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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management Regulations (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 391. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to implement legislative measures compelling private waste collectors to provide more detailed guidance to their domestic customers regarding the types of plastics or other material that can or cannot be put in the green bin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50746/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Schemes Data (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 392. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the energy upgrade work funded by his Department over the past two years, by county (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50751/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Safety (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided to Waterways Ireland or another relevant body to upgrade the footpath and provide lighting between Broombridge station and the new developments at Pelletstown in view of the fact that commuters face a dangerous journey between the two locations at present and the current situation will limit the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the jobs initiative scheme; the reason persons working on the scheme are being asked to transfer from their existing contracts to one year contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50755/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of decisions before An Bord Pleanála that have been delayed over the past year; the number that involved the construction of residential units; the number of residential units impacted; the measures being taken to ensure that An Bord Pleanála will have increased capacity to make decisions; when he...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to tackle the lack of public transport options for school students in the Clonskeagh and Goatstown area of Dublin, particularly schools (details supplied) with regard to the pressure put on public transport services by nearby University College Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Expenditure (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's expenditure in the adult education sector over the past five years; the projected additional funding to be provided to the adult education sector in 2018; the investment in each adult education centre in County Wicklow over the past five years; and the projected additional funding for each centre for 2018, in tabular form; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: 455. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to secure the provision of a school warden for a school (details supplied) for the safety of schoolchildren crossing the Green Luas line at Windy Arbour Luas station in view of the fact that the Luas track is not within the remit of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: 527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount his Department has spent and the number of additional housing units delivered over the past 18 months in each category (details supplied), in tabular form. [51972/17]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: Chairman, I have a number of issues to raise but I can do so under the subheading rather than now. I concur with my colleagues on some of the issues they have raised.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: Apologies, I should have come in on subhead A03. In general, I cannot let the opportunity go without raising the issue, as the Chair has referenced, of equal pay for equal work. Our young teachers play a vital role. They are highly skilled, specialised classroom practitioners with significant far-reaching responsibilities for our children on a daily basis. They are being devalued. The...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: First, I want to acknowledge how willing the Minister of State always is to listen to and engage with Members when they raise individual constituency issues, and that has definitely been my experience. I thank him for that. I have spoken to the Minister of State on an individual constituency issue so I will not deal with the ins and outs of it, although I may have to follow up with him...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: The second issue is in regard to schools that have temporary rather than permanent homes. There is a school in my constituency which has had a site identified in Ballinteer but there have been planning issues in regard to getting a permanent home, so the school has been temporarily housed in Churchtown. The students have been in Ballinteer and it has been a Ballinteer school for six years,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: There is a planning issue in Ballinteer. The school has been moved as the site could not hold it any longer, given the number of students. They are being temporarily housed in a school that had been closed down.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: Yes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: On a somewhat related point in regard to the minor works grant allocation, which I was delighted to see the Minister of State announce today, I notice that in 2015 it was announced on 5 November, last year it was announced on 17 November, this year it has been announced in December and it is indicated to be announced next in January 2019. This is very frustrating for schools and many schools...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: On the curlew and the yellowhammer, which were mentioned before, some speakers have mentioned existing threats to these birds which are at risk of global extinction. As I am not an expert in this field, perhaps Mr. Copeland will confirm that March is a month of nesting, is it not? Is that when they establish territories and so on? Will Mr. Copeland confirm whether this Bill will decimate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: I am from the stony grey soil of Monaghan. I was born and bred in rural Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (6 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a module on animal welfare and responsible pet ownership to the primary school curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51917/17]

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Martin: The Bill before the House this evening is a missed opportunity to strive towards one of the most important underlying principles of fairness and justice in our society, the principle of equal pay for equal work. It is a fundamental undermining of this principle that any person should be paid considerably less for doing the same job simply because they started work after a certain date. This...