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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of applications for carer’s allowance and carer's benefit; the number of applications waiting at present, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of applications for disability allowance; the number of applications waiting at present, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16094/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary No. 289 of 23 March 2023, assuming a person who is working a full-time job in a four-day week has surpassed the three-day waiting period to qualify for illness benefit, if there are guidelines in place to ensure that any calculations made to the payment of their benefit are on the basis of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (18 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the work her Department has done on extending free travel eligibility to persons who suffer with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in the county and the constituency of Galway west, in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the planned number to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: There has been a lot of commentary over the past week about the sale of land in Patrickswell, County Limerick. It has been reported that in December 2006 a solicitor acting on behalf of the wife of the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, wrote to the council seeking to purchase the land and that then, the following month, councillors, including Deputy Collins, voted to allow the council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as teacht os comhair an choiste. This is only my second week as a member of the committee. I am still learning and am looking forward to learning more. However, my questions will not be the most detailed or specific at this point. I found all the opening statements extremely interesting. As I looked through them, it caught my eye that an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Wow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Could Ms Sheridan explain what that means?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is very interesting. There are a lot of very interesting responses out of that. Generally, people would not have thought of that whole concept of the examples. We all remember doing our leaving certificate, and examples that could be in a question that would lead on. I am quite surprised, based on what Ms Forster said regarding eight- to nine-year-olds, that this shift can be seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: It would be good to have a kind of formalised approach. We all know of different workplaces and different community organisations where there could be an excellent principal who has a massive focus on this. Another principal might be dealing with something else because they are extremely busy people. I might move away from that topic. In her opening statement, Ms O'Connor spoke about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: If I were an Irish and English teacher, I could do a two-year course part time to get other subjects I could teach. Is that what Ms O'Connor means?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Does anybody else have a view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: What is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is a really good concept. I went to quite a small school and, as a result, we did not have a whole range of subject choices. One of the opening statements referred to maths and so on. Students need to do certain subjects. I represent four offshore islands, one of which does not have a secondary school, another issue I have to raise with the Department at some point. The other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: That is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Excellent. They have a chunk of it done before the actual leaving certificate. How much of it is then based on the written paper?