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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 555. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to fund early childhood care and education scheme operators to finance a graduate uplift payment for childcare staff who have skilled up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24586/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: I raise the situation of Ukrainian students who wish to access third level and, indeed, fourth level education since arriving here following the invasion of their country on 24 February. How many have taken up places and what procedures is the Department putting in place to facilitate them and to ease the transfer?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: How many of the 250 contacts the Minister mentioned are likely to seek places? Is that information available? To broaden it out, can those who seek apprenticeships access that contact point? Will they be supported by the ETBs? Will the examination the Minister mentioned be the passageway to potentially beginning college in the next academic year for those Ukrainian equivalents of leaving...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline measures to improve funding supports for students in further and higher education, including an update on the review of the SUSI grant scheme and an update on the implementation group to look at the issue of future funding of our higher education institutions, grant supports and reform implementation; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: The Minister recently made an announcement of substantial extra funding for third level education. He also committed to revamping the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme. I am interested in where we are with that and about its timeline. How will the extra funding he announced for third level address the problems that we have just discussed?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister. He has been in this House for long enough to know that money will not absolve people from not taking responsibility. We are good at throwing money at things, but we need to make sure that we get outcomes. What is the timeline to reduce the teacher-student ratio or lecturer-student ratio? The student contribution is currently €3,000 per annum. The Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: Could we anticipate a reduction in the student contribution fee or an increase in SUSI in 2023? It is important that we expand the available SUSI grant support. I am with the Minister on the student contribution. It is a fee. "Student contribution" is a silly, insulting phrase. It is a fee and it excludes many people from education. The same people are hit all the time. They may be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan. This is in respect of the targets of the national retrofitting scheme and comes back to some of the discussion around apprenticeships. There is a commitment to get an extra 2,600 places in the nearly zero energy building apprenticeship. What is the position with that target? Is the Minister confident it will be met?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: The target of the national retrofitting scheme is 500,000 houses. It is an extraordinary target. It really needs a Marshall Plan effort to reach it given its complexity. We are nowhere near that. Is there a co-ordination point within the Department to ensure all the courses - the Minister of State mentioned a figure of 60 - are delivering the places we need? A commitment was made at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: I reiterate my call for a central point. Someone needs to take charge of this in the Department. The person should be co-ordinating all the activity to ensure somebody has the target in mind. I note the list of centres the Minister of State gave in his initial answer. There is no centre planned for the west coast. It is all about the midlands. In the west, we have houses that need...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, on the funding secured and on the implementation plan relating to this report. The report is a credit to them, their advisers and the Department. Yesterday, I was struck by Deputy Whitmore's comment to the effect that the NPWS has moved around seven different locations. At least it now has a permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 76. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies in each of counties Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal that have applied for funding under the Irish Innovation Seed Fund Programme in tabular form; the number that have been successful in each county; and the total funding awarded in each county to date; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the progress made to date in the implementation in the West region of the IDA Strategy - Driving Recovery & Sustainable Growth 2021 – 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24972/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way his Department is seeking to target CAO places in areas of acute skills needs as identified through our national skills architecture and workforce planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25269/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to increase sentences for sexual assault and violent offences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial System (24 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to update and revise bail laws; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25994/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options that are available to a community in which an unauthorised development is being constructed in spite of the first planning enforcement letter having been issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25735/22]

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: Whatever about the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, not being present, the fact that no officials from the Department are physically present in the Chamber to observe the debate speaks more volumes. The Minister is busy, I understand, and the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, will probably tell me that the officials are watching the debate from home or online, but that speaks to a bigger...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuairimí an Aosa Óg: Plé (18 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus leis an gcléireach as ucht cuireadh a thabhairt do na scoláirí teacht anseo. Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe ar fad freisin. Tá brón orm ach caithfidh mé dul go cruinniú eile. Tá ceist agam faoi chúrsaí éiceolaíochta agus timpeallachta. An gceapann na finnéithe...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (31 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a number of rail projects have been given approval to proceed whilst others are delayed under the All-Ireland Rail Review; the method of selection for the projects that are proceeding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27683/22]