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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current vacancies by job title at the Agri-Food Regulator; and the expected timeframe for filling each of those vacancies in tabular form. [38658/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 850. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in critical care medicine based at St James's Hospital in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in tabular form. [38655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 851. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget allocation for Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in the years of 2023, 2024 and 2025 in tabular form. [38656/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 852. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within Meath where HSE community specialist teams provide respiratory outreach service clinics and diabetes outreach service clinics in tabular form. [38657/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1033. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing apprentice wage to the minimum wage. [39507/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (15 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1046. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the percentage of the capital and current funding of his Department that has been spent in the first six months of 2025; and if he will provide the same figures for the corresponding period in 2024, in tabular form. [38674/25]

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation (Transfer of Functions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill and I thank Deputy Smith for bringing it forward. The usual approach from the Government is to delay these Bills by 12 months or let them go to Committee State to die. It is a particular point when the Government opposes a Bill. I would say it was a surprise but it is entirely consistent with my experience of how Fianna Fáil and Fine...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Costs (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister of State's response is the response we have been getting to the question over the past few months. I want to put a number of things on the record, which I would appreciate the Minister of State conveying to the Ministers for Education and Youth and Social Protection. We have a funding crisis in education. We cannot take from ICT funding that is desperately needed to keep...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Costs (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue. I am raising the issue of the cost many parents are faced with for digital devices like iPads, tablets and laptops when schools move to a one-to-one digital device policy. It is happening quite a lot and comes at very significant cost to families, many of which have multiple students at school. Devices can cost anything up to...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a crisis shaped by the modern world, one where smartphones, online pornography and harmful attitudes towards women and girls are fuelling abuse. We cannot and must not ignore how technology has become a weapon in the hands of abusers, nor how degrading content is warping minds, including young minds. Revenge porn, coercive control via messaging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Time is very tight and I thank the witnesses for coming in at short notice and the committee for organising it. I will come back to Ms Carty and Mr. Hearne for specific examples of the egregious parts of this, like how it feels at retirement after 40 years of work compared with their public service colleagues, the bereavement leave and the critical illness piece. I will come back to them in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Mr. Pike. Will Mr. Hearne give an example of an egregious element of discrimination or difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Has Mr. Hearne examples of that with his colleagues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Yes, it is different. What about Ms Carty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank everyone. Chair, I would-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I propose the committee write to the Minister just as a formal proposal on this issue and call for urgent engagement. I mean the Ministers for education and public expenditure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: That is no problem. I think people probably agree with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The two Ministers is what I said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I do not have a question, but I want to highlight some of our frustrations. The Minister for public expenditure will be before the Dáil for oral questions next week. I submitted a question specifically around the engagement with Fórsa on this issue. It has been rejected and diverted to the Minister for Education and Youth. That is part of the frustration at this end. Some of...