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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive response. Is it mandatory for teachers who work with children with additional needs such as autism to have a specific level of training and qualification before they work with these children? If so, what is the extent of those qualifications and that training, certification and oversight?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to establish a new special school in Midleton, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34894/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: This is an issue I have been going on about for quite some time, and I know my colleague Deputy Buckley is also interested in this. That issue is the need to establish a special school in east Cork. We have children travelling long distances out of the area into Cork city, Dungarvan and so on and going on 100 km round trips every day. What plans are there to establish a special school in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of Stated for her interesting response and for her engagement with me on this. I want to encourage her to keep battling to try to get this done. Is she aware there was agreement a number of years ago to establish a special school and a premises was identified? Then, for other reasons outside of everyone's control, that premises was no longer available and the plan was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State and encourage and support the work she is doing to set up a special school in the area. I agree on integration but am aware that some special schools in Cork city, where these children have to go, have waiting lists, so we have children with no place. I appeal to the Minister of State to talk to the NCSE to get this work done quickly. I know what happens in...

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

David Stanton: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with respect to secondary school places in the east Cork area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34891/22]

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

David Stanton: As my colleague, Deputy Buckley, said just now, east Cork is experiencing rapid growth and the county development plan recently published indicates phenomenal growth in the area. I acknowledge the Minister visited east Cork recently. It was a welcome and successful visit. She met with the principals, visited two schools and they are still talking about it. There is a need for forward...

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

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I know she is aware of the unrelenting pressure on principals all this year and in previous years with respect to waiting lists. At the start of this year, some schools had 300 children on the waiting list. I know there has been duplication of enrolment with many parents applying to more than one school because they were concerned about not getting a...

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

David Stanton: I thank the Minister and acknowledge the massive amount of work that is being done. Many of these schools are already bursting at the seams and are almost oversubscribed with students, so we are running fast to stand still. The work is very welcome and I am not decrying it in any way but we need to be proactive in our forward planning. I again ask the Minister whether she will ask her...

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

David Stanton: My colleague Deputy Carroll MacNeill sends her apologies. She asked me to raise this issue about a decision to re-evaluate a school and its grounds.

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

David Stanton: The Minister has answered all my questions in that comprehensive and positive response. I thank her for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: My second question relates to the Revolution report, which was published in July 2021, before the terrible war in Ukraine. We have seen reports across the board about how costs have gone up dramatically. There are supply cost issues, supply chain issues and so forth. The costs of the material have gone up. Mariupol had the biggest steel plant in Europe. That is kaput now; it is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: There is a built-in assumption that if we do not get moving here, we could be left behind in all kinds of ways. It was put to me recently that Scotland is moving ahead. It has connectors to Northern Ireland and across here. If we do not move here, could we end up importing offshore wind-generated electricity from Scotland rather than producing our own? Is that a risk?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I join with Deputy Bruton and others here who have spoken about the potential for green hydrogen and the capacity for it to be generated from offshore wind-generated electricity. This is really exciting and far-seeing. How far away are we from that happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: The grid interconnector to France is in the planning stages at the moment. It is to be located in my part of the country. It has caused a certain amount of angst among some residents. There is the whole issue of the grid upgrade. We hear of more pylons being spoken about. I am sure Mr. Cunniffe has been down that route as well and has heard about it. If we need more pylons to upgrade...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: The potential here is enormous. That comes across from the witnesses' passion. I ask Mr. Ivers and Ms O'Connell to tell us a little about their companies, what they do and what their ambition is. I would like to give them the opportunity while they are here, if the Chair does not mind, to give an idea of what they do. Mr. Ivers said he has feet on the ground. What are the witnesses doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: Dead right.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Youth Services (5 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: I compliment the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, on the work they are doing in this area. As my colleague, Deputy Michael Moynihan, has just said, it is of great importance. How is the youth joint agency response to crime, which is related to this question in many ways, going? Are there plans to expand it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: I agree with my colleague that we need gardaí on the beat, out on the street and visible. A lot of them are tied up with paperwork and filing reports and so forth. What is the situation with respect to the other branch of the Garda that has not been mentioned, namely, the Garda Reserve? I understand there are moves afoot to recruit members to it. What are the plans there and when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her words earlier. I want to commend her on the work she has done with respect to the increased number of refuge places. I ask her again to redouble the work on the availability of violent pornography. I agree with the Minister that it has a pernicious effect. I have been reading some reports on it recently and it is very scary and frightening. I ask that the...