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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (8 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the establishment of the Technological University for the South East Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6255/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on reports in the media that an Irish subsidiary of a multinational company is scoping out bidding on State contracts to run community employment support schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5347/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 170. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of a timeline for the introduction of paid domestic violence leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on the changes announced to community employment schemes; if they are improving the situation on the ground; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5348/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: European Union (3 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects to fully transpose the Work Life Balance Directive (EU) 2019/1158; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an alternative site selection process for necessary space for an autism class in addition to space required for the second-year of mainstream students in a school (details supplied) is being considered in advance of the start of the next school year given the refusal of planning permission for the original site; and if she will make a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am recalibrating my notes slightly to fit within this part of the Vote, programme A. If I stray outside of that, I will rely on the Chairman to bring me back into line.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As the Minister said in her opening statement, the Department is small, but it makes an outsized impact. The spending is really felt in communities. It delivers much public good. I acknowledge that we are bringing a degree of policy coherence. The Our Rural Future document and the town centre first policy that we expect to arrive shortly are bringing a level of policy coherence that draw...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: They are blaas. We have to be specific. They are not bread rolls, but blaas. The Minister is on dangerous ground there.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is nobody from the Independent Group to move amendment No. 2, so I cannot deal with that. I will move to the question regarding the motion.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: After we dispose of amendment No. 1, we will be in a position to deal with your amendment.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We now have People Before Profit. Deputy Gino Kenny is sharing with Deputy Boyd Barrett. Deputy Barry is not joining us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am positively disposed to this legislation. The two tests that apply to any legislation concern whether it solves a problem and whether it will result in unexpected consequences. Interestingly, I played the admissions game on the way up on the train today. Tramore is quite a good place to run this tote experiment. It is an old town with an expanding young population that is creating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I accept that, and I also accept the difference between being child-focused and my-child-focused. We have to make the child-focused decision here. It comes down to a value judgment on the difference between someone who lives within the community and someone with a longer-standing connection with the community. Am I correct that admissions policies have to be published on school websites?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is admissions reporting laid out statutorily? What happens to the data produced in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does it go somewhere? Is there a responsibility to report up the chain, for example, to the Department of Education, to provide the data we are talking about and that we need to underpin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is much merit in talking in a wider sense about combined admissions policies. They are relatively standardised, but further standardisation is required. Combined admissions policies should be applied in areas where there is pressure. The problem could be resolved across the school spectrum. We do not have that opportunity to focus on this in this discussion but maybe the committee...