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- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the Government’s response to a judgment in respect of the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22510/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reasons the Department of Education has reduced the cost of the schoolbook scheme from €96 to €80 per pupil; if this will be reviewed by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22440/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the current approach to consulting with communities where accommodation for asylum seekers is to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23006/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the record of consultation that has taken place with communities where accommodation for asylum seekers was to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23007/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what resources have been allocated towards consultation with communities where accommodation for asylum seekers is to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23008/24]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: I thank the delegation for coming to discuss an important issue which is causing communities throughout the State anxiety, stress, concern and fear as regards the handling of education. There appears to be a poor forward planning process in place. That is certainly evident in my constituency of Wicklow. How would the witnesses sum up the Department's current approach to forward planning,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Ms McNally said that planning has worked, but it has not. It has failed. Forward planning has fundamentally failed. Wicklow is one example of that but there are many other examples across the State. I will quickly read a letter I got from a pupil in Wicklow only this Monday. It is very brief and says: Hello, my name is [I am not going to give his name, for obvious reasons] and I go to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: This is an annual occurrence. It is not a one-off occurrence in the Greystones area. Unfortunately, Ms McNally's words ring hollow to this pupil and his family and to the other families who are in a similar situation to the parents and pupils of last year, the year before that and so on. There is a cyclical failure by the Department to deal with this. