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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the additional allocation of funding that has been made available to the minor works programme for primary schools in the announcement made at the beginning of December 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62858/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a copy of the technical guidance to be supplied for schools advising on the purchase or hiring of HEPA filtration systems through the minor works programme; the details of the person or body that provided the engineering advice; if it was approved by NPHET; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62859/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that will be applied to assess the eligibility of fee-paying schools for minor works support to acquire air filtration equipment; if the grant can be used against expenditure already committed to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62860/21]

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Foley. It is fair to say that the sense of partnership between the Department and individual school communities is non-existent. The feeling is that schools are being abandoned, that teachers and special needs assistants, SNAs, are being abandoned and that individual school principals are being abandoned, and what they have had as a source of comfort for more...

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have to agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Apologies, I have to leave after my contributions. So the witnesses will be aware, we have had a number of presentations over the past weeks. The committee in general feels that this is our one opportunity to do something about the leaving certificate and that if we do not do something now, we will have lost a historic opportunity. I have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I wish to ask Dr. Freeman a direct question on access to STEM subjects in all-girl schools or within our highly gendered second level system. Approximately one third of our second level schools are single gender. Traditionally, access to STEM subjects has been a challenge among all-girl schools, which is changing but possibly not changing enough. Is that something Dr. Freeman agrees with?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: To follow on from the remarks of Deputy Ó Snodaigh and before I get into the discussion on the reform of the leaving certificate in the long term, there is a strong case to be made for an early decision on whether the leaving certificate for 2022 will be rolled out in the same format as the exam in 2021. The students who are undertaking next year's leaving certificate missed a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: How much time do I have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: In 50% of schools it already was a requirement at junior level anyway. There is a bit of a misconception about what is being proposed. I wish to return to another issue. If a student does not have leaving certificate higher level Irish, he or she cannot become a primary school teacher. If he or she goes to a school that does not offer higher leaving certificate Irish, he or she cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their engagement. I found it very interesting.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate the comments that Tánaiste made earlier on the leaving certificate. I understand a meeting is taking place today with the education partners. There have been some very welcome comments from Government sources, including Deputies and Senators, who have been advocating for a hybrid model for the leaving certificate. Does the Tánaiste agree with these comments that have...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 630. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has had with the Greek Government regarding the arrest detainment and continued prosecution of a person (details supplied) in connection with their life saving humanitarian work in support of persons in danger at sea in the Mediterranean Sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63300/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 133. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is planning to take to try and reverse the hollowing out of cultural and arts space in Dublin city and beyond; and her plans to support the purchase of property to secure the continued presence of arts and cultural activities in these spaces. [2568/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reviews (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 138. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to plan for the reopening of the night-time economy specifically the reopening of nightclubs. [2566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reviews (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 149. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the outcome of the review on the operability of the restrictions imposed on nightclubs in October 2021 and to be undertaken three weeks after the commencement of these restrictions. [2567/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 142. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status for 2022 of the privately-operated venues fund under recommendation 9 of the report Life Worth Living by the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce. [2570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the requirement for 17 classrooms to meet the number of pupils seeking to attend a school (details supplied); when such an expansion will be possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1256/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1365. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a group (details supplied) is not included as part of the membership in relation to the National Oversight Committee to drive the implementation of the national drugs strategy for 2021 to 2025 in which five medically trained personnel were invited to sit on the committee; the criteria he utilised to ascertain suitability for membership; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1366. To ask the Minister for Health when he will be announcing the date for the citizens' assembly on drugs which the Government has committed to holding in 2022. [63033/21]