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Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Education and Training Provision
Mairéad Farrell
18. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an update on the dentistry school for Cork, for which the ground was broken, but has yet to be delivered. [9109/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Further and Higher Education
Mairéad Farrell
26. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the work that has been carried out to fast track the delivery of the proposed new veterinary school. [9111/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Student Accommodation
Mairéad Farrell
29. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the work his Department has carried out to promote the new guidelines in relation to student digs accommodation. [9110/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Third Level Reform
Mairéad Farrell
34. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the measures he is taking to address the current shortcomings in the provision of mental health supports for third level institutions. [9112/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Apprenticeship Programmes
Mairéad Farrell
43. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason some of the craft apprenticeship curriculum course syllabuses are almost 15 years old; and the steps he will take to modernise them. [9108/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Military Aircraft
Mairéad Farrell
55. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps taken to ensure that neither of two US military aircraft (details supplied) were on intelligence gathering missions, in contravention of Irish Government prohibitions, on 11, 12 and 15 February 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8768/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Inland Fisheries
Mairéad Farrell
81. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if it is the latent policy of the inland fisheries division to legitimise all anthropogenic freshwater fish introductions in County Galway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8827/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Inland Fisheries
Mairéad Farrell
82. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if officials in the inland fisheries division are content to see a population of pacu, conserved in Garadice Lake and the Shannon-Erne Waterway under the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish By-Law No. 806 of 2006 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8828/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Departmental Consultations
Mairéad Farrell
83. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason the appropriate assessment screening document was not made available to angling stakeholders during the four-week consultation period (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8829/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Inland Fisheries
Mairéad Farrell
84. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if officials in the inland fisheries division plan to conduct retrospective appropriate assessment screenings on the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish By-Law No. 806 of 2006 and the Conservation of Pike By-Law No. 809 of 2006 for SAC/Natura 2000 waterbodies, when reviewing the said by-laws as per recent statements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8830/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Student Accommodation
Mairéad Farrell
137. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 104 of 7 February and 220 of 20 February 2024, if he will identify those Irish-registered companies involved directly or indirectly in purpose-built student accommodation, for which the ISIF or a subsidiary thereof holds an equity stake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9334/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Tax Collection
Mairéad Farrell
144. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the number of contracts for service workers in RTÉ that have had tax deduced at source through PAYE by the Revenue Commissioners since 1980; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8837/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Tax Collection
Mairéad Farrell
145. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the validation process used by the Revenue Commissioners to validate written RTÉ contracts for employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8838/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Student Accommodation
Mairéad Farrell
149. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 17 February 2021, the value of section 50 tax expenditures provided to purpose-built student accommodation in each of the years 2000 to 2010, and 2019 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9070/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Rental Sector
Mairéad Farrell
273. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide updated figures on the number of private rental inspections completed; the number of dwellings inspected not meeting regulatory requirements; the number of improvement letters, improvement notices, and prohibition notices issued; and the number of legal actions initiated by Galway City and County Councils in 2023. [8817/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Departmental Data
Mairéad Farrell
323. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that persons in receipt of disability allowance must share their boarding pass with her Department in order to avail of their 14 day holiday entitlement; the length of time this information is held by her Department; what the information included in these travel documents is used for by her Department; and the legislative basis for requesting this information. [9372/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Health Services
Mairéad Farrell
497. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the practices of the national gender service that consultants are concerned would be affected by a potential ban on conversion therapy, as referenced in a newspaper article (details supplied) in June 2023. [8744/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Health Services
Mairéad Farrell
498. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the reason the national gender service believes a conversion therapy ban would make it impossible to develop a children's service as referenced in a newspaper article (details supplied) in December 2023. [8745/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Apprenticeship Programmes
Mairéad Farrell
635. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 581 of 7 February 2024, the breakdown, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8834/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Third Level Costs
Mairéad Farrell
643. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science what financial supports are available for undergraduate students who study in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9235/24]