Results 441-460 of 491 for speaker:Maeve O'Connell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Do I have time for one more question?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the increase in passenger numbers on the new routes on the BusConnects stages that have been introduced compared to before their introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51603/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the increase in the kilometres of cycle lanes across Ireland per year from 2016 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51602/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 972. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is considering introducing a national training voucher scheme from the National Training Fund; and, if so, whether private or independent HEIs will be included in the upcoming National Training Fund legislation. [51687/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is considering extending SUSI funding to all QQI-validated programmes at independent third level institutions. [51688/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 974. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is considering including private and independent HEIs in the Unified Tertiary Framework, in order that students who obtain SUSI support at further education colleges do not lose out if progressing to such HEIs. [51689/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 975. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his Department's position regarding the collection and usage of student levies by higher educational institutions. [51690/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 976. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is planning to regulate the prevalence of 'exploding licences' for ebooks and journal subscriptions for further and higher educational institutions. [51691/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update regarding the work of officials within his Department towards encouraging access to graduate-entry medicine student loans. [51692/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 978. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is planning to require higher education institutions to provide a booklist to students in advance of their courses beginning, to improve transparency in the costs students will have to incur for each course. [51693/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 979. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending SUSI grant eligibility to students of all QQI-accredited courses. [51694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 980. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the development of a traineeship in modern methods of construction, as is expected to launch in quarter 3 of 2025. [51695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 981. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the mid-term review of the national access plan. [51696/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (30 Sep 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 982. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected publication date of the updated careers in construction action plan. [51697/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Oct 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance call-outs received in 2025 that were unable to provide an eircode. [51604/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Oct 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has examined the effectiveness of ambulance call-outs using eircodes for locating emergencies. [51605/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I welcome the language Ms Costello used regarding the need to move to an education system that is more circular. I would go further; we need to move to a system that is more of a matrix, meaning students can do this, or that, and come back, and move around the board in that way. I also welcome Ms Costello's comments on career guidance, which is really important. We need to resource that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (8 Oct 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 14. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is evaluating to promote the conversion of older buildings for housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53387/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (8 Oct 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Will the Minister of State outline the measures his Department is evaluating to promote the conversion of older buildings for housing delivery?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (8 Oct 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I welcome all those supports. In my constituency, we have some of these issues in the context of neighbourhood centres, which are neither shops nor accommodation. That is frustrating. I would like to follow up on the derelict sites levy, which is to become a tax. When do we anticipate that it will be activated to try to encourage more of these properties to be brought back into use?