218. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Defence if there are plans to put out a tender seeking expression of interest from companies worldwide regarding the replacement of naval ship LE Niamh. [31805/26]
217. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Defence the number of trained pilots, aircrew and technical staff assigned to each aircraft type within the Air Corps; and the current vacancy rates. [31804/26]
113. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport if a bus from Dublin 15 to Dublin Airport (N8 Route) has now been put back further to 2027. [18384/26]
1001. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the reason the baby alarm and monitor scheme is only available to residents of County Meath, funded by the local HSE, it also appears that similar arrangements exist in Cork and Kerry, but there is still no equivalent support available for deaf parents living in Dublin. [29583/26]
999. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if she will intervene to ensure that the HSE prioritises a conclusion to the skyclarys reimbursement negotiations (details supplied); and her views on whether the current delay aligns with the equitable access promised in the newly launched National Rare Disease Strategy 2025-2030. [29564/26]
317. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Defence if she is aware of Irish Defence Forces members participating in military competitions with the Israeli Defence Forces; and if confirmed, her views on such on participation. [29788/26]
316. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Defence if permission is required from her for the participation of members of the Irish Defence Forces in foreign military 'competitions'. [29787/26]
356. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of house calls that doctors from each D-Doc treatment centre carried out during each day of the recent Easter bank holiday weekend; the average time from receipt of call at each D-Doc treatment centre until the doctor arrived at that house in question, in tabular form. [27484/26]
3276. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the improvements to Craniofacial Services within Public Health Services during 2026; and the additional revenue being provided towards these improvements. [26685/26]
3275. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to run a recruitment campaign in the UK to attract qualified orthodontists to work within the Irish Public Health Services. [26684/26]
2537. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there will be a review of the ECCE eligibility cut-off dates to eliminate the unfair disadvantage faced by children born in early January (details supplied). [26031/26]
2414. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department intends to review the implementation of the revised assessment of need framework to ensure that no cohort of children is excluded from identification due to the streamlining of assessment processes. [24396/26]
2413. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the training or guidance is being provided to assessment officers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure that complex presentations, including masking and twice-exceptionality, are recognised under the revised model. [24395/26]
2412. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if access to cognitive or psychological assessment remains available where there is evidence of significant intra-individual discrepancy, asynchronous development, or unexplained underachievement. [24394/26]
2411. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the safeguards in place to prevent under-identification of such children, particularly in light of evidence that twice-exceptional children are already under-recognised within Irish education and disability services. [24393/26]
2410. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality : whether her Department has conducted any impact assessment on how the revised model may affect the identification of children whose needs are masked by high cognitive ability or compensatory functioning. [24392/26]
2409. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which the revised framework ensures that children with uneven developmental profiles, including those who may be gifted or twice-exceptional that is, children with both high ability and additional needs such as autism, ADHD, or dyslexia, will be appropriately identified within the system [24391/26]
2408. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the recently revised assessment of need framework limits or reduces access to cognitive assessment for children, including in cases where intellectual disability is not suspected. [24390/26]
2164. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Superintendents and Chief Superintendents within DMR underwent events, public order and public safety strategic commanders training course in each of the years of 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [26677/26]
2163. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of indoor and outdoor firing ranges excluding firing ranges owned by Defence Forces that armed Gardaí have regular access for firearm training in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [26676/26]
1605. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if Minister of State in his Department met with either the Thai transport minister or officials from any airline regarding discussing a proposal to have a direct flight from Dublin to Bangkok during his recent visit to Thailand [26674/26]
1604. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the funding provided by Sport Ireland to Tennis Ireland in each of the years of 2024, 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [26673/26]
1508. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the average age of school buses that have been part of the Bus Éireann fleet in each of the past three years, in tabular form. [26678/26]
1458. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the criteria for the allocation of funding to each School Completion Programme in the State. [26004/26]
1457. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount of funding for a School Completion Programme from 2010 to 2025 (details supplied), in tabular form. [26003/26]
1456. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the plans to increase funding for a School Completion Programme for 2026/2027 (details supplied). [26002/26]
1187. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment If Failte Ireland plans to open their tourism information offices on Sundays in major towns and cities during the peak summer months. [26683/26]
852. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport when he last met formally with the CEO of Dublin Port Company; and the topics discussed. [26680/26]
851. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport if the new train carriages coming into the fleet over the next few years will now include automatic audio announcements reminding commuters when the doors are about to close on that particular train. [26679/26]
581. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Defence if any non-military roles onboard Irish Naval Ships are carried out by suitably qualified civilian persons; and if all roles are met by Permanent Defence Forces personnel. [26688/26]
580. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Defence to outline a list of capital projects within her Department that received EU funding in the years of 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [26687/26]
336. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount her Department spent on purchasing new State cars and vans for Irish Embassies and Consul General Offices worldwide in 2025 and to-date in 2026 in tabular form. [26675/26]
326. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will raise Israel's newly enacted death penalty law formally at the EU Council and the UN Human Rights Council. [26191/26]
1736. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if each HSE dental clinic within CHO7 have dedicated decontamination rooms and full x-ray facilities, in tabular form. [18693/26]
1735. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of recruitment campaigns CHI undertook in the UK in 2025 and to date in 2026 to encourage Irish trained nurses, doctors, radiographers and so on to return home and work at the new National Children's Hospital; and the number of persons that expressed an interest in returning home. [18692/26]
1734. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmic surgeon posts filled within the cataract unit of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, in tabular form. [18691/26]
1514. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE speech and language therapist posts, by grade, that were filled at Blanchardstown CDNT as of 3 March 2026; and the average waiting time for same. [18684/26]
1401. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of applications for an extension of student conditions (ESTC) received in each of the past five years to date; the total number of those specific applications that resulted in the granting of a Stamp 1 permission, allowing the holder to work without an employment permit; the specific criteria and exceptional grounds on which these Stamp 1 permissions were assessed and awarded; and of those applicants who were successfully awarded a Stamp 1 permission, the number which had an Irish Residence Permit (IRP) card that expired prior to a decision being reached on their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20753/26]
1272. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of cases involving the seizure of scrambler bikes or quad bikes that resulted in a prosecution file being prepared by gardaí in the years of 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [18688/26]
1271. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 699 of 12 November 2025, if the necessary information from the Garda authorities has been supplied to him in order for this parliamentary question to be answered. [18687/26]
1270. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of protests which took place outside Leinster House that required additional Garda resources and physical barriers to be erected in the years of 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [18686/26]
1160. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of applications for carer's allowance that were refused in 2025, in tabular form. [18685/26]
1130. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if all removals from a list (details supplied) or exceeding the income threshold for 2025/2026 could be postponed until the review is completed. [20752/26]
929. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the CEOs or equivalent he has formally met with from each State agency under the remit of the Department to date in 2026, in tabular form. [18683/26]
562. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the additional steps that Tourism Ireland will take to increase the number of US and UK tourists coming to Ireland during 2026. [18690/26]