Ken O'Flynn

254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether his Department maintains a central dataset tracking the duration of the planning, environmental impact assessment, appropriate assessment and judicial review stages for major infrastructure projects funded under the National Development Plan since 2015; if so, to provide the annual average duration of each stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21177/26]

255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether a baseline analysis of infrastructure project delivery timelines was undertaken prior to the publication of the Accelerating Infrastructure Action Plan; the evidence or datasets used to support the statement that development lifecycles have doubled compared with twenty years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21178/26]

256. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether his Department intends to establish a central reporting framework requiring sponsoring authorities of major infrastructure projects to report delays and additional costs arising from quashing orders or judicial review proceedings affecting environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21179/26]

257. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether quantified national time-reduction targets will be introduced under the Accelerating Infrastructure Action Plan for the planning, environmental assessment and approval stages of major infrastructure projects; and whether these targets will be published with measurable performance indicators. [21180/26]

310. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the date on which NewERA furnished advice to his Department regarding the proposed amendment to Regulation 20 of the RTÉ Superannuation Scheme; whether that advice was oral or written; whether it addressed trust law principles, pensions law, member protection, and potential conflicts of interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21161/26]

311. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the specific criteria being applied by his Department in assessing RTÉ’s proposed amendment to Regulation 20 of the RTÉ Superannuation Scheme, including whether the Department is considering the interests of active members, deferred members and pensioners separately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21162/26]

312. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has sought from RTÉ a detailed schedule of the categories of expenses proposed to be charged to scheme assets under the proposed amendment to Regulation 20; if so, the categories identified; whether any part of those proposed costs relate to historic, legacy, restructuring or dispute-related expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21163/26]

313. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has sought confirmation from RTÉ or the trustees as to whether any retrospective charging of costs to scheme assets is contemplated under the proposed amendment to Regulation 20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21164/26]

314. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has considered seeking the views of the Pensions Authority on the proposed amendment to Regulation 20 of the RTÉ Superannuation Scheme; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21165/26]

315. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has considered obtaining independent external legal advice on the proposed amendment to Regulation 20 of the RTÉ Superannuation Scheme since receipt of RTÉ’s request on 14 October 2025; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21166/26]

316. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether the trustees of the RTÉ Superannuation Scheme have provided his Department with any legal opinion, actuarial note, governance memorandum, or member-impact assessment in support of the proposed amendment to Regulation 20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21167/26]

317. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether any deadline, target date, or indicative timeframe has been set by his Department for determining RTÉ’s request of 14 October 2025 to amend Regulation 20 of the RTÉ Superannuation Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21168/26]

355. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of public servants recruited since 2013 in fast accrual professions including An Garda Síochána and the Prison Service who are members of the Public Service Single Pension Scheme; the estimated income gap that arises between retirement age for these professions and the age of eligibility for the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21784/26]

364. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether offences under section 14A of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, as inserted by the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022, are recorded under a distinct offence code within the Garda crime-recording system or any successor national crime statistics framework; the number of such offences recorded, investigated, and referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions in each year since the commencement of that provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21186/26]

365. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of complaints or reports made to An Garda Síochána alleging offences under section 14A of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, as inserted by the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022, in each year since that provision commenced; and the number of investigations initiated, files submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions, prosecutions brought and convictions secured. [21235/26]

416. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total annual expenditure by Tusla on placements purchased from privately operated children’s residential centres in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; the total expenditure on all residential care placements in those years; and the percentage share represented by private placements in each year, in tabular form. [21240/26]

417. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department, or Tusla, has conducted any analysis of the cost differential between privately operated residential placements and placements within Tusla-operated centres; and if she will provide the average weekly cost per placement under each model. [21241/26]

418. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Tusla has set any strategic target to reduce reliance on privately operated children’s residential placements, given that approximately 73% of placements were provided by private operators in 2024. [21242/26]

419. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department, or Tusla, has engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding the expenditure incurred on privately operated children’s residential care placements; whether the Comptroller and Auditor General has examined or intends to examine the governance, procurement arrangements or value-for-money considerations associated with such placements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21243/26]

420. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department, or Tusla, has conducted any value-for-money or cost-effectiveness analysis comparing privately operated residential care placements with placements within Tusla-operated residential centres; and whether any such analysis has been provided to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. [21244/26]

429. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the total number of practising general practitioners in the State who have completed HSE-funded suicide prevention training programmes, including SafeTALK, ASIST, STORM, the Self-Harm Assessment and Management Programme for General Practitioners in Ireland (SAMAGH), or equivalent programmes, in each of the past five years; and whether her Department maintains a national database or monitoring system recording participation in such training. [21018/26]

430. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has undertaken any national assessment or review of the adequacy of training supports available to general practitioners in managing suicidal ideation and self-harm presentations among children and adolescents; if such a review has been undertaken, when it was conducted; and whether the findings will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21019/26]

431. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals made by general practitioners to the Suicide Crisis Assessment Nurse (SCAN) service in each of the past three years; the number of those referrals relating to persons under the age of 18; and whether her Department monitors the utilisation of this pathway by primary care practitioners. [21020/26]

432. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the geographic distribution of Suicide Crisis Assessment Nurse (SCAN) services currently operating within the State; the counties or Community Healthcare Organisations currently served by these posts; and the timeline for the rollout of the additional posts funded under Budget 2026. [21021/26]

433. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether consideration is being given to the establishment of a national clinical consultation or advice line to support general practitioners who are managing patients presenting with suicidal ideation or self-harm, particularly where the patient is under 18 years of age; and if she will outline the policy position of her Department on such a service. [21022/26]