480. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures in place, and the further action that will be taken, to guarantee equitable access to second-level education for children who must attend specialist settings due to a language-based disability, so that they are not penalised in the admissions process for circumstances beyond their control. [61016/25]
490. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the expenditure on recruitment campaigns of international hiring of teachers; and to compare this with the estimated cost of teacher training for graduates who leave the State within three years of qualification, for each of the past five years. [61179/25]
491. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number and proportion of newly qualified primary and post-primary teachers who take up teaching posts in Ireland within one year of qualification, versus those who emigrate or do not enter the Irish teaching workforce, for each year since 2010 to date in 2025; and the data sources used such as Teaching Council registration, payroll records or Rev…
492. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if crossdepartmental analysis has been conducted comparing the cost of teacher education with retention and attrition rates; and if there is an estimate of the fiscal impact of teacher emigration. [61193/25]
559. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to address issues concerning the interpretation of the term “SSD of unknown origin” by SLT’s in the HSE to exclude children with disabilities from accessing developmental language disorder or speech sound disorder special classes (details supplied). [62128/25]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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…
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 repo…
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]
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]
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]
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 t…
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]
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 pla…
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 Co…
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]
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]
Albert Dolan
Written
12 Nov 2025 · 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]
Albert Dolan
Written
12 Nov 2025 · 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]
Albert Dolan
Written
12 Nov 2025 · 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 eac…
Albert Dolan
Written
12 Nov 2025 · 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]