Parliamentary questions

Child Poverty

Mick Barry

12. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the proposed child poverty unit in his Department. [19497/23]

Departmental Strategies

Mick Barry

1. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [16421/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mick Barry

17. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [19145/23]

European Council

Mick Barry

27. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Council which he attended. [19146/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Mick Barry

9. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States. [15254/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mick Barry

18. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [16419/23]

Public Sector Reform Review

Mick Barry

24. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place of the strategic foresight and strengthening policy development research project, jointly overseen by his Department. [16420/23]

Irish Prisoners Abroad

Mick Barry

113. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the assistance that his Department has given to an Irish citizen (details supplied) imprisoned in Iran since October 2022 without charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16895/23]

Rental Sector

Mick Barry

801. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the incremental tenants purchase scheme and the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 to allow those who were eligible prior to 1 February 2022 with less than ten years in receipt of social housing supports to apply for the scheme; if joint tenants, one of which has less than ten years in receipt of social housing support, can be eligible; if he can allow local authorities some scope to set their own policies in relation to tenant purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17347/23]

Health Services

Mick Barry

1393. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will urgently reassess transgender healthcare; if he will consider the model of informed consent led by GPs in local communities; the consultations he has had with the trans community about trans affirming healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16525/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mick Barry

13. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15252/23]

Departmental Properties

Mick Barry

22. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [15253/23]

Rail Network

Mick Barry

73. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport if, in light of no response issuing from the relevant personnel at Iarnród Éireann to repeated requests from this Deputy, he will instruct Iarnród Éireann to supply this Deputy with a copy of the 2008 agreement between Iarnród Éireann and Wexford County Council relating to a proposed new bridge over the railway line at Park Carcur, County Wexford, and also a copy of a new agreement on the same matter concluded in November 2023, both agreements reported in a newspaper (details supplied) on 23 November 2022 on foot of an official communiqué to that paper from Iarnród Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15608/23]

Rail Network

Mick Barry

74. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport if he will clarify whether a proposed new bridge over the railway line at Park Carcur, County Wexford, is designed only for access to the development of 413 accommodation units for which planning permission exists, or if the design is meant also to facilitate a larger carriageway which would lead to a future new bridge over the River Slaney to Crosstown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15609/23]

State Examinations

Mick Barry

120. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education if she will consider reducing the number of sraith pictiúr on the leaving certificate Irish course in the spirit of lessening the pressure around the examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15607/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mick Barry

9. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [14880/23]

Ukraine War

Mick Barry

13. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine took place. [14881/23]

Departmental Offices

Mick Barry

22. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the international division of his Department. [14882/23]

Insurance Coverage

Mick Barry

249. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with the insurance sector to ensure that steps are taken to ensure that motorcycle clubs are able to have their events insured, which is essential for the sport to continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15329/23]

Education Policy

Mick Barry

427. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education to clarify the eligibility for English as an Additional Language (EAL) supports in primary school, in particular to clarify if Circular 6/23 means that children whose parents have been in the State for more than two years are excluded from eligibility to EAL supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15360/23]