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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take at both national and European level to ensure peace and justice for Armenia; if he will seek to increase the EU observer mission in the region; if he will seek accountability for Azerbaijan for its crime of ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27495/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: My question relates to the ongoing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. There has been ethnic cleansing, provocation and aggression from Azerbaijan, and many false allegations. One of the few things maintaining peace in the region is the EU observer force. Can we increase this? Now is the time, of course, when there is much change in the European Union. Can we push this to ensure...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: I thank the Tánaiste. I will just underline that what we are dealing with here is a dictatorship in Azerbaijan that has not only trampled over the rights of its own people but continues to do so with the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, including those who have been arrested without trial. Azerbaijan also continues to threaten Armenia. As the Minister says, there have been attempts at...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Nuclear Proliferation (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will work with the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications to continue the tradition of working against nuclear proliferation and use the upcoming International Atomic Energy Agency general conference to address the issue of Israeli nuclear weapons, which given Israel's history of aggression, are as much a threat to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of Dublin City Council’s new ‘Delivering for Dublin Agreement’, which contains a commitment to expand the Dublin Bikes network, if his Department will liaise with higher education institutions in the city to identify suitable locations to install stations. [27767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that all InterCity services operated by Irish Rail have at least one designated quiet carriage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27693/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Transport Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in light of Dublin City Council’s new ‘Delivering for Dublin Agreement’ which contains a commitment to expand the Dublin Bikes network, if his department will consider expansion of the scheme to the interior of Phoenix Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27766/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will liaise with a trust (details supplied) in relation to refurbishments taking place to ensure tenants are provided with accommodation with double glazed windows as a minimum standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27694/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons enrolled on community return schemes, by area, over the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27700/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: There is a significant problem with how we are building and providing schools. This is not just an issue in Dublin South-Central, but the major problems in that constituency are emblematic. Our Lady of Hope School has no PE hall. Setanta Special School was due to be completed in 2020, but the latest date given is now quarter 3 of 2025. It shares rooms with Riverview Educate Together...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: I will defer.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: I welcome all our guests. There is a lot of respect in these Houses for their office and the work they all do. Theirs is a voice such that, when they speak, we should really be listening. For me, that was highlighted by the very positive engagement we had with the youth advisory panel. The witnesses are quite right with their title. These are uncertain times. I look at the recent NYCI...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: I thank Ms Carragher. I apologise, but I have another committee to go to.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 89. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the implementation of the Defence Forces Independent Review Group (IRG) recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28228/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 93. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces members who were recruited despite with criminal convictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28227/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will conduct an audit of all sites owned/rented by Government Departments for a feasibility study on installing deposit return machines on sites which sell applicable units on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of individuals dismissed from the Defences Forces owing to court sentences received by them, over the past ten years. [27818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to establish a special school to serve the identifiable need across Dublin 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27923/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the situation whereby several children are due to repeat sixth class due to the lack of secondary school places in special education schools in Dublin 8, 10 and 12; the measures she is taking to tackle this shortage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27926/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all second-level education institutions aided by her Department in which there was no provision of a laboratory technician for the teaching of leaving certificate science subjects, for each year since 2005, in tabular form. [28016/24]