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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister of State knows, I know and, indeed, the cat knows that teachers would not be treated as SNAs are being treated because the Department would not get away with it. It is clear that the Department has a long-standing issue or policy when it comes to dealing with SNAs in that they are not treated with the same level of respect as teachers. We have seen that throughout the pandemic,...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: My time is short, and I do appreciate my colleagues, Deputies Gannon and Tully, joining me in this debate. Nothing really brings shame to the Department of Education more than its treatment of special needs assistants, SNAs, who we send into the war against Covid in classrooms throughout the country without basic provision for their own safety and without any sense of when they will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average time it is currently taking apprenticeship students to complete their qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12337/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current wait times for each off-the-job training phase; if this in line with the period of time advised by SOLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12338/21]

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...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding is provided to local authorities for the maintenance and upkeep of all types of roads on the islands; the funding provided by local authorities to the islands for their roads over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12159/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent in 2018, 2019 and 2020 on adapting houses for persons with disabilities by county and by type of ownership, that is, private homes, local authority owned homes and approved housing body homes in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11227/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the analysis conducted to date that compares the costs of adapting houses which have been designed to universal design standards for persons with disabilities to the cost of adapting housing units without universal design standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11228/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the proposed reduction in class sizes for primary schools will include infant and vertical DEIS schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11223/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the advice of a person (details supplied) who suggests that primary school children should wear surgical face masks when they return to the classrooms; and if she will communicate such advice to schools to allow them to implement in circumstances as age and ability of children allows. [11873/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the absence of provision of SEN units for primary school children in the Howth, Baldoyle and Sutton area of north County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11647/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned that leaving certificate results will be issued in time for the 30 August 2021 deadline for UCAS in order to ensure that students with a UK third-level offer will be able to take their place; the efforts being made to ensure applicants to UK courses do not lose out on places as a result of any delays; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (3 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the automatic visa extensions given to stamp 4 visa holders until the end of April 2021 will count towards the minimum requirements for naturalisation for visa holders whose extended visas have an earlier date on them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11755/21]

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: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire agus leis an Aire Stáit as a bheith linn um thráthnóna. Tá mé in ann a chinntiú go bhfuil mé i dTeach Laighin. I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for some of the recent announcements of measures that we have been calling for and they have now delivered. We had a long discussion about passing the...

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: Research has been undertaken and there is an acknowledgement within the Department that damage was done to children through unavoidable school closures. In the UK, there is a £1 billion catch-up fund for children and young people. Is it the Minister's intention to advocate for a fund that would do some of the work to help children who have been damaged - I use that word, but another...

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: There is a lack of school places in north Dublin for students transitioning from primary to second level. Is the Department aware of this issue? Is it taking moves to address it? We receive a number of queries in our office about this issue every year. This year the problem is particularly acute. I do not know if it is Covid related, but there is certainly a scarcity of places in second...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (25 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority voids returned to stock in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of voids in each local authority; the location of these voids within each local authority; the cost per unit of bringing each unit back in stock in the same period; the average turnaround time per year of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (25 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full-year revenue raised from the vacant sites levy from 2015 to 2020, by local authority in tabular form; the estimated full-year revenue from the vacant sites levy in 2021, by local authority in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10755/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Legal Costs (25 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure of his Department and An Bord Pleanála in respect of all legal services provided in all appeal and judicial review applications instituted against his Department and-or An Bord Pleanála by case in each of the years since January 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (25 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 201. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the length of the waiting list to access early years supports from Tusla early intervention teams in the north inner city, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10866/21]