Results 61-80 of 300 for speaker:Maeve O'Connell

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on her Department’s work to address Tusla's difficulties in hiring sufficient staff for special care units. [31677/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 490. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the external review of Tusla's special care will be released. [31678/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Reviews (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to set out a timeline for the updating of the Childcare Act 1991. [31679/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report the number of facilities in Dublin that received Building Blocks capital funding. [31680/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report how funding from the Building Blocks capital scheme was allocated between the scheme’s four strands. [31681/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeline for when his Department expects the short-listed projects under stage 2 of the technological sector student accommodation programme to commence. [31712/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ministerial management board meetings he has attended since his appointment. [31713/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with all of the aegis bodies under his Department since his appointment. [31714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with representatives of all of Ireland’s higher education institutions since his appointment. [31715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if preparations are in place to run the rent-a-room campaign; and when he expects this campaign to begin. [31716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of phase 2 off-the-job training places available for craft apprentices; and if the number of places has increased or decreased over the past two years. [31717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff, and from which units, who make up the team from his Department that has been charged with the periodic critical review of SOLAS. [31718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to identify each of the ten steps as part of the National Apprenticeships Office’s ten-step process for the development of new apprenticeships. [31719/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the work of his Department to reform the structure of apprenticeships currently on offer. [31720/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage of the ten-step process for the development of new apprenticeships is the new spatial planning apprenticeship (NFQ Level 8). [31721/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I welcome the opportunity to make a statement on housing, which every representative in the House knows is the most important issue facing families in our country today. I was delighted with the news last week in my constituency, Dublin Rathdown, that an agreement had been reached with the Land Development Agency for the transfer of 17 acres, giving the Government the ability to develop 800...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I echo the comments of everybody in thanking the witnesses for coming here to talk to us and give us some background on this proposed legislation. I have a number of questions that I will run through. Does the term "triple lock" have any basis in law or is this some sort of vernacular language we have adopted? It would be very helpful to understand that, specifically in the context of...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I have another couple of questions.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Do any other countries require UN Security Council approval?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: To clarify, at the moment we cannot even send one person without UN Security Council approval-----