business expansion grants and trading...
    • Departmental Contracts
      460. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known to...
    • Tourism Policy
      461. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the current status of Dunguaire Castle; the actions that have been taken by his Department so far; whether any...
    • Consumer Rights
      462. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to clarify the position on motor vehicle warranties where servicing is carried out by an independent garage rather than a main...
    • Disability Issues
      463. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and the...
    • Business Supports
      468. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of funding provided by local enterprise offices (LEOs) to businesses to assist with the impact of tariffs and...
    • Redundancy Payments
      469. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has plans to review the €600 weekly earnings cap used for calculating statutory redundancy payments which was set over...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      470. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether the AI Office of Ireland has examined the findings of an investigation by an organisation (details supplied)into AI chatbots...
    • Consumer Rights
      472. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the new right to repair law does not apply to hobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65615/26]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Accommodation
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest update on an application for additional school accommodation for a school (details supplied). [64167/26]
    • Youth Services
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the amount of funding allocated to youth organisations in each county in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to...
    • School Staff
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which there is a limitation on the ability of teachers who job-share to participate in substitute teaching; and if her Department...
    • School Transport
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of reports that a number of students residing in Bohernabreena, Dublin 24, have been unable to secure a place on school bus...
    • Departmental Policies
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a representative on the cross-departmental working group on young carers; if so, whether the working group has yet met;...
    • Teacher Training
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department collects data on the number of special needs assistants and other school-based support staff who subsequently enter...
    • School Staff
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies for special education teachers currently recorded across primary and post-primary schools; and the measures being taken...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether caring responsibility will be included within the DEIS strategy (details supplied); and, if not, the way in which her Department will...
    • School Accommodation
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the interim improvement and emergency works planned for a school (details supplied) pending delivery of the school's new permanent...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action in the DEIS Implementation Plan 2026–2028 or the DEIS Plus plan which gives practical effect to the DEIS strategy to 2035...
    • Schools Building Projects
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update regarding the completion of stage 2B review for a school (details supplied); and to provide the timeframe for progression to tender...
    • School Accommodation
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional school accommodation (details supplied); the timeline for same; if the application will be...
    • Public Sector Pay
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing financial recognition to teachers who completed recognised postgraduate qualifications in special educational...
    • School Staff
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if permanent teachers who are job sharing will be permitted to undertake substitute teaching on their non-rostered days during 2026-2027; and if...
    • School Enrolments
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the number of children in primary and secondary school who left the Donabate and Portrane peninsula to avail of school places...
    • School Staff
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers allocated to each post-primary school in 2025-2026, including the school roll-number, in tabular form. [64387/26]
    • Schools Administration
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to revisit the school standardised calendar and have all schools opening and closing on the same dates, beginning and end of year;...
    • School Accommodation
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); her proposals to address the severe pressure on the...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of an emergency funding applications (details supplied) for the provision of a wastewater treatment system; the date on which...
    • School Transport
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); the steps that can be taken to address the lack of concessionary school bus places...
    • Schools Building Projects
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide an estimated cost comparison between incorporating permanent SEN classrooms into the new school buildings at a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether consideration is being given to placing the counselling in Primary Schools Pilot Programme on a permanent footing and expanding it...
    • Special Educational Needs
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the special school place for a student (details supplied). [64524/26]
    • School Transport
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); the reason the school bus route in question has not been amended despite repeated...
    • Schools Building Projects
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the new school building project (details supplied). [64563/26]
    • School Staff
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason job-sharing teachers are not permitted to undertake substitute teaching in primary schools during the 2026-2027 school year; if this...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) with an exceptionally high concentration of socio-economic disadvantage and complex educational needs can be...
    • School Transport
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of the school bus ticket application; and if the decision will be...
    • Health and Safety
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider a summer works application (details supplied) given this is a major child health and safety concern; and if she will make a statement...
    • Mental Health Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot; the number of schools and pupils participating; the evaluation undertaken to date; and...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a refurbishment grant for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on school transport provision for students (details supplied). [64625/26]
    • Fee Paying Schools
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have compulsory fees in both primary and secondary level; and the number of schools that take children out of class...
    • School Transport
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If she will review correspondence (details supplied); if she will clarify the circumstances under which a school transport ticket can be offered...
    • Special Educational Needs
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and the National Council for Special Education will grant a request from a school (details supplied) to open an additional...
    • School Transport
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review the case of persons (details supplied); if she will intervene with Bus Éireann to allow the existing taxi...
    • Schools Building Projects
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classrooms to be delivered in the new school building for a school (details supplied); if this number has been reduced due...
    • Special Educational Needs
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to intervene to ensure a school (details supplied) can open a second ASD class as soon as possible; if the NCSE will carry out a school visit...
    • Education Policy
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her current plans to introduce permanent formal therapeutic infrastructure in schools. [64693/26]
    • School Curriculum
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the curriculum content in place at primary and post-primary schools regarding factual material concerning vaping and nitrous oxide. [64687/26]
    • State Examinations
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to assertions that the content of mathematics higher paper 2026, was not a reasonable examination of the syllabus set by her...
    • Special Educational Needs
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If she will personally review the application made by a school (details supplied); if she is aware that in the last school year this school had a...
    • School Transport
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If she will review correspondence (details supplied); the steps that can be taken to increase capacity on the school bus serving the Swellan area...
    • School Accommodation
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the stage 2A review of a school accommodation project at a school (details supplied); if she will include the project for...
    • School Transport
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the steps that can be taken to increase capacity on school bus routes A26 and 1703...
    • Education Welfare Service
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the tendering for EWS for a school (details supplied). [64801/26]
    • School Transport
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If she will urgently review the case of persons (details supplied); if she will sanction the use of a double decker bus on the school transport...
    • Irish Language
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans currently in place to establish new Gaelscoileanna and Gaelcholáistí over the next five years; and the locations being...
    • School Enrolments
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current enrolment and approved pupil capacity of each Gaelscoil and Gaelcholáiste in the State; and the number operating at or above...
    • School Transport
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); the reason the school transport applications were cancelled; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the delayed opening of the new special school in Balbriggan; the reasons for the delay; the steps being taken by her...
    • Irish Language
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish-medium primary schools (Gaelscoileanna) and Irish-medium post-primary schools (Gaelcholáistí) currently operating...
    • Departmental Contracts
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of any contracts in place between her Department and agencies under her remit with a company (details supplied) known to have...
    • Employment Rights
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which body or bodies have legal responsibility for ensuring that teachers employed in voluntary secondary schools have their employment rights...
    • Schools Complaints Procedures
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher pursuing a complaint before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court or under protected disclosures legislation is...
    • School Management
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills who is the legal employer of teachers in voluntary secondary schools; and if the employer is deemed to be the board of management, the school...
    • Teacher Training
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if professional master of education pathways are currently available to graduates of the BA home economics programme at St Angela's College; and...
    • Irish Language
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the application by a school (details supplied) to transition to a Gaelscoil; and when a decision will be made on this...
    • Special Educational Needs
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) with additional needs secures an appropriate local school place to allow her to complete her...
    • Irish Language
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for places in Irish-medium post-primary schools that were unsuccessful in each of the past five years, by school and...
    • Mental Health Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any assessment of the pilot programme for mental health supports in primary schools (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Transport
      552. 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; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the stage 2A review of a school accommodation project (details supplied); whether she will include the project for priority...
