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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to establish additional ASD units in the primary schools in Kinsealy, Malahide and Portmarnock, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3040/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of new accommodation for August 2020 for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3068/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school build for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3069/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the opening of the new Gaelscoil in Donabate, County Dublin; if it will be ready for August 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3070/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 411. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of works on Rush Garda station; the date the station is scheduled to be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3455/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the gratuity due to certain home help workers in lieu of pension payments has not issued to date in line with the recommendations of the Labour Court. [2948/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 617. To ask the Minister for Health when the gratuity payment due to certain home help workers will be made in lieu of pension payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2947/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 1048. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the substantial cuts imposed on members of a pension scheme (details supplied) in advance of the sale of the stake owned by the State in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 1138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an independent review group will be established within her Department to assess the level and impact of cuts suffered by all categories of members in a pension scheme (details supplied) due to changes in legislation and in particular the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014, and subsequent reductions in members'...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Butler. I thank the Minister of State for outlining the provisions of the Bill. I assure him that Fianna Fáil will work constructively to improve this legislation. We welcome many aspects of the rental package contained in the Bill but we believe that it needs to be strengthened further. We need to protect renters. We need to secure the...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, lines 24 and 25, to delete “such day as the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government may by order appoint” and substitute “the 30th day of March 2020”. The amendment seeks to tidy up one aspect of the Bill, which the Minister of State might wish to speak to. It will remove the discretion from the Minister in...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I will withdraw the amendment.

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I wish to speak to amendment No. 8. The exceptional emergency measures put in place last week were badly needed but the legislation still needs to be improved upon. Those measures were put forward by a caretaker Government. While I agree with most of the measures we are putting forward today in the 33rd Dáil, I firmly believe normal scrutiny will return under a future Government....

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I wish to inform colleagues that the Business Committee has already decided the Dáil should sit next Thursday and the following Thursday. My proposal is that in 90 days, these extraordinary powers would be reviewed. Oversight has to return to the Dáil proper. The people in a Republic are sovereign through us as their representatives. That is why it is incredibly important that...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, line 32, to delete "Health, and" and substitute the following: "Health, (b) subject to a vote of approval by both Houses of the Oireachtas, and".

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I am pressing it.

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: On amendment No. 38, I understand where Deputy Ó Broin is going with this and I would like to hear the remarks of the Minister of State. I refer to one of the things Deputy Ó Broin calls for within 30 days post the crisis. That is one of the reasons why in the previous Fianna Fáil amendment that we wanted the Oireachtas to be recalled after 90 days in order that one could...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I wish to share time with my colleagues, Deputies James Browne, Niall Collins and Éamon Ó Cuív. I thank the Minister for his update. I welcome the move with regard to commercial rates. It is crucial, and while we may have to do more in that regard, it gives a degree of certainty. They are not insignificant sums. On mortgages, the Minister mentioned what the...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I will. I had forgotten that. I will conclude there so.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (13 May 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the necessary financial assistance will be provided to Fingal County Council to tackle the alarming rate of coastal erosion that is occurring at Rush, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4166/20]