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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I also support what has been said. An Garda Síochána is also a noble phraseology for a policing service. Other jurisdictions have law enforcement, but we have people who are guardians of the peace. That is appropriate, and the Irish-language version is the one that should be used exclusively.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The practice of leaking from An Garda Síochána, which is patently obvious to the observing eye, is particularly disturbing. I am familiar with an incident that occurred and have spoken to the mother of the individual concerned, who is no longer with us. A film of a woman in a particularly distressed state walking down a prominent street in Dublin, O'Connell Street, was circulated...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 29: In page 42, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(3) Where a person fails or refuses to comply with, or disobeys, a summons to attend or other direction under subsection (1), the High Court may, on application by the appointed judge concerned and on notice to the person— (a) order the person to comply with the direction or, in the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is the Minister confident that, in a situation where an inquiry is taking place into a Garda Commissioner or deputy Garda commissioner for whatever reason, potentially removing either or both of those individuals, there is nothing either or both of those individuals could do to obstruct such an inquiry by non-attendance?

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome to the Public Gallery a gentleman called Luke King who is a student in Pobalscoil Neasáin in Donaghmede. He is part of the Northside Partnership young community leaders group which has made a number of presentations recently to me and to the Lord Mayor on vaping, the reform of the leaving certificate and drug use in its community. He is here with the ambition hopefully to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had any correspondence with a company (details supplied) regarding collective redundancies; if he has read an article detailing alleged breaches of statutory obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This amendment, which was tabled by Deputy Paul Murphy, goes to crux to people's comfort or otherwise with the Bill. The demonstration test is something I have discussed with academics, including Jennifer Schweppe and others. I have spoken to Seamus Taylor, who effectively wrote the book on hate crime. He says that, in his experience, it is essential to the effectiveness of the Bill. It...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Football Association of Ireland, FAI, has commissioned a report into the horse and greyhound racing fund. Apparently, the report states that as a country we have spent €1.5 billion on this fund over the past 20 years, of which €1 billion has come from a direct levy on betting and €0.5 billion has come from the Exchequer. Some 80% of that goes to the horse racing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ------into the horse and greyhound racing fund because I do not think the level of funding we give it stands up to scrutiny.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Not according to this report.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Will the Taoiseach not do a review?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (25 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 393. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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]

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Unfortunately, when a murder happens, for too many people it is just something they see on the news and there is not really the horror or disgust that should happen when somebody’s life is lost in a particular location or address. It is something that people might raise their eyebrows at; they might see it on the news and move on. If you live in, work in or care about a community...

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This Bill is very welcome and, as others said, there is a crisis at the heart of our court system as to their sittings, an issue we have often debated. The lack of judges has been reported upon by any number of media outlets. How judges are appointed has been part of the political debate for a number of years. However, we cannot get beyond the fact that our courts system is grinding to a...