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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Ligfidh mé spás don Aire teacht aníos. Baineann an cheist atá agam le cúrsaí tithíochta do mhic léinn. My question relates to student housing. Will the Minister give an update on student housing? I am aware of the announcements this week. Will he provide further details on those announcements?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: To be perfectly honest, for most people, the announcement this week would have sounded like there was to be very substantial new investment in student accommodation. We sometimes need to look at how announcements and the media reporting around them are perceived and the hopes and concerns among students they can lead to. It is just not good enough for announcements to be made that can give...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Support Services (18 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the work his Department does with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, to ensure that students and apprentices transition into suitable employment opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2288/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Eight years ago, the CEO of IRES REIT, one of the big vulture funds, said, "We've never seen rental increases like this in any jurisdiction that we're aware of", before adding: "I truly feel bad for the Irish people." That CEO has long retired, but I wonder what he would say if he was looking at rents today. Does the Minister of State know what the average rent was when the former CEO...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to accelerate the Galway bypass and improve travel in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57084/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay to the Galway bypass project to date; the timeline for commencement and completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 7 December 2023, if any of the additional driver testers have been allocated to test centres in County Galway; if so, how many; to which test centres in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for the STEM awards; if there is an appeal process; to detail the reason that no DEIS schools in Galway city received the awards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scrúduithe Stáit (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an gcoinneofar an t-athrú atá déanta ar an méid sraitheanna pictiúr i scrúdú Gaeilge na hArdteistiméireachta 2024 (10 seachas 20) sa chéad Ardteistiméireacht eile in 2025; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [1985/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 765. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Tuam LEA in County Galway will be considered an RPZ, given increasing rents in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56881/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 966. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance application review (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1506/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to address lengthy waiting lists and staffing issues for child disability services, such as speech and language, occupational and behavioural therapy in areas such as CDNT7 in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1704. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who suffers from severe eczema and allergies will have their case referred to University Hospital Galway. [1422/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason motor mechanic apprentices can wear corrective lenses to compensate for colour blindness but electrical engineers cannot, despite the former dealing with more complex wires for example, plume wires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56759/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to his recent comments (details supplied) that he has “created all-island apprenticeships”, he can explain what this refers to; when it was introduced; what funding has been allocated towards this initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1791/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jan 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 1868. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the decision on the tender of local development strategy for the delivery LEADER 2023 to 2027 for the Connemara Municipal District area of County Galway submitted by an organisation (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57087/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 253. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how an SME can apply for the increased cost of business scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55849/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (13 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that Minister for Children, Disability, Integration and Youth, has just announced capital funding for crèches to create 90,000 new places, the staffing strategy to service those places; if the €1.5 billion surplus of the national training fund not be used to train early years teachers; and if he will make a statement on the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: On Friday, I met a woman who is due to be evicted from her home with her three children just days before Christmas. As people can imagine, she was visibly upset. She was particularly upset because she felt she could not put up her Christmas tree. She said putting up her Christmas tree and putting the lights on it reminded her of the countdown to being evicted from that home with her three...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus feicim go bhfuil grúpa mór sa Ghailearaí. Nílim cinnte cárb as dóibh ach fearaim fáilte rompu ar fad. Inniu, táimid ag plé le hairgead caipitil a bheidh á chur ar aghaidh go dtí an bhliain seo chugainn. Nuair atá os cionn €500 milliún i gceist, agus nuair a fheicimid...