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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman and the witnesses for coming before the committee today. I will start by asking Mr. Healy about the extraordinary levels of youth unemployment at present. Obviously, it is contributed to significantly by Covid-19 but what role does he see the apprenticeship issue playing in trying to resolve youth unemployment so that we do not have a long-term problem in this country?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Brownlee. Did Mr. Healy want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: We, as Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, are policymakers. What can we do to try to direct more students toward the apprenticeship avenue and maybe give them an opportunity to recognise it is a more attractive avenue for them than, say, going down the CAO route, which is the more orthodox path presented to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Brownlee and Mr. O'Callaghan.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Tests (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his answer. I am fully aware of his commitment to getting people back playing and watching sport. Obviously, the Minister of State is correct in saying we are at level 5 at present and limited in what we can do. We need to recognise that hope is out there, however. We cannot continue to live with this sense of doom and dread, listening to numbers every...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Tests (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Last year, the Minister for Health established an expert group to report on the use of rapid Covid-19 tests and to make recommendations on how such tests could be used in different settings. In fairness to the Minister, he put together talented people to form the group to advise him on these matters. The group was chaired by Professor Mark Ferguson, the Government's chief scientific...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new school builds will include the construction of ASD classrooms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20908/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to produce a five-year forecast of the current and future need for special needs education places in the catchment area of each school and to communicate this demand to schools within each area within six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20909/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to publish a list by school each June of all available school places in ASD units for the coming school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20910/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Data (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated level of public expenditure for 2021; the extent to which the level 5 restrictions in place since the end of 2020 have impacted on the forecasts he made in Budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20389/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Data (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cumulative additional public expenditure undertaken to meet the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic since the beginning of March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20390/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 534. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons currently being supported by the employment wage subsidy scheme; the total expenditure on the scheme and its predecessor since March 2021; his plans to extend the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20682/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 535. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies currently being supported by the Covid restrictions support scheme; the total expenditure on this scheme since its introduction; his plans to extend the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20683/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 817. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information will be provided on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and review of exemptions for educational and community buildings, as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if information will be provided on the stated need to consider...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 778. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if steps have been taken to initiate the regeneration of Pearse House, Dublin 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19883/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1073. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned to restore the three school days (details supplied) that were missed prior to the commencement of remote learning in order to ensure that children are not disadvantaged any further as a result of the closure of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20438/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to change the regulatory framework for gambling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20996/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Acts will be updated to permit the repatriation of Irish prisoners serving sentences in the UK under sentences not recognised in Irish law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if case progression hearings in relation to case progression cases in which summons for case progression issued after 22 March 2020 have taken place in the Dublin Circuit Court [20028/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (21 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current backlog of family law cases awaiting their first case progression hearing in the Dublin Circuit Court; and the way this compares with the other circuits in Ireland. [20029/21]