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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (18 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove the class 0 classification from the part B fire safety regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (18 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ban combustible materials on the façade of buildings 11 metres or above; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (18 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ban combustible materials on the roof of buildings 11 metres or above; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (18 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of buildings 11 metres or above across the State, by county, that are in breach of the fire safety regulations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26228/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all the guests for coming before the committee. I might take Ms Doyle up on that proposal about more questions on the leaving certificate subject. I welcome the fact that we are introducing climate action and sustainable development as a senior cycle course. As Ms Doyle said, however, the primary purpose of any course is to educate and to inform students about an area. I suppose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes, go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It sounds like a very challenging and interesting curriculum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: These are teachers who are already in schools teaching but, because of their expertise or qualifications, have an interest and an ability to teach this into the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. It seems to me this is a course which has obviously been designed. That is a difficult thing to do. Was it similar to the way the politics and society subject was designed? Were there any learnings from that or was this something that had to be started from scratch?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Doyle. Does Ms Aoife Rush wish to take up the initiation to speak?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 274.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be granted a special school place. [24738/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 463.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider taking any legislative or policy measures in order to combat the recent finding in a report (details supplied) that women need to work an extra eight years to make up the pensions gender gap; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25119/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Animal Welfare (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 519.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether it is proposed to introduce legislation to deal with the theft of companion pets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24641/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 550.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether members of An Garda Síochána are designated to work full-time for RTÉ’s Crimecall TV show, and if so, how many members are so allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25116/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 555.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to change the law in order to preclude persons convicted of rape or other serious crimes in Ireland that constitute a danger to the community of the State from applying for international protection on their release from prison. [25293/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 556.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forward legislation to amend section 21 (2) of the International Protection Act 2015 to make inadmissible any application for international protection by a person who has been convicted, whether in the State or not, of a particularly serious crime that constitutes a danger to the community of the State. [25294/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 785.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of significant concerns over lack of appropriate consultation and dialogue with doctors and their representative organisations over major changes in the ethics guidelines of the Medical Council which were not signalled to the profession and public in the launch and highlights document of the 9th edition of the guidelines; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a report on the task force for Dublin city centre that he announced on 9 May 2024. [22005/24]