Questions

1. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or semi-State body under the aegis of his Department in each of the past five years; if so, the number and extent of any such overspends, in tabular form; to outline the plans to ascertain levels of such overspends; and the further plans to ensure that …

2. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department. [6699/25]

3. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain digital and IT systems, in tabular form (details supplied). [6448/25]

4. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a list of the private service providers who have received contracts from State agencies to develop or maintain digital and IT systems over the past five years, in tabular form (details supplied). [6449/25]

5. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain a website, in tabular form (details supplied). [6450/25]

6. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a list of the private service providers who have received contracts from State agencies to develop or maintain a website over the past five years, in tabular form (details supplied). [6451/25]

7. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or semi-State body under the aegis of his Department in each of the past five years; if so, the number and extent of any such overspends, in tabular form; to outline the plans to ascertain levels of such overspends; the f…

8. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline his Department’s planned response to the US presidential executive order of 31 January 2025, the effect of which is to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6578/25]

9. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a formal request to the US ambassador that the US side of all joint consortium arrangements with Irish Aid which were in place at 31 January 2025 be honoured in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6579/25]

10. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide figures on all the joint donor consortia or other collaborative arrangements which existed between Irish Aid and the United States Agency for International Development as at 31 January 2025, across the operational spectrum of Ireland’s international development engagement, broken down by country, by financial allocation an…

11. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has identified whether there are instances of such multi-donor instruments in which Ireland would be obliged to make up the shortfall for the precipitate cancellation of the United States Agency for International Development contribution; if he will provide an estimate of the budgetary implications thereof, including possib…

12. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions planned to be taken at EU level to coordinate Member States’ response to the vacuum created by the effective withdrawal of the United States Agency for International Development from the international development arena; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6582/25]

13. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6691/25]

14. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is concerned at the sale of Bord na Móna’s waste collection arm; if he has assessed the impact of this on waste collection services in Ireland; if he intends to intervene in this sale perhaps for the State to take a greater role in waste-collection services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6468/25]

15. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is aware of any overspends exceeding €500,000 on projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department or by any State or semi-State body under the aegis of his Department in each of the past five years; if so, the number and extent of any such overspends, in tabular form; to outline the plans to ascertain levels of such o…

16. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a detailed update on the transposition into Irish law of the EU Network and Information Systems Directive II (NIS2) Directive relating to cybersecurity; the details of the competent authorities in Ireland responsible for implementation and enforcement of the directives; and the level of budget being provided t…

17. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will urgently intervene to ensure a connection issue (details supplied) is repaired in a more timely manner than is currently being indicated. [6613/25]

18. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on the community renewable energy projects that have been energised; the proportion of projects that secured a contract at auction that have been energised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6657/25]

19. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of homes retrofitted to a BER B2 standard or higher in each of the Government’s schemes, broken down by scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6658/25]

20. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the next renewable electricity support scheme and offshore renewable electricity support scheme auctions will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6659/25]

21. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is aware of the proposed sale of Bord na Móna Recycling; the measures he has taken to ensure that jobs and pensions are protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6660/25]

22. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the divisions, units or other Departmental structures that have been added to or removed from the brief of the Minister since the change of Government. [6664/25]

23. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6689/25]

24. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the measures that will be implemented and the level of increased investment proposed to strengthen such infrastructure, In view of the reference in the National Risk Assessment 2024 to disruptions to the availability of critical infrastructure including energy and telecommunications networks; and if he will make a statement on…

25. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to provide a list of the spend over the past five years by each public body on the procurement of services to develop or maintain digital and IT systems, in tabular form (details supplied). [6448/25]