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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I very much appreciate the comments of the Minister on the former Minister, Niamh Breathnach. I know her family will as well. One of the radical things she did as Minister for Education was to abolish fees, something from which I benefited, as did many of my colleagues and friends. The debate was lost over the previous 25 years when registration fees crept up. People are now spending...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Over a period we want to achieve, at all levels of education, be it primary, secondary, third level and further education, a situation whereby nobody has to consider costs when it comes to furthering their education journey. It should never come into the conversation. It is depressing that people always have to think about the cost of education to a family when it should instead be about...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students who have previously sat a year in a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else. [7502/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I ask the Minister the reason students who have previously sat a year in a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students who previously sat a year on a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else. [6939/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Employment Rights (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the statement of quality employment associated with the recently established digital games tax. [7027/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disabilities Assessments (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which agency has responsibility for the undertaking of a pupil’s assessment for assistive technology in a secondary school setting, following a recommendation by a CDNT. [7425/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the baker apprenticeship which was one of the 24 apprenticeship proposals that were approved development funding by the Apprenticeship Council in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7056/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 550. To ask the Minister for Health the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy can obtain the drug cariban on the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will provide details of the standard practice in other EU member states. [6510/23]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: My point is similar to Deputy Kenny's. I thank the Minister for his engagement. According to figures that we have, we have 650 fewer gardaí than we had before the pandemic. There is a report in the Irish Independent that we have 42 stations around the country with no permanent staff. We are advocating in Dublin Bay North, my own constituency, for a new Garda station for the huge,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is long in gestation.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is Northern Cross. The site has been identified. The Office of Public Works, OPW, the Garda Síochána and Dublin City Council are engaging on it. I appreciate the Minister's gesture there.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That is fine.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Quite a number of us have visited Mountjoy Prison recently. We engaged with the governor and prisoners and played football against them, not very successfully I might add. It was a very constructive engagement and credit has to be given to Senator Lynn Ruane, who has been leading that discussion. I am not a member of this committee for very long but I understand that a lot of work has been...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I know that education services come under the Department of Education, but still they are linked with prisons in that education in prisons goes on an academic timetable. Therefore, if you were to land in a prison in July or August, you would not be able to access education services until the new academic year. Is there a way of changing that?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Aha.