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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: I thank Ms Griffin for her presentation. I have been crossing off questions as they have been asked, she will be glad to hear, as there were a good few. I welcome and acknowledge the substantial work that has gone into this new model and indeed into the report on ASD. When it comes to children with special educational needs there is, unfortunately, the element of schools cherry-picking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: I was not suggesting it as a reaction. I have been a teacher and know of students who would opt to avail of such a space because, perhaps, a canteen environment might not suit them. I was not suggesting quiet spaces be used for time-out or as punishment but rather that they be available where a child has identified a need for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: The document refers to the provision of training for the whole school community. That is welcome as it is essential that the view is not taken that only teachers should provide learning support.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: The implementation group might also look at the position for leaving certificate applied students because many schools have adopted a policy under which students will only gain work experience one day per week. It is vital that children on the autism spectrum have support available one day every week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: A question on the definition was not answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: Aontaím leis an Teachta Nolan. We were neither informed nor invited. It is highly regrettable that the stakeholders, who have been putting the pressure on and who contributed, were not advised that this is happening. It is not the first occasion something such as this has happened. We were not invited to the launch of the action plan either. Do we agree that we will write a letter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: Do we also agree to include in the letter that we are seeking a meeting? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2016)

Catherine Martin: The chances of getting a meeting in the near future are slim, but we will make the request. We will also express our regret and seek information on and invitations to future events.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: With Deputy Shortall, yes. The Green Party broadly welcomes many aspects of the Bill before the House and commends the Minister and the previous Seanad on all the hard work they invested in it. We are particularly pleased to see the proposed new criminal offences to protect children against grooming, new measures to protect them from online predators, new and strengthened offences to tackle...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (2 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to regulate to allow for reduced payment at tolling points for low emission electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32788/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that less than 1% of the capital spend in transport is devoted to pedestrian and bicycle facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32787/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (2 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that more than 100 children aged between five and 12 years are expected to be without a school place in the Dundrum area following the sudden closure of a school (details supplied); if so, his plans to find school places for these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32820/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (2 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the transfer of undertakings directive and regulations, TUPE, apply in the instance of his Department taking over a campus (details supplied); and if his Department, as a result of it taking over the campus now has an obligation under this regulation to the primary school teachers who have now been put at risk under a redundancy process....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 345. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the retirement of a staff member at a hospital has resulted in the freezing of funding for treatment for a person (details supplied) despite the fact that the person was already approved to have the treatment; his plans to restore this funding and, if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 480. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason it is not possible to split the early childhood care and education, ECCE, grant between two service providers for all parents (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32690/16]

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: For many years, we saw our bogs as a resource to be exploited. We did not understand their value as natural and archaeological heritage, flood regulators and carbon sinks protecting our climate. We were not unique. Most European countries have damaged most of their peatlands. Some, such as the Netherlands, have gone from having enormous expanses of peatland to having almost no bogs left....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he has signalled his intent to financially penalise a specified cohort of teachers to which supervision work is not applicable as it does not form part of their conditions and terms of employment and work expressly undertaken and agreed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33418/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (8 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds reserved exclusively for persons with dementia provided for in south Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33482/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for an operation for a period of time well outside the expected timeline for same; the reason these delays occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33765/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (8 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: 487. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is only one low emission electric vehicle commercially available here from the UK which is also wheelchair accessible; his plans to encourage the availability and purchase of low emission electric vehicles for taxi purposes in view of the fact that his Department's policy is to...