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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I would like to hear from the Minister in regard to the forthcoming regulation of lobbying (amendment) Bill. This is an area in which the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, the Minister and I have an interest and an issue that regularly comes up in the media and in the public domain. I would be interested in hearing an update on the Bill.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I agree with the Minister that reform in this area is extremely important. My understanding in regard to the forthcoming Bill is that it does not make provision for an extension of the cooling off period to two years. Section 7 of the Bill which Deputy Doherty and I drafted amends section 22 of the principal Act and extends the cooling off period for designated public officials leaving...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I agree that the enforcement of the contravention is key. That will, hopefully, stop people ignoring the timeline of one or two years depending on what is decided. While I agree with the Minister that people have to be able to earn a living afterwards, we need to be very clear that we are shutting the revolving door that is perceived out there between politics and big business. That is,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Value for money is important and many people have concerns when there are large capital overruns. When the Secretary General of the Department of Health appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts recently, he would not be drawn on the final cost of the children's hospital. One member of the committee suggested that it could be close to €2.2 billion. The Minister will be aware...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I welcome the reforms that the Minister has introduced and I understand his role in this matter, but as he can imagine, people look at him as the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and query such issues, which are of considerable concern to many. We have seen cost overruns for quite some time. There are a number of examples: the national road improvement works had an estimated cost...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the issue of value for money in large capital projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11731/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: The question relates to value for money on large capital projects. Will the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform report on that with respect to the new national children's hospital and the national maternity hospital, for example?

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: The current number of patients on waiting lists in my constituency is difficult to take in. A total of 8,866 people are currently on waiting lists for inpatient care in the Galway University Hospitals. As the Minister knows, there is a story behind every single one of those figures. There is a person in need and a family who are worried. Shockingly, more than 2,000 of those people have...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I have not seen it.

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That is no problem at all.

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fair enough. It is always good to have accuracy. Will the statutory company information in the Companies Registration Office, CRO, be made free, as it is in Companies House in Britain? Are we going to continue to allow these Russian-connected companies operate tax free because they can avail of the section 110 tax concession? Are we going to introduce any kind of accountability...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I welcome the motion. Our thoughts are with all those who are so terribly affected and impacted. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, rightly criticised the actions of the Putin regime as unacceptable and illegal. He stated that we need to be part of the response to that. I agree. Of course, how we respond is what matters. We are citizens of a neutral country which often punches way above its...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of his review of the Ethics Framework; the date he plans to reintroduce the public sector standards Bill 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS centre in Clifden, County Galway will reopen following lifting of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10984/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his advice for residents in Connemara that are applying for or renewing driver licences and do not have any legal obligation to obtain a Public Services Card following the result of the Data Protection Commissioner’s report given that the NDLS centre in Clifden, County Galway remains closed; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance the size of the State's current shareholdings in each of the banks; and the current market value of these shareholdings in tabular form. [10916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools can continue to operate staggered breaktimes if a board of management agrees that such a decision is in the best interests of the school community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprentice registrations by construction apprenticeships in bricklaying, carpentry, joinery, construction plant fitting, electrical, painting and decorating, plastering, stonecutting, stonemasonry, wood machinists and wood manufacturing in each of the years 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [10917/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff who were employed in the community for the Echo Programme; and whether it is the case that the same staff that do this work in the hospitals also do this in the community. [10915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Mar 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 744. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the depleting stocks of hormone replacement therapy in chemists that many women depend on; and the actions that he is taking to replenish them. [11452/22]