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Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, let me be perfectly clear here what the issue is in terms of this argument.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is very difficult because schools sometimes feel completely unsupported in embracing issues, particularly when the actions of the Minister of State in the Department are part of the problem. That is what we are trying to achieve here. I absolutely stand over my comments. To be quite frank, only for the fact that we are focusing on children this week, the Minister of State with...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate the Acting Chairman's indulgence. The reason for my tardiness was because the Oireachtas football team was playing a game in Mountjoy Prison. It was an event we felt strongly about that included a representative from all political groupings here. We saw the power of education. By pure coincidence, there was a deputation at the Oireachtas committee today to speak about the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of two children (details supplied) who have been allocated shared summer provision reduced from 40 hours each to 60 hours due to the fact that they are siblings and despite the fact that there is a five year age gap and they have different academic needs; if her Department are able to arrange for a full 40 hours...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact that her Department has had with Dublin City Council in relation to the severe overcrowding in a school (details supplied); if her Department is in any negotiations to purchase a site in close proximity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35831/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 784. To ask the Minister for Health the action that his Department can take to ensure that patients without medical cards can access general practitioner services if they can show that they have received refusals from three or more GP services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35834/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It just so happens that an Oireachtas football team is going into Mountjoy Prison today to play a match, so it is appropriate that the witnesses are here to discuss this topic. I remember reading an article by Neil Gaiman in The Guardian some years ago in which he wrote that the prison service in the US had been outsourced to private providers. When an attempt is made to assess what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Would it not be ideal if there was not that two-month gap in the year? Teachers are teachers, I understand that, but is there a way of being flexible and working around that? If somebody is getting into and enjoying something, beginning to enhance and empower themselves, that two-month break can be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am pretty sure we are going to get hammered in this match today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: So I believe. I thank the witnesses.

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for bringing forward this legislation, which the Labour Party welcomes. I will first deal with the Ukrainian situation. In fairness to the Ministers who are present, they have worked hard to listen about the fall gaps for those who are trying to live lives here and who are trying to get accommodation and employment here. They have picked through all those issues and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a shortfall in applications from SNAs for suitable summer provision jobs; if any review of remuneration has been conducted to evaluate whether increased pay would fill the summer provision levels; if she will provide the relevant per-hour pay rates for teachers, student teachers and SNAs providing summer provision; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the criteria for qualification for deferred examinations to include students who suffer a serious and urgent medical emergency during an examination for conditions such as epilepsy, appendicitis and heart issues. [34764/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (30 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the primary schools in north Drogheda referred to in the Drogheda implementation plan report are given formal DEIS band one status in the current appeals process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34767/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reform the application process for a review of the SNA allocation for schools to remove language threatening potential downgrade of SNA numbers to schools making an application for a review given that it may discourage schools with additional needs particularly developing schools with a review. [34768/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will recognise that the stipulations for deferred examination requiring that a parent or guardian needs to sign a request for a deferred sitting on the day of the examination and that a medical report signed by a consultant needs to be uploaded within four days are not always practical in a life-threatening emergency and need to be...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Deputy Bacik. Deputies Bacik, Nash, Duncan Smith and I have just come from a briefing with parents who live with autism every day of their lives. Once again, they told their stories of how they are trying to manage the system. As a result of that briefing and other discussions I and my colleagues have had, I feel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of deaf and hard of hearing children in each year in mainstream classes in primary and secondary schools. [34710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of deaf and hard of hearing young people who sat the leaving certificate examination in each of the past five years. [34849/22]