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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (10 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the aim to increase the current collective bargaining coverage level of only 30% to the level of 70% threshold stated within the European Commission proposed directive; and if he will withdraw his objection to the use of a directive as a mechanism to achieve that objective. [7015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (10 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address concerns in relation to the enforceability of Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 due; and his views on whether an employer who withholds tips from employees should be subject to criminal sanction. [7017/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (10 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider the exclusion of service charges and the distinction between mandatory and voluntary payments from the Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7016/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (10 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 94. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the best way to ensure that workers in the hospitality sector are properly paid is the establishment of a joint labour committee and the implementation of a sectoral employment order which could ensure workers were paid properly for the work they do. [7018/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applicants for home energy grants administered by the SEAI in each of the years 2019 to 2021; the number of those applications that resulted in grant payments being made to the applicant as distinct from the applications being initially approved in each of the years 2019 to 2021; and the percentage of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts that have been made to recover Covid-19-related payments from companies whose performance during the pandemic allowed them to pay dividends and bonuses to management and owners. [7019/22]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. My contribution will be on the same themes. We are anxious that an assessment be ongoing within the Department of the damage that has been done to the educational experience of children and young people. Covid is still having a massive effect and influence on children's and young people's day-to-day educational experience. I would not want...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State for his contribution. The Labour Party broadly welcomes this Bill. I am going to illustrate the impact of white-collar crime with a story. I used to teach in an area of acute disadvantage in the north inner city of Dublin. Whenever I told anybody where I used to teach, they used to always make quips, comments or jokes about crime, despite the fact that I...

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party supports this motion. A lot of things come to mind when talking about the national minimum wage. We need to picture how a parent feels who has worked a hard week on the minimum wage and then wonders how he or she can feed and clothe his or her children and keep them warm. There is an element of fear in the motion but there is also an element of humiliation – that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Since I have come back into this House I have been raising consistently - as have Deputies in government - the need for a citizen's assembly on drugs. We have tried to approach this in good faith so that all the issues we have in respect of drug policy can be discussed in a robust fashion at a citizens' assembly. We believe we have been mature and responsible in that respect. Last Thursday...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to develop an online driver licence app in which clients can store a virtual driving licence, learner permit and other driver cards such as a CPC card. [6344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the introduction of the new SNA model has been postponed; the plans for the SNAs of children currently in sixth-class and who are moving onto second-level education; if these SNAs will remain in their current schools as was previously envisaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6297/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that assessments of need by the National Council for Special Education will allow individual schools the opportunity to input into that assessment in order to ensure that the most current information regarding the needs of students including the information provided by diagnosis of additional needs from all sources in view...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can engage with the National Council for Special Education to ensure that its needs assessment is correct given the concerns that the official needs of students will not reflect their actual needs due to the backlog of needs assessments for individual student assessments caused by the non-availability of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the permanent build school for a school (details supplied). [6434/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. It is heartwarming to hear the support for the Bill, which I drafted. What has been interesting this and last week is that this has opened up a wider discussion on the nature of Irish education and who it serves. It is beginning to become clear that, effectively, it serves the patron. What happens every year is that parents and children are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Does anyone else have any other comments before I wrap up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have nothing else to say about this. We will come back to the Finnish revolution another time.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Citizens' Assembly (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is a fantastic opportunity for this Oireachtas to achieve something. In recent years, a justice committee report on decriminalisation of drug users received the support of every political party. We passed radical legislation on the provision of an injecting centre. While it has been objected to, it remains law that we can establish an injecting facility in Ireland. That legislation...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Citizens' Assembly (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is sometimes very hard to know how to articulate something that I have been campaigning on for almost seven years. Along with others, I have been convinced for a long time of the necessity for Ireland to change its drug policy. I have been working with others in other political parties, movements, lobby groups and community groups to try to get Ireland to change its view of the drug...