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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 27 February 2024 (details supplied), if he can confirm how much of the €67 million in additional funding that was provided for the apprenticeship system was allocated toward the national recruitment campaign of craft apprentice instructors; the number of instructors hired to date; can he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if specific targets have been set for the national recruitment campaign to hire an additional 100 craft apprentice instructors per ETB; if so, the number of instructors it is hoped to hire per ETB; the areas of teaching that is, electrical, carpentry and so on, they will be engaged in, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (21 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his officials in the inland fisheries division fully support the ongoing legislative conservation of invasive roach in the Lough Melvin catchment and special area of conservation under the Conservation of Coarse Fish By-Law No. 806 (2006) (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (21 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it was his intention to increase the overall brown trout daily bag limit per angler to six fish for the entire Lough Corrib SAC under two separate harvesting regimes, with four trout being harvested from the lake and two trout being harvested from the Clare river catchment (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (21 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the situation in relation to the difference in tax treatment of travel and subsistence payments for those working in further education and training (FET) and those working in the secondary education sector (details supplied); the reason for the difference in tax treatment with respect to these payments; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 14 May 2024, the reason HAP tenants who avail of inter-authority movement can only be offered access to the transfer list of the originating local authority; and if he will consider issuing a circular to allow for flexibility and discretion around this for local authorities. [22916/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (21 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the allocations from budget 2024 to the various universities of the student hardship fund, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22601/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (16 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on providing more flexibility of stops on rural bus routes; if he will provide an update on the additional stops on the 432 route; if full flexibility will be allowed for on this route in order that passengers can request stops as needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22109/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (16 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the options currently available to the family of a young child seeking crèche support in Galway city when they are currently on long waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22185/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to close the Galway training centre in Merlin Park hospital or to reduce its hours or functions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22186/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 8 May 2024, if a school (details supplied) on bus route 424 will be included in the pilot scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21742/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (14 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the €8 million provided by her Department through the large-scale infrastructure funding programme to Galway City Council for the development of a facility at Cappagh Park has been returned to her Department; if so, the date on which this was; and the reason provided for why these funds were used. [21232/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in the context of adjacent local authorities which allow people on their housing waiting list to select areas of choice outside of their own local authority, if he will advise on the reason tenants living outside the area of the local authority from which they receive HAP cannot have areas of choice in the adjacent local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the instances where an AHB can purchase housing units for use as social housing; where this policy can be found; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21202/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 2 May 2024, how the Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute, which is neither an ETB or TU, provides off-the-job training for craft apprentices (details supplied); if he is satisfied that ETBs and TUs cover the entire population of craft apprentice instructors; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (8 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 30 April 2024, if there are alternative documents that can be supplied in a case where a person is not in contact with their parent and cannot provide current identification for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20558/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (8 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm if he will respect the recent High Court judgement (details supplied) in relation to the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme, and if the pensioners will be awarded their long awaiting pension increase without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20746/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (8 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can confirm that CIÉ will immediately comply with its legal obligations to appoint CIÉ board-nominated members to the statutory CIÉ 1951 scheme pensions committee, pursuant to rule 12 of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20747/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has she any plans to reinstate the special education diploma allowance in full on 1 September 2025 through the local bargaining fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20741/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann (8 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider engaging with Bus Éireann to allow flexibility to secondary school students who take part in after-school activities to use regular Bus Éireann services with their school transport ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20849/24]