    • School Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a teacher (details supplied); and if she will outline the measures being considered to retain experienced teachers...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give consideration to an ongoing problem (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65024/26]
    • School Staff
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give urgent consideration to an ongoing issue (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65046/26]
    • Departmental Data
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 28 April 2026, to provide a list of the frameworks of providers of digital devices recommended to...
    • School Transport
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to accommodate a small number of concessionary students (details supplied) who did not receive seats for an existing...
    • Departmental Schemes
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to strongly consider an emergency works scheme appeal by a school (details supplied) to repair hazardous and unsafe roofing which is in need of...
    • Departmental Data
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the current enrolment, permanent building capacity, temporary accommodation capacity and projected enrolment for each primary and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has completed a strategic review of primary and post-primary school capacity across north Louth, having regard to the...
    • School Staff
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the staffing resources appeal of a school (details supplied). [65093/26]
    • Site Acquisitions
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that has taken place between her Department, Louth County Council, the Housing Agency and relevant utility and infrastructure...
    • School Enrolments
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work that has been undertaken by her Department’s forward planning section to assess the effect of completed, approved and proposed...
    • Special Educational Needs
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an additional education needs, AEN, appeal for a school (details supplied). [65089/26]
    • School Transport
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of a payment made to a school transport operator for a person (details supplied). [65106/26]
    • School Staff
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions for school secretaries who retired between the commencement of the dispute and the date of the acceptance of the July 2026 Labour...
    • Irish Language
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any initiative in place that seeks to meet the demand for Irish-medium secondary schools at a national level. [65145/26]
    • School Staff
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65154/26]
    • Irish Language
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the importance of promoting the provision of Gaelscoileanna and Gaelcholáistí; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Complaints Procedures
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons who previously received a small settlement in respect of abuse suffered while attending school will be eligible to apply for redress...
    • School Transport
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the transport arrangements that can be implemented for a child (details supplied) to get them to and from school. [65027/26]
    • School Attendance
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to ensure that a student (details supplied) can access a school. [65189/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the limited availability of moderate ASD class places at post-primary level in County Carlow; whether her Department has...
    • Departmental Schemes
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average processing time for an application for the redress scheme for survivors of institutional abuse; the number of staff allocated to work...
    • Schools Building Projects
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the construction and anticipated opening timeline for the new special school in the Loughshinny area of County Dublin...
    • School Transport
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure a child (details supplied) has a school transport place for the forthcoming school year. [65180/26]
    • State Examinations
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the number of sraithpictiúr for the leaving certificate oral Irish exam will remain at ten for examinations taking place in 2027 and...
    • School Transport
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review school bus transport for a child with special needs (details supplied). [65292/26]
    • School Curriculum
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take in response to the PISA 2025 findings that 24.2% of students in Ireland are performing below level 2 in mathematics and...
    • School Transport
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a late application can be accepted from a family in circumstances where one parent is recently deceased and the remaining parent now requires...
    • School Admissions
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has put in place provisions to ensure that there is a place in an Irish-medium second level school for those who have...
    • School Accommodation
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect a decision on its application under the additional school accommodation scheme in light of the...
    • School Curriculum
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has carried out a review into the mathematics higher level papers 1 and 2 in this year's Leaving Certificate, which was...
    • School Staff
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she will review the guidance and professional development provided to teachers and special education teachers on evidence-informed...
    • School Facilities
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to ensure that students with dyslexia and dyscalculia are identified and supported at the earliest possible stage,...
    • School Staff
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is satisfied that schools have sufficient special education teaching resources to provide appropriate literacy and numeracy...
    • School Curriculum
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to address the PISA 2025 attainment gap between students in DEIS and non-DEIS schools, including the 49-point gap in...
    • School Uniforms
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 62819/26 of 7 September 2026, the current status of the review of Circular 0032/2017 on the cost of school...
    • School Costs
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 62835/26 of 7 September 2026, the total value of voluntary contributions collected by schools in the most...
    • Schools Building Projects
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a special class is planned for a school (details supplied) as part of the proposal to construct a new building for the school; if a...
    • School Transport
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will give funding for bus transport for students attending a school (details supplied). [65382/26]
    • Departmental Properties
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in cases in which a building under her control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; her plans to remedy this; and the timeline for...
    • Departmental Surveys
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that future surveys conducted by her Department include an option for respondents to submit observations without requiring a...
    • Departmental Circulars
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for clarity on an issue regarding DEY Circular 38/26 (details supplied). [65497/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a project (details supplied). [65498/26]
    • Departmental Circulars
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm when special schools will receive formal approval to appoint the additional Senior Cycle Level 1 and Level 2 Learning Programmes...
    • State Examinations
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm the action she and her Department are taking with regards to the review of the Leaving Certificate mathematics curriculum following...
    • School Transport
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on school transport for a student (details supplied). [65686/26]
    • Schools Building Projects
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned new school building project for a school in County Clare (details supplied); the timeline for the progression of this...
    • School Transport
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus driver (details supplied) who was driving school buses up until June of 2025 will be permitted to drive school transport under...
    • Special Educational Needs
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If she will consider the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to assistive technology supports for a primary school...
    • School Transport
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school bus ticket application (details supplied); and if the ticket can be issued in the circumstances. [65818/26]
    • School Staff
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if permanent teachers on job share will continue to be permitted to take on substitute teaching, when they are otherwise available to work this...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of incremental credit a Teaching Council-registered teacher with 15 years verified experience abroad in the UK and Singapore could...
    • State Examinations
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is satisfied that current Leaving Certificate subject-access arrangements provide students with dyslexia and other additional...
    • School Staff
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the implementation of the 1% local bargaining provision due to post-primary teachers from 1 September 2025. [65710/26]
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
    • Post Office Network
      633. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the timeframe for An Post pensioners to receive the payment rise that was agreed in May 2026. [64196/26]
    • National Archives
      634. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the reason microsites for the National Archives are currently down; and whether security risks were identified. [64310/26]
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      636. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if National Broadband Ireland will contact a person (details supplied) regard connecting their residence to the fibre line...
    • Arts Policy
      637. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport when the new national guidelines for the per cent for art scheme will be published. [64645/26]
    • Departmental Policies
      643. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department intends to introduce a national emergency alert system for natural‑disaster incidents such as...
    • Sports Organisations
      644. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport his views on the recent decision by a person (details supplied) to resign as Chair of the Integration committee; and if he...
    • Disability Issues
      645. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this;...
    • Sports Organisations
      647. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport whether he is concerned by reports suggesting a loss of momentum in the planned integration of organisations (details...
    • Commemorative Events
      655. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport his Department's plans to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the election of Daniel O'Connell in County Clare in 1828;...
    • Sports Events
      657. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport the actions being taken by Government to strengthen Ireland's position as a host location for major international golf...
    • Sports Funding
      661. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will establish a dedicated, ring-fenced and multi-annual local authority swimming pool fund in Budget 2027, as the...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      662. To ask the Minister for Culture, Culture, Communications and Sport if he will intercede in a case (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65797/26]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Policy
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department assessed, prior to requesting local authorities to undertake development plan variations concerning...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed national territorial mapping, being progressed through the three regional assemblies to identify areas...
    • Agriculture Industry
      678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of appeals involving the rating of agricultural or horticultural buildings have been brought before the Valuation...
    • Rental Sector
      683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the enforcement mechanisms available to the RTB to identify, investigate and prosecute landlords who fail to register...
    • Vacant Properties
      684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider allowing micro-companies to apply for the vacant above-the-shop grant scheme; and the timeline for the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the National Nature Restoration Plan. [64706/26]
    • Housing Policy
      694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the is aware that the exemption in the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 in circumstances (details supplied); the...
