Mon, 16 Mar – 22 Mar 2026 · 4 TDs · 0 bills voted on · 38 questions · 0 new lobbying filings
Aengus Ó Snodaigh — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
18 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked18 total
Education11 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will ensure there are enough places with appropriate supports in existing primary and secondary schools in Dublin 10 for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18251/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth in noting that land has been identified for education facilities in Park West Dublin 10, if she will consider a purpose built school for children with autism and mild to moderate special needs as part of the Park West-Cherry Orchard Local Area Plan. [18252/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the person or body that took the decision and the reason for excluding compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19479/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the decision to exclude compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006 is contrary to the stated Mícheál Martin as Minister for Education’s position in 1999, which itself was a reiteration of Government policy from 1960s to that time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19480/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the ‘decision’ to exclude compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006 was not communicated to Irish-medium schools, their students or other students sitting their Leaving Certificate exams through Irish but in English medium schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19481/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will publish all documents relating to when decisions annually were taken, by whom and the educational basis of those decisions to exclude compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects including history and geography from the answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme in each year since 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19482/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to confirm with regard to each of the following Leaving Certificate subjects (History; Geography; Economics; PE; Agricultural Science; Religion; Politics and Society; Computer Science; Religious Education), that answering through the Irish bonus marks scheme was applied by the State Examinations Commission on the entirety of each students written work submitted each and every year from the 1960s to 2005 inclusive, and it is intended that the State Examinations Commission will reinstate that position of awarding bonus marks on the entirety of each student’s assessed work, from this year’s 2026 student cohort; and if she will for each subject, detail the year a compulsory project or research component was introduced for Leaving Certification assessment, the weighted value of that project. [19483/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department officials of the State Examination Commission received correspondence regularly from 2008 on the matter of the failure to apply answering through Irish bonus marks to compulsory written research projects for Leaving Certificate subjects in each year since 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19484/26]
2026-03-18D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige cén dáta go sonrach a ghlac an tAire Oideachais agus Óige le cinneadh an Choimisiúin um Scrúduithe Stáit neamhaird a dhéanamh ar an bpolasaí, mar atá leagtha síos i Riail 29 de na Rules and Programmes for Secondary Schools a sheoltar chuile bhliain chuig gach iar-bhunscoil, marcanna bónais san Ardteistiméireacht a bhronnadh as freagairt go hiomlán trí Ghaeilge ar obair scrúduithe scríofa iarrthóirí ina hiomláine in 18 n-ábhar, ag ráta 10% den mharc aimsithe ag iarrthóir [19486/26]
2026-03-18D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige cén bunús atá leis an gcinneadh a ghlac an Coimisiún um Scrúduithe Stáit in 2006 gan cloí le Riail 29 de na Rules and Programmes for Secondary Schools maidir le marcanna bónais a bhronnadh ar an gcuid sin den Ardteistiméireacht ar obair thionscnaimh éigeantachta scríofa í [19487/26]
2026-03-18D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige an ndearnadh aon mheasúnacht ar an tionchar ar thorthaí mac léinn Ardteistiméireachta le 20 bliain ó 2006 ón gcinneadh gan marcanna bónais a bhronnadh ar an gcuid sin den Ardteistiméireacht ar obair thionscnaimh éigeantachta scríofa í [19488/26]
Defence5 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence the statutory basis, if any, under which troops may be deployed as aid to the civil power following the expiry of the Emergency Powers Act 1976 in 1995; who and in what circumstances may such deployment be authorised; and to provide details on any instances since 1995 where this has been authorised and implemented. [20565/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if the State Claims Agency Risk Management section on behalf of the Management Liaison Group carried out annual audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures and so on during the period 2006-2016; if it still carries out such audits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21292/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if the State Claims Agency Risk Management Liaison group discussed the annual audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures when they were produced; the outcomes of each audit; and the make up of the SCA/Defence Forces Liaison Group in the years since 2006. [21293/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 26 February 2026, whether she was including the former members of the Air Corps when she indicated in her reply that there would be “additional stakeholder engagement, in relation to the report she is expecting this month into mortality rates of serving or former members of the Air Corps, including those members or former members, their representative bodies or the Air Corps Chemical Abuse Survivors group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21291/26]
2026-03-19Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence whether her Department has been misled for at least 22 years in relation to the health and safety regime in the Air Corps' Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell, County Dublin (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21302/26]
