154. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of money paid by the State to the providers of special emergency arrangements for accommodating children in State care, in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025. [20960/25]
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155. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to move towards the improvement of pay and conditions for youth workers. [20801/25]
156. Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the delivery of disability services in County Offaly, particularly in relation to access to assessment of need, early intervention, and supports for families with children who have additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20768/25]
157. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the expected timeline for reducing the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child through the national childcare scheme, as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20977/25]
158. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding envisaged to support the expansion of personalised budgets following the pilot being run by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20439/25]
159. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [18696/25]
160. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will meet. [18697/25]
161. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the new disability unit within his Department. [18211/25]
162. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Taoiseach if he will provide copies of all briefing materials he received for the labour employer economic forum meeting which took place on 4 April 2025. [18272/25]
163. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach if he will outline the steps his Department is taking to improve data collection and database construction in anticipation of the increased data processing capacity that artificial intelligence adoption entails; and if he will outline the logic behind their approach. [18439/25]
164. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach if he will identify any projects which the Department has underway with CeADAR, Ireland’s national centre for AI [18440/25]
165. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach if he will identify any AI training offered to people working in the Department; and the level of take-up. [18443/25]
166. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach if he will detail how many emails the Minister’s offices and the customer service mailbox the Department received from the public in 2024 [18445/25]
167. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach if he will detail whether any surveys have been carried out to estimate the amount of time taken up with administrative tasks where such time could be used more efficiently; and if so, in which areas of the Department has this examination been carried out. [18446/25]
168. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach the guidance provided to officeholders, officials or special advisers in his Department on the use of messaging applications (details supplied) as a means of communication; if business in his Department is carried out on such encrypted applications; if records must be maintained for public scrutiny and if specific rules exist over the use of disappearing messages; and if sec…
169. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Taoiseach the planned date for the next census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18824/25]
170. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of work undertaken by his Department to implement the ten recommendations contained in the report of the Dublin City Taskforce launched in October 2024. [19044/25]
171. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Taoiseach to provide an update on the examination of national security structures as promised in the Programme for Government; the agencies and Departments involved in that review; if there will be external participation in the review; if expertise will be sought from outside the State; and the timeframe envisioned. [19051/25]
172. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and agencies under his remit; the eligibility requirements and any conditionality for receiving the service, grant, loan or payment (details supplied); and the monetary value, or range of values, of the service, grant, loans or payment, where appl…
173. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Taoiseach his views on the public and private financial resources required and available to support his Department’s plans to meet Ireland’s climate targets by 2030. [19184/25]
174. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Taoiseach the number of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); the details of contracts currently held by the Department with the company. [19353/25]
175. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Taoiseach the reason subsistence allowance was removed from a group of persons working with the Central Statistics Office (details supplied); and if a circular exists detailing the reason it was removed will be provided. [19370/25]
176. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Taoiseach the amount that has been allocated to the shared island fund since its establishment in 2020; the amount of this that has actually been spent or drawn down to date; and if he will offer an annual expected drawdown for each year from 2025 to 2035 [19652/25]
177. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Taoiseach those areas that will be supported by newly announced shared island funding; those who will be eligible to apply for funding; when applications for such will open. [19886/25]
178. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Taoiseach if all IT systems used by his Department can utilise the síneadh fada; where this is not the case, to provide the list of systems which do not accept or facilitate the use of the fada, in tabular form; the steps being taken to address this issue. [20309/25]