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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...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: I did not get a response.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: Private coach operators are currently struggling for survival and need urgent financial assistance or to be included in the fare reduction scheme. Many of these operators have stated they may not be in a position to provide school transport for children come September, such is the need and urgency for them to be given some assistance. Will the Taoiseach take action to ensure these operators...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all trade missions and engagements abroad which both he and his predecessor as Minister have undertaken from 1 January 2018 to date; the dates on which both he and his predecessors were abroad in that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the decision to maintain the cap on third level student earnings at €4,500; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected impact and cost implications to the Exchequer of increasing the third level student earning cap from €4,500 to €5,500; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 830. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1722 of 26 April 2022, if the legally binding instrument that emerges from the negotiating process will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas for debate; if a majority vote will be required before the instrument is transposed into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23406/22]

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: The announcement of the ban on the commercial sale of turf created a fiasco, and that fiasco was of the Government's making. I have listened to statements made during the debate blaming the media, Opposition Deputies and everybody else instead of the Government holding up his hands and saying it got it wrong, and seriously wrong. It shows the arrogance and the fact the Government thinks it...

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: It is profoundly disappointing that we heard the announcement for third level and the supports available to third level students yesterday but nothing was done in terms of increasing the cap on the amount students can earn in part-time work. That cap should have been increased because students are facing a crisis in terms of spiralling rents. That was definitely a missed opportunity by the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to address labour shortages in the restaurant and hospitality sector; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the sector is currently losing highly skilled staff due to the non-availability of work permits and the refusal by his Department to extend existing work permits; if he will consider a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the adaptation of facilities to mill peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the adaptation of facilities to mill peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her Department is considering delimiting the right to private property in response to the accommodation crisis generated by the influx of unprecedented numbers of Ukrainian refugees; if remarks attributed to her in several media sources (details supplied) that the Government would avoid if possible forcing persons or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker’s allowance who have been in receipt of either payment for a continuous period of three years or; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21818/22]