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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to add home economics to the programme to upskill registered post-primary teachers and join mathematics, physics, Spanish and Irish as a subject with a high difficulty in accessing teachers in view of the fact that home economics was reported...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the shortage of second-level teachers, as shown by the inability of a school (details supplied) to fill a temporary language post; the strategies her Department has put in place to address the shortage of second-level teachers in general and in the language area in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students who have previously sat a year in a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else. [7502/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I ask the Minister the reason students who have previously sat a year in a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I very much appreciate the comments of the Minister on the former Minister, Niamh Breathnach. I know her family will as well. One of the radical things she did as Minister for Education was to abolish fees, something from which I benefited, as did many of my colleagues and friends. The debate was lost over the previous 25 years when registration fees crept up. People are now spending...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Over a period we want to achieve, at all levels of education, be it primary, secondary, third level and further education, a situation whereby nobody has to consider costs when it comes to furthering their education journey. It should never come into the conversation. It is depressing that people always have to think about the cost of education to a family when it should instead be about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Like a 30% tax rate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: So it is a mini-budget.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is a short-term budget.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party acknowledges the work of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, in bringing forward a memo to Government on the establishment of a citizens' assembly on drugs. Deputies and Senators from different political groups feel strongly about the citizens' assembly being a real force for change. We want the voice of the service user, the drug user, to be central to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students who previously sat a year on a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else. [6939/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Employment Rights (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the statement of quality employment associated with the recently established digital games tax. [7027/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disabilities Assessments (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which agency has responsibility for the undertaking of a pupil’s assessment for assistive technology in a secondary school setting, following a recommendation by a CDNT. [7425/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the baker apprenticeship which was one of the 24 apprenticeship proposals that were approved development funding by the Apprenticeship Council in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7056/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 550. To ask the Minister for Health the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy can obtain the drug cariban on the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will provide details of the standard practice in other EU member states. [6510/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the independent living skills units currently available across the prison estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7453/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to review the operation of independent living skills units and to further develop these units across the prison estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7454/23]