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Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: The delay we are seeing at our driving test centres is as much tied up with the housing crisis as other things. Unfortunately, Galway is an excellent example of this. I have pointed out countless times in this Chamber that there are no affordable rental properties for those accessing the housing assistance payment in Galway, which means that people whose lives are based in the city are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not addressing the cost of graduate entry medicine fees as a means for increasing the number of qualified medicine graduates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45383/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus lenár n-aíonna as teacht os comhair an chomhchoiste seo. It has been powerful for us to hear the witnesses' views and experiences in the context of the proposed Bill. Ms Lewis mentioned the designated support service. What form should that take? Obviously, we have heard loud and clear during the meeting that that kind of support...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Ms McDonnell Byrne mentioned that some people have not been able to tell their children or spouses about their past. Is there anything in the proposed Bill that would assist people in that regard or is there something we as a Oireachtas or a committee could put into the Bill to assist people in dealing with the shame she said people still feel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is interesting for us to hear, especially when we are considering this Bill, that it could be of great benefit to have a few sentences that make it clear that people did not do anything wrong. An emphasis on that is something we can definitely take back. Obviously, many people struggled during Covid-19, being isolated in their homes, but with that greater difficulty for survivors, does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: In regard to that additional health (amendment) Act health card, what exactly would that look like? What does Ms McDonnell Byrne believe that would need to look like? The son of a woman who is in her mid-80s recently came into my local office. She was in hospital and had that health card. She had been in one of the mother and baby homes. He felt that she was let down in regard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I agree totally. In regard to the sum of €3,000, Ms Lewis was clear that it should not be put into legislation and should depend on the needs of the person. That is quite intuitive. Are there precedents for that? Has it been done previously?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Ms Byrne mentioned short-term needs. That is also interesting. There is also the HMD 1 form in terms of housing. At the moment I find it does very little. I deal with constituents every day on housing, because the situation is so acute. It obviously assists, but the way things are at the moment it cannot guarantee anything in any space of time. Is there anything specific needed to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his officials in 2007 were drafting the Lough Conn and Lough Cullin (Conservation of Brown Trout) Bye-law No. 827, 2007, whether the now defunct North Western Regional Fisheries Board (NWRFB) provided him and his Department officials with validated scientific data to show that rod and line angling was having a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the Covid Contingency Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44999/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of recipients of home tuition grants due to mental health issues for 2022-23; the average number of weekly hours they received; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45352/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the policy in relation to allocating social housing with additional rooms to families who have children with additional needs, i.e., if an OT recommended a child to have access to a sensory room in their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44654/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the payment dates of all additional lump sum payments announced as part of budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44933/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 482. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list figures, average waiting time, number of people waiting more than six months, more than one year, more than two years, more than three years, more than four years, more than five years, more than six years, more than seven years and more than ten years in Galway, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44642/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that were put in place for patients with complex cancer cases in Portiuncula Hospital prior to the hiring of a consultant radiologist six weeks ago, in terms of their representation at the multidisciplinary meetings at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45034/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the €67 million announced for apprenticeships in the Budget Expenditure Report (2024), how much of this comprises unspent funds from the €30 million that was announced for apprenticeship in Budget Expenditure Report (2023); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the €400 thousand bursary announced in the Budget Expenditure Report (2024) for apprenticeships from underrepresented areas; the qualifying criteria; how many awards this equates too; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45348/23]