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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (11 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has agreed a commencement date for a Citizens’ Assembly on Education; and when she hopes that the Assembly will take place. [49936/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date that the results of the Junior Certificate will be made available to candidates. [49938/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the requirement for an additional three classrooms for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (11 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the chronic shortage of graduates in the veterinary sector; and the efforts that are being made to remedy this deficit. [50144/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a delay in some payments to primary school teachers on contracts of fixed duration in multiple locations, which in some cases have resulted in teachers having to visit Intreo offices to seek emergency payment; the cause of the delay; the number of persons who have been affected; when they can expect to be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of early childhood care and education places in the Drumcondra, Griffith Avenue area of Dublin; and if more early childhood education and childcare places will be provided. [50540/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that he has had with Maynooth University regarding the cancellation of the student centre (details supplied); the obligations that are on the university to those who paid the increased levy now that the project has been cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the reduction in fees for third-level students will apply to students attending part-time courses such as the part-time BA in Social Care in Galway University; and the supports that will be provided for part-time students. [50551/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department have examined the possibility of extending the €500 cost-of-living payment and stipend increase announced in Budget 2023 to PhDs funded outside of IRC and SFI. specifically, if a mechanism similar to the pandemic-related payments to students had been considered for this cohort. [51834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department possesses counts of PhDs researchers who have dropped out of their studies every year for the past five years. [51839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the specific laws, policies or exemptions that mean that stipends are untaxed income. [51836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if Innovate for Ireland PhDs will pay income tax, USC or PRSI. [51837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will update the Postgraduate Workers Alliance of Ireland on his promise to consult PGWA in various relevant committees convened from within his Department, including fund the future committees. [51838/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new Innovate for Ireland scheme will be open for applicants; if he will clarify the criteria potential applicants will need to meet in order to be eligible for the scheme. [51833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full breakdown of numbers of PhDs who are funded through State or state-funded bodies (IRC, SFI, HRB, Bord Bia, National Arts Council and so on and an estimate of privately funded PhDs registered at Irish universities. [51835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will account for the long delays faced by non-EU PhD researchers when applying for their yearly stamp; if her Department will consider conducting a review of visa renewals for PhDs to allow for essential work travel-year round for the duration of all candidates' PhDs. [51832/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Intreo offices that are currently open for public services cards appointments in the Dublin 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 areas. [52315/22]

Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am greatly encouraged by this debate. I thank Deputies Martin Kenny, Mitchell and Ward for bringing forward this legislation. All those Deputies have a great track record in this area. I am greatly taken by the remarks of Deputy Ó Murchú, who said the war on drugs is over. It needs to be over because the war on drugs is a war on people but it is also a war on a particular type...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I join with the previous speaker in congratulating the Minister on the Department and its success. Some of us were unconvinced as to the necessity of a new Department but it has proven its worth. It is now a feature and a fixture and deserves to be. The Minister made a success of it and that needs to be acknowledged. We share many aspirations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I know. You need your mammy to row in as well though, as she helpfully did-----