243. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures in place for local authorities to bring vacant housing stock back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37543/26]
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244. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the proposals and associated targets to deliver age-friendly housing in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [37537/26]
246. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 5 March 2026, to provide an update on the progression of national planning guidelines for solar energy developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37559/26]
247. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce statutory regulations for online property bidding platforms and estate agents to deal with potential overbidding and gazumping; his views on introducing mandatory transparency standards for active property biddings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37480/26]
248. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes by new builds and acquisitions delivered in Counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number of local authority affordable homes, in each year 2020-2025 inclusive; and the estimated delivery for 2026, by county, in tabular form. [37532/26]
249. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the Croí Cónaithe schemes in Carlow and Kilkenny; the number of properties have now benefitted from them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37213/26]
250. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends placing a cap on redress for apartment and duplex construction defects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37230/26]
251. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Taoiseach if his Department has any usage policy on or if it sanctions for official purposes the use of messaging apps (details supplied) [37210/26]
252. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Taoiseach if his Department or any bodies and agencies under its aegis use, or have in the past used, software and or products from a company (details supplied); the duration and cost of the contract; and the services they avail of from the company. [35874/26]
253. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Taoiseach to provide a copy of the recent correspondence issued by the Minister for Public Expenditure; National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to his Department referred to in media reports (details supplied); if he will provide details of the percentage reduction(s) in spending in his Department referenced in the correspondence. [36414/26]
254. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Taoiseach the number of additional staff employed or that will be employed by his Department directly or under contract for the purposes of Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2026 [37461/26]
255. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland provides financial assistance or development aid to the government of Senegal or any of its agencies; if this will be reviewed in the light of that country’s increased penalties (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36684/26]
256. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has considered writing review clauses into development co-operation agreements with recipient Governments which would be triggered in the event of backsliding on democracy, the rule of law or human rights (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36685/26]
257. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department maintains any formal written definition distinguishing abortion services, post-abortion care, abortion-related advocacy, reproductive-health policy activity, and maternal healthcare within Official Development Assistance reporting frameworks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36810/26]
258. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether any recipient organisation of Irish Official Development Assistance funding is contractually prohibited from using Irish taxpayer funding, directly or indirectly, for the provision, promotion, or advocacy of abortion services internationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36811/26]
259. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department has conducted any assessment of fungibility risks whereby Irish Official Development Assistance funding provided to multilateral organisations may indirectly support abortion-related activity through pooled funding arrangements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36812/26]
260. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department requires recipient organisations receiving sexual and reproductive health funding to separately identify expenditure on maternal healthcare, contraception, HIV prevention, post-abortion care, abortion-related advocacy, and abortion-service provision in financial reporting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3…
261. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether any independent audit or verification process is applied by her Department to outcome metrics supplied by recipient organisations relating to "unsafe abortions averted", unintended pregnancies prevented, or related reproductive-health indicators; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36814/26]
262. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland has ever raised concerns, objections, abstentions, or reservations at UN Executive Board level regarding abortion-related programming, advocacy, terminology, or reporting by organisations receiving Irish Official Development Assistance funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36815/26]
263. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department can identify, from existing reporting systems, the proportion of Irish sexual and reproductive health funding allocated specifically to maternal health, contraception, HIV prevention, post-abortion care, and abortion-related advocacy respectively in each year since 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [368…
264. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department maintains a central register identifying organisations in receipt of Irish Official Development Assistance funding which publicly campaign for changes to abortion laws internationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36817/26]
265. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether any legal advice has been sought since 2019 regarding the compatibility of pooled multilateral funding arrangements with Government assurances that Irish taxpayer funding is not used for abortion-related purposes internationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36818/26]
266. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the Department intends to introduce a more detailed expenditure-classification and reporting framework for sexual and reproductive health funding in order to improve transparency and public accountability regarding the end-use of Irish overseas aid funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36819/26]
267. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of applications made to the Irish embassy in Abu Dhabi for Irish citizens located in Doha, Qatar to attend the consular clinic at the embassy on 10 May 2026. [36837/26]
268. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of engagements between her Department and the government of Indonesia in 2025 and to-date in 2026. [36895/26]