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Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 22 October 2020.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The Chief Whip has a proposal.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Is it agreed that the motion be taken without debate?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Together. The question is on whether the motion should be taken without debate. Is that agreed?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will remove non-EU third-level education fees for asylums seekers in order that they can be treated as domestic students in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31376/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I have a very specific question on non-EU fees being charged to asylum seekers and making it completely impossible for them to access third level education.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: My apologies as I have only heard the tail-end of the Minister’s reply so I only caught some of it but I welcome it and I welcome that Dr. Catherine Day’s report is going to be published tomorrow. Does the Minister have any idea of the number of asylum seekers who cannot attend university in Ireland simply because of finances and lack of resources? From a newspaper report I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Assistance Fund (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: In my haste, I passed over Deputy Durkan's question. We will return to Question No. 104.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the Tusla review into the provision of safe emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence will be published; the analysis carried out by his Department and-or Tusla into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the number of emergency accommodation spaces available for victims of domestic violence; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Refugee Resettlement Programme (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of progress to fulfil his plans to expand capacity care for unaccompanied refugee children here; the timeline of same; his plans to accept more children from the Moria refugee camp; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30630/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Levels (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of and position regarding the ten-year adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy strategy promised in the 2020 programme for Government; the details of the group tasked with development of the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31377/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Accident Investigations (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 9 September 2020, when he was informed of a disclosure (details supplied); the reason this disclosure was not made before the person’s appointment; if he has replaced the person; the reassurance the he can give to the families of the four air crew who died that this report will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the report of the working group established in May 2017 to review the 2005 planning guidelines on sustainable rural housing; the number of times the group met and when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31603/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made by his Department in 2020 on the scoping exercise for the updating of the sustainable rural housing guidelines, on foot of the 2013 Flemish Decree case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31604/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures her Department is taking to ensure that the standard of education in EROC schools is in line with that in recognised school settings; the number of inspections by her Department of EROC schools that have taken place since the memorandum of understanding allowing inspections was signed by her Department and the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of emergency reception and orientation centres here in which primary level teaching is being provided to refugee children; the number of children per EROC currently in receipt of primary education in-house; the number of these children who have been receiving in-house primary education for one, two, three and more than four months;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the joint assessment and protocol for education provision within EROCs by her Department and the Department of Justice as mentioned in the 2019 annual report of the Ombudsman for Children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31021/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the professional qualifications required for teachers to be employed in EROC schools; the number of teachers currently employed to teach in EROCs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31022/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (20 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 438. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of refugees currently housed in emergency reception and orientation centres here; the number of such centres here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31015/20]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Leaders' Questions are at noon and we have two hours for this debate so I am sticking rigidly to the time. There are three speakers from the Independent Group, beginning with Deputy McNamara.