1529. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Palestinian nationals granted international protection in Ireland in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of Palestinian nationals refused international protection in these years; and the number of Palestinian nationals currently awaiting a decision on their international protection application, to date in 2025, in tabular form. [45291/25]
1527. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of visa applications currently pending, by category, to date in 2025; and how this compares to the same date in 2023 and 2024. [45279/25]
1526. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current waiting time for an appeal of a refused join family visa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45278/25]
1523. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number and percentage of de-facto partner visa applications refused in the past three years; the most common grounds for refusal; the number of successful appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45232/25]
1522. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of pending de-facto partner visa preclearance applications, by month of receipt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45231/25]
1521. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average processing time for applications for residence permission for de-facto partners of Irish citizens; the number of applications currently pending; and the measures being taken to reduce delays given reports of applicants waiting up to ten months for a decision. [45230/25]
1500. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the appeals process available to persons whose applications for subsidiary protection or humanitarian leave to remain have been refused; if he will ensure access to legal advice for applicants in such situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45023/25]
1445. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if she will outline the wraparound supports currently available to women accommodated in safe homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46403/25]
1405. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports or schemes available to qualified post primary teachers who are currently unemployed, particularly in cases where there are no suitable vacancies in their local area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46737/25]
1359. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department plans to have a webchat service link on his Department website for members of the public to enquire regarding social welfare entitlements and so on. [45488/25]
1301. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant homes currently lying empty, per county, in tabular form. [47283/25]
1256. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of emergency accommodation beds available in each county. [46498/25]
1183. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the current policy and guidelines for local authorities in prioritising housing allocations for individuals and families experiencing harassment or domestic abuse, including where the harassment involves repeated Garda welfare checks found to be unfounded; the measures in place to ensure such cases are treated as urgent; and the number of households currently in emergency accommodation for these reasons, in each local authority, in tabular form. [45412/25]
1133. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households in counties Westmeath and Longford living in HAP supported accommodation. [44873/25]
1132. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons and families accessing emergency accommodation in counties Longford and Westmeath; the number of people that were turned away from emergency accommodation in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44858/25]
1131. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant and derelict properties in counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44857/25]
1130. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable housing units currently under construction or approved for development in counties Longford and Westmeath; the estimated completion dates for these units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44856/25]
1083. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the total annual funding allocated to organisations (details supplied) over the past five years, in tabular form. [46208/25]
1081. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the amount of funding that has been allocated to the growth of basketball in Ireland the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45877/25]
1078. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the amount of funding that Sport Ireland provided to an organisation (details supplied) in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [45489/25]
1077. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the allocation of sports capital funding to clubs and facilities in Longford-Westmeath in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45370/25]
990. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will outline the steps being taken to ensure greater access to secure, full-time positions, for newly qualified and unemployed teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46771/25]
875. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children who have been refused a school bus ticket for the 2025-2026 academic year due to a lack of available spaces, per county, in tabular form. [45959/25]
873. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a breakdown of the number of primary and post primary schools that are Catholic, Church of Ireland, other religious patronage and non-denominational, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45948/25]
831. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will ensure that children who previously held seats on a school bus are not unfairly displaced under the random allocation process on school transport, given the significant hardship this causes families with no alternative means of transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45598/25]
801. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Department will commence negotiations with a union (details supplied) regarding the school secretaries pension campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45247/25]
785. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children with additional needs in County Westmeath who are currently without a suitable school place for the upcoming academic year. [44874/25]
695. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of residential properties currently listed as short-term rentals on platforms (details supplied); and the percentage of these properties that are located in areas designated as RPZ. [46256/25]
627. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of WTE qualified architects and structural engineers employed by the OPW in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [45487/25]
558. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the annual revenue generated by businesses from the sale of period products including pads, tampons and other menstrual hygiene products. [46571/25]
550. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out an assessment of the fiscal impact of designating counselling and psychotherapy services as VAT exempt in line with other health services. [46528/25]
549. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the estimated annual VAT revenue collected from counselling and psychotherapy services. [46527/25]
437. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport if consideration was given to extending the new child 5–8 Leap card beyond eight years of age; and the reasoning behind choosing the 5-8 age group for this scheme. [47264/25]
326. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the number of commercial flights that departed from each of the airports in Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45516/25]
316. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the current waiting times for driving tests in each centre in counties Longford and Westmeath; and the number of applicants currently waiting beyond ten to 12 weeks in each test centre, in tabular form. [45400/25]
298. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the total cost incurred by his Department and TII in 2024 and to date in 2025, for the repair and maintenance of the national road and rail network; the breakdown of these costs, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45191/25]
289. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport if he will instruct the Pension’s Authority to investigate the current concerns surrounding the governance arrangements of the CIÉ Superannuation Scheme 1951 as raised by members of the scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45042/25]
288. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport if the Pension’s Authority is investigating the current concerns surrounding the governance arrangements of the CIÉ Superannuation Scheme 1951 as raised by members of the scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45041/25]
287. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the steps his Department will take to ensure that a fully quorate representative committee, constituted strictly in accordance with the scheme’s governing statutory instrument (detail supplied) is restored as a matter of priority. [45040/25]
130. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will provide an update on the mechanisms available to homeowners whose properties have been damaged as a result of works carried out under SEAI approved retrofit schemes; the redress routes that are open to affected households in cases where contractors have carried out substandard and damaging works; if he will report on the monitoring and enforcement systems in place to ensure quality assurance and contractor accountability within SEAI retrofit programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45830/25]
119. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of home energy upgrades that have been supported through SEAI retrofitting schemes in Longford and Westmeath in the past five years. [45080/25]
112. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of households in counties Longford and Westmeath which had electricity or gas disconnection in the past year due to non-payment. [44867/25]
110. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the details of the funding that has been provided to Westmeath and Longford County Councils in the past 5 years to implement local climate action plans, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44798/25]
6. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Taoiseach the number of overseas visitors to Ireland for each of the past 5 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44608/25]
5. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Taoiseach the revenue generated by the tourism sector for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44607/25]
3268. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of operating one integrated multi-disciplinary primary care mental health service based on the Jigsaw model; and if this cost varies depending on location or catchment size; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44178/25]
3267. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health to provide the estimated annual cost of delivering integrated multi-disciplinary primary care mental health services based on the Jigsaw model; the current number of such services funded nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44177/25]
3266. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully staffing and operating all child and adult mental health services teams, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44167/25]
3252. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the total annual cost to the Health Service Executive and her Department of providing online mental health services; a breakdown of these costs by platform or service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44124/25]
3251. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of establishing and operating one full Jigsaw youth mental health service in each of the six RHAs; to include staffing, premises and service delivery costs per site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44123/25]