151. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth when she expects to make a determination on applications made by several English-medium primary schools to become Gaelscoileanna; if she will specifically provide an update relating to the application made be one of these schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74788/26]
123. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the progression of various school building projects in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74789/26]
79. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide an update on plans to develop flood mitigating measures in the vicinity of Shannon town and Shannon Airport in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74786/26]
45. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide an update on plans to remediate the defective concrete blocks in the structure of Shannon Garda, Station, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74787/26]
62. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will intervene in the case of a constituent (details supplied) facing an unfair duplicate €440 registration fee from the Teaching Council due to protracted administrative delays; if the council has the power to issue manual fee waivers in such instances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74828/26]
888. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if she will direct the HSE Mid-West Hospital Group to conduct an immediate investigation into a severe breakdown in open disclosure protocols regarding a vulnerable dementia patient (details supplied) who sustained an unexplained hip fracture during a recent hospital admission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73610/26]
862. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of palliative care beds paid for by the HSE in each county, in tabular form. [73366/26]
810. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will review the eligibility criteria for the building blocks capital scheme to accommodate independent, school-age childcare providers operating out of leased school prefabs who are not currently enrolled in the Core Funding scheme but provide an essential service to prevent rural school depopulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73595/26]
809. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department, or Pobal, will engage with a school-age childcare service in County Clare (details supplied) regarding capital support to transition from a prefab into a modern modular facility that incorporates new preschool places to meet growing local demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73596/26]
762. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when responsibility for Multi-Unit Developments will transfer from his department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, especially given concerns about the urgent need for this (details supplied). [74099/26]
704. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the timeline for the execution of the formal transfer of functions order to move responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 from his Department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, following the enactment of enabling provisions in the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73926/26]
505. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will clarify the eligibility and timeline for access to the next primary supplementary redeployment panel for a teacher (details supplied) whose contract concluded at the end of August; the review mechanisms available when panel options exceed reasonable commuting distances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74013/26]
365. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will review the eligibility criteria for the help-to-buy incentive scheme to accommodate returning Irish citizens who do not meet the full four-year tax look-back window; and if he will consider expanding the window to account for a broader historical Irish tax record or, alternatively, factoring in verified future Irish income tax commitments. [73630/26]
785. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if applications for reimbursement for lipoedema treatment under the Cross Border Healthcare Directive have been placed on hold, delayed or otherwise prevented from progressing pending clinical review or clinical advice; if so, the date on which this commenced; the reason for the decision; the number of applications affected; and the anticipated timeframe for resolving the matter. [72912/26]
784. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the reason any change to the processing, clinical review or eligibility requirements for lipoedema applications under the Cross Border Healthcare Directive was not communicated to patients in advance, having regard to the written commitment issued by the National Director of HSE National Services and Schemes on 29 August 2025 that advance notice and published guidance would be provided for future changes to CBD processes and that a fair and reasonable transition period would apply. [72914/26]
783. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health whether applications for reimbursement under the cross border healthcare directive are processed strictly in chronological order according to their date of receipt; if not, the circumstances in which applications may be processed out of sequence; and the reason applications for other procedures submitted in 2026 have been processed and reimbursed, while some lipoedema applications submitted in 2025 and early 2026 remain outstanding. [72916/26]
653. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a county by county breakdown of the number of families and the number of children currently qualifying under the €34,000 lower income threshold for families for the national childcare scheme; and her estimate on a county by county basis of the number of families and children that will benefit from the increase in the threshold to €38,500 announced in Budget 2027. [71953/26]
9. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on foreign birth registry applications for two persons (details supplied). [71747/26]
650. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the establishment of a solicitors’ portal to facilitate enduring power of attorney applications to the Decision Support Service. [71750/26]
572. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the transition and relocation protocols put in place for families currently residing at a facility (details supplied), ahead of the scheduled contract conclusion on 31 October 2026; the measures being taken by his Department to co-ordinate with the Department of Education and Youth to minimise schooling and educational disruption for the primary school-aged children involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72293/26]
408. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if groups applying for the Arts Capital Investment Fund must strictly furnish audited accounts, even if the groups are exempt from requiring same on an annual basis. [72265/26]
401. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will consider expanding the regional tier 1 pilot initiative under the Community Sport Facilities Fund to allow sports clubs from County Clare who are similarly affected by defective concrete blocks to apply for the pilot funding stream. [71746/26]
109. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on the status of the 5% pension increase first agreed in mid-2025 for retired public transport workers under the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme; and the reasons retired Bus Éireann employees have yet to receive this adjustment which was scheduled to commence in August 2026. [70935/26]
106. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider introducing a financial support scheme to alleviate the current fuel cost burden on taxi drivers. [70931/26]
674. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if she will outline if a policy document (details supplied) will be considered as part of the current decision making process of the Mid-West Health Planning Board. [70529/26]
568. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a date for surgery at University Hospital Limerick given that they have been waiting since November 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69905/26]
222. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 65715/26, the estimated timeline for when the integrated project team will be selected and commence their work. [70106/26]
184. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the way in which Ireland is engaging with the European Commission's Sovereign Cloud Framework, and the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act. [70043/26]
167. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department plans to publish a national sovereign cloud strategy for the public sector and critical national infrastructure; and the way in which it will address strategic dependence on non-EU cloud providers. [70038/26]
166. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if future ICT procurement frameworks will include explicit evaluation criteria covering European providers, open-source solutions, interoperability, vendor lock-in and cloud sovereignty where appropriate. [70040/26]
165. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the way in which the Government is classifying sensitive workloads and datasets that may require EU-based hosting, customer-controlled encryption, private cloud, on-premise capability or enhanced exit provisions. [70041/26]
164. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the investment or policy support planned for Irish and European cloud, cybersecurity, open-source and digital public infrastructure providers, to ensure Ireland is not only a consumer of digital infrastructure but also contributes to European capability. [70044/26]
97. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to the policy of introducing a personal tax credit for people with a disability in employment. [69849/26]
202. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of a SUSI grant application for a person (details supplied); the reason for the extensive four-month delay and repeated requests for duplicate documentation from the applicant; if a review of the file will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69042/26]
182. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health to provide a date for an appointment with a paediatric endocrinologist for a person (details supplied). [69153/26]
175. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if a medication (details supplied) will be included as a reimbursable medicine under the drugs payment scheme. [69120/26]
927. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he will consider including an area of Clare (details supplied) in the next CLÁR programme expansion; if it was assessed for inclusion during the recent review; what criteria would need to be met for the area to be considered for approval in the next review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68040/26]
237. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Defence her response to recent media reports that soldiers’ rations, radar systems and naval guns are among a number of areas to be curtailed by Defence Forces to meet military spending cuts. [68827/26]
752. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of newly qualified nurses and midwives who have been offered jobs in hospitals on completion of their studies this year; the number of newly qualified nurses and midwives who have not been offered roles due to the HSE hiring freeze; if there are vacancies in hospitals not being filled due to this hiring freeze; if she is concerned that vacancies could lead to substandard patient care in hospitals; her plans to ensure that these newly qualified medical professionals are offered jobs in our hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68322/26]
584. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the status of an application for permission to remain in the State as the spouse of an Irish citizen and parent of Irish citizen children (details supplied); if he will confirm that the application has been received, processed, and assigned an application reference number; if he will confirm that the applicant is permitted to remain legally in the State while a decision is pending; if he will prioritise this case given the imminent expiry of the applicant's current permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68534/26]
288. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport the statistics his Department has for collisions or road incidents along the N85 between Ennis and Ennistymon each year since 2016, in tabular form; if his Department or the TII have plans to address the number of collisions along the road; if his Department has plans to allocate funding to realign or improve the road in the interest of safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68666/26]
392. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will intervene to fast-track home tuition funding approvals currently delayed in the Department's section in Athlone, which are leaving thirteen children unable to return to their second year at an early intervention pre-school (details supplied) despite local SENO approval; if she will reform the system to allow automatic two-year approvals for home tuition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68375/26]
376. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will address the significant financial and travel burden placed on primary school teachers participating in the Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot who commute extensive distances (details supplied) to deliver sessions; if her Department will review the terms of the scheme to introduce travel and subsistence expenses for these practitioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68302/26]
375. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of the Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot 2023-2026, following the publication of its evaluation report in August 2026; if her Department will expand the geographic scope of strand one of the pilot to include schools and practitioners located in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68301/26]
345. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department can confirm the permanent defence measures in place to protect an area of county Clare (details supplied) from flooding. [68817/26]