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Health Services

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if there are proposals to take private maternity care away as an option for women with high risk pregnancies; and the alternatives that will be put in place to give women the option of choosing private maternity care on health…
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Health Screening Programmes

Tony McCormack

Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Health if she will support the call for a fully funded DEXA screening programme for women over 50 (details supplied).
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Agriculture Supports

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total value of both the BISS and CRISS payments that were subject to delayed payment due to the recent industrial action.
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Immigration Policy

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 72780/26, the precise reasons the regulations and contribution model as laid down in the relevant Statutory Instrument have never been implemented before now; if…
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Deportation Orders

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the length of time each person subject to deportation on the most recent chartered flight was present in the State prior to their removal (details supplied).
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International Protection

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 72604/26 if he will answer the original question and provide the number of smaller-scale and residential properties purchased by the Department of Children…
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Departmental Funding

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the cumulative value of ICT grant funding that has been spent on annual or multi-year software licences, subscriptions and cloud services since the commencement of the Digital Strategy for Schools 2015–2020; whether…
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Information and Communications Technology

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to set out the public procurement frameworks, dynamic purchasing systems or national agreements currently available to schools for the purchase of educational software licences and cloud services; the identity of the…
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Language Schools

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to clarify if English language schools for foreign nationals are subject to inspection by her Department.
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether contracting authorities are required to publish information concerning contract amendments, cost increases or project delays; and if he will outline the…
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number and value of public procurement competitions in each of the previous five years in respect of which only one compliant tender was received.
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether a review process is automatically triggered where only one compliant tender is received in a procurement competition above a specified value.
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether the Office of Government Procurement maintains datasets relating to supplier concentration, repeat contract awards or market dominance in public…
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether any public body conducts systemic analysis of procurement data for the purposes of identifying corruption risks, bid-rigging indicators or supplier…
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of public contracts in each of the previous five years for which cumulative amendments exceeded 10 per cent, 25 per cent and 50 per cent of original…
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether statutory thresholds exist that automatically trigger review by the Comptroller and Auditor General where procurement cost overruns or project delays…
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Public Procurement Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether consideration has been given to the establishment of an independent procurement oversight body, commissioner or inspectorate; and if he will provide…
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Departmental Policies

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether lobbying activity in relation to procurement design, specifications or pre-tender market engagement is centrally monitored.
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Departmental Contracts

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether records are maintained concerning external consultants involved in the design of procurement competitions subsequently won by firms with which those…
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Legislative Programme

Carol Nolan

Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an updated timeline for publication of the Government's private wires Bill; the current status of drafting by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel; whether the Bill will be published during…
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School Accommodation

John Clendennen

Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the large-scale accommodation project for a school (details supplied).
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Schools Building Projects

Tony McCormack

Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reforms she is introducing to accelerate the delivery of school building projects, particularly where schools have been waiting several years to progress through planning, design and construction.
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Artificial Intelligence

Tony McCormack

Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Education and Youth the national strategy being developed to prepare primary and post-primary students for the impact of artificial intelligence on education, employment and the skills required in the future economy.
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Capital Expenditure Programme

Tony McCormack

Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation for a report on the implementation of the Accelerating Infrastructure Action Plan.
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Public Procurement Contracts

Tony McCormack

Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the way in which he is facilitating SMEs to participate in public procurement processes.
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National Development Plan

John Clendennen

Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the measures he is introducing to strengthen accountability and oversight of projects funded under the National Development Plan particularly on projects…
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National Development Plan

John Clendennen

Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the way in which his Department is ensuring that investment under the National Development Plan supports balanced regional development, particularly in…
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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions ›

Special Educational Needs

John Clendennen

I fully agree. A safe, familiar and routine means of transport is important to these children. It is also important that we clarify the means of appeal in such scenarios so that we can give that element of reassurance to parents. In the last couple of seconds I have, I want to…