Parliamentary questions

School Accommodation

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

144. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if funding will be made available for the urgent provision of modular classrooms for a school (details supplied) in advance of September 2023 as part of the SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation Programme. [20213/23]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

183. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if access to a payslip for teachers requires the teacher to have a Public Services Card; her views on whether access to a person's own payslip is not a public service; the reason for the requirement for a PSC; and if access will be made available without having to have a PSC. [20767/23]

School Transport

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

90. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will investigate the withdrawal of school transport from a child with Down syndrome (details supplied); and the measures that can be taken to ensure their transport is restored. [19684/23]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

94. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of lowering primary school class sizes in all primary schools to include DEIS Band 1 schools from September to December 2023, and for the full financial year 2023/2024. [19803/23]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

95. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the breakdown of the number of assistant principal 1 and assistant principal 2 (special duty posts) that existed in primary and special schools on 26 March 2009. [19804/23]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

96. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the breakdown of the number of assistant principal 1 and assistant principal 2 (special duty posts) that exist in schools as of today's date. [19805/23]

Immigration Status

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

393. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice how many successful applicants there are for the scheme for long-term undocumented migrants; the number of applicants in total; the number that were refused as they arrived later than the cut-off point; and if there are plans to assist those who missed the cut-off point by less than six months. [19004/23]

Departmental Reviews

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

36. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice in light of recent reports into the Irish Defence Forces and the London Metropolitan Police, if he will initiate a comprehensive review of institutional and cultural practices in An Garda Síochána and the Prison Service to ensure no such issues exist in these forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18032/23]

An Garda Síochána

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

51. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the development of the new Garda station planned for Dublin 13 and Dublin 17. [18112/23]

Prison Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

61. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice to address the issue of prison overcrowding; if he is satisfied to have sufficient medium and long-term prison capacity to deal with the increase in the population and any other factors which would lead to an increase in demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18114/23]

Proposed Legislation

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

80. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice what progress he has made in progressing the offence of spiking as a stand-alone offence, consisting of administering a substance without consent for the purpose of facilitating a sexual offence, and punishable with a sentence of up to ten years imprisonment; and if he will support the campaign to recognise the need to separate such an offence from that of poisoning. [17927/23]

Prison Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

89. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice if he has engaged with Governors of individual prisons on substituting short-term sentencing of four months or less to community service or another alternatives. [18113/23]

National Car Test

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

299. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide figures on the average waiting time for an NCT in Dublin over the past three years. [17324/23]

National Car Test

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

300. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider officially extending the NCT validity by six months for all cars on a waiting list for an NCT until the backlog can be cleared and tests are more readily available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/23]

Interest Rates

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

425. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank can direct a financial institution (details supplied) to increase interest rates on savings in line with increase rate increases on tracker mortgages. [18265/23]

Interest Rates

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

426. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance what, if any action he is considering to require financial institutions to increase interest rates paid on savings in line with the increases in mortgage interest rate increases associated with tracker mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18266/23]

Interest Rates

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

427. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance the minimum notice period required to increase an interest rate on a tracker mortgage; and if it is correct protocol that a mortgage lender (details supplied) would give nine working days' notice of an interest rate increase in the same month. [18267/23]

Child Abuse

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

498. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the steps being taken to ensure that victims of historical abuse in non-Catholic day and boarding schools are included in the scoping inquiry into sex abuse in such schools, and in view of the concerns raised, that the inquiry will be incomplete unless extended to such schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16408/23]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

499. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education what action the parents of a child such as a person (details supplied) should take to ensure their child has access to a place in a reading school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16442/23]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

519. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education how the parents of a pupil (details supplied) can be evaluated and access a suitable supported place in a mainstream school as a transfer from his existing place in a special school. [16975/23]

State Examinations

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

564. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of the minor requests to be made for exams (details supplied), and the digital papers pilot in particular, which would greatly enhance accessibility for visually impaired students; and if she will contact the State Examinations Commission regarding these requests. [17512/23]

Education Policy

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

573. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she acknowledges that in communities that have been identified as suffering deep and embodied trauma (details supplied), there is a need to go beyond general health and well-being practices and to also acknowledge that teachers working in such communities would benefit from expert support in integrating trauma informed and recovery practices into the school community. [17663/23]

Education Policy

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

574. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if her Department is planning to support schools identified as having high levels of socially generated trauma in the school community, to integrate trauma-informed and recovery practices into their pedagogies and behaviour management approaches; and the teacher supports and teacher professional development opportunities she has identified to deliver such support. [17664/23]

