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National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Mar is eol don Aire Stáit, bhí ionad páirtaimseartha sa Chlochán inár nDáilcheantar féin. Ó dúnadh é sin, bhí go leor de mhuintir Chonamara i dteagmháil liom mar gheall nach raibh siad in ann fáil ar sheirbhísí ceadúnais chomh héasca agus a bhíodh. Bíonn siad ag rá go bhfuil orthu dul isteach...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (2 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will be making the regulatory changes to enable credit unions to significantly increase their footprint in the mortgage market and honour the commitment in the Programme for Government for credit unions to become a key provider of community banking further to an article (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12030/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister for that update. We are all acutely aware of how important capital projects are for the infrastructure deficit that we have in so many aspects of our daily life, as well as in different areas across the country. It is for that reason that I thought it was important to ask this question and to get that level of update. Not only will capital projects assist in any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: It is important that that information is available. It is good to see that that is readily and easily available online for those people who are concerned, or who have questions. That aspect of addressing those smaller scale questions directly to the Minister is important for accuracy. I welcome the information that the Minister has given here this evening. It is important. I will share...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the capital projects outlined in the national development plan which are currently behind schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11387/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: The Minister is more prepared than I am. I ask him to give an update on the capital projects outlined in the national development plan, NDP, including any that may be behind schedule.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I want to raise the issue of regular flooding on the Kylemore road in County Galway. When flooding occurs, it no longer likes a road but instead like a river. It is extremely dangerous for people who are trying to pass. The road is regularly used by tourists, who may not understand the dangers posed by the flooding. When it is impassible, it means a 30 km detour for anybody wanting to go...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I usually do not come in on colleagues' questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I only saw it was to do with flooding.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the forthcoming regulation of lobbying (amendment) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11798/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I would like to hear from the Minister in regard to the forthcoming regulation of lobbying (amendment) Bill. This is an area in which the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, the Minister and I have an interest and an issue that regularly comes up in the media and in the public domain. I would be interested in hearing an update on the Bill.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I agree with the Minister that reform in this area is extremely important. My understanding in regard to the forthcoming Bill is that it does not make provision for an extension of the cooling off period to two years. Section 7 of the Bill which Deputy Doherty and I drafted amends section 22 of the principal Act and extends the cooling off period for designated public officials leaving...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I agree that the enforcement of the contravention is key. That will, hopefully, stop people ignoring the timeline of one or two years depending on what is decided. While I agree with the Minister that people have to be able to earn a living afterwards, we need to be very clear that we are shutting the revolving door that is perceived out there between politics and big business. That is,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Value for money is important and many people have concerns when there are large capital overruns. When the Secretary General of the Department of Health appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts recently, he would not be drawn on the final cost of the children's hospital. One member of the committee suggested that it could be close to €2.2 billion. The Minister will be aware...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I welcome the reforms that the Minister has introduced and I understand his role in this matter, but as he can imagine, people look at him as the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and query such issues, which are of considerable concern to many. We have seen cost overruns for quite some time. There are a number of examples: the national road improvement works had an estimated cost...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the issue of value for money in large capital projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11731/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: The question relates to value for money on large capital projects. Will the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform report on that with respect to the new national children's hospital and the national maternity hospital, for example?

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: The current number of patients on waiting lists in my constituency is difficult to take in. A total of 8,866 people are currently on waiting lists for inpatient care in the Galway University Hospitals. As the Minister knows, there is a story behind every single one of those figures. There is a person in need and a family who are worried. Shockingly, more than 2,000 of those people have...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I have not seen it.

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That is no problem at all.