    • Heritage Centres
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income, the income ,expenditure and net surplus or profit generated by the Cliffs of Moher visitor experience in each of...
    • National Monuments
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has assessed the risk posed by the proposed development adjoining Dún Dealgan to the monument, its...
    • Departmental Contracts
      700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied)...
    • Defective Building Materials
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify whether all transitional applicants who reach the grant cap are eligible to have their original engineers’...
    • Housing Policy
      718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his current plans to legislate a clear pathway for those individuals who have finished rehabilitation to gain access to...
    • Building Regulations
      719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the requirements that will apply from 31 December 2026 to products already being supplied or installed in Ireland...
    • Local Authorities
      729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he envisages the secretarial scheme for councillors will look like as laid out in the local government...
    • Defective Building Materials
      731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the administrative and statutory justification for the Housing Agency requiring further core testing on a dwelling entering...
    • Disability Issues
      732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding grant measures available to support persons with mobility issues that need to upgrade their homes to...
    • Defective Building Materials
      736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for homeowners affected by defective concrete can expect formal clarification on the operation of the technical...
    • Disability Issues
      737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this;...
    • Defective Building Materials
      739. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether properties that were utilised as pilot properties under the defective concrete blocks scheme, and which have already...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      742. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a company (details supplied), the Irish Aviation Authority and State-owned airports have been asked to contribute to the...
    • Housing Schemes
      745. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider changes to the housing aid for older people scheme which would allow applications where a...
    • Housing Provision
      746. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated the size and value of the residential-zoned land bank. [65845/26]
    • Heritage Sites
      747. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the proposed designation of certain pre-1700 roads, field boundaries and structures under the draft...
    • Housing Policy
      749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's best estimation as to the contribution of site value to the cost of delivering housing in Ireland, by county;...
    • Disability Issues
      751. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the amount provided to local authorities to carry out essential housing adaptations for medical needs in...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      753. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the commitment to introduce solar planning guidelines in the Programme for Government; the timeline...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      757. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider increasing the prices paid to suppliers of school meals. [64388/26]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a reduction in the weekly overpayment of the pandemic payment will be allowed for a person (details supplied). [64464/26]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of illness benefit claimants deemed unfit for work due to chronic migraine, based on the latest data available to...
    • Budget 2027
      761. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the Department is considering measures in Budget 2027 to address the impact of rising living costs on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      762. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); the reason the disability benefit application was refused on three...
    • Departmental Contracts
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied)...
    • State Pensions
      764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will confirm the pension (non contributory) amount and not the pension (contributory) amount a person will...
    • Employment Support Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the publication of the successor Pathways to Work Strategy, which was anticipated early this year; the reason...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1545 of 13 January 2026, the approximate financial cost to the State of removing the...
    • Programme for Government
      768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the phasing out of the carers allowance means test as committed to in the Programme for Government; if...
    • Budget 2027
      769. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he plans to amend the means-assessment system as it applied to savers in Budget 2027, in line with the recommendations...
    • Social Welfare Code
      770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rational for the exclusion of teachers and others in the education sector from accessing jobseeker's pay related benefit;...
    • Civil Registration Service
      772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure by which a person resident in the State who was married in the Lithuanian Embassy in Dublin prior to 2020 may...
    • School Meals Programme
      773. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if schools in County Leitrim (details supplied) have received their grants for hot school meals supply to date; if he will...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      774. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 62815/26 of 7 September 2026, if his Department will now undertake an assessment of the...
    • Disability Issues
      775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      777. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total funding allocated to the work and access scheme for the financial years 2024, 2025 and 2026; the actual amount of...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      779. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm consideration will be given to increasing the Household Benefits Package monthly sum for electricity and gas from...
    • Departmental Data
      780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff by grade, working in each INTREO office within Wexford, in tabular form. [65588/26]
    • Paternity Leave
      781. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the way in which Ireland compares to other EU countries in terms of the level of paternity benefit available...
    • Tax Code
      789. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the lower rate of PRSI currently set in line with minimum wage to €18.15. [65495/26]
    • Legislative Measures
      790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the long-term carer's credit can be counted towards the minimum pension requirements, but HCPS cannot; and to...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      793. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of abolishing the means test for social protection payments for disabled people and providing...
    • Pension Provisions
      796. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is not entitled for a State pension (contributory) despite the fact that they provided...
    • Departmental Budgets
      798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing disability, blind pensions and invalidity pension to €350 per week. [65828/26]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Support Services
      800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department can review a case (details supplied) where it appears that a systems error in INIS resulted in a case being...
    • Departmental Funding
      805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will supply a breakdown of the funding the various front-line organisations that support gender-based violence victims...
    • Prison Service
      806. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in circumstances where the Irish Prison Service has not been established on a statutory basis, the person or body that...
    • Departmental Data
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vetting applications received and completed in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the median processing time...
    • An Garda Síochána
      809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and proportion of operational members of An Garda Síochána who had completed training on the Health...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      810. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently subject to the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders Act 2001; the number assessed as...
    • Penalty Points System
      813. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of appeals submitted for penalty points fines issued at two locations (details supplied); and the number of appeals...
    • Departmental Data
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of interventions made in Dublin, by area within Dublin, and by age in each of the years from 2015 to 2025, in...
    • International Protection
      815. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which he has implemented the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s 2024 report on IPAS...
    • An Garda Síochána
      820. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of garda interviews of persons in custody that have taken place in Garda stations since 1 July 2026 without the...
    • International Protection
      821. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a service provider will receive payment due (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64351/26]
    • Departmental Data
      822. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of actioned Garda transfer requests (D19 applications) across the State in each of the past five years to date in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether the education bond scheme has a restriction in place regarding the nationality of applicants. [64407/26]
    • Domestic Violence
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide measurable evidence demonstrating the actual changes for a victim of domestic violence seeking immediate...
    • International Protection
      830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of student accommodation facilities which are currently in use housing IPAS applicants and not available to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the net number of Garda members assigned to DMR north in each year since 2022, having regard to recruitment, retirements and...
    • International Protection
      834. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an IPAS inspection of Dolcain House accommodation centre, Monastery Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 (report reference IPPSI0073)...
    • International Programmes
      835. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average cost per bed, per night in designated IPAS accommodation centres; the average cost per bed, per night in those...
    • Departmental Funding
      838. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review correspondence (details supplied); the status of the Community Safety Fund application in question; and the...
    • Residency Permits
      839. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will expedite a stamp 4 IRP renewal for a person (details supplied). [64543/26]
    • Courts Service
      840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding the former provision of court sittings in Tipperary Town; whether the Courts Service has...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      842. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who, having been detained in Oberstown as children, subsequently entered the adult prison system in each...
    • An Garda Síochána
      851. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the effectiveness of Operation Tara in tackling street-level drug dealing; the number of arrests and charges...
    • Legal Aid
      856. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal legal aid certificates granted in the District Court, by county, for the months of July and August 2025,...
    • Student Visas
      861. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the appeal of student visa application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Immigration Policy
      862. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigration checks carried out by An Garda Síochána in each of the Border counties of Louth, Monaghan,...
    • Domestic Violence
      865. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the immediate civil and criminal protections currently available to a victim of domestic violence; the average waiting times...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      866. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who accessed Cuan-funded services in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and the number unable to access...
    • Domestic Violence
      868. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic violence refuge units and safe-home units available when Cuan commenced and at present, by county; the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      872. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the status of an application (details supplied) in view of its being 40 months since the application...
