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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for her presentation. My question centres on family income supplement, too, which the Minister has addressed. Another way of looking at it is that, in effect, we have spent €250 million, which has been increased to €280 million, to support approximately 50,000 families who are in work but so poorly paid that the State must intervene to keep them out of...

Topical Issue Debate: Air Ambulance Service Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply but I am sure he will agree that if I had been provided with it in response to a parliamentary question, I would not be in the House now wasting everybody's time. This is a reasonably detailed reply. It indicates that the helipad has been used on 17 occasions in the past year, although it was supposed to have been used only six times. However,...

Topical Issue Debate: Air Ambulance Service Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, for being present. I express my intense irritation at having to come here to raise a Topical Issue on which I tabled a parliamentary question last week to which I received a one line answer. It is not the best use of my time, that of the Minister of State or the Department to have to draft a memo when such matters could be readily dealt with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (21 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 676. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there are periods during rush hour where there are fewer DART carriages running than in other time slots; the reasons behind the 50 cent fare increase in December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2419/14]

Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (16 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have been working very closely with Councillor Jane Horgan Jones of Dublin City Council and Councillor Judy Dunne on Fingal County Council and with Brian McDonagh on this issue. I join Deputy Kevin Humphreys in thanking the council workers, as I know the Minister of State will too, who did excellent work on the ground over the Christmas period. The 2005 Royal Haskoning report which...

Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (16 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Justifiably.

Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this issue. I wish to address two main issues. Many Members have already discussed the dangers of online gambling and that the social interaction in the bookie's shop in the main street would be replaced by a more private engagement online which, as Deputies Spring, Seán Kenny and others have already said, is particularly dangerous and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The guests' presentations were probably some of the best we have had at this committee, considering that they are members of the public and not necessarily spokespeople for a national organisation. We must totally re-evaluate our education system as often as we possibly can. We do not do it often enough. Our education system is something we have inherited from the past. We as a committee...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 752. To ask the Minister for Health if permission has been granted to allow for emergency helicopter landings in the Beaumont Woods estate; and if such permission has been granted, in the interest of transparency, if he will disclose the full criteria and details. [55300/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 875. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the curtailment in Beechpark services, including occupational therapy and speech and language therapy, which is having a serious affect on the ability of north Dublin schools to provide a proper service for the children under their care. [1427/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister of State is well aware of this issue and I appreciate his response. A flood forum has been established, residents are in need of cover and insurance companies are not engaging, and meanwhile a recommendation has been made that a hydraulic analysis be undertaken on the river in question, but it is not going ahead. We cannot have a solution for the insurance companies until a...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, for being here to discuss again this issue of insurance companies' non-engagement with areas of the country, particularly in the city and my constituency, where householders have undergone much hassle, discomfort and, in some circumstances, displacement because of the irregularity of weather patterns over the past number of years. There have...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 89. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the area based childhood programmes that have been rolled out; her plans for further roll-out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53714/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 99. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an overview of the key recommendations in the right from the start early years strategy; the time-line for their implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53715/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department currently collects information on the attainment, transfer, attendance, suspension and expulsion rates of Traveller students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53664/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way his Department intends to monitor the impact of recent cuts to traveller specific education supports on the educational outcomes of Traveller students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53665/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 19 November 2013, the amount of funding previously allocated to Traveller specific education provision that has been redeployed; the mainstream programmes on which it is being spent; and the the way Travellers are benefitting from this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53666/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (17 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 541. To ask the Minister for Health when he will enact the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53663/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will be brief as I might have to leave. Unfortunately, many meetings take place on a Wednesday. I have the radical idea about Irish education that children should be taught together. Many people in the education sphere consider that idea incredibly radical and that it could never be achieved. A minority of schools manipulate their admission policies to keep certain children out. For...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Publication (11 Dec 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a draft of the national early years strategy will be ready; if she plans to carry out a public consultation on the strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53261/13]