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National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is much in this plan that Sinn Féin would have looked for and which is welcome. I acknowledge the investment in rail in Cork, although it is just one part of the jigsaw. We need to be closer to the city centre and ensure that light rail on the east-west and north-south links is expedited. These would serve some of the inner suburbs, as well as potentially the airport. We need...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is much talk at present about things reopening, and rightly so. It is very welcome. I do not oppose it. However, with all these areas reopening, maternity hospitals are still denying access to partners. One can go to shopping centres and, from next Monday, one can have a meal outdoors or go to a museum, yet a partner cannot be present with a woman during the labour and when she is...

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: When we talk to people about the insurance industry and how it has conducted itself in recent years, they have many things to say. Comments that are made regularly to me are that it is a law onto itself, it is beyond reach, reproach and sanction, and it is unaccountable. Who pays the price for that? It is paid by the businesses struggling to find any kind of affordable insurance cover at a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet received a tax disc. [29159/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the email addresses of his Department are being manned; and if so, when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a reply to their query. [29160/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of posts of responsibility that would be needed in primary schools to restore posts at the level which pertained prior to the moratorium; the estimated number of posts which were lost through the moratorium; the number that have been restored to date; and the estimated cost of full restoration to the pre-moratorium level for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to restore the standard capitation rate for pupils in primary schools to €200 which was the rate in 2010 prior to cuts; and her views on whether this is a diminishing cost in view of the falling enrolments in primary schools. [29658/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are or have ever been plans for a primary school on or adjacent to the site known as Abeline Lodge, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin; and the details of any investigatory work, including exploratory documents, drawings or meetings undertaken by her Department in this regard. [29794/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it was the intention of her Department to award land on or adjacent to the site known as Abeline Lodge, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin to the winner of the 2018 primary school plebiscite; if that site was offered for this purpose; if that intention has since changed or such offer retracted; and the grounds upon which such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if lands on or adjacent to the site known as Abeline Lodge, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin have been deemed unsuitable for the building of a primary school; and if so, if there are no current or future plans for a primary school to be built on the lands. [29796/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for joining us and for their compelling submissions. We have been dealing with this issue for a couple of weeks now. It is always worth remembering as we get into the thickets of the different approaches and so on the weight and seriousness of this issue and the damage it can do for a long time into people's lives, not only students but staff, because school is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I would expect so. I am certainly very persuaded by it. I have two more questions which I might direct to Mr. White or to Ms O'Connor or to both of them. They relate to proposals that came forward at recent committee hearings. The first concerns the links between the school and the wider community in terms of staff. I think specifically of home school community liaison staff but also, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether sites that were formerly locations of mother and baby homes need to be carefully investigated in advance of any potential uses of such sites; and if he has had discussions with survivor groups regarding the matter with specific reference but not limited to Bessborough in Cork city. [45023/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Patent Applications (27 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28924/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available for assistive technologies in a child’s home in cases in which their assistive device in the school is large and not portable. [28875/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding for assistive technology will be provided for a child (details supplied) in their home given their in-school device is not portable. [28876/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Programmes (27 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will re-examine whether the European Globalisation Fund could be accessed for the Irish tourism sector or specific areas within the sector in view of the recent EU Commission decision to grant Estonia access to the European Globalisation Fund for job losses in the tourism sector linked to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are at the stage where our society and economy are beginning to reopen. Enormous credit is due to the people of Ireland for their efforts in that regard. It is important to acknowledge the enormous work the staff of our health services and the HSE have done over the past 14 or 15 months. I also acknowledge the huge work that is going on in the health service at this time. Family...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Sign Language (26 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work that has been done by her Department on the inclusion of Irish Sign Language on the school curriculum; and the research or consultation that has taken place in this area. [28493/21]