Results 81-100 of 645 for speaker:Donna McGettigan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department can provide details of the amount of funding accrued from international student fees towards third level institutes in the State for the years 2022 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for a student who applied through the CAO system to pursue her nursing qualification using her QQI level 5 results in pre-nursing in lieu of insufficient points from the leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52045/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I thank the witnesses for this opportunity. I have met some of them, and actually visited some. The sense that I got when I came away from meeting them was that we are not just talking about buildings here but also about the people within them, and how the universities are trying their best to enhance the student experience. That comes across very clearly, particularly from the talk about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: On the student accommodation and dual use, having visited other universities that have accommodation one thing they state clearly is they rent out those units and the money that brings in gets passed on to students again, which means accommodation is cheaper for them. That is what these universities use it for. In the new strategy, where it could be looking like shared accommodation, I am...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the issue of a person (details supplied) regarding their employment support being cancelled when they changed job; to ensure her supports are maintained seamlessly; to ensure other persons are not affected by this anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51053/25]

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

Donna McGettigan: 350. To ask the Minister for Health if she has met with an organisation (details supplied); her plans to meet with the organisation; her plans to improve diagnostic and treatment services for Sjogren’s sufferers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51054/25]

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: The Government has been caught napping when it comes to vapes. We all knew this was coming down the line and yet the Government failed to take adequate action to prevent the problems we are now witnessing. I am even after hearing the Minister of State’s Government colleagues calling this out. The rate of vape use among 15 to 16-year-olds is at 18%, with 39% of them having tried it...

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: We in Sinn Féin agree with the concept of an auto-enrolment pension scheme. There is no doubt that, with an ageing population, provision will have to be made for such a scheme in order to supplement the State pension. However, this is the wrong scheme at the wrong time. It is vital that any enrolment scheme is properly designed and managed for the benefit of the people when they...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the purpose built student complexes that are now additionally charging for utilities on top of rent; if he is aware that this is becoming commonplace with a university (details supplied) and other institutes being charged unaffordable service charges as well as rent, putting another financial burden on students and their families; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that students will be offered a tiered system as silver, gold and platinum, with each tier reflecting a price increase at accommodation (details supplied); to explain the second phase of the village project that is supported by €67.7 million of taxpayer money, which will, once completed cost students €250,000 per...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a tiered accommodation model at a location (details supplied) was not identified as a compliance concern within the State-sponsored accommodation framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50667/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will provide detailed information on the number of unoccupied purpose-built student complexes currently in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50668/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I want to talk about a worrying issue that affects parents and pupils in Shannon, Six-mile-bridge and Newmarket on Fergus in Clare when they are using school transport and the problems that come with the integration of our school transport system into the public service. Last year, the NTA made a significant investment in public transport in Shannon and the surrounding areas. This was very...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 687. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the age restriction on CAR t-cell therapy here, despite it having no such restrictions in other states, to allow a patient (details supplied) to access this potentially lifesaving treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50390/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is over 75 years-of-age is unable to have surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50394/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Sinn Féin supports investing in our military, air force and naval services to overcome the chronic neglect they have suffered under this and previous Governments. We are not a major military power and should not strive to become one. Our standing in the world should rest firmly on our neutrality and independence. We should seek to assert influence from that basis. Any military...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I support the triple lock and want it retained. The vast majority of us do not want Irish troops to serve anywhere unless it is as peacekeepers under the auspices of the UN. Opinion polls have consistently shown that. It was enacted to reassure the voters of the State that we would not become involved in an EU army, NATO or any other military alliances. The Government is now clearly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the triple lock given recent comments by the Minister for Health and by other members of the Government proposing to scrap or undermine it, despite it being the expressed will of the people to retain it. [48759/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: No.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 137. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will intervene to oppose plans for wind turbines in east Clare (details supplied); if aviation authorities have been formally consulted in his Department’s mapping exercise; and, if not, if east Clare will be removed from mapped wind areas until full consultation and a cumulative aviation risk assessment are...