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Deputies Elected as MEPs: Statements (11 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: A Chathaoirligh, Ministers, my fellow newly elected MEPs and, in particular, Noreen Kehoe from our office, who is watching from the Gallery, if you get the privilege of being elected to Dáil Éireann, you enter probably the most famous room in Ireland. When my Labour Party colleagues and I were elected to here in 2011, we were so conscious that every word we uttered in here would be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This is probably the last interaction the Taoiseach and I will have for a while as I have got a new job.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Bonjour. When the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance do not remember the 1990 World Cup, you realise you are a total aul' fella and need to get out. The important point I want to make today, in what is probably the last interaction I will have with the Taoiseach for a while, is on an issue I have raised a number of times in recent years. It is the reason I got involved in politics in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Research has shown that a three-year-old from a middle-class advantaged background will have 1,200 words in their vocabulary, while a three-year-old from a disadvantaged background will have 400 words in their vocabulary. Even by the time children are three years old, there is a massive gap in their capability to reach their full potential. This is before we bring in issues such as...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. We in the Labour Party had a similar motion last week. As others have mentioned, Natasha O’Brien is here. It would be unfair for anybody in the Opposition to suggest that the Minister has not been active in this area since her appointment as Minister for Justice. I ask her to continue to do so. However, it is true that there...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Students (18 Jun 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on visa requirements for international students in third level courses (details supplied). [26167/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Jun 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update regarding his predecessor’s commitment to introduce legislation to ensure student accommodation leases are confined to the academic year of 41 weeks, following a pattern by private student accommodation providers to only offer rooms to students on a 51-week basis. [26168/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Taoiseach has accepted some of the Government's failures but I would not put them at the feet of just the Department. The Minister stood here and said 33% of schools would have a disadvantage in their allocation of hours under the model that was suggested and there was no adequate consultation but the Taoiseach is working to correct that. On the rates of people with disabilities in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I was privileged on Monday to visit the SAOL Hub-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I want to talk about disabilities-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----if people would give me the opportunity. On Monday, with our local Labour representative Patrick Dempsey, I was privileged to visit the SAOL Hub in Ballyfermot Community Civic Centre run by Stewarts Care. We heard first-hand the challenges facing young adults with disabilities - the under-resourcing and lack of opportunities. As the Taoiseach knows, disabled people are at a much...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I congratulate the Government on taking this decision. It is of some historic significance and I know the Government will have come under pressure not to do so. Ireland once sought international recognition and so we are proud today to stand with Palestine to help it take its place among the nations of the world. I commend the Tánaiste, in particular, on the manner in which he has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the definitive timeline for the completion of the permanent buildings for a school (details supplied); what stage the development is currently at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23528/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the forward planning unit in her Department has identified the potential shortfall in primary school places in the Carrickmines area due to the large amount of development taking place in the area; the plans to address same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23530/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights (23 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the review on the status of PhD researchers, that is, classification as either students or employees, has not yet been published; the reason there is a delay in it being published; when we can expect it to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23132/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (23 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to make a statement on the curtailment and punishment of student protests in Trinity College Dublin. [23133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (23 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to make a statement on student protests and higher education institutions and their financial ties and investments in Israeli companies. [23134/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (23 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of planners in SOLAS; and the number of architects in SOLAS as at 17 May 2024. [23413/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support the expansion of a school (details supplied). [22427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the communication she has had with Dublin City Council regarding a school (details supplied). [22428/24]