Roderic O'Gorman

847. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the response her Department plans to make to the intervention of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights regarding the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5608/26]

848. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department is undertaking an SME impact analysis on the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; what this analysis entails; when will it be finished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5609/26]

989. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the number of vehicles that were clamped in the public carpark of Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown in the years of 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [5746/26]

990. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the estimated full year costs to recruit three additional WTE epidemiologists, and three additional principal epidemiologists to work in the public health services. [5747/26]

991. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE principal dental surgeons employed by HSE based in CHO7 as of 16 January 2026; if she will provide same figures as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form. [5748/26]

992. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in critical care medicine based at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown as of 1 January 2026; if she will provide same figures as of 1 January 2023 in tabular form. [5749/26]

1175. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE digital marketing specialists employed by the Charities Regulator as of 16 January 2026. [5753/26]

273. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is supportive of the EU suspending the present trade agreement negotiations with the United Arab Emirates over its role in the ongoing Sudanese civil war and its link to those perpetrating a humanitarian catastrophe there, including large scale mass killings; if Ireland will advance this position at the Foreign Affairs Committee; her plans to prioritise greater EU action on the situation in Sudan when Ireland assumes the EU Presidency, including efforts to ensure the UAE disengages from the conflict; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5145/26]

429. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department plans to bring forward proposals on a cost of disability payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5219/26]

446. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the proportion of family reunification grants made under the International Protection Act 2015 in 2025 where the sponsor was a minor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5607/26]

452. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current average processing times for short stay 'C' visas from submission to decision; the number of applications which were made in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number granted in each year; his plans to assign more officials to the processing of C visas to reduce processing times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5144/26]

472. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons who arrived in the State through refugee family reunification in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025; the breakdown of persons, by age and by eligibility category, that is, spouses, minor children, parents of minor children, and siblings of minor children for each year. [5222/26]

494. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the review of the ECCE programme will be completed; when it will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5220/26]

495. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider greater flexibility for entry dates for the ECCE programme, particularly if a child has only missed an entry date by a short period of time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5221/26]

230. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will raise recent human rights abuses in Iran with the Iranian Government, and at EU and UN level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4092/26]

356. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport for an update on the proposed DN2 bus route linking Haynestown to Fatima, Dundalk in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4236/26]

357. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport if funding will be provided under the NDP for the double tracking of the rail line between Galway City and Athenry; the expected timeframe for the delivery of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4237/26]

358. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport if the proposed Cabra train station can go ahead in advance of the DART south west project and serve commuters using the existing service that run from Newbridge and Hazelhatch/Celbridge to Connolly and Grand Canal Dock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4238/26]

359. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport the planning that has been put in place for alternative public transport for commuters using the Maynooth train line; when that line is shut to allow the DART Plus West works to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4239/26]

403. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason a State-owned facility is being permitted to ignore the National Payments Strategy (details supplied) by not accepting cash payments; the way this strategy is generally monitored by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4093/26]

431. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the average period of weeks for a major capital project to go through the entire approval gate two process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4240/26]

432. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the average period of weeks for a major capital project to go through the entire approval gate three process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4241/26]

433. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the legal status of the ‘administrative guidance’ proposed under action 23 of the ‘Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action Plan’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4242/26]

434. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the reason he is proposing that timelines for projects going through the infrastructure guidelines process would only be laid out as ‘administrative guidance’, rather than as statutory timelines, as proposed under action 23 of the ‘Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action Plan’;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4243/26]

435. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the consequences for Departments that fail to meet new timelines, set out in administrative guidance, for advancing capital projects under the infrastructure guidelines, following the implementation of the changes proposed under action 23 of the ‘Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action Plan’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4244/26]