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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (15 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the international protection accommodation office or any official in his Department is aware of instances of beneficiaries of temporary protection or international protection applicants subletting property used to accommodate them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (10 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs in fees and accommodation paid by her Department to teachers attending the graduate diploma in social, personal and health education/relationships and sexuality education course at DCU to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40742/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (10 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or any official from her Department has engaged with representatives of a company (details supplied) to discuss concerns related to the inclusion in SPHE course material of offensive depictions of Irish families entitled ‘All different, All equal’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40743/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Dialogue on Women in Agriculture: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I want to commend all the witnesses. I spoke to them earlier. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are lots of good things and lots of positivity happening around agriculture in Ireland. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are many good things happening and much positivity in agriculture in Ireland. Unfortunately, women were airbrushed into the background for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his presentation. On student accommodation, he referred to student accommodation for targeted students being below market price. Who are the target students? What is the qualifying criteria? How would the programme be rolled out? How would students be informed that they could apply for the exemption or support?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Who are the target students? What are the categories? Does the Department lay out the criteria for the universities to follow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I fully agree with the Minister that the mindset around apprenticeships needs to change. It definitely does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Apprenticeships are of equal value to a university degree. We in Ireland need to change our view of apprenticeships. As the Minister rightly said, in Germany and other places people take a different view of apprenticeship and they are treated as equivalent to a university degree, and rightly so. The Minister is right that we do need to reach parents. Is there collaboration with career...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Yes. The Minister mentioned career guidance teachers. They have shown leadership on this issue. Traditionally, some schools are better than others at promoting apprenticeships at a whole-school level. It is unfair to directly blame any career guidance teacher but some schools have a culture of apprenticeships. The school I attended was known as "the tech" at the time and such schools...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: The Irish Road Haulage Association has called on the Government to review urgently the operational role and effectiveness of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, following the latest examples of traffic gridlock at Dublin Port tunnel. Following a series of night-time closures at the tunnel, unacceptable delays and congestion were experienced at peak times due to the mismanagement of...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm labhairt ar an rún seo inniu. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta McGrath agus a fhoireann a rinne sárobair ar an mBille seo. Members may recall that the famous UK Labour Party parliamentarian, Tony Benn, developed five questions which he proposed should be at the heart of any democratic process when it comes to holding the powerful to account. These...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the provision of fibre broadband to Birr, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40516/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a work permit application has been received and processed for a person (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40434/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can offer any assistance to a person seeking to travel from Israel to work in Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40441/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore has been excluded from the expansion of elective surgery capacity procedures such as those planned for four elective hospitals at two sites in Dublin, one in Connolly, one at the children’s hospital in Crumlin, one in Cork, one in Galway, as well as the surgical hubs for Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I have raised the issues relating to approved housing bodies on the floor of this House a number of times. I have engaged with the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority in the past few weeks on its efforts to monitor compliance with approved standards. I acknowledge the very constructive and open response I received from the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by the Office of Public Works that were non-compliant with procurement guidelines in each year from 2017 to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39789/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of growing concern among parents and educators regarding what they perceive as the inappropriately sexualised context of the SPHE curriculum for young children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39806/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if concerns around disparity of treatment with respect to a child benefit measure announced in Budget 2025 (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40019/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (8 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: 471. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the last time that a Department inspector visited Citywest to determine the number of persons from Ukraine that are currently staying there as beneficiaries of temporary protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40178/24]