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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Refurbishment (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is a rainy day, and on rainy days staff in Coolmine Community School in my constituency, Dublin West, have to set out between 40 and 50 plastic buckets across the school to deal with water flowing into corridors, classrooms, toilets and offices. That water flows from over 100 leaks in the roof of the school. Coolmine is a big school, with almost a thousand pupils, and has provided...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Refurbishment (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The line, "The Department advised the school to obtain a new leak detection test", when there are a hundred buckets on the floor, is worthy of "Yes Minister". The school put in an application for an upgrade because it does need a new roof. It was then told, "No, you cannot go under that pathway; you have to go for an emergency works pathway."...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Tánaiste has committed to bringing his version of an occupied territories Bill to the foreign affairs committee in June. Is it going to happen? We have only two sitting weeks left in June. That would mean, in order to meet his own timetable, the Tánaiste would have to bring the heads of the Bill to the Cabinet next Tuesday or the following Tuesday. Does the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on legislation he is bringing forward with respect to the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline his Department's understanding of the distinction between 'peacekeeping' and 'peace-enforcement' missions under the UN framework; how this will be reflected in the amending legislation he is bringing forward with respect to the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will make a decision on the provision of an emergency works grant to a school (details supplied) to enable it undertake repairs to its roof which has multiple leaks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has given consideration to the request of a school (details supplied) to undertake a full rebuild of the school, as the current building dates from the 1970s and is over 50 years old; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30077/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The question of the exclusion of services from the Government's occupied territories Bill lite has been a central issue of debate in this House and in public since it was announced in the programme for Government. In response to questions from me and others, the Taoiseach regularly cited legal advice that he had received for the exclusion of services. In a recent response to questions in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: That is why services should be in it.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Chair, and the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion today. The Green Party is pleased to co-sign this motion, which seeks to end the Central Bank's facilitation of the sale of Israeli bonds. We are deeply concerned that these bonds have, since October 2023, been marketed explicitly in the context of the ongoing war in Gaza, with statements from the Israeli...

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank our guests for their attendance here today. I note the opening statement and the apology for the unacceptable delays in the provision of driving test slots. The RSA has set out a commitment to reduce waiting times to ten weeks. It is an ambitious commitment and the witnesses have set out the means by which they will deliver that. There has been some progress, with a move from 27...

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Is that transport legislation or Department of housing legislation ?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Would Mr. Waide be aware of what legislation is involved here?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: This is an issue that came up in the early part of last year. Most of the members here would have sat on local authorities as councillors and would have had discussions with the managers for their particular areas in relation to identifying blackspots. The RSA makes the point that the Department of Transport can provide information to local authorities. How does that differ from the...

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Indeed. When did the RSA stop sharing that information with local authorities because of data protection concerns? When did GDPR concerns come to light?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: When was that?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is still unresolved, it would appear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department's policy correctly reflects the balance between energy demand for housing versus energy demand for data centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30075/25]