Departmental Reviews

532. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has assessed the impact that reductions in ESOL and related community based English language supports will have on primary and post-primary schools in County Donegal, particularly schools with Ukrainian pupils and families who require English language support; whether schools will receive additional Engl…

884. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the review of childminding regulations will take place. [37086/26]

260. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department intends to commission any independent empirical analysis or behavioural modelling on the impact of the deemed disposal regime on retail investor behaviour, long-term savings patterns, Exchange Traded Fund participation, or capital allocation decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36105/26…

262. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has assessed the comparative fairness of applying taxation to unrealised gains within regulated investment funds while direct equity investments are generally taxed only upon realisation of gains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36107/26]

263. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether any assessment has been conducted on the impact of the deemed disposal regime on small and medium retail investors seeking to build long-term savings through diversified investment products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36108/26]

265. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has conducted any assessment of the administrative complexity imposed on individual taxpayers by the self-assessment obligations associated with Exchange Traded Funds subject to the deemed disposal regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36110/26]

266. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has examined the extent to which the deemed disposal regime may discourage Irish retail investors from participating in diversified long-term investment products compared with consumers in other EU jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36111/26]

267. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether any analysis has been conducted on the interaction between the deemed disposal regime and the European Commission's Savings and Investment Union objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36112/26]

44. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to review the reason Ireland is the only country in the world to apply a deemed disposal rule to retail investment funds. [35513/26]

422. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Transport his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if this matter can be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35163/26]

470. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide an update on his review of the taxation of retail investment with a view to ensuring that existing investors are included in future tax measure. [35233/26]

798. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on his Departments implementation of any of the recommendations contained in the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34294/26]

799. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department accepts the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System finding that minority ethnic and migrant groups are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice systems of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and England & Wales; if he will publish …

800. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has considered the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System warning that the absence of ethnic monitoring allows agencies to “escape accountability” for disparities; the steps his Department is taking to collect and publish data on the over-representation of fore…

801. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way in which the Government intends to address the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System identified risks of stigmatisation when publishing ethnic crime data, while ensuring that the Irish public can have a transparent debate on any links between mass immigratio…

802. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether the findings in the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System on the extreme over-representation of Indigenous and migrant-descended groups in the criminal justice systems of comparator countries have prompted any review of Ireland’s immigration policy; if he wi…

803. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if has examined the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System evidence that self-identification combined with officer perception is used successfully in England & Wales and New Zealand to capture accurate ethnicity data at the point of stop-and-search and arrest; if…

804. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for his Department’s response to the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System conclusion that victim ethnicity data is the least developed area across all comparator jurisdictions; if he will publish hate crime and victimisation statistics broken down by ethnicity and …

805. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason Ireland continues to lag behind the comparator countries examined in the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System in routinely recording and publishing ethnicity data in the criminal justice system; if the Government’s reluctance is due to concerns about wha…

806. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will confirm that the April 2025 report An Evidence Review on Ethnic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System recommendation for contextualised publication of ethnic data (to avoid implying direct causal links between ethnicity and crime) will not be used as a reason to suppress or delay the release of statis…

807. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether, in light of the Ethnic Monitoring report’s emphasis on the need for evidence-based policy to address disparities, his Department will now commit to a full public debate on the relationship between ethnicity, recent migration patterns and crime rates in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.…

1173. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health when the external review that was supposed to be completed in August 2025 will be given to a family (details supplied). [34925/26]

195. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Transport to consider conducting a review of the need for bus stops and a train stop in a specific area (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33309/26]

281. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment when the rationale for the current €40,000 minimum salary threshold for certain critical skills employment permit roles; and when this threshold was last reviewed. [31888/26]

602. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether a cross-departmental review has been undertaken into the interaction between international education policy, migration pathways, labour market needs and housing supply; and whether the Government is satisfied that these policies are sufficiently aligned. [31892/26]