19. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the timeframe for the establishment of the new Public Spending Efficiency Taskforce. [74526/26]
845. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current number of children on the open list (active caseload) and the waiting list (awaiting initial contact) for Children’s Disability Network Team 4 (CDNT4). [74244/26]
844. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will confirm whether CDNT 4 is currently delivering speech and language therapy exclusively in group format, regardless of individual clinical assessment. [74245/26]
843. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the specific timeline for initiating the formal procurement process for private speech and language therapy capacity where significant service pressure points exist, as previously indicated by the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74247/26]
834. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a breakdown of the 212 residential places funded under budget 2027; the rationale for reserving 112 of these places exclusively for emergency admissions rather than planned residential care transitions; the strategy in place to move away from a reactive crisis-driven residential model to a proactive, planned model for aging parents caring for adult children with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73970/26]
360. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total value of the income tax and USC changes in budgets 2021 to 2027, inclusive. [73573/26]
358. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the current value of the Future Ireland Fund; and the current value of the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund. [73497/26]
286. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Transport whether the NTA funding allocation for 2027 will allow further phases of the Bus Connects network redesign to proceed; and the order in which. [73714/26]
285. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Transport the interim measures planned to improve the frequency and reliability of bus route 47. [73716/26]
283. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Transport which phase of the BusConnects Dublin Network Redesign includes routes 86, 87, 88 and P13; if it is the same phase as route L33; and the target implementation date. [73711/26]
192. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Health the way in which Budget 2027 will support a new programme to move clinically appropriate cancer monitoring and follow-up from acute hospitals into community settings. [72360/26]
665. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare facilitators who are in core funding by constituency/local authority. [72267/26]
664. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare facilitators who are not in core funding by constituency/local authority. [72268/26]
520. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an update on an application (details supplied); if correspondence has issued to the applicant since the acknowledgement of 20 March 2024; and when a decision on the application will be made. [71505/26]
238. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to clarify the specific legal statute and statutory basis referenced by the HSE in recent correspondence regarding the legal obligations of parents of children or adults with a disability, as distinct from the legal obligations applicable to other parents; the way in which the State interprets these legal duties to differ in law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [70936/26]
672. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of concerns that some people living with Friedreich’s ataxia may face significant delays in accessing skyclarys (omaveloxolone) despite its reimbursement from 1 October 2026 (details supplied); the estimated timeframe within which all eligible patients will have commenced treatment; if additional resources will be provided to support treatment initiation and monitoring; the current waiting time for a Friedreich’s ataxia clinic appointment; and the measures being taken to address access to timely specialist review and annual multidisciplinary assessments. [70468/26]
334. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when applicants for the basic income for the arts scheme will be notified of the outcome of the selection process. [69571/26]
331. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when the first payments for the basic income for artist scheme will be paid. [69572/26]
195. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is planning to undertake a review of the tenant-in-situ scheme. [69034/26]
47. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her response to the recent attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport. [69030/26]
30. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on the discussions on Ukraine at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs council. [69031/26]
82. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to review the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme. [69032/26]
153. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if investment by the providers of planned new personal investment accounts using moneys invested through the new accounts will be subject to deemed disposal taxation. [68283/26]
143. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the action he plans to take further to his Department’s Funds Sector 2030 review recommending developing a pathway to the adoption of tokenisation. [68284/26]
382. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the position regarding join family visa applications (details supplied). [67813/26]
87. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Social Protection If he will provide a county breakdown of the numbers of students receiving a hot school meal every day. [67249/26]
59. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on the dietician report into the nutritional standards of the hot school meals scheme, including recommendations for improving the nutrition. [67250/26]
333. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the policy interventions or remediation schemes planned for households unable to reach the baseline 30 Mbps threshold due to sub-surface copper bottlenecks. [66844/26]
331. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the interventions or remediation schemes planned to address premises trapped in BLUE commercial areas due to direct buried copper leads to allow fibre broadband. [66841/26]
70. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment for an update on the implementation of 'A New Era for Irish Tourism', [66659/26]
54. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will report on the work of the Tourism Policy Oversight Group. [66658/26]
1475. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Health if persons whose disability directly affects their ability to meet the BMI threshold of 30 for publicly funded IVF may be assessed on an individual clinical basis; if she plans to provide reasonable accommodation within the scheme’s eligibility criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65928/26]
629. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount of incremental credit a Teaching Council-registered teacher with 15 years verified experience abroad in the UK and Singapore could receive under the current rules. [65945/26]
628. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is considering refusing the extension for job-sharing teachers substituting during their non-working days for 2026/2027; the justification for preventing qualified and experienced teachers from filling substitute vacancies at a time when schools need them. [65941/26]
627. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason qualified job-sharing teachers are being prevented from substituting in 2026/2027, that unqualified or not-yet-qualified people can be working in classrooms while qualified teachers who are available and willing to work are being excluded. [65943/26]
626. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a decision has already been made on the restriction on job-sharing teachers substituting during their non-working days for 2026/2027; and if not, if it is currently being discussed with an organisation (details supplied). [65935/26]
625. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth when teachers can expect a formal announcement on the restriction on job-sharing teachers substituting during their non-working days for 2026/2027. [65938/26]
624. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department intends to lift the restriction on job-sharing teachers substituting during their non-working days for 2026/2027. [65929/26]
623. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if permanent teachers on job share will continue to be permitted to take on substitute teaching, when they are otherwise available to work this year. [65925/26]
1826. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department intends to introduce legislative measures to protect tenants whose tenancies commenced prior to 11 June 2022 from end-of-Part-4 no-fault terminations upon the expiry of their remaining six-year cycles; if his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy where post-June 2022 tenancies benefit from unlimited duration while long-standing, fully compliant pre-June 2022 tenants remain exposed to no-fault eviction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61874/26]
1825. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider legislative provisions allowing compliant tenants operating under transitional Part 4 cycles to automatically convert to tenancies of unlimited duration without triggering an end-of-cycle termination right for landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61876/26]
1824. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether consideration has been given to removing the end-of-cycle no-fault termination right for pre-11 June 2022 tenancies where the landlord is a corporate body, institutional investment fund, or owner of four or more residential tenancies; if he acknowledges the policy distinction between smaller private landlords and institutional build-to-tent providers in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61877/26]
1823. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department, in consultation with the Residential Tenancies Board, has conducted a policy review regarding the impact of the 11 June 2022 cut-off date on security of tenure for families in long-term rented accommodation; and the planned reforms to close this gap before affected tenancies expire. [61878/26]
1759. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the redress scheme for the owners of apartments in Beacon South Quarter will commence (details supplied). [61238/26]