644. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if her Department will support a call from the board of directors of a day centre (details supplied) and have a meeting with the board and also the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73357/25]
557. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the structural and-or senior personnel changes he has made, or that have been made, in his Department since he became Minister. [73277/25]
387. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if a range of utilities were paid for by a former Garda Commissioner (details supplied) in respect of a property at Spa Road, Phoenix Park, which was provided to him for a seven-year contract period by the OPW, through An Garda Síochána, or if the cost of any such utilities were paid for by the OPW or the Exchequer. [73275/25]
189. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the circumstances in which each Government Department, State agency or semi-State agency can allow employees to stay on in employment beyond retirement age. [73127/25]
1163. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to introduce legislation establishing a permanent cohort of English as a second language teachers in order to better provide for the needs of adult immigrants lacking a fluency in English; and to ensure that such teachers are given a contract that allows for teaching to be done in the evening, as well as during the day and during the summer holidays (details supplied). [71534/25]
1162. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on the measures being introduced to improve pay and conditions for teachers of English as a second language to adult immigrants. [71531/25]
1161. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the courses in English as a second language currently available for EU and non-EU citizens resident in Ireland; the number of adults who have availed of such courses over the past five years before being granted right to remain; and the number of adults who have availed of such courses over the past five years before achieving Irish citizenship. [71528/25]
1046. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries carried out at Nenagh Hospital in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [72166/25]
1045. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE dentists and dental nurse staff, by grade, based at Tyone health centre, County Tipperary in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [72165/25]
1044. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmic surgeons based at Nenagh Hospital in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [72164/25]
849. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE clinical nurse specialist in intellectual disabilities within CHO3, in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [72174/25]
848. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the vacant rate for Children's Disability Network Teams in CHO3 as of 30 November 2025. [72173/25]
797. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department abolished the agricultural attache post in London, contrary to his Department’s management board July 2025 decision, and replace it with a more junior grade administrative officer; and the way in which this is this consistent with the UK’s importance as Ireland’s largest agricultural food export market and ongoing post-Brexit regulatory divergence. [71951/25]
737. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardai trained and currently deployed in specialist units for serious and organised crime, immigration, public order and cyber-crime within the Limerick division. [72169/25]
736. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the age profile of the Garda fleet within Laois-Offaly division, in tabular form. [72168/25]
735. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí trained and currently deployed in specialist units for serious and organised crime, immigration, public order and cyber-crime within Cork city division. [72167/25]
699. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to introduce a compulsory examination course on Irish culture and institutions for all immigrants seeking right to remain or citizenship; and to ensure a cohort of permanent teachers be established to deliver such a course either online or in person (details supplied). [71535/25]
698. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of adults in 2021 to 2025 which have received Irish citizenship without a competence in English. [71530/25]
697. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of adults in 2021 to 2025 which have received right to remain in Ireland without a competence in English. [71529/25]
696. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if she plans to introduce a compulsory course of English, to exclude a demand for fluency in English applicants for right to remain or citizenship people who are of retirement age or who have special learning difficulties. [71527/25]
695. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to introduce a compulsory English language course for all European Union adult citizens wishing to achieve Irish citizenship (details supplied). [71526/25]
694. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to introduce a compulsory English language course concluding with an oral and written examination for non-European Union adults as a provision for achieving right to remain status in Ireland, excluding those who can demonstrate an oral and written competency in the language. [71525/25]
484. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth If she will publish a list of schools in Tipperary awaiting major works approval. [72175/25]
409. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of WTE inspectors by grade working within the workplace relations commission in each of the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [72172/25]
388. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will detail each allocation made to Tipperary County Council under the OPW minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme for each of the years 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [72171/25]
387. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of Assistant Principal Officer applicants that are fluent in Irish currently on a panel arising from the most recent civil service recruitment campaign. [72170/25]
473. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his attention has been drawn to 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. [71009/25]
472. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of members of the Garda National Technical Bureau (GNTB) who are currently certified in the area of CBRNe; when such certification is due to expire; and the expiration dates of the CBRN suits/masks on issue to them. [71004/25]
471. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he or his Department are now finally aware that in July 2021 the Garda National Technical Bureau (GNTB), with the expert assistance of the Garda ICT Department, diligently unearthed a catastrophic loss of biometric data amounting to in excess of 17,000 livescan fingerprint records that had fallen into ‘suspended’ status during the period June 2009 to July 2021. [70998/25]
470. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason the provision of such a significant benefit as the provision of housing at the total expense of the taxpayer was not made known to any of the candidates on the shortlist for the role of Garda Commissioner in the course of the public competition held for the role in the Spring of 2018. [70992/25]
469. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the full details of all the payments made, for domestic utilities, waste collection, home maintenance, cleaning services, security and gardening services and any other contractual services paid for by the State at tax payers expense and provided to a person (details supplied) while they lived at Spa Lodge in the Phoenix Park between September 2018 and August 2025. [70991/25]
368. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the full details of the market valuation of Spa Lodge in the Phoenix Park in October 2018, when it was first occupied by the former Garda Commissioner (details supplied) in 2018; and the details of the annual revisions made to the valuation of that property for each of the years 2018-2025 inclusive. [70990/25]
268. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has provided full and comprehensive details in relation to all aspects of the remuneration package of a former Garda Commissioner (details supplied) and all costs to the Exchequer associated with providing accommodation for the former Garda Commissioner during their tenure.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70726/25]
713. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total costs of the additional security features implemented on a property prior to the occupancy and during the occupancy of a person (details supplied) in each of the years 2017 to 2025, in tabular form. [70195/25]
712. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the career averaging pension scheme, as applied to all newly attested members of An Garda Síochána since and other new entrants to the public/civil service since 2012, is applied in the precise same manner to any pension being provided to a person (details supplied), given that their employment with an Garda Síochána only took effect in September 2018 following their retirement from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)/Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). [70176/25]
710. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the career averaging pension scheme, as applied to all newly attested members of An Garda Síochána and other new entrants to the public/civil service since 2012, is applied in the precise same manner to ex-members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)/Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) who joined and were attested to An Garda Síochána since 2012. [70170/25]
709. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if a person (details supplied) will continue to hold an Irish passport, which was only sought and provided to him in advance of their employment as Garda Commissioner; and if not, if they will now return their Irish passport and revert to the British passport they held/used in advance of taking up the role of Garda Commissioner and Head of Service for the Irish Intelligence Service. [70169/25]
708. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether, despite recent statements by him and his Department regarding a person (details supplied) waiving their entitlement to a pension contribution of 18.4% of salary, they did or will receive any pension arising from his employment in their former role; and if so, the precise amount of the pension and any gratuity paid to them or yet to be paid to them by the Irish State. [70168/25]
707. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if recent statements by him and his Department regarding a person (details supplied) waiving their entitlement to a pension contribution of 18.4% of salary is confirmation that they did not or will not receive any pension arising from their employment as Garda Commissioner. [70167/25]
703. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total cost of all advertising and promotional activity his Department and all bodies under his aegis had in each of the years 2024 and up to 1 December 2025, in chronological order. [70138/25]
701. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way in which he is ensuring that the collection and exchange of biometric data is carried out in compliance with domestic and international human rights law. [70090/25]
700. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is sharing biometric data relating to terrorist activities with other relevant states, Interpol and other relevant international bodies. [70089/25]
699. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the challenges being faced in setting capacity to collect biometric data to responsibly identify terrorists. [70088/25]
698. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the legislative and operational measures he has undertaken to develop and implement systems to collect biometric data to responsibly identify terrorists. [70083/25]
575. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider changing the rules so that a person in receipt of death benefit is entitled to the living alone allowance upon reaching the age of 66. [70229/25]
342. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the dates and attendees at all meetings between the OPW and An Garda Síochána in 2017 and 2018, by date and attendees, in tabular form. [70204/25]
341. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the dates and attendees at all meetings between the OPW and the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in 2017 and 2018, by date and attendees, in tabular form. [70203/25]
340. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation who professionally carried out the market valuation upon which the monthly or annual rent was based on a property (details supplied); and if he will provide a copy of the report. [70196/25]