Results 801-820 of 1,163 for speaker:Aidan Farrelly

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an estimate of the cost to place Garda trainees on the first point of the Garda pay scale, from day one of training in phase one. [36765/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide for Garda trainees to commence training on point one and or a high percentage of point one, from day one of phase one of training. [36766/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he and or his officials have engaged with An Garda Síochána leadership team and or the Minister and or his officials at the Department of Public Expenditure; National Development Plan Delivery and Reform regarding further enhancement of the Garda trainee allowance system and or pay scales. [36767/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 328. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of providing an additional 1,000 personal assistance service hours in 2026. [36729/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 329. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated revised cost of meeting service provision and supports identified under the disability capacity review, published in July 2021, given rising costs in the past four years. [36730/25]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss a ban on pair trawling. Deputy Catherine Ardagh - To discuss the construction of a new school building in Ballyfermot. Deputy William Aird - To discuss GP and primary care services in County Laois....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the Minister of State. Respectfully, I remind Members not to discuss live court cases here and to stick to the topic.

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I will build on my colleagues' comments by setting out some brief context. My office recently engaged with the Competition and Consumer Protection Authority on price setting and loyalty schemes operated by some of the larger supermarket companies. While I acknowledge the safeguards that the CCPC provides to customers, it has been calling for more substantial penalties for breaches of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I return to this State's commitment to evacuate seriously ill children from Gaza because we all want to know what is going on. It is nearly a year since the Government promised to evacuate 30 sick children from Gaza and since then, just 12 children have been evacuated. We now hear that petty bureaucratic concerns about visas are delaying the evacuation of other children. The Taoiseach has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: When?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. It is wonderful to have an opportunity to learn about the work of Tusla. I was a professional youth worker for about 20 years and worked in communities as Tusla emerged. I commend the work of the staff on the ground right up to senior management on the missions in transforming the idea or reputation of the service. That is true and it has...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I do not doubt that for a second. I have seen that first-hand and I completely agree that the competence on the ground is there. It frustrated me to see that yesterday, when we see such regular briefings about 400 children potentially going without a social work allocation or see continuous news cycle pieces about under-resourcing. We just need to make sure that the-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Can we ask specifically who else was in receipt of that outside of the NTA, just so that we can keep track?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses for joining us this morning. If they do not mind, I am going to pick up on Deputy Geoghegan's points on CEO positions. What I am struggling to get my head around a little is that despite the policy of the Government and Department on not wanting to extend CEO contracts automatically, we hear there is legal entitlement to extend them. I am not talking about any...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Who is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I am conscious that Mr. Moloney does not want to speak about that other person. Are legal proceedings under way in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: There was correspondence from the Department to CHI indicating that, as part of the sanction for the role of strategic director, another national director post in the HSE had to be suppressed. What does that mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I was trying to understand it from the correspondence. Is it the case that one position was lost across the entirety of those positions within the HSE because another position had to be created in CHI?