Mairéad Farrell

262. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if the HSE considers young onset Alzheimer's a disability; the HSE service responsible for supporting a person with young-onset Alzheimer's who has significant disability arising from dementia; if her attention has been drawn to families affected by young-onset dementia being excluded from disability supports while also struggling to access adequate dementia-specific supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44501/26]

245. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to the evacuation order of Khan al-Ahmar in the west bank issued by the Israeli government with the intent of forcibly displacing all of the Palestinian citizens who live there; to use her diplomatic influence to condemn the actions of the Israeli government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42979/26]

342. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the Western Fisheries Region Conservation of Trout Bye-Law (No. 840) 2008 is being reviewed by his officials considering that it has been in existence for more than ten years; given statements made by the previous Minister on 5 July 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44130/26]

343. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the Western Fisheries Region Conservation of Trout Bye-Law (No. 840) 2008 was subject to a full appropriate assessment screening when drafted to ensure compliance with the requirements of regulation 31 of the now repealed European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 94 of 1997); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44131/26]

344. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the Shannon Fisheries Region (Close Season for Draft Netting of Trout on Lough Ree) Bye-Law (No. 284) 2006 was subject to a full appropriate assessment screening when drafted to ensure compliance with the requirements of regulation 31 of the now repealed European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 94 of 1997), considering that Lough Ree is a special area of conservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44134/26]

345. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the Conservation of Trout (No. 8 or Limerick District) Bye-Law (No 949) 2017 was subject to a full appropriate assessment screening when drafted to ensure compliance with the requirements of regulation 42 of the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011), considering that Lough Ree (Limerick district) is a special area of conservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44135/26]

346. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his officials would issue a section 14 authorisation under the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959 for the stocking of invasive/non-native rainbow trout into Lough Lene SAC, County Westmeath without an appropriate assessment screening in place as required under regulation 42 of the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44136/26]

347. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department’s annual funding of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) will be reduced considering that the State is saving €270,000 per annum by closing the Cong Salmon Hatchery in County Galway as per IFI board correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44137/26]

348. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his officials will continue to legislatively protect ranched (fin clipped) Atlantic salmon in Lough Corrib SAC, including the compulsory gill tagging of harvested ranched salmon, considering that the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has accepted that ranched salmon are detrimental to the wild salmon stock in the SAC as per the IFI board meeting of 30 June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44138/26]

443. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport to provide a list of high collision locations in County Galway; the number of collisions that have taken place at each; and whether they were fatal or caused any injury, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42404/26]

448. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport Minister if commuters in County Galway will be able to use Leap cards on train services from stations like Oranmore and Athenry into Galway city, in line with ticketing systems in Cork and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42495/26]

449. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if a commuter style train service will be introduced in Galway, with additional stops in Renmore and Roscam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42497/26]

741. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education and Youth the capital funding streams that are or will be in place for youth centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41511/26]

1067. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the guidance given to local authorities and AHBs regarding rent setting for social housing; if there is any guidance regarding service charges in social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42397/26]

1114. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering expanding eligibility for solar PV grants to all social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43057/26]

1115. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider broadening funding to local authorities to install solar PV on social housing, particularly on units which have air to water heating, given rising electricity costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43058/26]

1166. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the proposed ‘National Invasive Species Management Strategy for Ireland’ will take into consideration the anthropogenic spread of invasive/non-native freshwater fish throughout the jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44141/26]

1514. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the grants applied for and awarded under the equine technical support (ETS) scheme for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43339/26]

2233. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on services for eating disorder treatment; in particular the number of in-patient beds available in the State; if there are plans to increase these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43305/26]

2253. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the rollout of the ADHD National Clinical Programme in Galway; if funding is available to those seeking assessment privately while services are not available in the region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43402/26]

2265. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the position in relation to the reimbursement of internationalised normalised ratio test strips and machines for persons who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43499/26]

2443. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health to provide the number of recruitment campaigns in Britain that Galway University Hospital (GUH) took in 2025 and to-date in 2026 seeking to attract qualified nurses, doctors, radiographers and so on to work at GUH; the number of persons that indicated their interest to work at GUH; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44110/26]

2444. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health to provide the number of WTE medical secretaries currently working within the neurology department at Galway University Hospital in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44111/26]

2445. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if each HSE dental clinics within the CHO2 have dedicated decontamination rooms and full X-Ray facilities, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44112/26]

2504. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the academic backlash to recently published priorities by an organisation (details supplied) that neglect social sciences and humanities subjects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43896/26]