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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Admissions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister and acknowledge the massive amount of work that is being done. Many of these schools are already bursting at the seams and are almost oversubscribed with students, so we are running fast to stand still. The work is very welcome and I am not decrying it in any way but we need to be proactive in our forward planning. I again ask the Minister whether she will ask her...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State and encourage and support the work she is doing to set up a special school in the area. I agree on integration but am aware that some special schools in Cork city, where these children have to go, have waiting lists, so we have children with no place. I appeal to the Minister of State to talk to the NCSE to get this work done quickly. I know what happens in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Admissions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with respect to secondary school places in the east Cork area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34891/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Admissions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: As my colleague, Deputy Buckley, said just now, east Cork is experiencing rapid growth and the county development plan recently published indicates phenomenal growth in the area. I acknowledge the Minister visited east Cork recently. It was a welcome and successful visit. She met with the principals, visited two schools and they are still talking about it. There is a need for forward...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Admissions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I know she is aware of the unrelenting pressure on principals all this year and in previous years with respect to waiting lists. At the start of this year, some schools had 300 children on the waiting list. I know there has been duplication of enrolment with many parents applying to more than one school because they were concerned about not getting a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for her response and for the information she has imparted. Deputy Carroll MacNeill maintains that access to psychological training is necessary to help understand and better manage behaviours, especially overstimulation behaviours that might reflect the child's anxiety, and she is interested in what kind of training is made available to teachers in this area....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive response. Is it mandatory for teachers who work with children with additional needs such as autism to have a specific level of training and qualification before they work with these children? If so, what is the extent of those qualifications and that training, certification and oversight?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to establish a new special school in Midleton, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34894/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: This is an issue I have been going on about for quite some time, and I know my colleague Deputy Buckley is also interested in this. That issue is the need to establish a special school in east Cork. We have children travelling long distances out of the area into Cork city, Dungarvan and so on and going on 100 km round trips every day. What plans are there to establish a special school in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of Stated for her interesting response and for her engagement with me on this. I want to encourage her to keep battling to try to get this done. Is she aware there was agreement a number of years ago to establish a special school and a premises was identified? Then, for other reasons outside of everyone's control, that premises was no longer available and the plan was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I am taking this question on behalf of my colleague, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, who sends her apologies for not being present. The Deputy is interested in the ongoing training that will be provided to current teachers to deliver appropriate education supports to autistic children entering their school or class. This has to do with the integration in mainstream classes of children with these...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: I will be brief as many of my colleagues asked a lot of the questions already. I join colleagues in commending our troops abroad. I have been out there a few times and the reaction in Lebanon, in particular, from the civilian population is very positive to our troops in the way they interact and the informal friendly and professional way they very often go about their business. Our troops...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: It seems many other countries also have this now and other technologies. It is something about which we should be concerned. Will the Minister comment a bit further on that very positive development of UN Security Council Resolution 2594, which was mentioned almost as a postscript to the presentation? It seems to me to be a very positive development. The Minister and his team are to be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: After a very long process, the Cork County Council development plan 2022-2028 was recently adopted by the elected members. The Office of the Planning Regulator has now stepped in and recommended changes to housing density in the Carrigtwohill area. It wants very high density in a rural area. The Minister has issued draft directions to the county council and there is a process going through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: To follow up on that, there is always a risk, even though it might be a slim one, of losing a court action. Ms McNamara said that if the State was underpinning this entity it would be open to major risks. I take that to mean financial risks. So far I can only see this applying to the CCPC. Are there other organisations that might apply to be qualified entities? Would they have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: Has any work been done on how high these costs might be? Is there a ballpark figure for a case like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: What is in this legislation to prevent abuse or opportunistic litigation? Is there anything there to dissuade people from going down that route?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: According to the general scheme, a qualified entity has to have "12 months of actual public activity in the protection of consumer interests prior to its application for designation" and "a legitimate interest in protecting consumer interests", be "independent and not influenced by persons other than consumers" and be not-for-profit. What Deputy Bruton has been alluding to, and I am puzzled...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (28 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: What is the current position on work-life balance and maternity leave and paternity leave in the Defence Forces? Are there plans to improve this?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (28 Jun 2022)

David Stanton: Does the Minister have an exact date for when the LÉ Eithnewill finally be taken out of service? Which of the vessels will be designated as the flagship vessel for the Naval Service? When does the Minister expect to finalise decisions with respect to the future of the LÉ Eithne, whether it will become a floating museum, visitors' attraction or whatever?