Children1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that a number of Government Departments are withholding archives from the National Centre for Research and Remembrance for survivors of mother and baby homes; the steps her Department and the Mother and Baby Homes section within her Department has taken to ensure all records are made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19742/26]
Health1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the reason access to Friedreich's Ataxia is not available on the medical card or licenced for the drug reimbursement scheme for patients in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20816/26]
Catherine Ardagh — Fianna Fáil
0 votes ·
1 question ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked1 total
Health1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Health the immediate action that can be implemented in order to alleviate the financial hardship endured by patients where a cancer diagnosis ultimately results in a stoma or the condition of lymphedema; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20850/26]
Jen Cummins — Social Democrats
0 votes ·
17 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked17 total
Education11 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to increase secondary school capacity in Malahide. [18257/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools asking parents for 'voluntary contributions', by county, in tabular form. [18341/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to ban 'Voluntary Contributions'; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18342/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of the proposed new school building for a school (details supplied); the stage the project has reached within the Department's school building programme; the expected timeline for the project to proceed to tender and construction; and when she expects the new school building to be completed and operational. [19146/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will outline the steps being taken by her Department to expedite the delivery of a project (details supplied), given that the school is an area of very concentrated disadvantage and deprivation with a very high level of students with complex needs and currently operating across two separate campuses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19147/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider visiting a school (details supplied), to meet with students, parents and staff and to observe firsthand the challenges associated with operating the school across two separate sites.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19148/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the Department the position regarding the timeline for a project (details supplied). [19179/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding the timeline for a project (details supplied). [19179/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to address the capacity issue in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19235/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if school capacity is set by each school or by her Department. [20532/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the timeline for when the stage one report will be approved for a school (details supplied); and when the school will move onto stage two. [20534/26]
Health5 questions
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health further to the publication of the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026-2029, to outline the proposed governance, funding flows and accountability arrangements for the regional structures within the HSE Health Regions; whether Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces will retain independent governance and decision-making authority over locally delivered programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19241/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the way in which funding will be allocated within the proposed regional structures under the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026-2029; if deprivation, social exclusion and patterns of entrenched drug-related harm will be formally weighted alongside population in determining resource allocation; and if she will publish the criteria to be used by HSE Health Regions in making funding decisions. [19242/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the specific measures which will be put in place to protect the independent, community-led role of Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces under the proposed regional governance arrangements in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026-2029; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19243/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health if, under the proposed regional structures in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026-2029, all public funding for community-based drug services, including Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces, will be pooled at HSE Health Region level; that safeguards will be put in place to prevent dilution of funding to areas of high deprivation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19244/26]
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health the opportunities for funding available to an organisation (details supplied) to continue to provide counselling sessions. [19257/26]
Transport1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Transport if Dublin City Council and the other Dublin local authorities currently have access to collision location data from 2019 onwards; the reason the Road Safety Authority ceased sharing this data with local authorities in 2020, given that the Data Protection Commission stated in April 2024 that GDPR should not prevent the proportionate publication of anonymised crash-location details; to explain the way in which local authority road engineers are expected to identify and redesign dangerous junctions for cyclists and pedestrians without access to this data; and to provide a specific date by which the National Vehicle and Driver File Bill 2025 will be enacted to restore this access. [19234/26]
Máire Devine — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
2 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked2 total
Education1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Education and Youth to review a situation regarding a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19667/26]
Health1 question
2026-03-18Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Health if she can assist in the case of a person (details supplied) regarding their urgent need for a mobility scooter.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19510/26]