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243. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total customs duty and import VAT collected on buses imported into the State from Great Britain and other non-EU countries in each of the past five years; and if he will provide a breakdown by year and engine type where available. [68772/25]

244. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged with the Department of Transport regarding the tax implications identified by operators participating in Local Link and school transport tenders, particularly the inability to reclaim VAT on new buses; and if he will outline the nature and outcome of any such interdepartmental discussions. [68773/25]

245. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Department has modelled the fiscal impact of allowing licensed bus operators to benefit from an accelerated capital allowance for the purchase of new low-emission buses; and if he will provide the estimated costings under scenarios of 20 percent, 30 percent and 40 percent accelerated allowance rates. [68774/25]

246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if any assessment has been carried out of the interaction between the VAT exemption for passenger transport and Ireland’s transport-sector decarbonisation targets; and if he will provide the conclusions of any such analysis. [68775/25]

247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of licensed bus operators that have accessed the VAT 71 touring-coach refund scheme in each of the past five years; the total value refunded; and whether the Department has analysed the differential impact of this scheme on touring operators compared with school-transport and mixed-service operators. [68776/25]

248. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if Revenue has issued guidance to licensed bus operators on the verification of UK origin under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement for the importation of buses; and if he will provide copies of any such guidance issued since 2021. [68777/25]

249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will provide a breakdown of all vehicle-registration enforcement actions in each of the past five years by vehicle category, including Irish-registered, EU-registered, non-EU-registered, and Ukrainian-registered vehicles, in order to establish the scale of compliance activity by exemption type. [68946/25]

250. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of conflict-of-interest statements received by the Standards in Public Office Commission since January 2020 relating to Ministers, Ministers of State, special advisers or senior civil servants whose family members hold financial interests in companies involved in the manufacture or supply of pharmaceuticals or medical devices; and the number of such statements that related specifically to decisions on paediatric or adolescent healthcare policy. [68782/25]

251. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will outline any plans to establish a central reporting mechanism for recusals or conflict-of-interest statements made under the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 and Standards in Public Office Act 2001, in order to ensure consistent oversight in areas of emerging medical policy, including paediatric gender-related services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68783/25]

252. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if any review has been undertaken by his Department since January 2020 on whether current ethics legislation is sufficient to address conflicts of interest arising from new or emerging medical technologies, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical pathways for minors and related digital health systems; and if he will list any recommendations identified. [68784/25]

253. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of Departments that have notified his Department since 2020 of internal policies or protocols for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare-related policy development; and if he will provide a list of those Departments. [68785/25]

254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has carried out any assessment of the adequacy of existing guidance on conflicts of interest within the civil service where officials have personal, family or financial links to organisations involved in gender-related clinical services, research, training or advocacy; and if he will provide details of any findings. [68787/25]

255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department maintains any record of instances since January 2020 in which senior civil servants sought approval to proceed with official functions notwithstanding a declared conflict of interest under the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995; and if he will provide the number of such requests recorded by his Department. [68788/25]

256. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of engagements, consultations or meetings his Department has held since January 2020 with the Standards in Public Office Commission to review or update guidance on conflicts of interest, and if any of these engagements addressed medical or technological policy areas involving minors. [68789/25]

257. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has identified any gaps or deficiencies in the current conflict-of-interest framework as applied to emerging medical or technological policy areas, and if he will outline any proposals under consideration to address those gaps. [68791/25]

261. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has examined the introduction of statutory pregnancy-loss leave for losses before 23 weeks; and the assessments carried out on cost, eligibility, expected uptake, and international best practice. [68756/25]

264. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the steps being taken to ensure clear and accurate consumer information on meat products supplied to food service businesses and retail outlets; the oversight mechanisms for verifying origin, labelling and traceability; and the measures in place to prevent consumers being misled about the nature or source of meat products. [68742/25]

265. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the specific productivity indicators his Department uses to evaluate the impact of State-funded innovation schemes in the residential construction sector, including Built to Innovate and Construct Innovate, and to confirm whether metrics such as output per labour hour, output per euro of State support, and time-to-completion benchmarks are currently in use; and if not, when such indicators will be established. [68900/25]

266. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the methodology used by his Department to assess value-for-money in the allocation of more than €6.5 million under the Built to Innovate programme for residential construction productivity, including the performance criteria applied to participating firms and the evidence of productivity gains recorded to date. [68901/25]

267. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the findings of the recent mid-cycle international evaluation of Construct Innovate carried out in November 2025, including the assessment of its productivity-related KPIs, its impact on residential construction delivery, and any recommendations for corrective actions. [68902/25]

268. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the work undertaken with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Central Statistics Office since 2022 to develop residential-specific productivity data, including the collection of GVA, hours worked, and modern methods of construction output data separately from commercial construction, and the timeline for first publication of such statistics. [68904/25]

288. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she has obtained legal advice on the compatibility of Bí Cineálta and related SPHE requirements with Articles 41 and 42 of the Constitution and section 9 of the Education Act, if so, to outline the key considerations that informed her Department's position, and the statutory basis relied upon to require whole-school implementation where parents do not consent to defined elements of the programme. [68833/25]

289. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth the safeguarding assessment undertaken by her Department before finalising Bí Cineálta, including the methodology used, the evidence sources reviewed, and whether recent reports such as the Cass Review and the HSS evidence review were examined, and if she will publish the assessment or its summary findings. [68834/25]

290. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth to set out the procedures that schools are required to follow when a parent withholds consent from specific elements of Bí Cineálta or SPHE content, including the recording of non-consent, the supervision or alternative learning arrangements to be provided, and the instructions issued to schools to ensure that such pupils are not identified or stigmatised. [68835/25]

302. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the Department’s estimate of the current national shortfall in buses required to meet contractual and public-service obligations for school transport. [69688/25]