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129. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the working definition used by her Department for the term inclusion and for the term complex needs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10532/26]

207. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he is aware of concerns raised in recent commentary regarding the persistent failure to enforce planning law against unauthorised quarrying activities, including the observation that affected communities are increasingly forced to rely on environmental and EU legislation rather than domestic planning enforcement to address unauthorised development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10941/26]

208. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he is aware of instances in County Galway where unauthorised quarry operations have continued for prolonged periods without effective enforcement action by Galway County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10942/26]

209. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has assessed whether Galway County Council has adequate staffing levels, technical expertise, legal resources and funding to effectively pursue planning enforcement actions against unauthorised quarries; the measures, if any, the Government plans to take to support Galway County Council, including through additional resources, specialist enforcement support, or legislative reform, to ensure effective enforcement of planning law and compliance with national and EU environmental obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10943/26]

346. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport the reason the offence of 'failure to obey traffic rules at railway level crossing' only incurs two penalty points while 'failure to obey traffic lights' incurs three penalty points; and if he will consider increasing the former to match the latter. [9512/26]

347. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport the number of road deaths and injuries which involve crashes where one or more vehicle drivers (including of bicycles-with-engines-attached, scramblers, normal motorbikes, cars, and tractors) do not have a driving license for the vehicle they are driving at the time of the crash; whether the person driving the scrambler in the case of a person (details supplied) had an appropriate driving licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9513/26]

392. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to outline impacts of the Revenue Commissioners case (details supplied) on the arts sector; if he will provide specific guidance via his own Department, the Arts Council or other relevant bodies to the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9665/26]

403. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will comment on the impact of the Revenue Commissioners case (details supplied) on workers in the arts sector, particularly concerning employee and contractor classifications pursuant to the recent Revenue guidelines for determining employment status for taxation purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9667/26]

605. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the lack of ASD capacity in the Dublin 7 area for girls transitioning out of infant classes; if her Department is making the necessary arrangements to facilitate the opening of a second ASD class at a school in Dublin 7 (details supplied) to address this critical shortfall; the way in which her Department intends to better manage and forecast demand in the Dublin 7 area to ensure places are always available; if she will communicate with the parents of affected children to demonstrate how the situation is being urgently addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9906/26]

667. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when he expects approval for the September 2025 agreement between An Post and An Post Group of Unions regarding An Post superannuation schemes to issue; if he can set out the timeline and necessary approval process in respect of same; if he will provide a direct update to each of the relevant trades unions party to the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9648/26]

671. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport his view on the need for Ministerial approval to issue in a timely manner with respect to the most recent agreement between unions and An Post on the An Post superannuation scheme; if he has communicated with his colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation on same; if he has asked for a date by which approval will issue; if he can provide a direct update to each of the relevant trade unions party to the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9649/26]

746. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1569 of 13 January 2026, whether he accepts that former members of religious orders who spent decades in full-time employment in nursing, caring and other public service roles were excluded from PRSI contributions through no fault of their own and are now structurally disadvantaged under the State pension (contributory) system; whether he will consider examining a limited, cohort-based mechanism to recognise such service for contributory pension purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9510/26]

759. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department is considering a policy change to bring Ireland in line with the rest of Europe in terms of granting maternity and paternity benefit at 100% or a high percentage of salary for all or a portion of a person's entitlement to the corresponding leave; if there are policy learnings from the recent implementation of Jobseekers pay-related benefit scheme which could support a similar change in terms of maternity and paternity benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9908/26]

889. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine he reason applications for TAMS 3 for solar PV grants that have an apparent poor success rate; if he can provide data showing the total number of applications; the total number of grants awarded; the total value of same in 2024 and 2025; the breakdown of grants, by percentage awarded to dairy, sheep, beef and tillage farms; if he will consider a review of the eligibility and scoring criteria to ensure more applications are successful, particularly from energy intensive dairy farms, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9650/26]

893. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021 (details supplied); whether the review has concluded; his plans to publish the research and findings; whether his Department now considers that there exists a robust scientific and legal basis for legislative action; and whether the Government plans to progress or amend the Bill or bring forward an alternative legislative measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9887/26]

944. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on Action 44 of Nurturing Skills to examine development of a range of entry routes into the early years sector, including apprenticeships or other work-based learning, and access programmes in FE and HE; the correspondence she has had with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in respect of same; if she would consider an apprenticeship model could potentially bring new cohorts of early years professionals with diverse backgrounds and skills into the sector and that this would be a positive for children in general, but also encouraging for those from minority or disadvantaged backgrounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9907/26]

1063. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 995 of 20 January 2026, the rationale of the way the community pharmacy service can provide full medication optimisation, given that it does not have the access to the GP and the full patient medical history held by the GP, which was core to the success of the proven iSIMPATHY project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9511/26]

1248. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of craft apprentices currently employed within the public service or semi-state companies such as ESB, Bord Na Mona and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9514/26]

179. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether there is an appointment of a new Governor of the Central Bank and if a process for this appointment has been designed yet; if so, the details of this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9049/26]

344. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive; if she expects to have the Directive fully implemented by its June transposition deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9048/26]

171. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on the proposed pumped hydro storage facility at Silvermines, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7357/26]

193. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to publish the recent approval agreement he made with an organisation (details supplied); the way in which this agreement will help Ireland meet binding targets for packaging recycling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8104/26]

194. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when he intends to publish the second whole of Government circular economy strategy; and the progress he has made in this regard since the consultation was opened in September 2025. [8105/26]

195. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason heads 28, 29 and 30 of the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025 that were approved by Government on 11 June 2024, and which would allow the Minister to levy environmental charges such as the plastic bag levy, on producers rather than on retailers, did not appear in the Bill when drafted and initiated in Dáil Éireann; and if he will amend the Bill in Seanad Éireann to restore those heads as previously agreed by Government. [8106/26]

196. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the dates when he plans to commence the remaining sections of the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 2022, in tabular form. [8107/26]