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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he has taken to improve the provision of social housing since July 2020; his assessment of the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29314/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (4 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance how changes in income tax bands and the universal social charge since July 2020 have benefitted those paying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28933/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance the action taken to sustain and boost Ireland’s economic competitiveness since July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28934/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (4 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 261. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action taken to sustain and expand employment since July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28930/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (4 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 262. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures taken to help the SME sector since July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28931/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Acting Chair. I thank the guests for coming before the committee and welcome them. I will ask Dr. Ramsey about what she was saying there. Did she say approximately 600 teachers from outside Ireland apply for registration each year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Would many of them be from the EU or does Dr. Ramsey know the breakdown?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: In terms of the UK, which is now out of the EU, do we still apply the scheme under the directive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Teaching Council assesses their qualifications to ensure the qualifications are sufficient to be recognised here. It does not do any assessment of them as whether they are good enough to be teachers in Ireland. That does not come into it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am not asking Dr. Ramsey to go into detail. Generally, what is the percentage of applicants who the council would not recognise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: In general, are they mainly Irish people coming back from the UK who qualified in the UK or are they from a variety of backgrounds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is there a language requirement? Does somebody need to have proficiency in the English language in order to teach here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not know whether the following was mentioned in our request to the council. I am conscious that the Teaching Council recently commenced its disciplinary committee and the hearings. Will Dr. Ramsey give an assessment as to how that is going? I am aware the hearings are in public. Is it an issue of concern that teachers' names can be put into the public domain in respect of allegations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It appears to be a two-phased process. The council has an investigative phase which is a filtering process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does the council only respond to complaints or can the council investigate without a complaint being made by an individual?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Finally, is there a threshold over which it would not even reach an investigative phase? Is there a procedure for the council to reject complaints which are frivolous or vexatious?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Teaching Council for coming in and thank the Acting Chair.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Minister of State is very welcome to the committee. This is interesting legislation. The primary purpose of it is to transpose the amending directive in respect of insurance companies that become insolvent. We have a history in Ireland of insurance companies going insolvent, regrettably. Presumably, the purpose here is that if a company goes insolvent, individuals insured by that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am looking at section 8 of the Bill, "Publication of winding-up of insurer". If an application is made to wind-up an insurance company, does the objective of this legislation kick in at that stage? Do people bring the applications for their insurance claims to the compensation body at the time the winding-up petition is presented or do they have to wait for a final determination from the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: So there has to be an outcome. Sometimes people can bring liquidation applications which ultimately do not succeed. A creditor can and they may not succeed. It will ultimately depend on an order from the court that it is wound up. Is there an extraterritorial effect? It is imposing an EU directive. If I am a holidaymaker in Spain and the insurance company I am insured with in Spain...