468. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there are plans to roll out the community centre investment scheme again this year; if so, when will applications open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10285/25]
132. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of members of the Garda National Technical Bureau who are currently certified in the area of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives (CBRNE). [10080/25]
722. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health to provide a full and total breakdown of all costs, including recruiting, advice and consultancy costs, by the HSE to the following (details supplied), broken down by regional health authority and by the HSE nationally for the years 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9552/25]
721. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health to provide a full and total breakdown of all costs, including recruiting, hiring, and paying for agency staff across the HSE, including the acute sector, for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9551/25]
720. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health to provide the total number of agency workers in operation across the HSE, including the acute sector as of 26 February 2025, broken down by grade, category and location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9550/25]
719. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health to provide the total number of staff vacancies within the HSE, including the acute sector on 1 July 2024, and 1 February 2025, broken down by grade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9549/25]
718. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of open beds in each HSE and voluntary hospital on 26 February in each of the years from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9548/25]
717. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of beds the HSE has acquired from private nursing homes from 1 January to 1 December 2024 and the cost associated with same, broken down by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9547/25]
716. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the cost of acquiring services from private hospitals and other private health care providers by regional health authorities from 1 September 2024 to 10 February 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9546/25]
539. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of Parliamentary Questions his Department has not answered fully and have had to change the reply to, subsequently, since the new Government was formed; and if he will publish same. [9779/25]
532. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the date his Department was made aware that the last intake of trainee Gardaí to Templemore in 2024 were not going to be vetted before they entered training. [9616/25]
504. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the total costs of training a Garda until attestation, in the Garda Training College, Templemore. [9185/25]
487. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the additional resources as of 1 January 2025 that will be added to the staffing compliment of his Department and or related agencies in order to deal with the predicted increase in deportations from the State. [9017/25]
486. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of deportations from the State in each of the years 2021 2022, 2023, 2024; and the country they were deported to, by year and country, in tabular form. [9016/25]
485. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if any report or investigation into knife crime has been commissioned or supplied to his Department; and if so, by whom; and on what date. [9015/25]
484. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the figures for knife crime convictions for each of the years 2017 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [9014/25]
262. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a breakdown of the pass/fail rate for driving tests, by test centre and by month, for the years 2022 to 2024, in tabular form. [9384/25]
327. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he or his Department were informed by the Garda Commissioner in July 2021 that the Garda National Technical Bureau unearthed that approximately 17,000 live scan fingerprint records were irretrievably lost from the Garda automated fingerprint identification system subsequent to such fingerprint records going into suspended status due to system failures and that this significant data loss was solely discovered/identified as a result of revised processes introduced in the National Forensic Coordination Office in December 2019. [8679/25]
326. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 555, 556, 557 and 583 of 18 February 2025, if he can provide additional clarification in respect of his comment that "As that correspondence is subject to an investigation, I am not in a position to comment in detail"; if he can clarify the precise nature of the investigation and whether the matter of defective leather pistol holsters (details supplied) is the subject of criminal proceedings that would render the information as sub judice. [8675/25]
883. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that currently access the omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSE’s exceptional hardship scheme, or have done so since 2018. [7470/25]
882. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals that have been reimbursed for their insulin pump training, and or its consumables through the EU treatment abroad scheme or the cross-Border healthcare scheme since 2019. [7469/25]
853. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health for an update on the temporary stepdown 50 bed rehab unit in Nenagh being operated by a company (details supplied); the weekly occupancy rates; the details of any changes made to the operating contract since commencement; when the contract expires; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7258/25]
794. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she plans to put in place any new family resource centres in the country; if so, the locations that are being considered; when the application process will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7896/25]
250. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport how much the proposed inner relief road in Thurles will cost to construct, and if construction will commence in the next two years. [7299/25]
172. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if when he was Tánaiste between 29 November 2024 and 22 January 2024, any agreements or lists have been made or exchanged with independent TDs who now support the Government to include projects in their constituencies in the future National Development plan and or the HSE Capital plan; and if so, if there any documents, notes and messages of any kind that relate to this between him and his advisers, staff, party workers and any of those TDs. [6916/25]
287. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if his Department is aware of and if it has concerns regarding covert listening devices being present in public places nationwide and the legality of same. [6917/25]
53. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport the amount of funding given to all local authorities for regional and local roads in 2024 and 2025; and the percentage increase or decrease as a result, in tabular form. [6731/25]
869. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of FETAC therapy assistant grade programmes offered in 2024; the number of FETAC therapy assistant grade programmes filled by students in 2024; and the number of FETAC assistant grade graduates in 2024, in tabular form. [6292/25]
834. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health to provide funding to Nenagh’s Men’s Shed to source a location and building for their work. [6355/25]
818. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to recruit one WTE staff grade optician and one senior grade optician to work within the public health service. [6283/25]
817. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of test purchase inspections on the sale of tobacco and vaping products carried out, in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [6282/25]
816. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the chiropody services available in the public health service, including to those with a medical card. [6281/25]
814. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant vascular surgeons based in Cork University Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [6279/25]
793. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health whether the new 96 bed block being built in University Hospital Limerick will be opened as promised in July 2025. [6052/25]
615. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans for an Agriculture Attaché to be posted at the Irish embassy in Canberra. [6287/25]
583. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if his office was made aware of hundreds of non-official, non-Garda firearms being discarded by An Garda Síochána’s firearms stores section in a poorly secured steel container within the confines of Garda Headquarters prior to the Garda firearms stores section being transferred under the management of the Garda National Technical Bureau in September 2019. [6350/25]
581. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the amount An Garda Síochána spent on hiring external quantity surveyors to carry out work on its behalf in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [6273/25]
580. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the Garda divisions that currently have a Garda community relations van, in tabular form. [6272/25]
579. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of inspections carried out by Gardaí within the Tipperary division on pubs, clubs, and so on, to ensure full compliance with intoxicating liquor laws in 2024; and the number of those premises found to be in breach of intoxicating liquor laws in 2024, in tabular form. [6271/25]
578. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the estimated full-year costs if the number of horses within Garda mounted unit increased to 31. [6270/25]
577. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the transport budget allocation to An Garda Síochána in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [6269/25]
576. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the ages of the boats currently being used by Garda water unit; and the average lifespan of those boats in use, in tabular form. [6267/25]
558. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the total number of DNA non-submissions, broken down by sample type, that is, intelligence, evidential or intimate samples, that occurred subsequent to the commencement of the 2019 DNA Inquiry that is, from 3 April 2019 to date; and the full extent of the impact of each such non-submission in regard to the investigation of crime and the infringement of the data protection and human rights of the donor and of the victim. [6048/25]
557. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he was informed by the Garda Commissioner, in line with the commissioners statutory obligations under section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 that the firearm component parts contained in Importation licence J 11 2018 related to the service and repair of privately owned firearms belonging to a hunt and pony club rather than official Garda firearms. [6046/25]
556. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if his Department approved the purchase and importation of firearm component parts into the State as contained in Importation licence J 11 2018. [6045/25]
555. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he or his Department were aware of the servicing and repair of privately owned firearms being undertaken by Garda armourer personnel attached to the Garda firearms stores section in 2018, where such firearms were belonging to a hunt and pony club based in the Kildare area and where the cost of such servicing and repair was defrayed by public funds. [6044/25]