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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Disadvantage (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: As the Minister knows, I have been raising the issue of the potential for a DEIS plus scheme over the last period. I know that the Minister, in her answer, will give me an extensive Government response on DEIS, its expansion and all that. I really need her to drill down into this specific proposal for trauma-informed supports for a number of extremely disadvantaged schools in a number of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Disadvantage (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am talking about a specific group of schools that the Minister referenced. I have met them. A letter was written by 30 or so principals in extremely disadvantaged schools in Tallaght, Ballymun and Dublin 17 in my constituency. They are witnessing things they never witnessed before. They are talking about intergenerational trauma. They say the Covid pandemic had a profoundly damaging...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is somebody else's fault now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Like others, I want to recognise my former boss, Joan Burton, in the Gallery. It is great to have her here. We are anxious to get this right. In this space, we have done well as a collective and Oireachtas. However, that has led to difficulties and added stress upon stress for those who feel the political system is not adequately reflecting in legislation what is needed. This is one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Did they have a resistance towards formal education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can that embed itself into the experience of a person if what they experienced as a child is so negative and abusive that a family member, including a grandchild, is attending school with a reluctance to enjoy the experience because of what they have gone through? Do previous experiences embed a level of educational disadvantage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank Ms McDonnell Byrne. I do not know if anybody else wants to talk about the wider impacts of trauma in the family setting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Okay. Is it fair to say the witnesses broadly welcome the proposed legislation but feel elements of it need to be amended or improved, rather than us having to start from scratch? I think Ms Lewis spoke to this.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 18, lines 16 and 17, to delete all words from and including “(1) The” in line 16 down to and including line 17 and substitute the following: “(1) The Minister may, following consultation with the chief executive, appoint such and so many officers of the Minister as he or she may determine, to be members of staff of the Agency.”....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It still needs to be in the Bill. I am happy to withdraw the amendment and ask the Minister to reflect on it prior to Report Stage. It would give an awful lot more comfort to NGOs and others working in the area if it were stitched into legislation that the CEO had a consultative role with the Minister on appointments to the agency. I accept the Minister will not accept the amendment. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (17 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 395. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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]

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Governments are defined by the budgets they produce and the money they allocate to issues they feel are important, and we get a chance once a year to reflect on those statements by Governments about what they deem to be important. In these Houses, when we learn of people from other parties who are resigning or not running again, we sometimes wonder why we get up in the morning and come here...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Courts Staff (11 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: If that had been flagged to the Bar Council two weeks ago, there would not have been the loss of an entire day of criminal cases. The Bar Council was not in any way aware of any move by the Government to do any sort of restoration of fees. If the Minister had said to the Bar Council two weeks ago what she has just said to me, its day of action would not have occurred, which was flagged on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Courts Staff (11 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is not good enough. The Minister could have prevented it from taking place. In July 2018, a detailed review process led by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions stated: That all parties are in unequivocal agreement that the ongoing flexibility being delivered by prosecuting counsel, documented above, is considered comparable to the flexibility delivered by other groups to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Courts Staff (11 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what progress has been made on resolving the pay restoration dispute with criminal barristers. [44134/23]