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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I see Deputy Brendan Smith smiling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I invite the witnesses to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Ms Claire Hanna from the SDLP is present. I call her next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: That was a passionate and a very response. It made me think. I have to call members who I may not see but may be present. I do not know if Deputy Tóibín, Senator Mullen, Deputy McNamara and Senator Black are there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: We must move on as we only have 15 minutes. I want to be fair to everybody and I do not have a problem stopping people from talking. I do not want anybody to complain that they cannot get in having attended. Does Mr. Osborne wish to give a brief answer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: The overall context of students was mentioned in the address. It is the lowest proportion across the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland of working adults with a degree. It has got the lowest rate of adult literary and it has got the lowest amount, which is almost 17%, who have no qualifications, so that is a system that is failing all of the time. In what way does the system employed by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Do the churches play a leading role in bringing about change or do they get involved? It seems from reading from what has been said that the parents must prove that they want to change an existing school and to get a new school they must prove a future demand. Is that not quite an onerous task for parents? Do churches nationally or in the North play a leadership role in bringing about that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: There are two members present who have not spoken and perhaps they would like to address the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Mr. Osborne, Ms Merron and Mr. Collins for their attendance and contributions, which were enlightening and challenging. We, as a committee, hope to have an opportunity to visit the North again, as we have before, and perhaps to visit an integrated school. Our guests might recommend such a school to us. The meeting has been helpful and useful, and provided food for thought. Our...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I warn the Taoiseach that the dental services in Louth and Meath have collapsed and the number of patients helping General Medical Services, GMS, patients has fallen from 61 two years ago to 22 today. Thousands of people cannot get an appointment, their teeth looked after or their oral hygiene checked and worse, there is no option to redirect them anywhere else because there is nowhere for...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I very much welcome this debate. In particular, I welcome the consensus on all sides of this House on legacy issues in Northern Ireland and the New Decade, New Approach agreement. We all agree on rejecting the British Government proposals. Unilateral action on this most sensitive of issues is an impediment to reconciliation. Indeed, it is totally divisive. If we stand firm, which we do,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget for new school building projects for 2022 and for the next five years; the amount of funding available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4598/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the major build project for a school (details supplied); and the expected timelines of progression to the next stage of planning and other relevant details. [4597/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a series of matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4745/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) in respect of the latest position of school secretaries and their campaign for improved working conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 644. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans regarding the €3 million funding for the development of specialist palliative care inpatient units in the north east (details supplied) that was announced by his Department in December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 762. To ask the Minister for Health if posts have been filled for both the ophthalmologist and optician contracted by the HSE to deliver primary care services for children in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the full details relating to the proposed appointment of an expert group to examine the handling of the pandemic; the way the process will work with specific regard to the need for in depth investigations into the tragic loss of life in nursing homes with over 2,400 deaths since the pandemic commenced; and if he will make a statement on...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome this debate. It is appropriate and timely it happens as restrictions are being eased and that we all pay fine and sincere tribute to all the people who worked in our homes, in hospitals, on the front line, on ambulances and so on. We pay tribute also to those who sadly passed away in this awful tragedy called Covid. About a year ago this week my own brother-in-law passed away...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not have any time left. Maybe that is just as well. I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I am sorry about that.