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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students who previously sat a year on a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else. [6939/23]

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...radical reforms in that space and inspired people like me to turn to politics. Probably Deputy Nash and I were afforded the opportunity to go to third level because of her radical abolition of fees at that time. I was inspired by what Niamh used to talk about in terms of her school life. It was similar to my own circumstances because, when it came to education, housing was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Abuse (24 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...nature will be. We must also ensure that none of this can ever happen again. While the Minister rightly points to changes in the system over the past number of years and decades, this needs to feed into the citizen' assembly on education to ensure that this deference to religious institutions and fee-paying schools in the system can be broken and that every child in every school is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “Fees payable on declaration 3.The Act of 1956 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 30: “Fees payable on declaration 30. (1) Subject to subsection (2), whenever any person is by this Act required or empowered to make a declaration for the purposes of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the reduction in fees for third-level students will apply to students attending part-time courses such as the part-time BA in Social Care in Galway University; and the supports that will be provided for part-time students. [50551/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (4 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €1,000 increase announced for postgraduate fee grants applies to all postgraduate grants, including those in receipt of a special rate postgraduate grant currently capped at €6,270; and if the cap will be lifted by €1,000 to allow for the increase. [48582/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...he has stuck with this and he has made the difference in this budget. Again, though, we believe that in the context of a cost of €275 million we could have a further intervention for families and a cap on fees of €200. I say this because we again stand apart in this regard as our childcare fees are the highest in Europe. We also pay for schoolbooks when people in other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (29 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider allowing the leaving certificate candidates of 2020 and 2021 who change courses to avail of free fees, given the disruption from Covid-19 is a factor in the difficulties in staying in a course. [47689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of abolishing fees for sitting the Junior and Leaving Certificate for 2023, 2024 and 2025; the projected number of students in each year by exam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38469/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of abolishing school transport charges for concessionary students; if she will outline the changes in the fees for the scheme over the past two years; the current fees paid by students; the total fees collected this school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38470/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The number of students that qualify for postgraduate fee grants; the number that applied in 2021; the total funding for same in the 2021/2022 academic year; the estimated cost of restoring entitlement for full maintenance student grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38504/22]

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to learn English. It is important that the House deals robustly with this issue. We all believe in the power of education and that it is the great leveller. I was a beneficiary of the free fees scheme, as it was known, in the mid-1990s. We no longer have anything like that system. Instead, we have gone backwards. The Minister and I have spoken before about his vision in this...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020 Report: Motion (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...are. I gave the Minister a year to sort it out and she comes back in and asks for more time and more school admission cycles. It drives me to distraction to consider the power that the fee-paying lobby has. There is nothing they will not get if they ask for it. Proof is in this legislation. The only ones who asked for it were them. They got it and we cannot move it because we...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020 Report: Motion (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the committee was: why does the provision exist if it is never used? The Minister knows how strongly my party, the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and I feel about this part of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act. I cannot speak to the genesis, motivations or lobbying behind it, but I know that it was sought by a particular...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...1990s, a time when if a household had two university-age-going children, they may have only been able to send one. As part of the Labour Party's contribution to the Government at the time, half-fees were introduced halfway through my time in university, followed by completely free fees as it was called. Education cost nothing. It was absolutely free. There was zero cost. While the...

Education (Voluntary Contributions) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...was put equality at the heart of the education system. Everything that was received and handed down was torn up and they started again. What is absolutely illegal now in Finland is fundraising or fee-paying schools because they said equality should be at the heart of the education system. The problem is that far too many of the conversations happening in school communities, between...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...her to clarify two matters. The first was what would happen if a student contracted Covid-19 during exam time and what contingencies are in place for that. I also asked her to waive the exam fee, which is €116 for the leaving certificate and €109 for the junior certificate, and I understand there may be some good news in that regard for the thousands of families expected to...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., if I were to ask any of the people here, whether the members, the witnesses or the secretariat, what school their fathers and mothers or grandfathers and grandmothers went to, they would probably feel that was an irrelevant question and would perhaps be slightly insulted by it because I might be perceived as trying to paint a picture of who there are. I understand that this provision in...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...their schoolbooks for their education will be free, just like in Northern Ireland, but the Government did not do that. It gave tax cuts instead. As for voluntary contributions in the school sector, effectively fees, I have proposed legislation that would ban them. The school managers will say that, in order to properly finance the replacement funding, we would need about €46...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that will be applied to assess the eligibility of fee-paying schools for minor works support to acquire air filtration equipment; if the grant can be used against expenditure already committed to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62860/21]