Ní féidir ach ceisteanna agus freagraí a foilsíodh tar éis Iúil 2012 a amharc anseo. Is féidir amharc de réir téarma nó dátaí ar leith ó Mhárta 2016 ar aghaidh do Ranna Rialtais. Foilsítear freagraí scríofa de réir mar a fhaightear iad ó Ranna. Chun ceisteanna parlaiminte a foilsíodh roimh Iúil 2012 a fheiceáil, cuardaigh Díospóireachtaí na Dála.
Ceisteanna agus freagraí le haghaidh gach suí
Leathanach 3 de 27
Déar, 30 Samh 2023
written
School Attendance
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
336. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will review circular M02/95 to emphasise the duty of care a school has to accommodate their own pupils where there is a demonstrated justification for a child to repeat a year for educational, health, mental health or developmental reasons. [52901/23]
Déar, 30 Samh 2023
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School Accommodation
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
361. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if the provision of additional school accommodation for a school (details supplied) is expected to be completed in time for the current school year or for the year commencing September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53117/23]
Máirt, 28 Samh 2023
written
Schools Building Projects
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
282. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education when the design team will be appointed for a new school building (details supplied), given that discussions about the site between the Department and the patron of the school in question have been ongoing since early 2020; as well as the expected date of completion of the building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52343/23]
Máirt, 21 Samh 2023
written
Departmental Reviews
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
205. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the review of the critical skills list will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50693/23]
Máirt, 21 Samh 2023
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Education Policy
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
262. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the reason no provision is made to schools for the deaf for ISL interpretation outside of the standard capitation grant; her views on whether her Department is compliant with the spirit and with the provisions of the Irish Sign language Act 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51036/23]
Máirt, 21 Samh 2023
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Legislative Measures
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
267. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she can provide an update on the Traveller History and Culture in Education Bill 2018; and when the Bill is expected to complete the next stage in the legislative process. [51135/23]
Máirt, 14 Samh 2023
written
Work Permits
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
169. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on when the Employment Permits Bill 2022 is likely to be progress to report stage in Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49656/23]
Máirt, 14 Samh 2023
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School Funding
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
197. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education what funding allocations, if any, are made to schools for purchase of financing of educational technology. [49466/23]
Máirt, 14 Samh 2023
written
School Funding
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
198. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education what funding, if any, is available to private companies from her Department for research and development of educational technologies and applications. [49467/23]
Céad, 8 Samh 2023
written
Teacher Training
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
40. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if, in view of the current shortage of teachers, she will instigate a review of the evaluation of a UK postgraduate course by the Teaching Council in respect of the course's coverage of relevant modules which seem to match similar Irish courses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48913/23]
Céad, 8 Samh 2023
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School Funding
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
41. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will work with a school (details supplied) so that it can be included in a public procurement framework for period products from which they are currently excluded, or if there is an alternative scheme for voluntary non-fee-paying schools to access similar supports. [48951/23]
Céad, 8 Samh 2023
written
Departmental Schemes
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
70. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a flood relief scheme for ordinary householders will be instigated by his Department similar to the enhanced emergency business flooding scheme; what scheme has been put in place for a location (details supplied); if he can ensure that the Dublin based flood damage victims will have the same access to financial support as rural flood victims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49055/23]
Céad, 8 Samh 2023
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Special Educational Needs
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
97. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine a case (details supplied) of an individual in need of special needs education but who now has no service; and if he will ensure that this individual can access suitable services. [48932/23]
Máirt, 7 Samh 2023
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Research Funding
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
145. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he proposes to make up the shortfall in the PhD stipend, to ensure that PhD researchers funded by his Department either directly or through bodies such as the EPA, who have been excluded from the planned increase in stipends for PhD students, are treated in an equitable manner with other Government-funded PhD students by being given an increase in the stipend to €22,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47579/23]
Máirt, 7 Samh 2023
written
Prison Service
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
793. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the number of days that educational programmes in prisons were prevented from proceeding, including partial or full closures, due to staff shortages or for any other reasons, from 1 October 2022 to date, by prison institution, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47366/23]
Máirt, 7 Samh 2023
written
An Garda Síochána
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
850. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the number of stops and searches that have been carried out by gardaí in each of the past five years. [48388/23]
Máirt, 7 Samh 2023
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Cancer Services
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
1144. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if the mobile BreastCheck unit is still operating from Leopardstown Hospital; whether there were changes in its operation; if the service will be restored to previous levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47580/23]
Máirt, 24 DFómh 2023
written
Teaching Qualifications
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
299. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of the fact that experienced second level teachers such as a teacher (details supplied) who qualified in the UK are being lost to Irish teaching by what are perceived as onerous requirements to duplicate existing qualifications; and her views on whether there is scope for adjusting requirements to make it easier for schools to hire UK-qualified teachers to help meet the shortage that is needed. [46617/23]
Máirt, 24 DFómh 2023
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Departmental Data
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
415. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice the number of people who have had charges entered against them for simple possession of a controlled drug for their own personal use in each of the years 2017 to 2022 and to date in 2023. [46656/23]
Máirt, 24 DFómh 2023
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Departmental Funding
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
421. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many PhD researchers are funded by his Department, including those funded by agencies and bodies under the auspices of his Department, and who will not be receiving the increase in stipend to €22,000. [46158/23]
Máirt, 24 DFómh 2023
written
Departmental Funding
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
422. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he proposes to make up the shortfall in the PhD stipend, to ensure that PhD researchers such as a researcher (details supplied) who have been excluded from the planned increase in stipends for PhD students, are treated in an equitable manner with other Government-funded PhD students by being given an increase in the stipend to €22,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46159/23]
Máirt, 24 DFómh 2023
written
Departmental Data
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
629. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of PhD researchers funded through Government departments or public bodies or agencies under the auspices of those departments but are outside the SFI/IRC funding schemes; and the number of such students funded by each department. [46166/23]
Máirt, 24 DFómh 2023
written
Third Level Education
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
631. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is satisfied that the exclusion of Government-funded non SFI/IRC PhD researchers from the increase in stipend funding to €22,000 complies with all relevant employment and equality legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46214/23]
