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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am just asking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: That is what I was thinking because I did not see the Eurostat part.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Has it been okayed by Eurostat?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: When does he expect that to happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Is it the case that they can borrow off balance sheet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware of that as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: However, it is my understanding that the TUs thought there was going to be a proposal as regards borrowing off balance sheet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: There is nothing there in that regard. It would have to be internally from the Government, presumably with - let us be frank - external financing as well. Is that what the Minister is saying? I know that decision has not been made but is that where we are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I do know the education committee is the most watched committee at home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: It would be Eurostat okaying a CSO review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Does the Minister believe they will have enough time to submit proposals by the end of March? I do not know if some of them will. I know some are fully ready to go but I do not believe others will be. It is a very short period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I think there are some that do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am more concerned with regional balance because some may be ahead of others.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); if there is a reason for the delay with it; when the decision is expected to issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3208/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Road Projects (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 128. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been brought to the fact that the local improvement scheme offered by Galway County Council will not be taking applications for a third year in 2024 leaving the condition of roads not taken in charge by the County Council to further deteriorate, which is a particular problem in Gaeltacht areas of the county;...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 230. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her attention has been brought to the fact that the local improvement scheme offered by Galway County Council will not be taking applications for a third year in 2024, leaving the condition of roads not taken in charge by the County Council to further deteriorate; if she intends to make additional funding available to address...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am not taking from the fact-----

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: The issue of vulture funds snapping up family homes across this State is an absolute shame on this Government, just as it is a shame that over 4,000 children were in homeless accommodation over the Christmas period. The fact that this has not been mentioned every single day by Government Ministers in this Dáil since it returned is utterly shameful. Today, I was interested to hear...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: One in every 100 Gazans has now been killed. The death toll has reached over 25,000. That is an absolutely terrifying figure. It is actually a figure that is impossible to comprehend but we have to comprehend it because we need to understand the scale of the loss and the genocide that is unfolding in Gaza. I know that, during an tAire Stáit's time as Minister of State with...