Results 61-80 of 5,360 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 395. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will review its agreement with the Department of Education to label all home tutors as employees of the parents and not employees of the Department of Education in light of the Supreme Court decision in Karshan. [29318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in light of the Karshan Supreme Court ruling, her Department will review its agreement with Revenue to label all home tutors as self-employed for tax purposes when the 'reality of the situation' is that home tutors are paid directly by her Department through the PAYE system and can only be legally adjudged to be employees of her...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 743. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government is it is the intention of his Department to reclassify the Lough Corrib Catchment as a Heavily Modified Water Body (HMWB) under the EU Water Framework Directive in an attempt to undermine its status as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) under the EU Habitats Directive as well as a means to validate the presence of invasive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 806. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing Agency will be provided with additional resources in 2026 via Budget 2026, in order that it can commence the work of regulating the owners' management companies sector, as promised in the Programme for Government. [29670/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 832. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to increasing the income threshold for cost rental housing outside of Dublin, in particular taking into consideration the number of dependents that are in a household; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on plans to abolish the carer’s allowance means test; and when this change is expected to be implemented. [29245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will review its agreement with the Department of Education to label all home tutors as self-employed and not employees of the Department of Education in light of the Supreme Court decision in Karshan. [29319/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 1022. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the regulations which were drafted in February 2022 for dealing with apartment service charges and sinking funds will be put in place; and if will be before the end of 2025. [29669/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Areas of Conservation (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 1088. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that the Cong Salmon Hatchery run by Inland Fisheries Ireland in county Galway is not located within a special area of conservation, the reason the licence for its operation is to be subject to an initial appropriate assessment screening under the EU Habitats Directive when the current licence is renewed in 2027; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 1537. To ask the Minister for Health the number the number of beds for the western region in residential addiction services currently and in each quarter of 2025 and 2026; if beds will be available for the western region from September 2025; the work being carried out to expand access to addiction services in the west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30061/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 1538. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a detox unit in the west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30062/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 1614. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations in place on HHC vapes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 1615. To ask the Minister for Health the information campaigns available, specifically for young people, on HHC vapes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30524/25]

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Tá a fhios agam gur rud é seo atá fíorthábhachtach don Aire Stáit. Fáiltím go bhfuil na hóráidí seo ar siúl inniu. I recognise that this is an issue that is of particular interest to the Minister of State. I thank him for facilitating these statements, which are very welcome. I also recognise that there has been a significant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We are all waiting to see how the national development plan will proceed. Obviously, all of our areas require a lot of investment in infrastructure. The infrastructural deficit we have, especially across the west, is something I have raised with the Minister quite a number of times. We also need to look at procurement and how it can be used to benefit areas, particularly those more rural...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Will the Minister provide an update on how his Department is coming at this review? Is it that the Department was ready for such a review or did pressure come about as a result of the announcement that there would be a review? Does he think that all the information required will be available when it is needed? It is also welcome that the Minister is saying there will be public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 153. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the progress that has been made on the National Development Plan review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27885/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: My question is on what actual reform we will see taking place in the OPW. I am sure the Minister of State is against these overspends and I take it he was not in office at the time but it has continued over a number of years and there have been reports over a number of years. What reform will take place in the OPW? Does the Minister of State have confidence it can properly manage its...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform the OPW following the latest report from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27881/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: This relates to the latest Deloitte report into the OPW. Will the Minister of State outline how he plans to reform the organisation and what his future steps will be in that regard? There was huge outcry when people saw the bike shelter and the cost of it at €336,000. You would get an ambulance for that price on Inisheer, which does not have an ambulance.