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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 510. To ask the Minister for Health if she will make pregabalin a controlled substance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40994/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the issue created by the technological universities where posts in disciplines which are heavily industry focused remain unfilled due to targets set for PhD-qualified staff (details supplied); if he will review the TU legislation to see whether a more appropriate balance between professionally experienced staff requirements...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of plans to cut up to 20 courses from the Technical University Dublin; what support can be given to ensure that courses with strategic importance, such as geospatial surveying or architectural timber technology, can be identified and protected, even where there are lower numbers of students at present; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SALI professorship awarded to TU Dublin has been advertised and filled. [41239/23]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The purpose of the Bill is to establish the domestic, sexual and gender-based violence agency as a stand-alone statutory body under the Department of Justice with responsibility for tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. The establishment of this agency is welcome and the Labour Party very much welcomes it. It is in line with the State's international treaty obligations on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Today, the criminal justice system has, effectively, collapsed under the Taoiseach's watch. Fine Gael has held the Department of Justice, in an unbroken manner, for 12 years. Today, the criminal courts are not sitting because criminal barristers have withdrawn their labour. This was notified to the Government on 12 July. Fine Gael has nobody else to blame because it holds the Ministry of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Any community, barrister or garda will listen to what the Taoiseach has said and feel as if it is somebody else's responsibility, not the Taoiseach's. The Taoiseach knew about this dispute coming since 12 July and he has let the criminal courts of justice fall today. The Bar Council states it has had no engagement. It falls completely and utterly on the Taoiseach, as the leader of Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The legislation say it has.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Did she ask it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is no process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I was not here for the presentation. I may have a different view than others on the nature of schools, in that we have too many of them. There are 4,000 schools this country, which has a population similar to that of Manchester. At primary level, there are junior schools, senior schools, girls schools, boys schools, Catholic schools, schools of every other religion you can think of,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Do the schools contact the Department if they have a concern? The Department does not go and inspect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can I interrupt Mr. Loftus, and I am sorry, Chair; I know I am way over my time. Does the Department do something like a play space audit? I will give an example. It is not the case anymore, but the school I spent 11 years in did not have a yard. Children went home for lunch and they used to cross a very busy thoroughfare to go home for lunch. These were primary school children. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 127. To ask the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the Policing Reform Implementation Programme Office convened in 2022 and 2023. [42120/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 128. To ask the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the Implementation Group on Policing Reform convened in 2022 and 2023. [42121/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 129. To ask the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the High-Level Steering Board on Policing Reform convened in 2022 and 2023. [42122/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 130. To ask the Taoiseach if he has been presented with annual reports for the ‘A Policing Service for our Future Plan’ for each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if so, if they can be made available to the public. [42123/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 131. To ask the Taoiseach when the latest report on progress for APSFF was made to the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42124/23]