Questions

344. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation his views on the position regarding sale of State-owned buildings housing public services; his plans to ensure that buildings currently in public use remain in public use; his plans to ensure retention of state assets in public ownership and community use; and if he will make a statement on the …

345. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are pending or continuing; the number of cases which were lost and won, respectively, in the same period; the number of cases that settled in the past ten ye…

346. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will provide a full list of the current IDA sites in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31828/25]

347. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to provide a full list of the current IDA sites in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31830/25]

348. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will engage with the workforce of a company (details supplied) to ensure the future viability of this important employer is secured into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31890/25]

349. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department will consider introducing incentives for employers to offer remote and hybrid working options to employees with young children, long commutes, or disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31897/25]

350. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he plans to bring forward legislation to incentivise remote and hybrid working in the private sector during the lifetime of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31898/25]

351. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of people working full-time or part-time in the private sector in roles that are fully on-site, hybrid, or fully remote from 2022 to the present, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31899/25]

352. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the supports available to employers and employees to promote remote and flexible working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31902/25]

353. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of remote working requests made under the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 from March 2024 to date; the number of requests approved and rejected by employers, broken down by civil service and private sector, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31903/25]

354. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of work permits issued to persons from outside the UK or EEA intending to take up position as doctors, nurses and other positions in the health service, in each year from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32075/25]

355. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to provide a breakdown of the number of new jobs created in Ireland in each of the past five years, disaggregated by multinational companies supported by IDA Ireland, domestic enterprises supported by Enterprise Ireland, and the public sector (civil and public service); and to express each category as a percentage of the total new jobs…

356. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to confirm the proportion of new employment in Ireland accounted for by foreign direct investment companies, compared with employment generated in the public sector and domestic SMEs, in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [32143/25]

357. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the business case made by postmasters that argued that post offices should have been categorised as retail outlets for the purposes of the power up grant; if this can be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32182/25]

358. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will provide a detailed statement on the pre-launch testing and validation process for the new online work permit application system, specifically addressing whether the system was tested under real-world load conditions; and if a parallel run was considered to mitigate risks, given the widespread login and access failures rep…

359. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the specific measures identified and implemented to resolve the root causes of the persistent login and access failures experienced by users of the new online work permit application system since its launch on 28 April 2025; and when a stable and fully functional system is expected to be operational for all users. [32201/25]

360. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of individuals that have lost their legal status or experienced employment disruption as a direct result of the system failures with the new online work permit application system since its launch on 28 April 2025; and what immediate steps are being taken by the Department to support and provide remedies for those affected…

361. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the current average response time for technical support queries related to the new online work permit application system; and what steps the Department is taking to ensure accountability and improve the timeliness of responses to user complaints and technical issues. [32203/25]

362. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will publish up-to-date statistics regarding the application backlogs, new applications lodged, and the number of complaints received and resolved concerning the new online work permit application system since its launch on 28 April 2025. [32204/25]

363. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the reason agents and users were not consulted prior to the roll out of the new online work permit application system; and the specific actions being taken to rebuild trust and improve stakeholder engagement in future digital transformations within the Department. [32205/25]

364. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the process and timeline for the development of the National Life Science Strategy as committed in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32366/25]

365. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32479/25]

366. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of such visits, if recorded, f…

367. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of vacant WTE staff currently at the Health and Safety Authority, by job title; the expected timeframe for filling each of those vacancies, in tabular form. [32600/25]

368. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to outline all capital investment made by the IDA in County Clare since 2022, in tabular form. [32601/25]