Questions

889. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine he reason applications for TAMS 3 for solar PV grants that have an apparent poor success rate; if he can provide data showing the total number of applications; the total number of grants awarded; the total value of same in 2024 and 2025; the breakdown of grants, by percentage awarded to dairy, sheep, beef and tillage farms; if he …

890. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the enactment of the Protection of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021 to ensure the protection of native species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9669/26]

891. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9794/26]

892. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a mussel seed fishery will be opened (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9826/26]

893. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021 (details supplied); whether the review has concluded; his plans to publish the research and findings; whether his Department now considers that there exists a robust scientific and legal basis for legislative action; and whether the Government plans to progress or a…

894. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10147/26]

895. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on the level of monitoring and inspections of the large EU registered pelagic freezer trawlers Dutch owned operating off the Irish coast before Christmas 2025, and targeting horse mackerel, which has taken place; and the landings made by these vessels including bycatches of boarfish. [10189/26]

896. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on his Departments research and analysis of the current closed period model for the restriction of slurry and chemical fertiliser; if issues have been highlighted by farmers to his Department in relation to this model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10190/26]

897. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the provision of a more flexible model of the closed period for the restriction of slurry and chemical fertiliser, in order that farmers can work with Ireland’s unpredictable weather conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10191/26]

898. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the provision of a condition based model on a computer or smart phone application in conjunction with Met Éireann rainfall reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10192/26]

899. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the greyhound track attendance statistics for 2025, covering both Greyhound Racing Ireland tracks and private tracks; and the breakdown of the figures, by attendance at each track, type of entry, that is, paid entry, free entry, entry by adults, children, staff, owners and trainers, bookmakers, press, and so …

900. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reported incidents of inappropriate slurry spreading over the past year in each county; the outcome of investigations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10266/26]

901. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent animal cruelty reports due to illegal harness racing and sulky racing that is currently happening on Irish roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10441/26]

902. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage and number of women, who availed of their full entitlement of parents leave in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9595/26]

903. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage and number of men that availed of their full entitlement of parents leave in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9596/26]

904. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the percentage and number of men that availed of their full entitlement of paternity leave in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9597/26]

905. Deputy David Maxwell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of group homes and residential disability services operating in the Cavan–Monaghan area, by those catering primarily for people with intellectual disabilities; people with physical and/or sensory disabilities; the number of residents supported in each category; the service providers responsible for these homes; and if she wi…

906. Deputy David Maxwell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a breakdown, by county of HIQA-registered group homes by disability type, including intellectual, physical, sensory, and mixed-disability services, to ensure transparency and support evidence-based disability service planning. [9799/26]

907. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will introduce the option to share/transfer parent's leave between parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9871/26]

908. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred in 2024 for an assessment of needs at East Limerick Children’s Disability Network Team, has yet to receive an appointment date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10135/26]

909. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of decision making assistance agreements, co-decision making agreements and decision making representation orders currently in force; the number of cases in which a parent or close family member has been appointed under each category; the average processing or waiting times for families engaging with the Decision Support Se…

910. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department has examined the operation of (details supplied) in cases involving adults over 18 years-of-age with severe intellectual disabilities and complex additional needs, particularly where parents who have been lifelong carers are no longer formally recognised in decision making processes; the steps which are being ta…

911. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if further to statements (details supplied) she will consider the serious issues raised in related correspondence. [10401/26]

912. Deputy Peter Roche asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently engaged with or referred to Children's Disability Network Teams who are awaiting a diagnostic assessment, by CHO area, length of time waiting, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10489/26]

913. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress she has made on implementing recommendations for disability support services; the specific improvements she has targeted for community-based facilities in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9186/26]