Results 3,221-3,240 of 5,157 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 360. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of allowing tax relief on the first €1,000, €1,500 and €2,000 spent on tuition fees, including the student contribution, for full-time students, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27383/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 361. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of allowing tax relief on the first €500 and €1,000 of tuition fees, including the student contribution, for part-time students, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27384/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 368. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of providing an income tax relief at a rate of €2,000, €3,000 and €4,000 for those tutors training craft apprentices in the education training boards, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27613/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to add Korean as a curricular language for the Leaving Certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27865/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses in Galway city and Galway county that have been upgraded through the retrofitting programme for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are supports available for mortgage-holders who have lost income due to long-term illness or disability to help them stay in their own home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27856/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1021. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is his intention to organise work done by speech and language, OT and physio professionals who work with ASD classes around the class as a whole rather than individual students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1113. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the plan to regulate the psychology profession under CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27124/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 940 of 23 May 2023, if he will provide the full-and first-year cost to the Exchequer from the one-off reduction in the student contribution fee that was enacted in the academic year 2022/2023 as part of the cost-of-living response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27076/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the gap that was closed via Budget 2023, following his Future Funding in Higher Education report published in June 2022, in which a core funding gap of €307 million was identified and it stated that this would be closed with "additional investment over a number of budgets"; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 722 of 9 May 2023, the total number of craft and consortia apprenticeships currently in the system, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27100/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 19 May 2022, the number of on-campus student accommodation places or places in accommodation owned by institutes of higher education that have been added to the system in the past year; the steps being taken to increase the number of on-campus, institution-owned accommodation places; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update with regard to the technological university development fund, the proposed successor to the technological university transformation (TUT) fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27705/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in light of the technological universities' recent designation, and the requirement for successor funding for the necessary internal infrastructure and the need to maintain stable industrial relations at a critical time of change, this fund will be made available in advance of the expiration of the TUTF fund on 31 August 2023; the level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he intends the Committees of the Board, known as Councils, as part of the new national research agency referenced in the Research and Innovation Bill 2023, will operate; if they should be mandatory to ensure diversity of expertise and advice in relation to excellence in research and innovation and research priorities, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the issue of precarious employment in the university sector, he will be aware that the Employment Control framework managed by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Delivery Plan Development and Reform has been in place since the austerity period, and although reviewed annually as part of the estimates process, hinders...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (15 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his officials have any future plans to delist Lough Melvin in the Border counties of Leitrim and Fermanagh as a Special Area of Conservation and Natura 2000 site considering that the SAC holds a stock of vulnerable Atlantic salmon (EU Habitats Directive Annex II) and unique brown trout subspecies of sonaghen, gillaroo and...

Education Costs: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I believe it was said in Shakespeare's Romeo and Julietthat "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". I wonder, were William Shakespeare a student studying in Irish university today, would he say that student fees by any other name still stink? That is what we have. There is a situation whereby post-crash student fees were branded as a charge. A solution which tries to rebrand the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (20 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all public post-primary schools have an entitlement in relation to the parental support towards the cost of schoolbooks for post-primary schools set out in circular letter 0046/2013 and in relation to the book rental scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Jun 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 633. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been made aware of the current lack of supply of progesterone across pharmacies in the country; if he is taking action to rectify the supply issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29209/23]