Water Pollution

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

798. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the status of Irish Water's plans as regards treating wastewater with ultraviolet light or equivalent technology to prevent the discharge of contaminated water into Dublin Bay. [17336/23]

Water Quality

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

799. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on what future infrastructure investment is needed to protect Dublin coastal and river water quality; and the measures he is taking to ensure those investments are made in a timely fashion to protect the rivers and seas from increases in wastewater generated by population growth and increases in housing numbers. [17337/23]

Water Quality

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

800. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the poor results from water quality testing in Dublin Bay; the measures his Department has taken to remedy the situation; the work that is being undertaken by his Departments to protect the bathing water quality in Dublin Bay and across the Dublin coastline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17339/23]

Legal Aid

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

966. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice when the last review of the financial thresholds for qualification for legal aid from the Legal Aid Board took place; his views on whether the current income threshold of €18,000 is outdated in view of inflation; and if he will sanction a review of the current system to examine the income and disposable asset thresholds and evaluate any alternative qualification metrics. [16943/23]

Immigration Policy

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

983. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice if he is aware that many Bolivian citizens travelling to Ireland to commence English language studies are being denied boarding their flight to Dublin, with airlines reporting that they are acting on instructions from the Irish immigration authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17349/23]

An Garda Síochána

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

994. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the number of serving gardaí who have had complaints against them, upheld and not upheld, in the past ten years, by the number of complaints, in bands of five, in tabular form. [17513/23]

Prison Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1026. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the number of pregnant women who were cared for in prison in 2022; the number of babies born to pregnant women in prison in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18158/23]

Prison Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1027. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the average custodial sentence length for those committed to prison under sentence in 2022, broken down by gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18159/23]

Disability Services

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1213. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many young adults with an intellectual disability on the northside of Dublin are on the waitlist for day services. [18155/23]

Disability Services

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1214. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unfilled posts in the disability services area; the proportion of those posts that are full time permanent contracts; and what proportion that are fixed term or temporary contracts. [18162/23]

Legislative Measures

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1457. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if he will amend the appropriate statutory instrument to allow suitable professionals registered with the Physiotherapists Registration Board to refer patients for an x-ray; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16786/23]

Health Services

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1585. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times for genetic testing services for rare diseases in Ireland; and the measures his Department plans to take to improve access and speed of results for patients in need of genetic testing services. [17342/23]

Medicinal Products

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1594. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of reports of a market shortage of a semagluetide under a brand (details supplied); if he is aware of the causes of any shortage; and the measures his Department is taking to remediate the situation. [17397/23]

School Patronage

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

54. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will intervene in the flawed process for school reconfiguration in the Raheny area and if she will restart the process with a wider consultation. [14295/23]

School Accommodation

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

64. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will expedite the building process for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14310/23]

School Textbooks

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

102. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she is satisfied that there are sufficient preparations and resources allocated to ensure that all primary school children will be able to have free schoolbooks when the new school year starts in August and to address the concerns of stakeholders. [14309/23]

Schools Building Projects

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

113. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will address the delay in the school building programme including providing a full list of the 58 schools affected; the projected cost increases due to the delay; and her views on whether the most economically advantageous course of action be to release the full funds as soon as possible. [14306/23]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

152. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the date for the release of the SNA allocations. [14308/23]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

256. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education in view of the status of home economics as the second most difficult subject to recruit teachers for, the measures she will take to tackle the high cost to students on HDip courses for those training to be home economics teachers and bring them from current levels of €6,500 to a more affordable level, as has been done in other courses with teacher shortages. [6940/23]

Education and Training Boards

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

257. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide more information on the proposed contract for adult education tutors working in the ETB sector; and the action she is taking to resolve the issues around terms and conditions for these tutors. [6938/23]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

263. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if route 4 qualification is to be abolished for special needs teachers; if analysis has been carried out of the number of special needs teachers that have qualified via route 4 in each of the past five years; and what the impact on supply of special needs teachers would be. [14451/23]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

264. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will request the Teaching Council to consider allowing for the recognition of a masters in special education as a recognised qualification instead of the PME for route 3 teachers looking to attain full qualification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14452/23]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

177. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if her Department will engage directly with parents of a child (details supplied) who been unable to access a place at four schools recommended by the SENO and who has a particular educational need for a special school place. [14275/23]

Traveller Community

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

252. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the resource allocation and spending to date by his Department, on specific measures to address addiction amongst Travellers and Roma; and if he will outline of where that spend is directed, in tabular form. [14182/23]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

615. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education when the SNA allocations for 2023-2024 will be released. [12425/23]

