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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a timeline for the publication of the final review report on supports for PhD researchers in Ireland that deals with the status of a PhD researcher and classification as either a student or an employee. [45539/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a commitment that other PhDs directly reliant on government funding outside of IRC or SFI will receive an increase in their PhD stipend. [45542/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the supports available to graduate entry medicine students, and to clarify if he will extend existing supports to graduate entry medicine students. [45540/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Will any changes in eligibility for flood relief supports for those in Waterford and Cork, which is completely justifiable, also be forwarded to my constituents in Dublin who experienced flooding in August? In light of the conclusion of work of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use, I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that there is massive momentum now for a change in drug policy here to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the fact that experienced second level teachers such as a teacher (details supplied) who qualified in the UK are being lost to Irish teaching by what are perceived as onerous requirements to duplicate existing qualifications; and her views on whether there is scope for adjusting requirements to make it easier for schools to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 415. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who have had charges entered against them for simple possession of a controlled drug for their own personal use in each of the years 2017 to 2022 and to date in 2023. [46656/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many PhD researchers are funded by his Department, including those funded by agencies and bodies under the auspices of his Department, and who will not be receiving the increase in stipend to €22,000. [46158/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he proposes to make up the shortfall in the PhD stipend, to ensure that PhD researchers such as a researcher (details supplied) who have been excluded from the planned increase in stipends for PhD students, are treated in an equitable manner with other Government-funded PhD students by being given an increase in the stipend to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that the exclusion of Government-funded non SFI/IRC PhD researchers from the increase in stipend funding to €22,000 complies with all relevant employment and equality legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46214/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ask individual Government Department agencies and bodies who fund PhD research outside the SFI/IRC programme to finance increases in PhD stipends to provide equality with their SFI/IRC counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhD researchers funded through Government departments or public bodies or agencies under the auspices of those departments but are outside the SFI/IRC funding schemes; and the number of such students funded by each department. [46166/23]

European Parliament Directive on Victims of Crime: Motion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The purpose of this motion is to allow the Government to enter into negotiations with the EU to allow Ireland to opt in to a change to EU directive 2012/29/EU on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime. The proposal has five main objectives. The first is to improve victims' access to information. The second is to make victim protection align with the needs of victims and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will make an unapologetic Dublin-centric presentation. I would like the two garda representatives to respond on the overall numbers of resignations from An Garda Síochána. The figures I have show that there were 26 resignations in 2013, 27 in 2014, and the numbers were similar until 2017 when there were 41. In 2018, the number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Where did they get the money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The school was funded somehow to take a judicial review against the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party joins in offering our condolences to Deputies Verona Murphy and Mitchell on the death of their respective fathers. The issue of staffing levels in our schools is a crisis and we need to have a debate on it this week. A survey released yesterday showed that 800 teaching posts are unfilled in the primary school system. That could be as high as 1,200. I visited a school...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Home care.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is very important.

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith for tabling the motion, which has been lauded across the House as timely. It has even been termed "fantastic". It is a very important motion. As the Minister of State will be aware, the Labour Party only gets this time to raise an issue every six weeks so we always pick something that is close to our hearts. In this respect, it is doubly disappointing that the...