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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (16 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the work his Department is carrying out to assist independent students who have become estranged from their families after the age of 18 years, to prove their independence in order that they can access SUSI; if he plans to revise the rules regarding eligibility to be classed as an independent student for SUSI purposes;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (16 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the national student accommodation strategy, which was due to be updated in 2024, and if he could provide a date for publication of an updated strategy. [55763/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Planning Issues (16 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 100. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the absence of updated language planning guidelines; and the timeline for the publication of the draft Gaeltacht planning guidelines. [55823/25]

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Tá leithscéalta faighte againn ó na Seanadóirí Conor Murphy, Joe O'Reilly agus Cathal Byrne. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where they are not adhering to this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Thank you, Senator. We might let the others in. I thank the Senator for taking the Chair while we were all gone for a vote. Next is an Teachta Burke and then an Teachta O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Mr. Ryan was indicating, a Theachta, just to let you know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I ask Ms Lo Bue Oddo to turn on her camera.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Will the Deputy indicate exactly who the question is for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay. I see there is an indication-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Does Deputy Doherty want to begin with the Commission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We will begin with the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Does Mr. Knauer want to respond to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agaibh as teacht os comhair an choiste inniu. At the start we had to be a bit more haphazard than usual because we had to run out for votes. I am really concerned around these two COM proposals that came before our committee. I am even more concerned after having this committee meeting today. I am extremely concerned with Mr. Knauer's response to what Deputy O'Calllaghan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: What is the incentive? I am not saying any particular country would not want to, but are there particular repercussions that have been outlined for countries if they do not pay them back? At the moment they are guaranteed by the EU budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: What are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We are the finance committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas in Ireland and we are being told that member states are likely to repay these loans and that is the working assumption. However, there is a lot of talk about war coming to Europe and that this is the reasoning behind these member states needing to increase their military capabilities. Surely, in a situation like that they are less...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Then I would like for us as a committee to be furnished with exactly what that is, because I want to know if it is fiscal austerity that the EU is planning to impose on these countries. I would like to know exactly what those obligations are. To me, it is simply not good enough to be told there is a working assumption and that we are not told why exactly. Does the witness have any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: This does not fill me with confidence. From our engagements on this issue, the reasoning for the increase in military spending is based on the fear that there could be a war in some of these countries or an invasion in some of these countries. Surely, that would impact on their economy. How much, in terms of the EU budget, is being set aside on a yearly basis at present for what in Mr. de...