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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Community Development Projects (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have raised this issue on a number of occasions. I have been campaigning on this issue for a number of years, as have the local Labour Party and our local area representative Shane Folan. This impacts some on my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, as well, because the issue borders his constituency too. I am referencing the Dublin 13 and Dublin 17 area, where the Minister of State will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Community Development Projects (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am reassured by the response from the Minister. I do sometimes get a little disappointed with the political reaction as if there is no influence that the Minister can have in this regard. We know that the soft power of a Minister can be quite strong. The Minister needs to be an advocate and a persuader for this. Her office and her Department needs to be fully engaged on the progress of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 601. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm that the current agreed process of issuing a service requirement to each of the existing funded organisations will be maintained as preparations for cycle 2 of the new youth sector funding scheme are underway; if his Department has no intention of moving towards a competitive tendering...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State and acknowledge that today is a historic day. It is a little bit of history. We did not have a statutory sick pay scheme and now we do. It was on foot of a Labour Party Private Member's Bill that this conversation started. The Minister took it on in good faith, we have come to the conclusion of that discussion and workers are in a better position today in...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Rents in this country have reached record levels and the situation in Dublin is a crisis. Rents are more than 50% higher than they were at the peak of the Celtic tiger in 2008. This is causing misery for my constituents in Dublin Bay North. We must conclude that the housing market has failed. We need much stronger State intervention to increase supply through the direct building of social...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party will oppose this motion. In recent weeks, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has driven a coach and horses through the long-established process for bringing legislation through the Houses of the Oireachtas. He rammed through the mica redress Bill, and every Stage of the Electoral Reform Bill 2022 has brought complex and substantial amendments outside...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing measures (details supplied); the current staffing ratios for primary schools; the changes in the pupil-teacher ratio over the past five years; the additional number of teachers needed for each change; the cost of additional school accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38467/22]

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing measures (details supplied); the current staffing ratios for post-primary schools; the changes in the pupil-teacher ratio over the past five years; the additional number of teachers needed for each change; the cost of additional school accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38468/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of abolishing fees for sitting the Junior and Leaving Certificate for 2023, 2024 and 2025; the projected number of students in each year by exam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38469/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of abolishing school transport charges for concessionary students; if she will outline the changes in the fees for the scheme over the past two years; the current fees paid by students; the total fees collected this school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38470/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of seed capital and recurrent funding required to achieve 100% coverage of book rental schemes across all schools and classes and incorporating all relevant books; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38471/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the cost of introducing free schoolbooks at primary and post-primary level; if a costing has been carried out; if so, the estimated cost of the proposal; if any preparatory work has been carried out for a national tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38472/22]

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing a permanent release day for administrative purposes each week to each teaching principal; the number who would benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38473/22]

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring the number of assistant principals to pre-2009 levels; the estimated cost of 300 AP1 and 1500 AP2 positions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38474/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing an additional 100 SNAs; the projected number of additional SNAs to be employed in 2023/2024 due to demographic pressures; the current number of SNAs at the end of 2022/2023 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38475/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing an additional 100 resource teachers; the current number employed; the projected number of additional resource teachers to be employed in 2023/2024 due to demographic pressures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38476/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the student contribution charge by €1,000 from the start of the coming academic year; the estimated cost of reducing the charge in September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38502/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing SUSI grants by 10%, and the income threshold by 10%; the impact of the changes across bands; the number of additional students that would benefit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38503/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The number of students that qualify for postgraduate fee grants; the number that applied in 2021; the total funding for same in the 2021/2022 academic year; the estimated cost of restoring entitlement for full maintenance student grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38504/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of reducing the non-adjacent student grant distance from 45km to 30km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38505/22]