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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is welcome. In terms of how we get to where we need to go regarding the life centre and the stability that is required, progress is welcome. However, it is not the final outcome. Can the Minister confirm that co-operation hours are not tied to increments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Can a person gather increments toward his or her pension or salary over the course of several years? Can a person's pay increase on an incremental scale while on co-operation hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Very well. That is a key matter. The funding is welcome. Co-operation hours do provide a service. Ultimately, however, anyone teaching in an institution like the centre - and a person may view teaching as a vocation and be very committed to the institution - is entitled to consider what that to which I refer is going to mean for them and their pension in the long term. Institutions like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, I acknowledge that co-operation hours are common across a whole variety of these organisations but, typically, they complement full-time or at least full-time Department-funded staff. That is not what is being done in the life centre at this point in time and the situation is quite different.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have several questions and I must interrupt the Minister. It seems that no real progress has been made with providing a comprehensive strategy that unites all strands. Has progress been made?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tax Code (6 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal basis for an administrative agreement with the Revenue Commissioners that while home tutors are subject to class S PRSI that is self-employed for Department of Social Protection-purposes, income tax and PRSI are deducted under the PAYE system; and if she will supply a copy of the agreement to this Deputy. [49267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in processing an application for the operation of a school (details supplied). [49281/22]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom tacaíocht a thabhairt don rún seo. Tá sé ciallmhar ó thaobh na todhchaí, na timpeallachta, tráchta agus costas teaghlaigh agus oibre. This is a significant time for public transport. My home city of Cork is one of the areas in which there will be a big focus on trying to shift people from relying on their cars to using public transport...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that special schools are not sanctioned for the post of home school liaison officer. [48665/22]

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Government boasts of Housing for All but whatever we have, it is not housing for all. We have record rents, record homelessness and record house prices. For a whole generation, having a home of one’s own is just simply beyond reach. People are having to decide between independence now and having one’s money swallowed up by rent, or security later while having to wait at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (4 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs that were recruited from September 2021; and the net increase in SNAs over that period. [48221/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to seek tax relief at 20% on medical expenses where said medical expenses have also been subject to a refund under the drug payment scheme. [47747/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will make two brief final points. I welcome the allocation for special education. It closely resembles what we called for ourselves. The point with regard to special education is that it is not just a matter of the budget. The situation that arose last year was a matter of planning, not the budget. We need to make sure that we do not have a repeat of it next year. The budget should be...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The people needed a game-changer in this budget. It seems that this has been spread too thin and we have not got that game-changer, particularly on the big challenges facing society in housing, health and the cost-of-living crisis. The Government's energy proposals do not give the certainty the Sinn Féin proposals would have given to families, workers and business. A credit is still...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, will be aware that there is enormous concern about how families, particularly elderly people and the vulnerable, will heat their homes this winter. That is not scaremongering but the truth, as the Minister of State knows. It is also the case in many other countries throughout the world. There are undoubtedly international factors at work but there are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners' office in Blackpool, Cork, will be opened to the public for appointments. [46117/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister, Ms Conduit and Ms Kearney for coming in. School transport is a no-brainer. Expanding it makes sense in terms of traffic, emissions and the money in parents' pockets. It also makes sense for the Department and the system. Senator Pauline O'Reilly made the point that there are difficulties with this every year and decisions arrived at or allocation of places for local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I apologise for interrupting but I have one more question. I accept that the criteria are the criteria. Could the Minister put in place a system whereby everyone who applied on time and was eligible would be accommodated first, followed by those who qualify for concessionary places and those who applied subsequent to the closing date. We should prioritise those who are eligible at that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That was not my suggestion.