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Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Tá leasú Uimh. 23 in ainm an Aire, an Teachta Calleary. Tá leasuithe Uimh. 23 go 36, go huile, bainteach lena chéile.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Is leasuithe Uimh. 23 go 36, go huile, atá á bplé againn. Bhí muid ar leasú Uimh. 22, a bhí as ord.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Níl mé cinnte. Ní dóigh liom gur féidir nuair atá leasú as ord. Déanfaidh mé seiceáil mar tá mé nua leis seo. Ag deireadh na leasuithe i gcomhair alt 7, beidh deis ag an Teachta teacht isteach le labhairt faoin alt é féin. Is é seo an chéad uair dom é seo a dhéanamh agus tá mé...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Iarraim ar an Aire leasú Uimh. 23 a bhogadh.

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Driving test waiting times are a shambles. This is clear from the discussion today. I regularly get emails from constituents. Constituents are given absurdly long waiting times to be called to sit their driving tests. This means people are forced to pay very high insurance costs because the Government simply cannot get its act together on this issue. I remember almost five years ago the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Will the Taoiseach advise if there has been a change of approach with regard to medical cards? Over the last while, a significant number of people have come to me, especially older women who have had medical cards for a long time and whose cards are now suddenly being taken away from them. Has there been a change of approach? Figures released to me show an increase in the number of people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is both.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is both.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Tá leithscéalta faighte againn ó na Seanadóirí Joe O’Reilly agus Alice-Mary Higgins. Sula leanfaidh muid ar aghaidh, tá orm roinnt sonraí a scapadh maidir le himeachtaí an chruinnithe seo. De réir na mBuan-Ordaithe, is maith liom é seo a leanas a dearbhú: Dearbhaím go sollúnta go ndéanfaidh mé, go cuí...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh míle maith agat. Thank you so much. Unless anybody else would like to make a comment, we can move on to ainmniúcháin don Leas-Chathaoirleach, nominations for the Leas-Chathaoirleach. As members are aware, a committee may choose to nominate a Leas-Chathaoirleach who can perform the duties and exercise the duties of the Cathaoirleach in her absence. I propose...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: You just send-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: If you want to express your interest and sent it in writing to the secretariat, that might be the best bet. We will find out at that point if it is contested or not.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Is that okay? Is there anybody who would like to comment on anything or ask a question? There seem to be questions.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Is féidir le daoine a bhfuil suim acu sa ról an t-ainmniúchán a chur isteach agus a léiriú roimh an 16 Bealtaine. Is féidir é a chur chuig an secretariat. If members have an interest and would like to put themselves forward, they may express that interest in writing to the secretariat by 16 May. We hope to have a meeting on 21 May and we could make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in the context of the statement in the Irish Prison Service Annual Report that all Prison Education Centres meet the quality assurance standards demanded by QQI, the number of scheduled classes that were cancelled in each prison over the period 2015-2025; the reasons for such cancellations; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in the context of the statement in the Irish Prison Service Annual Report that all Prison Education Centres meet the quality assurance standards demanded by QQI, the reason classes in prisons are not provided on a year round basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24768/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 215. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the establishment of an ambulance base in Conamara and the timeline for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24758/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the policy around funding for diabetes glucose monitors was changed in 2023 to only cover those with type 1 diabetes; if she is considering extending this funding to any other cohort, in particular those with CFRD (cystic fibrosis related diabetes); the estimated amount it would cost to extend this funding to those with CFRD; and if she will make...