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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to reintroduce the teaching through Irish allowance for teachers in Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3647/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what the appeals process is for an administrative error resulting in the incorrect categorisation of a teacher's fee fund application resulting in a significant financial loss as happened in a case of a teacher (details supplied); and if her Department could make inquiries to help rectify the issue. [4231/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by division in each of the years 2018 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [4135/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the overall allocation to drugs units in each county in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [4137/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 423. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new recruits to An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2018 to 2023 and to date in 2024; the number of retirements from An Garda Síochána in the corresponding timeframe; and the number of resignations from An Garda Síochána. [4136/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 503. To ask the Minister for Health what if any transport support schemes are available to disabled patients such as a person (details supplied) who attend the National Rehabilitation centre in Dun Laoghaire for rehabilitation. [3729/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on his Department's work on the borrowing framework for technological universities; if there is a proposed timeline for when such a framework would be published; if he recognises the disadvantage that the inability to borrow places on technological universities compared with traditional universities in respect of borrowing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I join the Tánaiste in wishing Mr. Charlie O'Leary, a constituent of mine, a happy 100th birthday. I understand that the Tánaiste received correspondence from the British Labour Party at the beginning of September with regard to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill that is going through the British Houses of Parliament and its implications for the Good Friday...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The role of the coroner is vital. Coroners are charged with the most sensitive and difficult cases. Deaths that are sudden, unnatural, violent or unexplained are reported to the coroner. As well as the basic investigative function of the coroner, there is a public duty to draw attention to the existence of circumstances which, if left unremedied, might lead to further deaths. There is an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of substitutable primary teacher absences overall, and on a county by county basis, which were not covered by a substitute teacher and those that were covered by an unregistered person, between 1 September 2023 and 31 January 2024. [5281/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (7 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to increase the 12 month extension period to the residence permission for graduates with a level 8 qualification under the third level graduate scheme; if he has considered increasing it to 18 months and to 24 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5103/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (7 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to increase the maximum limit of seven years for permission to remain in Ireland under the third-level graduate scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5105/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (7 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason graduates outside of Dublin cannot apply online for the 12-month extension period to their residence permission while graduates in Dublin can do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the final additional information for preschools regarding the submission of core funding finance requirements and programme income which needs to be submitted will be available from his Department to allow preschools to file in accordance with the guidelines issued on 22 December 2023 and in time for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what efforts are being made by his Department to increase the number of professionals providing services for autism and special needs children; and how many college places have been made available in each of the past five years for students wishing to qualify as speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and specialist child...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I support what Deputy Gannon is saying. I, too, have been contacted by a number of schools in respect of this issue. The reality is that the old system was based on school data and included enrolment, gender, which the Minister of State has indicated is no longer a criterion, the profile of the school, complex needs and the level of deprivation. Under the new system, which is again based...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will conduct an investigation into the steep rise in exemptions from the study of Irish at primary and post-primary level to assess the learning necessity for those exemptions and develop strategies to minimise the number of and necessity for exemptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6266/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I hope we will return soon to the debate we have just been having. My question relates to exemptions for the study of the Irish language, of which, it seems, an increasing number are being granted at primary and post-primary level. Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?