Louise O'Reilly

1984. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide the latest figures from region Y on domestic violence, including the number of safety orders, protection orders and any other relevant court orders concerning domestic violence in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24172/26]

1985. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of staff that have been allocated to each Dublin metropolitan region; the number of these posts that have been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24173/26]

2781. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 663 of 14 May 2024, if the position of CHO DNCC has changed regarding plans to develop phlebotomy, x-ray or diagnostic services in Balbriggan CHN; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24174/26]

3. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the way in which he intends to assist rural communities both households and local civil society organisations amidst rising oil prices and general trends indicating a rise in energy poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22887/26]

331. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first and full year cost of increasing the income threshold of the fuel allowance by 10%, 20% and 30% respectively, in tabular form; to provide an estimate of the number of applicants each threshold increase would incorporate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23365/26]

332. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of households in receipt of the fuel allowance as of March 2026, broken down by primary payment type, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23366/26]

333. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated number of additional households that will become eligible for the fuel allowance if the weekly means test thresholds were increased by 10%, 20% and 30%, broken down by the primary social welfare payment they are in receipt of, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23367/26]

334. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a copy of the most recent SWITCH model runs used to cost fuel allowance threshold adjustments; and to provide details of the assumptions used regarding recipient elasticity and income distribution. [23368/26]

335. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first and full year cost of extending the fuel allowance by a further 13 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23369/26]

336. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first and full year cost of increasing the maximum rate of the fuel allowance by €10, €15 and €20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23370/26]

337. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of the working family payment as of March 2026; the average weekly payment; the total annual expenditure on the scheme in 2025 and the projected expenditure for 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23378/26]

338. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of increasing the minimum weekly working family payment from €20 to €30, to €40, and to €50; the estimated number of households that would benefit from each increase, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23379/26]

339. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated number of additional households that would become eligible for the working family payment if the gross weekly income thresholds were increased by 10%, by 20%, and by 30%; the estimated cost of doing so, by family size, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23380/26]

340. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of working family payment recipients who are also in receipt of fuel allowance following the March 2026 extension; the estimated cost of extending the fuel allowance threshold relaxation to all working family payment recipients at the current fuel allowance rate of €38, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23382/26]

341. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of working family payment recipients by county; the number of recipients by family size (one child, two children, three or more children), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23383/26]

342. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department will provide the SWITCH model outputs used to cost any working family payment expansion options considered during Budget 2026, including threshold increases and rate increases considered but not implemented, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23384/26]

377. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the excise duty taken in by the State from alcohol in 2025; and the percentage this represents of the total tax take for 2025, in tabular form. [21891/26]

699. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of mandatory alcohol testing checkpoints run by An Garda Síochána during Christmas week 2025; and the number of detections of drink driving uncovered at these checkpoints, in tabular form. [21890/26]

935. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health when the new national drugs strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21892/26]

38. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether figures arising from the new 'child maintenance calculator' are intended as guidance only; the extent to which they will be used as guidance; if they may influence judicial decision-making, and to what extent; if they will be somehow legally binding or required; what the underlying calculations are; the evidence used for these calculations; the full extent of which people, staff, or organisations were consulted as to how figures would be tabulated and as to how certain variables would be weighted; if he will publish the full extent of the research undertaken by his Department that has been drawn on to create the calculator; and whether these calculations will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20907/26]

57. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether future revisions of the child maintenance calculator will incorporate cost-of-living and necessary expenditure considerations; whether the formula of the child maintenance calculator will be benchmarked to inflation; whether international best practice models are being reviewed as part of this reform; the consultation that took place with single parents and family law practitioners prior to implementation; how his Department plans to monitor outcomes for children affected by this model; if he is aware of the disproportionate rates of poverty and material deprivation affecting children in single parent households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20908/26]

152. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Defence the number of workers who retired from the public service in each of the last three years who have a fast accrual element to their public service pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18967/26]

514. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the cost of restoring the supplementary pension for public service workers with an entitlement to fast accrual for the workers who retired in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18968/26]

615. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 16 July 2025 and her predecessors reply in the context of the protection of school children, in addition to her Department’s undertaking “to review this matter with the HSE to determine whether there is a need to communicate further guidance on this matter to schools in the coming term”, if she will provide this Deputy with a copy of all of the undertaken review correspondence with the HSE and the outcomes therefrom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18317/26]

616. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Youth in the context of the protection of school children, is she aware of the fact that the previous Minister of Housing, Local Government and Heritage/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), upon the advice of his then Department/NPWS, withdrew the proactive, elective Derogation Regulation, ; her views on whether the derogation must be restored with immediate effect, before the 2026 breeding season; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18318/26]