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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022) Alan Farrell: My question was more about the 244 places available at third level annually for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and clinical psychology. They are being provided to support children with additional educational needs but that it is not enough. It might well be a demand issue but the Department has an important role to play in increasing the number of places available so that...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022) Alan Farrell: I would very much appreciate that. I apologise if I have gone on a little too long. My final question is one I have asked before but to which I have not had a response thus far. I appreciate that it is possibly an unusual question. The modified leaving certificate of the past two years has had significant consequences for third level and a significant amount of funding had to be provided...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022) Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister of State for that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022) Alan Farrell: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State, and I thank them for coming before us this morning. I apologise for being late as I was at another committee meeting. To follow up on the work of the committee in relation to leaving certificate reform, some members disagreed and other members agreed on recent decisions but all of that being said I believe that we uniformly agree that...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022) Alan Farrell: For the information of the Minister of State, I regular consult the school principals of all the schools in my constituency. I conducted a survey with primary and secondary school principals for the purpose of looking into supports for children with additional educational needs. I have not quite finalised the survey but I intend to give it the Minister of State for information purposes. In...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022) Alan Farrell: It is.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (15 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the efforts to improve community health services in Fingal, County Dublin in line with growing population centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7908/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the Food Reformulation Task Force and the efforts to implement the Roadmap for Food Product Reformulation in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7909/22]
- Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank the authors of this report for their thoroughly comprehensive body of work and recommendations. The report sets out, in very clear manner, the current state of our Defence Forces and points to various paths that lie ahead for the future of the military, depending on how we in this House and as a society react to the analysis and the warnings contained therein. We must implement...
- National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: I commend the scheme. I also commend the Minister and the Department on the work they have put into it. There is so much within it that is extremely positive and it is quite disheartening to hear Members opposite decry it and predict its failure before it has even begun. We have to recognise in addition to what Deputy Bruton has said that the scheme has a huge element of work that will see...
- National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: Deputy Ó Cuív is sharing time with Deputies Carey and Cowen.
- National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: I call on Deputy O'Donoghue who has a ten-minute slot.
- National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: I am sure you will.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: I have two supplementary questions if that is okay. They might flow into the answers. Perhaps it might be helpful to the committee if the CRU could outline the capacity of the interconnectors for export at the moment, versus what we might be aiming for in the future. With regard to the comments made about smart metering, has the Data Protection Commission ruled that energy usage data is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: That was an interesting aside, which is important for the committee. I thank our guests for coming in. I have three areas of focus, two of which are follow-ups. Dr. McGowan made the comment that we hope to be enabling up to 95% capacity on the grid for renewables. I have two or three questions flowing from that. What does the commission need to do to achieve that? What do the network...
- Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: Notwithstanding the remarks of Deputy Haughey on citizens' assemblies, with which I tentatively agree, the citizens' assembly model has proven its worth over the past number of years. Some of the questions that have been asked, in particular on the social side of things, may not have come about as quickly had we been left to deal with them in these Houses. That being said, biodiversity...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that have been taken to ensure that areas such as Fingal, County Dublin and other areas relatively close to large urban centres have remote working hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8758/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Urban Development (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: 70. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role of town regeneration officers under the town centre first scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8759/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of Operation Citizen; its progress to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8728/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)
Alan Farrell: 152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the recent launch of the Garda recruitment drive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8727/22]