Questions

317. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance to examine the case for putting in place a national insurance company, or legislate for commercial companies, to provide insurance for people in situations similar to persons (details supplied). [34249/25]

318. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance for a detailed update on the work of the Revenue Commissioners and JATF in addressing cross-Border smuggling of tobacco products from Northern Ireland; the details of the number of searches and seizures carried-out in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34278/25]

319. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Finance his views on the merits of providing low interest, Government-backed bridging loans for people seeking to move home and are unable to do so due to the cost of finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34279/25]

320. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Finance when the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal will next conduct a clinic in the west of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34281/25]

321. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Finance to address inheritance tax anomalies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34319/25]

322. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Finance how a person in County Kildare (details supplied) can go about taking a former payment away from their credit history record, given that it no longer applies but is causing them financial hardship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34345/25]

323. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Finance the plans to apply a zero value added tax rate to sunscreens, cosmetics containing sunscreen and other items such as garments that provide UV protection in order to further enhance public health policy in the context of the prevention and or mitigation of skin cancers; if he has engaged with Healthy Ireland or the HSE in respect of any of these measures; and i…

324. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the works that have been carried out on Garda stations in Wicklow to remove asbestos (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34504/25]

325. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if Garda stations in Wicklow (details supplied) still contain asbestos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34505/25]

326. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the timeline for when works will be carried out to remove asbestos from Garda stations in Wicklow (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34507/25]

327. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the cost breakdown for works to be carried out in Garda stations in Wicklow (details supplied) to remove asbestos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34508/25]

328. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the timeline for when concerns were first raised the Garda stations (details supplied) in Wicklow had asbestos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34709/25]

329. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department or the Office of Government Procurement collects or maintains data on public procurement competitions that collapse without a contract award, either due to lack of submissions, failure to meet requirements, or legal challenges; and if so, the number and proportion of collapsed…

330. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if eTenders includes functionality to systematically track procurement competitions that were advertised but for which no award notice was ever published; and if not, whether this data gap is being addressed given the importance of understanding failure rates in public procurement and improving…

331. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has estimated the administrative or financial cost of collapsed or re-run procurement competitions; and if any analysis has been undertaken on the reasons for such failures and how they could be prevented through improved planning, market engagement, or procedural reform. [336…

332. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has a designated head of procurement; if each agency or public body under his Department’s remit also has a designated head of procurement; and if so, to list those entities, along with the name or grade of the person holding that role. [33646/25]

333. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of staff within his Department and its agencies who hold a formal procurement qualification or certification (for example, CIPS, NFQ Level 6 or higher in procurement, EU public procurement training), broken down by organisation, in tabular form. [33664/25]

334. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department and each agency or public body under its remit uses a formal contract management system or procurement tracking platform; to list the systems in use; and if they are centrally monitored or independently operated. [33682/25]

335. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if there are any formal competency frameworks or mandatory qualification requirements in place for public servants working in procurement roles across Government Departments and agencies; and to provide data on compliance or progress toward professionalising the procurement function across the …

336. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if there are any requirements or standards for Departments and agencies to use contract management systems to manage public procurement projects post-award. [33689/25]

337. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department plans to publish the next edition of the Public Service Spend and Tendering Analysis Report, covering 2020 or subsequent years; if not, the reasons for the delay or discontinuation of this reporting series, given that the most recent report, covering 2019 was published in 2022…

338. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the measures he is taking to ensure that public buildings comply with the energy performance of buildings directive; if he believes all public buildings will meet the 2028 deadline; to breakdown the number of public buildings that have been retrofitted to achieve this standard in each of the years 2…

339. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide, in relation to commercial semi-State bodies which are permitted to undertake their own borrowing, a list of those semi-State bodies, along with their current borrowing limits, their current total borrowings and the source of these borrowings, in tabular form; and if he will make …

340. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation for a full list of all documents, reports, strategies, and resources that have been “unpublished” by his Department over the past ten years (details supplied), including all such materials that have been “unpublished” by divisions, sections and units of his Department that became part o…

341. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether the OPW plans to install a passenger lift from the ground floor to the first floor at Dublin Castle; and if not, the reason. [33977/25]