Results 121-140 of 6,100 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average response times to 999 calls; the number of 999 calls which have gone unanswered to date in 2025; the steps his Department is taking to ensure that every 999 call is responded to in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53534/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (9 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the roll-out of local community safety partnerships (LCSPs); the reason that there has been no Joint Policing Committee or LCSP in Galway city for the past 18 months; when this will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53535/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to advise if social housing rents, including HAP differential rents, are based on a household's gross or net income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54311/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the housing schemes in Ros a Mhíl and Eanach Mheáin currently owned by an organisation (details supplied); if funding will be given from his Department to ensure that these homes will be used for social and affordable housing for the Gaeltacht community; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (8 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the increasing number of older persons who are falling into homelessness, particularly in Galway; the way in which he will support older persons in accessing secure and affordable housing given that the number of persons reaching pension age in precarious housing situations will only...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: As the Government well knows, its exclusive retrofit scheme is out of the reach of many, particularly people who are living in energy poverty and all those with homes that were seriously damaged during Storm Éowyn and that remain extremely cold as a result. The Government should replace the current scheme with a tiered and targeted vision that would allow people on middle and low...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Households continue to subsidise data centres' electricity bills through the PSO levy. The burden is due to get bigger because the Government refuses to change its unfair approach. This budget is a missed opportunity to end our over-reliance on fossil fuels. Renewable sources such as offshore wind provide cheaper, more reliable and sustainable energy that will protect us in a volatile...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: There is no clarity in this budget about what the Government will actually do to improve mental health services, both for older and younger people.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Access to services should be based on need and not where people live or their ability to pay privately. That is not the case for so many, however. It is certainly not the case for the people who have an eating disorder and need inpatient care. We still only have three specialist public inpatient beds for adults, and they are largely based on where a person lives. Eating disorders have...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Let us look at what the Ministers have presented here today. This €9.4 billion budget package is a rip-off. There is nothing in this budget for working people and families. It ends energy credit supports, increases income taxes in real terms and hikes student fees. At the same time, this budget has one of the biggest tax packages in history, giving away lavish tax cuts to the...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is outrageous. How that can be done is unconscionable. The fact that the two Ministers delivered the policies of today and did not mention homelessness is beyond belief, but it is probably not beyond the belief of all those people who are in homelessness because that is what they expect. Homelessness is not an inevitability; it is the result of having a weak, broken housing system...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Today the Government has made it very clear that nothing will change for working people who are absolutely put to the pin of their collar trying to make ends meet. Rents will continue to rise. Childcare will still be unaffordable and unattainable for many and the income of working people will fall in real terms because the Government's tax package does nothing for ordinary workers. The...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 677. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait times for a mental health crisis appointment across Galway city and county; the number of patients in each area of Galway currently awaiting a mental health crisis appointment, by wait time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53664/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 121. To ask the Minister for Health if she has engaged with the HSE on the recent approval of Belimumab for the treatment of lupus; if funding will be given in budget 2026 towards this treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 183. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the development of standard protocols for the identification and management of PANS/PANDAS in paediatric hospitals given that PANS/PANDAS Awareness Day is upcoming on the 9 October 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52240/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (1 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to scale car and bicycle parking spaces at Oranmore train station in line with the increased capacity that will arise from building an additional track; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52290/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the GLuas project has progressed since the publication of the feasibility study in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52291/25]