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173. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection to set out the policy in his Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15625/26]

210. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to set out the policy in his Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15622/26]

217. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the policy in his Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15608/26]

235. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to set out the policy in her Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15609/26]

281. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health to set out the policy in her Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15620/26]

284. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to set out the policy in his Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15619/26]

288. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to set out the policy in his Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15624/26]

360. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated annual shortfall to the Exchequer, if principal private residences of the deceased were made exempt from the payment by beneficiaries of an estate from capital acquisitions tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14044/26]

361. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated annual shortfall to the Exchequer, if Class B beneficiaries had the same exemption thresholds applied to them as Class A beneficiaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14045/26]

390. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will publish a list of properties and/or items that currently benefit from an exemption to capital acquisitions tax on the basis of their national, scientific, historic or artistic interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14980/26]

391. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has plans to introduce a statutory footing that would allow Revenue to publish a list of properties and/or items that currently benefit from an exemption to capital acquisitions tax on the basis of their national, scientific, historic or artistic interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14981/26]

392. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has considered introducing a system operating in the UK where members of the public can search online for the properties and/or items that have benefitted from tax breaks such as the exemption to capital acquisitions tax, on the basis of the property or item’s national, scientific, historic or artistic interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14982/26]

393. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman will confirm, since the 2025 Act came into force, the approach it is now taking in the case of complaints made against regulated financial institutions in cases involving actions taken by institutions relating to joint accounts where the consent of all parties was neither sought or received by such institutions; the number of such cases referred to FSPO under the 2025 Act to date; the number of such cases in which FSPO has upheld such complaints from individual complainants and found against the institution concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15111/26]

550. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education and Youth to obtain from the NCSE the names of the individual schools in County Louth that received notice from the NCSE (prior to the announcement by the Minister that the current review of SNA allocation is to be paused), informing them that they would lose SNAs in their mainstream classes in the next school year; the number of SNAs that were scheduled to be lost to each school, as reflected in the correspondence received by each school concerned, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14662/26]

551. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the number of SNAs currently in place supporting students in mainstream classes in each school in County Louth, as of 1 January 2026, on a school-by-school basis, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14663/26]

588. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she has any plans to review the requirement for newly qualified teachers to have completed the Droichead programme within three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15076/26]

934. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the reason HSE chiropody cards are currently only available to individuals living in Dublin and Kildare; if her Department plans to expand the availability of these cards countrywide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14126/26]

496. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to confirm that the closed bidding session for PTSB has closed; the number of companies/entities that have expressed an interest in purchasing PTSB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12741/26]

497. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the State has requested a guarantee from any potential buyer of PTSB that jobs and the branch network will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12742/26]

498. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he as the main shareholder will oppose a sale of PTSB to private equity firm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12743/26]

499. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he raised the issue of outsourcing and off-shoring of roles in this recent meetings with the CEOs of Bank of Ireland and AIB; if he has concerns about the ability of both pillar banks to address potential cyber issues due to outsourcing and offshoring of roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12744/26]

500. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will reconvene the Banking Forum; if he will consider a joint initiative with the Minister for Finance in Northern Ireland, to hold a joint banking forum to plan and discuss with relevant stakeholder the future of banking on the Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12745/26]

797. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to initiate a series of local authority boundary reviews, 11 years after the last set of reviews; if he plans to review the boundary in operation between Louth and Meath, covering the environs of south Drogheda in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12046/26]

1237. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health when screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic condition affecting approximately six babies born in Ireland each year, will be included in the national newborn bloodspot screening programme; if SMA screening will be implemented before the end of March 2026, as cited by a leading paediatric clinician in recent media coverage; the preparations currently underway to ensure this timeline is met, given that more than two years have elapsed since the decision was taken to include SMA in the heelprick test (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12849/26]

2. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to outline the accountability measures in the accelerating infrastructure action plan; the way he intends to implement and enforce them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11340/26]