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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (26 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the engagement he and his Department have had with the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2022 to date; if the Taliban government in Afghanistan has withdrawn staff who engage with Ireland through its non-resident embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38319/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: 202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1042 of 9 September 2024, the information provided through Garda vetting of an individual in relation to both hate crime and hate incidents for example, where an offence under investigation is tagged as a hate crime in accordance with the perception test; if this will appear in a Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: 203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1042 of 9 September 2024, where she refers to the operation of hate crime legislation in neighbouring jurisdictions, if she is aware that the vast majority of offences are tried before a jury in England, while in Ireland, the vast majority of offences will be tried in the District Court...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (26 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: 249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update regarding an application made by a company on behalf of a person (details supplied); if he could provide an approximate timeframe indicating when this applicant will receive compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38247/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Housing Provision (26 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: 260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the total budget allocated by Government to develop and implement the rapid-build housing programme to ensure accommodation for families fleeing the war in Ukraine who request it; the number of short-term accommodation and modular units provided under the programme to date; the total cost; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Housing Provision (26 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: 261. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can confirm that the rapid-build units being delivered under the European Union (Planning and Development) (Displaced Persons From Ukraine Temporary Protection) Regulations 2022 and the rapid-build housing programme are precluded from use as social housing by local authorities; and if he will make a...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that we have seen some positive measures announced today. However, my overall sense is that these measures are short-term and are reflective of the short-term thinking of the Government. In other words, they are electioneering, and that is the only way that many people are looking at this,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: The verdict is in. This budget has been exposed for the shallow but expensive exercise in Government propaganda that it is. The headline measures have been exposed as having little to no long-term benefit. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul's assessment is that while some of the measures are welcome, the budget lacks focus and was untargeted to those who needed it the most. Where is the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Today I wish to raise the urgent need for an elective surgery hub at Midlands General Hospital in Tullamore. This is an issue I have been raising locally since March and I also sought a meeting with the Minister for Health at the time. I received a letter from a senior member of the medical team at the hospital that highlighted the issue around this case. At the time, the hospital was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his reply. He mentioned record levels of investment but we need to see more investment in Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore. It is disappointing that the Minister for Health did not respond to my request to work constructively with him and have a meeting with him on this very serious issue. Health is important. When elderly patients cannot access care at their...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I have raised the issues relating to approved housing bodies on the floor of this House a number of times. I have engaged with the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority in the past few weeks on its efforts to monitor compliance with approved standards. I acknowledge the very constructive and open response I received from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Dialogue on Women in Agriculture: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I want to commend all the witnesses. I spoke to them earlier. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are lots of good things and lots of positivity happening around agriculture in Ireland. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are many good things happening and much positivity in agriculture in Ireland. Unfortunately, women were airbrushed into the background for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his presentation. On student accommodation, he referred to student accommodation for targeted students being below market price. Who are the target students? What is the qualifying criteria? How would the programme be rolled out? How would students be informed that they could apply for the exemption or support?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Who are the target students? What are the categories? Does the Department lay out the criteria for the universities to follow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I fully agree with the Minister that the mindset around apprenticeships needs to change. It definitely does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Apprenticeships are of equal value to a university degree. We in Ireland need to change our view of apprenticeships. As the Minister rightly said, in Germany and other places people take a different view of apprenticeship and they are treated as equivalent to a university degree, and rightly so. The Minister is right that we do need to reach parents. Is there collaboration with career...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Yes. The Minister mentioned career guidance teachers. They have shown leadership on this issue. Traditionally, some schools are better than others at promoting apprenticeships at a whole-school level. It is unfair to directly blame any career guidance teacher but some schools have a culture of apprenticeships. The school I attended was known as "the tech" at the time and such schools...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by the Office of Public Works that were non-compliant with procurement guidelines in each year from 2017 to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39789/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of growing concern among parents and educators regarding what they perceive as the inappropriately sexualised context of the SPHE curriculum for young children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39806/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if concerns around disparity of treatment with respect to a child benefit measure announced in Budget 2025 (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40019/24]