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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the SNA sector and its trade union to agree a new minimum qualification requirement at QQI level 6 for all new SNAs. [4657/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a museum (details supplied) will open again; and if the museum will continue in the current form as a public museum for the foreseeable future. [4428/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am happy with the response. I would again like to point out that even if this only affects a small number of people, for them it is overwhelmingly significant. The defence is that this is not normally utilised within the school experience. If someone is on the rough end of this it does not matter how many schools across the country use it or not. The school that person wanted to attend...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist in the case of a child (details supplied) to assist with transport to the nearest school with a suitable available place for their needs as supported by a clinical psychologist and the school principal. [5273/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yesterday, I wrote to the Minister for Education about the leaving certificate, asking her to clarify two matters. The first was what would happen if a student contracted Covid-19 during exam time and what contingencies are in place for that. I also asked her to waive the exam fee, which is €116 for the leaving certificate and €109 for the junior certificate, and I understand...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 suspended a worker's right to seek redundancy payments when laid off or put on short-time work due to the pandemic. Deputy Nash of the Labour Party tabled an amendment that would have dealt with this issue at the start of the pandemic and, perhaps, saved the State some share of the burden that may now be necessarily placed...

European Union Regulation: Motion (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party supports Ireland's opt-in to the 2021-2027 asylum, migration and integration fund. We take issue, however, with some of the on-the-ground reality within the European Union towards refugees. Statistics released by the Greek Government and confirmed by the UNHCR set the total number of arrivals to Greece in 2021 at 8,000, of which roughly half arrived by sea. The Greek...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Citizens' Assembly (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is sometimes very hard to know how to articulate something that I have been campaigning on for almost seven years. Along with others, I have been convinced for a long time of the necessity for Ireland to change its drug policy. I have been working with others in other political parties, movements, lobby groups and community groups to try to get Ireland to change its view of the drug...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Citizens' Assembly (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is a fantastic opportunity for this Oireachtas to achieve something. In recent years, a justice committee report on decriminalisation of drug users received the support of every political party. We passed radical legislation on the provision of an injecting centre. While it has been objected to, it remains law that we can establish an injecting facility in Ireland. That legislation...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Since I have come back into this House I have been raising consistently - as have Deputies in government - the need for a citizen's assembly on drugs. We have tried to approach this in good faith so that all the issues we have in respect of drug policy can be discussed in a robust fashion at a citizens' assembly. We believe we have been mature and responsible in that respect. Last Thursday...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to develop an online driver licence app in which clients can store a virtual driving licence, learner permit and other driver cards such as a CPC card. [6344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the introduction of the new SNA model has been postponed; the plans for the SNAs of children currently in sixth-class and who are moving onto second-level education; if these SNAs will remain in their current schools as was previously envisaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6297/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that assessments of need by the National Council for Special Education will allow individual schools the opportunity to input into that assessment in order to ensure that the most current information regarding the needs of students including the information provided by diagnosis of additional needs from all sources in view...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can engage with the National Council for Special Education to ensure that its needs assessment is correct given the concerns that the official needs of students will not reflect their actual needs due to the backlog of needs assessments for individual student assessments caused by the non-availability of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the permanent build school for a school (details supplied). [6434/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. It is heartwarming to hear the support for the Bill, which I drafted. What has been interesting this and last week is that this has opened up a wider discussion on the nature of Irish education and who it serves. It is beginning to become clear that, effectively, it serves the patron. What happens every year is that parents and children are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Does anyone else have any other comments before I wrap up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have nothing else to say about this. We will come back to the Finnish revolution another time.

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party supports this motion. A lot of things come to mind when talking about the national minimum wage. We need to picture how a parent feels who has worked a hard week on the minimum wage and then wonders how he or she can feed and clothe his or her children and keep them warm. There is an element of fear in the motion but there is also an element of humiliation – that...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State for his contribution. The Labour Party broadly welcomes this Bill. I am going to illustrate the impact of white-collar crime with a story. I used to teach in an area of acute disadvantage in the north inner city of Dublin. Whenever I told anybody where I used to teach, they used to always make quips, comments or jokes about crime, despite the fact that I...