353. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total amount paid to the operator of the former IPAS centre at Georges Street, Drogheda, from the award of its contract to the termination of that contract in November 2025; whether any sums remain due to or recoverable by the State following the company's entry into voluntary liquidation; and if he will make a statement on the mat…
357. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of protected disclosures received by the Minister in each year since 2019 concerning Garda firearms, holsters, armoury management or the procurement of related equipment; the number transmitted to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission or Fiosrú in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75291/26]
358. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the criteria he will apply in deciding whether to establish a public inquiry into the procurement, issue and replacement of Garda holsters; the expected timeframe for that decision; and whether he will meet a family (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75264/26]
361. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will offer, or will request the Garda Commissioner to offer, an apology to the family of a person (details supplied) in respect of the absence of official contact with the family following the publication in November 2023 of concerns about Garda issue holsters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75288/26]
363. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of letters received by him from a family (details supplied or from their representatives, since March 2025; the dates on which each was received and replied to; the commitments given by him at a meeting with the family in March 2025; and the action taken on each since; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75285/26…
364. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of investigations commenced by An Garda Síochána since 1 January 2024 involving suspected money laundering through retail premises selling vaping or tobacco products, nationally and in the Cork City and Cork North Garda Divisions; the number of actions taken by the Criminal Assets Bureau in respect of such premises; and if h…
366. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will ascertain from An Garda Síochána the number of leather holsters withdrawn from use since June 2020; the date by which every member authorised to carry a firearm was issued with a replacement holster; the type and retention standard of the holster now in use; and the total cost of the replacement programme; and if he will mak…
383. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff employed at the Veterinary Food Safety Laboratory, Inniscarra, County Cork, by grade and by employer; the arrangements planned for these staff if the laboratory closes; whether staff and their representative bodies have been consulted; whether the laboratory's INAB accreditation, registration 261T, will be surrendered;…
384. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine where the official control food and water testing currently carried out at the Veterinary Food Safety Laboratory, Inniscarra, County Cork, including listeria, salmonella, carcase swab and water testing, will be carried out if the laboratory closes; the location of the nearest alternative category 3 laboratory capable of testing for high r…
385. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made to close, or to cease funding or using, the Veterinary Food Safety Laboratory at Inniscarra, County Cork, including its category 2 laboratory and category 3 containment facility; the date on which any such decision was made and by whom; the planned closure date; whether a review, business case or value for mone…
386. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding for the Veterinary Food Safety Laboratory, Inniscarra, County Cork, provided by the Department before and after the transfer of local authority veterinary services to the Department on 1 January 2025; the number of samples tested there that were funded by the Department in each of the years 2023 to 2026; and the number of rese…
400. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE's service level agreement with SouthDoc specifies approved methods for collecting patient fees; whether doctors providing services through SouthDoc are permitted to accept payments into personal accounts, including Revolut; what financial recording, auditing and accountability arrangements apply to such payments; whether SouthDoc is required to pro…
431. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE sets a minimum mileage or travel reimbursement rate that home support providers approved under the authorisation scheme must pay to carers who use their own vehicles; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75236/26]
440. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 50574/26, whether, of the 525 compliance audits of home support providers under the authorisation scheme examined travel time or mileage payments to carers; the number of providers found to be non-compliant on those terms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75231/26]
442. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether home support providers contracted by the HSE are required to pay carers for travel time and mileage from their home to their first call of the day and from their last call back home; whether the HSE monitors compliance with this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75227/26]
443. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has assessed the gap between mileage paid by home support providers and the actual fuel and running costs carers incur on rural routes, where a carer covering about 100 km a day may receive a small fraction of the cost; whether the national hourly rate paid to providers includes a component for carers' travel costs; and if she will make a statement…
444. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE sets a minimum mileage reimbursement rate that home support providers approved under the authorisation scheme must pay to carers who use their own vehicles to travel between clients; if not, whether such a minimum is under consideration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75223/26]
457. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the current status of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026; the expected date of enactment; the dates on which the provisions restricting colours, imagery, flavour descriptors and advertising of nicotine inhaling products are expected to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [75281/26]
459. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether consideration has been given to providing a statutory definition of a specialist retailer of nicotine inhaling products, distinguishing premises whose primary business is the sale of such products from general retailers, in view of the difficulty in defining a vape shop identified by the Minister of State with responsibility for public health; whether her …
462. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of applications for retail licences for tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products received since 2 February 2026; the number granted, refused and outstanding; the number of licences suspended or revoked; the number of retailers registered to sell tobacco products prior to 2 February 2026 that had not applied for a licence by 2 August 2026; and if …
463. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of targeted compliance checks carried out by the HSE since 2 February 2026 to detect the sale of tobacco products or nicotine inhaling products without a licence, by county and separately for Cork city and Cork County; the number of premises found to be selling without a licence; the enforcement action taken, including prosecutions; and if she will make…
481. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of retail licences granted to date under the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023, broken down by licence type, that is, tobacco products only, nicotine inhaling products only, and both, by county, separately for the administrative areas of Cork City Council and Cork County Council, and by retail premises and online s…
69. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has issued written guidance to post-primary schools on reasonable accommodation for students with dyslexia who experience significant and persistent difficulties learning a modern foreign language; whether schools are expected to consider alternative subjects or other arrangements in such cases; if not, the guidance that governs …
73. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has conducted a review of the respective functions of an organisation (details supplied), the Department’s own parent-support structures and the proposed Student and Parent Charter arrangements to identify any duplication of services; if so, to provide details of the findings; and if not, whether such a review will be undertaken …
74. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a copy of, or set out the specific services, outputs, performance targets and deliverables required of the National Parents Council under its 2026 State funding agreement, including the number of parents and parents’ associations to be supported, training to be delivered, reporting requirements and the measures used by her Department to asse…