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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am conscious of the time and I know Mr. Jones and Mr. Gillespie want to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Will we ask Mr. Jones to proceed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Chairman might advise if my allotted time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can we sort out the sound issues because some of the important points have been lost? Do we think they have been sorted out?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been widespread delays in payments for individuals such as a person (details supplied) who participated in the Easter supplementary programme and is still awaiting payment from her Department for work done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47141/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am delighted to get an opportunity to ask about an issue that falls under the remit of the Taoiseach's Department. The programme for Government includes a commitment to a citizens' assembly on the issue of drugs. As he knows, many people are working on a campaign for the decriminalisation of the drug user. I do not want the word "decriminalisation" in this context to be confused with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We need a moratorium on evictions and a three-year rent freeze. Last week the Government did not oppose the Labour Party's renters' rights Bill, proposed by Senator Moynihan and Deputy Bacik, but there does not seem to be any enthusiasm to change quickly the Government's policy or the law. We know from statistics that the main reasons for terminating a tenancy are the sale of the property,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party and I want to work with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Education on the issue of back-to-school costs. The Taoiseach will agree that this topic comes up every September and then goes away again. I am concerned that the book publisher, Folens, has now acquired the teacher training institution, Hibernia College. An educational book entity, which exists for commercial...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am sorry.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives relating to his Department that currently require transposition into Irish law; the number of such directives for which the deadline for transposition has passed; the communications both formal and informal that he has received from the European Commission regarding the failure to transpose said...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress regarding a permanent site for a school (details supplied). [46673/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the previous commitments given by the Department of Education pertaining to further education building projects previously included in the Department of Education building plan and notified to colleges will be honoured; when these projects will receive approval from his Department to appoint a design team; the measures being taken to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am also here in case the Chair missed me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: No, I am not in Leinster House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Well spotted. I am in the car. Fair play to the Chair.

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for his comments. I acknowledge the work put into the Bill by my colleagues, Deputy Bacik, and Senator Moynihan, our housing spokesperson. We appreciate that the Minister is not opposing the Bill and some of his comments reacting to the Bill are welcome. Some of the commentary made outside this House, however, has been particularly disappointing. My colleagues...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla — Topical Issue Debate: Stardust Fire (22 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Michael Barrett, Richard Bennett, Carol Bissett, James Buckley, Paula Byrne, Caroline Carey, John Colgan, Jacqueline Croker, Liam Dunne, Michael Farrell, David Flood, Thelma Frazer, Michael French, Josephine Glen, Michael Griffiths, Robert Hillick, Brian Hobbs, Eugene Hogan, Murtagh Kavanagh, Martina Keegan, Mary Keegan, Robert Kelly, Mary Kennedy, Mary Kenny, Margaret Kiernan, Sandra...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla — Topical Issue Debate: Stardust Fire (22 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. Nobody, certainly not me, wants an unseemly political row over what is an intensely traumatic and sensitive issue. The families, however, feel the funding has not been made available to their satisfaction. There is the potential for 47 families not to be involved in the inquest if things continue as they currently stand. While I understand the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can assist with the resolution of an urgent case of an Irish child (details supplied) stranded abroad and unable to return to school due to inability to get a passport renewal seemingly involving a bureaucratic loop in which an Irish embassy is unable to issue a temporary passport until the passport renewal process for the child is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (22 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of schools are awaiting payment for the DEIS literacy and numeracy summer camp; the number of claims made that have been paid; the number that have not been paid; the issues there are with payments being made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45613/21]