Donna McGettigan

1. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress being made with regard to the current challenges in the apprenticeship system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14864/25]

3. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to close the funding deficit in the university sector, first identified in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14865/25]

5. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans for the contributory fee; if he will maintain the cut in the fee, as has been set out in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14866/25]

110. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm that the funds for the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund are fully allocated; when funding will be available again since the fund is part of the Project Ireland 2040 programme; if an alternative funding stream will be provided to replace the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12130/25]

317. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Justice if he will consider increasing the number of hours a non-EEA national on a Stamp 2 is permitted to work from 20 hours to 30 hours per week given the rising cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14643/25]

62. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Education the reason a school is not recognised as a DEIS school (details supplied). [14258/25]

456. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the vacant property refurbishment grant; if he will make provision for successful applicants who exceed the time limit for the work to be completed through no fault of their own, for example, the bankruptcy of the contracted construction company. [13668/25]

625. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for clarification on the breeding grant fund, which is funded by his Department and administered by Horse Sport Ireland (HSI), and where the HSI has implemented a new requirement for applicants to provide a complete insurance policy before any funds can be accessed, whether this directive comes from his Department, which oversees the funding allocation (details supplied). [13958/25]

732. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is provided with home base facilities in Shannon and in every area required, to enhance its work supporting the emergency services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13590/25]

753. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health if dental treatment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13661/25]

754. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the measures she will enact to ensure both medical card and non-medical card patients who are aged-out of childhood dental services due to excessive waiting lists maintain their entitlement, that their treatment regime is uninterrupted, that their waiting time is taken into account when they are moved to the adult waiting list and they are not expected to join the new list to begin waiting again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13662/25]

842. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE psychologists, per county, in the Midwest, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14112/25]

843. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE dieticians, per county, in the Midwest, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14113/25]

99. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that the funds for the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund are fully allocated; when funding will be available again since the fund is part of the Project Ireland 2040 programme; if an alternative funding stream will be provided to replace the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12130/25]

339. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenants in Clare on the tenant-in-situ scheme; and the number that have been rejected since inception. [13042/25]

160. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to clarify the use of the term State-led in relation to State control and the control that corporate investors such as a company (details supplied) would have in the operation of Shannon LNG fracked gas import terminal; and if, under EU competition laws, Ireland can have a terminal that is State-led and continue legally to refuse a commercial LNG. [11160/25]

161. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is proposing investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure when the greenhouse gas emissions from a fracked gas import terminal would be more detrimental than the emissions from Moneypoint. [11164/25]

189. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of contracting companies that are currently contracted to carry out the works under the warmer homes scheme; if there are short-term plans to increase this number; and given the scheme currently does not speed up the process for homes who already have a BER, if there are any plans to change this. [11632/25]

190. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes in Clare having had work completed under the warmer homes scheme; and the breakdown of the average cost per home or data on the type of work carried out.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11633/25]

191. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes in Clare at each of the stages as described in scheme guidelines (details supplied). [11634/25]

192. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes in Clare that have applied for the warmer homes scheme since its inception, and in each of the years 2022 to 2024,in tabular form; to outline, of these homes considered ineligible, whether there is a breakdown of the reasons for this; and the measures the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland proposes for these homes in Clare as well as those that have been deemed ineligible due to being older than 1940. [11635/25]

291. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Transport the reason the National Transport Authority intends on removing the bus stop in Fanore, County Clare, preventing local residents from accessing the planned improved service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10875/25]

293. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Transport the reason 24-hour search and rescue services are not operational from Shannon Airport; the action that can be taken to rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10993/25]

538. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce legislation to compel employers to pay employees at weekly or fortnightly intervals at most, to ensure employees can manage their finances more easily; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11908/25]

592. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Education for an update on the tendering process for the expansion of the ASD unit in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11067/25]