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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: I do not want this Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: The Government must lead.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, issued a stark and frightening report on humanity's impact on the world around us. The day after the report was published, the Government did a U-turn on carbon tax. Carbon tax is not the be-all and end-all of climate action and it needs to be balanced with supports to stop fuel poverty. This move showed exactly where the...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: Ar dtús báire, I extend my sympathies to the family and friends of the remarkably courageous Emma Mhic Mhathúna. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis. Here we are again with the third budget of Fine Gael, the Independent Alliance and Independents. What does the Government have to show for it? All it has to show for it is an ongoing housing and homelessness...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vehicle Emissions (10 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he plans to take to facilitate an end to the sale of combustion engine private cars by 2030. [41105/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (10 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to meet the target of 45,000 deep retrofits per annum by 2021. [41104/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (10 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the primary school grants calendar will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41400/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: Did the Minister read the IPCC report?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the introduction of a one day per week release for all teaching principals of national schools further to the recommendations at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Skills' 2018 summer meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41124/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Programmes (9 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to continue with Ireland's participation in the human biomonitoring programme DEMOCOPHES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41123/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: Is lá cinniúnach é seo do mhná na hÉireann, dóibh siúd atá torrach nó a bheidh amach anseo, agus do na daoine agus na grúpaí ó cheann ceann na tíre a bhain éacht amach i mí na Bealtaine seo caite. Today is an historic day. Today, for the first time since 1983, we commence the process to legislate without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2018: Motion (4 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: I welcome the creation of the Technological University Dublin, TU4Dublin. It is heartening to read in the international advisory panel's report how positive the current collaboration between DIT, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown and Institute of Technology Tallaght is. I congratulate everyone who has worked on this project at all three institutions as well as the TU4Dublin programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2018: Motion (4 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: I am aware of the Cassells report, which recommended €600 million per annum in additional current funding by 2021. We are almost there so that is the big issue of concern but I appreciate what the Minister of State is doing.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: I am sharing my time with Deputies Shortall and Healy. When people are being made homeless faster than the Government can get them out of homelessness, something is not working. When more than 50 households enter into rental distress every day and need to avail of the housing assistant payment, HAP, something is not working. When Fine Gael has been in government for more than seven...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: I have asked the Government numerous times in recent years to take action on practical actions for homeowners affected by latent defects in their homes. I met the Minister of State, Deputy English, to discuss the strain that homeowners in my constituency of Dublin-Rathdown are under. He indicated that he would meet them but regrettably he subsequently changed his mind and no such meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the introduction of best practice guidelines for schools on the use of restraint or intervention when responding in circumstances in which students pose an immediate threat of harm to themselves or others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39980/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make history a compulsory subject for the junior cycle curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39972/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to providing persons who have a postgraduate qualification in primary school teaching with the option of a streamlined postgraduate programme in post-primary school teaching in order that those looking to retrain would not have to duplicate modules already undertaken. [39976/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow special needs assistants to take unpaid leave for the purpose of undertaking teaching practice when retraining as primary or secondary school teachers. [39977/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Martin: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made to allow special needs assistants who are qualified as primary school teachers to work as full-time learning support teachers in post-primary schools with benefits and leave. [39978/18]