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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shared Accommodation (23 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We do not want to have death by review. What is the timescale for the completion of the review? All the while, planning applications are being submitted and permission is being granted, which leads to a bigger problem. If the review and Government action are swift, we will avoid the construction of a significant number of co-living accommodation units with which we would then have to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (23 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the land transferred to the Land Development Agency for the development of residential units; and the projects being considered by the agency for development, detailing the partners, the number of expected units, the stage of the process and targeted completion dates. [17650/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (23 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: For the information of the House, I tabled these questions in conjunction with Senator Moynihan, the Labour Party spokesperson on housing. I ask the Minister to provide details of the land transferred to the Land Development Agency, LDA, for the development of residential units; and the projects it is considering for development, including details of the partners involved, the number of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (23 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for his detailed reply. I appreciate that he will circulate the tabular information. I refer to the potential for different housing models. I made reference to this issue while speaking to the Sinn Féin motion on affordable housing. I acknowledge that the Minster spoke about affordable purchase previously. We previously discussed the idea of a rent-to-buy scheme...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (23 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can we weave that sort of model into the LDA legislation or should it be provided for in stand-alone legislation that allows for various models to be pursued? It is a model that worked in the past. It will deal with a particular issue. As I previously mentioned, throughout the country there are several generations living in the same house. Part of the problem is the lost generation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (23 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a review of the strategic housing development process under way in his Department; his views on the structure of such a review; and if he will prepare a report on the matter. [17653/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Data (23 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the strategic housing developments which have been granted permission since July 2017; the number that have had commencement orders granted to them; the number of these permissions that have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17652/20]

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party will be opposing the Bill and submitting a number of amendments. We feel that this Bill has limited protections for those impacted by Covid-19. It seems strange, when a measure introduced in March has been seen to work to keep people out of homelessness, that we would change the provisions that were made. Homelessness and housing have dogged political debate for years now....

Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Our grandparents' generation, particularly our grandmothers, used to say that education was no burden. Some 80 or 90 years ago, a child might well have come to the kitchen table at age 12, 13 or 14 to tell of an offer of a job in a factory or on the docks, which was a chance to leave school and go into employment. 11 o’clock The mothers of those families - our grandmothers -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a reduction of one at all points of the staffing schedule for primary schools from September 2021; and the net number of teaching posts involved in view of the predictions of a continuing fall in primary school enrolments by her Department. [18908/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the requirement for graduate teachers to travel to the country of the language that they teach for a period of time and to be signed off by a native speaker in order to be registered with the Teaching Council to teach the subject; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Teaching Council is still...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who have received conditional offers from foreign universities but whose leaving certificate results are likely to be received after the expiry of the deadline for submission will be able to obtain early access to their results; and the policy measures she plans in order to assist students with overseas offers in retaining these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy responses proposed or being examined to meet the increased pressure and demand on guidance counsellors in view of the impact of the Covid-19 global pandemic; if her Department has allocated enhanced resources and hours for guidance counsellors; and her views on the appropriate response of her Department to the increased support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy responses being planned or examined to meet the increased pressure and demand on guidance counsellors in view of the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic; if enhanced resources and hours have been allocated for guidance counsellors; her views on the appropriate response to the increased support students will need from guidance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied ) is on the lower rate of pandemic unemployment payment in view of income exceeding the €200 threshold; her views on the policy issues raised by the circumstances of the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18168/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is on the lower rate of pandemic unemployment payment in view of the fact that their income exceeds the €200 threshold; her views on the policy issues raised by the circumstances of the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18932/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the situation of persons (details supplied) residing and working here as European Economic Area, EEA, family members in cases in which qualifying EEA family member is a UK citizen and that after 31 December 2020 and they are no longer the spouse of an EEA family member and will be unable to...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I intend to be brief, but I concur with my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly, about the Tánaiste's engagement with his portfolio. It appears to those of us in opposition that it is beneath him to address matters pertaining to his Department in the Oireachtas. It is approximately two weeks since he took a swipe at the Labour Party's proposal to introduce legislation in reference to the High...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The point I am making relates to remote working and the fact that there is an assumption that it is in all circumstances a positive. If, however, a company decides that a worker can in all circumstances work remotely and connect remotely to the workplace, that is something which will need to be regulated heavily by the Government and via legislation. If there is overcrowded housing, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizens' Assembly (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the proposed citizens' assembly on education; the terms of reference for the assembly; when it is due to meet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19319/20]