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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: That is interesting. I am sure the Minister is aware of the story, first broken by The Sunday Times, that over 21,000 Irish citizens have been granted visas to Australia, double the number recorded in the previous year. This will not come as a surprise to any of us because we see it in our friendship groups and neighbourhoods. With the number of people going to Australia, it feel like it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware of that statistic. It was the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, who raised it with me. I do not think it is tens of thousands. I stand to be corrected on that. I will have to look it up. The reality is 21,000 young people went to Australia last year, which is a massive increase from the previous year. Obviously there is something amiss here. We are not in the age group...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: There is no housing.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: As the Minister is aware, this is something I have had a particular interest in. I note the Minister mentions the increase in the number of places from 13,000 to 16,000. Does he think he will have the capacity to deal with that? We know it has been impossible to deal with the capacity up to now. On that, the Minister mentioned how just over 3,300 people are waiting. Can he specifically...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes, the figure of 3,000.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I ask the Minister to provide details on those 3,000 places and exactly what they relate to. 12 o’clock In addition, have critical skills and immigration visas ever been looked at in terms of trades? I have looked at that and it did not seem to be clear. On the five-year period the Minister mentioned, I was talking specifically about 2022-23, when there was a doubling of people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Support Services (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the work his Department does with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, to ensure that students and apprentices transition into suitable employment opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2288/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to accelerate the Galway bypass and improve travel in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57084/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay to the Galway bypass project to date; the timeline for commencement and completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 7 December 2023, if any of the additional driver testers have been allocated to test centres in County Galway; if so, how many; to which test centres in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for the STEM awards; if there is an appeal process; to detail the reason that no DEIS schools in Galway city received the awards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scrúduithe Stáit (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an gcoinneofar an t-athrú atá déanta ar an méid sraitheanna pictiúr i scrúdú Gaeilge na hArdteistiméireachta 2024 (10 seachas 20) sa chéad Ardteistiméireacht eile in 2025; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [1985/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 765. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Tuam LEA in County Galway will be considered an RPZ, given increasing rents in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56881/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 966. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance application review (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1506/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to address lengthy waiting lists and staffing issues for child disability services, such as speech and language, occupational and behavioural therapy in areas such as CDNT7 in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1704. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who suffers from severe eczema and allergies will have their case referred to University Hospital Galway. [1422/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason motor mechanic apprentices can wear corrective lenses to compensate for colour blindness but electrical engineers cannot, despite the former dealing with more complex wires for example, plume wires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56759/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to his recent comments (details supplied) that he has “created all-island apprenticeships”, he can explain what this refers to; when it was introduced; what funding has been allocated towards this initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1791/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1868. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the decision on the tender of local development strategy for the delivery LEADER 2023 to 2027 for the Connemara Municipal District area of County Galway submitted by an organisation (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57087/23]

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: One in every 100 Gazans has now been killed. The death toll has reached over 25,000. That is an absolutely terrifying figure. It is actually a figure that is impossible to comprehend but we have to comprehend it because we need to understand the scale of the loss and the genocide that is unfolding in Gaza. I know that, during an tAire Stáit's time as Minister of State with...