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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the absence of provision of SEN units for primary school children in the Howth, Baldoyle and Sutton area of north County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11647/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned that leaving certificate results will be issued in time for the 30 August 2021 deadline for UCAS in order to ensure that students with a UK third-level offer will be able to take their place; the efforts being made to ensure applicants to UK courses do not lose out on places as a result of any delays; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the automatic visa extensions given to stamp 4 visa holders until the end of April 2021 will count towards the minimum requirements for naturalisation for visa holders whose extended visas have an earlier date on them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11755/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Qualifications Recognition (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: My time is short, and I do appreciate my colleagues, Deputies Gannon and Tully, joining me in this debate. Nothing really brings shame to the Department of Education more than its treatment of special needs assistants, SNAs, who we send into the war against Covid in classrooms throughout the country without basic provision for their own safety and without any sense of when they will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Qualifications Recognition (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister of State knows, I know and, indeed, the cat knows that teachers would not be treated as SNAs are being treated because the Department would not get away with it. It is clear that the Department has a long-standing issue or policy when it comes to dealing with SNAs in that they are not treated with the same level of respect as teachers. We have seen that throughout the pandemic,...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have a daughter. I worry about her because she is a girl and because she is Irish. She has been born into a country with a record of treating women with disdain. She was born in May 2018, when the country finally put to rest a constitutional article, the eighth amendment, that forced 4,000 women a year to travel to England like criminals and others to order abortion pills over the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average time it is currently taking apprenticeship students to complete their qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12337/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current wait times for each off-the-job training phase; if this in line with the period of time advised by SOLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12338/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on developing phase 1 of the extension to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick which was scrapped in 2018; the amount that has been spent on developing stage 2 of this project since 2018; the reason for the delay in approving the stage 2(a) submission made by the education and training board, ETB, in November 2020;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 947. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to extend free general practitioner care to six and seven year olds as envisaged under the Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020; if children who are now turning six years of age and are becoming ineligible for the scheme will become eligible once the scheme is extended; and if he will make...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Anybody who spends time in my company will learn in a very short time that I was a teacher in, and principal of, a school in the north-east inner city of Dublin. It effectively changed my life and the way I view the world. I learned more from those children than I ever taught them. When I became a school principal I got a wonderful bit of advice from a great colleague of mine named Mark...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase resources, teachers and numbers special reading schools for children with severe dyslexia; and her plans to increase resources to established mainstream schools that will allow for the establishment of reading units such as the one in a school (details supplied) which will help children with severe dyslexia....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (11 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the procedure for sick pay for special needs assistants has changed; if her Department no longer pay SNAs directly; if SNAs are required to apply for illness benefit from social welfare; if so, if same precludes recipients of the widow’s pension from receiving sick pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13826/21]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Ministers. I have two specific questions. One relates to the funding that has been put aside or prioritised to ensure children can catch up and not just that they can return to school. In addition to making adjustments to schools and providing more personal protective equipment, PPE, or hand sanitiser, they need to be able to ensure children can regain what they lost. What...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apprentices taken on by local authorities in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 913. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who left school in 2014 without completing the leaving certificate; the proportion of same against the total number of school leavers in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15298/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regulations in place which allow schools to exclude children from accessing transition year education in cases in which that year is provided within the school. [15494/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regulations in place to allow for the expiry of a suspension on a student’s record within the lifetime of attendance at a school. [15495/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (31 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the request for the junior cycle exams to take place in special schools for children at risk in June 2021 to allow children who may otherwise leave school without any qualification to achieve a qualification. [16490/21]