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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (19 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: 270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline what is being done within his Department to future-proof foster care as a critical component within the care system, so that in-home family care is the primary option, and available to as many children as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45936/23]

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: As we speak here this evening, Israel is raining hell on Gaza. It is horror beyond measure. I am sticking to raw politics tonight because I do not have the language to deal adequately with the human slaughterhouse scenes that we see on our screens. The EU leadership needs to immediately up its game for Gaza and the Palestinian people. Millions of Europeans looked aghast at the antics of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children without a school place who were forced to avail of home tuition in each year over the past five years, in tabular form for both primary and secondary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45610/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time each child who was without a school place availed of the home tuition scheme in each year of the last five years, in tabular form both at primary and secondary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45611/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children without a school place forced to rely on home tuition who successfully went into the school system thereafter in each year of the past five years, including how many did not, both at primary and secondary level, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45612/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the Department policy on assisting children without a school place who need home tuition beyond the 12 weeks maximum cited in an earlier reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45613/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the Department policy and practice on assessment of the effectiveness and quality of home tuition for those children without a school place; when they return to or enter the school system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45614/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Tánaiste for attending. Before I start, I also reiterate our heartfelt condolences to Kim Damti's family and the family of Emily Hand. I remember them at a solidarity with Palestine protest in Naas last Wednesday. At the time there was still hope that Kim would be found alive. That, unfortunately, was not to be the case. I also warmly welcome the stance that Ireland,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: The Palestinians paid the price for Europe's sins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: However, they have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: What about the state of Palestine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: It has not even become a trope now-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: ----- about whether Israel has a right to defend itself. Does Palestine have the right to defend itself? Nobody is coming to the aid of the people of Palestine to help them defend themselves from bombs coming from-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: Everybody has a right to defend themselves, do they not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: I know Hamas is not a state; Hamas is a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Tánaiste for his statement. I send my best wishes to our 342 personnel in Camp Shamrock in south Lebanon. I am sure there are contingency plans to get them out in the event of a real emergency, but they are well-trained soldiers and one would hope they are having a stabilising influence on the region. How many of the soldiers stationed in south Lebanon are on their first,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: No, the Tánaiste did not. He skipped it. He went from the paragraph beginning “Without doubt” to the rest of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am sure it was an accident.