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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Therapy Services (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to make therapy resources available using virtual or remote technology to support children with disabilities tying in with the pilot inclusion model, the NCSE and in partnership with the HSE. [6796/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 787. To ask the Minister for Health if St. Michael's Ward in Beaumont Hospital is planning to resume providing inpatient detoxification and stabilisation services in 2020; and the stage of the Covid-19 restrictions at which the HSE plans to reopen inpatient detox and stabilisation services. [6712/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are particular difficulties for dog owners and animal welfare caused by lack of access to dog grooming services; the steps he plans to take to assist such services in resuming; and his views on which stage of the 5 stage Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business is appropriate...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is worth stating - and I would ask the Minister to agree on the floor of the House this evening - that climate change is still the greatest strategic threat to mankind, even in this era of Covid-19. I hope the Minister agrees that adapting to and trying to mitigate climate change will require massive State investment in changing the way we live our lives and run our societies. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the persons appointed to the 2018 Irish Aid election observation roster. [8573/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the exclusion of persons and businesses (details supplied) from the temporary wage subsidy scheme due to administrative errors caused by staff turnover in cases in which the payment dates of wages would otherwise have fallen within the remit of the scheme. [8580/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to difficulties for professional masters of education in primary school teaching students of a college (details supplied) in completing an alternative Gaeltacht placement due to the prevalence of mature students with families, the Covid-19 pandemic and the coinciding requirements to complete academic work in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of CPD completion by teachers on the recent changes at junior cycle; and when he plans to formally dissolve the junior cycle for teachers. [8432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the NCCA designed senior cycle physical education application will be made available to schools, teachers and students to commence teaching the new senior cycle physical education curriculum; and if the new cycle is scheduled to commence in September 2020. [8433/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidance school principals can expect on processes and procedures to deal with anticipated increased need for substitute teachers due to ongoing self-isolation protocols associated with respiratory symptoms or close contacts with Covid-19 cases. [8574/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has raised the establishment of a north side crime task force with the Garda Commissioner, which was previously committed to. [8435/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has raised the progress on the development of the new Garda station at Northern Cross, Dublin 17 previously committed to by An Taoiseach in June 2019. [8570/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1004. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a childcare provider has indicated that no provision of physical comfort to children will be a condition of returning to its childcare service; her views on such guidance; if such advice has emanated from her Department; and her views on the effect such provision would have on the...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister is aware that the world is saying with one voice that black lives matter. I raise this issue because it appears to me we should be cognisant of the fact that we stand in probably the whitest parliament in the world, and that our teaching profession should reflect the students they teach. We have been remiss in trying to get a teaching profession or role models in the...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for the work he has done on issues I raised last week. The safe pass issue has been resolved, and I thank the Minister for that. I thank him also for his work on July provision because I understand that he has demanded, against the advice of his officials, a more expansive and more inclusive July provision and that might be the reason for the mixed messages in that the...

Supporting Inclusion and Combating Racism in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: In Ireland we are in a unique position, in between Brexit and Trump, to give a different view to the world of the nature of discrimination and of our own experience because of our own history. We are the people of Famine ships, who have gone to every corner of world. We understand the immigrant experience like no other. That is why it is deeply disappointing when people in this House use...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I congratulate the Minister on the announcement on the investment in the arts. I also congratulate the campaigners from the National Campaign for the Arts who were making the case. The arts are extremely important to this country. This area is often one of the only avenues where people from disadvantaged or diverse backgrounds can give voice to their experience. It is a very welcome...

Reopening of Schools and Summer Provision 2020: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Tá dhá cheist agam don Aire. Tá sé ríthábhachtach do Theachta McHugh mar Aire, mar pholaiteoir agus mar dhuine go n-osclódh na scoileanna ar fad i mí Mheán Fómhair. Tá sé tábhachtach dúinne, do pháistí agus tuismitheoirí na tíre agus d'achan duine ar fud na tíre. Cén sórt ciste...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Needs Education: Impact of Covid-19 (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can the witnesses put in context the school lives that children with additional needs lead? There is a tendency to assume that everything is working well and that this July provision debate comes in an extreme circumstance, which is why we are discussing it. Can the witnesses speak to the reality experienced by parents who cannot find a school place? Can they speak to the waiting lists...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Needs Education: Impact of Covid-19 (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I accept that.