John Connolly

574. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of full time paramedic staff with the ambulances service in County Galway; the number of staff permanently located at each ambulance base within Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13533/26]

575. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of requests for ambulance service that were not facilitated on 6 February 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13534/26]

576. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the details of the means by which ambulance service triage call for ambulance requests; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13535/26]

577. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of calls made for an ambulance request on 6 February 2026 in County Galway that were responded to where the ambulance arrived at the correct patient location, in tabular form (details supplied) [13536/26]

578. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the status of the progression of the development works on the new ambulance base at Recess, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13537/26]

21. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of successful claims made for registration in relation to seaweed harvesting based on "Profit a Prendre" or traditional rights; whether it is proposed to change the legal conditions that need to be fulfilled to establish these rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13422/26]

213. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people who had their means assessed due to income from seaweed harvesting in the past two years; the number of these cases where no exemption of €1,270 was applied; whether these cases will be further reassessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13421/26]

216. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department intends to publish a Death in Custody Report (details supplied); the timeline for same; the date of the publication of the report as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12995/26]

245. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to develop a Traveller employment, enterprise and employment strategy with targets, accountability and protections for those who identify openly as members of the Travelling community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13237/26]

294. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the location and full staffing cohort of each Traveller healthcare project team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13234/26]

295. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health if she plans to increase the remunerated hours for which staff within Traveller healthcare projects are employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13235/26]

296. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to tackle the issue of over-prescribing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13236/26]

310. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide a commitment that his Department will adequately fund the Traveller apprenticeship incentivisation programme on a permanent basis as a feature of the national apprenticeship programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13238/26]

789. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration has been given, in the formulation of the National Planning Statement and its guidance on short term letting (STL), to the position of properties that operate as short term lets but are unlikely to transition to long term residential use, in particular second homes where the owners use the property a number times each year for recreational or holiday purposes; if his Department has assessed the likelihood that such properties will not be converted to long term lets due to the owners' continued need for periodic access to the property; whether he recognises that, in these cases, the proposed STL planning reforms may therefore not achieve the intended residential long term letting supply outcomes; if he has examined the potential negative economic impact on local tourism and rural economies that may result from the withdrawal of such properties from the short term rental market without a corresponding increase in long term rental availability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11896/26]

12. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the infrastructure guidelines have been amended as per action 23 of the Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action Plan, including for increased project expenditure thresholds; the removal of the external assurance process and enhanced timelines for the preparation of the preliminary business case; when infrastructure projects can expect to benefit from the new guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10933/26]

81. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the critical infrastructure projects which the new infrastructure division within his Department has assisted by progressing through improved strategic alignment; reducing delays caused by inter-agency conflicts; ensuring timely decision-making; resolving bottlenecks; coordinating across taskforces and Government bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10932/26]

116. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline efforts underway within her Department to increase the supply of primary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10904/26]

176. D'fhiafraigh Deputy John Connolly den Minister for Education and Youth an féidir lena Roinn tuilleadh iarrachtaí a dhéanamh chun níos mó scoileanna a spreagadh le páirt a ghlacadh sa Scéim Aitheantais Scoileanna Gaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [10903/26]

349. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of measures to address pay equity concerns for principals of special schools (details supplied); the expected timelines for resolving outstanding matters including the payment of the special school allowance, the reinstatement of the special education diploma allowance, and the completion of costings for payments to principals for staff managed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11275/26]

365. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth when she intends to publish the next tranche of school building projects under the National Development Plan, further to the recent publication of her Department’s document entitled “First Tranche of NDP Rollout – 105 School Building Projects to Progress to Tender and/or Construction, as Appropriate, Over the Course of 2026 and 2027”; and if a school (details supplied) which is seeking a new school building, is being considered for inclusion in that next tranche of projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11549/26]

55. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Transport to detail the efforts his Department are taking to develop bus priority measures in Galway City; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10930/26]

373. D'fhiafraigh Deputy John Connolly den Aire Sláinte nuashonrú a thabhairt ar dhul chun cinn na forbartha ar ionad cúraim phríomhúil sa Cheathrú Rua, Contae na Gaillimhe; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [10929/26]

395. D'fhiafraigh Deputy John Connolly den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail, agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar fhorbairt bonneagair fheabhsaithe na cé ar Inis Meáin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [10928/26]

18. Deputy John Connolly asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [69864/25]

109. Deputy John Connolly asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department’s Statement of Strategy for 2025-2028. [74528/25]