Mon, 28 Jul – 3 Aug 2025 · 5 TDs · 0 bills voted on · 65 questions · 0 new lobbying filings
Fiona O'Loughlin — Fianna Fáil
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0 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
Mark Wall — Labour Party
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33 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked33 total
Social25 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of providing a Christmas bonus double payment of each weekly social welfare payment on the same basis as in 2024, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown of the costs by each weekly payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44025/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the child support payment for under-12s by €6 or €10 and for over-12s by €10 or €15; to provide the current number of eligible children in each category, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44026/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the current cost of the free travel scheme; the number of participants; the projected cost of introducing free travel to students namely those aged 18 to 24 who hold a PSC card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44027/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the dates the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowances will be paid; the additional cost in a full year to increase each rate by €100; the estimated amount it would cost to extend it to foster carers allowance; the additional cost to provide the current payment to all school going children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44028/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing eligibility thresholds for SWA by 10%, 20%, 30% respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44029/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding eligibility for fuel allowance to all those on the working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44030/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing fuel allowance by €5 or €10 a week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44031/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the fuel allowance to 32 weeks at current rates; the estimated cost of increasing it by €5 or €10 a week at 32 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44032/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a €30 per week cost of disability payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44033/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of every additional ten community welfare officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44034/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost to extend the JST to one-parent families in work, training or education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44035/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to extend the entitlement to the living alone allowance and household benefits package to one-parent families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44036/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost for every €1 increase in the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44037/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s support grant by €150; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44038/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of increasing the working family payment thresholds by €20 or €50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44039/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of paying child benefit in the month of birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44040/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of providing job seeker's payments to under-25s at the same adult rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44041/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s allowance income disregard to €750 single, and €1,500 for a couple; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44042/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the back to education grant to all BTEA applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44043/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the disability allowance income disregard to €200 or €250, respectively, and increasing the upper income cap to €400 or €450, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44044/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the one-parent family payment and JST income disregards to €200 or €250, respectively, and to provide a breakdown of the cost for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44045/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of providing carer’s allowance to all those in receipt of the carer’s support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44047/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of providing carer’s allowance at a full rate to those caring for two or more people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44048/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of allowing those in receipt of the State pension to retain a full-rate carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44049/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of a €10 increase in the household benefits package for gas and electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44051/25]
Children5 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing foster care allowance rates by €15 or €25, or alternatively index linking it to inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44052/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing the aftercare allowance to the same rate as foster care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44053/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the current funding streams for childcare; the breakdown of the additional funding provided in Budget 2025, in tabular form; the expected funding required in 2026 to maintain existing levels of service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44054/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding required to reduce the costs of childcare for parents to respectively €50 per week or €200 per month; to provide a breakdown of the additional allocations required, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44055/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the additional funding required to increase funding for the ECCE scheme by 10%; if she will provide a breakdown of those proposed new funding levels, in tabular form; when funding for ECCE was last increased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44056/25]
Education2 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth the latest update on allowing those over 70 years of age drive a school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42555/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth the up-to-date position with the provision of a school bus ticket for a student in Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42556/25]
Housing1 question
2025-07-29Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage under the Property Services Regulations Act 2011, whether the address of the property sold is published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41722/25]
Martin Heydon — Fine Gael
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0 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
Seán Ó Fearghaíl — Fianna Fáil
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13 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked13 total
Health3 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health if her Department or the Health Service Executive have engaged with the Department of Justice in relation to the immigrant investor programme (IIP) funding that was committed to a project (details supplied); if her Department has urged the IIP to release the balance of funding committed in order that the building project can be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42934/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists across CHO7 that are trained in manual lymphatic drainage therapy for lymphedema patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42948/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the number of recruitment campaigns that St. James's hospital took in the United Kingdom to attract Irish trained nurses, doctors, speech and language therapists and so on, to work at the hospital in the years 2023 to 2024 and to-date in 2025; the number of jobs offered per recruitment campaign, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42949/25]
