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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Did she ask it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is no process.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Any community, barrister or garda will listen to what the Taoiseach has said and feel as if it is somebody else's responsibility, not the Taoiseach's. The Taoiseach knew about this dispute coming since 12 July and he has let the criminal courts of justice fall today. The Bar Council states it has had no engagement. It falls completely and utterly on the Taoiseach, as the leader of Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Today, the criminal justice system has, effectively, collapsed under the Taoiseach's watch. Fine Gael has held the Department of Justice, in an unbroken manner, for 12 years. Today, the criminal courts are not sitting because criminal barristers have withdrawn their labour. This was notified to the Government on 12 July. Fine Gael has nobody else to blame because it holds the Ministry of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I was not here for the presentation. I may have a different view than others on the nature of schools, in that we have too many of them. There are 4,000 schools this country, which has a population similar to that of Manchester. At primary level, there are junior schools, senior schools, girls schools, boys schools, Catholic schools, schools of every other religion you can think of,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Do the schools contact the Department if they have a concern? The Department does not go and inspect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can I interrupt Mr. Loftus, and I am sorry, Chair; I know I am way over my time. Does the Department do something like a play space audit? I will give an example. It is not the case anymore, but the school I spent 11 years in did not have a yard. Children went home for lunch and they used to cross a very busy thoroughfare to go home for lunch. These were primary school children. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 127. To ask the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the Policing Reform Implementation Programme Office convened in 2022 and 2023. [42120/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 128. To ask the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the Implementation Group on Policing Reform convened in 2022 and 2023. [42121/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 129. To ask the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the High-Level Steering Board on Policing Reform convened in 2022 and 2023. [42122/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 130. To ask the Taoiseach if he has been presented with annual reports for the ‘A Policing Service for our Future Plan’ for each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if so, if they can be made available to the public. [42123/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 131. To ask the Taoiseach when the latest report on progress for APSFF was made to the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42124/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: An Garda Síochána (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 132. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of when it is expected that the fourth APSFF iteration report will be provided; what opportunity there is for scrutiny of the progress and future of the plan’s success in achieving the original recommendations from the Commission on the Future of Policing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42125/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a representation to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to have teaching added to the critical skills list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42325/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures her Department can take to review the catchment area of a school (details supplied), to allow children who live a 90 second walk away from the school attend it, in the interest of sustainability. [42469/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary schools that currently have pyrite problems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42791/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the education welfare services (EWS) have been the only mechanism used to date by her Department to support pyrite remediation works within Departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure her Department puts in place the necessary measures to ensure the completion of the snag list and pyrite remediation works in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42795/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what Departmental monitoring systems are in place to oversee the completion of construction works, including the completion of works on the snag list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42793/23]