196. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport the measures his Department and Shannon airport have put in place to prevent any further unlawful incursions by persons on the airport campus, airside and non-airside, in 2025 and to date in 2026. [75284/26]
197. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport the number of US troops transiting through Shannon Airport in each of the first nine months of 2026; and the corresponding total for the first nine months of 2025. [75278/26]
248. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the assessments the State makes of the ultimate beneficial owners, creditors and lien-holders of foreign entities that acquire Irish data-centre projects after permission is granted. [75218/26]
250. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will clarify whether a transfer of shares in an Irish company that holds planning permission for a large data centre to an entity controlled from outside the EU would require notification under the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023; and the number of such notifications concerning data centres that have been recei…
312. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to review the ethics framework for SPC sectoral members, given public concern about the data-centre zoning in the Naas Local Area Plan 2021–2027. [75222/26]
313. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the checks that exist to ensure a person who served on an SPC while a development plan or local area plan was being prepared did not take part in deliberations on zoning that benefited a company they direct; and the sanctions that apply where a declaration was not made. [75221/26]
314. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify whether sectoral nominees to local authority Strategic Policy Committees must make declarations of interest under Part 15 of the Local Government Act 2001; and whether those declarations must cover directorships of companies that hold or are pursuing an interest in land being zoned in a local area plan the comm…
315. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify whether planning applicants for strategic-scale developments such as large data centres must disclose existing put and call options, or agreements for sale, under which the applicant company or the land will pass to another party once permission is granted; and whether he will consider making such disclosure ma…
316. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has considered statutory conditions, on planning permissions or grid and gas connections for data centres, that prohibit their use for military or intelligence purposes by any foreign state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75208/26]
348. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the National Cyber Security Centre or other State bodies are told who the end tenants of large data centres are; if he will clarify whether there is any mechanism to block tenancy by foreign state security agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75211/26]
360. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the costs of charter flights deporting failed international protection applicants in 2025 and to date in 2026; the destination of each flight; the number of deported people on each flight; the number of Gardaí on each flight; and the breakdown of costs on each flight. [75289/26]
362. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of babies that have been born to mothers in custody in Dochas Centre and Limerick Prison in 2025 and to date in 2026; and the protocols and supports in place for mothers and babies in custody. [75287/26]
376. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has assessed the neutrality and national-security implications of hosting data processing for foreign defence or intelligence bodies on Irish soil, including under the US CLOUD Act and Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [75213/26]
180. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of external communications and or public relations services provided to his Department and bodies under his aegis, by the costs incurred, the service provider name, nature and-or summary of services provided; and if any of the service providers engaged are contracted to his Department or to the body under his aegis, in each of the years 2023…
183. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the number of staff directly attached to him in his advisory and parliamentary teams, by grade and point on the scale and the length of time they have been attached to him. [74486/26]
189. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of internships offered at the Irish embassies in Stockholm, Beijing, London, Ankara and Washington DC, in the years of 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [73400/26]
238. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Defence the number of flight simulators training facilities that are currently available to Air Corps personnel; and if funding has been requested by the Air Corps to purchase a flight simulator. [73397/26]
263. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport the average carriage capacity on services operating on the Maynooth train level per day to date in 2026, in tabular form. [73401/26]
356. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport the extent to which he and or his officials have engaged with the Department of Infrastructure in Northern Ireland in respect of a reciprocal arrangement for smaller passenger vans (details supplied) and so on, to operate in each other's jurisdictions; if he has consulted with Tourism Ireland in respect of same; and if he has engaged with the Minister for En…
398. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the number of staff directly attached to him in his advisory and parliamentary teams, by grade, point on the scale and the length of time they have been attached to him. [74485/26]
410. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of external competitions that were held for posts of Clerical Officer, Staff Officer, Executive Officer and Higher Executive Officer Grade within his Department in the years of 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of persons from outside the Civil Service that applied for each of t…
421. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide a schedule of the number of staff directly attached to him in his advisory and parliamentary teams, by grade and point on scale; and the length of time they have been attached to him. [74487/26]
442. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the extent to which he and or his officials have engaged with the Department of Infrastructure in Northern Ireland in respect of a reciprocal arrangement for smaller passenger vans (details supplied) and so on, to operate in each other's jurisdictions; if he has consulted with Tourism Ireland in respect of same; and if he has consult…
459. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether schools can still apply for funding under the minor works scheme for projects, such as re-surfacing or re-marking the school yard. [73402/26]
619. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the grades of staff within his Department that have the authority to issue penalty rate on receipt of social welfare payment where that person has failed to engage with Intreo employment services; and the number of sanctions issued for same in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026. [73404/26]