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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants who are having their service shared by more than one child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38979/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the multidisciplinary teams in schools for children with special needs are working on a full time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38980/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount approximately it would cost his Department to provide an extra 300 full time, 22 hour weekly resource teachers annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38981/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (7 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the approximate number of vacant council properties within Cork city. [38985/16]

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: There are two.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I also commend Deputy Kenny for tabling this legislation. We in Sinn Féin support the Bill and its passage to Committee Stage. In response to the comments of Deputy Harty, I believe it is very disingenuous of any Member of this House to suggest that Deputy Kenny has put forward this Bill as a Trojan horse to try to allow for the legalisation of cannabis for recreational purposes. I...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Two quangos, yes. I accept the bona fides of Deputy Kenny and those of the Minister. I had a speech I was going to make but I feel so passionate about this that I do not want to see the House divided on this. I ask Deputy Harty, the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health, to consider not dividing the House on this legislation. I understand his own personal position on the...

Prisons (Solitary Confinement) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and I commend Deputy Clare Daly on introducing it. It is one that we in Sinn Féin will be supporting. Like Deputy Clare Daly, I would also like to see the outright banning of solitary confinement. As the Deputy outlined, for reasons in respect of which we cannot really legislate, we will be fully supporting the recommendations within the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Tánaiste may be aware that in 2014, there was a working group set up within Government to look at the issue of voting rights for the diaspora and citizens in the North. How many times has it met and when is it due to report? Will the report contain any legislation to extend voting rights?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I only wanted to know how many times the working group met.

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I raise this issue because I talked to somebody who had recently spoken to one of the surviving members of the Carrickmines tragedy. We all know the circumstances of what happened on 10 October last year when fire swept through the temporary site and ten lives were lost. The outpouring of grief and shock right across the State was palpable. In my opinion, I thought it would have been a...

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I do not know if the Minister of State has the information on whether the tender has been signed for the permanent site, which is proposed to be open in July 2017. She can come back to me on that to provide the information on whether that tender has been signed and if we are still on target to meet that date. Could the Minister of State outline some of the remedial works which have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have to leave in about seven or eight minutes as I have a Topical Issue matter in the Dáil, but my colleague will step in until I return. An Oireachtas committee is finally dealing with this issue, which is long overdue. I also want to put on the record the Trojan work done by Senator Ó Ríordáin when he was a Minister of State. Without his perseverance, we would not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: To clarify, I have no issue with those registers being put in place because that concerns after-care. I am talking about being on a register before the person can even access the facility, which is where I have a concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Senator Ruane touched on the issue I wanted to raise, namely, head 10, which gives the Garda powers to enter without a warrant for the prevention or detection of offences. I presume the goal of all of those present - members of the Garda, Department officials, Senators or Deputies - is to get to a position where we have a facility in which drug users can safely inject and where, if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: The assistant commissioner can say he supports it. I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: There is one important line which assistant commissioner Jack Nolan mentioned, and I hope it is the line the media picks up on. We do not want the media picking up on the policing of the facilities. The assistant commissioner said the Garda Síochána fully supported the model which was being progressed and was aware that it was a health-led model. This is the initiative we should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Did any of the users who were spoken to raise policing issues as a concern in respect of their willingness to avail of an injecting facility service?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: To pick up on the last point, Deputy O’Callaghan is well aware that there are problems in the Bill. He admitted that on Second Stage. It is not a case that there might be issues, there are issues, as recognised by the person who moved the Bill. That is the very reason for a legislative process, with Committee and Report Stages, when amendments are put forward to rectify problems. If...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: Exactly. That is the whole reason we have Committee Stage.