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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I genuinely am not satisfied by that answer. We must have a fundamental overview and review of how the system interacts with parents who are completely exhausted by going to war, not just on this issue of school placements but on other issues of intervention and long waiting lists for assessment and intervention. When they finally try to get their child through the school gate, it can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Special Needs Education: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I greatly appreciate it. I thank the Chair.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I agree with others that the Minister of State's presentation showed empathy and an understanding of the issue. The speeches of Ministers sometimes read like national car test reports but the Minister of State's did not. I am, however, stunned that there is no representative from the Department of Education present to hear this debate. In a properly functioning democracy, families of...

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for transparent reporting by undertakings in relation to the risk of labour exploitation and human trafficking occurring in their supply chains or in any part of their business and of the steps taken by them to ensure such activities do not take place; and to provide for connected matters. This Bill is in my...

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (31 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the request for the junior cycle exams to take place in special schools for children at risk in June 2021 to allow children who may otherwise leave school without any qualification to achieve a qualification. [16490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (31 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the 2004 report Males into Primary Teaching published by the primary teaching committee; the actions that have been taken by her Department to implement the recommendations; the way in which these actions have been evaluated; the way in which the number of male teachers entering the primary teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Traveller-Roma Integration Strategy (31 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the measures taken to complete actions 19 to 21 in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy included continuing professional development which includes topics (details supplied) for teachers and student teachers; and the details of the current professional development service for teachers courses, training and materials that can...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apprentices taken on by local authorities in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 913. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who left school in 2014 without completing the leaving certificate; the proportion of same against the total number of school leavers in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15298/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regulations in place which allow schools to exclude children from accessing transition year education in cases in which that year is provided within the school. [15494/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (24 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regulations in place to allow for the expiry of a suspension on a student’s record within the lifetime of attendance at a school. [15495/21]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Ministers. I have two specific questions. One relates to the funding that has been put aside or prioritised to ensure children can catch up and not just that they can return to school. In addition to making adjustments to schools and providing more personal protective equipment, PPE, or hand sanitiser, they need to be able to ensure children can regain what they lost. What...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Anybody who spends time in my company will learn in a very short time that I was a teacher in, and principal of, a school in the north-east inner city of Dublin. It effectively changed my life and the way I view the world. I learned more from those children than I ever taught them. When I became a school principal I got a wonderful bit of advice from a great colleague of mine named Mark...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase resources, teachers and numbers special reading schools for children with severe dyslexia; and her plans to increase resources to established mainstream schools that will allow for the establishment of reading units such as the one in a school (details supplied) which will help children with severe dyslexia....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (11 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the procedure for sick pay for special needs assistants has changed; if her Department no longer pay SNAs directly; if SNAs are required to apply for illness benefit from social welfare; if so, if same precludes recipients of the widow’s pension from receiving sick pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13826/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on developing phase 1 of the extension to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick which was scrapped in 2018; the amount that has been spent on developing stage 2 of this project since 2018; the reason for the delay in approving the stage 2(a) submission made by the education and training board, ETB, in November 2020;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 947. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to extend free general practitioner care to six and seven year olds as envisaged under the Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020; if children who are now turning six years of age and are becoming ineligible for the scheme will become eligible once the scheme is extended; and if he will make...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have a daughter. I worry about her because she is a girl and because she is Irish. She has been born into a country with a record of treating women with disdain. She was born in May 2018, when the country finally put to rest a constitutional article, the eighth amendment, that forced 4,000 women a year to travel to England like criminals and others to order abortion pills over the...