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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Gender Equality (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I welcome the Acting Chairman, Senator Currie, who has taken the Chair on this auspicious day - International Women's Day. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit Collins and I thank him for joining us here today. Today, in Ireland, the actual amount of female representation in senior positions at third level is shocking to many. We need change and this has been proven by: the Equality...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Gender Equality (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: The Athena SWAN charter is one thing but it is not enough. We need to ensure that women come through. Although there is 26% of professorships, only 30% of applications came from women. In other words, we need to ensure there is funding available for starting investigators, PhDs, post doctorates and increasing funding at IRC and SFI level. We need to make sure that the centres of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Gender Equality (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: It may take another 20 years to do it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I wish the Leader of the House a happy International Women's Day. I thank Sinead Guckian for such a wonderful work of art. It is absolutely beautiful. Today, we celebrate hard-won achievements by both men and women for equality and gender diversity. However, unless women are sitting at the table, then we do not have equality and we are not making the decisions. Angela Merkel spoke about...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I have enjoyed the past half an hour, listening to everyone's statements and the stories that have been told. There has been a richness to the stories about our families and the strong women in our lives, including our mums and grandmothers. It hits me that we are very fortunate. All of those women lived through hard times such as the war-torn years in the 1940s, and we know the infant...

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Táimid an-bhródúil as a bheith ag caint sa Teach seo. Tá ráiteas an Aire Stáit ar fáil lasmuigh den Seomra. Tá ocht nóiméad ag gach urlabhraí. Glaoim ar an Seanadóir Mullen.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Seanadóir as an ráiteas sin, inar luaigh sí an bean an tí a bhí aici agus í sa Ghaeltacht.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Seanadóir. Tá na grúpaí atá ag obair ar son na Gaeilge an-tábhachtach. Beidh ráiteas an Aire ar fáil nuair atá sí ag caint. Ní bheidh sé ar fáil before then. Glaoim ar an Seanadóir Ó Donnghaile.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Glaoim ar an Seanadóir Catherine Ardagh anois.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Tá an ceart ag an Seanadóir. Tá beagáinín Gaeilge agus Béarla ag gach duine agus is tábhachtach iad a úsáid gach lá.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Seanadóir. Tá Gaelscoil, Scoil Uí Cheithearnaigh, i mo bhaile i mBéal Átha na Sluaighe ach ní raibh sí ann nuair a bhí mé ar scoil.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Is lá na mná é, a Sheanadóir Garvey. Tá an teanga an-saibhir agus tá an-suim agam in etymology na mbailte freisin. Glaoim ar an Aire labhairt anois.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (8 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Glaoim ar an Seanadóir Clifford-Lee anois.What we do not want to do is reduce supply while doing the right thing. We do not want to have a negative impact on supply in the sector. What we need to do is increase supply. We know this. We have been speaking about it for years and it just has not happened. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has put a halt to construction. That will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan. I particularly welcome the officials from Athlone, Tullamore and Dublin. Tá comhghairdeas tuillte ag gach duine because it is a significant achievement to have schools reopening again, particularly when we have got through such a difficult time in recent weeks and months. We are here today to speak in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I might bring in the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan. I have a query on a programme that might potentially be one for the summertime. I have one final comment on the Central Applications Office system. We are putting in programmes to support students who are applying to the CAO. Engagement with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I want to quickly acknowledge the Minister's announcement yesterday about delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, and DEIS Urban and reducing the staffing. I would like to point out to Mr. Loftus as the departmental official over school buildings that it is 25 years since Scoil An Chroí Naofa was promised an amalgamation and a new school. Planning permission has expired....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I welcome the attendance by the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, on behalf of the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, to discuss this urgent and serious issue related to the building section of the Department. In 1996, the Department of Education amalgamated two national schools in Ballinasloe, St. Grellan's boys' school, which dates to 1937 and the opening of which my father remembers...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I thank the Minister of State for her response. It is important we get clear timelines from the Department. I request that the design team completes the current specification request of Galway County Council and meets the safety requirements, such as safe drop-off and pick-up zones, that the Department of Education commit to co-fund the land outside the school buildings section, that new...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Due to the fact that amendments Nos. 2 to 7, inclusive, are logical alternatives to amendment No. 1, they cannot now be moved.

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Aisling Dolan: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?