Albert Dolan
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Fianna Fáil · Galway East · serving since 2024-11-29
- Vote recorded in 374 of 401 divisions in the archive
- 181 debate contributions
- 1,502 parliamentary questions asked
Record timeline
- constituency Galway East 2024-11-29 to present
- party Fianna Fáil 2024-11-29 to present
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2025-11-12 · to Culture
568. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60937/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Housing
581. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60945/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Social
647. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60949/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Social
681. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide, for each age bracket (details supplied) the total and average annual income PRSI contributions recorded for Irish residents in the latest year available; and where possible to provide equivalent data for previous years to show lifetime cumulative contributions, by cohort [61962/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Justice
696. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60946/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Justice
723. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department maintains, or has commissioned, a fully-loaded marginal (incremental) cost per international protection applicant, encompassing not only IPAS accommodation and supports, but also cross-Departmental costs, processing, legal aid, healthcare, education/ETB language provision, social protection allowances, interpretation/translation, safeguarding, transport, and overheads; if so, to publish the latest estimate and methodology; if not, the plans and timelines to establish a cross-Government costing model and to coordinate inputs from the relevant Departments and agencies. [61172/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Justice
724. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the unit processing cost per international protection case at the International Protection Office (IPO) and the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT), together with median/mean end-to-end processing times and caseload volumes, by year from 2022 to date in 2025; and the cost composition (staffing, interpretation, expert reports, overheads). [61173/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Justice
725. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the annual expenditure attributable to IP applicants within Immigration Service Delivery for 2022 to date in 2025 (registration, permissions, compliance activity), and any available per-applicant cost estimates. [61174/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Justice
726. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the State has a single, auditable per-applicant cost for international protection that includes processing, legal aid, healthcare, education, social protection, interpretation, transport and overheads; if not, if he will commit to producing it within 2025 and publishing the methodology. [61178/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Agriculture
791. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022-2024. [60934/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Agriculture
794. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the growing concern among farmers regarding the current cap of €3,000 on compensation for bovine TB reactor animals; if he will acknowledge that the market value of pedigree and high yielding stock has risen significantly in recent years, resulting in considerable losses for affected herd owners; and if he will review the current compensation ceiling to ensure it more accurately reflects the true market value of animals removed under the TB eradication programme. [61182/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Health
914. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60944/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Health
960. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the HSE costs attributable to international protection applicants, by service that is GP/primary care (including GP visit cards), pharmacy/medicines, public health (screening, vaccination), emergency department, inpatient and outpatient activity, mental-health services, dental, interpreting and any per-applicant or per-episode cost estimates used for internal planning, from 2022 to date in 2025. [61175/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Health
961. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the retention and emigration of newly qualified doctors and nurses for each graduation year since 2010 to date in 2025; the number who entered HSE employment within one year of qualification; the number who emigrated or were not practising in Ireland within two years; and the data sources used to monitor these figures, such as the Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, the CSO and Revenue employment records. [61188/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Health
962. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the total cost of international recruitment of healthcare professionals including agency fees, relocation supports, and induction costs; and to compare the cost to the estimated annual cost of emigration of domestically trained nurses and doctors in each of the past five years. [61190/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Health
1050. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the most up-to-date position on all supplier-related financial liabilities for the HSE, including outstanding bills, trade creditors and accruals; and to provide a clear and comprehensive breakdown and methodology (details supplied). [61763/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Further and Higher Education
1125. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60943/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Further and Higher Education
1126. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide any available data on the proportion of graduates in each of the years 2000 to 2025 who emigrated within five years of graduation; and whether such data is gathered by the CSO Graduate Outcomes Survey or Revenue-HEA linkage. [60957/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Further and Higher Education
1130. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated average cost to the State of training a medical student and a nursing student to graduation; and to itemise these costs by component, undergraduate education, clinical placement funding, intern training, postgraduate specialist training, and any State subsidy to hospital training sites, in each of the past ten years. [61186/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Further and Higher Education
1131. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the total annual public expenditure on training medical, nursing, and midwifery students in Ireland, including grants to higher education institutions and payments to the HSE for clinical placements, for each year since 2010 to date in 2025. [61187/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Further and Higher Education
1132. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated average public cost of training a primary teacher and a post-primary teacher to full qualification, including teacher education programme funding, teaching practice costs, and capitation grants to colleges of education, for each year since 2000 to date in 2025. [61191/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Rural
1163. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the number and value of contracts that underwent post-award variations; the net value change as a percentage of original awards, by CPV/category; and the three most common drivers of variation identified, for 2022–2024. [60948/25]
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2025-11-06 · to Defence
41. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence his plans to increase officer cadet pay above the minimum wage, and to a level of at least that of all other inductees in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60384/25]
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2025-11-06 · to Defence
66. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when the Defence Forces regulation regarding a directive of military prosecutions will be amended following his announcement on 14 October 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60383/25]
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2025-11-06 · to Climate
93. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department is liaising with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the new draft wind energy guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59827/25]