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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on staffing issues for respite services provided through Ability West in Galway; when these services will be back in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19611/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an apprentice has not yet been called by Solas to complete their block release training; the avenues that are open to someone in such a position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the list of first-year, second-year, third-year and fourth-year apprentices that have completed the requisite on-the-job training for that year, but have yet to be called by Solas to undertake their block release training, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19129/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in the county and the constituency of Galway west, in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the planned number to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Sometimes when I listen to debates about housing I wonder whether those sitting on the Government benches live in some kind of alternative universe. Earlier today, I heard the Taoiseach say that we in Sinn Féin are gaslighting young people. That is from a government that tells us it is there for the people who get up early in the morning, whatever that means, and is there for the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: This day last week marked the fourth anniversary of the date on which Julian Assange was violently dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by British police. Since that time Assange has been imprisoned without interruption in the maximum security Belmarsh prison where conditions have been described by some to be like the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. One week ago a number of members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I have a question for Dr. Connolly. Her mention of the difficulties in, and barriers to, getting people to become computer science teachers was interesting. It was fascinating that, of the 140 people teaching, the vast majority do not have accreditation in the subject. According to another opening statement, 25% of post-primary mathematics teachers in Ireland do not have a mathematics...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht os comhar an choiste. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. It is my first education committee meeting and it has been quite interesting to hear all the different points of view. I have a few questions. My first question for both witnesses relates to the current housing crisis. We need to get as many people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is interesting. I used to work in banking before I was a Deputy. I worked in two different investment banks. They were big corporations. One of them was far better at upskilling. It was a matter of luck. Can that also be the case in apprenticeships?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: They can afford to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Do you think there is an issue that schools are not giving their pupils the available options? Then we have a situation in which people are struggling through doing something they have zero interest in or aptitude for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as teacht os comhair an choiste. In particular, I thank the Cathaoirleach for welcoming us in. This is my first education committee meeting. I will assume it is always only women who come before the committee and I will be expecting nothing less. I am aware that I have approximately six minutes, so I will try to keep to the point. This has...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the roll-out of high-speed rural broadband in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16096/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of applications for carer’s allowance and carer's benefit; the number of applications waiting at present, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16093/23]