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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Prices (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider providing additional assistance towards the cost of installing a heat pump in cases in which homes are reliant on solid fuel for heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33990/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the three secondary schools (details supplied) in Dublin 15 that have agreed to open ASD classes for September 2022 will be provided with the relevant teaching staff, SNAs and other supports in time for the start of the academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students entering the newly opened ASD secondary classes in schools (details supplied) will be entitled to have any existing SNA allocations they have from primary school immediately transferred to their new school or if the secondary schools will have to seek reviews of their existing SNA allocations; and if she will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for being here. This is an important and time-bound committee that has quite a lot of work to do within a nine-month timeframe. Even thought we must take a much wider view of autism than just education, it would be widely acknowledged that children's access to appropriate education is a significant part of how they experience the world. It is not children with autism...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Let me start with a few specific questions. An average is very crude but at what age are children being diagnosed with autism because that affects access to services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If we are talking about children aged eight or nine, we have missed the boat in terms of early intervention. A secondary question - I wonder if it is a question at all - involves the complicating factor of disadvantage. I assume that wealthier parents have access to assessments more quickly because they can go private, which means that we have a complicating factor of disadvantage....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is it weeks, months or years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes. These are all going towards that idea of first presentation to when appropriate supports are put in place. Ms Prendeville said that possibly in or around 63% of children are still within mainstream classrooms. For the benefit of the committee, could she talk me through the continuing support process that will happen within schools? Again, there is a timeline issue. We should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It was less a question about the work involved because I do not think any of the schools are averse to the work involved but there is quite an elongated timeline from when needs are first identified in a child to the child getting the appropriate supports. The universal design for learning piece needs digging into but we cannot do it in the one minute and 47 seconds available to me so I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Have I any leeway to speak?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The first meeting of the Joint Committee on Autism is happening today, so I apologise that I have to take off early. I am delighted to see so many sustainable development goal badges on people around the committee room. It is an agenda that I feel strongly about, so I am delighted to see that it is represented in this social enterprise. While it is not strictly related to social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chairman for letting me in early.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It got so much worse over the course of the pandemic when social media platforms were all people had access to. Could the witnesses tell me a little more about the Norwegian law? As Annie said, Instagram, TikTok, etc. are all over the world. Does the Norwegian law just impact influencers based in Norway or is there some way of making the reach a bit more international?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Deputy Pringle for bringing this Bill to the House. He may be disappointed at the Government's approach. I accept that. However, I think it is useful for him to have sparked off the conversation and to have prompted a Government response on this. The Deputy will not be surprised to hear that I am inclined to agree with the approach of the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. We are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is more information in the answer the Minister of State has given me than was made available to the school, so I thank him for that because the school has been kept in the dark on this. Something I find frustrating about this whole process is that one of the first things I asked for when the Government was formed was for the forward planning unit in the Department of Education to do a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State for the opportunity to discuss this matter. I understand that neither the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, nor the Minister of State, Deputy Josepha Madigan, were able to take this matter. Tramore Educate Together National School has been in existence since 2014. It was mooted as far back as 2008. My first teaching post was in an educate...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I start this contribution by saying that I fully agree with the points raised by Deputy Ó Ríordáin on the need to tackle this issue within our schools and in respect of employment equality. I have known teaching colleagues during my career who have not felt that that they could be open about their own identity. This is certainly something that needs to be addressed. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding progress on the appointment of biodiversity officers at a local authority level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail the planned recruitment to new posts within the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the way recruitment is progressing; if this is being planned with a view to improving enforcement on a geographical basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33173/22]