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Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to affect change, they should look at what happened throughout this entire process. It is there that the fruits of this power or potential can be seen. While we are supporting the Bill, I feel we have not yet learned the lessons of the 2020 leaving certificate. We are still awaiting an independent review of what happened last year. If that review had been completed, many of those...

Loan Guarantee Schemes Arrangements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 May 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...as recreational travel returns, the business will be able to recover and expand. However, it has been savagely hit by the lack of income and the standing costs it has had to support over the past year. He feels the State is offering him next to nothing, however. He got rate support for which he is grateful. He applied for the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, but got nothing....

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...such as those in Dublin 6 and 6W, which are working with Senator Bacik, or in Dublin 12, which I have met with Senator Moynihan and which are changing the world for their children, or to the children I have met in my constituency such as James Field and Abigail Cahill, who have changed my entire understanding of the world in which they live. The Government should listen to groups such as...

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., stunned that there is no representative from the Department of Education present to hear this debate. In a properly functioning democracy, families of children with additional needs would not feel as if they are on their own or that they must not only deal with a challenging diagnosis, but also become full-time campaigners at the same time and wage war on the State to ensure basic...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...imagination or goodwill among students and teachers. Teachers are given the impression by parents and society that it is a waste of time to talk about stuff that is not on the curriculum. Parents feel they have to put their kids through the machine, so to speak. They can acknowledge that a school includes extracurricular activities but instead send their child to a grind school because...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Qualifications Recognition (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...that SNAs are seeking for the training they do. This would show them that the Department recognises that theirs is a profession of which they can be proud, instead of leaving them always to feel that they are being undermined by the Department.

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have concerns that the Department feels we need to return to normal, when the issue in Irish education is that normal is the problem. At yesterday's meeting of the education committee, we touched on the analysis that, according to the Minister, her Department has carried out on the damage caused by the lack of in-class teaching, particularly for children in acute disadvantage, who need...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to ascertain what damage has been done to children by not having in-class learning? As a result of that analysis, what supports does the Department believe need to be put in place? I do not necessarily want to talk about a feeling the Department has. Rather, I want to hear about actual analysis that has been undertaken.

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...be very concerned that their loans may be flogged to vulture funds. As has also been mentioned, there are 2,800 workers who will also be concerned about their future. Will the Tánaiste set out what he feels he can do to save these 2,800 jobs as this comes under his remit? Will the State use its majority shareholding in PTSB to create a real third force in Irish banking that would...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...-edged sword. Significant aspects of the Bill are to be commended, but other elements act as red flags and present a considerable challenge to us in the Labour Party as to whether we ultimately feel that this Bill will be fit for purpose. I hope the Government will take the opportunity to listen to our constructive criticism of the Bill, as well as accepting our support for aspects of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., however, misinformation is even coming from the HSE. I have received such information regarding a hospital in my constituency. These are understandable mistakes and teething problems, but we feel we need a dedicated Minister of State to be the point person in Government for the vaccination process. There is much goodwill around the country for what the Government is trying to achieve...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...becoming President of the United States on his inauguration today. The Labour Party is attempting to de-escalate the tensions that have been involved in the special education issue. We do not feel at this point that it is going to benefit anybody to point the finger, to blame or to join the attempt to create division between special education teachers, SNAs and parents. However, I...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...for him from his friends and colleagues in the Labour Party. I suggest that he thinks of the speech he would make if he was still an Opposition health spokesperson. I suggest that he realise the depth of feeling regarding this issue within hospitals and healthcare settings and among student nurses themselves. I ask him to reflect on how embittered people are and on the length of time...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (17 Dec 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...plant in Baldoyle was announced. This was a devastating blow to the workers and their families at this time of year. The company is going to engage in the process over the next two years. I feel strongly that the Department, the Minister of State and the Tánaiste can play a positive role in reassuring the workers that their statutory entitlements will be forthcoming and that the...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...from the Opposition; that was also constructive. Many of the initiatives he has taken appear to be getting somewhere, and all of us want that. This is crucial for the people who sent us here. It really feels that at this hour and this date, we are not doing the matter justice with the manner in which it is being presented to us. We have our amendments and we will try to work with the...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...our housing spokesperson is Senator Rebecca Moynihan, dealing with this issue. The Lord Mayor of Dublin presented a homeless strategy to the Minister recently with a wish list of issues she and the city council feel need to be addressed, including the ban on evictions. I trust the Minister will take that document from the Lord Mayor in good faith. The Minister knows from a Dublin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effects of Covid-19 on Further Education and Training: Discussion (10 Dec 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...smartphones. I have some more general questions. What have we learned from this period? As is often said, a good crisis should not be wasted. I worry that we will move beyond this crisis, feel that we have survived this period and look to the future, hoping that things will go back to exactly where they were previously. We all have a responsibility to learn from the deficiencies...

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to say that men are the majority of the problem here. I listened with great interest to what Deputy Carroll MacNeill had to say about the cultural background to the issue. She mentioned how it can feel to drop one's children to school and hope that there will be some element of education within the school building to challenge this type of dynamic and power imbalance. All of us have to...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...proceed but there are certainly a number of pinch points in the system. Every single third level institution and college of further education says that it is underfunded. Meanwhile, there is a feeling that there is too great a burden on the individual student or on his or her family. As was alluded to earlier, those of our political persuasion have a vision of free education or...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Dec 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...life and for the environment, when we move from having 200,000 people working from home to 800,000 in less than a year, we need to have regulation and protections for those workers, so they do not feel as if they are not just working from home but living in an office. I come from a professional background of teaching in a disadvantaged school, where it was often my responsibility to...