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Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On a separate matter.

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yesterday evening my party wrote to the Ceann Comhairle's office regarding the revelations we heard yesterday, which emerged since the last meeting of the Business Committee, seeking a debate on the matter and for the two relevant Ministers to come into the House to discuss it. I was informed that the appropriate avenue to raise this matter was to submit a Topical Issue. I was successful in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to proposed amendments to the 2011 legislation regarding student grants having been requested by Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas or officials in his Department in the past 12 months; his views on the legislation's shortcomings with regard to persons whose income has been affected by exchange rate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider adding additional schools to the DEIS urban band 2 programme in view of the fact that no new schools were added to this category in 2017. [25927/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has or will be given to bringing new schools into the DEIS band 2 designation. [26001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in evaluating schools (details supplied) the schools were considered as being urban or rural, in view of their location on the city-county border in advance of the February 2017 announcement. [25928/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials in his Department considered or read the research document, a case of mistaken identity, conducted by Togher family centre in association with local schools, which was sent to his Department; the action taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26028/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools (details supplied) have applied for resources under the resource allocation model; if so, if they have been successful; and if not, if they have appealed. [26029/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources which may be provided to schools under the resource allocation model. [26032/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home School Community Liaison Scheme (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider putting in place home school community liason officers for schools that were not succesful in applications for DEIS but face considerable disadvantage. [26030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next round of DEIS schools will be announced; the assessment criteria which will be used; if schools that have an existing application will need to reapply; and if the existing assessment will be adequate [26031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Regulations (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 485. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the non-compliance with procurement regulations on the part of the HSE in recent years; the circumstances in which this took place; and the steps which were taken in order to rectify same. [25823/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Regulations (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 486. To ask the Minister for Health the steps which were taken regarding chapter 14 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2013 which identified significant instances of non compliance in relation to procurement regulations; and the steps his department has taken to rectify same [25824/17]

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I and my party welcome the legislation and support its passing, as the Minister of State is aware. The Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill allows courts to award periodic payment orders to compensate injured victims in cases of catastrophic injury where long-term permanent care will be required instead of the awarding of lump sum awards of damages. This is long overdue. In 2010, the working...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Caranua was established to manage €110 million pledged by religious congregations to support survivors for the remainder of their lives. It has emerged in recent days that there are a few discrepancies in how this money has been spent, with funding allocated to provide services to survivors having been spent on rent of a premises by Caranua. It is my understanding that the Committee...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Commission for Energy Regulation Staff (24 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied the staffing resource levels of the Commission for Energy Regulation is sufficient; if there has been a review of the staffing levels; his plans to increase staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24846/17]

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (23 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The southern part of metropolitan Cork has experienced significant growth in population. Thar timpeall ar an Dúglas agus i mBaile an Róistigh tá an pobal thart ar 25,000 duine agus i gCarraigh Uí Leighin tá an pobal tar éis méadú ó 12,000 go 16,000 ó bhí 2006 ann. Consequently, and rightly, new schools have been planned for these areas,...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (23 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am not terribly reassured by that. The site for the Gaelcholáiste was secured in 2010 and we are now in May 2017. The Department is entirely capable of delivering a building before December 2019 on a site that has already been purchased. The potential of the school is being held back and it is not good enough to say it has to go to the back of the queue. The desire to build this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: As the Taoiseach will know, there was much in the programme for Government, to which Sinn Féin objected from the outset, but, even by this Government's standards and its own brand of politics, its first year has been a failure. Policing and justice are in crisis. The health service is in crisis. Homelessness and housing are an ongoing crisis. Níl an réiteach ar an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Recently the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, released figures showing that overcrowding levels for the first four months of this year were are their highest levels since records began, with 36,048 waiting on trolleys from the start of the year until the end of April. Last night in my own constituency, there were 26 patients on trolleys in Cork University Hospital and 16 in the...