144. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Defence the number of crew and passengers the Defence Forces new Airbus C295W can carry as opposed to the older CASA CN235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46817/26]
143. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Defence if the Air Corps new Airbus C295W is fully operational; the number of operations it has been involved in to-date outlining any air ambulance or evacuation missions it has been involved in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46816/26]
533. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent dentists and dental staff employed in the public dental service, in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46752/26]
532. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the current waiting list for the school-based oral health screening programme, by community healthcare organisation area, in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46751/26]
531. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if she will investigate this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46750/26]
295. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education and Youth the plans to build a new primary or secondary school, or the current plans for the expansion of existing schools serving the Shankill/Woodbrook area of Dublin which has experienced significant housing development in recent years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46754/26]
294. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if she will investigate the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46753/26]
273. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the current processing times for critical skills employment permit applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46747/26]
272. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment for an update on a work permit for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46746/26]
256. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for an update on plans to reform and enhance Ireland’s regulatory framework for Retail Investor Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46749/26]
247. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport if the National Transport Authority will examine a request (details supplied) to replace an existing bus shelter with a bus stop pole at a location where the shelter obstructs a private residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46748/26]
224. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Defence the progress made to date on the Joint Cyber Defence Command Strategy agreed in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46755/26]
90. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures he will take to reduce the consistent poverty rate to 2% or less; to reduce income inequality; to make Ireland one of the most socially inclusive Member States of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46040/26]
66. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people he expects to benefit from the forthcoming increase in income disregards for the carer’s allowance; the plans for further changes in Budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46039/26]
151. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the way in which the SME test is helping small businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45641/26]
354. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the number of women accessing public care in maternity hospitals during the period 2020 to 2025, by hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44841/26]
353. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the number of women accessing private care in maternity hospitals during the period 2020 to 2025, by hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44840/26]
352. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the provision being made for women who currently choose and avail of private maternity care, in circumstances where there is no private maternity hospital in the State and where private practice is being removed from public maternity hospitals under the public only consultant contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44839/26]
351. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health number of consultant obstetricians contracted under the old arrangements and the new public only consultants contract 2023, by maternity hospital, during the years 2023 - 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44838/26]
173. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport to provide an update on the longstanding CIÉ pensions issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44842/26]
260. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the number of women accessing private care in maternity hospitals during the period 2020 to 2025, by maternity hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44441/26]
259. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if her Department has specifically assessed the position of maternity services, given that the removal of private practice from public hospitals under the public only consultant contract cannot, in the case of maternity care, result in a transfer of that activity to a private setting as no private maternity hospital exists in the State; the steps being taken to ensure continuity and equity of maternity care. [44440/26]
258. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the provision being made for women who currently choose and avail of private maternity care in circumstances where there is no private maternity hospital in the State and where private practice is being removed from public maternity hospitals under the public only consultant contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44439/26]
530. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will consider, in the context of Budget 2027, the introduction of an equivalent tax credit or grant-based measure for self-employed persons to provide parity of access with PAYE employees under the cycle to work scheme, noting that the existing salary sacrifice mechanism is structurally unavailable to the self-employed, the unemployed, retirees, and those earning at or near the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41613/26]
529. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the qualifying interval under the cycle to work scheme from once every four years to once every three years, in order to better reflect the typical service life of bicycles and e-bike batteries and to encourage continued participation by existing scheme users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41612/26]
528. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the expenditure thresholds under the cycle to work scheme in Budget 2027, given that the current limits of €1,250, €1,500 and €3,000 have not been adjusted since January 2023 and have been eroded in real terms by inflation in the bicycle retail market; if his Department has undertaken any review of the appropriateness of the current thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41611/26]
527. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of employees who have availed of the cycle to work scheme, by county, in each of the years 2020 to 2025, inclusive; the estimated tax foregone to the Exchequer in respect of the scheme in each of those years; the breakdown between bicycles, pedelecs/e-bikes and cargo/e-cargo bikes, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41610/26]
526. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the Small Gift Exemption under Capital Acquisitions Tax from its current level of €3,000, where the threshold has remained unchanged since the introduction of the euro and where increases in housing, education and living costs have substantially reduced its real value to families seeking to support younger relatives, including with home deposits; the estimated full-year Exchequer cost of increasing the exemption to €5,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41609/26]
525. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has examined, as part of the Tax Strategy Group process or otherwise, the case for reducing the current 33% rate of Capital Acquisitions Tax, which has remained unchanged since December 2012; the estimated full-year cost of a reduction in the rate to 30% and to 25% respectively;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41608/26]
524. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will consider further increasing the tax-free thresholds at which children in group A and close relatives in group B can inherit property and assets from their family as part of Budget 2027, particularly in light of continued property price growth and the impact on family homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41607/26]
523. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has assessed the impact on Irish-domiciled families in the absence of bilateral Capital Acquisitions Tax conventions between Ireland and EU member states other than the United Kingdom, particularly in cases where an Irish-resident disponer leaves assets to a beneficiary resident in another member state and the structural limits of unilateral relief under section 107 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 result in unrelieved double taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41606/26]
522. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to the position that Ireland currently maintains only two bilateral conventions for the relief of double taxation of Capital Acquisitions Tax, namely those with the United Kingdom and the United States, his Department's assessment of how this compares with the inheritance and gift tax treaty networks maintained by other EU member states; whether any analysis has been undertaken of the implications for Irish-resident beneficiaries of inheritances arising in other member states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41605/26]
521. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to set out the current position in respect of bilateral conventions for the relief of double taxation on Capital Acquisitions Tax, including the jurisdictions with which Ireland has such conventions in force; the date on which the network of CAT conventions was last formally reviewed by his Department; whether any new bilateral CAT conventions are currently under negotiation or under active consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41604/26]
186. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Taoiseach the date on which the next Census of population is scheduled to take place; and the preparations underway by the Central Statistics Office for that census, including the introduction of an online completion option for the first time [41417/26]
185. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Taoiseach if he will outline the work undertaken by the Central Statistics Office to accompany the release of the 1926 Census records, including the comparative analysis published in Then and Now: Life in Ireland in 1926 and 2022; and the key findings of that analysis. [41416/26]
184. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Taoiseach the engagement his Department and the Central Statistics Office has had with the National Archives in advance of the public release of the 1926 Census records on 18 April 2026; and the level of public uptake recorded since the release. [41415/26]
183. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within his remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government [41394/26]
759. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within his remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41392/26]
756. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within his remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41387/26]
750. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the measures in place to detect, isolate, and manage any suspected case of Ebola disease arriving into the State in the context of the ongoing Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda; the current assessment of risk to the population here; the protocols in place for monitoring Irish humanitarian aid workers and other returning travellers from affected area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41422/26]
749. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the engagement her Department, the HSE, and the Health Protection Surveillance Centre have had with the World Health Organization and with the EU Health Security Committee in respect of the ongoing outbreak of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the WHO on 17 May 2026; the steps being taken at national level to give effect to the opinion adopted by the EU Health Security Committee on 22 May 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41421/26]
748. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the current status of work to establish the Advance Healthcare Directive Register provided for under Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; the body which will have responsibility for maintaining the register; the expected date for its commencement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41418/26]
745. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within her remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41388/26]
507. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within her remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41379/26]
474. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within his remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41378/26]
463. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the grounds on which removal orders are made under the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015; the appeal mechanisms available to persons subject to such orders; the number of appeals made and the number successful in each year from 2018 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41420/26]
462. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of removal orders made under the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015 in each year from 2018 to date, in tabular form; the number of such orders effected in each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41419/26]
461. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide a report on the progress made on implementing the programme for Government commitments within his remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41390/26]
426. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a report on the progress made implementing the Programme for Government commitments within his remit and on the achievements since the formation of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41393/26]