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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount of additional funding drawn as part of the plan to reopen schools; if the full €75 million was used for minor capital works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23015/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional prefab classrooms that were funded as part of the plan to reopen schools; the cost and average cost for the additional units; the number of prefab classrooms in use in the education system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23016/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional secondary school teachers hired as part of package for reopening schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding for providing a release day each week for teaching principals at primary level to carry out administrative work is permanent; the number of schools that have benefited; the estimated ongoing cost of maintaining same beyond the 2020/2021 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23018/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on the summer works scheme in each of the years 2018 to 2020 by primary and post-primary level; the number of schools grant aided in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23019/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (9 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools without a PE hall or requiring a new purpose built PE hall; her plans to provide same; the amount projected for investment in 2020 and 2021; the amount spent in 2019 on providing same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23020/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (9 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of students that will be enrolled in higher education in the 2020/2021 academic year; the number enrolled at further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23003/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 255. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional taxation measures on rental income from short-term lettings will be introduced. [21095/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 258. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the additional 5% increase of the help-to-buy scheme retrospectively to include all beneficiaries of the scheme that have drawn down the grant since March 2020; his views on such an extension to the stimulus; and if he will report on same. [21307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of registrations, inspections and permissions of short-term lettings that have taken place since July 2019, by month in tabular form; and the number of inspectors allocated to carry out inspections of short-term lettings in each local authority. [21088/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to conduct a review of the vacant site tax. [21094/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Land Development Agency will be subject to the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015. [21104/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the educational access difficulties for a child (details supplied) [22429/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had communication with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its plan to close its Dublin community employment scheme in view of the fact that the organisation cannot satisfy the criteria for training and work experience due to the closure of its day care centres; if her Department will work with...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 826. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to cases such as a case (details supplied) in which parents were unable to apply for the NCS subsidy before the end of August 2020 deadline due to the change in procedure requiring parents rather than childcare service application and an inability to access a CHICK number without a public services card;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sustainable Development Goals (8 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which Ireland's commitment to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the Strategy and Work Plan 2020-2025 of his Department; the way in which progress towards achieving the goals will be monitored and reported annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21742/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister of State and appreciate the opportunity to share some thoughts with her. My time is short so I will speak to two main matters. The first is the way SNAs are treated and the second is access to very basic provisions for children with additional needs in the community, including school places. A crisis often reveals what society is really like, the priorities of that...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister to the House and the establishment of his Department, which will give us an opportunity to focus on the issues of further and higher education. I very much welcome his opening remarks because he covered a number of issues, such as the stigmatisation of young people, which is unfortunate, and the issue of sexual violence in third level institutions, which he is...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister. Politics can be a difficult and harsh game but we in the Labour Party do not see it as our job to make the Minister feel uncomfortable over the next number of years. In fact, I want to be in a position to congratulate the Minister as often as I possibly can. There are certain issues in Irish public policy that go beyond the over and back, Punch and Judy style of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I very much appreciate the Minister's presence here this evening. She has had a long day of engagement with Deputies and Senators on a wide range of issues over the course of this day. It is now past 2 a.m. and she is still here. I appreciate that. I made a comment about a Cabinet colleague of hers not affording us the same respect, but she is here and it is greatly appreciated. For...