Schools Building Projects

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

683. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a list of the schools that have been advised of delays in their capital projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13037/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

938. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current waiting times for psychological assessments of need for children in the public system per CHO, in tabular form. [13062/23]

Online Safety

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

202. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the Online Safety Commissioner will have any responsibility for ensuring social media companies do not allow the targeting of advertisements for conversion therapy at people. [12148/23]

Legislative Measures

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

296. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will bring forward legislation to ban conversion therapy in Ireland; the timeline he has in place to deliver this; if drafting has commenced; the measures he is planning to protect people from being targeted by advertisements on social media for such practises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12149/23]

School Funding

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

377. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the current approach to funding the teaching and learning of home economics in secondary schools; and if she plans to fully fund the teaching and learning of home economics to cover the cost of all ingredients, materials and equipment, ensuring the subject is funded in the same manner as wood materials technology/construction studies, metalwork/engineering and science subjects. [11139/23]

Traveller Education

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

112. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education in view of the recommendation of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, if she will provide for the effective implementation of 'reduced timetable' guidelines and measures to prevent their disproportionate use on Traveller children; and when she will publish Tusla’s first, second and third quarter 2022 reduced-day outcome reports. [10570/23]

Traveller Education

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

113. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will outline the specific actions undertaken to ensure Traveller parents are aware of the reduced-day guidelines. [10571/23]

Traveller Education

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

114. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education when she will launch the consultation on the Traveller Education Strategy; and in view of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, how she will ensure such measures are adequately resourced. [10572/23]

Traveller Education

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

115. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education when she will publish the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment's Traveller Culture and Heritage research report. [10573/23]

Traveller Education

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

116. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education in follow-up to the recommendation of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, if she will publish education-related data disaggregated by ethnic origin. [10574/23]

Departmental Data

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

369. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of children currently within the primary school system who have been identified with a first percentile word reading score and a second percentile word reading score; and the share of these pupils who currently attend reading schools. [8054/23]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

370. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she is satisfied that all children who are currently within the primary school system and who have been identified with a first percentile word reading score and a second percentile word reading score have access to a reading school or a specific learning disability class within a mainstream school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8055/23]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

381. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if there are plans to open any further special school placements for children in the north Dublin area. [8174/23]

An Garda Síochána

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

62. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the measures that are being taken to restore Garda numbers to full strength given that there are 650 fewer gardaí than previously. [7715/23]

Antisocial Behaviour

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

65. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the measures being taken to address the issue of dangerous misuse of scrambler bikes and if there has been any data collated to indicate whether such measures are having an effect. [7728/23]

An Garda Síochána

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

68. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the new Garda station proposed for Northern Cross. [7717/23]

Ambulance Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

377. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the waiting time figures for emergency calls for ambulances for the north Dublin area; and the measures being taken to reduce them. [7821/23]

Ambulance Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

378. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if there are sufficient ambulance and paramedic staff in both the National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade serving the Dublin area; if there are unfilled vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7822/23]

Ambulance Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

379. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of any retention issues among emergency response paramedics in the health services. [7823/23]

Prison Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

134. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the details of the independent living skills units currently available across the prison estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7453/23]

Prison Service

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

135. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice if he has plans to review the operation of independent living skills units and to further develop these units across the prison estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7454/23]

Third Level Fees

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

54. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason students who have previously sat a year in a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else. [7502/23]

Third Level Fees

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

67. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason students who previously sat a year on a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they are subject to the same cost of living pressures as everyone else. [6939/23]

Employment Rights

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

223. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update on the statement of quality employment associated with the recently established digital games tax. [7027/23]

Disabilities Assessments

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

377. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education which agency has responsibility for the undertaking of a pupil’s assessment for assistive technology in a secondary school setting, following a recommendation by a CDNT. [7425/23]

Apprenticeship Programmes

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

457. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the baker apprenticeship which was one of the 24 apprenticeship proposals that were approved development funding by the Apprenticeship Council in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7056/23]

Medicinal Products

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

550. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy can obtain the drug cariban on the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will provide details of the standard practice in other EU member states. [6510/23]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

198. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of the shortage of second-level teachers, as shown by the inability of a school (details supplied) to fill a temporary language post; the strategies her Department has put in place to address the shortage of second-level teachers in general and in the language area in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5649/23]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

227. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will work with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to add home economics to the programme to upskill registered post-primary teachers and join mathematics, physics, Spanish and Irish as a subject with a high difficulty in accessing teachers in view of the fact that home economics was reported in a TUI survey from 2022 to be the second most difficult subject for which to find a teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5916/23]

