Results 141-160 of 5,093 for speaker:Mairéad Farrell

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]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Inspections (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he intends reinstating the service wherein a social welfare inspector travels to the offshore islands to allow those who are in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance to sign on without having to travel to the nearest mainland Intreo office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6186/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on ongoing work to secure a national quota for bluefin tuna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6385/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions being taken to hold individuals and organisations accountable for crimes committed in the mother and baby homes, including child trafficking, illegal adoptions, forced separations, and financial misconduct; if there has been any formal investigation into potential criminal activities, such as...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what happened to the money from the sale of Sean Ross Abbey; the reason the Catholic Church is not funding the cost of addressing the injustices that took place there, rather than the taxpayer; if the money from the sale reinvested into religious orders or organisations; and if so, the reason the Government has...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 631. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who decided on the 180-day rule for eligibility under the mother-and-baby-home redress scheme; the qualifications in child trauma or related fields that the individuals who set this rule had; to provide the credentials or records of the decision-makers who determined this timeframe; the measures taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 632. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a copy of the survey report which found anomalies in the grounds at Sean Ross Abbey; who decided that these findings were not enough to warrant an excavation; the basis for that decision; the alternative action, if any, being taken to account for the over 1,000 missing children from Sean Ross Abbey;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 Feb 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 633. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason certain children are excluded from the scheme (details supplied); who made the decision that a child who was in an institution before its classification changed would no longer qualify for redress; the justification the Government has for excluding children who suffered in these homes simply because...