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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: How can you negotiate a contract without knowing what the contract underpins? Does anyone else want to respond in the short time I have left?

Special Educational Needs: Statements (16 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: First, I apologise to the Minister of State for being absent for the start of the debate. I was travelling up from an event in Cork this morning but I was listening to her contribution. I am often critical, but I recognise the Minister of State is well motivated and wants to see progress on special education. I believe I appropriately commended the Minister of State at the time of the...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On a point of clarification, I did not necessarily say excavation for all cases, rather investigation. I emphasised it just for clarification.

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am not trying to be disorderly.

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I fully support the amendment and I thank my colleagues for bringing it to the House. It is impossible to memorialise something if we do not know or agree what we are acknowledging and it is not possible to properly memorialise a site if we do not know what happened there. On Sunday, I attended a commemoration at the site of the former mother and baby home in Bessborough in Cork. It was a...

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are in a climate emergency. Report after report highlights the escalating reality of global warming and the need for urgent mitigations. As the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, stated last month, it is long past the time for climate rhetoric. What we need is climate action. Unfortunately, the Government, like the previous one, is ignoring some of the small wins and the...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas le gach Teachta a labhair air seo. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire agus an Aire Stáit as fanacht leis an díospóireacht iomlán. Táim buíoch díobh as an méid sin ar a laghad agus táim buíoch de gach Teachta a thacaigh leis an rún. Ní ghlacaim leis an rún malartach atá ag an Roinn. Ní thugann...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — a child's right to education is enshrined in the Constitution and, under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, must be accessible on an equal basis with others in the community in which they live; and — the Government has made a commitment in its Programme for Government: Our Shared...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an píosa reachtaíochta seo. Tá roinnt gnéithe de go mbeimid ag iarraidh a leasú, go háirithe go mbeadh gá go mbeadh an garda sa chúirt ag grád an tsáirsint nó níos sinsearaí ná sin. Ach tá sé luachmhar mar phíosa reachtaíochta. It is important legislation. It...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 561. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28942/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 567. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied). [28986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 726. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport applications (details supplied). [30099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of eligible applications that have been received and the number of eligible tickets issued for the school transport scheme in the 2021-2022 school year. [30209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1024. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date of Leaving Certificate 2022 results; and if she will give assurances that this will not be delayed. [30305/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year and first-year cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio at post-primary level by one point. [30406/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1774. To ask the Minister for Health if a replacement wheelchair will be expedited for a child (details supplied) given that the child has outgrown their current chair for a period of two years. [30244/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I apologise that I had to leave after the opening statements for a media event. I agree with Deputy Jim O'Callaghan that the response of the Irish people has been remarkable. The response from school communities and the schools involved has also been very significant and, by and large, the effort from the education and training boards, ETBs,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Does anyone else want to respond to any points?

Planning and Development Regulations (Amendment) (Solar Energy for Schools and Community Buildings) Bill 2022: First Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the installation of solar panels on school and community buildings without the need for planning permission, and for this purpose to amend S.I. No. 600 of 2001. Putting solar panels on the schools is a no-brainer. There are 4,000 schools in the State. The overwhelming majority do not have solar...

Planning and Development Regulations (Amendment) (Solar Energy for Schools and Community Buildings) Bill 2022: First Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."