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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate my colleagues facilitating me. It is hard to know where to start every week because all of us feel quite strongly about this matter. As has been said, if the odds are stacked against the poorer students, one would feel like setting fire to the whole thing immediately. Who wants it to stay as it is? We cannot find anybody willing to come in front of the committee to tell us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is a basis for the beginning of a conversation.

Farrelly Commission of Investigation Substantive Interim Reports: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is more to come from the commission’s work, given the case has been broadened to examine the 46 other children who passed through the foster home. We know all too well the history of abuse and neglect in State institutions and this is another shameful part of our history. It is incumbent on any Government to investigate cases of abuse and neglect in State institutions and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I hear the point about "year end". I was listening to what Damien Duff had to say on his announcement as manager of Shelbourne FC about the soccer infrastructure in Ireland being horrific. As the Minister of State outlined, every sports club, as well as local authority, is trying to get a slice of this €200 million fund, yet there is a Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund from which only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is a direct correlation between the performance of the national soccer team, which we will, I hope, enjoy tonight, and conversations in houses such as this. There is a direct correlation between the priority a state, parliament or government gives to sport and the performance of the senior international team, regardless of the code. There is a complete imbalance if the levy placed on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 110. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a date for the announcement of the sports capital grants. [54848/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is there a date for the announcement of the sports capital grants?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister of State is such a generous guy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: How long does each of us have?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's role in supporting the redevelopment of Dalymount Park; and the plans that exist for the retention of Tolka Park as a soccer venue independent of that process. [54703/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 151. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to initiate a national soccer strategy for the betterment of the game in Ireland. [54705/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 185. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the regulations that have been put in place to allow basketball and indoor team sports, particularly at amateur and youth level, to take place at this time. [54851/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 187. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans of her Department to assist the GAA county boards with the upgrade and improvement of county grounds and stadiums; and the amount of finance that has been considered for same. [54850/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: School Curriculum (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 252. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagement she has had with the Minister for Education on the potential inclusion of soccer coaching as a transition year subject in second level schools. [54704/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that has been made available over the past three years to the various GAA county boards to upgrade and improve county grounds and stadiums. [54849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an initiative (details supplied); and if his Department will help support and progress the initiative to create a native woodland forest for the children of Ireland. [55382/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (9 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if her attention has been drawn to the impact of high insurance costs in the arts sector. [47793/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to ensure that a school (details supplied) can cater for the growing school going population in the area; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that school is currently oversubscribed and has no additional classrooms to cater for non-mainstream students; if her Department has made any provision for school...

Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland: Statements (4 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We welcome this opportunity to speak to this important report on an area of Irish life which has seen a huge level of public policy failure over many generations and possibly since the foundations of the State. I will speak to some of the key findings and challenges it presents us all with and some of the solutions. The Minister of State has spent some of his allotted time on the report,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (3 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Workplace Relations Commission and his Department are monitoring the number of workplaces adopting the Workplace Relations Commission Code of Conduct on the Right to Disconnect; if so, the number of employers that have adopted the code of conduct; if his Department and the Workplace Relations Commission plan to report on its...