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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That is totally fair. Obviously the length of the secondment would determine the cost of the funding required.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: There have been reports across the media, etc., and this matter has come in front of this committee now. In terms of the possible impact on public finances, we heard that this would cost €20 million over the lifetime of the secondment. We can only deal with what could have actually happened. Perhaps that could have changed but we must deal with this matter now. Such a large sum...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: A number of questions have been asked and my final question is on the Civil Service Accountability Board of which Mr. Fraser was a member. The board has not met since 2016 but I understand that it was never properly wound down. The minutes of the last meeting in 2016 indicate that its work was in some ways only beginning and there was a lot of talk about the introduction of key performance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: It was quite a big thing when the board was introduced. I raised this matter directly with the Taoiseach either at this committee or the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and he was not fully across the detail of it either. Obviously the board has not sat but does Mr. Fraser believe that it has been fully wound down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Not since 2016.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: When I discovered that the board had not met since 2016 I just wondered where it went and why.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister for coming before the committee. As the Chairman outlined, the committee has been considering this issue. The Parliamentary Budget Office delivered an excellent and interesting briefing. As the Minister outlined, we are and have been living in extraordinary times, with Covid and now the invasion of Ukraine. Of course, that means it can be difficult to predict what may...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Of course, that is the difficulty at present. This time last year we could not have predicted that we would be in this scenario. Indeed, we had other issues that we could not predict at that point that we were living through. In relation to the upward revision of GDP forecast, I note that it is largely driven by exports and at the same time there is concern in relation to consumer...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I am not sure how much time I have left. I have one question anyway and if I have time for another question, I will ask it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I will ask two questions quickly. It seems there has not been a change in the estimate of the impact of global tax reform on the level of corporation tax receipts from the medium-term fiscal strategy from January 2020. Given the change in the international tax environment, will there be a difference in what is set out in the stability programme update, SPU? My other question is on the...

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: As we all know, the cost of living has spiralled, people are under severe pressure to make ends meet and many people simply cannot do so as a result of the cost of living crisis. Nevertheless, before this increase in inflation and the war in Ukraine, we had the highest rents in Europe. People were struggling with housing, with paying rent and even with finding accommodation. All of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (4 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of National Educational Psychological Service psychologists in full-time employment by county as of April 2022; the waiting times by county for a child to be assessed by a NEPS psychologist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21730/22]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: People my age, when they look to the future, feel they have no chance of ever achieving homeownership. As my colleagues have said, this is happening under the Government's watch. The common theme among my friends and co-workers I have had in the past is that they work day in and day out and nothing gets easier. They feel they are completely locked out of homeownership. We are seeing now...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to an Icelandic oil drilling operation close to the bounds of Irish territory near the Maury Channel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23301/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (10 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the plans for BusConnects Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (10 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his view on expanding bus services in Galway to include a night service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (10 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that two schools in Galway lost their DEIS status in 2022 while the DEIS programme is being expanded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23311/22]

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: This State and the religious orders have a shameful track record in their treatment of women and children. It is written into our Constitution, the foundational document of the State, that a woman's place is in the home. Until 1957, a married women became the legal property of her husband. Until the 1970s, a marriage bar forced women to resign from work upon getting married. Marital rape...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agaibh as ucht teacht os comhair an choiste. I missed some of the debate as a result of being at another committee. If I am following up on things that have already been talked about, the witnesses should not hesitate to let me know. One of the issues I would like to get a view on is inflation, on which there is a lot of discussion at the moment. What we frequently hear is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (12 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish a complete list of the properties in County Galway owned by Inland Fisheries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23933/22]