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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Private profits endanger children's lives. Deputy Farrell should stay quiet.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Farrell was on the council as well. What does he have to say?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the use of prone restraints in schools; if his attention has been drawn to a school that is using such restraints on children with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44830/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has examined a document (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44831/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the immediate steps he will take to ensure children are safe in school in view of the evidence in a document (details supplied) of physical and emotional harm being caused to children in schools through the use of unregulated seclusion and restraint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44832/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether schools are not inclusive of children with an ASD diagnosis; his further views on whether this cohort of children cannot reach their potential in the current education system; when he will fully implement the Education of Persons with Special Education Needs Act 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44833/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of contracts a company (details supplied) received to build schools; and the years in which each contract was awarded. [45101/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will accommodate two schools (details supplied) that cannot use their building due to building defects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45102/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the way in which the costs of remedial works for building work at two schools (details supplied) will be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45103/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeframe for the completion of remedial works for two schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45104/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a review of tendering processes in which companies with a poor record in fire safety and building standards will be excluded from future tenders for school building projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45105/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Facilities (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 1168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his policy regarding the hosting of political public meetings in local authority owned or funded community centres; if certain meetings are proscribed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44908/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Is there a time limit on this meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I have waited an hour, which is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Many local people are watching this and in case the Minister has to leave I have questions that parents want me to ask him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The people in the two Tyrrelstown schools have been in close contact with the Department but I will start with a very general issue and then get into some particulars. Like everyone else, what the Minister is basically saying is that the clerk of works does not actually check work; he or she keeps the work moving.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister is effectively telling an Oireachtas committee that buildings with thousands of young people in them for five to six hours or more each day and hundreds of employees working in them are built and no safety checks are carried out on them before the Department takes control of them and puts people into them. I think many people out there will be scratching their heads in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister, Deputy Bruton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes. I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I keep losing track. I meant the former Minister.