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

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. Ashmore mentioned the United States anti-boycott legislation. What would be the worst-case scenario for Ireland if this legislation, if enacted, were to be categorised as coming within it?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: What activities are they engaged in that got them onto the database?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps his Department is taking to ensure that community centres and halls have access to insurance for public liability. [11697/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance whether services such as yoga, pilates, boxercise and spinning are being afforded a financial advantage over activities such as martial arts and gymnastics, which are required to charge VAT. [12701/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of occasions since January 2018 that his Department has sanctioned a financial package for an individual leaving the public service on foot of the provisions of circular 9 of 2018 issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and to identify the individual departments/agencies and the costs involved in each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the tender process and construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11630/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown, by county of the 212,000 students enrolled in approximately 670 post-primary schools who will benefit from the new scheme to provide free schoolbooks, in tabular form. [11794/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by county of the 39,900 homes, in the context of planning measures introduced in 2021, with some 39,900 homes granted planning permission with conditions prohibiting the bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to a single purchaser between May 2021 and December 2023. [11767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations restricting short-term lets in rent pressure zones. [12097/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 804. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions for dangerous cycling were taken in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11637/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the deployment of body cameras for Gardaí in the DMR north central. [12098/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 886. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the new statutory instrument extending Garda retirement age from 60 to 62 years will be signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12291/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 941. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources that were allocated in 2023 by An Garda Síochána to providing daily security outside the Russian Embassy; the cost of this security; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12692/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1191. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the rationale for capping the amount of funding for the Early Learning and Care Building Blocks Capital Grant Stage 2 at €100,000 to include professional fees and VAT, while not allowing early learning and care services the use of their own reserves; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1356. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the patient discharge policy operating in St. Vincent's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12219/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I will start with a question about the digital grant for schools. On the last occasion the Minister was before the committee, I raised the schools excellence fund. One of the issues I had with it was that priority was not given to DEIS schools. Will such priority be given in respect of the digital grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I remember on the last occasion - I think it was in respect of the schools excellence funds - there may have been a lottery used, such were the numbers that applied. That is probably something the Department did not wish to do, but does the Minister envisage that happening in respect of the digital grant or will there be a more equitable way of doing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the strategy to promote STEM in the classroom, one of the historic issues this committee and people in education were concerned about was the number of girls getting involved in and continuing with STEM. Are measures being introduced by the Department? What is the Minister's current assessment of how we are doing as a State in terms of encouraging the study of STEM by girls, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister. I will raise another issue in respect of the redevelopment of the leaving certificate. I was pleased to see that there is a proposal being implemented to include drama and film studies as optional subjects for students completing the leaving certificate. Obviously, we have had extraordinary success in Ireland in recent times in respect of the film industry. It has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will finish not with a question but an exhortation. The Minister will recall that every time she comes before the committee I urge the building unit in her Department to focus on the need for a Gaelcholáiste in Dublin 2, 4 and 6. I want to emphasise that again. I am not looking for a response from the Minister now but I think there is a huge need for such a school in the area....