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Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----of the presentations the Deputy made earlier this morning.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: And I was elected by the people of Dublin Bay North.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Five times-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Five times over the past month, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, in particular, has linked criminality with immigration. Five times, on the record of this House, the Deputy has said that elderly people, women and children are scared alive because of immigration. Is he in any way surprised that he is raising temperatures, tension and fear in local communities when he consistently-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: You know exactly what you are doing.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: They know exactly what they are doing when they are linking immigration with criminality.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will state clearly what immigration does to this country. I agree that the Irish are all over the world. It is stunning hypocrisy for us. Two weeks after somebody set fire to a bus on O'Connell Street and had a riot through the city, they must be laughing this morning that the national Parliament is having a discussion on immigration. They must have really felt that they achieved their...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There are things that are more important that getting votes. There are things more than re-election for yourself. There are things that are more important to the human condition about solidarity and about looking somebody else in the eye and knowing that he or she is a fellow human being doing his or her best to raise his or her family and to contribute to society, and what Members in this...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: After careful consideration of the track record of this Government in the areas of crime, policing and addressing the root causes of crime, the Labour Party will not be supporting the Government's motion. We did not rush to political point scoring in the aftermath of 23 November. We were traumatised when the news filtered through of a vicious assault on innocent schoolchildren and their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Okay, so the Department is willing to accept that the school made a mistake. However, can the Minister reiterate to every school across the country the reality that they cannot link a payment to enrolment? Will the Minister also accept there is a toxic relationship between money and education in this country? There is far too much of an assumption within school management sometimes that a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures her Department has in place to end the practice of non-fee-paying schools linking the payment of a fee with the acceptance of an enrolment place. [52250/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This is related to the reputed practice of a particular school that came to my notice of linking the payment of a fee with the enrolment of a child. I want the Minister to comment on that practice and set out the Department policy in respect of it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have no intention of naming the school. The school management has told the Minister that they made a mistake. We need to have robust communication from the Minister. I appreciate the effort she made in contacting the school. The parents from that school will be very appreciative of those efforts. It is quite outrageous that a school would say a mistake was made in making the connection...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she is taking to alleviate the teacher supply shortage across Irish education in light of a recent survey (details supplied). [52296/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I join Deputy Clarke and the Minister in sending our solidarity to the school community of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square. The Minister spoke about the incident last week and I appreciate her efforts. It is a heartbreaking situation. I know the school is traumatised and it will be for quite a period of time. There can be healing and there are no better people to help to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I do not think many people in the education sector, especially the primary sector, get the sense that the Minister appreciates the scale of the crisis. The INTO, the IPPN and the Catholic Primary School Management Association had a joint survey of primary schools which, as the Minister knows, was published a number of weeks ago. It stated there are 800 vacancies in the primary school...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I sometimes feel the Department is depending on the fact that schools do not want to speak in their own communities about the crisis they face. It does not give a good look to a school to be speaking about the fact it cannot fill its staff with teachers. I wonder whether the Department is almost depending on this. This doubly disadvantages disadvantaged schools. It disproportionately...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (30 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I support what has been said. We would very much appreciate a visit by Minister. The problem is that nobody is taking responsibility for the issue. People's capacity to have faith in the public transport system is being completely undermined by the situation regarding access. It feels unsafe, the lifts do not work, etc. This is a major issue in that part of the world. If the Minister...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Like many people from Dublin, I am still slightly traumatised by the events of last week. When word came through of a stabbing incident on Parnell Square, I wanted to be with my own five-year-old daughter as quickly as I possibly could. As soon as certain so-called media outlets went out of their way to reveal the nationality of this individual, I knew there was going to be trouble. We all...