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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for her briefing on the various issues. I welcome that class sizes are to be reduced again. Speaking as a former teacher, you cannot teach effectively and meet children's needs and the various abilities found in a classroom when it is a crowded. As such, the reduction is welcome. I also welcome the free schoolbooks initiative. It is a great initiative and one that I...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: Is the nearest school rule being examined?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to bring the decades-long delay regarding the N80 Mountmellick relief road to a final resolution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland has indicated to his Department any intention to prevent the development of the N80 Mountmellick relief road project because it does not align with the Government’s climate action ambition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5921/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated savings that have accrued to print and digital newspapers following the decision to apply a zero-rate of VAT to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5716/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 132. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of the funding and supports being provided by her Department to the St. Patrick’s Festival (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5708/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 133. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the recommendations of the Report of the Future of Media Commission to establish six new support schemes, including the establishment of a local democracy reporting scheme and a Courts reporting scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the attention of his Department has been drawn to the deteriorating status of the ruins of Tyone Abbey, Tyone, Nenagh, County Tipperary; if his Department has had any engagement with local landowners, the Office of Public Works, or Tipperary County Council in relation to the surveying or preservation of the site; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 280. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees or asylum seekers who are being accommodated at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5548/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to reports that over 5,000 persons arrived at Dublin Airport in 2022 without valid documentation or with no documentation at all (details supplied); if he agrees that this constitutes an egregious abuse of the immigration process; the steps he will take to combat this phenomenon; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if a summary report of the public submissions to the abortion legislative review has been compiled and provided to the chairperson of the review; if so, if such a report will be made available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5533/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of submissions from the total 6,968 public submissions to the abortion legislative review that advocated the retention of the three-day waiting period; the number that advocated for the reduction of the three-day waiting period; the number that advocated for the extension of the three-day waiting period; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of submissions from the total 6,968 public submissions to the abortion legislative review that mentioned the issue of foetal pain relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm the directors appointed by his office to the board of Coillte; if he has had engagements with these directors from December 2022 to date; if he has communicated the Government's dissatisfaction with a company's (details supplied) deal to these directors; if he considers the positions of the directors appointed by his...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for her response and her commitment to ensuring the project gets over the line. As she stated, conveyancing is at an advanced stage and that is certainly welcome. I have been raising this issue on the floor of the House not just last year or the year before that but for many years and I am committed to seeing it over the line. However, an information vacuum still...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a timeline for the completion of works on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5402/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: Last August, I engaged with the Minister to seek clarification on a timeframe in respect of a school, Gaelscoil na Laochra in Birr, County Offaly. I would be grateful if she could give me an update on this project, which is long overdue and which needs to be brought to a successful conclusion at this point.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for her detailed response and welcome the fact that progress is being made. However, this has been frustrating for all involved in the school community, including teachers, students and parents. The school opened its doors in 2015 and while the Minister has outlined the progress that has been made, which I welcome, we owe it to the school to make sure that there is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Sanctions (2 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the work of his Department as one of the three national competent authorities for EU sanctions with specific responsibility for the implementation of trade sanctions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5337/23]