81. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the areas in which there is a demand for the provision of Irish medium education from the findings of the primary schools survey; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46088/26]
868. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the reason consideration of reimbursement for skyclarys was not included in the agenda for the 10 June 2026 meeting of the HSE's corporate pharmaceutical unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45086/26]
864. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on consideration of the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit of reimbursement of givinostat for Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45076/26]
843. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address unregulated alcohol deliveries by app delivery companies; his plans to address this issue in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44947/26]
835. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health whether exceptions for overnight stays for partners will be considered for private rooms, caesarean sections, traumatic births, anxiety, breastfeeding difficulties, mobility issues or other clinical and emotional support needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44911/26]
834. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman 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; and her views on whether blanket overnight restrictions after childbirth are acceptable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44910/26]
791. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration is being given to amending the rules around entry to ECCE schemes to permit greater flexibility around age of entry, on foot of the Independent Review of the ECCE programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45394/26]
790. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration is being given to putting the entitlement to an ECCE place on a statutory footing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45393/26]
754. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports and funding streams available for organisations involved in marine protection and conservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45816/26]
720. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the practice of beak-trimming is used on commercial egg farms in Ireland; if so, the extent and the number of producers using this practice; the age at which beak-trimming takes place; the method in which the beaks are trimmed; if beak trimming is carried out by a veterinary professional, or by a farm worker; if by a farm worker, the specific training the farm workers receives in order to carry out this procedure; if anaesthetic or analgesia is used on the chicks prior to the trimming of their beaks; if there are commercial egg farms in the country which have a no-beak-trimming policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44931/26]
719. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide information on the average size of the outdoor access area available to the hens on free-range farms; if there is a minimum outdoor space requirement set down by his Department for all free-range egg farms; if all organic egg farms provide outdoor access to the birds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44930/26]
718. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide information on the number of commercial egg farms nationwide; the percentage breakdown of enriched cage systems, barn systems, free-range operations and organic operations, with approximate overall numbers of birds in each of the four systems; the size (as in bird population) of the five largest operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44929/26]
597. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to tackle the high level of environmental incidents in north-eastern and mid-west regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45815/26]
596. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the standard enforcement process undertaken by the national Parks and Wildlife service; the reason enforcement levels are so low in comparison to cases submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45814/26]
595. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a detailed explanation of every public jobs competition for recruitment of roles to the National Parks and Wildlife services for each year since 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45813/26]
594. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and grade of staff employed by the National Parks and Wildlife services for each year since 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45812/26]
558. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2026 is expected to be signed into law; if he expects the Bill to be enacted before the Dáil Summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45702/26]
469. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide clarity on the reason her Department has only published national results from the Primary School Survey for parents of children in denominational, single-sex and/or English medium schools; to request that national or regional rather than school-specific reports be published to include responses from parents/guardians of those in Gaelscoileanna, co-educational and multi-denominational schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45414/26]
362. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the Governments position on draft legislation from the European Commission that will require member states to tax electricity at a lower rate than gas, in a bid to cut consumers’ power bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45895/26]
340. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport if he has met with any environmental campaign groups to discuss the impact of aviation on the climate during his term as Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45825/26]
339. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport to provide details of meetings his Department held with aviation industry lobbyists, including both the Irish and US aviation industry from 2025 to date in 2026. [45824/26]
324. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport the number of times officials from his Department have met with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45696/26]
323. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport the number of times he or the Minister of State within his Department have met with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45695/26]
322. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport the oversight mechanisms put in place to scrutinise the delivery of next generation ticketing for public transport projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45694/26]
321. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on the delivery of next generation ticketing for public transport; if any delays have occurred in this project; the total amount budgeted for this project; the amount that has been paid out on this project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45693/26]
257. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update in relation to actions outlined in the 2020 OECD Report on the Environmental Protection Agency; for an update on the annual reviews of the ongoing performance delivery agreements since 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45821/26]
256. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number and grade of staff employed by the Environmental Protection Agency; if there are planned recruitment competitions in near future, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45820/26]
255. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update in relation to the ongoing work to consolidate and modernise legislation underpinning the work of Inland Fisheries Ireland, outlining specific fines, penalties and powers which are being targeted for updating; whether the enforcement powers available to IFI will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45818/26]
254. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the supports and funding streams available for organisations involved in marine protection and conservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45817/26]
249. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on DCEE's progress on the second rollout of the Community Climate Action Programme: Climate Education, Capacity Building and Learning by Doing (Strand 2); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45361/26]
248. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on the second consultation process for Ireland's draft Social Climate Plan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45360/26]
217. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to a recent construction project in Albania which seeks to disapply EU environmental law (details supplied); if she will raise this issue with the European Commission in relation to Albania's application for EU accession; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45075/26]
214. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is currently taking to support the humanitarian crisis in Sudan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44916/26]
203. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment given that a greater proportion of data jobs related to data centres are related to construction (9,356 construction jobs compared to 7,636 additional operational jobs from 2010 to 2024), if the demand for construction roles related to data centres is being considered in the context of constructions skills needed for other infrastructure by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45477/26]
200. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he is aware that a cost-benefit analysis was not included in a report (details supplied) commissioned by his Department; if he has considered a cost-benefit analysis to generate a net present value for data centres in Ireland to be made available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45476/26]
167. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the timeline in relation to his Department's investigation into the possibility of alumina exported from Ireland being used in Russia's arms industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45474/26]
165. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment whether officials from his Department will be assisted by European Commission officials in their investigation into alumina exports from Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45475/26]
161. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has considered how, in the course of implementing its assigned actions under the Large Energy User Action Plan, it will ensure that renewable energy contracted by Green Energy Parks will be additional rather than infrastructure that might otherwise have been available to residential energy customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45478/26]
324. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health to list the new buildings constructed and extensions to existing healthcare facilities funded by her Department in the HSE CHO7 area from 2010 to 2025, in tabular form. [44695/26]
263. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to advance the EU Soil Strategy 2030 during Ireland’s Presidency of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44813/26]
262. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to advance the transposition of the EU Soil Monitoring Directive, which was passed in December 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44812/26]
259. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised about the welfare of a group of greyhounds (details supplied); if he will provide information on the reason these dogs were removed and then subsequently returned to their owners; if rehoming of these dogs is being considered at this stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44796/26]
201. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a school (details supplied) has never been granted an English as an additional language teaching post as of right, given the significant need in the area; the reason the school has to appeal each year in order to be granted some hours, with the ensuing increase in paper work for the school management team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44815/26]
200. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of an appeal by a school (details supplied) regarding the failure to grant DEIS PLUS status; when the appeal will have a decision made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44814/26]
149. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on the decision of the Government to co-host the Second Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels jointly with Tuvalu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44816/26]
105. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if, in view of applications for the successor scheme to the basic income for the arts pilot greatly exceeding the number of places available on the scheme, if consideration is being given to expanding the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44453/26]