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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the development of a dedicated special education school for County Leitrim (details supplied). [19128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a change in the application of the capitation grant for special schools (details supplied). [19129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a change in the application of the minor works grant for special schools (details supplied). [19130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Department officials to meet with a school (details supplied) and their architect for their new build in order to resolve outstanding issues. [19373/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if exceptional teaching posts are still available for special schools. [19374/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider an exceptional teaching post for a school (details supplied). [19375/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine changing the requirements to provide substitute teaching cover in special schools. [19376/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 379. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, following recent press reports that have suggested a new sports capital grants scheme could be launched for schools, she will provide any further details on same. [19078/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (1 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the reason or reasons for the unacceptable failure in care of a person (details supplied) at Beaumont Hospital which led to the misreading and misreporting of a smear test in January 2007.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19627/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on his recent visit to Jordan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20766/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I commend the Tánaiste on his recent and very successful trips to both Egypt and Jordan. He has personally taken a firm lead in shining a global light on the continuing horrors in the Middle East. News reports this morning regarding a formal recognition by a number of EU states on 19 May of Palestine as a state are a direct result of the Tánaiste's cast-iron efforts in this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I appreciate the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, standing in for the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, who is unavoidably absent this evening but I ask that the senior Minister would respond to me directly in the fullness of time on the important points I will raise. She, like the Minister of State, is passionate about rural Ireland and appreciates more than most the huge...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the official response but he really cut to the chase in his closing comments. I have no issue with the welfare partners portal. Indeed, community employment scheme supervisors recognise it as a top-class piece of kit. The reality, however, is that a serious situation is evolving. There is an eminently sensible situation to the problem, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on his recent visit to Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) was unsuccessful with their application for assistive learning technology; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21091/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 321. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she intends to announce funding for local organisations under the community services programme Pobal fund. [21062/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I will be brief. I will not speak about the issue of plastic. Another issue is emerging at the moment in regard to the Connemara Pony Breeders Society. On social media there is speculation that its annual showcase event in August will not go ahead because issues are emerging. Could we schedule something for next week? It seems urgent. The society said it will have an update next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: The Department is reviewing it.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Guardians Ad Litem (14 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of guardian ad litem appointments, by county, in 2023 and 2022, respectively; and the cost of same, in tabular form. [21424/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Guardians Ad Litem (14 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of barristers assigned to guardian ad litem appointments, by county in 2023 and 2022, respectively; and the cost of same, in tabular form. [21425/24]