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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ICT grant for primary schools can be brought up to equal that of secondary schools on a per-pupil basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23633/23]

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank all my party colleagues and especially Deputy Duncan Smith, who drafted the motion. The point of the Labour Party is to bring forward to this House the cases of those who are most disadvantaged in our society. We bring forward the cases of workers, people in disadvantaged areas, people who suffer injustice and people who are treated as second-class citizens. This is the third...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A child poverty guide.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what, if any, review there has been on the operation of the “infant hour; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures can be taken to ensure that all schools offer an option to opt out of studying religion at Junior Certificate level. [22880/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the increasing demand for a comprehensive nationwide redeployment system for post-primary teachers; if her Department has conducted research into the potential for such a system to alleviate pressures on climate change, teacher wellbeing and teacher retention; what her views are on the potential for such a system; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any investigation by her Department into where children who died in industrial schools have been buried; whether the location of such grave sites are known; and if there has been any investigation into understanding what happened children who went missing from industrial schools. [22878/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will conduct a review into homework levels at primary and secondary level; her views on whether reduced levels of homework could lead to positive outcomes for children by freeing up time for play, recreation, arts and physical activities. [22879/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will work to implement a hierarchy of users-based approach to road safety and legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23083/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 300. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to make an order to commence Part 3 of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 regarding the right to request remote working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22548/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to give a budgetary breakdown of the 115% (€500,000) increase in allocation from €436,000 to €900,000 for consultancy services and value for money and policy reviews as contained in the Government Budget 2023 publication page 214 under Vote Number 20 for An Garda Síochána; and the reason for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there are still frontline workers who have not received the pandemic payment; the action a frontline healthcare worker should take if they believe they have not received a payment they were entitled to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22465/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has had with the Garda Commissioner regarding the incident where tents belonging to refugees were burned. [25167/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister will agree that the burning of tents of asylum seekers on Mount Street in recent weeks is probably one of the most disgusting things we have had to witness in our recent history. Will the Minister speak to the conversations he has had with the Garda Commissioner since these events and make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A level of disquiet was caused when the Taoiseach remarked that we did not have enough gardaí in Dublin city centre and the Minister contradicted that statement, as did the Garda Commissioner. There is disquiet also among the public as to how this was allowed to happen and how a policed protest and counterprotest were allowed to diminish into a scenario where people's homes were set on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister says he has been involved in protests. I have been involved in protests and I will continue to be involved in protests. If I blocked a road, I would be moved. I know I am speaking about two different scenarios but there is a feeling that the balance being struck is possibly imbalanced. We have a scenario where gardaí dealt with a situation in the way they saw fit but it...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (25 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: On behalf of the Labour Party I extend our sympathies to the family, friends and supporters of Noel Treacy, to his wife Mary and their four children, Joan, Emer, Lisa and Rory, and all his grandchildren and extended family. I did not serve in the House with him, but by all accounts he was a formidable politician serving the people of Galway East for nearly 30 years from 1982 up until 2011. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 235. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when his Department expects to proceed with the next stage of the Employment Permits Bill 2022; and if he can confirm that the Bill will be amended by Government to allow workers to change employer more easily. [23726/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an outline of the mechanism to access diagnosis and support for long-Covid cases in each of the CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23678/23]

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: While we welcome the Bill, we should all accept that if it ever comes to a courtroom and is utilised by the criminal justice system to criminalise somebody who has groomed a child for criminal behaviour, it will just prove that we have all failed. If it ever comes to a point at which somebody gets a sentence on the basis of how he or she has groomed a child for involvement in criminal...