201. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if it is the policy of his Department that those working in the uniformed services and covered by the fast accrual (uniformed) single public service pension recruited after 2013 are expected to take up a new profession after their retirement from those services in order to maintain their standard of livi…
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202. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the steps he is taking to better tackle the waste of public money and improve value for money in public spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15894/25]
203. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the specific measures being taken to enhance transport and utilities in the west, given concerns that inadequate infrastructure could hinder Ireland's competitiveness. [7891/25]
204. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the proposed new divisional Garda headquarters at Northern Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12933/25]
205. Deputy Peter Roche asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if additional funding under the National Development Plan will be allocated to address the absence of wastewater treatment infrastructure in rural villages and settlements, such as in Galway east, where such deficits are preventing sustainable residential and economic development (details supplied); and if…
206. Deputy Peter Roche asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will consider including a specific provision within the National Development Plan to support rural housing in areas where there is a long-established tradition of building homes using private water supply and on-site wastewater treatment, without reliance on public infrastructure other than electrici…
207. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the reasons for the destruction of the hedgerow on the walkway to the Beltany Stone Circle, Raphoe, County Donegal, a monument under the care of the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16369/25]
208. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will examine an appeal as a matter of extreme urgency in regard to a decision to disqualify a boat operator from renewing their licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16417/25]
209. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform considering that as based on the National Planning Framework, Drogheda and Dundalk have been recognised as regional growth centres with population due to increase by 50,000 in each town by 2030; if he will commit to meeting the associated resourcing requirements and demands for the county; and if he wil…
210. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with Meta about the reported use of pirated creative works to train its AI models, including thousands of books produced by Irish creators and publishers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16359/25]
211. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the status of a case (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16376/25]
212. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department or Enterprise Ireland have policies that prohibit or restrict investment in specific types of enterprises; if so, if he will define such prohibitions or restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16436/25]
213. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education the funding streams available via her Department and or through the SEAI to support schools who want to reduce their energy use, specifically, through replacing existing light fixtures with LED lights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16480/25]
214. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education regarding the publication of the NCSE report on post-school transitions of students with special educational needs (details provided); if she has a plan to implement the recommendations from the research report; if she will commit to collating and publishing STen outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing students; and if she will make a statement on the matter.…
215. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Education the reason parents of children attending a school (details supplied) were not informed of the route change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16358/25]
216. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify the criteria under which students from a school (details supplied), are eligible to apply as Gaeltacht applicants for teaching courses through the CAO; if there is an official policy or circular governing this situation; and if she will address concerns regarding the apparent exclusion of these students from applying as Gaeltacht appli…
217. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education the policy and or guidance developed and disseminated by her Department to schools and teachers on the use of AI by students, particularly in cases where there is a possibility of students submitting work in homework, assessments and or continual assessment and or examinations of which they are not the author of and have relied on AI to generate answers; whe…
218. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education if there are any financial supports available for establishing an afterschool service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16389/25]
219. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Education if she will examine the response issued to the parents of a pupil (details supplied); if she will consider removing the nearest school criteria so that pupils are not locked out of school transport for attending other schools that better meet their needs but are not their closest school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16400/25]
220. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education how the school bus route in the Castlecomer/Muckalee, County Kilkenny area which has been established for a long period of time has suddenly been changed without any notice to parents (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16401/25]
221. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education if the request by a school for funding (details supplied) for necessary equipment will be re-examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16403/25]
222. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education to urgently examine the transition of the school therapy model from the HSE to the National Council for Special Education and to immediately reinstate therapy services in special schools and provide appropriate clinical governance and support structures (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16405/25]
223. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Education to commit to ensuring that all buses in the school transport schemes for primary schools provide a bus escort to ensure the safety, supervision, and well-being of young children during their journey to and from school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16434/25]
224. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education the total amount allocated under the schoolbook grant for each of the 2024/2025 and 2023/2024 school years. [16437/25]
225. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education , based on her Department's survey of schools, the total number of books purchased by schools nationally under the schoolbooks scheme during each of the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school year; the percentage of books that were re-used in each of these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16438/25]