Results 401-420 of 1,163 for speaker:Aidan Farrelly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the Minister of State. Did the feedback from the first business case influence the development of the second business case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Is there a third business case to come? Is it likely that the learnings from the first and second business cases will inform the third one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I have to ask. With regard to the Kildare Innovation Campus, which has huge potential, is anything preventing us from ensuring that the route from the car park in campus can withhold a bearing that has service vehicles on it? Can we seek planning permission that would include service vehicles coming through?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the Minister of State. I will finish by thanking colleagues for the opportunity to come to the committee and discuss this issue. It is certainly the first time I have spoken about it on the public record. As someone who is new to this, it is good to see a collaborative approach and have the opportunity to work with colleagues like Deputy Cronin, Senator O'Reilly, Deputy Ó...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of the dates at which processes and consultation around local authority development plans will begin over the next three years. [36491/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Suicide Prevention (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I want to reiterate my thanks to the Minister of State for taking this tonight. I really do appreciate it and I ask that she pass on my thanks to the Minister of State for such a considered reply. I do not doubt for a second the sincerity with which the Ministers of State are approaching this at all. I hope she can hear that I am not here to critique Government policy on this issue...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Suicide Prevention (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to be here this evening. I am really grateful for the opportunity to raise the very important issue of suicide prevention. I am raising it from a place of concern and from a place of care - care for anyone who is grieving the loss of a partner, a family member or a friend and care for everyone who has dedicated their professional life to...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I will open with the words of Professor Joseph Travers, who wrote about inclusive pedagogy in Ireland in 2023. He says: Given the exponential growth in special classes and the increase in special schools since Ireland’s ratification of the UNCRPD, a contradiction ... is apparent, which calls for a more radical appraisal of the purpose and role of these classes and schools. He...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised from the dividend withholding tax applied to real estate investment trusts in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35702/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised in each of the past ten years from capital gains tax paid by real estate investment trusts, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35704/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised from the dividend withholding tax applied to Irish real estate funds in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised in each of the past ten years from capital gains tax paid by Irish real estate funds, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35705/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending parent’s benefit by one week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35706/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the weekly payments for maternity benefit, adoptive benefit, paternity benefit, and parent’s benefit to €350 per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35707/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a schedule of the number of Defence Force members that made applications to the Garda trainee programme in each year from 2021 to date in 2025; the number of those that were successful at stage 1 and 2 of the Garda recruitment process, for the same time period; and the number of those that were admitted to the Garda...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the delegation for giving of their time. I will begin by wholeheartedly commend the work done by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office in partnership with so many other wonderful organisations like BelonG To, which does incredible work to amplify the voice of children and young people when it comes to rights in this country. I fully commend what the office continues to do. ...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Dr. Muldoon mentioned trends in issues that are coming to his office, whether that is education, Tusla or children's health. We engaged with the office through youth work quite often and they were always fantastic experiences. Would Dr. Muldoon accept there is probably a level of agency or support required to even get to a place of making that complaint to his office? Notwithstanding the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: That is interesting. I thank the Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses for being here. I appreciate the opportunity to meet them and discuss these issues. As the conversation has evolved, I am going to take up some of the points that have been raised already and try to go through some of them in a little more detail, if we can. Regarding Deputy Connolly's point on cash stocks, how much in total is that?