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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Things such as Generation Apprenticeship are going to be important.

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate the Acting Chair for coming back to me. Is ar ábhar tromchúiseach atá an díospóireacht seo. Níl aon amhras ann ach go bhféadfaimis a bheith ag féachaint ar ghéarchéim dáiríre agus go bhféadfadh tionchar a bheith aige, ní hamháin ar an tír seo, ach ar an domhan ina iomlán, ar eacnamaíocht an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate the Chair facilitating me and I thank Deputies Gould and Ó Broin for allowing me this slot. The work of the Residential Tenancies Board is crucial. At a time when so many tenants are under pressure, it is vital they have a route to accountability with regard to landlords who are failing in their duties and, vice versa, for landlords to have accountability. I will confine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Is it broken down any further than that? Is it broken down to district electoral divisions or smaller Pobal areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is the smallest area. In the case of what I believe are three electoral areas where a portion of the electoral area is outside the rent pressure zone, it has been impossible since 2019, using the data that the Residential Tenancies Board has gathered, to establish whether the rent increases have been greater than the rate determined in four of the last six quarters. Is that true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Smaller than the electoral area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I understand all of that. To be honest, my quarrel is not with the Residential Tenancies Board and it is more with the Department. This is pertinent to me as it affects an area of my constituency, but it is quite a substantial area. I am not sure if the witnesses are familiar with this but there are three electoral areas where, because they were redrawn in 2019, a portion was left outside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have a comment for the committee and a final question. To put this in context, and I am not expecting a response on this point, this is an area that has gone from less than 1,000 people 40 years ago to probably touching 20,000 in the last census. It is a massive commuter town and everyone in that area is effectively in the city property market. It is an overwhelmingly urban area, despite...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Thank you. I am grateful for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Happily, I have legislation before the House that would address this. The response I have received from the Department is that it is not necessary as there is no anomaly. Everything I have heard today suggests that is not the case and that it is for the Department to fix that. I hope I have the committee's support in regard to progressing that legislation.

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis na Teachtaí Martin Kenny agus Paul Donnelly. Unfortunately, while the entire nation was shocked and disgusted by the revelations of recent weeks, it was perhaps not surprised, given that they followed the pattern of revelations about many similarly run institutions - horrific abuse, a failure to address that abuse, the ignoring of complaints,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will forward to the Minister some correspondence I received. If she is taking on board what the Teachers' Union of Ireland is saying, she might take on board what I am saying. I will also flag to her a different type of issue that arose in Britain which, at the time, was still a member of the EU. A particular teacher was working on a job-sharing basis in a recognised public school,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This person is working in the primary sector.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On the school buildings that have been built in the past 15 years, the Minister will find no dispute from me. They are fantastic, energy-efficient buildings using the best of materials and so on, but the difficulty is that there are more 4,000 schools, many of which were built in the 1950s and 1960s by the Christian Brothers, for example, which are not the best in terms of energy efficiency....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I certainly agree with the point regarding young people. In the case of green flags in public buildings, many of the first ones we saw were in schools and other buildings in local communities. Great initiatives have been shown by young people and schools have been leaders in that regard. On solar panels, the Minister has not given a specific date regarding the regulations. Schools...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Will they be two separate programmes?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans, if any, to change conditions for teachers coming from abroad to qualify for incremental credit such as, but not limited to, staff who held a part-time role in a recognised school setting abroad; and if she will outline any other actions that may attract teachers to return to the Irish education system. [58471/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We spoke earlier about trying to ensure that teachers who are abroad will be attracted to come back to lay their roots here and get jobs. One challenge and disincentive can arise if they feel as though they are going to enter the system at the bottom despite being experienced teachers. I have come across several cases of teachers, which I will detail in a moment, who feel as though they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I find the Minister's response encouraging, in which she identified some of the issues we are talking about. I can think of two examples, from Australia and Vietnam, where somebody was teaching at a private school that is well recognised by that state's authorities and operates in line with its curriculum and so on. Despite having seven or eight years of experience in those schools, on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (24 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that energy use in schools is addressed, with particular reference to the installation of solar panels and retrofitting. [58469/22]