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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing ten new educational psychologists. [51325/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy Data (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing ten new speech and language therapists. [51326/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the student teacher ratio by one point. [51327/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of bringing secretary pay in line with those employed directly by his Department. [51340/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Fees (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of waiving fees paid by students for school transport via the school transport scheme at primary and secondary level, respectively. [51341/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 555. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full-year cost of increasing the funding of the school completion programme by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%, in tabular form. [51328/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ombudsman for Children Expenditure (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 560. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full-year running cost of the Office of the Ombudsman for Children. [51342/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Expenditure (10 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of making a one-off annual double payment of child benefit to all recipients in July 2020. [51321/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Universities Act 1997 (Section 54(3)) (University Authorisation) Order 2019: Motion (5 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree with a great deal of what Deputy Byrne said, but we will not adopt the same position. Undoubtedly the RCSI is an excellent institution that is a university in all but name. It offers a high standard of education and is of great value to all of its students. Our issue with the RCSI is not its campus in Dublin; it is its campus in Bahrain. This has been raised in these Houses on...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to make a brief intervention. The Minister of State said this has never been raised before tonight. That is not quite true.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am fairly sure I heard something to that effect.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Fair enough. That is positive. In that case I will hear what the Minister of State has to say before I say anything more.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I can see the Minister of State is getting frustrated and I can see he is frustrated because perhaps this is something that has bubbled up. I know his intention and the intention of the Department is to provide clarity on licensing and regulation and that is fair enough but there are legitimate concerns. The Minister of State is aware that I raised these concerns in April on Committee...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Several people on the community and voluntary side, and people in the profit-making bingo organisations and the halls that are run for profit, have said this to me. It may well be the case that some of the smaller bingo operations will not be affected adversely by the legislation but it is the case that there are bingo operations that fall into the larger category and have pots over the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Earlier this year, the Judicial Council Bill was passed. It provides for sentencing guidelines in legislation for the first time, something that was long demanded by organisations representing the victims of crime and that was secured by Sinn Féin. Recently, there has been some discussion on preparation work for the personal injuries guidelines committee. This is welcome because the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The landlord was fined and rightly so. There are good landlords, as the Taoiseach has said, but there are bad landlords who are behaving like this. They are brazen because they know the deck is stacked in their favour. They know the whole system is stacked in their favour and the tenant is powerless. In every debate, the Taoiseach keeps begging for time. He says that the Government needs...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will finish on this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Maybe it is time for the Taoiseach to start listening. Why not introduce a rent freeze, a measure which would have the backing of the whole House and not just a minority?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The kind of behaviour I am talking about is favoured by the system and the structure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Sometimes they are right to be angry.