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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I second the call to invite the ambassador in again but the issue is how the Chairman frames it. If she is asked to speak about Ibrahim, she will say, "No, there is a court case", but there is nothing to prevent us asking her to come in to talk to us about the state of play in Egypt and the problems within prisons without being specific. Ibrahim is not the only person suffering in an...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Why did the Tánaiste cut it, if it was so important?

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Nobody is scoffing.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: She challenged me across the floor.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If it was so important, why did the Tánaiste cut it?

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste cut it and has never replaced it.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That just shows how the Tánaiste is losing because she cannot even answer a simple question.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste has lost it again.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Only if it is properly paid work.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is utterly predictable.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: She is encouraging us.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Resent away, God love you. The Tánaiste took the decisions, not me.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: She is encouraging me again, God love her.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move:“That Dáil Éireann:— condemns the choices made by the current Government and its predecessor to force lone parent households to disproportionately shoulder the burden of cuts in the wake of an economic crash that was not of their, or their children’s, making; — recognises that the entirely foreseeable consequences of the series of social welfare...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge the Minister's answer but since budget 2011, there has been, in total, a 5% cut in capitation grants to primary schools, which has had a negative impact. I support the call not only for that cut to be reversed but also to bring the primary capitation grant up to the secondary school level, as the INTO has sought. We should also be examining a capitation grant system to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What happens in the meantime? We would all like our schools to be replaced by modern, super-efficient ones but that will not be the case. Some schools may build gardens, while others do not have money for heating or simple things like fixing light bulbs. While some schools can find money when necessary, not all schools have the same spending outlay. Given that it is far cheaper to run a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Minister consider changing the capitation grant system to provide a reliable system of payment to schools most in need, which would take account of a school's age, location and student composition?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The intention is to ask the Minister to further elaborate on her proposal to collect and store data on primary schoolchildren, and the fact that there is a proposal that non-co-operative schools may be defunded if they do not co-operate with the primary online database, despite its changes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether the Minister is aware that the Data Protection Commissioner's office confirmed only two weeks' ago that even after the changes she introduced in April to the primary online database, that it still might not be legal. Could the Minister confirm whether further legislation is required to underpin her proposals on the primary online database, if a further review is to take...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether that captures the concerns of the Data Protection Commissioner's office which were outlined on 18 June. Having investigated the primary online database, POD, the Data Protection Commissioner's office still had concerns, as did parents who had objected to the storage of sensitive data, that were valid even following the changes made in April. That is the key point....