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Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Comhghairdeas leat as do phost nua, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I want to reiterate what has been said in the Chamber. Many people, especially young people, are waiting ridiculously long periods of time to access a driver test. In Galway, for example, the waiting list is over 3,000. That is 3,000 people who are waiting to get a driver...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on her plans to address the proposed strike action of section 39 workers, employed by bodies under the aegis of her Department. [7539/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on her plans for section 39 workers; if she will commit to the WRC ruling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5063/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Funding (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 230. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of funding his Department, and bodies under the aegis of his Department, provided to an institution (details supplied) in the each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7447/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 307. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that was raised from the 9% rate of VAT on newspapers in 2022, before this was reduced to 0% in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7446/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes in Galway city and county that had chimneys removed by the council during the course of renovations and retrofits in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to people with a disability who receive the HAP service, the rationale for setting the allowance at 20% below the poverty rate, with a further deduction taken as a fair pay your way contribution to the housing system; and whether the Minister has any plans to change the 20% rate." [7719/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 955. To ask the Minister for Health if a circular has issued from her Department or from the HSE in the past 12 months regarding discretionary medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8025/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Over the last year or so I have had an increasing number of parents of children of secondary school-going age who have not been allocated a school place. For a small number of people, this goes on months into the next school year. There is an added complication whereby on the school waiting list it is not clear what children have already been allocated a place in another school or are...

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

Mairéad Farrell: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the lack of funding in Galway City Council for extensions on council properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6893/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time that accommodation in a hotel or bed and breakfast will be covered under the humanitarian assistance scheme for people whose homes were destroyed by storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6828/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Hear, hear.

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Rents in Galway have been far too high for many years and they are only continuing to rise. We see, in Galway city, that the average rent is now over €2,100. In Galway county, it is over €1,500. That is a 70% increase just in the past five years. This is when rent pressure zones were supposed to keep rents at an affordable level but like so many of the previous Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Teanga Gaeilge (19 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 107. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil teoireann ann ar an méid gur féidir le duine tuilleadh faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [6457/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the wage subsidy scheme is restricted to employees that have been employed for less than 12 months; the supports available for longer-term workers who have recently become disabled in such a way that their productivity may be reduced, but wish to remain in their employment; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of a wind turbine that fell apart during storm Éowyn (details supplied); if his Department has examined the health and safety impact of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5956/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance if he accepts the view of other central banks such as the Bank of England on a matter (details supplied) in relation to commercial banks and the process of money creation. [6066/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason qualified teachers who teach abroad, for example, in Australia, do not have this recognised for the purposes of pay scales when they return to Ireland; her views on whether this failure to recognise prior experience hinders the recruitment of teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5607/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government is currently renting the building at St. Anne’s Special School, located on the Sean Ross Abbey site, from the same religious order that ran the mother and baby home; if so, the amount of rent that has been paid annually; and the reason the Government is paying rent to an organisation that profited from child...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 396. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if plans are in place to save Pálás cinema and arts centre in Galway, which received significant public funding, and is a key cultural institution in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5879/25]