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Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020 Report: Motion (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I do not know where to start with the Minister's response. I am infuriated by it. The last paragraph, in particular, I find infuriating. I am beginning to wonder why we bother. The Minister asked for 12 months to do what she has just said she now needs to start. I stood here in November 2020 asking her to take seriously that, as a matter of basic equality, somebody's father, grandfather,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the practice in which employers that pay top-up to maternity benefit can force an employee who moves employment to repay their maternity pay; his views that this practice should be banned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25356/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure that the decision to reduce the VAT rate for the hospitality sector to 9% until 2023 is conditional on obliging employers in this sector to engage in collective bargaining for pay rises through the Joint Labour Committees ensuring the benefits of the VAT cuts are shared with employees; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to publish the report on the introduction of a living wage submitted by the Low Pay Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25355/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has carried out research on the impact on the labour market if stamp two visa holders whose visas expire on 31 May 2022 were forced to leave the country; his views that the best solution for the workers, the employers and the industry is for those visas to be extended until September 2022; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of adult education tutors and the lack of engagement from his Department and the Department of Education on aligning them onto a public sector pay scale, despite clauses in numerous national agreements and an outstanding Labour Court recommendation from March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm, following his announcement of a policy on future funding, when the oversight group will meet to discuss the detail behind this policy; if trade union representatives will be invited to take part in this engagement; if so, the details of their intended membership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to automatically link increases in the rates of SUSI grants to increases in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25386/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to cases in which students are being excluded from SUSI grants on the basis of income from the pandemic unemployment payment; if he can clarify the measures that are in place to prevent students who otherwise would qualify for a SUSI grant being excluded on the basis of pandemic unemployment payments; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his plans to ensure Dundalk Institute of Technology becomes a technological university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Site Acquisition (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that her Department is taking to work with the Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage and Fingal County Council to resolve the delay in providing a permanent site for a school (details supplied) due to the failure of a planning application on a site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the controversy over the refusal of an early intervention centre for autism in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (24 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the Deis funding that is available to voluntary versus second-level schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25721/22]

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It might surprise the Minister of State to hear me be complimentary of the Government's efforts in this field. Many, including me, were unsure as to whether breaking up the Department of Education and establishing a new Department was a good move. However, in fairness to the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, and the Minister, Deputy Harris, I think they have made it work. I feel they have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Statements on higher education are planned for Thursday but we only had statements on an area of higher education last Thursday. We need statements on special education. We are not sitting next week and there is a crisis in special education school places across the country. It is the last day of May and SNA allocations have yet to be published. I understand the warehousing plan of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is that a "No"?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: If the Ceann Comhairle was an SNA he would think it was damn necessary to have a debate on special education this week-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----or a parent, or somebody seeking a school place. We will be calling a vote on this issue. We demand statements on special education this Thursday to replace the statements on higher education.