Departmental Communications

260. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has raised concerns about the imprisonment of a person (details supplied) with the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11941/26]

262. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any engagement she has had with the British Foreign Secretary in relation to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11977/26]

263. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any engagement she has had with her colleagues on the EU Foreign Affairs Council in relation to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11979/26]

264. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any engagement she has had at an EU level in relation to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong. [11980/26]

265. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she proposes to raise the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong at an EU level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11981/26]

266. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding any diplomatic work ongoing within her Department in relation to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11983/26]

267. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she proposes to meet with the family of Jimmy Lai in relation to his sentencing in Hong Kong; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11985/26]

269. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts that have been made to date to secure the release of a person (details supplied); his plans going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12207/26]

272. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her Department has been made aware of the detention of an Irish citizen (details supplied); if consular assistance has been offered or is being provided; if she will intervene or engage with the relevant US authorities regarding the circumstances of their detention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12257/26…

275. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12394/26]

281. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has spoken to the family of a person (details supplied); if she has sought to speak to them directly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12508/26]

286. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a copy of all communications between her Department and the representatives and family members of a person (details supplied) further to their detention by immigration officials in the United States; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12703/26]

287. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide all copy correspondence of all communications including email, letter and telephone conversations and exchanges between him and all US departmental agencies concerned with respect to the incarceration and release of a person (details supplied) by US Immigration police in an ICE facility in US; and if she will ma…

288. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the increasing attention by her and her Department on the ongoing detention of a person (details supplied); the high-level engagement she personally has had or has instructed her officials to have with senior elected officials in the US House of Representatives; if she will release copy correspondence regarding any a…

1153. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health to respond to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12217/26]

221. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to ask President Trump and the United States Government the steps they are taking to assist the undocumented Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11466/26]

354. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she or her Minister of State has received correspondence from a school (details supplied); if she has responded to this correspondence; if she will ensure a review of the matter raised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11325/26]

35. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Transport whether his Department received any communication from the US government, or was aware of flights (details supplied) deporting Palestinians from the US to the West Bank which refuelled at Shannon Airport in January 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10866/26]

845. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10159/26]

911. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if further to statements (details supplied) she will consider the serious issues raised in related correspondence. [10401/26]

918. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if proposals are being considered in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9270/26]

626. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the dates of all face-to-face or online meetings between Sport Ireland and his Department between 2020 and 27 January 2026. [8229/26]

225. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total number of complaints received by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman in each of the years 2021 to 2025, inclusive; the number and percentage of those complaints which were rejected or deemed inadmissible prior to a full investigation in each year; the principal statutory grounds relied upon for such rejections;…

515. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Government colleagues were informed either by her Department or the NCSE on the allocation of the first tranche of special classes for academic year 2026/27; the reason her Department failed to provide a full list officially on 12 January, the day her own Government colleagues announced classes for their own constituencie…

770. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason his Department transferred a question (details supplied) to the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage for reply given his Department is engaging with the issue under discussion as noted in the response from the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage; and if he will make a statem…