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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for her engagement. I am happy to withdraw my amendment to allow the Minister to reassess the situation and come back, certainly on the sentencing guidelines. We suggested ten years, but I suppose there is a difference between poisoning with the intent of making someone unwell and spiking with the intent of committing a sexual assault or rape, based on the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (27 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 20 of 8 September 2022, if he will report on his Department's approach to the High Court injunction secured on 24 August 2022 by some security companies to block the enforcement of the new employment regulation order for the security sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53735/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank all of the speakers for coming. I will make some comments before Ms Foley expands on some of the issues she raised. Much of what she said has resonated with many of us here. The Irish education system is almost uniquely set up to have mental health challenges within it. We separate children on the basis of religion and income and we separate them more than any other European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Does Ms Foley find at second level that the exam pressure is there from day one until the day one leaves and that it is unreasonable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am still traumatised by my leaving certificate history exam.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank Ms Foley.

Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am greatly encouraged by this debate. I thank Deputies Martin Kenny, Mitchell and Ward for bringing forward this legislation. All those Deputies have a great track record in this area. I am greatly taken by the remarks of Deputy Ó Murchú, who said the war on drugs is over. It needs to be over because the war on drugs is a war on people but it is also a war on a particular type...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Intreo offices that are currently open for public services cards appointments in the Dublin 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 areas. [52315/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I join with the previous speaker in congratulating the Minister on the Department and its success. Some of us were unconvinced as to the necessity of a new Department but it has proven its worth. It is now a feature and a fixture and deserves to be. The Minister made a success of it and that needs to be acknowledged. We share many aspirations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I know. You need your mammy to row in as well though, as she helpfully did-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I was trying to be nice.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department have examined the possibility of extending the €500 cost-of-living payment and stipend increase announced in Budget 2023 to PhDs funded outside of IRC and SFI. specifically, if a mechanism similar to the pandemic-related payments to students had been considered for this cohort. [51834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department possesses counts of PhDs researchers who have dropped out of their studies every year for the past five years. [51839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the specific laws, policies or exemptions that mean that stipends are untaxed income. [51836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if Innovate for Ireland PhDs will pay income tax, USC or PRSI. [51837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will update the Postgraduate Workers Alliance of Ireland on his promise to consult PGWA in various relevant committees convened from within his Department, including fund the future committees. [51838/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new Innovate for Ireland scheme will be open for applicants; if he will clarify the criteria potential applicants will need to meet in order to be eligible for the scheme. [51833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full breakdown of numbers of PhDs who are funded through State or state-funded bodies (IRC, SFI, HRB, Bord Bia, National Arts Council and so on and an estimate of privately funded PhDs registered at Irish universities. [51835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will account for the long delays faced by non-EU PhD researchers when applying for their yearly stamp; if her Department will consider conducting a review of visa renewals for PhDs to allow for essential work travel-year round for the duration of all candidates' PhDs. [51832/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a delay in some payments to primary school teachers on contracts of fixed duration in multiple locations, which in some cases have resulted in teachers having to visit Intreo offices to seek emergency payment; the cause of the delay; the number of persons who have been affected; when they can expect to be...