489. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide the evaluation reports submitted to the European Commission for all AMIF and ESF+ integration actions; and to confirm whether any recommendations on financial controls, performance measurement or risk management were issued by the Commission to Ireland. [71137/25]
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490. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to specify how multi-year grants under migration and integration schemes are monitored over time; the checkpoints used; the criteria for continuation or termination; and the number of projects that were discontinued or amended due to performance concerns since 2017. [71138/25]
491. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has completed an assessment on the potential consolidation of overlapping migration and integration funding schemes; and to outline the policy analysis undertaken on cost savings, administrative efficiency and improved oversight. [71139/25]
492. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline the strengthened spending controls that will be applied to future rounds of the National Integration Fund, Communities Integration Fund, International Protection Integration Fund and EU-backed measures; and to provide the timeline for implementing these controls. [71140/25]
531. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the whole-time equivalent number of HSE-funded occupational therapist posts in Cork city and county in each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, and to date in 2025; the number of posts vacant in each of those years; the number of staff who left HSE occupational therapy posts and the number appointed in each year; the resulting vacancy and …
532. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children and adults on waiting lists for occupational therapy in Cork city and county in each quarter from Q1 2022 to the most recent quarter, broken down by service area (primary care, disability services, older persons, and mental health); the median and longest waiting times in each category; and the assessment of her De…
167. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the current reporting framework for monitoring non-resident and foreign-controlled company acquisitions of residential and commercial property; the data gaps his Department has identified in the tracking of overseas investment flows into the Irish property market; and whether reforms are under consideration to improve transparency, including mandator…
235. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and value of residential property purchases completed by non-resident buyers in each of the past five years, disaggregated by price band and county; the proportion of these purchases completed without mortgage finance; and the actions his Department is considering to protect housing affordability for domestic buyers in li…
534. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection the net change in income in 2026 compared with 2025 for a single adult on disability allowance living alone, taking account of the withdrawal of once off supports in Budget 2025 including the €400 disability cost-of-living payment, the €300 fuel lump sum, the €300 living alone lump sum, the €200 electricity credits and the double week bonuses, and the p…
540. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of restoring all once off supports paid to disabled people in 2025 for one further year, itemised by each support including the disability cost-of-living payment, the fuel lump sum, the living alone lump sum, electricity credits and double week bonuses. [69177/25]
581. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the oversight framework used by his Department for all national and EU co-funded migration and integration grants; the audit requirements imposed on NGOs; the number of compliance checks carried out in each of the past five years; the breaches identified; and the sanctions or repayment orders issued. [69057/25]
582. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the criteria used by his Department to award national and EU co-funded migration and integration funding; the value-for-money tests applied before grants approved; and the process used to verify outcomes once funding has been spent. [69058/25]
583. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the performance indicators his Department uses to measure the impact of Exchequer and EU funding allocated to NGOs for immigration, asylum and integration initiatives; to confirm whether annual performance reports are required; and to provide the results of these indicators for each year since 2021. [69059/25]
762. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department maintains a central register of all suppliers and payees across her Department and its agencies, including supplier legal type such as limited company, partnership, sole trader or charity; if not, the reason this information is not recorded as part of financial governance and procurement oversight; the date on which her…
763. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the procedures in place within her Department and its agencies to verify the legal status, beneficial ownership and tax compliance of all corporate suppliers prior to payment; the systems used to confirm whether payees are incorporated entities; and whether internal audits have identified gaps in controls due to incomplete supplier-class…
764. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has carried out any audit, risk assessment or value-for-money review relating to the absence of legal-status classification among suppliers to her Department or its agencies; the findings of any such review; and the measures being introduced to ensure future payments to external entities are supported by complete govern…
765. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average cost per child per week in residential care for each placement category, disaggregated between subcontracted private providers and Tusla-operated centres, for each of the past five years; and the methodology used by her Department and by Tusla’s management accounting unit when calculating these figures. [69115/25]
766. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children placed in subcontracted private residential placements and Tusla-operated residential centres; and the total annual expenditure associated with each category, in order to assess budgetary exposure and value-for-money oversight, in each of the past five years. [69116/25]
767. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the governance framework, audit controls and financial-oversight mechanisms used to verify the cost structures of subcontracted private residential-care providers; the frequency of audits or financial reviews carried out by Tusla or her Department in the past five years; and the actions taken where discrepancies or excessive cost varianc…
878. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of beds closed for infection-control, staffing or maintenance reasons in each of the past six months, by hospital; and the impact of these closures on trolley numbers reported to the HSE. [69153/25]
963. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the governance, referral and decision-making framework that operated when Irish children and young people were sent abroad for gender-identity assessment or treatment, including the basis on which the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service and University College Hospital London were used; and the policy reviews undertaken following the closure of Tavistock.…
964. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of children and young people referred abroad for gender-identity assessment or treatment in each year since 2009, including the number referred; the number seen; age at referral and sex at birth; and if her Department holds any clinical outcomes or follow-up information arising from these referrals. [69428/25]
965. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the clinical guidelines, national policy instructions or formal agreements that applied to the use of puberty-suppressing medication for minors assessed overseas; and to specify whether any safeguarding, clinical-risk or budgetary assessments were carried out before these treatments were facilitated under the treatment abroad scheme. [69429/25]
981. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to identify which body holds national waiting-list data for children and young people seeking gender-related assessment or treatment, in circumstances where the HSE’s treatment abroad scheme has stated that it does not hold or have access to waiting-list information; the oversight arrangements the Department has in place to ensure national visibility of demand and…
982. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the Department’s governance framework for paediatric referrals for gender-related treatment abroad, including the criteria used by the Department to assess clinical safety, safeguarding, and public-expenditure implications, in circumstances where applications for gender-affirming surgery abroad are automatically approved once an MDT report and referral letter are …