To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which adequate provision remains available to meet the needs of those seeking respite care for themselves or their carers...

To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which early alert procedures exist to identify children and youth deemed to have a disposition towards self-harm...

To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he has identified a shortage of nursing staff throughout the public health service as a contributory cause of overcrowding...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which ready access and vital back up support remains available to children at risk...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department engages with voluntary and local groups and youth services...

Fine Gael TD for Kildare South, Martin Heydon, has said that the planned new army recruitment campaign will strengthen our defence forces and is good news for the Curragh. Deputy Heydon was speaking after the Minister for Defence Simon Coveney today (Tuesday) launched a new recruitment campaign for General Service Recruits for the Army.

“A new seafood trail ‘Taste the Atlantic - a Seafood Journey’ will open up the Wild Atlantic Way to food tourism, and promote the best of Connemara seafood to visitors”, says Fine Gael TD for Galway West, Sean Kyne.

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the degree to which monitoring continues to take place in respect of air and water pollution...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department continues to monitor progress in regard to the completion of development works in unfinished housing estates...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the ability of steps taken to date by his Department to deal with the ongoing issue of the housing crisis...