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2232. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for the establishment and operation of the pilot land observatory referenced by stakeholders at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on 4 March 2026; the proposed quarterly data outputs on land movements, ownership types, including dairy, beef and renewable energy and the definition of a family farm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25099/26]

2233. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and duration of long-term land leases entered into by energy companies or renewable developers on agricultural land over the past five years, broken down by county with particular reference to Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25100/26]

2234. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the concerns expressed at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on 4 March 2026 regarding the growing pressure from the energy sector on agricultural land leases and availability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25101/26]

2235. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is taking to protect prime agricultural land in Offaly and nationally from conversion to non-food production uses such as solar, wind or other renewable energy developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25102/26]

2236. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to address increasing corporate, institutional and foreign control of Irish farmland as highlighted in the land availability discussion at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on 4 March 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25103/26]

2237. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current average price of agricultural land in County Offaly; the way in which it compares to the national average; the extent to which consolidation and long-term leasing is reducing availability for active family farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25104/26]

2238. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional supports available or planned for young farmers in Offaly seeking to purchase or lease land in light of the availability challenges and farm consolidation trends raised at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on 4 March 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25105/26]

2239. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the issue of productive agricultural land being tied up in long-term leases to entities outside the active farming sector, as discussed at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on 4 March 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25106/26]

2240. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent of coordination between his Department, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on land-use planning to prioritise food security and family farm viability over other competing uses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25107/26]

2241. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on any proposed legislative or policy changes to improve land mobility and availability for active family farmers and to equip any future land observatory with sufficient powers to intervene in cases of excessive consolidation, as advocated by stakeholders at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on 4 March 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25108/26]

3426. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps his Department will take to sanction a pay increase of 9.25% for instructors, clerical staff and management of training centres (details supplied) who have not received a pay increase since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26136/26]

3427. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reasons his Department did not previously agree to the proposal regarding a 9.25% pay increase sought by instructors, clerical staff and management of training centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26137/26]

73. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the measures taken by her Department to highlight and combat the rise of Christian persecution; if her attention has been drawn to her Department, through Irish Aid, consistently allocated funding to states and territories who engage in the most extreme forms of Christian persecution; her views on whether this is appropriate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22065/26]

385. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will examine concerns regarding the behaviour of a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22042/26]

363. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide details of all stakeholders who have contributed to the formulation of the proposed new immigration strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21155/26]

80. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the steps he will take to reduce the current environmental management cost (vEMC) levy on tyres from its current rate to a rate of €48 per tyre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18845/26]

510. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to confirm that the River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020 is no longer on the priority legislation list for drafting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18871/26]

538. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to address concerns regarding the impact of the Government decision contained in the 2013 public sector single pension scheme, which removed the supplementary pension for workers in fast accrual schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20471/26]

572. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has conducted any assessment on the viability of introducing a universal basic income model including the financial costs of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19030/26]

815. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide the outcome of a recent SNA review which was carried out at a school (details supplied); if the outcome is not yet available to provide an approximate timeframe for when this outcome will be available to the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19624/26]

837. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has published a new draft leaving certificate history syllabus which excludes the period of First World War; whether she agrees that understanding of this period, including issues such as the conscription crisis and the number of Irish people who died in the conflict, is vital to understanding developments in subsequent decades; whether she agrees that to omit this period from the syllabus immediately in the wake of the “Decade of Commemorations” would be an astonishing and ahistorical decision; and whether she will intervene to ensure that this omission is not reflected in the final draft; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19890/26]

923. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 24 February 2026, to list the artforms classified as ‘other’ in his response; to clarify his reference to one recipient being “blank”; whether this means that this recipient received the payment despite not clearly identifying the artform which they participated in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18452/26]

930. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 24 February 2026, to provide a breakdown of the 547 music recipients by their role or professional category within the music industry (details supplied); the number of recipients who were classified as full-time workers or part-time workers in the music industry; the number of applicants who declared a disability in their application; the number of those applicants who were subsequently awarded support; and to further provide any internal categorisation or statistical summaries used by his Department to classify applicants from the music sector within the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18832/26]

959. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the current salary rate being paid to the chairperson and four commissioners of Coimisiún na Meán; the combined cost of these salaries since the commission was established, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20120/26]

960. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will commission an independent review of the compatibility of Coimisiún na Meán's regulatory framework with Article 40.6.1° of the Constitution and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding freedom of expression; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20145/26]