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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (12 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the current recognition process for overseas teaching experience, particularly in cases where experienced teachers from the UK are being denied recognition due to technicalities, such as having taught in primary rather than secondary settings, despite having taught age-equivalent cohorts and holding decades of relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (11 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on efforts by the department and consular offices to secure the release of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30764/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: The waiting times for driving tests are increasing at my two local centres in Tallaght and Deansgrange, which serve constituents in Dublin South-West. I had a call to my office this morning from a constituent whose son has been waiting over nine months for a test. He represents Ireland in athletics and his father, who works in a hospital, has to accompany him or drive him around the country...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: Could we institute a learner driver programme to try to address those really-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: -----appalling figures?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: It is not true.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: 388. To ask the Minister for Finance the current position on tax relief for spousal maintenance and child maintenance; the reason there a difference in treatment between the two; if he is willing to review and reconsider the current rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: 439. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of trade from the occupied territories in Israel from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [30153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: 583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm the current status of negotiations regarding bereavement leave entitlements for school secretaries now employed directly by her Department; if she will outline when parity with other public servants in this regard will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29839/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Jun 2025)

John Lahart: 676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is reviewing the loss of a teaching post in a school (details supplied); if consideration is being given to reinstating the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30530/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

John Lahart: I will wrap the two questions together if that is okay with the Chair and the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (29 May 2025)

John Lahart: Has the Tánaiste had any recent discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart and will he comment on that? Will he update us on whether any further sanctions will be imposed on Russia?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (29 May 2025)

John Lahart: I appreciate the combined answer there. I have a couple of comments. The Tánaiste will be aware of this and the briefings he gets will be far more sophisticated and informative than what I would be privy to, which is reading some of the international newspapers today, but it looks like Russia is mounting a further offensive into Ukraine. There is a lot of commentary in the press about...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements (29 May 2025)

John Lahart: 211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he expects India and the EU to conclude a trade deal by end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (29 May 2025)

John Lahart: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied). [28873/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

John Lahart: The previous Government invested a huge amount in active travel and cycle projects that are beginning to connect up. As many people did, I cycled in this morning. It is now possible to cycle a good way into the city from the south side on off-road cycle tracks. I raised this when I was in opposition. In of all places, Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, the ciclovía is a weekly...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

John Lahart: Could the Taoiseach see the Government encouraging this in Dublin, Cork and Limerick-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

John Lahart: We could at least start it on a pilot basis and move it to a once-a-month basis where people could enjoy their time-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

John Lahart: -----from around 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., not the entire day.

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

John Lahart: Words are completely inadequate, but I want to share some thoughts in spite of that. I warmly welcome the steps taken by my colleague the Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, to try to bring some - I will not say closure - sense and reason to the awful events that happened in Carrickmacross a decade and a half ago. 6 o’clock I am very happy the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is in...