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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Do we have no time left?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress being made to open a second autism unit class at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23650/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does the Minister have an answer for this one? It is one of these strange questions where I can probably answer the question myself to some degree.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The issue with the autism unit at De La Salle is that it was operating out of a classroom made available by a teacher, which then had to be returned to them. There is a plan for a building that would deal with two units. The issue was that a modular unit is going in that will only fit one class, but a huge amount of work has been done by the principal and the NCSE. I got good news last...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many of my colleagues have already spoken about the fact that some councils' best tenants, those who have been in houses the longest, are dealing with mould, the cold and an absolutely brutal circumstances. Like everyone else, I am sure the Minister of State has people coming to him saying that they have never looked for anything and they cannot get a window or door fixed. The biggest issue...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the ongoing review of SET teaching hours at primary schools; the number of additional hours allocated, if any; the number of schools involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23651/24]

Business Support Package: Statements (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was never off it. The Minister of State is just not very good at finding it.

Business Support Package: Statements (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We will probably have a fair amount of agreement, at least on this side of the House, on the issues out there at the minute, among them the cost-of-living crisis that workers and everybody else are going through. I have no doubt that, as people are hitting the doors, they are getting it in the neck, for want of a better term, on the pressure businesses are under also. There is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A number of businesses in the Clanbrassil Street, St. Nicholas Quarter, Church Street and York Street areas of Dundalk received a text message at 10 a.m. today from Irish Water, telling them essential maintenance works would be taking place between 8 o'clock tomorrow and 8 o'clock on Monday and that this may cause disruption. I would be calling for a different intervention had I not managed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is absolutely vital work that needs to be done. We constantly talk about how we have to move beyond reasonable accommodations and in the context of universal design, facilitate all sorts of people. It is fair to say that major work has been done in new pathways and route maps for people as regards education. I visited the Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre of Excellence yesterday...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I also visited Dundalk Institute of Technology, DkIT, recently, which offers a particular course relating to skills for independent living. DkIT has particular issues with regard to SUSI. I hope this will be looked at as we carry out reviews. I am very glad the Minister spoke about the cliff edge that exists, particularly when kids hit the age of 18. With regard to services across the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of disability supports for students at further and higher education centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23180/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is the status of the review of disability supports for students in further and higher education centres, and will the Minister make a statement on the matter? Some of this relates to my engagement with the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Harris, not least in respect of personal assistants in further education colleges and trying to rectify the issue with their contracts.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to resolve the terms and conditions of employment of personal assistants who work in some education and training boards; the timeline for when the issue is expected to be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23179/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work being carried out by his Department to combat bogus self employment in the building trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23171/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 117. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding that is being provided to support small and medium enterprises with the increased cost of business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23172/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will next meet. [22677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application for assistive technology was refused for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23216/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am not sure that the clock was-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I doubt that.