Parliamentary questions

1. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the programme for Government office being established in his Department. [1677/25]

2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach his plans for the implementation of the programme for Government. [4512/25]

3. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet committee that deals with infrastructure; and when it will hold its first meeting. [1678/25]

4. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet committee that deals with infrastructure; and when it will hold its first meeting. [1684/25]

5. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [2679/25]

6. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [4434/25]

7. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2024, published by his Department in November 2024. [1679/25]

8. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2024, published by his Department in November 2024. [4390/25]

54. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Taoiseach if he has had any requests from the DPP for extra resources between 1 January 2020 to 7 February 2025. [5138/25]

55. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education and Disability will meet next. [2682/25]

56. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [2683/25]

57. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Taoiseach the annual payment by his Department to the climate action fund scheme, as required by virtue Circular 01/2020 (D/PER), broken down by trip, in each of the past five years and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [4964/25]

58. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach if he can confirm that a 21st extension will be provided to the NAMA Commission regarding its investigation into the sale by the National Asset Management Agency of its Project Eagle loan portfolio, and that the report will be published on 30 April 2025. [5112/25]

46. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to provide a detailed breakdown of all funding allocated for the year ahead or spent in the past fiscal year by his Department on artificial intelligence systems or artificial intelligence research; and what programmes or Department operations, if any, are conducted using artificial intelligence tools. [3870/25]

47. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach the details of each time his Department, or public bodies under the aegis of his Department, enlisted the services of consultants in 2023 and 2024; and the purpose, value and duration of each contract in relation to public bodies under the aegis of his Department, including where consulting contracts are classified under 'business-as-usual outsourcing'…

48. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Taoiseach the progress and current status of the Covid-19 evaluation; and when a point of contact will be established for the public. [3968/25]

49. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either Hous…

50. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2024; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seve…

51. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2023; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seve…

52. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2022; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seve…

53. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2021; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seve…

54. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Taoiseach the salary scale that appli to the Secretary General of his Department; whether this scale has changed in the past year; and whether there are proposals to change this scale in the coming period. [4326/25]

55. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of expenditure relating to IT external service provision in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, including the company name and amount expended with them, in tabular form. [4481/25]

56. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Taoiseach to outline the exact title of each Minister of State in his Department; to outline their delegated functions and attributable budget heading for each of these functions; and the timeframe when such delegated functions will be formally notified to the Dáil. [4616/25]

1. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Taoiseach to provide an update on the progress of the annexe of actions contained with each annual climate action plan; to provide a breakdown of which actions are completed, are in progress and-or remain outstanding, by year, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [2821/25]