Results 241-260 of 6,100 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Dr. Keane. I understand that now statistically. Sometimes to the public, when we say "if housing costs are included", it seems one way, but everyone needs to live somewhere.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Dr. Keane. That was very helpful. I have to run off, but I will be back.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I ask that people to turn off their mobile phones or put them on silent. Before we begin, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the House with regard to references that may be made to other persons in the witnesses' evidence. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the presentation they make to the committee. This means they...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh míle maith agat. Bhí sé sin thar a bheith suimiúil. I open it up to members to ask any questions. Glaoim ar an Teachta Nash.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I want to pick up on the issue of child poverty. The ESRI was in with us earlier. One of the questions I asked, because I genuinely want to understand it, related to a recent report which says that one in five children is living in poverty, with the tag-on line that this is the case if housing is included. Obviously every child has to live somewhere, so that made zero sense to me. I feel...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Did they not say that this was not happening in this budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It seems to me that it is a bit performative of the Government to talk about tackling child poverty when under this Government child poverty is worsening. This Government is trying to fog the mirrors in order that people say it is serious about child poverty. If you do not know children in poverty or you are not dealing with that, it is something that can be forgotten. That sentence made a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is very interesting about Housing First. I am aware that I am over time, but we will probably be okay. One of the things I have noticed in terms of domestic violence is the number of institutional barriers that are put in your way that are not even financial but are simple things. For example, you might leave a domestic violence situation in one county and then try to go to another...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is seen as financial. It is not technically described as financial, but because it is generally seen as financial hardship rather than hardship, that is where the challenge is. Some councils have amended it to involve other issues, but it is just seen as financial.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is the ideal situation but it is not realistic every time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Absolutely.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Absolutely. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. The issue of domestic violence comes up so regularly in my clinics now, every single week. It is not that somebody comes to me about domestic violence; it comes as a result of housing. They mention it as the reason for their homelessness or whatever it might be. Of course, it is really important to mention that there are help and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (18 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for CAR T- cell therapy in St. James’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49487/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Níl aon leithscéalta faighte againn ó Teachtaí nó Seanadóirí. We have received no apologies. Is mian liom na riachtanais bhunreachtúla seo a leanas a mheabhrú do chomhaltaí agus páirt á glacadh acu i gcruinnithe poiblí. Caithfidh comhaltaí a bheith i láthair go fisiciúil laistigh de theorainneacha shuíomh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh míle maith agat as sin. We will now move to members' questions, beginning with an Teachta O'Callaghan, Senator Nelson Murray agus an Teachta Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We will wrap up on that and let others in. I ask Mr. Jennings to answer succinctly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fairly succinct and to the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I ask the witnesses would like to reply succinctly because everybody seems to be going over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We will let Senator Byrne in as he has not had a chance yet, and then open up for a brief second round for those who wish.