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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a fact the Government's belated housing targets are 20% below what is required according to its own Housing Commission. These are not Sinn Féin figures; they are the Government's figures. The Government has yet again failed to recognise the scale of the crisis and the need we face. I asked the Taoiseach to explain the fact that he has undershot by 20%. The memo was brought to...
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: When Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil joined together with the Green Party in coalition four years ago, they promised that it would be the Government to fix housing. This was a very bold claim from the parties that had, in fact, created the housing crisis in the first place. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have had more than a decade to solve housing but it has only made it worse. Now, as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: They can choose to back a real housing plan from Sinn Féin. This is a plan to make housing affordable, to bring homeownership back to the reach of working people, to get families off council waiting lists and into homes, to end long-term homelessness and to give hope back to a generation so badly failed by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. This is hope that they can have a home of their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: But there is less for Irish, no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: On that, I have a feeling that, really and truthfully, we are seeing a huge increase in the number of exemptions for the Irish language. We know people come out of 13 years of education feeling they do not have the confidence to speak in Irish outside of the school setting, and perhaps not even within that setting. At the same time, we are seeing a decrease in the amount of time we have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Realistically, does that not depend on the teacher, if it is not specifically within the clár ama?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: To be honest, Dr. Sullivan has not convinced me on that point. Regarding a third language, and I think it is good for kids to learn as many languages as possible - that is the time to learn them - what standard will the teachers of that other language have? Will they have had to have done Erasmus studies in that language? Will they have studied it to a large extent at third level or how...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Great. That will be good for teachers and students alike. I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: My first question relates to the level of Irish language that students have when they come out of what we might call English-language schools. There needs to be a strong focus on the Irish language in the curriculum, but I understand there is going to be a reduction in the time spent on the Irish language of 30 minutes per week. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: For the average school, will it mean 30 minutes less?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: What is the thinking behind that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I apologise but I am conscious of my limited time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on the Draft Curriculum Specifications at Primary Level: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Mairead Farrell: The council is introducing another language from third class onwards. I understand what Dr. Sullivan is saying about people being rushed. If an additional subject is being introduced, however, will that not add to people being rushed?
- Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)
Question put.