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Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am speaking to the amendment.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Well, you have not dealt with it with me.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

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Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am speaking to the amendment. I am giving call as to why I am-----

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----so strong about pressing this amendment.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, let me be perfectly clear here what the issue is in terms of this argument.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is very difficult because schools sometimes feel completely unsupported in embracing issues, particularly when the actions of the Minister of State in the Department are part of the problem. That is what we are trying to achieve here. I absolutely stand over my comments. To be quite frank, only for the fact that we are focusing on children this week, the Minister of State with...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(2) Where, following consultation with the Minister and having regard to any information provided to the Council by the Minister in relation to any planned additional provision of education for children with special educational needs and available lands and buildings, the Council remains of the...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I moved the amendment for Deputy Ó Laoghaire.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is not in any way our intention to prolong the process. The briefing that the Minister's Department provided is very clear. It is trying to truncate the process and is trying to take simultaneous steps along the way rather than sequential steps. What we are saying here is very much that schools can prepare if it is something that needs to be utilised. The Minister has said she does not...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, line 5, after “person” to insert the following: “, such a notice shall issue no later than the 31st of March preceding the new school year and shall not be issued during the months of July and August”.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, line 15, after “Minister” to insert “, following consultation with stakeholders,”.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(4) Prior to preparing a report under subsection (2), the Council shall consult with the Minister, bodies representatives of patrons, national associations of parents, recognised school management organisations and recognised trade unions and staff associations representing teachers.”.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of two children (details supplied) who have been allocated shared summer provision reduced from 40 hours each to 60 hours due to the fact that they are siblings and despite the fact that there is a five year age gap and they have different academic needs; if her Department are able to arrange for a full 40 hours...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact that her Department has had with Dublin City Council in relation to the severe overcrowding in a school (details supplied); if her Department is in any negotiations to purchase a site in close proximity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35831/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 784. To ask the Minister for Health the action that his Department can take to ensure that patients without medical cards can access general practitioner services if they can show that they have received refusals from three or more GP services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35834/22]

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Bill, which the Labour Party will be supporting. I thank the Tánaiste for his work in respect of it. As has been said, people often take trade unionism for granted or do not understand the nature of it and what it achieves. People's interaction with trade unionism, if they familiar with it, often involves their seeing images of picket lines, protests or placards....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the research that has been conducted or the representations from her Department that have been made on finding a mechanism to streamline the Garda vetting process for artists working on projects with children in order to create a clear process which protects children but eliminates necessity for multiple Garda vetting...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Notwithstanding the Minister's goodwill towards my motivation, I am crushingly disappointed by her attitude to the Bill and by the Department's response to the Bill. It flies completely in the face of what the Minister is trying to do this week in respect of section 37A of the Education Act. We are told to rush through legislation this week in order for it to be ready for September, yet we...