School Patronage

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

93. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the status of the Raheny primary school reconfiguration review undertaken by her Department and the Catholic Church Archdiocese. [4714/23]

Schools Building Projects

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

124. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education when the primary school which is mentioned in the Woodbrook-Shanganagh Local Area Plan, Shankill, County Dublin will be provided; and the planned patronage for same. [4717/23]

School Transport

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

144. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will consider extending the free school transport scheme announced as a one-year measure; and if she will ensure that the capacity issues will be addressed well in advance of September 2023. [4716/23]

State Examinations

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

148. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the proposed date of the 2023 Leaving Certificate results. [4715/23]

Environmental Policy

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

177. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the regulatory limitations on the sulphide content of diesel, petrol and aircraft noise, respectively. [2716/23]

Air Quality

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

178. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has access to any research conducted on the presence of ultrafine particulate pollution from aircraft around any of Ireland's commercial airports. [2717/23]

Road Traffic Accidents

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

215. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport when the Road Safety Authority will publish the report Road Deaths and Alcohol 2017-2021, which focuses on road user fatalities on persons who had a positive toxicology for alcohol at the time of the fatal collision, given the last publication on road deaths and alcohol by the Road Safety Authority was published in July 2020 Road Deaths and Alcohol 2013-2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3038/23]

Tax Reliefs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

226. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify if special needs assistants are entitled to the flat-rate expenses allowances for tax purposes allowed by the Revenue Commissioners to teachers. [2729/23]

Tax Reliefs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

339. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance his views on extending the tax relief for renters to those on RAS and other tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1336/23]

School Meals Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

666. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she agrees with ETBI that the current rates for the school meal allowance scheme are unrealistic and causing the scheme to be unworkable; if she will request the Department of Social Protection to review the rates to bring them in line with current economic circumstances; and her views on extending the scheme to make it available to all students. [63284/22]

School Meals Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

667. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education her views on whether the school meal allowance scheme should be funded and administered by her Department. [63287/22]

Schools Administration

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

705. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of schools in the education system that operate a shorter day for infants' classes than the rest of the classes. [63645/22]

School Meals Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

844. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she agrees with ETBI that the current rates for the school meal allowance scheme are unrealistic and causing the scheme to be unworkable; if she will request her Department to review the rates to bring them in line with current economic circumstances; and her views on extending the scheme to make it available to all students. [63285/22]

School Meals Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

845. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether the school meal allowance scheme should be funded and administered by the Department of Education. [63286/22]

Health and Safety

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1051. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of approved safepass organisations providing safepass training for each of the years 2018 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1661/23]

Health and Safety

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1052. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of safepasses that were certified for each of the years 2018 to 2022; his plans, if any, to increase the volume of certified safe passes to be granted in 2023; if he will address the delays in accessing safepass courses and registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1662/23]

Health and Safety

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1053. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the oversight he has in the pricing of safepass courses and to account for the significant increase in cost in accessing some safepass courses over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1663/23]

Naturalisation Applications

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1080. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the process for naturalisation of a child born in Ireland where their parents are non-EU citizens and legally resident in Ireland. [63608/22]

An Garda Síochána

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1115. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice if there has been any review of the Garda vetting system to avoid a situation where the same person is required to go through more than one vetting by different organisations within 12 months to fulfil the criteria for different roles, such as a person qualified and vetted to be a counsellor who has also been required to get a second Garda vetting to continue as a teacher; if there is a possibility of creating a system where a single Garda vetting could be transferred between roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1405/23]

Driver Test

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

232. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport the details of current waiting times for driving tests for B category vehicles in all north Dublin test centres, to include the number of persons awaiting a test at each centre; and the number of weeks that they are currently on the waiting list, broken down into four-week periods 0-4, 4-8, 8-12, 12-16, 16-20 and so on in tabular form. [62242/22]

Sports Funding

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

234. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance if he will work with the Minister for Finance to ensure that joint ventures operating all weather pitches such as a company (details supplied) owned and operated on a not-for-profit basis by a soccer club and a GAA Club, will be eligible for the temporary business energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61771/22]

Sports Funding

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

241. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance if joint ventures operating all weather pitches such as a company (details supplied) owned and operated on a not-for-profit basis by a soccer club and a GAA club, will be eligible for the temporary business energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61770/22]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

78. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine any policy or operational mechanisms to support a full-time nursing student such as a person (details supplied); his views on whether it is more likely this student will be able to support herself and her family over the long term if she is supported in college, rather than if she drops out to qualify for benefits. [61208/22]