1. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht an nglacann sé leis an gcáineadh ar chur chuige na Roinne sa rún a d’aontaigh an Dáil maidir le cúrsaí tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht ag tús mhí an Mhárta, agus an bhfuil sé i gceist aige gníomhú dá réir; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [22301/26]
472. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail, agus Gaeltachta cén tacaíocht ón Ciste Oileán Roinnte atá tar éis bheith dáilithe aige ar fiontair Gaeilge aige, de réir méid agus céadatán den iomlán sa bhuiséad sa Choiste chuile bliain ó bhunaigh sé é maidir leis and Ghaeilge. [23930/26]
419. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether the National Dementia Strategy will be updated; the status of the National Dementia Strategy in relation to the Model of Care for Dementia; whether a full-term review is intended to be published following the 2018 Mid-Term Review; whether the National Dementia Strategy Monitoring Group are presently active; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22916/26]
391. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he took into account the Governor of the Central Bank's oral testimony (June 2025) to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach (FINPERT) where he claimed that the Genocide Convention applied to "the State" but not to the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) and that that Committee unanimously and explicitly disagreed with him in its "Report on the Israeli Bond Programme" stating that as an organ of the State, the CBI is bound by international law and the Genocide Convention. [22166/26]
390. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether he has issued a directive to the Central Bank and its reappointed governor that its policies and pronouncements are aligned with the State’s stated recognition of genocide and its subsequent obligations under the Genocide Convention. [22164/26]
389. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his evaluation ahead of the reappointment of the Governor of the Central Bank, included the Governor's testimony to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach (FINPERT) in October 2025 regarding the transfer of the Israeli bond prospectus to the Luxemburg Regulator, where he stated a "final determination of genocide has not yet been made" in direct contradiction to the Government's statements prior to that "what Israel is doing is genocide." [22163/26]
177. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence whether her Department has been misled for at least 22 years in relation to the health and safety regime in the Air Corps' Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell, County Dublin (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21302/26]
176. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 26 February 2026, whether she was including the former members of the Air Corps when she indicated in her reply that there would be “additional stakeholder engagement, in relation to the report she is expecting this month into mortality rates of serving or former members of the Air Corps, including those members or former members, their representative bodies or the Air Corps Chemical Abuse Survivors group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21291/26]
174. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if the State Claims Agency Risk Management Liaison group discussed the annual audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures when they were produced; the outcomes of each audit; and the make up of the SCA/Defence Forces Liaison Group in the years since 2006. [21293/26]
173. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if the State Claims Agency Risk Management section on behalf of the Management Liaison Group carried out annual audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures and so on during the period 2006-2016; if it still carries out such audits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21292/26]
2221. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the reason access to Friedreich's Ataxia is not available on the medical card or licenced for the drug reimbursement scheme for patients in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20816/26]
1571. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that a number of Government Departments are withholding archives from the National Centre for Research and Remembrance for survivors of mother and baby homes; the steps her Department and the Mother and Baby Homes section within her Department has taken to ensure all records are made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19742/26]
795. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige an ndearnadh aon mheasúnacht ar an tionchar ar thorthaí mac léinn Ardteistiméireachta le 20 bliain ó 2006 ón gcinneadh gan marcanna bónais a bhronnadh ar an gcuid sin den Ardteistiméireacht ar obair thionscnaimh éigeantachta scríofa í [19488/26]
794. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige cén bunús atá leis an gcinneadh a ghlac an Coimisiún um Scrúduithe Stáit in 2006 gan cloí le Riail 29 de na Rules and Programmes for Secondary Schools maidir le marcanna bónais a bhronnadh ar an gcuid sin den Ardteistiméireacht ar obair thionscnaimh éigeantachta scríofa í [19487/26]
793. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige cén dáta go sonrach a ghlac an tAire Oideachais agus Óige le cinneadh an Choimisiúin um Scrúduithe Stáit neamhaird a dhéanamh ar an bpolasaí, mar atá leagtha síos i Riail 29 de na Rules and Programmes for Secondary Schools a sheoltar chuile bhliain chuig gach iar-bhunscoil, marcanna bónais san Ardteistiméireacht a bhronnadh as freagairt go hiomlán trí Ghaeilge ar obair scrúduithe scríofa iarrthóirí ina hiomláine in 18 n-ábhar, ag ráta 10% den mharc aimsithe ag iarrthóir [19486/26]
792. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department officials of the State Examination Commission received correspondence regularly from 2008 on the matter of the failure to apply answering through Irish bonus marks to compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects in each year since 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19484/26]
791. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to confirm with regard to each of the following Leaving Certificate subjects (History; Geography; Economics; PE; Agricultural Science; Religion; Politics and Society; Computer Science; Religious Education), that answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme was applied by the State Examinations Commission on the entirety of each students written work submitted each and every year from the 1960s to 2005 inclusive, and it is intended that the State Examinations Commission will reinstate that position of awarding bonus marks on the entirety of each student’s assessed work, from this year’s 2026 student cohort; and if she will for each subject, detail the year a compulsory project or research component was introduced for Leaving Certification assessment, the weighted value of that project. [19483/26]
790. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will publish all documents relating to when decisions annually were taken, by whom and the educational basis of those decisions to exclude compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19482/26]
789. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the ‘decision’ to exclude compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006 was not communicated to Irish-medium schools, their students or other students sitting their Leaving Certificate exams through Irish but in English medium schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19481/26]
788. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the decision to exclude compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006 is contrary to the stated Mícheál Martin as Minister for Education’s position in 1999, which itself was a reiteration of Government policy from 1960s to that time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19480/26]
787. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the person or body that took the decision and the reason for excluding compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19479/26]
608. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth in noting that land has been identified for education facilities in Park West Dublin 10, if she will consider a purpose built school for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs as part of the Park West-Cherry Orchard Local Area Plan. [18252/26]
607. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will ensure there are enough places with appropriate supports in existing primary and secondary schools in Dublin 10 for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18251/26]
180. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence the statutory basis, if any, under which troops may be deployed as aid to the civil power following the expiry of the Emergency Powers Act 1976 in 1995; who and in what circumstances may such deployment be authorised; and to provide details on any instances since 1995 where this has been authorised and implemented. [20565/26]
537. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether, under the proposed regional structures in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029, all public funding for community-based drug services, including Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces, will be pooled at HSE Health region level; the safeguards which will be put in place to prevent dilution of funding to areas of high deprivation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17951/26]
536. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the specific measures which will be put in place to protect the independent, community-led role of Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces under the proposed regional governance arrangements in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17950/26]
535. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the way in which funding will be allocated within the proposed regional structures under the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029; whether deprivation, social exclusion and patterns of entrenched drug-related harm will be formally weighted alongside population in determining resource allocation; and if she will publish the criteria to be used by HSE health regions in making funding decisions. [17949/26]
534. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health further to the publication of the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029, the proposed governance, funding flows and accountability arrangements for the regional structures within the HSE health regions; whether Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces will retain independent governance and decision-making authority over locally delivered programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17948/26]
381. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport following the EU ban on the sale of rubber crumb infill in artificial grass pitches from 2032, to confirm if all projects involving artificial grass pitches being grant-aided by the State, through a Sports Capital Grant or directly by his Department or another department, will be conditional on another safer infill product being used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18127/26]
375. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of letters of eligibility have been issued by the NCSE for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs, from four to 18 years-of-age, in D10; the number of children with autism and mild to moderate special needs, four to 18 years-of-age, from D10 waiting for appropriate school places; the number of children have ended up in schools outside D10; and the number of children have ended up in mainstream classes in D10 and outside D10. [18225/26]
360. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth in noting that land has been identified for education facilities in Park West Dublin 10, if she will consider a purpose built school for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs as part of the Park West-Cherry Orchard Local Area Plan. [18117/26]
359. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to ensure there are enough places with appropriate supports in existing primary and secondary schools in D10 for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18116/26]
358. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of letters of eligibility which have been issued by the NCSE for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs, aged four to 18 years-of-age, in Dublin 10; the number of children with autism and mild to moderate special needs, aged 4 to 18 years-of-age, from D10 waiting for appropriate school places; the number of children who have ended up in schools outside D10 and the number of children who have ended up in mainstream classes in D10 and outside D10. [18115/26]
329. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 20 May 2025, the reason for the delay in having officials from the Office of Public Works to contact the group of relatives of the Invincibles buried in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, as directed to by the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18057/26]
251. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage cen céimeanna atá glactha aige chun breis tithíocht bheith ar fáil san Ghaeltacht do muintir na Gaeltacht, idir tithe shoisialta, ar chíos nó ar díol agus an féidir leis trácht ar an gceist. [16464/26]
238. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage an bhfuil aon céimeanna ghlactha chun stádas Séadchomhartha Náisiúnta agus na cosantaí reachtúla a gheobann leis a bhronnadh d’iomlán an mogall de dhúin barr-cnoca ag Baile an Bhrioscmhálaigh atá lasmuigh de Bealach Coinglais i gContae Chill Mantáin a chreidtear gurb é seo cead baile na hÉireann le beagnach 600 teach tógtha ar an suíomh 2,000 bliain roimh bailte na Lochlannaigh a bhí luaite roimhe mar chéad bailte na tíre. [16465/26]
132. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Minister for Health an bhfuil aon phleananna aici árasáin a thógáil ar shuíomhanna atá ag FSS nó ag ospidéil i mBaile Átha Cliath 8, 10, agus 12 chun cuidiú le dochtúirí, altraí agus oibrithe eile a mhealladh chuig na hospidéil [16468/26]
37. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Minister for Health an bhfuil sé fós i gceist aici leanúint den chinneadh Ospidéal an Choim a athlonnú chuig suíomh Ospidéal San Séam in aice láimhe amach anseo, in ainneoin ráitis le déanaí go raibh athmhachnamh á dhéanamh ar an mbeartas iomlán maidir le hospidéal máithreachais a lonnú le chéile le hospidéal géarmhíochaine; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [16467/26]
232. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality which early education centres are receiving funding in the State; and the total number of children attending at that level; and how many of these centres are providing the service in full Irish and what number of children are involved and can the issue be discussed. [17748/26]
184. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta tithíocht cathain a ghlacadh an LDA seilbh ar na tailte faoi stiúir an Mol Digiteach i mBaile Átha Cliath 8 atá aitheanta aca ar mhaithe le títhíocht ach go bhfuil cáin zónáil tithíocht á dhíol ag an Mol ortha de thairbhe moill an LDA seilbh a ghlacadh ortha agus an féidir leis trácht ar an gceist [17795/26]
183. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta cén uair a bhéas an reachtaíocht foilsithe a dhéanas deileáil leis an lacuna maidir ballóid i leith athrú sráidainmeacha nó a leithéad a cothaíodh nuair a déanadh aisghairm ar forálacha san Acht Rialtas Áitiúil 1946; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [17715/26]
168. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta cathain a bheidh reachtaíocht ann a chuideoidh i gceart le comhairlí áitiúla deileáil lena dtionóntaithe atá ag gabháil d’iompar frithshóisialta agus, más gá, díshealbhú a dhéanamh orthu; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [17739/26]
167. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Cultúir, Cumarsáide agus Spóirt cén dul chun cinn agus cén maoiniú atá curtha ar leataobh i mbliana chun stáisiún raidió Gaeilge dírithe ar déagóirí a chuir ag craoladh go náisiúnta; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [17731/26]
166. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Cultúir, Cumarsáide agus Spóirt cathain agus cá háit a bhéas an comóradh Stáit in Éirinn agus go h-idirnáisiúnta ar An Gorta Mór i mbliana. [17730/26]
156. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth what her approach is to ensure that all school resources, textbooks, instructions for teachers, equipment and computer programmes and so on, are available in both official languages simultaneously; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17752/26]
155. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth what supports are available to newly established schools located in areas with socio-economic deficiencies and who have not been able to qualify for recognition as a Deis school due to the year of its opening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17751/26]
154. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to list the primary schools teaching through Irish, if each of these schools is peaking in numbers; and how many children currently in each. [17750/26]
153. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to list the fully Irish-medium secondary schools, if each of these colleges is at peak in numbers; and how many pupils are currently in each. [17749/26]