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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the decision on the appeal for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) has not yet issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59555/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of planned surgeries that have been cancelled in Galway University Hospital over each of the past six months as a result of bed capacity issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of homecare hours applied for by CHO 2; the total number granted over each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care plans for CHO 2; the progress to date on each project; the timeframe for delivery of each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59619/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for approval of a homecare application; the level of delayed discharges from each hospital in Galway University Hospital while waiting on a homecare package or community bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59620/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community hospital beds in Galway University Hospital available to patients on discharge from acute hospitals; if he plans to increase community bed capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59621/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as teacht os comhair an choiste. Tá sé i gcónaí iontach plé a dhéanamh ar na rudaí seo. I apologise to the Minister of State and committee members for having to leave early as I am due to speak in the Dáil shortly. I thank him for his opening statement, which was quite interesting. I am interested in the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Unfortunately, those are the only questions I have time to ask because I have to leave to speak in the Chamber. My apologies for having to leave the committee early.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I must say that when the Minister got up to speak earlier, I thought I was in some kind of alternate reality or universe, whereby we, in Sinn Féin have been in government for the past years, when he said that the thing we need to do is to build homes. That is something that we have long been calling for. However, it has been the Minister and his party who have been in government and...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: As the Minister well knows, people of all ages are struggling to pay their rent. I regularly have people come to me - friends, family, neighbours etc. - who are struggling or unable to pay their rents. These are people my age who may be looking to start a family and who have to move back to the family home because they simply cannot pay their rent or, if they can, they certainly are not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to instances in which premiums (details supplied) for having contracted Covid-19 in the workplace were not paid to HSE staff; and if this has affected their basic pay and pension contributions. [59164/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase core funding for family resource centres; if funding can be increased by a centre (details supplied) in County Galway to allow it to recruit a third-staff member given the complex needs of the local community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59404/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department’s regularisation scheme will be delivered by the end of 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59405/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee. I want to follow up on two issues raised with the witnesses by my colleague, Deputy Doherty. My first question is in regard to meetings with the Governor of the Central Bank. Is Mr. Blažek aware how many times in the past two years his predecessor met the Governor of the Central Bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Blažek. Would he be able to furnish the committee with that information in writing post meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Blažek. My second question is in regard to an issue mentioned by my colleague, Deputy Doherty, but which he did not get an opportunity to tease out. What advice would KBC offer a new entrant, or a re-entry of KBC, into the market?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Blažek for that very interesting analysis. On the staff of KBC Ireland, what protections for pensions will the bank put in place for the long term? Will the bank transfer the employer covenant responsibility and deeds to KBC Group in order to best protect both deferred, active and pensions members of the KBC schemes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I would hope so. This is about people's lives and livelihoods.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I must go now to the committee room now but if Mr. Blažek feels strongly that the bank is working so well with the employees and that it is so well functioning, I do not understand why it would not engage with a union that represents workers and allow workers and employees to work with their union and have it represent them. That is my opinion on the matter.