    • Deportation Orders
      873. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders signed in each year from 2020 to 2025; the number of confirmed departures recorded by the...
    • Court Procedures
      876. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 403 and 404 of 16 July 2026, the details of which the ongoing review comprises in...
    • Immigration Policy
      878. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 15 July 2026, whether the review is a systematic review of all naturalised...
    • Departmental Contracts
      879. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied)...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      880. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents relating to anti-social behaviour, public order offences and fireworks reported in Celbridge in each of...
    • Student Visas
      881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the application for student visas of students from Gaza; the number of applications that have...
    • Visa Applications
      882. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the status of a join family visa (details supplied). [64868/26]
    • Immigration Policy
      883. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship revocation cases initiated, completed, discontinued and currently pending in each year from 2016 to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      886. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship applications refused on good-character grounds in each year from 2016 to date; the number therein...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      887. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether Revenue Commissioners’ tax-compliance information is currently sought or considered when determining whether an...
    • Citizenship Applications
      888. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted citizenship in each of the past five years who, at the date of application, had between five and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      892. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of certificates of naturalisation granted in each year since 2016 where one or more of the normal statutory...
    • International Protection
      896. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to urgently respond to concerns raised regarding conditions for residents at an IPAS centre in Wicklow (details supplied)....
    • Bench Warrants
      901. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants issued in each month of 2025 and in each month of 2026 to date, in tabular form. [65075/26]
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      910. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of the cost of each citizenship ceremony held during 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      917. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65170/26]
    • Domestic Violence
      918. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to comment on the development status of women's refuges in the nine counties currently without a women's refuge; and the dates...
    • Visa Applications
      923. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the serious delay in the processing of family reunification visas, with some regions reporting a two year...
    • EU Presidency
      929. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 59656/26 of 7 September 2026, the amount of the €125 million allocation to An...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      930. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 63165/26 of 7 September 2026, the measures being taken to reduce the average period of 56...
    • Visa Applications
      931. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of D study visa applications received each year for the past five years, in tabular form; and the number of D study...
    • An Garda Síochána
      934. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of stinger courses held for gardaí within Waterford-Kilkenny division in 2025 and to date in 2026; and the...
    • Departmental Properties
      935. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      940. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether there are currently delays or technical or administrative issues affecting the e-vetting process for citizenship...
    • Mental Health Services
      945. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to ensure that a person (details supplied) receives the appropriate medical and mental health treatment as a matter of urgency...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      947. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Government's position on the proposed EU Cybersecurity Act 2 (CSA2); and the timeline for consideration of...
    • Student Visas
      949. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) whose family visit visa application was submitted on 27 November 2025...
    • Visa Applications
      953. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the exact criteria used by visa officers to define a 'reasonable request' for expediting an application on humanitarian grounds...
    • An Garda Síochána
      954. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Public Order Unit vans attached to Wexford-Wicklow division, as of 9 September 2026, and in tabular form....
    • Prison Service
      956. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the appointment of a visiting committee member for Cork Prison. [65612/26]
    • Deportation Orders
      957. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether deportation can be considered in the case of an EU citizen convicted of unlawful killing; and the criteria that is...
    • Visa Applications
      962. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application appeal (details supplied); and when a decision on this application appeal will be made....
    • Citizenship Applications
      965. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application (details supplied); if additional compliance documents submitted in February 2026 were...
    • An Garda Síochána
      966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by An Garda Síochána on purchasing specialist public order equipment to date in 2026. [65784/26]
    • Prison Service
      967. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether he is aware of work ongoing in the Cork Detention Barracks; the nature of the work; and the amount that has been spent...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Schemes
      974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe for his Department to draw down the funding from the EU fertiliser support scheme; and if the Government will...
    • Legislative Measures
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government is supportive of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021. [64591/26]
    • Agriculture Supports
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a Social Farming Programme (details supplied) has not received funding in the recent allocation of funding. [64646/26]
    • Forestry Sector
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ensure road repair budgets are provided by the Department of Transport when issuing felling licences under the Single Consent...
    • Departmental Contracts
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known to...
    • Animal Diseases
      984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of herdowners by county that have not carried out a TB test since 1 September 2024. [64906/26]
    • Greyhound Industry
      985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if media reports that Rásaíocht Con Éireann have settled a legal action being taken against them for defamation are...
    • Emergency Planning
      986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the creation of a strategic 90-day food reserve similar to the NORA model for fuel; his views on whether recent...
    • Fuel Prices
      987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the €60 million that was assigned for farmers and contractors for the diesel rebate scheme will be ring...
    • Wildlife Protection
      988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the Protection of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021; and the measures being taken to protect the native Irish...
    • Disability Issues
      989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the wheelchair accessibility of all buildings under his control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65308/26]
    • Departmental Data
      990. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the information technology system used to administer producer organisation operational programmes and claims; the extent to...
    • Animal Welfare
      996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he accepts that dog breeding establishments licensed to keep in excess of 300 breeding bitches may give rise to significant...
    • Forestry Sector
      998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the governance arrangements are in place to ensure that appellants before the Forestry Appeals Committee have access to the...
    • Animal Welfare
      999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce legislation to regulate the welfare of horses used to transport tourists throughout Dublin City. [65523/26]
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process for farmers to request replacement identification tags for cattle; and to detail the internal processes within his...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if under ACRES an extension could be applied to the geese and swans grazing due the drought during the summer. [65738/26]
    • Agriculture Supports
      1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing the farming for water's grant to people who were approved. [65722/26]
    • Bord Bia
      1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he last met formally with the CEO of Bord Bia and the topics discussed. [65520/26]
  • Department of Children, Disability and Equality
    • Childcare Services
      1009. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether full-day crèches in core funding are subject to minimum hours to assist parents in drop-offs and pick-ups when they...
    • Disability Services
      1010. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to families who must travel significant distances for access to disability and educational services. [64201/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1011. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of special needs preschools in Tipperary; and if her Department plans to open more preschools for children with special...
    • Disability Services
      1012. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current waiting times for children with Down syndrome to access appropriate speech and language therapy in Tipperary. [64197/26]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to explain the new update for the AIM Level 7 funding; the rationale for restricting a room to one maintenance of reduced ratio...
    • Child Protection
      1014. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will clarify whether the National LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Strategy can override or qualify statutory child protection obligations;...
    • Childcare Services
      1015. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the sanctions that have been imposed on childcare providers found to be in breach of core funding fee-freeze rules. [64365/26]
    • Disability Services
      1018. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she is taking to address the shortage of speech and language therapists available to children with additional needs given...
    • Childcare Services
      1019. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of childcare providers operating from publicly funded school premises that do not participate in the national...
    • Disability Services
      1020. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the staffing levels of CDNTs in County Clare; if she is aware that a vacancy has been created within the Ennis CDNT (details...
    • Childcare Services
      1021. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports that will be available to parents if their childcare facility withdraws from core funding and prices go up as a...
    • Child Detention Centres
      1022. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of occasions in each of the past ten years on which a court sought a detention place in Oberstown but no place was...
    • Departmental Data
      1025. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons aged under 18 years-of-age who had accumulated 30 or more criminal convictions in each of the past ten years;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1028. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of any contracts in place between her Department and agencies under her remit with a company (details supplied) known...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1029. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if an ability to talk is a criterion used to decide if a child with complex needs requires access to CDNT support (details...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1032. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to ensure that the educational standards and professional practice of early years educators...
