Results 61-80 of 5,542 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I am out of time, but the point is that although we have had so many reports, it seems nothing changes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on plans to improve rail capacity in County Galway, in particular adding a double track between Athenry and Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33756/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on his Department’s steps to improve road safety in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33755/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the NTA in relation to either establishing a new bus stop or moving the current Citylink stop in Newcastle to the outpatients entrance at the Hospital (details supplied). [33512/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide, in relation to commercial semi-State bodies which are permitted to undertake their own borrowing, a list of those semi-State bodies, along with their current borrowing limits, their current total borrowings and the source of these borrowings, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33795/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school and it's emergency works scheme application (details supplied) following extensive damage caused by storm Éowyn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33754/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals in receipt of the State contributory pension, paid on a monthly basis only, in Quarter 4 of 2024 and Quarter 1 of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 771. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display Act (2024), to outline the guarantees in place that participants will only have their organ and tissue used for transplantation purposes, and not, for example, used as part of any commercially driven research; are there any sanctions are in place in the event that any...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 918. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if the case will be re-examined and expedited. [34512/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Harbours and Piers (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 960. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the development of Inis Oírr pier; if his Department has received the final business case from Galway County Council; when approval will be given; when works are expected to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33606/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on plans to abolish the carers allowance means test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32278/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: This was talked about quite a bit during the election. What update does the Minister have? An féidir leis an plean atá aige le fáil réidh leis seo a leagan amach go cruinn dúinn?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: The most important thing is clarity. The Minister said the Department will do a job of work to analyse how this will be achieved over the lifetime of this Government. Will the Minister be able to publish that as soon as job has been done? For carers, being able to predict exactly how it will impact them over the coming years will be important. Carers do a huge job and save the State vast...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to give an update on work his Department is doing to decrease social welfare appeal waiting times; the current average time it takes for an appeal to be decided on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 10 June 2025, to outline, given the five tests set by Karshan in 2023 and given that the wages of home tutors are paid by her Department, the teaching hours are set by her Department and her Department is the one who exercises control, and the home tutors are not allowed to subcontract their work, whether the...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Tá daltaí ó Ghaelscoil Éadan Doire sa Ghailearaí freisin, as well as those from Kitealy National School. Plenty of young eyes are watching us.

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Bogaimid ar aghaidh go dtí an Teachta Connolly agus, ina dhiaidh sin, an Teachta Stanley.

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat. I say "Hi" to the sixth-class pupils from Kiltale National School who are here with Deputy Aisling Dempsey.