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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I am being contacted by so many medical card holders who simply cannot access dentists. When I contact the HSE about which dentists are providing services to medical card holders, I am told there are 30 dentists in Galway city and 11 in County Galway, but that is just not the case. What is the update on that? When can we expect medical card holders to be able to access that dental service?...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1085 of 20 September 2023, the current number of apprentices waiting for off-the-job training at levels 2, 4 and 6; the numbers waiting for such training in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43004/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government will ensure that the Western Rail Corridor is added to the TEN-T network following the publication of the All-Island Rail Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the benefit payment for 65-year-olds is not a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify when construction of a modular building for the ASD unit at a school (details supplied) will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44439/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (11 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make the benefit payment for 65-year-olds a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (12 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the ACRES scheme; when farmers will be updated regarding the amount they are due to be paid; when payments will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44501/23]

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...

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...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Right at this moment, we are witnessing the genocide of the people of Gaza after years of witnessing their destruction and the pain inflicted upon them by an apartheid regime while the world sat back and watched it happen. We are told, and I have heard a few times in this Chamber, that even wars have rules. It cannot be the case that the breaking of those rules is okay for some countries....

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]