    • Childcare Services
      1034. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the mechanisms in place to engage with childcare providers that indicate they plan to withdraw from the core funding scheme. [64942/26]
    • Children in Care
      1035. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3021 of 7 September 2026, the number of children placed at each of the set weekly rates...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1036. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3020 of September 2026, to confirm in a yes or no answer whether profit margin is assessed as...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1038. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3023 of 7 September 2026, to reconcile the stated intention of the Child and Family Agency to...
    • Departmental Reports
      1039. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a report commissioned by her office in 2024 (details supplied) will be publicly released. [64975/26]
    • Childcare Services
      1040. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of continued frustration among childcare providers regarding the use of the HIVE system (details supplied) and the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1042. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the rationale for changes to attendance for children in ECCE to register five days per week; the consultation that took place on...
    • Child Protection
      1043. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Children First provides specific national guidance on the sex of adults supervising children in circumstances involving...
    • Disability Services
      1046. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions being taken to address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding a three-year-old child with...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1048. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to assist a child (details supplied) in accessing appropriate early learning, childcare and early...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1049. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is considering a review or revision of the implementation of the Time to Move on from Congregated Settings policy...
    • Child Safety
      1051. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the statutory, regulatory and inspection frameworks governing privately operated or externally contracted residential care...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      1052. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the assessment that has been undertaken of the increasing reliance on private, for-profit care providers in the provision of...
    • Child Safety
      1053. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the statutory protections available to frontline social care professionals, advocates, and members of the public who raise...
    • Child Detention Centres
      1058. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether consideration has been given to the construction of a second youth detention facility; whether a feasibility study or...
    • Health Services Staff
      1059. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE behavioural specialists posts filled at each CDNT within CHO8 as of 8 September 2026, in tabular form. [65216/26]
    • Disability Services
      1061. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of current staffing across all children's disability network teams in the Louth Meath IHA. [65297/26]
    • Disability Issues
      1071. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in cases in which a building under her control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; her plans to remedy this; and the...
    • Disability Services
      1072. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available and offered to children and families awaiting their initial appointment with children's disability network...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1073. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to reply to the matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65466/26]
    • Paternity Leave
      1074. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the way in which Ireland compares to the UK in terms of the level of statutory paid paternity leave and other related...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1080. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently awaiting psychotherapy services across children's disability network teams in the Louth Meath IHA;...
    • Disability Services
      1081. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child in County Kildare (details supplied) will be given an appointment for an assessment of need and to see the CDNT, as...
    • EU Directives
      1082. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current status of the transposition of the EU Pay Transparency Directive into Irish law; if there is a timeline for same; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1083. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will consider expanding the building blocks extension scheme for pre-schools to assist with the cost of upgrades...
    • Childcare Services
      1084. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a progress report on the provision of childcare facilities at the former convent in Listowel, County Kerry, and...
    • Budget 2027
      1086. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the childcare affordability measures currently under consideration by her Department in advance of Budget 2027; whether changes to...
    • Childcare Services
      1088. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will examine opening a childcare facility in a vacant school in north Kerry (details supplied). [65892/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1089. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with a special interest in learning disabilities posts filled within...
    • Childcare Services
      1090. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her position on two recent applications to reduce the size of an associated creche space in a residential development (details...
    • Disability Services
      1097. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the provision of residential placement for a person (details supplied); if the HSE will meet with me as the public...
    • School Transport
      1098. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding for transport will be provided for a person (details supplied). [65269/26]
    • Disability Services
      1099. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will request the HSE to establish the whereabouts and status of the outstanding CDNT assessment reports concerning a child...
  • Department of Health
    • Ambulance Service
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health her views on concerns regarding the conditions of community paramedics in the national ambulance service (details supplied). [64195/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all professional representative organisations that received funding, grants, sponsorship, educational support or service-level funding...
    • Hospital Staff
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE registrars in neurology based at Tallaght University Hospital as of 31 August 2026, in tabular form. [64188/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department intends to establish any criteria, mechanism or review process to ensure equivalence of assessment criteria for publicly funded procedures...
    • Health Services
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health whether protests outside In-vitro fertilisation and surrogacy clinics fall within the protections for and definition of healthcare facilities, as defined...
    • Health Strategies
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment her Department has carried out of the effect on equity of access where, as confirmed by the Health Service Executive, no mechanism exists to...
    • Health Service Executive
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health further to PQ 44070/26, to confirm the position stated by the Health Service Executive namely that there is no criteria or review process to consider...
    • Medicinal Products
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that has taken place between her Department, the HSE, clinicians, patient organisations and the manufacturer of a medication (details supplied)...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 840 of 30 June 2026, and the HSE confirmation of 25 August 2026 that no interim system or process will be introduced for...
    • Patient Files
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 840 of 30 June 2026, the specific process by which a child whose immunisation record fails to transfer successfully to...
    • Health Service Executive
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health To ask the Minister for Health if she will review correspondence from a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the HSE's consideration...
    • Ambulance Service
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of concerns raised by newly qualified community paramedics regarding proposed daytime only rostering within the National Ambulance Service;...
    • Patient Files
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 840 of 30 June 2026, the total number and percentage of legacy primary childhood immunisation records migrated to NIIS...
    • Home Help Service
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals currently on waiting lists for specialist dementia home care services in CHO3; the steps being taken to expand the local operational...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans her Department has to include PGT-M in publicly funded fertility care; and the timeline for the implementation. [64131/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health when the two community paramedics planned for location (details supplied), are expected to commence; and whether their commencement has been affected by...
    • Ambulance Service
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health whether she is aware of concerns regarding proposed daytime-only rostering for newly qualified community paramedics in the National Ambulance Service, and the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols in place at Cork University Hospital to ensure that a registered nurse with the required clinical competencies is available on each ward at all...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints relating to patient care, nursing standards and communication received in respect of Cork University Hospital in each of the years...
    • Health Services Staff
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical nurse manager posts assigned to each inpatient ward at Cork University Hospital; the number of those posts currently vacant or filled...
    • Departmental Communications
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has received complaints from midwives, nurses or lactation consultants regarding the inclusion of a speaker (details supplied); the number...
    • Health Service Executive
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the extent to which gender mainstreaming is being applied within maternal, perinatal and infant feeding policy; if she will provide...
    • Departmental Funding
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health the oversight mechanisms in place to ensure that organisations receiving HSE funding do not promote or endorse practices that may present safeguarding risks...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1011 of 6 May 2026, whether any audit or review since 2020 has examined the correctness or consistency of individual...
    • Hospital Staff
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric medical oncologists posts filled at CHI Crumlin as of 14 August 2026, in tabular form. [64252/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting ophthalmology appointments, diagnostics and treatment for glaucoma and other non-cataract eye conditions in HSE Dublin and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the criteria for the long-term Illness scheme to consider the inclusion of serious lifelong cardiac conditions, particularly in cases where...
    • Patient Safety
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of serious concerns raised by a patient regarding standards of care, patient dignity, privacy and infection prevention practices in the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains records of consultants working outside their registered speciality; the number of such consultants currently employed in each acute...
    • Patient Safety
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of complaints regarding care standards, patient dignity and infection control practices at Mayo University Hospital following surgery on 13...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health the services the HSE and her Department have in assisting a person who has been living in an area for five years and is struggling to secure a GP place; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health the number of newly qualified nurses who applied for nursing positions in Mayo University Hospital in each of the past five years who were interviewed and...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 766 of 14 July 2026, to identify who holds national accountability for detecting and reducing unnecessary or duplicate...
