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Thu, 10 Feb 2022
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
243. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance the efforts that have been made to recover Covid-19-related payments from companies whose performance during the pandemic allowed them to pay dividends and bonuses to management and owners. [7019/22]
Tue, 8 Feb 2022
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Driver Licences
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
230. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport if there are plans to develop an online driver licence app in which clients can store a virtual driving licence, learner permit and other driver cards such as a CPC card. [6344/22]
Tue, 8 Feb 2022
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Special Educational Needs
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
425. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if the introduction of the new SNA model has been postponed; the plans for the SNAs of children currently in sixth-class and who are moving onto second-level education; if these SNAs will remain in their current schools as was previously envisaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6297/22]
Tue, 8 Feb 2022
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National Council for Special Education
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
426. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure that assessments of need by the National Council for Special Education will allow individual schools the opportunity to input into that assessment in order to ensure that the most current information regarding the needs of students including the information provided by diagnosis of additional needs from all sources in view of the acknowledged backlog of needs assessments. [6298/22]
Tue, 8 Feb 2022
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National Council for Special Education
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
427. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) can engage with the National Council for Special Education to ensure that its needs assessment is correct given the concerns that the official needs of students will not reflect their actual needs due to the backlog of needs assessments for individual student assessments caused by the non-availability of psychologists and the policy of not providing replacements for psychologists on leave. [6299/22]
Tue, 8 Feb 2022
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Schools Building Projects
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
434. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the progress of the permanent build school for a school (details supplied). [6434/22]
Wed, 2 Feb 2022
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School Transport
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
88. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will assist in the case of a child (details supplied) to assist with transport to the nearest school with a suitable available place for their needs as supported by a clinical psychologist and the school principal. [5273/22]
Tue, 1 Feb 2022
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State Examinations
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
121. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will give certainty and fairness to the leaving certificate class of 2022 and work to develop a hybrid model leaving certificate similar to the previous two years. [4655/22]
Tue, 1 Feb 2022
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School Costs
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
133. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the status of the roll-out of the free schoolbooks scheme as announced in Budget 2022. [4690/22]
Tue, 1 Feb 2022
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Energy Conservation
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
145. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the steps her Department is taking to address higher energy costs within schools. [4691/22]
Tue, 1 Feb 2022
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Education Policy
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
157. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education her views on whether single sex schools are an outdated model for both primary and secondary schools; and the steps her Department will take to migrate to a fully co-educational model. [4656/22]
Tue, 1 Feb 2022
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Special Educational Needs
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
161. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will engage with the SNA sector and its trade union to agree a new minimum qualification requirement at QQI level 6 for all new SNAs. [4657/22]
Tue, 1 Feb 2022
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Museum Projects
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
308. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when a museum (details supplied) will open again; and if the museum will continue in the current form as a public museum for the foreseeable future. [4428/22]
Wed, 26 Jan 2022
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Housing Schemes
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
72. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households that have had HAP payments ceased due to arrears in 2020 and to date in 2022, by local authority; the average length of time the households were in arrears before payment was ceased; and the average rental arrears owed by households at the time HAP payments ceased. [3759/22]
Wed, 26 Jan 2022
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Housing Schemes
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
73. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenants in receipt of HAP who have transferred to a local authority or approved housing body tenancy since 2014, by local authority in tabular form. [3760/22]
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
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Culture Policy
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
133. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps she is planning to take to try and reverse the hollowing out of cultural and arts space in Dublin city and beyond; and her plans to support the purchase of property to secure the continued presence of arts and cultural activities in these spaces. [2568/22]
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
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Departmental Reviews
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
138. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps she has taken to plan for the reopening of the night-time economy specifically the reopening of nightclubs. [2566/22]
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
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Culture Policy
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
142. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status for 2022 of the privately-operated venues fund under recommendation 9 of the report Life Worth Living by the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce. [2570/22]
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
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Departmental Reviews
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
149. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the outcome of the review on the operability of the restrictions imposed on nightclubs in October 2021 and to be undertaken three weeks after the commencement of these restrictions. [2567/22]
Wed, 19 Jan 2022
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Consular Services
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
630. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the communications he has had with the Greek Government regarding the arrest detainment and continued prosecution of a person (details supplied) in connection with their life saving humanitarian work in support of persons in danger at sea in the Mediterranean Sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63300/21]