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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, have identified a very viable point about how apprenticeships have been subordinated beneath the belief that studying for medicine, law or engineering is more worthwhile which, of course, it is not. We need to have a mechanism to allow young people in school to recognise that if they do well in certain courses in the leaving cert...

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is remarkable that less than three months prior to the UK leaving the EU, there is no agreement in place and the UK still does not know what the nature of its trading relationship with the EU will be after 1 January 2021. What we need to learn from this is that if we ever go down the route of having a significant referendum in this country, as we may in years to come, we have to be sure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the historically low level of prosecutions for wildlife crime, said to be only 90 prosecutions over the past eight years, when compared with an average of 75 prosecutions per annum from 1977 to 1987 and the expectation of the principal officer of the National Parks and Wildlife Service at that time that there...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the historically low level of prosecutions for wildlife crime (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28908/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he expects the European Commission to take legal action against the UK over its internal market Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28479/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposal in respect of the seal culling scheme that was recently announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28315/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Refugee Resettlement Programme (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 387. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland plans to take in respect of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe in view of the recent fire in the refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28283/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 421. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a club (details supplied) will be permitted to use again the Gaelic pitch at Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines, Dublin 6, which it has used for many years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28373/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken by a national school to ensure that a neighbouring secondary school continues to recognise a national school as a feeder school in order that children from the locality may have access to a local secondary school as identified (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28770/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if ballet schools come within the definition of schools, early learning and childcare services as defined in the Plan for Living with Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28319/20]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for coming before the committee and wish him all the best in his role in the years ahead. We are three months away from Brexit, which may be a no-deal Brexit. Will the extra 330 staff allocated to the Revenue Commissioners be sufficient to deal with the extraordinary consequences of a no-deal Brexit? Alternatively, if there is a deal on Brexit, will all those...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: Will those small businesses still have significant extra work to complete even if a deal is agreed between the United Kingdom and the European Union?

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the publication by the Government of the roadmap for living with Covid-19. It is a valuable contribution to the debate. It is also a valuable contribution to the public in terms of how to deal with this crisis. I also welcome what the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, said earlier, that in this chapter of Covid-19 the State is seeking to open up the country while, at the same time,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be made available to provide for the availability of ASD classrooms in schools (details supplied). [28026/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons the HSE currently employs in a HR function; and the number on 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2020. [28016/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (30 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I appreciate he is limited in what he can do because of the decision of An Bord Pleanála. However, we need to look beyond the planning decision that lies in the background of this demolition. The more important issue is that we, as a country, need to recognise the importance of our revolutionary period and the influence that revolutionary...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (30 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yesterday at approximately 6 a.m. a house of very significant historical importance in my constituency was bulldozed to the ground. The house to which I refer is No. 40 Herbert Park in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. The house is of significant historical importance because Michael The O'Rahilly, his wife Nancy and their six children lived there. People aware of Irish history will know that The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (30 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons can avail of the cycle to work scheme if they are availing of the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27443/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am taking five minutes. I thank the Minister and Dr. Glynn and his team for coming in and being witnesses. I further thank Dr. Glynn for his work throughout the past number of months. These questions may have been asked already. I have not been following the debate because I have been outside the room, so forgive me if the questions have been asked previously. To date, 1,803 people...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: What percentage of the 1,803 had underlying conditions that contributed to their deaths?