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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (18 May 2016)

David Stanton: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of permanent accommodation for a new secondary level school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10747/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (18 May 2016)

David Stanton: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of permanent accommodation in Carrigtwohill in County Cork to amalgamate two existing primary schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10748/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (18 May 2016)

David Stanton: 133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his progress in drawing up plans to alleviate flooding in Midleton, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10744/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (18 May 2016)

David Stanton: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment for speech and language will be made available for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10827/16]

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

David Stanton: I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute to this debate on crime. The debate was sparked by murders in Dublin and it has focused on that issue, which has its roots in the illegal drug trade. Chairing the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality for the past five years, I learned that this area of policing and crime is extremely complex. There is no simple answer....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (26 Apr 2016)

David Stanton: 489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money allocated to Cork County Council to carry out repairs to roads which suffered damage during the recent winter storms; the amount drawn down to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8427/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Apr 2016)

David Stanton: 736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training she offers to special needs assistants who work with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, in particular with regard to training in Lámh, the picture exchange communication system, and in the treatment and education of autistic and related communication-handicapped children; her policy on the necessity of such...

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

David Stanton: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his appointment and wish him well. He has made a good start. I spent 15 years on the Opposition benches, and in that time one reform occurred, namely, the introduction of Leaders' Questions, which were kind of happening anyway, but they were formalised in Standing Orders. There was nothing else, zero, zilch. Once reform occurs, it gets built in and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Marriages of Convenience (6 Apr 2016)

David Stanton: 426. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 496 of 20 October 2015, the progress made relating to the issue arising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5418/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Apr 2016)

David Stanton: 507. To ask the Minister for Health the policies he has developed regarding the diagnosis, management and treatment of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; if an Ehlers-Danlos syndrome task force has been established; the membership of this task force; the number of persons he estimates to be suffering from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5848/16]

Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: We must explore-----

Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: This is more of it. If the Deputy wants me to give way I will do so, but we must examine ways of getting more attendance in the Chamber. Why do Members not come to the House? I believe it requires shorter speeches and more positive interaction between Members.

Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: I compliment the previous speaker on her positive, well-researched and well-presented contribution. It was constructive, as always. I have been a Member for almost 19 years and was involved for quite a while in the Dáil reform committee. For 14 years under Fianna Fáil there was no Dáil reform, except for Leaders' Questions. When I came in, Michael Noonan was leader of Fine...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister. It is a significant move. The issue arose during Committee Stage, and at that stage such a provision was not envisaged. It is a great breakthrough at European level. I am curious as to whether it is intended to open discussions with other countries, such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to which many Irish citizens like to travel. Could some...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: One country recognises the spent convictions of another country. I wonder whether efforts will be made to engage with other jurisdictions in order that spent convictions here can be recognised in other jurisdictions and vice versa. That would be useful to know because, if that were the case, it might make these amendments redundant. A friend of mine in another jurisdiction contacted me...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: Which amendment?

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: I know that even if a person has a conviction, it does not automatically mean he will be barred from entering or working in another country, but it might slow things down. That is where these elements are coming from. It is simply a matter of putting on record the concern over whether, and at what level, there is any intention to engage other jurisdictions in order that spent convictions...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: I move amendment No. 56:In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:"9. Where in respect of a person who has a conviction which is, in accordance with this Act, regarded as a spent conviction, a state other than the State requests information in respect of a citizen's criminal record, any conviction which is deemed to be spent shall not appear in the response of the State,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: 430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will provide a communications support as an aid to a profoundly deaf person (details supplied) in County Cork who has no access to sound via technology; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2906/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (19 Jan 2016)

David Stanton: 410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has or will consider excluding the carer's support grant, formerly the respite care grant, from reckonable income for applications for student support grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1906/16]