Emer Currie

72. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the survey of primary school parents and guardians and parents and guardians of children not yet in school on their preferences on important aspects of school provision and choice in their community, as committed to in the Programme for Government. [59719/25]

78. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the Stage 2a meeting arrangements for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59681/25]

90. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the forward planning and provision of special class and special school places for September 2026. [59718/25]

98. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Taoiseach the statistics that are collected in relation maternity and paternity leave in Ireland including whether they are taken, the duration of leave taken, whether they availed of the statutory payment only or whether their employer topped up their maternity benefit; and if so, to what percentage of their salary. [59334/25]

165. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the €3.5 billion investment in electricity grid infrastructure announced under the National Development Plan, including the specific projects, regions and timelines to which the funding will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57889/25]

166. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether any portion of the €3.5 billion grid investment will be directed towards reinforcement or capacity upgrades that will enable new large-scale energy users, including data centres, to connect to the national grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57890/25]

167. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether his Department has made an assessment of the prevalence of inferior or non-compliant batteries being placed on the Irish market by distance sellers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57891/25]

168. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether his Department has assessed the proportion of inferior or non-compliant batteries sold in the Irish market that originate from outside the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57892/25]

187. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether any portion of the €3.5 billion grid investment will be directed towards reinforcement or capacity upgrades that would enable new large-scale energy users, including data centres, to connect to the national grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58742/25]

258. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of enforcement inspections and confiscations of inferior or non-compliant batteries which have taken place at Irish ports and airports in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57894/25]

259. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport for an update on a meeting request sent by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57905/25]

262. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the name of the contract partner employed by the RSA to attempt to manually match court disqualification orders with a driver; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57958/25]

263. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 16 October 2025, the number of drivers disqualified that resulted in a mismatch being inputted to his Department's driver file record database to date; the number of mismatches reported to date; the procedure when a mismatch has been discovered; if the driver file database is regularly monitored and checks made on each record to verify identical matches to the driver who was disqualified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57959/25]

264. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the timeframe in which a driver is disqualified in court to when they receive a court disqualification order via an application programming interface (API); the length of time the API is given to attempt to automatically match records received, to a driver using the details provided by the Courts Service; the length of time between failing to automatically match until the records are passed onto the RSA to manually match; the length of time for the RSA to then forward details to its contract partner to attempt to find a match; the length of time the contract partner is given to find a match before a 'shell' record is created; the number of shell records created on the NVDF where a match was found within the disqualification period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57960/25]

265. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No's 177 to 184 of 16 October 2025, the timeline for his Department to publish more complete data on the manual matching process used by his Department and the RSA to endorse a licence or permit with a disqualification; the date that his Department started its concerted effort in 2025 to deep dive into the area of court disqualification orders received without a driver number attached; and the number of successful attempts to match a driver with a disqualification without the capture of the unique driver number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57961/25]

266. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of Irish licence and Irish permit holders disqualified in court since 2022 resulting in a shell record being created in the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) database that remains unmatched to the driver record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57962/25]

267. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if the Courts Service writes to each driver disqualified in court within 14 days of commencement of the disqualification to inform them of the requirement to surrender their licence or learner permit to the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57963/25]

293. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of drivers on the waiting list for a test centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58264/25]

294. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the waiting list times for a test centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58265/25]

301. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport for details on a proposed train station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58403/25]

311. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) over proposals under the European Commission clean corporate vehicles initiative set to be published in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58587/25]

312. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the engagement his Department has had regarding the proposed European Commission clean corporate vehicles initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58588/25]

314. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of learner permit holders that must be contacted by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to inform them of the incoming regulations requiring them to sit the driving test to obtain a third permit; the date when the RSA is due to begin this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58610/25]

321. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if the 2026 PSO allocation of €940 million in Budget 2026 will include funding to expand the child adult Leap card and the under-9 free travel scheme to commercial bus operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58743/25]

338. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the steps included in the implementation plan to close the learner permit loophole; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58921/25]