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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I apologise for interrupting but I have one more question. I accept that the criteria are the criteria. Could the Minister put in place a system whereby everyone who applied on time and was eligible would be accommodated first, followed by those who qualify for concessionary places and those who applied subsequent to the closing date. We should prioritise those who are eligible at that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That was not my suggestion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Right now, they are not looking for any additional capacity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I would welcome that, but I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It needs to happen urgently because there are children left at the side of the road.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to reverse the cuts which cease substitution cover arrangements for short-term Covid-19 absences of teachers and SNAs in primary schools. [45296/22]

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Households are facing the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Ordinary workers and families and indeed small businesses cannot take any more and they certainly cannot face into a winter with bills that continue to skyrocket and could cripple them. Households need long-term solutions to this cost-of-living crisis, not one-off measures which will do nothing to fix the root cause of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ceisteanna Craolacháin (14 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 196. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé ar intinn aici cead agus maoiniú a chur ar fáil do stáisiúin raidió do dhaoine óga trí mheán na Gaeilge agus an mbeadh sé de chead acu craoladh ar chóras FM ar fud an Stáit [44550/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I was able to tune in for parts of the hearing but not all. I am not a member of this committee but I was keen to come in. I am a Cork Deputy and my knowledge of the situation relates primarily to the Cork taxi committee but many of the issues that have come up today are one and the same. The point about taxis being public service vehicles is key, as is the fact that they are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It sounds like the rules are contradictory. What happens in circumstances where somebody is too sick to drive but cannot transfer his or her licence? Is it taken from that driver?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Those are my questions. Unless someone else has anything to add, I am satisfied with that.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the restoration of leadership posts at primary school level to pre-2008 levels. [38881/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing for an additional 300 assistant principal 1 and an additional 1,500 assistant principal 2 posts at primary school level. [38882/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoration of leadership posts at post-primary school level to pre-2008 levels. [38883/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing for an additional 100 assistant principal 1 and an additional 100 assistant principal 2 posts at post-primary school level. [38884/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated capital cost of the additional classroom space required to implement a one-point reduction in the pupil teacher ratio by first year and full-year cost. [38934/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of 1, 10, 50 and 100 additional SNAs by first year and full-year cost. [38935/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of 1, 10, 50 and 100 additional special education teachers by first year and full-year cost. [38936/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Educational Psychological Service (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first year cost of hiring one additional educational psychologist. [38937/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Educational Psychological Service (14 Jul 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of hiring one additional educational psychologist. [38938/22]