75. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a function-by-function comparison of the responsibilities of the National Parents Council and those arising under the Student and Parent Charter, identifying any overlapping activities; the justification for continued separate funding; and the arrangements for evaluating the effectiveness of each function. [74782/26]
76. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has conducted a value-for-money review of funding provided to the National Parents Council since 2021, including an assessment of administrative costs, direct services, measurable outcomes and alternative methods of delivering parent support; and if she will publish the findings. [74781/26]
77. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the annual performance targets, service-level agreements and outcome reports required from the National Parents Council for each year from 2021 to 2026, including the number of parents and parents' associations supported, training delivered, and the results achieved against each target; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74780/…
239. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department or the HSE has assessed the case for a national osteoporosis screening programme, including DEXA scanning for women over 50 years-of-age; if the matter has been referred to the National Screening Advisory Committee for consideration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74790/26]
240. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions for hip fractures in persons aged 50 and over in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down by gender; the estimated annual cost to the health service of treating osteoporotic fractures, including rehabilitation and long term care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74794/26]
241. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of heart transplants, lung transplants and combined heart and lung transplants carried out in the Mater Misericordiae University hospital in each month from January 2025 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [74796/26]
242. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of DEXA scans provided to public patients under the GP access to diagnostics scheme in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the current average waiting time for such a scan in the HSE south-west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74793/26]
243. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for a heart transplant and for a lung transplant at the end of each quarter from quarter 1 2025 to date in 2026; and the average waiting time in each case, in tabular form. [74798/26]
244. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients, adult and paediatric, who received a heart or lung transplant outside the State under the treatment abroad scheme or another arrangement in 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [74801/26]
246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of potential heart and lung transplants that did not proceed in 2025 and to date in 2026 due to bed, theatre or staffing capacity at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. [74803/26]
247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the number of individual persons, as distinct from treatment cases or episodes, who presented for treatment with gambling as their main problem in each of the years 2021 to 2025, by HSE health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74805/26]
249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the number of persons currently waiting to commence treatment for gambling addiction in the HSE south-west region, broken down by service; the longest current wait from referral; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74806/26]
252. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, if the HSE will confirm the accuracy of the average waiting times reported in table 3 for the HSE Dublin and north-east and HSE Dublin and south-east regions, which are identical at 1.47 days in 2021 and at 2.16 days in 2025; if the HSE will confirm the percentage increase in cases treated for gambling as a main prob…
253. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the number of persons in each of the years 2021 to 2025 who were referred for gambling addiction treatment in the HSE south-west region but did not commence treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74810/26]
254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the services in counties Cork and Kerry that provide treatment for gambling addiction; the funding allocated to each such service in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, including any allocation from the additional investment in gambling treatment services since 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74808/26]
255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72371/26, the median and maximum waiting time in days between referral and commencement of treatment for gambling as a main problem in each HSE health region in each of the years 2021 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74807/26]
201. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade which of the 23 commitments in Ireland's Diaspora Strategy 2026 to 2030 relate to access to housing for Irish citizens returning to the State; if the Department or the Minister of State for international development and the diaspora has engaged with the Department of Finance or the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on a housin…
214. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the protections in place for vulnerable domestic electricity customers who are in arrears but making regular repayments, where their supplier has threatened disconnection and advised that they will be liable for associated disconnection and reconnection costs. [73456/26]
215. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether a vulnerable domestic electricity customer who is in arrears but making regular repayments can be prevented from switching electricity supplier; the arrears thresholds and time limits that apply; and the measures available to ensure such customers can access more affordable tariffs. [73457/26]
223. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total cost of the National Smart Metering Programme to date; the extent to which the programme's objective of enabling customers to choose the tariff best suited to their usage is being achieved; if the Department has assessed whether consumer tools, including accredited price comparison websites, make use of the consumption data s…
224. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of domestic electricity customers on smart time of use tariffs; the number of customers who have downloaded their smart meter data file (HDF) from ESB Networks, in each of the years 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74341/26]
225. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will engage with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, with a view to requiring accredited price comparison websites to allow customers to enter their own day, night and peak consumption or upload their smart meter data file, HDF, from ESB Networks when comparing time of use tariffs; and if he will make a statement on …
226. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he is aware that price comparison websites accredited by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, calculate the cost of smart day-night-peak tariffs using a fixed assumed split of household usage rather than the customer's actual consumption; if his Department has assessed the extent to which this may lead households to choo…
287. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport whether his Department holds records of a Ministerial order, approval or other authorisation made between 2008 and 2010 concerning increases to pensions in payment under the CIÉ pension schemes; if so, if he will provide copies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73753/26]
288. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport whether any maximum increase to pensions in payment under the CIÉ schemes was authorised by him or his predecessors with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation since 2009; the way in which the board applied public service norms on pension increases in each annual review; and if he will make a…