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Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Relations (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 718. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of any side agreements or commitments to enter into processes with trade unions or representative bodies in relation to various issues in the health service that were agreed during or on the margins of the recent public service pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10347/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the witnesses to the committee meeting and thank them for their opening statements. I am disappointed and sorry to hear that trust has broken down between them and the Department. As Dr. Brady said, they are not just from representative organisations but are speaking on behalf of children in schools. People sometimes regard representative organisations as entities unto themselves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is it working effectively and successfully at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Do Mr. Harris and Mr. O'Flanagan share the concerns that Dr. Brady has expressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Finally turning to Ms McDonagh and Mr. Jacquinot, I will refer to an interesting point raised in their opening statement. Ms McDonagh referred to the fact that politicians at national level positively present their performance by referring to greater expenditure. She said it is important to note that "the impact of this investment is not carefully reviewed, evaluated or monitored...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work on the four new classrooms for an ASD unit at schools (details supplied) which was sanctioned in June 2020, will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10896/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: A number of weeks ago, I raised with the Tánaiste the plight of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figure who at that time was incarcerated in an Arctic penal colony. We now know tragically that he was killed in that colony and his funeral has taken place. What is the Tánaiste's response on that? Other political prisoners have also been incarcerated by President Putin, in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Six weeks ago, that we discussed the plight of Alexei Navalny and his incarceration in the Arctic penal colony. At that time, I said that President Putin deals with his political opponents by either imprisoning them or poisoning them. 10 o’clock I should also have mentioned at the time that when those two options do not work, he takes a further step and kills him. It gives me...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The violations of human rights in Russia and the stamping out of political opposition are important because Russia as a country exerts significant influence throughout the world. There are very many other countries around the world which do not comply with the principles of human rights that we respect in this country but they are of limited influence. Unfortunately, globally, Russia's...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on his Department's meeting with the Russian Ambassador following the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10817/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the discussions with Yulia Navalnaya at the recent EU Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10818/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. Harris said in response to a question from Deputy Farrell that one of his concerns about the exceptional review process is that he does not think it would be independent. I know he also has other concerns because no budget has been allocated or identified. What did he mean when he said it was not independent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: We need to see the data as to the outcome of people's education.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms McDonagh. That is very interesting.

Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Maternity Protection Act 1994 and to provide for postponement of maternity leave where a mother has been diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness during pregnancy, and to provide for related matters. The purpose of this Bill is to amend the maternity protection Acts so that a mother who has...

Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for appearing today. We are doing pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill and I do not think there is any dispute as to the motivation or intention behind it. However, as legislators we need to check it out and see what the Department says in respect of it. The Bill is obviously based on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018, which amended the NTMA Act 2014 by putting in a...