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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Climate change, as the Minister well knows, is the single biggest challenge facing humanity today. It is a problem of such an order of magnitude that it can be difficult for us to get our heads around it. The forests of the world are literally on fire. Twenty-four months ago the Amazon was on fire, 16 months ago Australia was on fire and this week the national parks in Kerry, the hills of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 284. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of convictions for serious offences under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in each of the years 2011 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21813/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 285. To ask the Minister for Finance the numbers of cases in each of the years 2011 to 2020 in which a conviction was obtained for a serious offence under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in which the amount of tax loss attributable to the offence in question was less than €100,000, between €100,000 and €500,000, between €500,001 and €1...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 286. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that served prison sentences following conviction for serious offences under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21815/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 287. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the adequacy of the fines that the courts can impose for serious offences under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act insofar as they constitute a deterrent to tax evasion; when the fines were last increased; his plans for their alteration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21816/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors who are currently registered with the Teaching Council as non-teacher guidance counsellors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21180/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to implement the recommendations of the 2019 report on career guidance that was commissioned by his Department and produced by a company (details supplied). [21181/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that have been taken to recognise the role of non-teacher qualified guidance counsellors working within second-level education relative to teacher qualified guidance counsellors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21182/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional learning support that is available for children that enter the primary education system before the cut off point for exemption for compulsory Irish to catch up with their peers; the number of pupils that join the primary school system between second and fifth class; if she will consider creating a pilot scheme of remote learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a design team will be appointed for the construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22112/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome everybody. I can confirm that I am in Leinster House. Many issues have been touched on already and I want to give the witnesses a platform to expand on some of the points they want to make because due to the limited time available, committee members can speak for longer than the witnesses. I want to focus on youth unemployment, an issue I raised with the Tánaiste in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I know this is not a priority for the Tánaiste because I took the time last night to go through every single one of his tweets this year. Since January 2021, the number of times he mentioned youth unemployment came to the grand total of zero while the number of times he referenced Sinn Féin came to a grand total of 12. If I was a young person in Ireland, I would come to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Not once; zero-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I want to raise with the Tánaiste the issue of youth unemployment. The youth unemployment rate in Ireland now stands at 59%, which means that for every five young people in Ireland, three of them have no job. The EU average is 17%. It is considered to be extremely high in Spain at 40%, while in the UK, the rate is 14%. I am sure the Tánaiste will agree that young people have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment nationally by CHO area; the number on the waiting list in the Dublin north city and county area; the number in each area who are in grade 5i level of severity in tabular form; the estimated length of time a patient can expect to wait for treatment such as in the case of a person (details...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons who have booked flights to a region from which travellers will need to quarantine in a managed facility will be entitled to a full refund from their airline in view of the recent introduction of mandatory hotel quarantine. [20086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) was promised an additional 50 hours in 2019; if the school has been delivered the hours it was promised; if the number of hours currently available to the school are adequate for the SEN needs of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19323/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the practice of music teachers providing unpaid accompaniment and other assistance to students for their music practical examinations, many of which take place on leave days; and if music teachers are allowed to avail of the examinations aide rate of payment within their own school. [19363/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1069. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the processes and procedures in place to identify and address bullying, harassment and employment discrimination complaints in schools by direct employees of the boards of management in which members of the board of management or senior management of the school are the subjects of the complaints; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (21 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has or will be made available by his Department as part of the adult literacy strategy to implement the Labour Court recommendation to regularise the terms and conditions of the adult literacy tutors employed by the education and training boards; when his Department plans to implement the recommendation; the additional budget...