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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the witnesses to the committee meeting and thank them for their opening statements. I am disappointed and sorry to hear that trust has broken down between them and the Department. As Dr. Brady said, they are not just from representative organisations but are speaking on behalf of children in schools. People sometimes regard representative organisations as entities unto themselves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is it working effectively and successfully at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Do Mr. Harris and Mr. O'Flanagan share the concerns that Dr. Brady has expressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Finally turning to Ms McDonagh and Mr. Jacquinot, I will refer to an interesting point raised in their opening statement. Ms McDonagh referred to the fact that politicians at national level positively present their performance by referring to greater expenditure. She said it is important to note that "the impact of this investment is not carefully reviewed, evaluated or monitored...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. Harris said in response to a question from Deputy Farrell that one of his concerns about the exceptional review process is that he does not think it would be independent. I know he also has other concerns because no budget has been allocated or identified. What did he mean when he said it was not independent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: We need to see the data as to the outcome of people's education.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms McDonagh. That is very interesting.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architects Register (29 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he supports a general legal definition of the role of archaeologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9891/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how Ireland is implementing Standard EN17652:2022 for the assessment and monitoring of archaeological deposits for preservation in-situ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9892/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how Ireland is implementing the provisions of the Valletta Convention; what resources are provided for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9893/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how Ireland is implementing the Water Framework Directive; what resources are provided for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9894/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Ireland is implementing the Council of Europe's Landscape Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9895/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has undertaken an assessment of the impact of emissions trading system 2 on construction manufacturing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9560/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that are employed in the public procurement process to incentivise low or zero carbon construction and to discourage demolition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which part of the three limbs of the school profile takes specific account of children who can only access the curriculum with SET assistance, due to their complex, additional needs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9624/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a school profile which is directly correlated to, and focused on, pupils with the greatest level of need in the areas of literacy and numeracy will ensure that those will complex additional needs are identified and assisted from the outset of their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9625/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what is the "high quality, verifiable education data" that is being used as the basis for the new SET model; if she can publish that data; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9626/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason data which was used by NCSE/Department of Education since 2017 from the HSE CDNT can no longer be routinely available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the technical guidance on building regulations will be updated to allow for timber frame high rise construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue a quantifiable standard rate to measure both the embodied and operational carbon of buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9561/24]