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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: In general, are they mainly Irish people coming back from the UK who qualified in the UK or are they from a variety of backgrounds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is there a language requirement? Does somebody need to have proficiency in the English language in order to teach here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not know whether the following was mentioned in our request to the council. I am conscious that the Teaching Council recently commenced its disciplinary committee and the hearings. Will Dr. Ramsey give an assessment as to how that is going? I am aware the hearings are in public. Is it an issue of concern that teachers' names can be put into the public domain in respect of allegations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It appears to be a two-phased process. The council has an investigative phase which is a filtering process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does the council only respond to complaints or can the council investigate without a complaint being made by an individual?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Finally, is there a threshold over which it would not even reach an investigative phase? Is there a procedure for the council to reject complaints which are frivolous or vexatious?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Teaching Council for coming in and thank the Acting Chair.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Minister of State is very welcome to the committee. This is interesting legislation. The primary purpose of it is to transpose the amending directive in respect of insurance companies that become insolvent. We have a history in Ireland of insurance companies going insolvent, regrettably. Presumably, the purpose here is that if a company goes insolvent, individuals insured by that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am looking at section 8 of the Bill, "Publication of winding-up of insurer". If an application is made to wind-up an insurance company, does the objective of this legislation kick in at that stage? Do people bring the applications for their insurance claims to the compensation body at the time the winding-up petition is presented or do they have to wait for a final determination from the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: So there has to be an outcome. Sometimes people can bring liquidation applications which ultimately do not succeed. A creditor can and they may not succeed. It will ultimately depend on an order from the court that it is wound up. Is there an extraterritorial effect? It is imposing an EU directive. If I am a holidaymaker in Spain and the insurance company I am insured with in Spain...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The MIBI will be the compensation body.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Up to now, it just deals with situations where somebody is injured as a result of an uninsured driver, whereas now it will also deal with somebody who has been injured by a driver whose insurance company has become insolvent.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It makes sense. When is it proposed to introduce the legislation into the Oireachtas, or is it in at present?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: There may be a necessity, and there is a provision under the Bill for the Minister of State or whoever the relevant Minister is, to introduce regulations to give effect to in more detail. I think that is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minster of State and the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on capital investment undertaken in defence since July 2020; the major improvements provided by this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28646/24]

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I want to start by saying a few words in support of miscellaneous provisions legislation. Sometimes it gets treated very harshly in the House. Criticisms are made about it that centre on the claim that it entails a scattergun approach to legislating and that we need a much more holistic approach to individual issues. I disagree. The great benefit of miscellaneous provisions legislation is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (27 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the continuing erosion of human rights in Russia, and the persecution of individuals for exercising their personal freedoms, including rights to freedom of opinion, expression and peaceful assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27278/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (27 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his view of the recent agreement at the G7 summit to mobilise an extra $50 billion of aid to Ukraine using frozen Russian state assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (27 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that has been spent on the development plans of the Dublin metro; the number of staff employed to work on this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27717/24]