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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport is running at 100% capacity; the steps she is taking to increase the number of seats available on school buses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45691/21]

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This Bill is about the restructuring of divisions and districts, a lot of which flows from the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. While I did not agree with all of the commission's recommendations, by and large the thrust of what was put forward made an awful lot of sense in the context of the reorientation towards community policing. I have previously paid tribute to the fact...

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is a particularly grim time to be a renter in Cork or elsewhere. I do not believe there has ever been a good time to be a renter. Historically, the protections available to renters in this State have been very poor compared with those in other jurisdictions. This legislation, which I welcome, would go some distance towards rectifying that. However, the inequality that exists between...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (22 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for an inquest at each coroner’s office. [45286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (22 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances in Cork city and county in each of the years 2016 to 2021, by ambulance depot in tabular form. [45283/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (22 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of ambulances by county in tabular form. [45284/21]

Education (Voluntary Contributions) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the Minister for Education shall make regulations governing the collection by schools of voluntary contributions from parents/guardians; to provide for the publication of the total monies collected annually and a detailed expenditure of those monies by schools; and for those purposes to amend the...

Education (Voluntary Contributions) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Sep 2021)

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

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Chair and the Minister for their kind wishes. They are appreciated by me and my wife. Baby and mammy are doing great altogether. Thank you very much. I will start off with the Cork Life Centre. I am encouraged by and welcome the Minister’s statement. I welcome it because it does not seem to suggest, as I feared it would, that everything has been fixed. Everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have only a few seconds left and I have a further question to pose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am anxious to ask my other question. The Minister needs to lean on the HSE to provide more resources. One area of confusion is that there seems to be a discrepancy between the advice the HSE is providing and the advice contained in the Covid-19 response plan provided by the Department of Education as to when a child should self-isolate and the symptoms involved. The Department document...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The term "unwell" covers the whole world. An endless number of things come under the heading "unwell". The HSE is saying in one place it is okay to send children in if they have a runny nose and the Department of Education is saying something else. I know it is following public health advice, or at least making the best attempt to do so, but there clearly is an incoherence and it needs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Something has got lost along the way. This needs to be clarified. There is no doubt about it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Like Deputy Cairns, I attended the online meeting with the 200 or so women who had given birth or been pregnant during Covid. It was called "The Real Rotunda" because, frankly, the television programme has rubbed salt into wounds. In an outrageous situation, camera crews were inside with the woman giving birth while her partner was outside in the car. The women's stories were...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It has not been articulated enough.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (16 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with a company (details supplied) and all other employers at Cork Airport to ensure that no worker is laid off or disadvantaged in terms of pay and conditions whilst runway works are ongoing for a period of 10 weeks from now until November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44110/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (16 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial supports he will put in place over the next two to three years to secure the recovery of Cork Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44111/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (16 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with employers at Cork Airport to ensure that no worker is laid-off or disadvantaged in terms of pay and conditions whilst runway works are ongoing for a period of ten weeks from now until November 2021; and if aviation workers will be protected generally over the course of the recovery of the industry in the next two...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Applications (16 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 219. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason there continues to be a stay on processing working holiday authorisation applications for Canadian persons wishing to travel to Ireland; when the processing of these applications will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44281/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The frequency of those instances has increased.