Results 221-240 of 394 for speaker:Donna McGettigan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1176. To ask the Minister for Health to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who urgently needs a transfer of care to a medical consultant/team, a full-time healthcare assistant while in hospital and the medical equipment and nursing care to allow her to be cared for in their own home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24295/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (13 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to assist a person (details supplied) who has been denied a SUSI grant due to complex circumstances not of their making; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24069/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (13 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of further education and training places in 2024, and the estimated cost of increasing the number of places by 1,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24369/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (13 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of free part-time further education and training courses; if there are plans to expand the number of free part-time courses; if so, the proposed increase; the estimated cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24370/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (13 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total budget allocation to SOLAS in the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24371/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (13 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available for adult learners; if his Department has any plans to expand the financial supports on offer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24372/25]

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: More than 15,000 children are now overdue their assessment of need. That is 15,296 children who could be left with a decline in their quality of life. It is 15,296 children whose development and learning will be potentially impacted, who could be missing out on opportunities for support, who could be missing out on therapy and other services that could help them reach their full potential,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the promised increases to the disregard for carer's allowance to €625 for a single person and to €1,250 for a couple, will come into force; what the disregard for a carer's savings will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25376/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 748. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she could outline the interventions that can be made to assist in the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an autism diagnosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25163/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 771. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the interventions to be taken to assist with the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25873/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 933. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details on the revenue generated by third level fees, from 2020 to date in 2025, correlated and broken down by year, in tabular form. [26023/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 934. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the estimated full-year cost of reducing contribution fees by €1,500 in year one, by €1,500 in year two, with an overall reduction of €3,000 over two years, by year, in tabular form. [26024/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 935. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the estimated full cost of extending the 'fund for students ' with a disability (FSD) across all further education and training FET courses, over two years, by year in tabular form. [26025/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 936. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the estimated full cost of extending SUSI to postgraduate fees for qualifying students over two years, by year, in tabular form. [26026/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 937. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the estimated full cost of increasing SUSI maintenance by 15%, both adjacent and non-adjacent, over two years, by year, in tabular form. [26027/25]

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I welcome this motion from Independent Ireland. As someone who was an unpaid carer for my husband before he passed, I have lived the reality of a system that does not value care work, whether it is done in the home, in our communities or in nursing homes. I know first hand the emotional and physical toll and the financial hardship carers face every single day. However, I would do it again...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (22 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reform the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, assessment criteria for independent living given that students under 23 years are assessed as dependent on their parents even if they live independently, as are those over 23 years who cannot leave home due to the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26577/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (22 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: There are issues with the SUSI grant and people being able to access it. Will the Minister reform the SUSI assessment criteria for independent living? Students under 23 are assessed as dependent on their parents, even if they live independently, and those over 23 who are forced to live at home due to the housing crisis are assessed as dependent on their parents. Will the Minister reform SUSI?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (22 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: My apologies, I mixed up the questions.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (22 May 2025)

Donna McGettigan: We all want to work together for fairness, justice and equality in education and one of things we can do to help us is the reform of the SUSI grant. For too long, SUSI has been a barrier rather than a bridge for many of our young people. This is supposed to be a scheme which enables access to education but instead for many it is yet another wall that blocks their future. Let us speak...