Results 81-100 of 216 for speaker:Donna McGettigan

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I thank the Minister for taking my question this morning. The apprenticeship system is unfit for purpose and has been for several years now. What measures does the Minister intend to introduce to address the problems faced by apprentices and the system more generally? These have resulted in the system failing to produce qualified tradespeople at a pace that meets demand. These problems...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: While I agree that measures have been made into the phase 2, will this not push the backlog back into phases 4 and 6? We have a drop out rate of 3,400. Have they been included in the Minister's figures as well? When that number of people drop out, it shows that it is unfit for purpose. The apprenticeship system is essential to problems the Government has yet to address. Consider the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: How many of those in these figures are actually finishing? There are 3,376 who failed to finish because they are not getting paid enough. The programme for Government states that the Government would "Ensure a skilled labour force by providing practical support for on-the-job training and apprenticeship schemes and consider additional measures". Has that process begun? At what stage is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the contributory fee; if he will maintain the cut in the fee, as has been set out in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14866/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Should I ask my question or speak to it?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Yes, that is fine.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 110. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm that the funds for the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund are fully allocated; when funding will be available again since the fund is part of the Project Ireland 2040 programme; if an alternative funding stream will be provided to replace the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12130/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (27 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider increasing the number of hours a non-EEA national on a Stamp 2 is permitted to work from 20 hours to 30 hours per week given the rising cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14643/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Recently, we have seen shocking stories and harrowing accounts of young female students being attacked, abused, followed and harassed. This is a serious and urgent issue. Too many young women live in fear on the streets, in schools, on college campuses and even online. They face catcalling, stalking, spiking and, in the worst cases, assault. It is shameful to think that young women in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (26 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school is not recognised as a DEIS school (details supplied). [14258/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (25 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the vacant property refurbishment grant; if he will make provision for successful applicants who exceed the time limit for the work to be completed through no fault of their own, for example, the bankruptcy of the contracted construction company. [13668/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (25 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 625. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for clarification on the breeding grant fund, which is funded by his Department and administered by Horse Sport Ireland (HSI), and where the HSI has implemented a new requirement for applicants to provide a complete insurance policy before any funds can be accessed, whether this directive comes from his Department, which oversees...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 732. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is provided with home base facilities in Shannon and in every area required, to enhance its work supporting the emergency services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13590/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 753. To ask the Minister for Health if dental treatment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13661/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 754. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she will enact to ensure both medical card and non-medical card patients who are aged-out of childhood dental services due to excessive waiting lists maintain their entitlement, that their treatment regime is uninterrupted, that their waiting time is taken into account when they are moved to the adult waiting list and they are not expected to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE psychologists, per county, in the Midwest, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14112/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 843. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE dieticians, per county, in the Midwest, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14113/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (20 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that the funds for the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund are fully allocated; when funding will be available again since the fund is part of the Project Ireland 2040 programme; if an alternative funding stream will be provided to replace the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12130/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenants in Clare on the tenant-in-situ scheme; and the number that have been rejected since inception. [13042/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to clarify the use of the term State-led in relation to State control and the control that corporate investors such as a company (details supplied) would have in the operation of Shannon LNG fracked gas import terminal; and if, under EU competition laws, Ireland can have a terminal that is State-led and continue...