I can provide the Deputy with a table showing a breakdown of the year-on-year collisions and the category of these collisions based on the CRR report. The CRR is Ireland's independent railway safety regulator a…

As he knows - we are both from Cork city - detailed planning for the implementation of the BusConnects Cork network is under way. Then, after all the consultation - five rounds of consultation - we were told on…

Is the Minister for Transport aware of ongoing capacity issues on the north side's 15 bus route and the measures that are being taken to ensure local residents finally get a usable and dependable 15 service? I …

Passengers there can now avail of the TFI 90-minute fare, allowing transfers between multiple bus services within a defined period on a single fare. The NTA recently noted the introduction of the TFI 90 fare an…

To make that short journey by public transport, one has to go from Ardee to Dundalk or from Ardee to Drogheda to get to Dunleer. We are also looking at the piece around the No. 162 Dundalk to Monaghan bus servi…

We have put the Galway outer ring road and the Cork commuter rail in as two strategic projects that we need to get done. Within the all-island rail strategy, which is under my remit, the Deputy can see what has…

At almost exactly the same time last year, energy suppliers were announcing increases and the Government was withdrawing energy credits from families. I am extremely conscious, as is the Government, of the pres…

Be it failures from the initial scoping of the projects, lack of functionality or management overrides, it is not good enough for heads of State projects and CEOs to come before Oireachtas committees such as mi…

I am conscious, in making these comments, that it is the UN General Assembly's high-level week and that the Taoiseach, the Minister for foreign affairs, the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, the Minister, Dep…

This Bill will give legal rights and recognition to non-binary and intersex people in Ireland. People who are intersex are born with innate variations of sex characteristics, including chromosomal, anatomical o…

On the pharmacists, I acknowledge there has been a real expansion of the services on offer from community pharmacists. Today, in advance of World Pharmacists Day, I thank all pharmacists and pharmacy staff acro…

Pharmacy continues to evolve, with pharmacists playing an increasingly important role in medicine optimisation, disease prevention, vaccination programmes and the delivery of new patient services.…

I have consistently called for the abolition of the deemed disposal rule on exchange-traded funds, ETFs, and other investment products, subject to investment undertaking tax. Budget 2027 could be a landmark mom…

In the early part of budget 2026, we have already provided funding for over 400 new special classes and at least 400 new special school places for the 2026-27 school year. This money is funding special educatio…

Today, I speak to the Minister of State about the need for expansion and reform of our approach to dyslexia, dyspraxia, apraxia of speech and the other associated difficulties around literacy for children in ou…

Anne's Special School in the Curragh, which is waiting ten years for a new school build. In the budget of 2026, this time last year, we committed to over 400 new special classes and over 400 new special school …

There is talk about battery-powered trains and running more regular trains, while forcing people, potentially, to have to change trains in Wicklow, but there is no guarantee of extra services. Essentially, the …

On average, these data centres consume about 3% of the energy in the EU whereas in Ireland, they consume almost 24% of our electricity. Alongside LEAP, the CRU large energy user connection policy establishes a …

In budget 2025 it was announced that a holiday hunger pilot project between the Department of Social Protection’s school meals programme and the Department of Education and Youth’s summer programme, formerly kn…

I cannot understand why someone in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, which is a means-tested payment, and who is hospitalised and not in a position to work cannot just automatically transfer to supplementary we…