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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I will call Deputy Thomas Byrne after which we will have responses. I will then call Deputies Jan O'Sullivan and McLoughlin, and Senator Byrne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Ms Waters. Does anyone wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: We know we are not going to change the world but we would certainly hope-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: -----that working together we are going to make strong recommendations to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Deputy McLoughlin is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I would like to put a few questions to the witnesses before asking them to respond. I agree with much of what has been said by my colleagues in regard to DEIS. Having worked in a DEIS school as a primary school teacher I know that there is no school that does not need resources. Often it does not matter in what way those resources come about. Schools that are in DEIS have more resources...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: We actually had a presentation from them specifically on that project.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Is this in terms of the experience of school?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Many children might not know they are in a DEIS school.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Dr. O'Sullivan should not say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: On that point, about three weeks ago, there was a very good article in The Irish Timesabout Ms Domini Kemp and the entrepreneurial education she has carried out in prisons. It was fascinating, and made for excellent reading. We have asked Mr. Ian D'Arcy to check the invitation that was sent to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. In inviting the Department, we mentioned issues...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Household Debt Statistics (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance if figures are available that measure the level of credit card debt to household income; if so, the detail of same in each of the years 2011 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5319/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the provision of pension entitlements to employees such as community employment personnel that have their entire salary provided by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5320/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken by An Garda Síochána to enable the resumption of publication by the Central Statistics Office, CSO, of quarterly crime statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5321/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 305. To ask the Minister for Health if a situation relating to transport for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be investigated. [6081/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of a person (details supplied) regarding CAMHS procedures will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5316/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a renal unit at Tallaght hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5322/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the general practitioner contractual review process that is under way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5391/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on awareness, warnings and so on to prevent dog fouling, by county. [5314/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (6 Feb 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: 501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fines given to persons that did not remove dog fouling, by county. [5315/18]