Results 181-200 of 392 for speaker:Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the discrepancy between the proportion of general learning disability classes and ASD special classes; if she will make public the data used to make these allocations; and the reasons for this discrepancy. [35080/25]

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Fáiltím roimh an deis ráiteas a thabhairt ar fhoilsiú na tuarascála seo. Is cáipéis chríochnúil atá os ár gcomhair inniu. Molaim an rannpháirtíocht leathan le páirtithe leasmhara sa phróiseas, go háirithe ionchur suntasach na ndaoine óga a tógadh san áireamh. Ag an stad seo, is beag duine sa...

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are no strangers to hollowing out our cities and public spaces for corporations. There is no such thing as public space in our capital any more. Scandalously, there is but a single public bathroom in the entirety of Dublin city today. Selling off our dearest national monument as corporate prey is one more step in that direction, and another in a series of...

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: No one said that.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: The Minister of State said that.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Cultural vandalism.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Further to the questions from my colleague Senator Stephenson and the reference to competing legal obligations, if we believe the EU position is in breach of international law and it is refusing to move, would the correct course of action not be to open infringement proceedings at the European Court of Justice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: The European Commission challenges member states in the European Court of Justice. Do we not have the right to challenge the European Commission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Following the opinion from the World Court, a resolution was brought forward by Palestine in the United Nations General Assembly on the implementation of the court's opinion. Mr. Smyth's colleagues in the Department who work for the United Nations, under the direction of the Department's Secretary General and the leadership of the then Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, now Taoiseach,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: In the Attorney General's advice to the Government last October, he stated that the choice as to whether to progress the occupied territories Bill or have the Government draft a new Bill was a political one. Is the decision not to proceed with a prohibition on the trade of services at this time an operational or policy decision that the Department has made and stands over or is it a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I will go back to a question I had. I arrived a bit late, so I do not know if it has been asked. The opening statement highlighted that the Bill will meet the programme for Government commitment to ban the import of goods from the occupied territories. The witnesses cite this as following from the ICJ advisory opinion, which is a matter of considerable interest to both Houses of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I will leave my other question because the witnesses are public servants and probably will not want to answer it either. Gabhaim buíochas leo.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: We will move on.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans in relation to educational assessments; specifically, if she intends to review the use of standardised tests in light of evidence demonstrating their significant limitations in accurately assessing children with complex needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36244/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Gabhaim buíochas ar fad le gach duine. I will be quick because I want to hear from the witnesses. I will start on SNA allocation and go to the parents first. At the moment SNAs are allocated solely on the basis of on what we consider primary care needs, but we know that secondary needs being adequately met is crucially important for the success of children in our schools. Sensory and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I agree. I am curious about the opinions of Mr. Clerkin and Ms Quinn on IEPs. The Department says they are impractical due to the high administrative burden they place on school staff. Others have called out the Government on this, saying that scrapping IEPs is a means of limiting the support the State is obliged to provide. If this proposal is fully implemented, where will this work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Míle buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht a bheith anseo inniu. I will jump straight in. I want to ask about specific speech and language disorder classes. The criteria for accessing these classes are discriminatory as they deny access if a child has a disability. A working group was established last June by the previous Minister for disability to revise Circular 38/2007 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: It is still extremely discriminatory. For example, children with Down's syndrome are invisible in this conversation. For some children with Down's syndrome, their IQ may be over the level where they are not entitled to be given these supports but they have a speech impediment. They are left out because it is not of an unknown origin. We need to do more. My next question is about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I apologise for being late. Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as a bheith anseo. I understand completely the very specialised service they provide and I agree that we need to protect the status of schools for children with mild general learning disabilities. The Department has said there has been much positive engagement with principals regarding the redesignation. However, I...