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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Reviews (1 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 will commence; the person or body to which interested parties can make submissions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4286/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which the four autistic spectrum disorder classrooms designated for a new school (details supplied) are all to be based in the junior school rather than split evenly between the junior and senior school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4287/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 647. To ask the Minister for Health if nurses working with a general practitioner practice in the community can be considered for receipt of payment of the bonus for frontline healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4346/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not think it is possible to overstate the impact and importance universities have had on the course of Irish history. We all know the role that was played by Trinity College over the centuries but there was also the establishment of the Catholic University of Ireland in the 19th century. That became the Royal University of Ireland and subsequently the National University of Ireland,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee. I also thank Deputy Ó Ríordáin for his work on the legislation. There is a rather unusual provision in the legislation. Section 62(7)(e) lists the categorisations or issues a school is not entitled to take into account when admitting a child into school. Section 62(7)(e)(vi) states: "a student’s connection to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does the ACCS believe that this rule is necessary still?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: My own assessment of it from my own constituency, and I say this with all due respect to Deputy Ó Ríordáin, is that I do not believe there is a desire on the part of parents to perpetuate an elitism by getting their child into the school they went to. The issue is that parents want to get their child into what they perceive as the best local school, and it can irritate them if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the requirement for children to wear masks in school can be lifted in the immediate future in view of the improved public health situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 145. To ask the Minister for Health if the requirement for children to wear masks in school can be lifted in the immediate future in view of the improved public health situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5294/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commemorative Events (3 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yesterday marked the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. It is an event that deserves to be commemorated and recognised by this State. Over the past ten years, we have engaged with a lot of commemoration in terms of the important historic political events we have commemorated, including the commemoration of the Irish involvement in the First World War, the Easter Rising...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commemorative Events (3 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I am pleased to hear that progress is being made in terms of the commemoration of Ulysses. I welcome the detail contained with the reply. It is fair to say James Joyce had a difficult relationship with Ireland. He probably would be surprised that, in a national Parliament, Members are standing up to commemorate the publication of his great book...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Union (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government remains committed to Ireland’s participation in the Unified Patent Court initiative which is now to commence in 2022 with or without Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6011/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Union (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government has been asked at European-level to clarify or has provided an update on its position on Ireland’s participation in the Unified Patent Court initiative at European Council level, to the Preparatory Committee on the Unified Patent Court or to other contracting states on a bilateral basis; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Union (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when Ireland will ratify the agreement on a Unified Patent Court (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Union (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will publish a timetable for ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Union (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to the fact that a previous reply to a Parliamentary Question on this matter stated Ireland’s ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, 2013/C 175/01 was being kept under review in the context of the timing of the coming into force of the Unified Patent Court, if this will now change given that the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority moved the bike lane from the Luas Finglas against the wishes of Transport for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6009/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a direction can be given to national schools that they can now admit children into the school yard in order to let them play before school commences now that Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6582/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to bring forward legislation to combat the threat of violence posed by the unlawful possession of knives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5911/22]