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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (31 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the well-being element of the secondary school curriculum, as advocated by Cycle Against Suicide; if she will reshape and resource it to improve the outcome for students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4334/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (31 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for additional space by a school (details supplied) for a special unit providing leaving certificate applied tuition can be considered in light of increased roll numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4446/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (31 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a building project will be progressed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4464/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (31 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 64. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will advise when the sports capital grants that were submitted in September 2023 will be allocated. [4453/24]

Seanad: Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank all the Senators across the House for their contributions, all of which I identify with. It is important to hear everyone's views, with which I concur. I welcome the members of the brave and courageous Women of Honour to the Public Gallery and support them in what they have had to endure at a very stressful and emotional time in their lives, when the State has let them down. That...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance when the qualifying criteria for the primary medical certificate will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4207/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise if a project for a second ASD unit in a school (details supplied) will continue to progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (30 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for registration for the Teaching Council will be considered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3964/24]

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank all Members for their work on this Bill to date and their contributions in the House this evening. I reiterate the sincere thanks of the Minister for Health to the advocates who have been highlighting the issues raised in this Bill over the past number of years. On behalf of the Minister for Health and the Government, I recognise the importance of the issues raised in this Bill and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I again thank Deputy Buckley for raising this very important matter on behalf of his community. I outline that the steering group is due to meet again in the next week or so and local elected representatives will be part of that. I assure the Deputy that the funding is in place for the relief scheme. It will be taken from the €1.3 billion that is available for flood risk management...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I commend the Deputy on raising this issue. I agree that Dáil Éireann is the forum to raise infrastructural issues and indeed issues that really impact on people in the Deputy's locality like the elderly gentleman that he referenced in his opening contribution and the effects on his life of having no power and water for a protracted period of time. It is important that Uisce...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. He is absolutely right about the fear that people feel when they see horrific events like very serious flooding coming towards their property. I know that as I come from a constituency which has suffered extreme levels of flooding in the past. The catchment flood risk assessment and management programme provided the Government with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I again thank Deputy Durkan for his outline of this serious situation for an important State amenity. I was struck by the figures, the visitations, the traffic and the number of people who use the amenity and see great value in it. I know it is close to the Deputy's heart, and I have heard him raise it a number of times in this House and with Ministers in the current Government. We...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for his important Topical Issue. I will first address the water supply issues in west Waterford. As the Deputy will understand, the supply of public water and the provision of water services in general are matters for Uisce Éireann in the first instance. However, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has made inquiries with Uisce Éireann on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for his intervention and his summation of this very important issue in his constituency. In October 2023, the Minister of State, Deputy O’Donovan, initiated a working group to progress the reuniting of the historic demesne and access issues to Castletown House and estate. This group includes representatives of the community and all of the political representatives...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. It is also an issue in my constituency. The Government fully recognises there was exceptional flooding in the Shannon Callows during late summer last year which prevented some farmers from completing their normal traditional harvesting of silage and hay. This has left affected farmers in a serious situation and required that they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for taking the time to raise this important issue. As already stated, approximately €736,000 of the €800,000 has been paid out. That shows how seriously the Government has taken this issue. Farmers were paid promptly under the scheme. I will raise the issues about the SAC that the Deputy put forward to the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. The Deputy also...

United Kingdom Import Controls: Statements (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. First, I thank all of the Deputies who participated in the debate for their interest and contributions on this very important topic. It is vital that all of us in this House work together to get the message out to our exporters and businesses. There are many people in each of our constituencies who will be impacted by these new UK...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: Shall I continue, a Cheann Comhairle?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I am not aware that it arose at the last meeting.