Results 181-200 of 411 for speaker:Maeve O'Connell

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of phase 2 off-the-job training places available for craft apprentices; and if the number of places has increased or decreased over the past two years. [31717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff, and from which units, who make up the team from his Department that has been charged with the periodic critical review of SOLAS. [31718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to identify each of the ten steps as part of the National Apprenticeships Office’s ten-step process for the development of new apprenticeships. [31719/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the work of his Department to reform the structure of apprenticeships currently on offer. [31720/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage of the ten-step process for the development of new apprenticeships is the new spatial planning apprenticeship (NFQ Level 8). [31721/25]

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I thank the Minister for coming in today, and I very much welcome his opening statement and focus on the four priorities. The statement provides us with great clarity, along with his Department. There are matters I want to raise, the first of which, as many people have raised, is student accommodation. Just to personalise the situation a bit, I certainly have known students who have had...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I welcome the opportunity to make a statement on housing, which every representative in the House knows is the most important issue facing families in our country today. I was delighted with the news last week in my constituency, Dublin Rathdown, that an agreement had been reached with the Land Development Agency for the transfer of 17 acres, giving the Government the ability to develop 800...

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 Finance: Tax Reliefs (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has analysed the need to increase the guide dog allowance to keep pace with cost-of-living increases; and when this allowance was last increased.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27781/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has considered amalgamating group C inheritance tax recipients into group B inheritance tax recipients. [27780/25]

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]

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

Maeve O'Connell: 876. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the national training fund will be used to support enhanced core funding for higher education over the period to 2030. [27309/25]

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

Maeve O'Connell: 882. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the work of officials within his Department on the reform of the funding allocation model for Higher Education to ensure the model aligns with Government priorities and adequately underpins sectoral reform, as set out in ‘funding the future’. [27315/25]