Results 261-280 of 645 for speaker:Donna McGettigan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 888. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in total grants paid to University College Cork from the estimated €208,787,000 in 2022 to the estimated €195,477,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36009/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 889. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in total grants paid to Trinity College Dublin from the estimated €210,341,000 in 2022 to the estimated €196,316,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in total grants paid to St. Angela’s College from the estimated €10,464,000 in 2022 to the estimated €9,483,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36011/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 895. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in recurrent grants paid to St. Angela’s College from the estimated €8,795,000 in 2022 to the estimated €7,655,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36016/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in total grants paid to the Irish University Association from the estimated €9,049,000 in 2022 to the estimated €4,066,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36012/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in total grants paid to the National College of Ireland from the estimated €2,886,000 in 2022 to the estimated €2,728,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36013/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in total grants paid to the Royal Irish Academy from the estimated €7,463,000 in 2022 to the estimated €7,062,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36014/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 896. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in recurrent grants paid to the Royal Irish Academy from the estimated €6,167,000 in 2022 to the estimated €5,596,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36017/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 894. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in total grants paid to Griffith College from the estimated €1,801,000 in 2022 to the estimated €1,336,000 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36015/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 897. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details as to the reason there has been no increase in recurrent grants paid of the estimated €1,105,000 for Maynooth University since 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36018/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 898. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in skills grant payments for a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36054/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 899. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in the skills grant payments for a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36055/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 900. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information regarding the decrease in Skills Grant Payments for a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to introduce legally enforceable standards for works carried out by builders, to protect the public from so-called cowboy builders; to establish a register of builders against whom legal actions have been taken successfully allowing the public to review the standing of builders before contracting work from them; and if he...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Disability Services (25 Jun 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Throughout the State, more than 15,000 children are currently overdue an assessment of needs. Under the Disability Act 2005, children are entitled to assessment of their educational and health needs within six months of being on the waiting list, so each of these 15,000 children represent a breach of law by the Government. In my constituency in Clare, parents who are at their wits' end are...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Disability Services (25 Jun 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I already gave these cases to the Government and they were referred to the HSE, which is where we got the answers that reliance on the private sector is not working in the HSE Mid West region. While I appreciate that there are difficulties in the system, especially around the need for robust regulation of psychologists, just 7% of assessments were completed within the six-month timeframe...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Review of Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Go raibh maith agat. SOLAS mentioned its surveys earlier. I contacted Connect trade union, which did its own survey of 802 participants and some of the findings are pretty stark. I will provide some of them. Some 46% reported getting paid less than €7 per hour of work during a stage of their apprenticeships, more than 90% reported being paid less than the minimum wages, which as we...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Review of Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Once apprentices complete their schemes, the outcomes are very positive. I agree with Deputy Connolly on having an overseer. That is important. If we are going to be moving apprentices into the public service, that has to be put in place before we start moving a lot of people. I have a question for the ETBs, which I sent to all ETBs around the country. Would the officials have figures for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (25 Jun 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how full-time students living in privately rented accommodation on leases of less than six years will be protected from having to pay exorbitant rent increases from 1 March 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Jun 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 431 of 19 June 2025, if he will provide supplementary information in relation to highlighted matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34577/25]