Peadar Tóibín

330. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of staff working in the OPW buildings in Trim for each of the past five years; the staff per square metre ratio at the OPW buildings in Trim for each of the past five years; if the OPW in Trim will provide accommodation for the Trim Women's Shed to operate; and if he will meet with the Trim Women's Shed. [56540/25]

331. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of empty buildings that the Office of Public Works have in the County Meath, in tabular form. [56541/25]

347. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has been notified of a proposed development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57059/25]

378. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of empty buildings that the Department of Education and Youth have in County Meath, in tabular form. [56543/25]

433. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the design stage of each project under her Department, in each county, and year of application submitted, in tabular form. [57346/25]

434. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the number of projects under her Department that are at design stage 2B, and the year of application submitted, in tabular form. [57347/25]

535. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps he is taking to highlight the need for self-employed persons to pay their own PRSI (details supplied). [57345/25]

661. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has been notified of a proposed development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57057/25]

818. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if her Department has been notified of a proposed development (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57058/25]

824. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether vertebral body tethering (VBT) was included in HIQA’s review into the governance of implantable medical devices at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), which examined the use of non-CE marked springs at Temple Street; if VBT was not included in that review, the reason for its exclusion, given that CHI has confirmed it has carried out VBT as an “emerging and experimental procedure” involving spinal implants on children; if she will now request HIQA to examine the procurement, regulatory status and oversight of the devices used for VBT at CHI; and if HIQA did not assess VBT as part of its completed review, if she will confirm who, if anyone, has examined its use, safety governance, or regulatory compliance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57187/25]

825. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the hospital sites at which vertebral body tethering (VBT) procedures have been carried out, including Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) locations (Temple Street, Crumlin, Cappagh) and any external providers such as a clinic (details supplied) under the national outsourcing arrangements; the means by which follow-up, outcomes and complications relating to VBT have been recorded and monitored, given that hospital in-patient enquiry (HIPE) has no specific procedure code for VBT; the basis on which the HSE, CHI or the healthcare pricing office have been funding or coding VBT procedures in the absence of a designated HIPE code; and whether patient safety, audit and governance requirements can be met where a surgical technique is not identifiable in national activity, outcome or costing data; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57188/25]

826. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether vertebral body tethering (VBT) was reviewed, approved or considered by the CHI Ethics Committee prior to being introduced as a surgical option for children; if not, the reason ethical approval was not sought for a new and experimental procedure; whether the devices used for VBT were brought before CHI’s Medical Devices Committee for assessment, approval or procurement review; to provide the dates and documentation of any such consideration; whether a separate or enhanced consent process was developed for VBT, given that CHI has described it as an “emerging and experimental procedure”; whether consent standards for new techniques differ from those used for established spinal fusion surgery; whether VBT was introduced or conducted under any research, pilot, innovation or clinical investigation pathway; if so, the governance, monitoring or ethical approvals that were in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57189/25]

827. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether devices used for vertebral body tethering (VBT) at Children’s Health Ireland were added to the SAP procurement system and approved by the CHI Medical Devices Committee despite there being no HIPE procedure code for VBT; if so, that way in which use, cost and oversight of those implants have been recorded and monitored at national level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57190/25]

85. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the steps his Department is taking to promote the Irish language in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51547/25]

333. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of buildings on HSE hospital sites that do not have planning permission; if this affects their ability to get fire certification; and if a lack of fire certification threatens insurance cover. [55820/25]

343. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of applicants there were for the PRES exams this year, and for the last five years. [55912/25]

344. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the capacity numbers each year for the PRES Exam 2 and PRES Exam 3 within the State. [55913/25]

345. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health who the provider for the PRES exams is, and the cost to the State, for each of the last five years. [55914/25]

346. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the main reason cited by the Medical Council for applicants who are not able to sit the PRES 2 and PRES 3 exam in the year they apply, and have to wait until the next round of exams come up as the places are limited; if there is a reason why the capacity cannot be increased; and the number of times per year PRES 2 and PRES 3 exams are held. [55915/25]

347. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors/locums that have taken up the rural GP programme in each of the last five years. [55916/25]

348. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health of the doctors who have done the PRES 3 exam in the last five years, the number that are still registered with the Medical Council to date. [55917/25]

356. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health whether an agency, and all other private nurse and carer providers that the HSE outsource work to, are fully regulated and vetted; where a public patient is outsourced to a private nursing company or private carer provider by the HSE, the oversight the HSE has of the services that are delivered; if the HSE is ultimately responsible for public patients that they outsource to private nursing or carer providers; and if the HSE will provide a clinical review over the care and death of a person (details supplied). [56033/25]

152. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; the names of the companies to which each study, research and report was outsourced; the total cost for each; the number of reports finalised and presented to him that have yet to be released by his Department; the dates on which any such reports yet to be released were first provided to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55170/25]

157. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a series of matters in relation to safeguards for veterans in the Joint Framework announcement (details supplied) will be clarified. [54753/25]

158. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his understanding of the ‘safeguards for veterans’ package’ as described by the British government to protect army veterans; and if the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Government officials are aware of or involved in same. [54754/25]