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Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: My position on the so-called just transition has been clear since the process was announced. My major concern is that Government policy is destroying jobs by escalating a process that simply cannot and will not deliver what it promises without significant damage to local economies, particularly in Offaly and Laois. This is reckless of the Government, not least in the absence of alternatives...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: The real problem is that the cap of €4,500 relating to student earnings is extremely low. There is inflation and people are struggling to cope with the cost of living. Students are no different. We have spiralling rent costs, as I have already outlined. It would make sense to do something that would act as an incentive to ensure that we invest in students in this country and that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: I wish to raise some concerns I have around the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant scheme for third level students. I do this, however, while acknowledging the good work the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, has done and the fact he has initiated some much-needed reform in this area, particularly around the regulations to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will investigate the possibility of categorising turf-cutting and turf use as protected cultural practices under such instruments as the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, otherwise known as the Faro Convention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority to conduct a value-for-money assessment of the approved housing bodies sector, given that there were 495 approved housing bodies listed in his Department’s register as of March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that has been provided to each approved housing body in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the uptake levels and the progress of efforts to address issues involving consent and sexual harassment as referenced in his remarks to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality on 5 May 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25001/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make available the correspondence that he received from the 52 senior National Maternity Hospital clinicians in February 2022. [25329/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: We still have ongoing challenges in the private forestry sector. The target for licences for private landowners was reached in only one month out of the past 11. The Social Economic Environmental Forestry Association of Ireland has highlighted the fact there is a queue of 400 licences, none of which has been approved in the past five weeks. I ask the Taoiseach to take urgent action because...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 157. To ask the Taoiseach the amounts paid, either on the basis of a contract or as gratuities or expenses to each of the chairpersons, speakers, facilitators, researchers or other persons in respect of the Constitutional Convention in 2012 and all citizens assemblies that were held from 2012 to date. [23976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 4 May 2022, the number of work permits granted to chefs and to each other category which applies to the restaurant sector in each of the years from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the decision to exclude private bus companies from the 20% fare reduction on State-funded public transport services; if he will address the concern that there is preferential treatment of State services over commercial entities; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the requirement that a minimum requisite base-level gender-knowledge and gender-sensitive teaching methods skillset be mandatory for all educators in order to register as a post-primary teacher with the Teaching Council, regardless of their chosen subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24241/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the requirement that a minimum requisite base-level gender-knowledge and gender-sensitive teaching methods skillset be mandatory for all educators in order to register as a post-primary teacher with the Teaching Council, regardless of their chosen subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24242/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of her Department’s policy toward single-sex primary and post-primary schools; if it is the intention of her Department to phase out the use of single-sex schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24243/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Equality (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the higher education bodies that have been awarded funding under the gender equality enhancement fund in 2020-2021 to advance gender equality initiatives in Irish higher education; the amount received by each of these bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24239/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Equality (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been provided to date by his Department or any bodies under the aegis of his Department to support the national gender equality dashboard for higher education institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24240/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns that the Summer Programme 2022 will not include adequate provision to ensure the widespread participation of children with complex education and care needs in special school settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24049/22]

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm labhairt ar an mBille seo. It is a very wide-ranging and complex Bill, seeking as it does to consolidate and to update the legislative provisions that regulate the main types of consumer contract. Sections of the Bill are very welcome and will make a real and practical difference to people in everyday life - for example, section 19, which deals with the provision of...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: This young generation of Irish people is being failed by Government. They are being failed by the lack of affordable housing and constant barriers to planning permission when they try to build houses on their own land and are impeded. It is very unfair. It is a no-win situation for young people in particular. We need to see change. My point today is really to draw the Minister of State's...