Results 1-20 of 339 for long speaker:Josepha Madigan

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (6 Mar 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...at stage 1. There is also a project to provide a new 20-classroom special school for Scoil Chiaráin, which is at stage 2b - detailed design. Obviously, the Department will continue to keep the short-, medium- and long-term requirements for school places in Dublin 9 and 11 under ongoing review, including through the local authority in respect of its review of development and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (29 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...approach by the school. They are underpinned by the principles that such intervention is never used for the purposes of discipline; that it should be applied proportionately and should last only as long as is necessary to de-escalate the situation. The guidelines underline the importance of continued supervision of children during a crisis period including matters related to behaviour and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (20 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: I thank the Deputy. As I said, I know he is very passionate about this matter and has been for a long time. He acknowledged that there does seem to be a pathway here. I hear his comments around communication, and I will bring that back to the Minister for housing. I will also bring back the Deputy's suggestion around an interdepartmental group. He mentioned that he wants that review...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (20 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...review and that it needs to be done as soon as possible. I will bring those particular comments back to the Minister for housing. I know this mica scheme has been a big issue for the Deputy a very long time and I acknowledge his concerns in that regard. I am answering this Topical Issue matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Brien. As the Deputy knows, the Minister commenced the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Regulations (20 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...identified as a trace component in cannabis sativa, but can also be produced synthetically by hydrogenation of cannabis extracts. HHC was first identified in Europe in May 2022, which is not that long ago, and was put under intensive monitoring at the end of 2022 by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, EMCDDA. It is the first semi-synthetic cannabinoid reported in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...the URDF, with more than €1.8 billion provisionally allocated. Calls 1 and 2 are supporting 132 proposals, comprising more than 400 individual projects, while call 3 is supporting the tackling of long-term vacant and derelict properties through a €150 million revolving fund. Under call 1 of the URDF, Dublin City Council received approval for six projects with a funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...of a further four new special schools for the 2024/25 school year in Enfield, South Kildare, Gorey and Limerick. This will bring to 11 the number of new special schools established in recent years. Along with the two new special schools opening this school year, 389 new special classes – 253 at primary and 136 at post-primary level – have been sanctioned by the NCSE for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (25 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...special education learning need. The importance in providing regular and structured support on a weekly basis to students with special education needs is crucial to their educational development and long term life prospects and for that reason it is in the interests of these children that all hours allocated to them in the current school year are used as envisaged. Schools have now been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...recommenced in November 2021 in CHO7. Progress has been made on aspects of the model but much remains to be done in terms of in-school implementation, evaluation and expansion. Preliminary longer-term data indicates that when therapists collaborate with schools in the delivery of teacher-led interventions, schools can sustain this support in the absence of the therapist. These...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Dec 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...and Route 5 - Student Teacher. The minimum registration requirements for each route are set out in the Schedule of the Regulations. The qualification in Montessori Education referred to has long-standing recognition with the Department of Education (DE) and was subsequently amalgamated into the Council’s Registration Regulations under Route 4. With the making of the 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...provision. These rates depend on the particular level of need involved. As part of the capitation package in Budget 2024, €21 million has been secured as a permanent increase in capitation funding to assist schools now and in the long term with increased day-to-day running costs. This will support a permanent restoration of funding for all primary and post-primary schools from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...period. Under the terms and conditions of the 2023 Home-Based Summer Programme, it is clear that the allocation of hours is 10 hours per week for a maximum 4 weeks for an eligible student. This is a long standing arrangement under this scheme and is designed to ensure that children can receive additional support over a prolonged period during the summer break. It is not intended to be...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...RESS auctions, they will be given the security that they can enter the small-scale renewable electricity support scheme, SRESS, which will be in place from next year and provide a more sustainable long-term support for their projects. The Minister asked me to explain the background to the new scheme. A community projects preference category has not been included in RESS 3. Rather,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (21 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...schools are funded via non-pay budget grants from the department. As part of the capitation package in Budget 2024, €21 million has been secured as a permanent increase in capitation funding to assist schools now and in the long term with increased day-to-day running costs. This will support a permanent restoration of funding for all primary and post-primary schools from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (19 Oct 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...period. Under the terms and conditions of the 2023 Home-Based Summer Programme, it is clear that the allocation of hours is 10 hours per week for a maximum 4 weeks for an eligible student. This is a long standing arrangement under this scheme and is designed to ensure that children can receive additional support over a prolonged period during the summer break. It is not intended to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...to return to the Irish education sector. -Following from the Department’s Action Plan on Teacher Supply, the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) operates a portal for the recruitment of teachers to long-term teaching positions. The portal facilitates the matching of demand and supply and provides an efficient and user-friendly recruitment process for both schools...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...deputy principal. Instead of only one quarter of special schools having an administrative deputy principal, all schools will now have an administrative deputy principal in place. This will go a long way, and in an instrumental way, to assisting principals with leadership and management in special schools. This will go a long way to help these children. We will also have 100 additional...

Seanad: Rights-Based Care Economy: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...the ongoing Sláintecare reform of our health and social care system, led by the Department of Health, aims to support people with care needs to live independently in their own homes and communities for as long as possible, which is what we all want. This ambition is being supported by the expansion of home support services, in which the Government has invested an additional...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Quality (27 Sep 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...air pollution control. Since 2019, no official exceedance of the EU limits has been observed. However, our ambition to move to the WHO guidelines levels means newer targets will be extremely difficult to achieve so long as petrol- and diesel-fuelled vehicles remain in widespread use, particularly in urban areas. In April this year, the Department published the clean air strategy the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...school. The programme is provided for three hours per day, five days per week and runs from September to June. It is available to all children who have turned 2 years and 8 months of age before September 1st as long they won’t turn 5 years and 6 months of age on or before June 30th of the programme year. Any child, including a child who may have a diagnosis of autism or another...