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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank Ms McDonnell Byrne. I do not know if anybody else wants to talk about the wider impacts of trauma in the family setting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Okay. Is it fair to say the witnesses broadly welcome the proposed legislation but feel elements of it need to be amended or improved, rather than us having to start from scratch? I think Ms Lewis spoke to this.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 18, lines 16 and 17, to delete all words from and including “(1) The” in line 16 down to and including line 17 and substitute the following: “(1) The Minister may, following consultation with the chief executive, appoint such and so many officers of the Minister as he or she may determine, to be members of staff of the Agency.”....
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It still needs to be in the Bill. I am happy to withdraw the amendment and ask the Minister to reflect on it prior to Report Stage. It would give an awful lot more comfort to NGOs and others working in the area if it were stitched into legislation that the CEO had a consultative role with the Minister on appointments to the agency. I accept the Minister will not accept the amendment. I...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is more than one case in her Department where her education representatives have not engaged with the relevant contractor, arising from substantial building works; and to ensure that any snags or defects arising from substantial building works were remedied before the expiry of the defects liability period and if so, the number of...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail how pyrite remediation was funded in each of the six schools it was identified in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44821/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the reason her Department representatives did not engage with the relevant contractor to ensure that any snags or defects were remedied in a school (details supplied) arising from substantial building works there, before the expiry of the defects liability period. [44823/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (17 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 395. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will instigate an independent investigation into the treatment of whistleblowers within the Prison Service, such as in the case of a person (details supplied), with specific reference to dignity at work and the use of the Civil Service code to discipline staff. [45167/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Library Projects (18 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) Demonstration Library Project and JCSP Digital Library Service will be expanded; and if she will consider including a school (details supplied). [45389/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: If there is no problem, then give a card to every child.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: So, there is nothing to see here and everything is okay.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is the recruitment freeze on the Tánaiste's list?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has said she-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Everything is fine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Another report so.
- Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I want to absolutely reject that final aspiration anyway.
- Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State and very much appreciate this opportunity to discuss this important topic of sport, which is sometimes relegated. When we think of the lives we all live and of our communities, it is sports clubs and involvement in sport that lift so many communities, families and individuals, and even the entire country. Reference has been made to our international teams and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (19 Oct 2023)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason why the optimum target of €25,000 for the PhD stipend as recommended by the first report of the National Review of State Supports for PhD Researchers, was not implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45541/23]