Results 961-980 of 5,148 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (20 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to improve services on the islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26564/24]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I understand the point about the medical card outlined by the Teachta, but another proposal was made at the committee, which was about giving additional weighting when it comes to social housing lists. There is a HMD form – I always call it HDMI – for the social housing waiting list that takes people's medical needs into account as well. Could something like that be brought in...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: My question was a bit different from that. A lot of our councils are understaffed and the staff there and in social work teams are under huge pressure, especially with the housing crisis. This is not specifically about having someone to support an individual, although that is extremely important and I do not want to take away from it. It is more about the additional weighting. In Galway,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Every council, as I understand, has a different weighting system. Some are very much based on length and that is the only thing they take into account, but others have other criteria.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fair, I suppose, but it only works if the person fills out the form. Is that not-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Every week or every day, I, as we all do, advocate for different people but the HMD is what says the person has a medical need and, as a result, it is weighted differently. I might be representing another person who has another issue and trying to put the pressure on but it is only when I have filled out that form that it adds a weight. That is why I feel it is important.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: That is the basis of the HMD form but what they are asking for is their own form that shows they have extra weighting.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: The problem in Galway, for example, is people need to be 11 years on the waiting list, so they are waiting a long time. While need is taken into account, there are many people with a need. Scarce resources are the issue. We have so little supply.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: We will not agree. That is okay.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: The questions on this matter have been raised. That €3,000 payment is quite shocking. It is why all of us are in agreement on that. I am interested in seeing what kind of calculations were made in order to reach that €3,000 figure.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: No, thank you.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Vulture funds are the biggest players in student accommodation thanks to the policies of this Government. Not only are their rents too high but the leases are far too long, with 51-week leases for a 39-week academic term. The Taoiseach told us in February, March and April that he would bring in legislation before the summer recess to change this. The summer recess is in three weeks and we...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: What about the 51-week lease?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: In three weeks?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Before the summer?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister.

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Nuair atáimid ag caint ar chúrsaí turasóireachta, ar ndóigh caithfimid caint ar na hoileáin amach ón gcósta freisin. I mí Iúil, téann thart ar 3,000 turasóir in aghaidh an lae chuig Inis Oírr mar is breá leo é. Tuigim é sin. Is breá liomsa Inis Oírr chomh maith. Ach caithfimid breathnú ar an...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason there is a deliberate campaign by Inland Fisheries Ireland officers preventing anglers from removing dace, an invasive coarse fish, from the Shannon and Mulkear rivers (part of the Lower River Shannon SAC), given that dace are classed as highly invasive in Ireland under the European Communities - Birds and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department’s officials in the inland fisheries division will continue to legislatively conserve invasive dace and invasive roach in the River Allow in County Cork (part of the Blackwater River SAC) under the Conservation and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish Bye-Law (No. 806) 2006, to the detriment of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 Jun 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in line with his obligations under Section 160 of the Local Government Act 2001, he will provide a breakdown of the number of employees by local authority who were qualified in 2023 under architectural services, building surveyor services and engineering services, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a...