Results 1,541-1,560 of 5,148 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the current average waiting time to sit a driving test for each test centre; what steps are being taken to reduce the wait time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54339/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the catering trolley will return to the Galway to Dublin train line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54341/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review has taken place on the Galway to Dublin train line to facilitate the growing number of students commuting to Galway for third level education; the details of the review; if additional capacity has been added; if not, if additional capacity is being considered given the overcrowded nature of the service; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail her policy in relation to secondary school-aged student who have not been offered a place in a secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54343/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the catchment area criteria for English medium and Irish medium secondary schools both for voluntary schools and ETB schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54344/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the process for pregnant women to obtain the medication cariban under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54346/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 325. To ask the Minister for Health if he will be reviewing the process whereby a consultant must prescribe the medication cariban rather than a general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 326. To ask the Minister for Health how the accessibility to the medication cariban in Ireland differs to the international standard practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54348/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drug payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54349/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Tomorrow will mark exactly two months since most of the world's attention became focused on Israel and Palestine, but the conflict has been going on for much longer than that. Today, we saw that the visa of the UN humanitarian co-ordinator was revoked simply because she made the following statement: Nowhere is safe in Gaza and there is nowhere left to go. The conditions required to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (6 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that Irish neutrality is being upheld (details supplied), considering the recent training of Ukrainian soldiers at Kilworth army camp in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54142/23]

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: There are but the next speaker should be here in time. It has been said that there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes, but perhaps rising Irish rents should be included in that old maxim because here we are again. Whether it is the latest Daft report, CSO statistics, the census or, as in this case, RTB data, we are talking about rents rising again and again. At exactly this...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 77. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sí plé ar na rátaí pá a thuilleann mná tí faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge. [53572/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Toghcháin d'Údarás na Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht céard é an t-eolas is déanaí maidir le toghcháin phoiblí do bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [53381/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) has been refused SNA support despite the recommendations of their teacher; if this decision will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53729/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the avoidance of doubt could she provide the full list of payments which will receive the Christmas bonus along with the respective dates of disbursement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the Christmas bonus, if she is aware of any concerns that the large number of different categories for social welfare payments, and the requirement for a specific type of payment to be listed amongst those eligible for the bonus, could result in some people unintendedly not receiving this payment; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (5 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 4 October 2023, if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of apprentices currently waiting for off-the-job training at levels 2, 4 and 6, in the months of October and November 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53214/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Nov 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on BusConnects Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52125/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Nov 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he had any discussions with the National Transport Authority to increase the number of agents selling the student Leap card, to ensure every county has at least one provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51990/23]