Results 101-120 of 4,773 for speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the roll-out of the primary school book grant scheme; and to confirm when the revised guidelines for 2024/2025 will be published. [17700/24]

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Road safety is an issue that is seemingly spiralling out of control. This year is currently on course to prove the most lethal for traffic fatalities in 15 years, with all the good work that has been done in the years gone by completely erased. So far this year, 63 people have died on the roads, with the death toll climbing by an alarming 31% compared with the same period in 2023. In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (17 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the status of PhD researchers, that is, their classification as either students or employees, will be published. [16843/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am not in any way suggesting that the Minister does not appreciate the severity of the issues at hand. I have shared stories of my time teaching. The stories of people now on the front line are harrowing. We are losing children because of interventions which could take place and which, as has been acknowledged, would make the difference. It is very upsetting and very emotional to speak...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposal to introduce a DEIS plus scheme for the most acutely disadvantaged schools in the country. [16367/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister will know that I have raised this next matter probably more than any other issue in my capacity as the Labour Party's spokesperson on education. I refer to the need for a new designation of what is called DEIS plus for the most acutely disadvantaged schools. It is an initiative that was started in Dublin 17, in schools in Tallaght and Ballymun. The estimate is that about 100...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: When I raised this matter before, the Minister said there would be no OECD review of the DEIS programme until the second quarter of this year. This is why I have been relatively patient in trying to find out if the Minister will listen to what the principals have said. The Minister has said she has met them. The need in these schools is absolutely profound. Making one child out of every...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for her kind words. It is very much appreciated by my family, to whom education means the world, that the Minister for Education mentioned my daughter on the floor of the House. Her sister Anna is very excited. On the matter at hand, the INTO has spoken at its recent conference about 2,000 long-term vacancies within the primary school sector, as the Minister knows....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The ramifications are that we have schools that are not being staffed and staffrooms that are struggling to keep schools operational. Circumstances are not the same across the country because housing and childcare in Dublin are much more expensive. Everything in Dublin is much more expensive. The cost of living is much more expensive. As has been recognised in London, such costs have a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will support the introduction of a Dublin allowance for teachers to help to address the teacher retention crisis in the Dublin area. [16343/24]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, on her appointment to the Department of Education. Will the Department support the introduction of a Dublin allowance for teachers to help to address the crisis in teacher retention in the Dublin area?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the proposed cut in the primary summer programme grant and restore the grants from the proposed €30 per child to €45 per child. [16341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the DEIS summer programme scheme has been changed in order that literacy and numeracy inclusion camps must be run concurrently. [16342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children due to start a new school in September in the Dublin area who have yet to be offered a place in a local school; and the efforts her Department is making to ensure that every child will have a place in time. [16340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress of a new permanent school building for schools (details supplied); and when the building will be open for students. [16170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve the next stage in the redevelopment of a school (details supplied) and if she will meet the parents' association to outline the project plan. [16190/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 672. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the shortfall between the cost of prosthetic limbs for amputees and the reimbursement from insurance companies; and what action he proposes to bring them in to line. [16145/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 673. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the availability of paid for prosthetic limbs on the HSE to amputees beyond the first prosthesis and give full life long support to amputees in line with other long term health conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16146/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I apologise for being late. If anything I ask has already been spoken about, I apologise. I thank the witnesses very much for the work they do. In my political work I come across a lot of young people in various communities who are very taken with the glamour of the life of crime. It is very lucrative. People do not need many qualifications...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes, that is pretty much it.