Roderic O'Gorman

213. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport when the free public transport for children under nine years of age as committed to in Budget 2025, will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40473/25]

335. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the way in which the recently announced changes around contracts of indefinite duration for teachers will differ from the current system for the treatment of contracts of indefinite duration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40470/25]

388. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on his Department's plans for the tenant-in-situ scheme, given recent reports that both Fingal County Council and Dublin City Council have exhausted all of their available funds for 2025; if he intends to increase funding available for the scheme this year given the large waiting list for the scheme in both local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40684/25]

439. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason it took so long for the visa application for the 33 young players and 14 mentors for the Moataz Sarsour GAA club in the Palestinian Occupied Territories to be determined on and rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40472/25]

458. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to introduce legislation to ban surgical artificial insemination in all dogs, including greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40461/25]

459. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the results of his Department's public consultation on banning surgical artificial insemination in dogs will be published; the steps that will be taken as a result of this consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40462/25]

509. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the number of people identifying as survivors or former residents of mother and baby institutions that have taken up counselling to date under the National Counselling Service, as provided for in the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40685/25]

510. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if the entitlement to counselling for survivors and former residents of mother and baby institutions, via the National Counselling Service, as provided for in the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, is time limited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40686/25]

511. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health if the entitlement to counselling for survivors and former residents of mother and baby institutions, via the National Counselling Service, as provided for in the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions, has been altered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40687/25]

299. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health the total number of people using omnipod 5 insulin pumps in each county from 2020-2025 inclusive; the status of the roll-out of these products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40094/25]

113. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Finance the amount transferred to the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39172/25]

209. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the current timeline of delivery for the proposed acquisition of a State-leased floating storage and regasification unit and construction of ancillary infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38724/25]

210. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the locations short-listed for the State-leased floating storage and regasification unit and associated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38725/25]

211. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to list the gas storage “onshore salt cavern” locations that have been identified for a ‘full mitigation scenario’, as outlined by the Gas Networks Ireland ‘Preliminary Business Case’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38726/25]

212. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when the promised public consultation on a State-led floating storage and regasification unit, as outlined by the previous Minister of this Department, will be undertaken, keeping in mind Ireland’s commitments under the Aarhus Convention and the legal challenges taken by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to lack of necessary public participation on the updated National Energy and Climate Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38727/25]

213. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason he took the decision to dispense with a revised Energy Poverty Action Plan in favour of advancing an Energy Affordability Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38728/25]

214. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for the timeline for the publication of the Energy Affordability Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38729/25]

215. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if any exception could be made to waste regulations for small scale café’s which would enable them to sell or provide for free coffee grinds to local community gardens as fertilizers, even if said community garden groups did not possess a waste licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38730/25]

422. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his view on whether the statute of limitations in respect of admissibility of cases to the Workplace Relations Commission should be suspended for historic cases deemed significant to warrant examination; the policy implications of such a change; the rationale for maintaining the present time limitations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39334/25]

476. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a situation has come about that parents of children with autism were, at the end of May, offered places in an autism class in a school (details supplied) to start in September but now the parents have been told that he class will not start for an indefinite period of time; the examination has been carried out of other potential temporary local locations for the class; the educational provision being made for these children for the indefinite period of time until the necessary building works are complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39219/25]

584. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the areas in Dublin where Dublin Fire Brigade is adequately resourced to rapidly process the fire safety applications from new early learning and care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39210/25]

588. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his officials have been made aware of alarming practices on the part of residential housing developers (details supplied); if he will outline the non-judicial remedies homeowners may seek in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39332/25]

677. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department has given any consideration to the provision of emergency visas for people fleeing Gaza, similar to what was provided to people fleeing Afghanistan in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38731/25]

728. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide an update on efforts to ensure the site at Crooksling providing emergency international protection accommodation is fully structured, heated and serviced; when it is expected that tented structures may no longer be necessary at the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39333/25]

822. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality If there are plans to have a play specialist post at Blakestown children's disability network team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39218/25]