Mon, 16 Mar – 22 Mar 2026 · 4 TDs · 0 bills voted on · 24 questions · 0 new lobbying filings
Gary Gannon — Social Democrats
0 votes ·
7 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked7 total
Justice7 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total expenditure by his Department in settlement payments, compensation, damages or negotiated payments arising from the repudiation, cancellation or termination of international protection accommodation contracts, including payments already made, payments legally committed to, and any financial provisions recorded in the Department’s accounts, in aggregate , for each of the years 2021 to 2025, and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18305/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total expenditure by his Department, for 2025, and to date in 2026, in settlement payments, compensation, damages or negotiated payments arising from the repudiation, cancellation or termination of international protection accommodation contracts, including payments already made, payments legally committed to, and any financial provisions recorded in the Department’s accounts, in aggregate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18306/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will respond to reports that women prisoners are being held in degrading and overcrowded conditions in the Dóchas Centre; and whether the Government accepts that continuing to rely on incarceration without sufficient investment in alternatives to custody, risks simply warehousing vulnerable women in the prison system. [20842/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will clarify the Government's position regarding potential new powers allowing An Garda Síochána to access encrypted communications and personal device data, following recent reports concerning remarks he made on the issue; and whether he will outline the safeguards that will be put in place to ensure that any expansion of interception or surveillance powers is necessary, proportionate and subject to robust oversight. [20841/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Garda members who have retired or resigned from An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years; whether his Department has carried out any analysis of the reasons for those departures; the number of members currently eligible to retire within the next three years; and the measures being taken to improve retention within the force. [20843/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of unaccompanied minors who arrived in the State in 2025 seeking international protection. [20844/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide the number of arrests, charges and convictions under section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act in each of the past five years, by drug type. [20845/26]
Marie Sherlock — Labour Party
0 votes ·
15 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked15 total
Health7 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if consideration has been given by her Department to the location of a future additional emergency department in the Midwest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18966/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to amending the National Transfer Panel to ensure that trained public health nurses who wish to re-enter the panel can return to public health nursing without a requirement to retrain; the reason such requirements exist; if there is any update from conversations with unions on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19663/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed breakdown documenting the way in which the children's school flu programme is funded; the annual overall cost of the programme; the amount allocated for school-based delivery; and the number of participating schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19727/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the data available on the treatment abroad scheme; to provide a breakdowns per speciality or treatment available; and the reports made to her Department each year on the number of patients and type of treatment undertaken abroad by patients for treatment not available here. [20340/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if she considers there to be good data records maintained on the treatment abroad scheme; and if she is satisfied that there is sufficient oversight and transparency of the scheme. [20341/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the protocols that are in place for the diagnosis of Lyme’s disease in the health system. [21236/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of people who have used the travel abroad scheme for Lyme’s disease, or conditions associated with it, because of an absence of appropriate care here in Ireland, for the years 2020 to 2025. [21237/26]
Children4 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of registered foster carers for each of the years 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025. [20801/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children placed in foster care for each of the years 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025. [20802/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her understanding as to the reasons for the fall off in the number of fosters carers over recent years. [20803/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the date when the fosters carers allowance was last raised; and the considerations that are underway for an improvement to this rate. [20804/26]
Social2 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of the support schemes for the purchase of hearing aids; the change in that scheme for each of the years 2019, 2022 and 2026, the number of people covered by the scheme in each of those years; and to set out the data that the Department collected on the cost charged by private providers of hearing aids. [19586/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for disability allowance made by people with dementia aged up to 66 years-of-age for each of the years 2021-2025 and to-date in 2026; the number of applications that were accepted, rejected and under review; the main reasons why those applications were rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19837/26]
Foreign1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her plans in relation to passing the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20160/26]
Justice1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has received a copy of the protocol for the taser pilot in An Garda Síochána; if he will confirm that the protocol obliges that the pilot will be subject to an independent assessment and evaluate the impact of tasers on public trust; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20117/26]
Mary Lou McDonald — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
2 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked2 total
Health2 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the current status of night support care as part of the HSE Home Support Package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19832/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the plans in place to review the provision of night support care as part of the HSE Home Support Package in relation to older persons in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19833/26]
Paschal Donohoe — Fine Gael
0 votes ·
0 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.