Parliamentary questions

71. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Taoiseach regarding the Child Poverty and Well-Being Programme Office, the cross-Departmental actions that have been initiated to coordinate responses on income supports, housing, childcare access and educational disadvantage, in order to reduce housing-cost-adjusted child poverty rates; and if he will provide details of progress to date. [48419/25]

1. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Taoiseach the level of trade between Indonesia and Ireland in the first seven months of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46905/25]

2. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Taoiseach the level of trade between Bahrain and Ireland in the first seven months of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46906/25]

3. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Taoiseach the total cost for running each of the various citizens assemblies since 2016; to provide a breakdown of the cost categories in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44503/25]

4. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Taoiseach whether his office has a working voicemail/messaging system to track phone calls it may not pick up; and, if not, when did his Department’s voicemail service discontinue and the reason for this. [44538/25]

5. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Taoiseach the revenue generated by the tourism sector for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44607/25]

6. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Taoiseach the number of overseas visitors to Ireland for each of the past 5 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44608/25]

7. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Taoiseach the current status of the Accountability Board of the Civil Service; the last occasion on which it met. [46378/25]

8. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Taoiseach to provide the details and addresses of all properties in the ownership of the Department that are absolved from paying commercial rates to the relevant local authority of the location that the property is in; to provide a similar list of properties for agencies or bodies under its remit that are also absolved from commercial rates, in tabular form. [464…

9. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if any agreements or lists have been made or exchanged with independent TDs who now support the Government since he became Taoiseach, to include projects in their constituencies in the future National Development plan and/or the HSE Capital Plan; and if so, whether there are documents, notes, messages, communications of any kind that relate to this between …

10. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 26 of 29 July 2025, if he will instruct the bodies under his aegis to provide the information requested. [47365/25]

11. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 29 July 2025, if he will instruct the bodies under his aegis to provide the information requested. [47383/25]

1. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Taoiseach the number of SME’s operating, by county for each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [44075/25]

2. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Taoiseach the details on the number of people employed by SME’s, by county for each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [44076/25]

3. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 329 and 331 of 24 June 2025, to the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, which confirmed that responsibility for analysing collapsed or re-run procurement competitions rests with individual contracting authorities, if his Department has estimated or recorded the n…

4. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Taoiseach to provide a list of all public private partnership projects under his remit, including project name, contract value, and start-end date since 2010; and to confirm whether any projects have been subject to cost overruns, renegotiation or early termination since 2010. [40739/25]

5. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Taoiseach if his Department, or any agency under its aegis, has procured services from a company (details supplied), including but not limited to internet connectivity, satellite communications, or associated technologies. [40740/25]

6. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department and agencies under its aegis. [40888/25]

7. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Taoiseach to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant payments for each year, in tabular form; and to confirm whether these figures include all schemes and discretionary grant programmes administered directly by the Department or through its agencies. [41066/25]

8. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates; and how fees are monitored for compliance. [41512/25]

9. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach if his Department conducts regular benchmarking, or market testing, to ensure that the rates paid for legal services, solicitors and barristers, represent value for money for the taxpayer. [41530/25]

10. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach to detail the procurement processes used when engaging external legal firms and barristers, including whether panels are used; how often these are refreshed; the criteria used for selection and performance review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41548/25]

11. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach if his Department has conducted any audits or reviews in the past five years on legal fee spend; if so, to publish the findings or summaries of those reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41566/25]

12. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach the internal oversight that exists within his Department to monitor the scope, duration, and cost escalation of legal services once engaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41584/25]

13. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach if his Department makes use of capped fee arrangements, fixed-fee briefs, success-based fee models or other such arrangements in its legal engagements; and, if not, the reason such options are not considered. [41602/25]