    • Health Services
      1154. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 745 of 14 July 2026, to confirm directly whether any such review, audit or costing has ever been carried out (details...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health the number of student nurses who graduated from nursing programmes in County Mayo in each of the past five years; and the number who subsequently obtained...
    • Hospital Staff
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE permits multi-task attendants (grade 6015) to undertake the duties of theatre operatives (grade 6013) within acute hospitals; if such arrangements...
    • Health Services Staff
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has received reports, complaints, industrial relation concerns or patient safety concerns regarding multi task attendants covering theatre...
    • Medicinal Products
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider making the testing of lipoprotein available to general practitioners given this will help to identify individuals who are at high risk...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health whether consideration was given to allocating the social deprivation practice support grant at practice level rather than individual GP level, given that the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of perinatal psychiatrists per WTE, by location in September 2026, 2025 and 2024. [64470/26]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP practices that received the Social Deprivation Practice Support Grant under the previous application-based system but were deemed ineligible...
    • Hospital Services
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels in the surgical day ward at Mayo University Hospital compared with approved levels; the number of complaints received in 2026...
    • Health Services Staff
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialist perinatal mental health services clinical staff, by WTE and location, in each of the years 2024, 2025, and to date in 2026. [64471/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of vacancies across community mental health teams, by discipline and HSE health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Services
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a doctors practice in Tipperary did not qualify for the social deprivation practice support grant for 2025-2027 despite serving an area identified...
    • Medicinal Products
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends to add amivantamab, which has been approved by the European Medicines Agency, to the list of reimbursable medicines (details supplied); and...
    • Health Service Executive
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for reimbursement of rare disease and orphan medicines considered by the HSE in each of the years 2022 to 2026 to date; and the...
    • Health Strategies
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health whether a specific strategy is being developed to improve access to rare disease and orphan medicines; and the measures under consideration. [64551/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time between European Medicines Agency approval and reimbursement approval in Ireland for rare disease and orphan medicines; and the way...
    • Health Strategies
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department intends to review the current medicines reimbursement process following concerns raised during the consideration of skyclarys for patients...
    • Health Services Staff
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health if she will allow community paramedics to work appropriate NAS shift patterns that reflect local patient demand, service need and existing terms and...
    • Organ Retention
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health the current policy framework within the HSE regarding the practice of retaining organs following the conduct of a post-mortem examination (details supplied);...
    • Health Services Staff
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of staff vacancies in Thurles CMHT; the length of time each of the vacancies have been in existence; and the status of recruitment efforts for...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [64537/26]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the stem cell tissue establishment and aseptic compounding unit in Cork University Hospital. [64538/26]
    • Medicinal Products
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the reimbursement of a medication (details supplied) for persons suffering with eosinophilic oesophagitis. [64578/26]
    • Medical Cards
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if the decision will be urgently reviewed; if a medical card will be granted as a matter of...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to raise the level of psychotherapy standards and criteria; the level with which she and her Department have engaged with the sector...
    • Hospital Services
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the urgent issues regarding the neonatal services at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar; the steps needed to expand the paediatrics...
    • Health Services
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently examine and allow for financial assistance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64641/26]
    • Nursing Homes
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards in place to prevent elderly patients with significant care needs from being discharged from short-term nursing home placements before a...
    • Dental Services
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to locate a new dental school in Donegal; and if she has considered the benefits of locating a dental school in the north-west. [64604/26]
    • Medical Research and Training
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health the research conducted by the Health Research Board on chronic migraine in Ireland; the plans she has to support additional research on this topic; and if she...
    • Departmental Data
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinicians, by health region; the protocol that enables them to prescribe approved medicines (details supplied); the number of clinicians who...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to deliver the new Sláintecare clinical pathway for headache in each of the six HSE health areas since the announcement by...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient (details supplied) will be approved for continuous glucose monitoring with a dexcom device. [64648/26]
    • Health Services
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE and each CHO region on leasing and renting properties in each county in the state in each of the past five years; and to provide a...
    • Data Protection
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health whether the payment of the €645,000 Data Protection Commission fine will impact any health service budget, staffing allocation or capital project....
    • Health Service Executive
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health whether a national audit has been carried out of HSE facilities used to store patient records; and whether any deficiencies have been identified. [64673/26]
    • Health Services
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be reimbursed under the Cross Border Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64707/26]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health If she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the spinal cord stimulator procedure scheduled at St Vincent's...
    • Health Services
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health to address a case (details supplied) and provide a full detailed care plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64715/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2902 of 14 April 2026, whether the HSE currently holds a comparable measure of agency savings across all HSE regions;...
    • Ambulance Service
      1230. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions 57689/26 and 57690/26, given that there is no entry on the National Incident Management System relating to the ambulance...
    • Home Care Packages
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the home care package; and the reason the hours awarded have not...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health further to PQ 42510/26, whether any official within her Department, as distinct from the HSE, holds responsibility for determining whether procedures funded...
    • Health Services Staff
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that funding has been set aside both in respect of the capital cost, commissioning and recruitment of the required number of staff in order to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health the name, grade and unit of the official within her Department, and separately within the HSE, who holds responsibility for clinical, as distinct from...
    • EU Directives
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health Ireland's position in EU negotiations on the proposed introduction of maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements and whether...
    • Medicinal Products
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll out of Skyclarys (omaveloxolone) for patients with Friedreich's ataxia; the reason for delays following re-imbursement approval; when...
    • Dental Services
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fillings that took place under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [64803/26]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 691 of 28 May and 723 of 14 July 2026, to specify the stakeholder and advocacy group representatives who fed into the...
    • Dental Services
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of approved treatments that took place under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026....
    • Ambulance Service
      1254. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a case (details supplied); if there is a comprehensive explanation for the significant delay in emergency service availability to the child...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1257. To ask the Minister for Health the details of any contracts in place between her Department and agencies under her remit with a company (details supplied) known to have provided material...
    • Medical Cards
      1263. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the company which has the contract for printing medical cards has been unable to do so for over a month; the reason medical card holders are being...
    • Health Services Staff
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on staffing numbers in the primary care centre in Cherry Orchard; the number of vacancies per post; the waiting times for child psychology,...
    • Health Services
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialised coronary care beds provided in UHG, CUH, UHL, the Mater, St. James's and St. Vincent's hospitals that have real-time telemetry...
    • Health Services Staff
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July or [56368/26], the total number of nursing and midwifery staff recruited internationally by HSE services...
    • Ambulance Service
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health when personnel in the National Ambulance Service, including paramedics, will receive the agreed pay increase and back pay that is due. [64879/26]
    • Hospice Services
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health If she will provide an update on the construction and refurbishment works at St. Christopher's Hospice, Cavan; and if she will confirm the expected completion...
    • Health Services Staff
      1270. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3446 of 28 July 2026, the specific measures in place to ensure that the domestic supply of nurses and midwives is...
    • Departmental Funding
      1271. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 28 July 2026, the assessment her Department has made of the impact of this reduction on nursing and midwifery...
    • Health Services Staff
      1273. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, of the consultants recorded as being on POCC23 terms, the number who are new appointees; and the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1275. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to ensure that the reduction of income to public maternity hospitals as a result of the ending of private maternity care will be offset and not...
    • Medicinal Products
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she will take to support women seeking alternative menopause treatments due to them being unable to take HRT for medical reasons, specifically in...
    • Departmental Data
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 43613/26 of 12 August 2026, the number of patients recorded on trolleys in each year from 2019 to 2025 and to date 2026;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2320 of 9 June 2026, if any formal evaluation of the effectiveness of the public-only consultant contract has been...