Education2 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider the points made in correspondence (details supplied) regarding school funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41372/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department’s planning unit has assessed the need for additional primary school places in Kildare town; her plans to meet the demand for school places; if she is aware of the extensive housing developments taking place locally which will give rise to even greater demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42936/25]
Justice2 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department has engaged with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality in relation to the immigrant investor programme, IIP, programme funding that was committed to a project (details supplied); if his Department has urged IIP to release the balance of funding committed in order that the building project can be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42935/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 758 of 15 July 2025, if the Irish Prison Service is amenable to responding to Parliamentary Questions; if a reply will be provided to the question as requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41328/25]
Foreign1 question
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to open a new Irish consulate general office in Auckland, New Zealand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42947/25]
Defence1 question
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of vacant posts for dentists, nurses and doctors within the Defence Forces Medical Corps; the timeframe for filling each of those vacancies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42951/25]
Public Expenditure1 question
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of persons currently on a panel arising from the most recent assistant principal officer recruitment campaign across civil servants; the timeframe for this panel to expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42950/25]
Housing1 question
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the context of the private rental sector reforms, if in respect of those landlords with four properties or less, who had intended their properties to be part of a pension arrangement, if said landlords are obliged to sell the properties with the sitting tenants still in place; if he agrees that there is a risk of sitting tenants’ arrangements reducing market value of such property and or limiting availability of such properties to first-time buyers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42961/25]
Social1 question
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 15 July 2025, if he accepts that his Department, using as it does its customers' PPS number, can readily identify if a person whose payment is under review is over 80 years-of-age; the reason reviews of the aged and infirm do not provide for the sensitivity required to ensure that excessive stress and consequential ill health is caused to the aged and vulnerable; if he will now provide the details of the number of people who have been reviewed over the past five years over 80 years-of-age; the savings achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41330/25]
Agriculture1 question
2025-07-29Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 781 of 15 July 2025, if as previously requested he will clarify if his Department plans to publish a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41329/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of school suspensions and expulsions for the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41723/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children with additional needs who are on short school days this year, and for the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41726/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 461, 462 and 463 of 15 July 2025, if she will acknowledge that the new circular facilitating admissions to developmental language disorder/speech sound disorder classes is exclusionary towards one particular cohort of students who would benefit from the supports offered in these classes, namely children with speech sound disorder of a known origin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41774/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children, by county who are without a school place for September as of 24 July 2025. [43838/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the student to special class ratio in each county based on the provision effective from September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43914/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 15 July 2025, her Department's precise rationale for requiring DLD/SSD of an unknown origin for enrolment in special classes; if her Department will consider revising the enrolment criteria for DLD/SSD classes to align with their stated aim of ensuring that children with the greatest level of need are facilitated to enrol in the classes, given that SSD can arise from a known disability like Down Syndrome and can cause learning needs no less significant than those whose diagnosis arises from an unknown origin, and that the targeted support provided in DLD/SSD special classes is beneficial to both groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44308/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current number of children waiting on a school place in north Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44356/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children with additional needs that are currently waiting on a school place for September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44357/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children with additional needs with an appropriate school place in September that fits their educational need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44358/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current number of children waiting on a school place in south Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44411/25]
Children3 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a child safety officer has been appointed to St John’s Ambulance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41944/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she plans to sanction the final €5 million in funding needed to complete a complex (details supplied) which would, upon completion, serve to considerably reduce waiting times for assessments and therapies for children with disabilities.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43837/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if consideration will be given to allocating funding for after-school facilities as part of the National Development Plan Review 2025; for a breakdown of figures regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44359/25]
Public Expenditure2 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if his Department has a policy on alarm installation engineer codes and the procedure that follows if an alarm company goes out of business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41945/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if consideration will be given to acquiring a lease (details supplied) in order to reunite the lands of Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44361/25]
Justice2 questions
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí, by rank, attached to the community policing unit in each Garda district within Kildare-Carlow division, as of 23 July 2025. [43200/25]
2025-07-29Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average waiting time for a visitor visa to Ireland from South Africa; the number of those still waiting on visitor visa approval from South Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44360/25]
Further and Higher Education1 question
2025-07-29D'fhiafraigh Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh den Aire Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta cad iad na pleananna atá aige maidir le cúrsaí Gaeilge tríú leibhéal nua a chur ar fáil chun a chinntiú go mbainfear amach an sprioc inniúlachta 20% sa Ghaeilge d'oibrithe sa Státseirbhís roimh 2030. [40823/25]
Rural1 question
2025-07-29D'fhiafraigh Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail, agus Gaeltachta cén uair a fhoilseoidh sé na caighdeáin teanga nua ionas gur féidir le obair leanacht ar aghaidh chun an sprioc 20% d'earcaigh inniúil sa Ghaeilge a bhaint amach. [40862/25]