349. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he considers the existing suite of State supports for social enterprises including the Community Services Programme, SICAP and local enterprise office supports adequate to address persistent market failure across the sector, given that only 48.5% of social enterprise income is currently derived from trading activity and 56% of organisations report insufficient reserves to withstand a financial shock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49974/26]
285. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to monitor the implementation of the TrakCare electronic health record system across mental health services; how compliance with regulatory requirements, including Regulation 27 (Maintenance of Records), will be assessed during and after implementation; the key performance, quality and safety indicators that will be monitored; the measures being taken to assure that the transition to electronic records does not adversely affect patient safety, continuity of care, clinical standards, access to information at the point of care, or compliance with Mental Health Commission requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49976/26]
284. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health to ensure that all mental health services implementing the TrakCare electronic health record system comply with Regulation 27 (Maintenance of Records), which requires records to be maintained so as to ensure completeness, accuracy and ease of retrieval (details supplied); to provide details of the governance, audit, training and assurance measures in place to ensure that patient records are complete, accurate and retrievable at the point of care and during Mental Health Commission inspections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49975/26]
911. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if there is any comprehensive national defibrillator register or map that would allow people to check where their closest defibrillator is located; if there are proposals for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49610/26]
399. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that a school (details supplied) has been forced to withdraw its summer programme due to her Department’s failure to sanction the necessary staffing levels, leaving children with special educational needs without vital supports over the summer; whether she intends on rectifying this so that the school’s summer programme can proceed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49613/26]
238. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport his plans for the Killucan railway station in County Westmeath; if he will engage with local elected representatives and campaign group on the potential reopening of the station given recent population growth in the surrounding area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48473/26]
233. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport if he will ensure that those who received eSPSV26 grant offers which subsequently lapsed will be prioritised when the scheme reopens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48397/26]
423. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that the erection of solar panels on commercial buildings may render the surface area of those panels part of the rateable valuation of a commercial building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47063/26]
368. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will intervene to prevent the loss of a teaching post at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47534/26]
183. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware that new regulations concerning the electricity connection of RealTime Displays, requiring them to have their own connection rather than the previous arrangement whereby they were connected to streetlights, is preventing the NTA from installing new displays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47355/26]
157. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport his Department’s plans to reduce the frequency of ‘ghost buses’ in the Dublin region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46378/26]
105. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport for an update on the programme for Government commitment to commission a new independent feasibility study on continuing MetroLink to Dublin South-West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46573/26]
172. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Nos.1700, 1701, 1702, 1703 1704 of 9 June 2026, to provide details and the content of each phase of the implementation plan for the Pay Transparency Directive; whether these phases will require new or supplementary legislation to existing legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46118/26]
43. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport whether weekend DART services to Howth may be increased in frequency for the summer period to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46360/26]
42. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport the plans for the Dublin Bus 14 route; when he anticipates any changes taking effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46359/26]
933. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE have assessed the impact of overnight partner restrictions on postnatal anxiety, depression, breastfeeding, dignity, safety and maternal wellbeing (details supplied); if she will consider a national standard for family-centred postnatal care, including overnight partner support where the mother requests it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45308/26]
795. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will produce the index to the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry archive and make it publicly available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45448/26]
794. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there is a specific archaeological report for Bessborough in the archive of the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry held by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45447/26]
765. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to continual room closures at a childcare facility in Dublin south-west (details supplied) since it was acquired by a new provider; the steps she is taking to address issues around pay and recruitment and retention issues affecting the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44897/26]
764. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will request all HSE health regions to issue a memo to local service providers instructing them to fill out the disability support application management tool form as soon as a child turns 18, similar to that recently issued by the Dublin North East Health Region, in order to contribute to a central register of individuals requiring placements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45295/26]
436. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will support the appeal for DEIS plus status from a DEIS Band 1 school (details supplied) in Dublin South West; if she is satisfied that her Department's data-driven DEIS plus identification model fully captures the lived reality, complexity and concentration of disadvantage experienced within individual school communities; if she will reveal all considerations that inform the current identification model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44998/26]
338. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport if he will rule out public transport fare increases in the forthcoming Budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45808/26]
301. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware that Dublin Bus is not required by the NTA to issue refunds on Leap cards in the event of an upheld complaint made by a commuter; whether he deems this acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45253/26]
297. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport the amount of funding left over from lapsed offers in the eSPSV26 scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45231/26]
296. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport if he will instruct the NTA to re-issue a lapsed eSPSV26 grant offer (details supplied) given funding is available from similarly lapsed offers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45230/26]
251. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on the water usage of data centres in Ireland; to provide details of all monitoring and regulation of water extraction and use for data centres in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45389/26]
209. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Taoiseach when the CSO will release the data centres metered electricity consumption statistics for 2025. [44977/26]
218. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing completions anticipated in Dublin south-west in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44651/26]
217. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing completions in Dublin south-west in each of the past five years and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44650/26]
151. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport to report on his recent meeting with the Garda Commissioner on road safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44753/26]
146. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment in light of recent international energy market volatility and supply disruptions, the additional measures he is taking to reduce Ireland’s dependence on imported fossil fuels and accelerate the deployment of indigenous renewable generation capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44691/26]
145. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the progress that has been made in addressing the planning, grid and delivery bottlenecks identified in the Offshore Wind Energy Programme Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44689/26]
144. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the assessment his Department has made on the impact of projected growth in data centre electricity demand on Ireland’s climate targets and security of supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44688/26]
143. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when he expects to publish the Climate Action Plan 2026; the reasons for the continued delay in its publication; the implications of this delay for Ireland’s ability to meet its legally binding carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44687/26]
4. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his response to findings in a recent report by Friends of the Earth that data centre energy demand added a cumulative €715 million to household electricity bills between 2015 and 2023 and could add a further €1.6 billion over the next decade; his response to a recent report (details supplied) on data centres commissioned by the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, and whether he accepts its claims regarding employment numbers and economic value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44852/26]
25. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport the way in which “rural areas” will be defined for the purposes of the recently announced ICE2EV scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44203/26]
2495. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he expects the tuition support scheme for graduate entry medicine committed to in the Programme for Government will be established by the 2027/2028 academic year; whether supports will be backdated so that students who have already began their course are not disadvantaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42943/26]
2386. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if national guidance exists for schools, sports clubs, youth organisations and other voluntary bodies on the administration by staff or volunteers of prescribed medicines and emergency adrenaline auto-injectors; if she will consider developing a standard national framework to support staff and volunteers in responding to medical emergencies including when off-site, on trips and so on; if training and indemnity protections will be provided to staff and volunteers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43871/26]
1870. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health whether a location (details supplied) is currently in use by the State for social purposes; and if so, the purposes for which, the agreement with the property owner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41805/26]
1704. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality what is intended with regard to the pay transparency directive’s requirement for the involvement of worker representatives given that many Irish employees have no such representatives; whether this requirement necessitates the recognition of trade unions by Irish employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43797/26]
1703. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when it is intended for the employee’s right to information regarding pay under the pay transparency directive to be operable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43796/26]