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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the proposed cut in the primary summer programme grant and restore the grants from the proposed €30 per child to €45 per child. [16341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the DEIS summer programme scheme has been changed in order that literacy and numeracy inclusion camps must be run concurrently. [16342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children due to start a new school in September in the Dublin area who have yet to be offered a place in a local school; and the efforts her Department is making to ensure that every child will have a place in time. [16340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress of a new permanent school building for schools (details supplied); and when the building will be open for students. [16170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve the next stage in the redevelopment of a school (details supplied) and if she will meet the parents' association to outline the project plan. [16190/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 672. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the shortfall between the cost of prosthetic limbs for amputees and the reimbursement from insurance companies; and what action he proposes to bring them in to line. [16145/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 673. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the availability of paid for prosthetic limbs on the HSE to amputees beyond the first prosthesis and give full life long support to amputees in line with other long term health conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16146/24]

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Road safety is an issue that is seemingly spiralling out of control. This year is currently on course to prove the most lethal for traffic fatalities in 15 years, with all the good work that has been done in the years gone by completely erased. So far this year, 63 people have died on the roads, with the death toll climbing by an alarming 31% compared with the same period in 2023. In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (17 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the status of PhD researchers, that is, their classification as either students or employees, will be published. [16843/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I apologise for being late. If anything I ask has already been spoken about, I apologise. I thank the witnesses very much for the work they do. In my political work I come across a lot of young people in various communities who are very taken with the glamour of the life of crime. It is very lucrative. People do not need many qualifications...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes, that is pretty much it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank Mr. Gubbins. I just want to get the Bar Council's response to the question on constitutionality.

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The truth shall set you free, or so they say. What we heard last Thursday was, indeed, the truth. We can only pray that the truth has begun to set the families of the 48 free – free from the campaigning, the meetings, the closed doors, the trauma, the criticism and the lies, free from 43 years of seeking the truth, free from the disgusting suspicion that the phrase “probable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered the establishment of a knife amnesty to help address the problem of knife crime. [17752/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister made a move towards addressing knife crime last week. Has she considered introducing an amnesty in this regard?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am interested in what the Minister of State said. I am aware of an instance in the UK where a knife amnesty was initiated. A family member of someone who carries a knife or someone who is aware of a knife in a household avails of an opportunity to drop the knife into a box, be it in a community centre, a police station or somewhere else that is safe. This takes some knives out of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am not hung up on the idea of a knife amnesty. It was just something I wanted to tease out. We need a change in culture among young and not so young people to ensure the carrying of a knife is simply not acceptable in our society, is not needed and leads to harm. I am interested in listening to public awareness campaigns. I spoke to the Minister in a committee meeting earlier about a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to restate her intention to pursue the passing of hate crime legislation this year. [17753/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: In the public sphere, the Minister has restated her commitment to hate crime legislation. In light of rumblings from Government backbenches and from the Opposition and of people abandoning their previous commitments to supporting hate crime legislation, will she now take the opportunity to speak to her own commitment to pass hate crime legislation?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am reassured by that and I thank the Minister for her response. A Croatian man was beaten to death a couple of weeks ago because he did not speak English. We have had 23 arson attacks on accommodation centres over the last number of years. Members of the LGBTQ+ community and their families know what it is like to feel afraid that they will be assaulted for who they are. We are behind...