147. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the date for the publication of the updated National Student Accommodation Strategy (2025-2035), which was due to be published in 2024; the reason for the delay in publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7006/26]
94. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the price ceiling for the first home scheme has increased by €25,000, while the help-to-buy scheme price ceiling did not; to review the property price ceilings for the help-to-buy scheme in view of this discrepancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6782/26]
397. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of employers that have registered an intention to participate, filed a disclosure, and completed settlement under the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity as of 31 January 2026; the total value of tax, USC and PRSI regularised; the number of affected workers for whom manual PRSI records have been created; and if he will make a statement on t…
398. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of Karshan Disclosure Opportunity participants by NACE sector, indicating the number of disclosures received from State-linked entities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6569/26]
399. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to publish the legal or actuarial analysis that informed Revenue’s decision to confine the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity for the years 2024–2025; whether this limitation was approved by his Department’s legal advisers or the Attorney General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6570/26]
400. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity or any associated settlement arrangement has been notified to the European Commission under Article 108(3) TFEU; if not, to explain the basis on which Revenue considers the scheme outside the scope of EU State-aid rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6571/26]
401. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to list all organisations consulted in the design of the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity, distinguishing between employer, professional-services and worker or trade-union bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6572/26]
402. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for the estimated fiscal cost to the Exchequer of limiting Karshan-related liabilities to the years 2024–2025 rather than the full retrospective period of 2010–2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6573/26]
403. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of employers denied access to the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity on the grounds of deliberate or careless misclassification; the number of investigations opened since September 2025 under the Code of Practice for Revenue Compliance Interventions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6574/26]
404. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Attorney General, the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, or any Court has reviewed the compatibility of the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity with the Supreme Court judgment in Revenue v Karshan (Midlands) Ltd [2023] IESC 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6575/26]
406. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if there will be further public consultation on his Departments’ national public procurement strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5606/26]
438. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department or the WRC has examined whether the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity undermines workers’ EU-derived rights under Article 31 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Directive 2003/88/EC, in view of its exclusion of historic misclassification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6576/26]
439. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if her Department was consulted prior to the launch of the Karshan Disclosure Opportunity; if it provided any assessment of its impact on PRSI entitlements or arrears; and if her Department has agreed to accept manual PRSI records generated under the scheme as valid contributions for benefit or pension purposes; and if he will make …
571. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the change in SNA allocation for a school (details supplied), which will be reduced by 2 full-time SNA staff from September this year; the reason for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6467/26]
1034. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on Áras Mhic Dara in An Cheathrú Rua, County Galway, in particular the details of the meeting between the Minister of State in her Department and the HSE, which was queried with her office on the 16 December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5899/26]
18. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the waiting lists in Galway University Hospital, which are the highest in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4965/26]
181. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of social housing tenants in Galway city and county experiencing housing maintenance issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4966/26]
250. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the issue of older adult homelessness in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4967/26]
393. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide more detail on the small wastewater element of Action 15, Enable Developer-led Infrastructure, within the Government’s new infrastructure plan, Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70763/25]
516. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if the HSE continues to pay private home help contractors when a patient is in hospital temporarily; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5149/26]
252. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to explain the reason Lough Corrib SAC, which is a large body of water greater than 600ha in size with strong stream connectivity, as per Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) statistical models, cannot produce surplus Atlantic salmon for the 2026 angling season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4197/26]
253. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will allocate extra funding to Inland Fisheries Ireland for 2026 to facilitate increased stock management (pike culling) efforts on Lough Corrib SAC considering the documented predation on salmon smolts by invasive pike together with the perilous state of salmon stocks in Ireland as referenced in the draft salmon angling regu…
254. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his officials will consider opening Lough Corrib SAC in 2027 for the harvesting of Atlantic salmon by rod and line angling; if his ‘catch and release’ proposal for 2026 results in a quantifiable growth in fish numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4200/26]
255. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reasons for his failure to sign off the proposed Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations for the 2026 salmon angling season, which would be a matter of course every December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4201/26]
256. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he accepts that the continued enforcement of S.I. No. 741/2024 [Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2024] into the 2026 salmon angling season is legally untenable considering that the appropriate assessment screening which underpins S.I. No. 741/2024 is not related to the generation of salmon that ma…