Results 121-140 of 341 for speaker:Maeve O'Connell

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (20 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 923. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the main learnings by his Department from the 2024 rent-a-room campaign, and how these learnings will inform future campaigns and outreach programmes. [25186/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 924. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the work of officials within his Department in engaging with Solas, with a view to reduce the delays faced by apprentices in accessing training phases. [25187/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the date that his Department intends to publish the National Apprentice Office Report, following their recent survey. [25188/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Breeding (20 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 938. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he intends to include the requirement for a tax clearance certificate for the issuance of a dog breeders licence in the proposed new Control of Dogs and Dog Breeding Establishments (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 and improve the overall regulation of this business to benefit overall public safety and the welfare of dogs....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the work of officials within his Department on the new further education and training strategy in collaboration with SOLAS following the conclusion of its public consultation earlier this year. [25568/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: This morning I wish to ask the Minister about the work of the officials in his Department on the new further education and training strategy in collaboration with SOLAS, particularly following the completions of its public consultation earlier this year.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I welcome the clarity that the Minister of State provided regarding the 800 individual meetings and 70 submissions to the public consultation. I look forward to hearing more details about that over the coming weeks as that is progressed. One reason I am raising this issue is the importance of the apprenticeship sector, which this public consultation is dealing with. We have done quite...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I welcome the approach of a collaborative strategy. It is worthwhile. All the actors and relevant stakeholders in our third level and further education sector are critical to make this work and create consistencies across the sector. I especially appreciate and welcome the focus on lifelong learning. I also welcome the focus on workforce transformation because we are operating in a...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach. I look forward to working with her. I will introduce myself briefly because I am a first-time TD. I am Fine Gael spokesperson for higher education. One of the reasons I have that role is that my background is in higher education. Until I was elected, I was a lecturer in Technological University Dublin, TUD. I taught across three different campuses...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current availability of 'digs' student accommodation, along with the possibility of introducing a non-overbearing regulatory framework in this sector without harming current levels of supply. [25567/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (22 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 98. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the ban of XL bully dogs; the number of XL bully dogs that have been seized in each local authority area since the ban took effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26167/25]

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I echo the comments of everybody in thanking the witnesses for coming here to talk to us and give us some background on this proposed legislation. I have a number of questions that I will run through. Does the term "triple lock" have any basis in law or is this some sort of vernacular language we have adopted? It would be very helpful to understand that, specifically in the context of...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I have another couple of questions.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Do any other countries require UN Security Council approval?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: To clarify, at the moment we cannot even send one person without UN Security Council approval-----

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Surely, it must get muddied a bit in periods of conflict. Does this get muddied?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: What would happen if it turned combative while they were there?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I will ask a couple of questions on the Ward report, which is quite extensive. First, has the Department engaged with the relevant representative bodies on it? I have a specific question on the change in reporting requirements whereby all offences that normally are required to be reported to An Garda Síochána will be required to be reported to An Garda Síochána going...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: There is no option for an individual to report?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 812. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the work of officials within his Department in analysing alternative ways of funding third level education in lieu of the current 'student contribution' model. [27242/25]