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Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have been calling for a hybrid leaving certificate for this year's cohort of sixth year students since last July, when I raised the issue with the Minister in the Chamber and in the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, on the basis of what these students missed in fifth year. However, I must say I do not believe the Minister is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have no questions. I thank the Minister of State for his presentation.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate the comments that Tánaiste made earlier on the leaving certificate. I understand a meeting is taking place today with the education partners. There have been some very welcome comments from Government sources, including Deputies and Senators, who have been advocating for a hybrid model for the leaving certificate. Does the Tánaiste agree with these comments that have...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 133. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is planning to take to try and reverse the hollowing out of cultural and arts space in Dublin city and beyond; and her plans to support the purchase of property to secure the continued presence of arts and cultural activities in these spaces. [2568/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reviews (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 138. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to plan for the reopening of the night-time economy specifically the reopening of nightclubs. [2566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reviews (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 149. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the outcome of the review on the operability of the restrictions imposed on nightclubs in October 2021 and to be undertaken three weeks after the commencement of these restrictions. [2567/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 142. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status for 2022 of the privately-operated venues fund under recommendation 9 of the report Life Worth Living by the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce. [2570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 630. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has had with the Greek Government regarding the arrest detainment and continued prosecution of a person (details supplied) in connection with their life saving humanitarian work in support of persons in danger at sea in the Mediterranean Sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63300/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the requirement for 17 classrooms to meet the number of pupils seeking to attend a school (details supplied); when such an expansion will be possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1256/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1365. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a group (details supplied) is not included as part of the membership in relation to the National Oversight Committee to drive the implementation of the national drugs strategy for 2021 to 2025 in which five medically trained personnel were invited to sit on the committee; the criteria he utilised to ascertain suitability for membership; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1366. To ask the Minister for Health when he will be announcing the date for the citizens' assembly on drugs which the Government has committed to holding in 2022. [63033/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1367. To ask the Minister for Health the timetable for the delivery of a budgetary commitment to provide €0.5 million to address high-risk drug use such as crack cocaine and other drugs; and when the funding will be available to services on the ground and commit to full consultation with the drug and alcohol task forces in rolling it out. [63034/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1368. To ask the Minister for Health the timetable for the delivery of a commitment given in Budget 2022 to provide €1.7 million for measures to increase the availability of HSE drug and alcohol services on a nationwide basis; the funding to include services for persons with alcohol addiction, persons under 18 years of age, families affected by drugs in addition to rehabilitation and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1369. To ask the Minister for Health the timetable for the delivery of a commitment given in Budget 2022 to provide €0.5 million to increase access to and provision of community-based drug and alcohol services for women, ethnic minorities and LGBTI+; and if he will fully consult with the drug and alcohol task forces in rolling it out. [63036/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1630. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which and when EU Digital COVID Certificates will be updated to record receipt of the booster vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1143/22]

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have to agree.

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Foley. It is fair to say that the sense of partnership between the Department and individual school communities is non-existent. The feeling is that schools are being abandoned, that teachers and special needs assistants, SNAs, are being abandoned and that individual school principals are being abandoned, and what they have had as a source of comfort for more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the additional allocation of funding that has been made available to the minor works programme for primary schools in the announcement made at the beginning of December 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62858/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a copy of the technical guidance to be supplied for schools advising on the purchase or hiring of HEPA filtration systems through the minor works programme; the details of the person or body that provided the engineering advice; if it was approved by NPHET; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62859/21]