Aidan Farrelly

1984. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of childcare settings that have withdrawn from the core funding scheme and the number that have signed up to core funding scheme, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46372/25]

1994. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the date on which she will publish an action plan for the reform of the early education and childcare sector; and if she has been provided with an update on the consultation and-or a draft of the plan to date. [46657/25]

665. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 314 and 315 of 24 June 2025, if he will provide revised answers to those questions in the same manner as he did for Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 6 September 2019 (details supplied), which indicates that such a minimum effective tax rate does exist within the Irish personal income tax system, or did within the past ten years. [41728/25]

884. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to explain how funding for Microfinance Ireland is accounted for in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025, given that only €1,000 is assigned to MFI while it approves several million euro in loans each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41081/25]

1776. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost in 2026 of increasing the income disregard for carer’s allowance to €750 (single) and €1,500 (couple); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41415/25]

2322. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 3 July 2025, to provide a further breakdown of the €42 million allocated in 2025, explaining how much was spent on each of the spending lines noted. [41393/25]

187. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional WTE local based staff, by job title, who were hired by the Department for the duration of the Osaka 2025 World Expo. [39127/25]

302. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport the steps that the NTA takes in regard the provision of additional buses, LUAS and DARTs before and after major concerts are held in Dublin. [39128/25]

386. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide an update on Greystones coast guard station and the expenditure to date on same, to include third parties and or consultancy. [39134/25]

404. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if a trade mission to Australia is likely to take place before end of 2025. [39126/25]

417. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he has met formally with the CEO of Tourism Ireland in the past four weeks. [39132/25]

418. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the budget allocation for the Workplace Relations Commission in the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [39133/25]

589. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of housing projects sanctioned and or funded in full and or in part to include number of units, by type, that have been paused and or rejected due to deviations from design, specification and or cost expectations did not represent value for money in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [39345/25]

644. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps that must be taken and the documentary evidence that must be provided, by a couple giving notification to marry to the Civil Registration Services, where that notification is of a timeframe shorter than the standard three months due to the medically affirmed likelihood of a greatly shortened lifespan of one of the couple; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39112/25]

678. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of and nature of same in respect of communications received by him and or his officials in the past ten years to date under section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005. [38744/25]

710. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of fixed penalty notices that Gardai issued per division for parking on a footpath in the from 1 January 2025 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [39129/25]

711. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount An Garda Síochána spent on purchasing Garda public order equipment, by item type, to date in 2025. [39131/25]

789. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vacant WTE veterinary inspectors within his Department as of 7 July 2025; if he will provide same figures as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form. [39125/25]

926. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE public health nurses based at Greystones health centre in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [39121/25]

927. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant vascular surgeons based at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [39122/25]

928. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the number of psychologists, by grade based at bray primary care centre in each the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [39123/25]

929. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of persons who were waiting for HSE home support in County Kildare for June in each of the years 2022 to 2025 respectively, in tabular form. [39124/25]

315. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the way in which compliance with laws in respect of the supply and sales of vape products to persons under the age of 18 is being enforced; if he will provide a schedule of the number of sanctions imposed on retailers that have breached the law since enactment to date. [38588/25]

140. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the expected timeline for the transposition for the EU Pay Transparency Directive, indicating in any assistance that will be given to employers to ensure they can properly prepare for the implementation of the directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38093/25]

275. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport for estimated cost of extending the young adult Leap card to encompass all those under the age of 30; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37543/25]