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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Students (18 Jun 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on visa requirements for international students in third level courses (details supplied). [26167/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Jun 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update regarding his predecessor’s commitment to introduce legislation to ensure student accommodation leases are confined to the academic year of 41 weeks, following a pattern by private student accommodation providers to only offer rooms to students on a 51-week basis. [26168/24]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. We in the Labour Party had a similar motion last week. As others have mentioned, Natasha O’Brien is here. It would be unfair for anybody in the Opposition to suggest that the Minister has not been active in this area since her appointment as Minister for Justice. I ask her to continue to do so. However, it is true that there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This is probably the last interaction the Taoiseach and I will have for a while as I have got a new job.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Bonjour. When the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance do not remember the 1990 World Cup, you realise you are a total aul' fella and need to get out. The important point I want to make today, in what is probably the last interaction I will have with the Taoiseach for a while, is on an issue I have raised a number of times in recent years. It is the reason I got involved in politics in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Research has shown that a three-year-old from a middle-class advantaged background will have 1,200 words in their vocabulary, while a three-year-old from a disadvantaged background will have 400 words in their vocabulary. Even by the time children are three years old, there is a massive gap in their capability to reach their full potential. This is before we bring in issues such as...

Deputies Elected as MEPs: Statements (11 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A Chathaoirligh, Ministers, my fellow newly elected MEPs and, in particular, Noreen Kehoe from our office, who is watching from the Gallery, if you get the privilege of being elected to Dáil Éireann, you enter probably the most famous room in Ireland. When my Labour Party colleagues and I were elected to here in 2011, we were so conscious that every word we uttered in here would be...