Departmental Bodies

612. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department aggregates or compiles quarterly prompt payment reporting data submitted by public bodies and agencies under its remit, in accordance with Government Decision S29296 of 19 May 2009, 2 and 8 March 2011, and 28 March 2017; if so, to provide the compiled data or summary tables for the years 2022, 2023, a…

613. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm which public bodies under the aegis of his Department are required to submit quarterly prompt payment reports in accordance with Government Decision S29296 of 19 May 2009, 2 and 8 March 2011, and 28 March 2017, regarding the 15-Day Prompt Payment Commitment; to provide a comprehensive list of those bodies; a…

15. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the establishment of a small business unit in his Department, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21738/25]

219. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 11 February 2025, and the first meeting of the panel having taken place during the Taoiseach’s visit to Washington DC last month, the composition of the new US-based strategic economic advisory panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20272/25]

259. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is satisfied that the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority is sufficiently resourced to fulfil its statutory mandate and, in particular, to complete its decision-making process as expeditiously as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19237/25]

320. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide the membership of the Biomethane Implementation Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21125/25]

516. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Transport if he will investigate an incident involving a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20811/25]

943. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education the timeframe for the Irish medium for education taskforce; who will be part of the taskforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19920/25]

1036. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Education if each of the ten bodies under the aegis of her Department met the compliance standards as set out in their annual compliance assurance return and the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies. [20820/25]

1043. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Education if she has yet met with the chief executive officers in bodies under the aegis of her Department. [20827/25]

1071. Deputy Gillian Toole asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the recently-published National Counter Disinformation Strategy includes provisions to address the dissemination of misleading or inaccurate information by State agencies or State-owned companies; and if not, how the Government intends to ensure that organs of the State are held to the same stan…

1328. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm which body is responsible for providing a full technical review of a defective concrete block grant scheme application; whether responsibility is with the Housing Agency or the relevant local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20667/25]

1332. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current position of the technical review of the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme announced on 6 November 2024; if the scheme will not provide a mechanism to bypass the statutory right to appeal as set out in the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022; and …

215. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [15665/25]

217. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach the participants at the first meeting of the Strategic Economic Advisory Panel which took place during his recent visit to Washington DC. [16610/25]

219. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to outline the remit of the disability unit at his Department, including whether it will be responsible for specialist community-based disability services; what responsibility it will have for implementation of "mainstream first" disability policy; whether it will be a policy-development unit; whether it will be responsible for driving disabilit…

225. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a full list of membership of the recently-formed US-based Strategic Economic Advisory Panel; the number of times this group has convened; the number of occasions that he and or his officials has met with the panel; if the meetings took place in person, by phone and or online; and the dates of same. …

251. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the current status of the recruitment process for the project manager positions for the European Digital Innovation Centre, EDIC, and the Centre of Excellence for the Circular Economy under the just transition framework; when these positions will be formally released to the relevant local authority for a…

336. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport if he will make a statement on data sharing restrictions in respect of statutory authorities under his department; and, in particular, if he will make a statement on the National Transport Authority’s ability to share anonymised information about speeding and other traffic offences with residents associations. [17636/25]

400. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of bodies or agencies of the State within his Department working with data centre companies to advance completion of data centre projects in Ireland. [17272/25]

153. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to report on the work of the business events oversight group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15951/25]

93. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [7556/25]

94. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [9460/25]

444. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if any public body or publicly funded body under his Department's aegis are not compliant with Part V of the Disability Act 2005; if Part V applies to all subsidiaries of such bodies; if, in cases where it does not, he has the power to extend such a requirement, either through Ministerial order …

612. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any public body or publicly funded body under his Department’s aegis procured from outside the EU any professional services in excess of €25,000 in relation to accountancy, pensions, architecture or legal, in each year from 1 January 2020 to end 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the …