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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I am from Galway city and we have beach clean-ups and we can see the practical impact of their activism.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, for taking this matter. It impacts on the constituency we share, so I thought it would be good and appropriate to raise it with her. I have been contacted by a parent who is worried about her child’s special language class and is concerned it will not go ahead next year. As the Minister of State will be well aware, this is a fantastic...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome her constructive message and the fact there has already been a meeting. I hope another meeting will resolve this issue. Everybody would like to see this class being set up. Parents are concerned, which is completely understandable. We all know what it is like once we get into the summer months. There are concerns that parents would not get the...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas le People Before Profit, PBP, as é seo a chur chun tosaigh inniu. It seems very much that there is a war on neutrality at this time. There is a war on Ireland’s position on neutrality and a drum is being beaten by those who are cheerleading for war and those who want to militarise the EU and turn it into a geopolitical bloc. They keep telling us that we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the issue of a school (details supplied) in relation to the provision of a special language class for the school year 2024/2025; if she will raise the need for mediation between her Department and the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23711/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date for the publication of the next circular in relation to SNA allocation to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24018/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (28 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 295 of 29 March 2022, the details and total cost to date of the development constructed at the Údarás na Gaeltachta industrial estate at An Tulach, Baile na hAbhann, Indreabhán, Contae na Gaillimhe; the number of staff employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: From the Seanad (29 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister of State. We have had many conversations on this legislation. I understand that this particular amendment is technical in nature and I have no issue with it. I wish to make a few general points that I have not made previously, which are important. It is a pity amendments that I and others tabled were not considered to any great extent. I refer to parity of esteem...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the full list of available teaching positions in secondary level schools in Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24156/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there if there is a facility where qualified teachers can register with her Department to be contacted for recruitment purposes if a vacancy arises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24157/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (29 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that no legislation exists to allow certain precedential group/class decisions to be made (details supplied). [24165/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total overtime paid to Garda members and to gardaí at sergeant rank in each of the years between 2020 and 2023; and the total of overtime payments made to gardaí and to sergeants in Q1 of 2024, respectively (January, February and March). [24270/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their working family payment application. [24458/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (30 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the limits that are placed on the provision of free tests for sexually transmitted diseases (details supplied); if he plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teagasc na Gaeilge (30 May 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil dualgais reachtúla ar Bhoird Oideachais agus Oiliúna chun (a) tacaíocht a chur ar fáil do ghrúpaí pobail atá ag fáil maoiniú Stáit cheana, sa gcaoi go mbeidh siad in ann níos mó ranganna Gaeilge a chur ar fáil mar chuid d’oideachas pobail, agus (b) ranganna...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Is mian liom ceist maidir le toghchán bhoird Údarás na Gaeltachta a ardú leis an Taoiseach. Dúradh ar dtús anuraidh go mbeadh na toghcháin sin ar siúl ar an lá céanna leis na toghcháin áitiúla ach, ar ndóigh, níor tharla sé sin. Anois, táthar á rá go mbeidh an reachtaíocht rite roimh...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: After “good;” to insert “to give further effect to International Conventions and Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council as listed in section 2,”.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Tá mé ag iarraidh an cheist a ardú arís eile a d'ardaigh mé coicís ó shin maidir leis an rang speisialta i Scoil Chaitríona sa Roinn Mhór. I want to raise the issue again of the special language class in Scoil Chaitríona in Renmore, which I raised with the Minister of State exactly two weeks ago. Unfortunately it appears still not to have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (11 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 79.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason his officials in the inland fisheries division have failed to engage on an issue over an approximate ten-year period (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24771/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (11 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 80.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his officials in the inland fisheries division fully support the repugnant position of legislatively conserving non-native dace in all Irish freshwater catchments under the Conservation and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish Bye-Law (No. 806) 2006, while the fish is concurrently classed as highly invasive in...