411. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure the new national child poverty target published 10 September 2025 is made publicly available on gov.ie; the reason it has not been available publicly between the 10 and 15 of September 2025 (inclusive); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49899/25]
412. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason it is not standard practice across the board in the Department’s research, data collection and reports to account for the at risk of poverty rate both before and after housing costs; the reason the Department does not always measure the at risk of poverty rate after housing costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49900/25]
621. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if she is aware that patients being prescribed concerta for the treatment of symptoms associated with ADHD by doctors in the CAMHS service have to leave that service and the prescribing element of that service at aged 18; if she is further aware that there is no adult clinic for ADHD for persons living in North County Dublin; if she will advise where a special…
299. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if any monies invested on behalf of the State through ISIF/ the Irish Whiskey Growth Fund have been lost for any reason, including liquidation, examinership, cessation of trading, bankruptcy or other; if so, to provide a breakdown of the amount of investment lost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47937/25]
730. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of schools under contract to a supplier (details supplied) under the hot school meals programme; the number of schools that exclusively cater to additional educational needs; the number that are DEIS schools; the number that are DEIS+ schools; his plans to provide parents of children affected by the cessation of the services with a stipen…
848. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of children who were referred by An Garda Síochána to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in each year between 2014 and 2024, in tabular form. [47938/25]
350. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware that the recently introduced E1 bus service does not include a passenger shelter; if he will reconsider this decision to ensure safe and comfortable waiting conditions for passengers; if he is aware that at present, there is no live feed or digital display showing bus timetables and arrival times; when such a system will be installed; if he i…
526. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the first year and full year cost of increasing the rate of tax relief on food products for additional diet expenses for coeliacs and diabetics from 20% to 30%. [45797/25]
1372. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of increasing the maximum rate of the additional needs payment for additional diet expenses by €1. [45798/25]
1373. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first-year and full-year cost of two double monthly child benefit payments. [45874/25]
1385. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full year cost of increasing jobseeker’s transitional payment by €1. [46301/25]
1386. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full year cost of increasing the income disregard for jobseekers transitional payment by 10%. [46302/25]
1387. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full year cost of increasing the income disregard for working family payment by 10%. [46303/25]
1388. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full year cost of introducing a part-time rate of job seekers for self employed making less than a 40 hour week at the current minimum wage. [46304/25]
1775. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason for social welfare payment delays on 7 and 14 July 2025; the way in which the issue was rectified; the measures taken to prevent a recurrence; if both delays were caused by the same issue or by different issues; the steps that have been taken to prevent these issues from reoccurring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41412/…
2082. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is aware that a person born in Ireland after 2004 to non-Irish parents (one of whom is now a citizen) has to apply for citizenship to obtain a passport; if he can provide details of any supports that are in place to help with the financial cost of obtaining citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43052/2…
369. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is working on updating or rewriting the Wildlife Act 1976; if he will provide details of the stage this process is at; if there will be a public-consultation element to this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40284/25]
45. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware that the recent fare changes have resulted in increased costs for passengers living in Skerries and Balbriggan and that this increase in fares is serving to heap further costs on hard pressed commuters in the middle of a cost of living crisis; if he will review this decision and allow Skerries and Balbriggan into the same zone as the rest of D…
126. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Youth in the context of the protection of schoolchildren, all school staff, teachers, support staff and caretakers, and their health and safety, if he is aware of serious harms being caused (and escalating) for several years now by high density, breeding gull colonies in many schools around the country; if she has noted the recent very stark warnings in…
148. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in detail the specific "threats to public health and safety" that underpinned the legal justifications of the derogation for removal of nests and eggs of specified gull species in Balbriggan and its districts each of the years 2017 to 2023 inclusive, including i) such threats as were recognised by successive Departmen…
149. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the context of his Department's advice to his Ministerial predecessor which resulted in the revocation of the Balbriggan derogation (2017-2023, originally granted due to "a threat to public health and safety") for removal of nests and eggs of specified gull species, will the Minister inform the deputy as to whether the Depart…
150. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage given that he is no doubt aware that the State's Courts have consistently emphasised that protection of the health and safety of citizens is a paramount duty of the State within our legal framework, if he accepts, and if he will ensure, that protection of citizens' health and safety is, therefore, assuredly paramount across his …
151. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with reference to the book entitled 'Seabirds Count' a census of breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland (2015-2021), ISBN 9788416728602, (pub. Nov. 2023), and recurring acknowledgements in that book of the 'Lead Partner' role played by his Department/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in the conduct of the census over …
152. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with reference to the published book entitled 'Seabirds Count' a census of breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland (2015-2021), which deals with 25 species of seabirds, has the Minister noted that 70+ pages out of 484 pages in the book are given over to the escalating proliferation of high density urban-breeding gull colonies (…
193. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the context of the recent and annually recurring very stark warnings in respect of Avian Flu issued by his Department, the Department of Health, the Health Surveillance Protection Centre, the Health and Safety Executive, and indeed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS…