Questions

176. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health the work she and her Department have undertaken to fill the professional vacancies in the CAMHS team in Balbriggan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9988/25]

177. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legi…

178. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to increase funding for international food and nutrition programmes given the United States administration’s recent spending cuts to its humanitarian programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10493/25]

179. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent report of the Independent Reporting Commission; if he will outline the Government’s views on the absolute need to rid society of paramilitarism; the measures that will be implemented to deal with such issues of criminality, gangsterism and thuggery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10524/25]

180. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when he proposes to discuss with the political parties in Stormont the recent report of the Independent Reporting Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10526/25]

181. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on recent violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo; whether Ireland will contact Rwanda and demand that they stop supporting rebel activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10554/25]

182. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has engaged with stakeholders in relation to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [10348/25]

183. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide details of all of the weather modification methods, climate engineering or geoengineering, such as adding alkaline chemicals to the ocean, spraying salty mixtures into clouds and reflective particles into the stratosphere, that are taking place in or around Irish air space; and if he will make a statement on the mat…

184. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement o…

185. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on EU obligations for establishing separate textile waste collection and establish an extended producer responsibility scheme. [10346/25]

186. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for an update on progress in fulfilling the obligations in article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791 regarding a database for data centres. [10347/25]

187. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to reduce the three-year waiting time for the energy upgrades under the warmer homes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10365/25]

188. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has met with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to discuss rising energy prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10401/25]

189. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on the measures in the Programme for Government to conduct an independent review of the speed and level of passthrough from wholesale prices to retail prices in the energy sector; when he anticipates this review will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10402/25]

190. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has met with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to discuss rising wholesale gas and electricity prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10403/25]

191. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has considered reintroduction of the temporary solidarity contribution and the cap on market revenues in response to rising wholesale gas and retail prices in the energy market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10404/25]

192. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number solar PV provided in each of the years from 2020 to date in each of the SEAI’s solar PV schemes, broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10411/25]

193. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he plans to move to a plan-led approach to solar development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10417/25]

194. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the number and value of grants that have been awarded to the retrofitting of multi-unit dwellings as part of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland community energy grant scheme in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10418/25]

195. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications his Department has received for the retrofit of multi-unit dwellings as part of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland community grant scheme in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10419/25]

196. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has calculated the impact that the carbon border adjustment mechanism will have in imported electricity from Britain; the amount by which he anticipates the cost to rise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10420/25]

197. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the measures that he and the inland fisheries division will take to instigate an independent review of Inland Fisheries Ireland, as highlighted in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10460/25]

198. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the total amount of funding/financial aid given by his Department and agencies under his Department’s remit to two organisations (details supplied) since 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10461/25]

199. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will expedite as a matter of priority the provision of a liquefied natural gas terminal in north Kerry that will protect the country’s energy supply and implement the recommendations of the Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce which includes increasing resources to deliver an offshore renewable energy farm (details suppl…

200. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are adequate protections in place to safeguard ESB transmission lines, with particular reference to the problems caused by falling trees in storms over recent years resulting in power outages for many communities on a repeated basis; the measures that will be implemented as a result of lessons learned from such storm…