Mairéad Farrell

553. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to give an update on his Departments’ provision for the establishment and maintenance of forestry corridors to improve resilience and operational safety of the telecommunications network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22404/26]

644. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding the progress made on a revised Guide for the Rapid Operationalisation of Community Support Centres, based on the experience of its operation over winter 2025-2026, as his Department committed to in their Review of Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22394/26]

645. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all community support centres that can be operationalised in the case of extreme weather events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22395/26]

646. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management's review of all local authority severe weather plans and flood plans, as referenced in his Department’s Review of Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22396/26]

647. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding the work underway to increase resilience in internal communications systems during extreme weather events, as referenced in his Department’s Review of Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22397/26]

648. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding his Department’s work on developing mutual aid agreements with European energy counterparts, as referenced in his Department’s Review of Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22398/26]

649. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding TETRA being rolled out to generation sites as an additional contingency in the event of backup communications (Optel) failures, as referenced in his Department’s Review of Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22399/26]

650. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding Uisce Éireann's installation of 30 new permanent standby generators and the purchase of mobile generators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22401/26]

651. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on Uisce Éireann's target to facilitate an additional 75 sites for mobile generator connectivity by the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22402/26]

783. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the existing and planned forestry corridors in the west of Ireland; their completion date; the expected completion date and location, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22411/26]

1033. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health to provide details on the health centres that have access to satellite phones and power generators in the west of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22408/26]

69. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an update on the work of his Department to support survivors of domestic abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20909/26]

86. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update regarding funding for piers in Connemara; when Galway County Council will be notified regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20926/26]

150. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the concerns conveyed by the operators of charter boats about the three-bag limit on pollock planned for this year; and if he and his Department will engage with the sector to address those concerns. [21009/26]

179. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if there is a mechanism to prioritise rescheduling a person's driving test if there is a close family bereavement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20983/26]

450. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the additional pressure put on radiographer practice tutors as a result of the Government’s decision to increase the number of student radiographers without the HSE increasing the number of practice tutors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21089/26]

517. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the total number of specimen pod containers presently available and in service at Galway University Hospital which are used as part of hospital's internal pneumatic tube system for bloods and other patient samples; if she plans to carry out an audit of the numbers of said containers at the site; if she will provide details of when such an audit last took place; if she is aware of the chronic lack of such items at GUH and the risks this poses to patient safety; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21332/26]

128. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the action his Department is taking to legislatively protect invasive/non-native bream (Abramis brama) stocks in Lough Mask under the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish Bye-law (No. 806) 2006, considering the expansion of bream culling operations on the lake by Inland Fisheries Ireland this calendar year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20229/26]

144. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason his Department did not publish, on 24 February 2026, the full submission received from the Lough Corrib Pike Research & Control Group for the public consultation on the draft Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2025 & Conservation Measures for the 2026 Season, given the context that said submission was summarised and catalogued by his Department along with 325 other submissions in an initial Public Consultation Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20710/26]

145. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason his Department has not provided any grants or financial aid to the Federation of Irish Salmon and Sea Trout Anglers (FISSTA) through the Angling Consultative Council of Ireland (ACCI)/Angling Advisory Group (AAG) since April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20712/26]

146. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason a probability threshold of 85% was initially chosen as a datum governing Lough Corrib SAC for the draft Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2025 & Conservation Measures for the 2026 Season given that a baseline of 75% has been a core scientific standard since 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20713/26]

147. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will publish a specific timetable for the development of a management plan for the Great Western Lakes, particularly Lough Corrib in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20715/26]

148. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his departmental officials continue to legislatively conserve invasive/non-native roach (Rutilus rutilus) under the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish Bye-law (No. 806) 2006 in Lough Melvin SAC considering their continued population growth as referenced in an Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) fish survey report published on 12 February 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20716/26]

149. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his departmental officials will continue to legislatively conserve invasive/non-native pike (Esox lucius) under the Conservation of Pike Bye-Law (No. 809) 2006 in Aughrusbeg Lough SAC, Connemara, County Galway considering their recent anthropogenic introduction as referenced in an Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) fish survey report published on 12 February 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20717/26]

276. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport the current cost of a high capacity coach that is suitable for rural bus routes, if he will provide funding to the NTA to purchase a sufficient number of these coaches to serve bus routes in County Galway that are currently struggling with capacity issues, in particular route 424; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19214/26]