    • Disease Management
      1280. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on a national care pathway to help those diagnosed with Huntington’s disease; the additional resources and staffing that will be made...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1283. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the long-awaited GP service at the new Adamstown Primary Care Centre; given HSE assurances advised a GP service would operate from...
    • Home Care Packages
      1284. To ask the Minister for Health the average hourly pay of home support workers providing State-funded home care services; the proportion of the total hourly cost accounted for by wages....
    • Disease Management
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will introduce a funding pathway for Huntington's disease care. [64966/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on work of the National Ambulance Service NRS panel; the number of potential employees that are on the panel; the number that have been...
    • Dental Services
      1293. 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...
    • Ambulance Service
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the NAS train 240 paramedics per year; the number which are employed by the NAS; and the number which are not. the reasons for that. [65000/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1298. To ask the Minister for Health when HSE estates will carry out the requisite preparatory work to allow the new ambulance base at Buncrana, County Donegal to proceed; and to provide a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1299. To ask the Minister for Health in regard to online prescriptions of weight loss medication, what happens when a patient deliberately provides inaccurate information or photographs of their...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1301. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the rules surrounding provision of medical supports (details supplied) to those in need and their provision by the HSE to non-medical card...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for BreastCheck screening appointments, assessment clinics and diagnostic follow-up appointments, by county; if she has identified regional...
    • Health Services Staff
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health the reason new HSE staff are not entitled to increments from previous HSE experience (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65070/26]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1308. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved and filled posts within BreastCheck for consultant radiologists, radiographers, advanced nurse practitioners and support staff,...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1311. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for primary care psychology care in each primary care centre in the country, in tabular form. [65086/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare assistants rostered on night duty in the emergency department of Mayo University Hospital on each night over the past 12 months;...
    • Hospital Services
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols in place at Mayo University Hospital regarding the transfer of admitted patients from the emergency department to inpatient wards during...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1317. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the expected waiting time for a person has increased (details supplied); their position on the waiting list; the current realistic timeframe for...
    • Health Services Staff
      1318. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists posts filled at St Francis Primary Care Centre, Galway as of 7 September 2026; if she will provide the same figures...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1320. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to Portiuncula University Hospital through the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2024 and 2025; the amount allocated for...
    • Health Services Staff
      1321. To ask the Minister for Health if the position of a paediatric physiotherapist in Dungarvan primary care centre is vacant; if so, when this vacancy will be filled given west Waterford is...
    • Medical Cards
      1322. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE, when considering an application for a medical card on discretionary grounds, can take into account the exceptional and lifelong medical...
    • Health Services
      1323. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the healthcare available to a person (details supplied); and if they are entitled to the same level of healthcare as any other Irish...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme of the PMC process that has been approved and refused in each of the past...
    • Cancer Services
      1326. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which continuity of strategic direction in cancer care will be maintained during the period between the expiry of the National Cancer Strategy...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the replacement of the 14 Linear accelerators, six CT scanners and two MRI units within the St. Luke’s radiation oncology network;...
    • Hospital Staff
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the significant level of vacant posts across the St. Luke’s radiation oncology network; and the way in which she proposes to...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1332. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for childrens dietitian appointments within community care services in Louth Meath IHA. [65290/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior medical scientists in haematology posts filled at Galway University Hospital as of 7 September 2026, in tabular form. [65328/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health if any helicopter emergency medical service operated by or on behalf of the National Ambulance Service is currently capable of operating at night; if the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for adult audiology appointments within community care services in Louth-Meath IHA. [65275/26]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP practices and practising GPs currently serving Celbridge and the wider north Kildare area; whether an assessment has been undertaken of GP...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for children's physiotherapy appointments within community care services in the Louth-Meath IHA. [65282/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in public health nurses being released from posts when a transfer has been accepted to another county. [65278/26]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults currently waiting for initial dietitian services appointments in Louth-Meath IHA; and the number who have been waiting between zero and...
    • Civil Registration Service
      1352. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that the civil registration office in Tullamore, County Offaly, has advised a person seeking to register a marriage solemnised in a foreign...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults currently waiting for an initial chiropody or podiatry assessment in Louth-Meath IHA; the number who have been waiting between zero and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [65267/26]
    • Mental Health Services
      1360. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the recruitment of a specialist mental health nursing team for Beaumont Hospital; and the timeline for commencement. [65336/26]
    • Health Service Executive
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health if a commercial relationship exists between a company (details supplied) and the HSE; and if so, the extent of that relationship and the cost to the HSE....
    • Ambulance Service
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health when the next intake for the National Ambulance Service student paramedic apprenticeship (NRS14980) will commence, and when prospective students will be...
    • Departmental Data
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health if she will supply the bed occupancy figures of ICU beds, adult inpatient beds, paediatric inpatient beds in model 4 hospitals for Q1 and Q2; the number of...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have been removed from a GP patient list in each of the past five years, by county; the measures in place to support patients who...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1368. To ask the Minister for Health the specific actions and timelines in place to increase capacity and reduce orthopaedic and pain medicine outpatient waiting times at South Infirmary Victoria...
    • Hospital Services
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health further to public assurances given by the HSE in December 2024, and in July 2025, that unit 1 at St. Stephen's Hospital, Sarsfield's Court, Glanmire, would...
    • Health Services
      1371. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm, for each current resident of unit 1, that a suitable dementia-specific placement will be offered within their own community in Cork city; the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health to publish in full the recent HIQA inspection report into unit 1 at St. Stephen's Hospital; the recent Mental Health Commission inspection findings in respect...
    • Health Services
      1373. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on community podiatry services in Cork city and county in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, including any expenditure on outsourcing or...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1376. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for community podiatry and chiropody services in the HSE south-west health region, covering Cork city and county; the number of...
    • Health Services Staff
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of podiatrists, expressed in whole-time equivalents, currently employed in community services in Cork city and county; the number of funded posts;...
    • Hospital Staff
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmic surgeons posts filled at University Hospital Waterford as of 9 September 2026; and if she will provide the same...
    • Hospital Services
      1380. To ask the Minister for Health if she is will to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); if she is aware that the patient was advised by that on 8 September 2026 that...
    • Health Services Staff
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health to resolve issues and long delays with PHN transfers between different regional HSE areas (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Properties
      1382. To ask the Minister for Health in cases in which a building under her control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; her plans to remedy this; and the timeline for measures to...
    • Departmental Data
      1383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents accommodated and the number of admissions in each year from 2019 to date in 2026, in respect of unit 1 at St. Stephen's Hospital,...
    • Nursing Homes
      1385. To ask the Minister for Health to address the serious delays in processing power of attorney cases which are needed to access the nursing home loan schemes in some cases (details...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1388. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE remains on schedule to recommence the South Tipperary Memory Clinic in October 2026, as advised in response to PQs 45675/26–45684/26;...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of patients awaiting an initial assessment and a follow-up appointment at the South Tipperary Memory Clinic; the corresponding figures at 8...
    • Departmental Data
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to the South Tipperary Memory Clinic that have been returned to GPs since the service was paused to referrals on 1 January 2026; the...
    • Health Services
      1391. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to concerns raised by the South Tipperary Faculty of the Irish College of General Practitioners regarding the continuing...
