Results 101-120 of 4,669 for speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (22 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I want to get a sense of the state of prison figures, prison capacity and overcrowding currently evident within the system.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (22 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We have too many people in prison. I know politics will tell us we should not care about people who are in prison, but we should. We have more people in prison than we have beds available. Some are lying on mattresses close to toilets. I would not spend a night lying on a mattress close to a toilet and I do not think the Minister of State would either, so I do not think we should expect...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (22 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We also have people out on temporary release in order to relieve pressure on the system. Some of those are violent offenders. Last November, there were 4,641 people in prison, 126 more than there were beds available. The Midlands Prison was at 106% capacity and Clover Hill was at 110% capacity. We do not have space to treat people with dignity. People who are not treated with dignity...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the opening of the new divisional headquarters at Northern Cross will result in the closure of Coolock Garda station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8219/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (22 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown by age of people who have been given a ten-year mandatory sentence for drugs issues over the past decade. [8222/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review Circular 0041/2014 to allow SNAs such as a person (details supplied) who are qualified to teach as substitute teachers and are working part-time or job sharing, to work as substitute teachers and bring them in line with the treatment of teachers under Info Note TC 0017/2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (15 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It seems from the Minister of State's reply that because one element of Government is making a bags of how it treats children with additional needs, the Minister of State has to take up the slack because children are languishing on waiting lists for assessment and, therefore, the Department of Education has to change its allocation model because the data is not available. It is a complete...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (15 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister of State will appreciate that this is extremely serious. This is the third time I have raised this. I raised it with Deputy Gannon the other night in oral questions and with the Taoiseach yesterday. We would not be raising this if it were not for the deluge of schools making contact with us. They are horrified about what these changes will mean for them. They cannot get...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that a single person earning €57,000 gross , or €41,500 net, does not qualify for a one bed unit in a Land Development Agency cost rental scheme and yet is also excluded from social tenancy given the €40,000 income threshold; and the action he will take to remediate the situation. [7210/24]

Transfer of Passenger Name Record Data: Motions (14 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: These three motions have been brought forward by the Government to facilitate negotiations to extend the exchange of passenger name record data between different countries to prevent, detect and investigate serious crime. Back in 2016, an EU-wide system among member states was established by directive as an important tool to help improve the EU's internal security. Norway, Iceland and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There was a remarkable admission last night during oral questions to the Minister for Education when the Minister of State with responsibility for special education said that the new allocation model for special needs resources will mean that 33% of schools will now have less special educational needs resources. She admitted this on the floor of the House last night. This is because complex...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what steps his Department has taken to prevent the practice of full year compulsory lease lengths being imposed on students by private student accommodation providers in Dublin and Cork, such as a company (details supplied) that owns 11 properties nationally and is offering students leases that are 52 weeks long. [7061/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) is reporting that students in private accommodation fear availing of their rights under the legislation for student specific accommodation as they fear the risk of not having their lease renewed at the beginning of the subsequent academic year; and what measures his...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Physical Education (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is called football.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Physical Education (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I do not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister can understand why there is concern around this. I am somebody who has seen the Irish language from both sides. I learned it in an English-speaking school and I think one of the greatest policy failures of the past 100 years is the standard of Irish an average Irish child has. I then went to a Gaelscoil for a year, immersed myself in the language and have been able to speak it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I would appreciate greater engagement on this. I am not somebody who is a believer that any subject needs to be compulsory at second level. I think it is very destructive for someone to be in a classroom learning something they really just do not want to learn. I would say that about any subject. However, we have the system that we have. Is it the contention of the Department that if you...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I support what Deputy Gannon is saying. I, too, have been contacted by a number of schools in respect of this issue. The reality is that the old system was based on school data and included enrolment, gender, which the Minister of State has indicated is no longer a criterion, the profile of the school, complex needs and the level of deprivation. Under the new system, which is again based...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will conduct an investigation into the steep rise in exemptions from the study of Irish at primary and post-primary level to assess the learning necessity for those exemptions and develop strategies to minimise the number of and necessity for exemptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6266/24]