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Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Of all the terrible housing decisions that this Government and previous Governments have made over the past decade, I truly believe that this one will be judged the harshest because the Minister agrees and admits that thousands of people who are now served with notices to quit are absolutely terrified that over the next period they will end up homeless. The Minister even admits that we will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an expected timeline for the submission made to his Department by Galway City Council requesting sanction for the recruitment of general operatives in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15283/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views in relation to the proposal by the Fair Post Primary Redeployment for Teachers group that a national voluntary redeployment panel for teachers be established, whereby an online portal for teachers seeking voluntary redeployment could allow for a direct swap facility for those seeking to reverse their locations; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (28 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if supports will be provided to the operators of the Tuam meals on wheels service, County Galway to prevent its closure at the end of the March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15284/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the establishment of a secondary school on Inishbofin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12008/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are guidelines set out for granting illness benefit to workers whose full-time work schedule is based on a four-day week, for example, if the worker is sick four days of the week, if they should get the full week’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14466/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: We have had sight of the proposed reform of the EU fiscal rules and governance framework. The Government had not prioritised this but the Joint Committee on Finance attempted to engage with the process of reform. The new proposals will take time to work their way through different stages at EU level before they become law but, having now seen them, it seems to be a case of the new rules...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Unfortunately, I have another engagement in a few moments and will need to leave. We raised the issue of the site value tax when dealing with the Commission on Taxation. That tax is long overdue. I live in Galway. There are places in Galway where it is badly needed, not only as a revenue raiser - obviously, that can be important as well - but also as a way to change behaviour when it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I apologise, but I need to nip out. I will be back for the second session.

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: The Bill will, of course, make the required changes that were identified as a response to the cost-of-living crisis. My colleague, Deputy Doherty, has mentioned this. We had heard time and time again that things could not be done but we kept raising them. I welcome that we are having this discussion. The Bill also includes provisions to amend the TBESS. I will speak to these issues as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment as the Minister with governance oversight responsibility for the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, if he is satisfied that An Post is complying fully with Section 46 (4) of the said Act pertaining to the guarantee that the civil servants transferred to An Post on its vesting day are entitled to "not...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 22 November 2022, if he and his Department will amend and/or revoke the current Conservation of Coarse Fish Bye-Law No. 806 of 2006, which is in direct conflict with other domestic and EU environmental legislation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that An Post, the Irish Aviation Authority and Coillte are complying with their respective founding legislation that contains a guarantee that the civil servants transferred to these bodies on their vesting day are entitled to "not less favourable" conditions in their pensions than those to which they were entitled...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the number of properties sold to the State through the tenant in-situ scheme, by local authority in each month since October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1304. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the way the HSE recruits workers for key healthcare roles from abroad when the roles cannot be filled locally; if there is an avenue for a non-EEA worker who is not living in Ireland to pursue a career in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12840/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1403. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is working in an agency will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13303/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Environmental Policy (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1438. To ask the Minister for Health the biodiversity action plans that are in place for HSE estates or properties under its management in line with Government policy of protecting green spaces and high biodiversity areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13505/23]

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Fáiltím roimh an deis atá againn an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht a phlé anseo inniu. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach go bhfuil Seachtain na Gaeilge againn. Is dócha gurb é seo an céad uair don Aire Stáit, an Teachta O'Donovan, bheith mar Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta le linn Seachtain na Gaeilge. Cuirim fáilte roimhe sin. Tá a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Special Areas of Conservation (9 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Inland Fisheries Ireland published the 2021 Lough Melvin Water Framework Directive Fish Survey Report on 23 February 2023, which highlighted the first anthropogenic existence of invasive roach in this SAC lake, if he, and his Department support the conservation of invasive roach in Lough Melvin SAC under the current...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Online Safety (9 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 201. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the contact details for the newly established Online Safety Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12143/23]