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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Harbours and Piers (16 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date by his Department in the replacement by the OPW of a structure that comes under its remit (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16179/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Independent Reporting Commission, IRC, is the statutory body established under the Fresh Start agreement of 2015 to report on measures aimed at ending paramilitarism. The reports of the commission provide a comprehensive insight into the work being done to tackle this problem. One of the recommendations of the fifth report, the most recent report, was that the two Governments should...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will this be a matter for discussion at those meetings? Is there a chance this could be pressed home and the suggestion of the IRC adopted and implemented? It would make a big difference and lead to significant progress.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when statistics for the vacant homes grant for quarter 4 of 2023 and quarter 1 of 2024 will be published; whether he is satisfied with the uptake of the grant to date, including the number of applications, the number of approvals and the number of grants paid; if he has any proposals to improve the terms of the scheme or its...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Good morning and welcome to the 19th meeting of this committee. Apologies have been received from Deputies Buckley and Mitchell and Senator O'Sullivan. The Chair has asked me to sit in her place. I remind members that they must be physically present within Leinster House to take part in public meetings of the committee. I will not allow a member to take part in this meeting if they are...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose we publish on the committee website the following documents provided by the Department of Education - the opening statement, the briefing, the letter about the supporting Traveller and Roma, STAR, project and the letter about the homework clubs. Is that agreed? Agreed. I suggest we invite our witnesses to speak for between five and ten minutes and allow members to ask questions...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask for a response from the Department.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That testimony was incredibly powerful and goes to the nub of the issue. I respect that we have been given a lot of figures here today, but the figure that tells all is that of the very low completion rate in school. Until that is equal for all, we are failing. I noticed that there are 8,309 students in primary schools and 3,370 in secondary schools. Unless there has been a huge...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Maybe we will let Senator Joe O'Reilly come in. That will give Senator Flynn an opportunity to hear the witnesses' replies when she comes back in. Would that be okay with Ms O'Neill?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask Ms O'Neill to respond first to Senator Flynn and then to Senator Joe O'Reilly.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry for interrupting, but will Mr. Hanlon give us the figures again please? There is a figure here of 1,044. What is that referring to exactly?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is that 1,044 Traveller children?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: For comparative purposes, would a fair percentage of the other children be in special schools?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They might have physical disabilities, significant intellectual disabilities and so on. Is that correct?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What would be very useful for us would be a comparison of like with like. Nobody here would argue about a child with high dependency levels or special educational needs, as long as it is equal to all, but given the figures, it appears that there has been a dramatic drop in the number of children on short days since this reporting process started. Is there any evidence of that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are they double-counted?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What we need to ensure is that this practice is clamped down on because sometimes there is a perception that Traveller children cannot compete like with like. Obviously, when a person is from a Traveller background, he or she is nearer to disadvantages in accommodation. I will come back to that in a minute. I will mention the education of the parents. There are a few very educated parents...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ms O'Neill can keep going.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we are gaining.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A child does not attend every day, do all the classes, and then suddenly not sit the exam and leave school. I take it that if a child or student gets through those first three years but does not make it, that the history has been of absenteeism, non-engagement and so on, and that it is a progression. Then, when they come to exams, they balk and decide to leave school. Everything else in...