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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (31 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the 2004 report Males into Primary Teaching published by the primary teaching committee; the actions that have been taken by her Department to implement the recommendations; the way in which these actions have been evaluated; the way in which the number of male teachers entering the primary teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Traveller-Roma Integration Strategy (31 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the measures taken to complete actions 19 to 21 in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy included continuing professional development which includes topics (details supplied) for teachers and student teachers; and the details of the current professional development service for teachers courses, training and materials that can...

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for transparent reporting by undertakings in relation to the risk of labour exploitation and human trafficking occurring in their supply chains or in any part of their business and of the steps taken by them to ensure such activities do not take place; and to provide for connected matters. This Bill is in my...

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I agree with others that the Minister of State's presentation showed empathy and an understanding of the issue. The speeches of Ministers sometimes read like national car test reports but the Minister of State's did not. I am, however, stunned that there is no representative from the Department of Education present to hear this debate. In a properly functioning democracy, families of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The witnesses are all very welcome. My main question is on access to school places. I was horrified to learn what families are expected to do in order to access a place for their child if their child has an autism diagnosis. The process seems to be that a special education needs organiser will hand the parent a list of schools and wish them the best of luck. The parent will go to as many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This is in theory but in practice, it is something very different. Many parents just give up. The person I spoke to yesterday, whose case I have outlined today, has been seeking a secondary school placement for her child for four years. Ms McGrath mentioned pinch points. My constituency may be a pinch point, but there does not seem to be a policy determination from the Department that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: With respect, that is not the experience of parents with whom I deal. The experience of parents I deal with is that they talk to the SENO, who gives them a list of schools. Parents then interact with the schools which have all the expertise, language and education vocabulary. Parents are absolutely at a disadvantage. Schools can find many reasons why they cannot facilitate the child and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I genuinely am not satisfied by that answer. We must have a fundamental overview and review of how the system interacts with parents who are completely exhausted by going to war, not just on this issue of school placements but on other issues of intervention and long waiting lists for assessment and intervention. When they finally try to get their child through the school gate, it can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I greatly appreciate it. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Special Needs Education: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I confirm I am in Leinster House. We always learn more from these interactions which makes them so worthwhile. Even concerning some of the language used, I have learned so much from the contributors with whom I have had interactions in the past. The kind of language used, such as the "D" in ASD unit standing for disorder, needs to be challenged. We speak about training for teachers. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Special Needs Education: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Anyone who wants to dodge it should be allowed to dodge it. Anyone who wants to take it should be allowed to take it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Special Needs Education: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I saw Dr. Muldoon indicate and I would be interested to hear his perspective.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons who have booked flights to a region from which travellers will need to quarantine in a managed facility will be entitled to a full refund from their airline in view of the recent introduction of mandatory hotel quarantine. [20086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) was promised an additional 50 hours in 2019; if the school has been delivered the hours it was promised; if the number of hours currently available to the school are adequate for the SEN needs of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19323/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the practice of music teachers providing unpaid accompaniment and other assistance to students for their music practical examinations, many of which take place on leave days; and if music teachers are allowed to avail of the examinations aide rate of payment within their own school. [19363/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1069. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the processes and procedures in place to identify and address bullying, harassment and employment discrimination complaints in schools by direct employees of the boards of management in which members of the board of management or senior management of the school are the subjects of the complaints; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has or will be made available by his Department as part of the adult literacy strategy to implement the Labour Court recommendation to regularise the terms and conditions of the adult literacy tutors employed by the education and training boards; when his Department plans to implement the recommendation; the additional budget...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1924. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-draft the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill and if his Department will support the amendment of the Children and Family Relationships Act as recommended by the Special Rapporteur for Children (details supplied) in order that children born through AHR have rights and best interests legally protected in Irish law. [19301/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1916. To ask the Minister for Health if CHO7 vaccinated the staff in schools (details supplied). [19293/21]