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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Gabhaim buíochas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: They are a moveable feast.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We have no apologies. You are all very welcome, and I ask anyone joining remotely to mute himself or herself when not contributing so that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that, in order...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister. We do not have an agreed speaking rota for the select committee in the way we do for the joint committee. On that basis, I propose that members indicate if they wish to contribute and I will call them in the order of the lámha suas. Furthermore, I also ask that members refer to the relevant subhead from the briefing document provided by the Department when asking...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The Deputy will have to leave time for the Minister to reply.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the students here this evening. I know how important it is to have student support when going to college. I went to a tech and got a grant to go to college. I would not have been able to do it otherwise. I worked throughout college. I know how important it is to have supports to be able to succeed in college and do what you want to do and what is in you. Let us be clear:...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I can look you in the eye.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The cheek of you.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [34614/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the falling rates of literacy, meaning the increase in the percentage of adults aged 16 to 65 in Ireland who are at or below level 1 on the OECD's five-level literacy scale. [37447/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Appointments (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 171. To ask the Taoiseach the number of the seven external experts appointed or to be appointed to the new disability unit in his Department that have lived experience of disability in Ireland. [36919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 761. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of specific care and treatment areas for patients who arrive emergency department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [37132/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (8 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the specific triage measures and protocols in place at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth Emergency Department for people attending due to a mental health crisis. [37133/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is one of the busiest hospitals in the country. It has serious capacity issues. The base bed numbers do not match the need. The accident and emergency department is regularly at capacity, requiring the hospital to enable surge capacity. This has knock-on effects such as outpatient appointments being cancelled. That is not to mention people on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister. After the tragic and desperate loss of a lady of the calibre of Veronica Guerin, we have done a lot of good in her memory and name. CAB has been a hugely successful organisation and, as the Minister said, has been mirrored and copied in other countries. We must ensure any resource that CAB needs, it gets because it is an incredibly effective organisation. We see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: It is good to hear that the Minister has been working on the commitment in the programme for Government. He mentioned the Bill that will come before the House. I reiterate it is important that we see a Border CAB unit looking at the Border region. It is not fair on law-abiding citizens and retailers that we have smuggling and illegal fuel coming across the Border. These are criminals...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is taking to increase the staffing levels in the Criminal Assets Bureau to facilitate the increased detection of the proceeds of crime due to the reduction of the threshold from €13,000 to €5,000. [36379/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers will have the opportunity to avail of landscape actions and carry out works in upland co-operation areas under ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36363/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Bodies (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the work of the wool council; and the actions the council has taken in order to further utilise and increase the value of wool. [36362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the most recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the UK Foreign Secretary in relation to the need to have comprehensive investigations into the Dundalk, Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974, as the 50th anniversary of the bombings approaches; and if he will make a statement on...