292. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [65243/25]
288. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66358/25]
274. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of social media influencers registered for taxation with the Revenue Commissioners, by county; the number that have been audited over the past five years; the number of auditors that have been assigned to such work; the number of influencers that have been subjected to fines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65755/25]
258. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the breakdown of State Claims Agency settlements, by claim category (details supplied), including for each category the number of claims, the total value of settlements, the median payout; the highest and lowest settlement values, in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65246/25]
257. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total number of claims handled by the State Claims Agency, the number of claims settled; the number successfully defended; the number resolved without admission of liability; the median and average settlement amount in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65245/25]
253. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66371/25]
183. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Defence to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66348/25]
176. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66343/25]
171. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his plans to introduce strengthened regulatory oversight or licensing requirements for BESS developments, in view of international experience and known fire-safety concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65619/25]
170. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the national standards, fire-safety requirements, or environmental-protection protocols which apply to proposed battery-storage installations in Ireland; if he is satisfied that current regulations are adequate; and if he will provide a list of all statutory instruments and technical standards governing such facilities. [65618/25]
169. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department has conducted risk assessments, commissioned any studies or issued guidance on the environmental and public-health risks associated with large-scale battery energy storage systems, particularly in relation to thermal-runaway events; and if he will publish any such documents. [65617/25]
164. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66359/25]
142. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Taoiseach to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66369/25]
103. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the exempted development guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65418/25]
14. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to implement new draft wind energy guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65419/25]
228. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport for an update on the low cost safety improvement scheme application for Kilrickle submitted by Galway County Council; and if he will prioritise its approval given ongoing safety concerns in the village. [64935/25]
227. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport the number of reported incidents of passengers fainting or experiencing medical distress due to overcrowding on the early morning Athenry to Galway train services in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64934/25]
113. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport if he has any plans to extend the current legislation to cover the enforcement of disabled parking spaces located in private car parks in order to ensure consistent protection and accessibility for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64315/25]
1007. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health if her Department is aware that some links (details supplied) on a Government website are currently returning an ‘Access denied’ error message; and if she will arrange for the issue to be reviewed and the links restored so that the reports can be accessed as intended. [62991/25]
1006. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the reasons residents of County Galway currently do not have access to the ADHD in Adults National Clinical Programme for public assessment, diagnoses, and treatment; the timeline for establishing a dedicated adult ADHD service in the CHO2 area (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon); and the interim arrangements in place to ensure equitable access to assessment and treatment for adults with ADHD in this region. [62989/25]
964. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the accountability measures applied when the HSE fails to meet service plan targets by such significant margins; whether these missed targets are escalated to the Department or reported to the HSE Board; and the corrective actions required or taken. [62789/25]
963. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the internal oversight or review process that exists to assess the realism of performance targets before publication in the HSE National Service Plan; and whether her Department provides direction, approval, or challenge to the HSE in relation to the achievability of such targets. [62788/25]
885. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the methodology used by the HSE when setting annual performance targets in its National Service Plan, in particular for disability and children’s services; if those targets are based on available staffing and capacity data; and if not, to explain the rationale for maintaining aspirational 100% targets despite sustained underperformance. [62787/25]
884. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide the HSE’s published annual targets and actual performance rates for the completion of assessments of need for children, for each of the past five years; and the percentage achievement rate in each year, in tabular form. [62786/25]
499. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will review the special education teaching allocation for a school (details supplied); if she will ensure that the school receives an allocation that accurately reflects the current needs of its pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63696/25]
441. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on a proposed school building project (details supplied), which was initially granted approval in February 2020 under the additional school accommodation scheme, and for which a revised Stage 2(a) submission was completed and submitted in June 2025; the current status of the project, the expected next steps, and an indicative timeline for progression to tender and construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62990/25]
404. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if consideration has been given to extending the 15-day prompt payment framework to include all categories of payments and reimbursements made by Departments and public bodies to community and voluntary organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62832/25]
403. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has examined the impact of payment delays on community, voluntary, and non-profit organisations funded through State grants or reimbursements; and his views on whether such delays undermine service delivery, local employment, or the financial sustainability of these organisations. [62831/25]
381. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department will consider mandating the use of contract management systems across all public bodies to ensure contract variations are systematically recorded and monitored; and when such a policy will be implemented. [63051/25]
380. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has assessed whether the absence of centralised reporting on contract variations represents a governance or accountability gap in public procurement; and if he will consider introducing requirements for contracting authorities to record, publish, and centrally report details of all post-award variations, including financial impact and rationale. [63050/25]
374. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will consider requiring all public bodies to publish, both in their annual reports and on their websites, a statement of compliance with prompt payment timelines, including data on payments to community, voluntary, and non-profit organisations, to improve transparency and accountability in the payment process. [62833/25]
373. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has any formal or informal role in reviewing or advising on the Health Service Executive’s annual National Service Plan prior to its approval by the Minister for Health; if his Department considers the financial realism or deliverability of performance targets such as the 100% completion target for children’s assessments of need when agreeing annual expenditure ceilings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62790/25]
308. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport when he intends to progress the long-promised double tracking of the rail line through Athenry, given its strategic importance for the western rail corridor, commuter services into Galway, and regional development in the west; and the reason for the ongoing delays and lack of visible progress on this essential infrastructure project. [63687/25]
508. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students studying graduate entry medicine, by institution, for each year from 2015/2016 to 2024/2025; the total and per capita funding his Department provided for each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62425/25]
239. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he is aware that due to the lack of maintenance of Headford River, County Galway, OPW channel 2, adjoining agricultural land belonging to a person (details supplied) has been subjected to severe and repeated flooding for the past 15 years; if he will outline when maintenance works will be carried out on this section of the channel to alleviate the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62654/25]
54. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will commit to expanding Microfinance Ireland lending limits to reflect current cost structures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62016/25]
1163. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60948/25]
1132. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated average public cost of training a primary teacher and a post-primary teacher to full qualification, including teacher education programme funding, teaching practice costs, and capitation grants to colleges of education, for each year since 2000 to date in 2025. [61191/25]
1131. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the total annual public expenditure on training medical, nursing, and midwifery students in Ireland, including grants to higher education institutions and payments to the HSE for clinical placements, for each year since 2010 to date in 2025. [61187/25]
1130. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated average cost to the State of training a medical student and a nursing student to graduation; and to itemise these costs by component, undergraduate education, clinical placement funding, intern training, postgraduate specialist training, and any State subsidy to hospital training sites, in each of the past ten years. [61186/25]
1126. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide any available data on the proportion of graduates in each of the years 2000 to 2025 who emigrated within five years of graduation; and whether such data is gathered by the CSO Graduate Outcomes Survey or Revenue-HEA linkage. [60957/25]
1125. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60943/25]
1050. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the most up-to-date position on all supplier-related financial liabilities for the HSE, including outstanding bills, trade creditors and accruals; and to provide a clear and comprehensive breakdown and methodology (details supplied). [61763/25]
962. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the total cost of international recruitment of healthcare professionals including agency fees, relocation supports, and induction costs; and to compare the cost to the estimated annual cost of emigration of domestically trained nurses and doctors in each of the past five years. [61190/25]
961. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the retention and emigration of newly qualified doctors and nurses for each graduation year since 2010 to date in 2025; the number who entered HSE employment within one year of qualification; the number who emigrated or were not practising in Ireland within two years; and the data sources used to monitor these figures, such as the Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, the CSO and Revenue employment records. [61188/25]
960. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the HSE costs attributable to international protection applicants, by service that is GP/primary care (including GP visit cards), pharmacy/medicines, public health (screening, vaccination), emergency department, inpatient and outpatient activity, mental-health services, dental, interpreting and any per-applicant or per-episode cost estimates used for internal planning, from 2022 to date in 2025. [61175/25]
914. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60944/25]
794. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the growing concern among farmers regarding the current cap of €3,000 on compensation for bovine TB reactor animals; if he will acknowledge that the market value of pedigree and high yielding stock has risen significantly in recent years, resulting in considerable losses for affected herd owners; and if he will review the current compensation ceiling to ensure it more accurately reflects the true market value of animals removed under the TB eradication programme. [61182/25]
791. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022-2024. [60934/25]
726. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the State has a single, auditable per-applicant cost for international protection that includes processing, legal aid, healthcare, education, social protection, interpretation, transport and overheads; if not, if he will commit to producing it within 2025 and publishing the methodology. [61178/25]