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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: Will the evaluation be completed soon?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: In light of the discussion about the evaluation report and the suggestion that we produce our own report, the major opportunity I see presenting itself - there might be widespread awareness of this already - is the current review of the national apprenticeship strategy towards a new development from 2026 to 2030. We should suggest that this programme be included in the new strategy and moved...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: Is it the case that there are more employers willing in Limerick than in Cork?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (23 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: Is oifigigh cumarsáide iad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (23 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: Tá ceist amháin agam maidir leis an gcreatlach sa Bhreatain Bheag. Mar a luaigh Julian de Spáinn níos luaithe, níl sé ag tosú sa chóras réamhscoileanna sular leanann sé ar aghaidh. Baineann sé leis an tríú leibhéal amháin.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: One issue that pertains to this was brought to my attention last week. It pertains to a number of schools in the Connemara region. Unfortunately, due to the upgrading of guidelines over the summer preventing food from being heated or cooked on site, a number of operators are no longer providing a service to these schools, which has resulted in the loss of the service for the children and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of active participants in the fish assist scheme in each county, in tabular form; to consider an increase in the rate of payment under the fish assist scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50828/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: What is the number of participants in the fish assist scheme? How many are there per county? Could we get that information? In light of budget 2026, will the Minister look at the scheme to see if it could be made more attractive for more participants?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: I thank the Minister. It is quite a low number of participants considering we are an island nation. Fishing has been a traditional means of earning a living and sustaining some vibrancy in coastal communities in this country for centuries. The number the Minister has given us as regards people availing of this scheme is an indicator of the number of people involved in the industry in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: I again ask the Minister to look at that low threshold for seaweed harvesters. The income threshold for seaweed harvesters who might wish to also participate in the fish assist scheme is very low. It has not changed since the mid-nineties. It is €1,270. Taking inflation over the years into account, we could look at increasing that figure. The equivalent figure today might be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: I wish to ask the Minister about the commitment in the programme for Government to examine the anomalies in the means test for disability payments. Have we progressed that work?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: I understand the Department is currently reviewing means testing across all of our schemes. Has that job of work progressed? When might we expect its completion? I refer in particular to the means test for the disability allowance. One issue is that a slight increase in household income can lead to a substantial decrease in the allowance paid to disabled members of society. That is one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: The programme for Government also makes a commitment to introduce a permanent annual cost-of-disability support payment, with a view to incrementally increasing it over the lifetime of the Government's term. Is this part of the current considerations in terms of the review of the disability payment?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ionaid Oidhreachta (29 Jul 2025)

John Connolly: 805. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform céard iad na socruithe atá déanta chun a chinntiú go bhfuil seirbhís lónadóireachta ardchaighdeáin ar fáil in ionad oidhreachta (sonraí curtha ar fáil) le linn a uaireanta oscailte; an bhfuil an tseirbhís sin curtha amach ar conradh ag conraitheoir seachtrach agus, más...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to progress the application for a new school building for a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the urgent need for this new school building due to the current overcrowding and the ageing infrastructure currently accommodating students and staff at the school that is not fit for purpose; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has any proposals to provide a secondary school in Moycullen, County Galway, taking account of the increase in secondary school aged children residing in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50268/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: 35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of critical skills employment permits approved in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: 51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for the number of general employment permits approved in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50839/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (25 Sep 2025)

John Connolly: 116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of active cases of social welfare fraud investigation currently ongoing in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50827/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

John Connolly: One of the things that has worked so well to make our schools more accessible and more inclusive is the deployment of additional SNAs to our schools over the past two decades. I raise this issue in light of the recent publication of the guidelines for the review of SNA allocations in schools provided by the NCSE and the concern raised around it. I have to say I feel some of the concern is...