    • Building Regulations
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health the wheelchair accessibility of all buildings under her control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65319/26]
    • Ambulance Service
      1396. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider a fulsome review of the AMPDS coding and priority assigned by the National Ambulance Service to calls involving falls in elderly and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE registrar in stroke service posts filled at Beaumont Hospital as of 8 September 2026, in tabular form. [65572/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapists posts filled within adult community rehabilitation services in CHO9 as of 8 September 2026, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Staff
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of roles vacated at Bloomfield Hospital since 1 December 2025, by discipline and grade; and the number of those roles that have since been filled....
    • Health Services
      1407. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify if the processing of samples from sites which hold a HSE contract (details supplied) is permitted in public laboratories. [65525/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a matter regarding job vacancies in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65534/26]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will provide funding to enable free access to ICS-formoterol combination inhalers when prescribed as maintenance and reliever therapy...
    • Health Services
      1416. To ask the Minister for Health where the HSE or a public hospital contracts for cleaning services; the person or body that verifies the contractor’s compliance with the employment...
    • Dental Services
      1418. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the importance of establishing good dental habits early on life; if her Department has examined the possibility of providing free dental...
    • Health Services
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards that are in place to ensure there is consistency of referral decisions for the health referral scheme. [65649/26]
    • Abortion Services
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has tested the way in which major AI chatbots respond to Ireland-specific questions about unintended pregnancy and abortion;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health the relocation financial assistance available to EU and non-EU candidates recruited to physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy,...
    • Health Services
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to ensure that diabetic retinopathy screening appointments under the RetinaScreen programme are scheduled in a timely manner; and if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1431. To ask the Minister for Health if GP's are permitted to limit patient appointments to 12 minutes (details supplied). [65718/26]
    • Home Help Service
      1432. To ask the Minister for Health to provide additional home help supports (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65741/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE or a public hospital contracts for cleaning services, who verifies the contractor’s compliance with the employment regulation order; if a...
    • Disability Issues
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether the existing grant supports for persons with mobility issues to make private homes accessible are fair, specifically in terms of the...
    • Health Services
      1437. To ask the Minister for Health If her attention has be drawn to a case (details supplied); if she will clarify whether Roscommon Injury Unit is currently equipped and authorised to assess...
    • Health Services Staff
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dietitians currently on HSE recruitment panel within CHO5; and when does this panel expire. [65747/26]
    • Hospital Staff
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE specialist registrar in dermatology posts filled at Cork University Hospital. [65746/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded vacant posts in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics and psychology at the latest available date;...
    • Medicinal Products
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients estimated to be eligible for treatment with skyclarys (omaveloxolone); if additional clinical appointments or resources are being...
    • Health Services Staff
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health if agency workers who take up employment with the HSE do not have their experience as agency workers taken into consideration and effectively start again on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria needed for a referral for a breast clinic appointment to be classed as urgent at University Hospital Waterford; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the formal pathway for a child in County Roscommon who suffers an acute eye injury (details supplied). [65766/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has assessed whether the annual number of graduates from Irish physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and dietetics...
    • Dental Services
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental surgeons and senior dental surgeons posts filled at Dundalk Orthodontist Unit as of 7 September 2026, in tabular form. [65519/26]
    • Hospital Services
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on an MRI in the Mater Hospital Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65780/26]
    • Health Services Staff
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE environmental health officers, senior environmental health officers and principal environmental health officers employed by HSE as of 7...
    • Health Services
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE supports that are available to people with Addisons disease; and if additional supports will be considered in the future. [65917/26]
    • Primary Care Services
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the list of all services and the frequency of each, available at the Kilrush primary care centre as of August 2026; and the list of all services available in...
    • Hospital Services
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health if the design brief for the new surgical hub building at Letterkenny University Hospital incorporates inpatient wards on the upper floors of the building and...
    • Health Services
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health if persons whose disability directly affects their ability to meet the BMI threshold of 30 for publicly funded IVF may be assessed on an individual clinical...
    • Hospital Services
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health if, 13 months after she awarded a surgical hub to Letterkenny University Hospital, the HSE has identified the precise site on the hospital campus where the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and dietitians who left HSE employment in each year from 2019 to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1480. To ask the Minister for Health to review the correspondence (details supplied); the steps this person should next take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65744/26]
    • Health Services
      1481. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that support will be given to counselling and psychotherapy professionals in the industry and to persons who require the service; and if she will...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Student Accommodation
      1482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the current cost of student accommodation; and the steps his Department has taken to ensure the aforementioned cost does not...
    • Grant Payments
      1484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review income thresholds for SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter [64290/26]
    • Student Accommodation
      1485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of interest there has been from HEI's to build PBSA on their lands as per the new Student Accommodation Strategy. [64297/26]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department has assessed the future workforce skills that will be required to support increased adoption of artificial intelligence...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has undertaken an assessment of the financial sustainability of the higher education sector in light of indications from the Higher...
    • Departmental Funding
      1492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if supplementary funding will be provided in 2026 to address recognised legacy shortfalls in funding for public sector pay awards in the higher...
    • Research and Development
      1494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the research conducted by Research Ireland on chronic migraine in Ireland; his plans to support additional research on this topic; and if he...
    • Departmental Policies
      1496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards in place to ensure that healthcare practices presented to students and healthcare professionals in higher education institutions...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SOLAS was allowed to give exam papers to apprentices on modules that were not covered (details supplied). [64786/26]
    • Departmental Contracts
      1500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known to have...
    • Education Schemes
      1501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and percentages of HEAR-DARE scheme applicants from fee-paying schools compared to those from DEIS schools, and other non-fee-paying...
    • Education Policy
      1504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of concerns regarding the removal or alteration of progression pathways from the BA home economics programme at St. Angela's...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the veterinary medicine course offered in Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences is equivalent in terms of qualification...
    • Disability Issues
      1507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and the timeline for...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether education and training boards, micro-credential programmes, lifelong learning initiatives or other further education and training...
    • Departmental Funding
      1510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken by his Department to address the funding shortfall facing higher education institutions; the impact this shortfall is...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the suspension of the Diploma in Apiculture programme at the University of Galway; whether any engagement has...
    • Disability Issues
      1513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the wheelchair accessibility of all buildings under his control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65318/26]
    • Student Accommodation
      1514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assessment his Department has made of the potential for converting vacant and disused buildings into affordable student accommodation; and...
    • Grant Payments
      1515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused the SUSI grant. [65785/26]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new apprenticeships to be offered in County Clare; and the timeframe to have them up and running. [65783/26]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Coillte Teoranta
      1518. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocated to Coillte for the maintenance, upkeep and improvement of Derroura cycle trail, Connemara since 2020; if...
    • Rural Schemes
      1519. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application (details supplied) will be reviewed and an update provided. [64703/26]
    • Business Supports
      1520. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any financial support has been provided to businesses whose primary activity is the retail of vaping products, e-cigarettes or...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      1521. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his Department’s policy regarding the national Gaeltacht gallery; the funding awarded to the national Gaeltacht gallery in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1522. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known...
    • Departmental Staff
      1523. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of full-time IT specialists at the grade of higher executive officer based within his Department as of 7 September...
    • Disability Issues
      1524. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in cases in which a building under his control is not wheelchair accessible, the reason for this; his plans to remedy this; and...
    • Community Development Projects
      1525. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is any avenue available for community groups who had broadband supplied through the WIFI4EU programme to have the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1527. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total funding provided through the Community Services Programme in Dublin 5, 13 and 17 areas in each of the years 2024, 2025...
    • Community Development Projects
      1528. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total funding provided to date under the New Communities Funding for Volunteer Centres broken down by year and county. [65776/26]

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