Máirt, 24 DFómh 2023
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Third Level Education
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
632. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will ask individual Government Department agencies and bodies who fund PhD research outside the SFI/IRC programme to finance increases in PhD stipends to provide equality with their SFI/IRC counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46215/23]
Déar, 19 DFómh 2023
written
Third Level Staff
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
94. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason why the optimum target of €25,000 for the PhD stipend as recommended by the first report of the National Review of State Supports for PhD Researchers, was not implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45541/23]
Déar, 19 DFómh 2023
written
Third Level Staff
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
95. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there is a timeline for the publication of the final review report on supports for PhD researchers in Ireland that deals with the status of a PhD researcher and classification as either a student or an employee. [45539/23]
Déar, 19 DFómh 2023
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Grant Payments
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
101. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to outline the supports available to graduate entry medicine students, and to clarify if he will extend existing supports to graduate entry medicine students. [45540/23]
Déar, 19 DFómh 2023
written
Third Level Staff
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
111. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will make a commitment that other PhDs directly reliant on government funding outside of IRC or SFI will receive an increase in their PhD stipend. [45542/23]
Céad, 18 DFómh 2023
written
Library Projects
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
143. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education when the Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) Demonstration Library Project and JCSP Digital Library Service will be expanded; and if she will consider including a school (details supplied). [45389/23]
Máirt, 17 DFómh 2023
oral
Educational Disadvantage
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
2. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will deliver on a DEIS plus proposal for schools in areas of the highest disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45280/23]
Máirt, 17 DFómh 2023
oral
Special Educational Needs
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
9. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she can explain the circumstances whereby a school (details supplied) was refused a grant by her Department to equip a sensory room because it did not have a door but when it contacted the section responsible for the provision of the new room to ask for a door, it was informed that the policy at this time was to only provide quiet rooms which do not have doors; and if she could advise the school how it can access a grant which will allow it to properly fit out the new room and resolve the issue for its new class. [44713/23]
Máirt, 17 DFómh 2023
written
Schools Building Projects
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
49. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if there is more than one case in her Department where her education representatives have not engaged with the relevant contractor, arising from substantial building works; and to ensure that any snags or defects arising from substantial building works were remedied before the expiry of the defects liability period and if so, the number of cases in the past three years. [44820/23]
Máirt, 17 DFómh 2023
written
School Accommodation
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
228. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education to detail how pyrite remediation was funded in each of the six schools it was identified in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44821/23]
Máirt, 17 DFómh 2023
written
Schools Building Projects
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
229. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education to detail the reason her Department representatives did not engage with the relevant contractor to ensure that any snags or defects were remedied in a school (details supplied) arising from substantial building works there, before the expiry of the defects liability period. [44823/23]
Máirt, 17 DFómh 2023
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Protected Disclosures
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
395. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice if she will instigate an independent investigation into the treatment of whistleblowers within the Prison Service, such as in the case of a person (details supplied), with specific reference to dignity at work and the use of the Civil Service code to discipline staff. [45167/23]
Céad, 11 DFómh 2023
oral
Courts Staff
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
2. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice what progress has been made on resolving the pay restoration dispute with criminal barristers. [44134/23]
Céad, 11 DFómh 2023
written
Prison Service
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
29. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice if she will instigate a statutory review of the Prison Service as a safe working environment. [44137/23]
Céad, 11 DFómh 2023
written
Prison Service
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
33. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice what measures have been taken to put the Prison Service on a statutory footing. [44136/23]
Céad, 11 DFómh 2023
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Prison Service
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
40. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice if there is an outstanding WRC award to a prison officer (details supplied); and if so, the reason the award has not been paid. [44138/23]
Déar, 5 DFómh 2023
written
Airport Policy
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
188. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport if he will increase the number of noise monitors for aircraft in the Dublin Bay North area, with particular reference to those areas under or beside flight paths. [43352/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
An Garda Síochána
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
127. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the Policing Reform Implementation Programme Office convened in 2022 and 2023. [42120/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
An Garda Síochána
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
128. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the Implementation Group on Policing Reform convened in 2022 and 2023. [42121/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
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An Garda Síochána
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
129. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Taoiseach how many times, and on what dates, the High-Level Steering Board on Policing Reform convened in 2022 and 2023. [42122/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
An Garda Síochána
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
130. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Taoiseach if he has been presented with annual reports for the ‘A Policing Service for our Future Plan’ for each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if so, if they can be made available to the public. [42123/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
An Garda Síochána
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
131. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Taoiseach when the latest report on progress for APSFF was made to the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42124/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
An Garda Síochána
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
132. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of when it is expected that the fourth APSFF iteration report will be provided; what opportunity there is for scrutiny of the progress and future of the plan’s success in achieving the original recommendations from the Commission on the Future of Policing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42125/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
Departmental Policies
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
303. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will make a representation to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to have teaching added to the critical skills list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42325/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
School Admissions
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
316. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the measures her Department can take to review the catchment area of a school (details supplied), to allow children who live a 90 second walk away from the school attend it, in the interest of sustainability. [42469/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
Defective Building Materials
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
334. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of primary and secondary schools that currently have pyrite problems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42791/23]
Máirt, 3 DFómh 2023
written
Defective Building Materials
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
335. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education whether the education welfare services (EWS) have been the only mechanism used to date by her Department to support pyrite remediation works within Departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42792/23]