Departmental Data

716. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current average waiting time for individuals who have lodged an appeal or request for revocation of a deportation order; the measures being taken to reduce delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70211/25]

717. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason a full-time student (details supplied) who was born in Ireland and is required to apply for an Irish residency permit was only issued with a permit for a period of six months, which expires on the 6 March 2026,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70232/25]

727. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide details of new migration arrangements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70353/25]

728. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the minimum funding level of €200,000 for the Stepping Out Programme Athlone will be increased for 2026 and for each year thereafter (details supplied). [70383/25]

729. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an update on negotiations to provide additional funding to Stepping Out for the 2025 period (details supplied). [70384/25]

730. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals to implement a positive messaging strategy and campaign to inform farmers about the importance and benefit of Ireland’s carbon emissions reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70110/25]

731. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available for the upgrading of slaughterhouses and boning halls; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69008/25]

732. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown by county of the total amounts paid under the BISS, CRISS, ANC and complementary income support for young farmers in 2025, in tabular form. [69461/25]

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; t…

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 incom…

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 supporte…

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. [6…

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 ex…

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]

881. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric emergency medicine registrars based at CHI Tallaght University Hospital in each of the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69162/25]

882. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists by grade based at Kilnamanagh/Tymon primary care centre in each of the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69163/25]

883. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE occupational therapists, by grade based at Killinarden health centre in each of the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69164/25]

884. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologist based at Tallaght University Hospital in each of the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69165/25]

899. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of people diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 5 years, broken down by age group, gender and county. [69326/25]

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 c…

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 visi…

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 …