151. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to outline the supports and guidance currently available to SMEs in relation to implementation of the NIS2 Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30872/25]
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152. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the number of employees employed by ComReg yearly. [30996/25]
153. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the total amount of employee salaries at ComReg. [30997/25]
154. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the amount of funding ComReg receives yearly from the State. [30998/25]
155. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the number of cases dealt with each year by ComReg; and the number of those cases for which there is an order against the companies involved. [30999/25]
156. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will extend the basic income for the arts pilot scheme which is due to end in August; if the scheme will be expanded based on the positive findings in the recent report released by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31100/25]
157. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport his plans to stop the closure of post offices in rural Ireland. [31109/25]
158. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will implement the call in a recent report (details supplied) and provide Government investment for the post office network by providing funding for a strategic investment of €15 million per year for five years. [31111/25]
159. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in 2025; the reason for engaging them; the costs incurred in respect of their engagement; and if his Department requires consultants to declare conflicts of interest in advance of utilising their services. […
160. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress being made in reversing the decline in numbers of the hen harrier following the publication of the 2022 National Hen Harrier Breeding Survey (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30920/25]
161. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to retrofit a local authority home, broken down by pre- and post-BER in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31331/25]
162. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30777/25]
163. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €1million and which failed to reach completion; the value that was written off, for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. […
164. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the list of capital projects, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €5 million and which ran over cost in 2023, along with a description of the contract, the initial price and final price provided, in tabular form. [30825/25]
165. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all sections of the Planning and Development Act 2024 that have been formally enacted; and the date upon which the enactment took place. [30842/25]
166. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when it is intended to commence the relevant sections of the Planning and Development Act 2024 relating to designation of urban development zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30871/25]
167. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in light of the deepening ecological catastrophe engulfing Lough Neagh, and noting that the 2025 fishing season has already been adversely impacted by the onset of blue-green algae pollution, and by a moratorium on commercial fishing, he is willing to meet with a representative group of Lough Neagh stakeholders to discuss how t…
168. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on call 3 for the urban regional development fund, including the number of projects that applied for funding, the number that have received funding, and an update on progress with 1,297 vacant or derelict properties identified by local authorities that were part of the funding applications. [30887/25]
169. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the reasons for his plans to downgrade the environmental target standards of 466 stretches of river, lakes and estuaries by classifying them as heavily modified water bodies, HMWB; whether his Department has assessed the long-term impacts of such designations on our environment; and if he will make a statement on …
170. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the interim funding for multi-unit development defects remediation; the total number of schemes that have applied; the schemes approved; the total number of units involved in each scheme; the moneys approved, allocated and spent to date in 2025; and when works are expected to commence and conclude on each approve…
171. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to legislate for and implement a comprehensive remediation scheme, including retrospective payments, for defective apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30914/25]
172. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all the meetings he and his officials have had with the ESB since he took office, providing dates and attendees for each meeting. [31081/25]
173. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all the meetings he and his officials have had with the infrastructure unit of the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, providing dates and attendees for each meeting. [31082/25]
174. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the borrowing capacity of all local authorities combined for the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [31083/25]
175. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authorities that employ an international relations officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31128/25]