Questions asked 31 total

• Justice 10 questions

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 1156 of 9 September 2024, to provide an update on each of the 12 actions and works she approved to implement the report of the Prison Overcrowding Response Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46566/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice to provide details of her engagement with the European Union Home Affairs Committee in December 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46567/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice if she will be supporting at European Union level the processing of asylum and international protection applications in a safe third country prior to such applicants arriving in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46568/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardaí assigned to County Offaly for each year from 2021 to date in 2024, by rank, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46569/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice whether she has engaged with her ministerial counterparts, or other relevant authorities, in the United Kingdom and in Northern Ireland regarding the possibility of persons involved in grooming or sexual exploitation of children in those jurisdictions travelling to, or applying for residence in Ireland; if not, if she will commit to doing so at the earliest possible opportunity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1108/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the number of individuals who have arrived in Ireland at any port of entry, including Dublin Airport, without valid travel documents for each year from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1186/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice to provide an update on the work her Department is conducting with respect to implementing the EU Asylum and Migration Pact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1187/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice to provide details of her Department’s engagements in 2024 on the issue of reducing the numbers of persons entering Ireland illegally with the European Border Management Agency FRONTEX; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1188/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons processed by the Garda National Immigration Bureau following the discovery of such persons in transport vehicles of any description at Irish harbours and ports of entry from 2018 to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1189/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the number of times gardaí have been called to the International Protection Office in Mount Street, Dublin in 2023 and 2024 in response to threatening or abusive behaviour from international protection applicants towards IPO staff members; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1190/25]
• Health 6 questions

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will commit to immediate action on the fair deal pricing review, releasing the review within 100 days of Government formation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46310/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure equal access for all nursing home residents, private and public to primary care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46311/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if concerns regarding the lack of supply for a certain medicine (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46362/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will make urgent representations for a child with the child and adolescent mental health services (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1078/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the funding provided by the Government to the joint Irish College of General Practitioners/Health Service Executive non-EU rural GP initiative to recruit GPs from outside Ireland in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1202/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health for the costs incurred to date in the development and rollout a public awareness campaign (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1603/25]
• Children 5 questions

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 533 of 15 October 2024 (details supplied), to provide an update on the working group established to look at institutional and organisational abuse, including its examination of the UCD SERP report; if any recommendations have been made by the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1080/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 533 of 15 October 2024 (details supplied), to provide details and costs of the external research contracted by his Department to provide the working group with definitional clarification of abuse categories; if the researcher has reported back to this group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1081/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the staff numbers and grade in each of the Children's Disability Network Teams, CDNTs, in County Offaly in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1085/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the number of children awaiting an assessment of needs in County Offaly in 2024 and to date in 2025, by age, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1086/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times gardaí have been called to the City West accommodation facility in 2023 and 2024 in response to threatening or abusive behaviour from international protection applicants towards staff members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1191/25]
• Further and Higher Education 3 questions

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has applied for funding under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers to support workers in a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1516/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on his work to access funding through the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers with respect to supporting workers at a facility (details supplied). [1517/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of applications made to date to the student support scheme by eligible school leavers who are in the international protection system; the total amount in funding provided under the scheme, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1519/25]
• Agriculture 2 questions

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications made to the climate action performance payment (CAPP) scheme; the number of disallowed or refused applications and the amount paid out in total since the CAPP scheme was opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46339/24]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a compensation payment made under the climate action performance payment, CAPP, scheme is subject to taxation; if representations have been made to him by forestry or farming organisations regarding exempting the compensation from taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46340/24]
• Taoiseach 1 question

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Taoiseach to provide details of all projects, including research projects, funded to date by his Department’s shared island initiative. [1529/25]
• Transport 1 question

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide financial support to the road haulage sector to compensate for significant losses occasioned by storm damage to Holyhead Port in December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1563/25]
• Public Expenditure 1 question

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 8 October 2024 (details supplied), if he is in a position to provide the answer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1082/25]
• Enterprise 1 question

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the work his Department is engaging in regarding the planned closure of a facility (details supplied); if he or any agency under the aegis of his Department have identified alternative sources of employment for site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1515/25]
• Education 1 question

  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education if she will provide details on the exemptions from sitting examinations in Irish (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1183/25]