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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been liaising with the Minister for Social Protection to ensure that there is a sick pay rebate mechanism to help small business employers with the payment of the double costs of a having a sick employee and having to pay for replacement staff, similar to the employee wage subsidy scheme during the pandemic and as...

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the vote is deferred until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I remind Members that other Members are hoping their questions further down the running order will be reached. I ask Members to stick to the timeframes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you, Deputy. The time is up.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you, Minister. We are well over time on this question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you, Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Prices (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider providing additional assistance towards the cost of installing a heat pump in cases in which homes are reliant on solid fuel for heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33990/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the three secondary schools (details supplied) in Dublin 15 that have agreed to open ASD classes for September 2022 will be provided with the relevant teaching staff, SNAs and other supports in time for the start of the academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students entering the newly opened ASD secondary classes in schools (details supplied) will be entitled to have any existing SNA allocations they have from primary school immediately transferred to their new school or if the secondary schools will have to seek reviews of their existing SNA allocations; and if she will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (30 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the eligibility criteria for school transport in answer to the demonstrated need as a response to the need for climate action and as a way to mitigate increases in the cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34896/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (30 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have raised the issue of school transport with the Minister on previous occasions. What are the plans to expand the eligibility criteria for school transport to respond to the demonstrated need, as a response to the need for climate action and as a way to mitigate increases in the cost of living?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (30 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I acknowledge the flexibility that has been increasingly built into the school transport system. This is less about expanding school transport and more about intensifying it. Can the Minister get to the bottom of the occupancy rate of school buses? Are they operating half full, three quarters full, or are they full to capacity? I have raised specific locations around Waterford and Tramore...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (30 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not expect the Minister to have the figures in front of her because the question is tangential to the one I tabled. Could the Department come back to me with the occupancy figures for the buses and whether they are full, three quarters or half full? If we are trying to get value for money for the taxpayer, the closer to full occupancy we can get, notwithstanding public health...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the forward planning that is being carried out in her Department to address and combat the spread of Covid-19 variants and other communicable diseases in school environments in the coming school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34897/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for being here. This is an important and time-bound committee that has quite a lot of work to do within a nine-month timeframe. Even thought we must take a much wider view of autism than just education, it would be widely acknowledged that children's access to appropriate education is a significant part of how they experience the world. It is not children with autism...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Let me start with a few specific questions. An average is very crude but at what age are children being diagnosed with autism because that affects access to services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If we are talking about children aged eight or nine, we have missed the boat in terms of early intervention. A secondary question - I wonder if it is a question at all - involves the complicating factor of disadvantage. I assume that wealthier parents have access to assessments more quickly because they can go private, which means that we have a complicating factor of disadvantage....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is it weeks, months or years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes. These are all going towards that idea of first presentation to when appropriate supports are put in place. Ms Prendeville said that possibly in or around 63% of children are still within mainstream classrooms. For the benefit of the committee, could she talk me through the continuing support process that will happen within schools? Again, there is a timeline issue. We should be...