205. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of all diplomatic démarches issued by the Government to other states over each of the past five years, in tabular form, including the period from January 2025 to date, to include the state to which the démarche was issued; the date on which it was issued; a brief summary of the content of the démarche; whet…
262. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of IDA-hosted visits to each city in the State in each of the past 20 years, in tabular form. [33364/25]
263. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of IDA-hosted visits to each county in each of the past 20 years, in tabular form. [33365/25]
264. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of IDA jobs in each county in each of the past 20 years in tabular form. [33366/25]
265. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of WTE positions within the IDA assigned to each county in the State in each of the past 20 years, including job titles and grades, in tabular form. [33367/25]
271. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth , given that the 1,600 additional SNA staff promised in Budget 2025, bringing the number of SNAs from 22,000 to 23,600, will now amount to approximately 500 fewer than expected, she will provide a breakdown, by county, of the 1,600 extra SNAs that had been promised for each county for September 2025, and the number of SNAs that will be allocat…
334. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the failure to make progress towards the Roadmap for Social Inclusion target of reducing consistent poverty from 5% to 2% or less by 2025, given that the most recent EU-SILC data shows the rate remains at 5% showing no net reduction; the analysis his Department has undertaken of the reasons for this stagnation; the specific action…
335. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the way in which feedback and recommendations from the Social Inclusion Forum are integrated into the development and implementation of national anti-poverty policy; his views on the Forum’s role in informing future iterations of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33358/25]
336. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on progress toward the Roadmap for Social Inclusion targets specifically relating to child poverty and jobless households; the data sources used to track these targets; his views on the challenges and interventions identified to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33359/25]
337. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on progress toward the Roadmap for Social Inclusion targets specifically relating to poverty amongst older persons; the data sources used to track these targets; his views on the challenges and interventions identified to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33360/25]
338. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the mechanisms that exist across Government to ensure interdepartmental coordination in delivering the Roadmap for Social Inclusion; the way in which his Department monitors implementation across sectors; his views on the effectiveness of these oversight arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33361/25]
368. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a retirement home (details supplied) in Waterford was closed; the reason for its closure; if his Department plans to reopen the facility as a public nursing home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33354/25]
383. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to outline, given that many of the frontline workers during the pandemic are still suffering with the effects of long Covid and have to deal with an increased amount of sick leave and medical bills, her views on the secession of special Covid payments to healthcare workers/HSE staff with long Covid, on 30 June 2025; and her views on long-Covid sufferers ha…
409. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health her Department’s position is regarding pension entitlements for staff employed under HSE-funded Roma and intercultural health projects operated by area partnerships; if her Department or HSE intends to fund employer pension contributions for these workers; the plans in place to address this matter upon the introduction of pension auto-enrolment; and if she…
410. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health to detail all applications made in the past five years with respect to the establishment of a Jigsaw youth mental health service in Waterford, including the date of the application, by whom it was made, by whom it was received, the consideration given to the application, the outcome, date of decision, and the rationale for that decision, in tabular form. […
16. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the total cost of the continuous Defence Forces recruitment campaign; the number of new recruits to each service; and for a breakdown of the spend for each of the services in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [33069/25]
82. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason the capitation grant for primary schools is significantly less than the capitation grant for post-primary schools. [33081/25]
83. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has carried out any research or analysis in the past twelve months on the increasing costs impacting primary and post-primary schools. [33082/25]
84. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth her rationale for excluding primary schools from the funding scheme for smart phone storage solutions, given that 94% of 8-12-year-olds own a smart decide according to a 2023/2024 Cyber Safe Kids survey. [33083/25]
93. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is concerned about the lack of a family resource centre in Dungarvan and that no service is available in west Waterford, south Tipperary or east Cork. [32422/25]
144. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 10 June 2025, when the forthcoming action plan on market diversification, which is being developed jointly by his Department and the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, will be published; and if further clarification will be provided on the specific steps that might …
179. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he has authorised the use of social media influencers by the Irish Defence Forces for recruitment and communications; and his views on whether there may be conflicts of interest caused by social media accounts advertising careers in the Defence Forces while simultaneously sharing partisan content related to live conflict situations and int…
201. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport the capital budget allocation for his Department in the years of 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [32567/25]
441. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a response will issue to a school (details supplied) that have been denied a SNA without any detail on the reason the decision was reached. [32524/25]
442. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason her Department agreed to provide an autism class for a school in 2023 (details supplied) and then refused funding this April; and when the full amount of funding needed will be provided. [32543/25]