713. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the date on which responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 will be transferred to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, as committed to in the Programme for Government; the steps that remain outstanding before the transfer of functions order can be made; the reason for the delay to date; and if he wil…
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955. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the existing legal requirements, if any, for religious and charitable organisations to disclose the source of foreign funding; and whether his Department has considered introducing a foreign funding disclosure regime similar to those in place in other EU states. [53240/26]
956. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht whether any risk assessment has been conducted into foreign funding of religious or community organisations operating in the State; and if not, whether such an assessment is planned. [53241/26]
1406. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any formal governance framework exists defining the respective responsibilities of the Department of Health and the HSE in circumstances where operational responsibility is delegated to the HSE but safeguarding, audit, patient-safety or oversight concerns arise. [39755/26]
1410. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department considers reliance on general HSE governance structures, in the absence of pathway-specific audit systems or national datasets, sufficient to satisfy the State's safeguarding and patient-safety obligations. [39759/26]
486. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any formal risk assessment has been conducted regarding the absence of a single national statutory child death review mechanism; and if so, to provide details of the findings. [36114/26]
487. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any Department, agency, or external body has advised Government that the current fragmented approach to child death reviews presents a governance or safeguarding risk; and if so, to provide details. [36115/26]
492. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether any consultation has taken place with coronial services, An Garda Síochána, the HSE, HIQA, or the Ombudsman for Children regarding the design of a future national child death review mechanism. [36121/26]
970. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether SCAN service capacity, caseload pressures, or unmet demand are recorded as risks within any HSE or Departmental risk register; and if she will outline the governance arrangements in place. [32478/26]
292. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal process used by Department officials to review quarterly reports submitted by non-statutory bodies; whether this process includes documented evaluation criteria, scoring, or decision frameworks; and if she will provide details of how compliance is assessed beyond financial reporting. [27829/26]
448. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department considers that the absence of a national reporting framework for cases in which signs of life are observed following termination of pregnancy would represent a gap in national patient safety governance; and whether she intends to introduce any reporting or audit requirements in this area. [21081/26]
568. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the governance framework within her Department for oversight of the Public Only Consultant Contract since its introduction in March 2023; including the responsible Division; the senior accountable official, the reporting frequency; and the titles and dates of any oversight reports received by her since that date. [15903/26]
657. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the current status of the performance and evaluation framework for the National Demonstration Park for Modern Methods of Construction; the date on which the framework is expected to be formally approved; whether draft metrics have been agreed by the Project Advisory Group; and whether the framework will be pu…
658. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the baseline data identified for measuring the impact of the National Demonstration Park for Modern Methods of Construction; the specific quantitative target indicators to be used in assessing uptake of MMC in public housing delivery, training throughput, and cost and time efficiencies; and if he will provide…
413. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has carried out any comparative analysis of productivity between Ireland's public sector and private sector over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63579/25]
511. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Finance the methodology used by his Department to calculate general Government debt; to outline the categories of liabilities which are excluded from that measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59722/25]
514. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Finance if the liabilities of the Housing Finance Agency, the Land Development Agency, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland and similar entities are included in the calculation of the general Government debt; if not, to state the aggregate borrowing levels of those entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59727/25]
665. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the oversight and accountability mechanisms his Department is putting in place to ensure transparent expenditure and effective governance in relation to the immigration and integration functions transferred from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3774…
718. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality how the transfer of integration and immigration functions to her Department has impacted the residual budget allocations and responsibilities of the Department, particularly in the context of early learning and childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37740/25]