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Written Answers — Shannon Airport: Shannon Airport (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 315 and 333 together. Responsibility for Shannon Development rests with my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. She has been in contact with the board of that agency on its role in light of the forthcoming decentralisation of Enterprise Ireland to Shannon and the advent of the new autonomous Shannon Airport Authority....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (21 Apr 2021)

Norma Foley: Access to sexual and health education is an important right for students. Schools have a responsibility to provide for this, in consultation with parents, having regard to the ethos of the school. Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) is a mandatory curriculum subject in all primary schools and in post-primary junior cycle. Relationships and Sexuality Education (or RSE) is required at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Young Carers (24 Feb 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can inform the deputy that my Department promotes no process specifically targeted at this group of students but adopts a holistic and integrated approach to supporting the work of schools in promoting positive mental health and to identifying and supporting those with a broad range of problems, be they behavioural, emotional or social. The processes span the curriculum in schools,...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Thomas Pringle: ...by Dáil Éireann of the Employment Equality Act 1998 (section 12) (Reservation of vocational training places) Order 2018, referral to committee; No. 14, motion re air service agreements with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, referral to committee; No. 15, motion re establishment of a special joint committee on climate action; No. 29, Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (15 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: The Action Plan on Bullying, which was published in January 2013, sets out my Department's approach to tackling bullying and promoting an anti-bullying culture in schools. The Action Plan contains 12 actions that focus on the provision of support for schools, teacher training, research and awareness raising and aims to ensure that all forms of bullying are addressed. A number of these...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Apr 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The Government’s Economic Recovery Plan, published on 1 June 2021, set out renewed supports, investments and policies to underpin economic recovery and transition. The Plan includes the overarching ambition of having 2.5 million people in work by 2024, a target which has already been exceeded according to the latest figures released by the CSO’s Labour Force Survey in February...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (30 Nov 2021)

Simon Harris: The development of a new National Strategy for Research and Innovation (R and I) is a key commitment in the Government’s Economic Recovery Plan 2021, which sets out the “dual ambition of placing research, development and innovation at the heart of addressing Ireland’s economic and societal challenges, and building capacity and capability across the research and innovation...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (14 Jun 2022)

Frank Feighan: The Health Research Board recently published an overview entitled ‘Alcohol and other drug use among children and young people in Ireland’. Using multiple information sources, this publication outlines the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use among young people in Ireland. With this data, it examines the risk and protective factors that may encourage or discourage young...

Written Answers — Racism in Schools: Racism in Schools (30 Mar 2004) See 1 other result from this answer

Noel Dempsey: My Department's approach to the increasing diversity of Irish society, as reflected in the school population, has been and continues to be an intercultural approach, promoting mutual respect, dialogue and collaboration within the whole school community, and promoting anti-racism as an integral part of this approach. The new curricula at primary and post primary levels provide ample...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (11 Dec 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Ireland's diplomatic and consular network is comparatively modest in size and includes 56 Embassies, 7 multilateral Missions and 10 Consulates General and other offices. In addition to their country of primary accreditation, many Ambassadors are also accredited to additional countries on a non-resident basis which enhances the cost-effectiveness of our external representation. Our missions...

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Michael Lowry: I compliment the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, on their innovative and creative approach to their new Department. The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has the capacity and ability to play a central role in our national recovery plan. These are exciting and refreshing times for institutes of technology. I am...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Kathleen Funchion: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges: —that the State failed the women and children who were in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes institutions; —that women and their children were unlawfully separated during their time in these institutions; —that women and their children were unlawfully separated during their time in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (29 Mar 2022)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 419, 424 and 435 together. My Department has recently announced the establishment of Regional Education and Language Teams (REALT) to support the needs of Ukrainian children arriving in Ireland. These Education and Language Teams will be hosted by the 16 regional education and training boards (ETBs) and will be staffed by existing regionally-based...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (8 May 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Training and education of personnel at all levels are vital activities in any defence force as they enable such personnel to achieve their required standard of operational effectiveness. The Defence Forces conducts training and education under three broad categories namely skills training, career training and education and collective training. Skills training is the medium through which the...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (1 Jul 2010)

Pat Carey: The Deputy will be aware that as part of the restructuring of Departments and agencies recently announced by the Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann, the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs was established, incorporating responsibility for social inclusion policy and family policy from the former Department of Social and Family Affairs and for equality, disability, integration and...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (6 Apr 2006)

Mary Hanafin: All recognised primary and second level schools are required to offer relationships and sexuality education, RSE. It is an integral part of the social, personal and health education or SPHE curriculum at primary level and at junior cycle second level where it has been made mandatory for all schools with effect from September 2003. In addition, all schools are required to have an agreed school...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (16 Sep 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I am assured by Revenue that combatting the threat which cross-Border smuggling and the illicit trade in tobacco, alcohol and fuel products pose to legitimate business, consumers and the Exchequer is a priority for them. Revenue acts against all aspects of the illegal tobacco trade and uses a combination of risk analysis, profiling and intelligence, and risk-based screening of cargo,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (3 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: The role of the Social Policy and Public Service Reform Division is to assist me, as Taoiseach, and the Government, in fulfilling Programme for Government objectives to help create a socially inclusive and fair society. Specifically, the Division assists the work of the newly established Cabinet Committees, as follows:the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services and the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (11 Sep 2017)

Simon Coveney: Research and analysis by Departments on the impact that Brexit may have across a wide range of policy areas is ongoing and of course involves my own Department both in its co-ordination role and in its own right. Planning for, contributing to and following the EU-UK negotiations requires research on and analysis of very many legal, institutional, and political issues, and is led by the...

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