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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank everyone for coming in. They deserve huge credit for the campaign they have run that has brought them this far. Most people in this room and many of our colleagues have been contacted by SNAs in their local areas too. The principles behind the campaign have been very well articulated. I think the committee is united in trying to bring our pressure to bear to try and get this moved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If Fórsa was content with that approach, and I accept very clearly that it is not, how long would it take if the review of the minimum qualifications was put on ice and the review of the contract and its implementation had to be completed before that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will also put those questions to Ms O'Mahony or anyone else who wishes to take them. I do not want to put words in their mouth but is there an element of the Department kicking the can down the road?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is like anyone going into a job without a job spec.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: How can you negotiate a contract without knowing what the contract underpins? Does anyone else want to respond in the short time I have left?

Special Educational Needs: Statements (16 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: First, I apologise to the Minister of State for being absent for the start of the debate. I was travelling up from an event in Cork this morning but I was listening to her contribution. I am often critical, but I recognise the Minister of State is well motivated and wants to see progress on special education. I believe I appropriately commended the Minister of State at the time of the...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On a point of clarification, I did not necessarily say excavation for all cases, rather investigation. I emphasised it just for clarification.

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am not trying to be disorderly.

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I fully support the amendment and I thank my colleagues for bringing it to the House. It is impossible to memorialise something if we do not know or agree what we are acknowledging and it is not possible to properly memorialise a site if we do not know what happened there. On Sunday, I attended a commemoration at the site of the former mother and baby home in Bessborough in Cork. It was a...

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are in a climate emergency. Report after report highlights the escalating reality of global warming and the need for urgent mitigations. As the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, stated last month, it is long past the time for climate rhetoric. What we need is climate action. Unfortunately, the Government, like the previous one, is ignoring some of the small wins and the...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas le gach Teachta a labhair air seo. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire agus an Aire Stáit as fanacht leis an díospóireacht iomlán. Táim buíoch díobh as an méid sin ar a laghad agus táim buíoch de gach Teachta a thacaigh leis an rún. Ní ghlacaim leis an rún malartach atá ag an Roinn. Ní thugann...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — a child's right to education is enshrined in the Constitution and, under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, must be accessible on an equal basis with others in the community in which they live; and — the Government has made a commitment in its Programme for Government: Our Shared...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an píosa reachtaíochta seo. Tá roinnt gnéithe de go mbeimid ag iarraidh a leasú, go háirithe go mbeadh gá go mbeadh an garda sa chúirt ag grád an tsáirsint nó níos sinsearaí ná sin. Ach tá sé luachmhar mar phíosa reachtaíochta. It is important legislation. It...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 561. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28942/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 567. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied). [28986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 726. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport applications (details supplied). [30099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of eligible applications that have been received and the number of eligible tickets issued for the school transport scheme in the 2021-2022 school year. [30209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1024. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date of Leaving Certificate 2022 results; and if she will give assurances that this will not be delayed. [30305/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year and first-year cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio at post-primary level by one point. [30406/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1774. To ask the Minister for Health if a replacement wheelchair will be expedited for a child (details supplied) given that the child has outgrown their current chair for a period of two years. [30244/22]