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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what legal mechanisms exist for parents whose children have been refused a transition year place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on the assumption that a child who wished to complete a place in transition year, but was denied the opportunity due to not being picked in a school lottery, to clarify that her Department will accept any application to repeat fifth year on that basis, so that students can take their Leaving Certificate exams at an appropriate age relative to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what advice parents should be given if their children do not get offered a desired place on a transition year programme; whether leeway would be given by education welfare officers to parents who arrange work experience and educational trips for their children in terms of missing official school days; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will facilitate parents who have suitable arrangements in place collectively or individually and who wish to give their children a transition tear experience in the absence of a place being available in the school, by means of a home tuition grant being made available to these children; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current subvention paid to schools for transition year, per student; whether there is a cap on such subventions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14149/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the deadline for schools to provide final numbers for transition year each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14150/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school has reached its quota for transition year places and has to create a lottery, whether the school can apply for supplemental supports from the Department in the event it decides in the best interests of students to facilitate additional numbers. [14151/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Safety (25 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether it is possible for parents to be Garda vetted to assist second level schools in providing sufficient ratios of adults to children for school trips, including transition year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14152/25]

Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank the Labour Party for bringing this very important issue onto the agenda for discussion. I note the Government side is not opposing it and thank it for that. There have been quite a number of studies carried out on this area in Ireland, but the research has not really been acted on. Family Carers Ireland has provided a wealth of information to Members here today and have provided...

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: For sure.

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Trade and security are intermingled. In an Irish context, we face many challenges. Issues relating to Brexit have not gone away but these are small issues compared with the deterioration in EU-US trade relations in areas such as tariffs, subsidies and digital trade rules. We have challenges too with China in the context of market access, intellectual property issues, etc. The supply chain...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: The tenant in situ acquisition scheme may have been a temporary measure initially but it is one that has proved absolutely necessary in protecting some of the most vulnerable in our society. It was by no means perfect but bureaucratic ineptitude at national and local level led to it being a lot less than it could have been. I have had multiple examples of small landlords with long-standing...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We have come to this housing debate God knows how many times now. I think we have had about six or seven debates on housing. In one sense, it recognises the importance of the issue. However, as Deputy Tóibín said, we are having a lot of statements. We are going around in circles without actually moving forward. The Housing Commission's report, for example, has been going for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Do not forget to wave, Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: They gave it to him, talking about him on our national holiday.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I congratulate the Taoiseach on surviving a diplomatic balancing act at the White House last Wednesday. I am sure he will agree the decision to invite a thug in a suit on our actual national day to what in effect was a rapists' convention was a gross insult to the people of Ireland and especially to the women of Ireland. In one context, we can shrug it off but at another level, this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving tests conducted on a listed daily basis at Tallaght driving test centre from 1 September 2024 to 5 March 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11278/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving testers currently available for work at Tallaght driving test centre; the number of vacancies that exist; the optimal number operating on any given day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11279/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 449. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions taken by the OPW to date to secure a car park and access to Castletown House from a centre (details supplied), given that the centre is willing to provide use of its own car park at weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10870/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 450. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has applied to Kildare County Council for planning permission for a car park for weekday parking on Castletown estate adjacent to and directly beside a centre (details supplied); if not, to confirm that this workaround is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10871/25]