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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the increase in scam phone calls being received and reported by members of the public; and the role he sees for his Department under the consumer protection remit in building a picture of the nature and quantity of scam calls. [44515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the role his Department has in protecting consumers from automated scam calls. [44516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department has taken to investigate the impact of scam calls based on age; if his Department has data on whether reliance on telephony makes older persons more susceptible to scam calls; the action being taken by his Department to protect older persons from scam calls; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will establish a joint working group on scam calling with the relevant Departments and regulatory and industry bodies to identify legal, technological and regulatory solutions to the related issues of autodialling commercial calls, telephony fraud, number spoofing and leaking of customer data which leaves...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to repeated difficulties being reported in cases in which goods purchased by Irish consumers from vendors outside the EU are being returned to senders by An Post in instances in which the correct customs information is being provided by sellers on packages and that responsibility for the returns are being passed between An...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that were made to co-ordinate the timing of the leaving certificate results and UCAS deadlines and to communicate the timing of those results with the UCAS system in the UK to allow Irish students take-up courses; the number of students who were unable to take-up places at UK universities in 2021 as a result of the delay in results...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Irish-born children of mothers who are seeking international protection are prohibited from access to any social protection benefits in Ireland. [45250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the technical issue with the CAO system which affected a number of students such as a student (details supplied) whose exam numbers were rendered as a series of zeros in error and who subsequently were not properly considered for the first round of offers; if a similar issue occurred in previous years; the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that were made to co-ordinate the timing of the leaving certificate results and UCAS deadlines and to communicate the timing of those results with the UCAS system in the UK to allow Irish students take-up courses; the number of students who were unable to take-up places at UK universities in 2021 as a result of the delay in results...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can assist with the resolution of an urgent case of an Irish child (details supplied) stranded abroad and unable to return to school due to inability to get a passport renewal seemingly involving a bureaucratic loop in which an Irish embassy is unable to issue a temporary passport until the passport renewal process for the child is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (22 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of schools are awaiting payment for the DEIS literacy and numeracy summer camp; the number of claims made that have been paid; the number that have not been paid; the issues there are with payments being made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45613/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am a bit taken aback by the attitude of Government speakers in particular. If any of the principals who have been in contact with are watching these deliberations, they will be pulling their hair out. Frankly, the return to school was a positive for many schools but there were individual school principals who had never contacted local representatives before in their lives but were forced...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party and I want to work with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Education on the issue of back-to-school costs. The Taoiseach will agree that this topic comes up every September and then goes away again. I am concerned that the book publisher, Folens, has now acquired the teacher training institution, Hibernia College. An educational book entity, which exists for commercial...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am sorry.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We need a moratorium on evictions and a three-year rent freeze. Last week the Government did not oppose the Labour Party's renters' rights Bill, proposed by Senator Moynihan and Deputy Bacik, but there does not seem to be any enthusiasm to change quickly the Government's policy or the law. We know from statistics that the main reasons for terminating a tenancy are the sale of the property,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am delighted to get an opportunity to ask about an issue that falls under the remit of the Taoiseach's Department. The programme for Government includes a commitment to a citizens' assembly on the issue of drugs. As he knows, many people are working on a campaign for the decriminalisation of the drug user. I do not want the word "decriminalisation" in this context to be confused with the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives relating to his Department that currently require transposition into Irish law; the number of such directives for which the deadline for transposition has passed; the communications both formal and informal that he has received from the European Commission regarding the failure to transpose said...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress regarding a permanent site for a school (details supplied). [46673/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the previous commitments given by the Department of Education pertaining to further education building projects previously included in the Department of Education building plan and notified to colleges will be honoured; when these projects will receive approval from his Department to appoint a design team; the measures being taken to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been widespread delays in payments for individuals such as a person (details supplied) who participated in the Easter supplementary programme and is still awaiting payment from her Department for work done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47141/21]