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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: It does. The Minister says it does not, but it does. It is not robust.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: Does the Minister of State know how many apartments there are?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed temporary location of a new primary school (details supplied); the length of time the school will be in temporary accommodation; the status of securing a permanent site for the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11349/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: Ar an 11 Feabhra seo caite, dúirt an Coimisinéir Teanga, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, go bhfuil sé "go hiomlán míshásúil" go bhfuil pobal na Gaeilge fós ag brath ar Acht teanga nach bhfuil "sách láidir". Tá breis is seacht mbliana caite ó cuireadh tús leis an bpróiseas leasú a dhéanamh ar Acht na dTeangacha...

An Ghaeilge: Ráitis (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: Mar Ghlasach, táim tiomanta chun ár n-acmhainní nádúrtha a chaomhnú. Meastar gurb í an Ghaeilge ceann de na hacmhainní is tábhachtaí atá againn sa tír seo. Feictear domsa, mar sin, go gcaitheann an Rialtas seo leis an teanga cosúil leis an gcaoi a gcaitheann sé le gach acmhainn nádúrtha eile atá againn: gan...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 524. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 16 October 2018, the terms of reference for the report on just transition due in early 2019 as mentioned by an official at the Joint Committee on Climate Action meeting on 17 September 2018; and the date for the likely completion of the report. [11473/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Delivery of Services for Students with Down’s Syndrome: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht a gcur i láthair inniu. I thank the delegates for their presentations. I have a couple of questions, most of which are for the Department. The Department describes a plan to record the support schools provide for pupils with special educational needs as beneficial both for schools and children and best practice. However, as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Delivery of Services for Students with Down’s Syndrome: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: Mr. Ward has mentioned that planning is essential and that it is part of good professional practice. As someone who comes from the teaching profession, I take it as a slight on teachers who are not being given the time needed to engage in such professional planning. That is part of the frustration among parents and teachers who do not have the time they need to engage in the planning needed...

Period Poverty: Motion (13 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that: — the average woman, or anyone who experiences periods, will have 507 periods from age 12 to 51, for roughly 39 years of her life; — in Ireland, sanitary products can cost from €2 to €6 per pack, with the average pack containing 10 to 15 pads or tampons, and that a 12 pack of pain relief tablets costs between...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Brexit Issues (13 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place for transgender young persons to continue their care with a clinic (details supplied) via the treatment abroad scheme in the event of a no-deal Brexit: if they will be covered by another arrangement with the NHS in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12474/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if transgender young persons or advocates and representatives from the transgender community have been invited to input into the governance committee for the development of the transgender youth clinic to replace a clinic (details supplied); if not, his plans to make such an invitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12475/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to support a binding UN treaty on business and human rights; if he has provided feedback on the current zero draft of the treaty published on 16 July 2018 by the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights; if he will be participating in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 172. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will be attending and engaging in the fifth intergovernmental meeting of open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights in Geneva in October 2019. [14040/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of car parking spaces controlled by the Office of Public Works in Dublin 7 and 8; the Department or other body that leases them; the number of spaces available for free use; the locations of same; the number rented; and the price paid to the State for same. [13726/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: ERASMUS Programme (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that Irish students domiciled in Northern Ireland will have access to Erasmus programmes here and elsewhere after 2021; if Irish students can study in the UK after 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13721/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: ERASMUS Programme (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that students living here but domiciled in Northern Ireland will have access to Erasmus programmes after 2021; if Irish students can study in the UK after 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13724/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Staff (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unpaid primary school psychologists in employment; the policy in relation to recruiting unpaid positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13883/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: After-School Support Service Provision (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider passing legislation, regulations or guidelines thatwould encourage primary schools to make space available to private or community operators to provide afterschool care facilities in primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13928/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties in securing a secondary school place for boys in the Clontarf, Dublin 3, area; the reason a school (details supplied) is not a feeder school for a secondary school in view of the fact that it is a short walking distance from the primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (26 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the two extra weeks paid leave for parents of a child in the child's first year announced in budget 2019 will be implemented in November 2019; if so, if it will be backdated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13927/19]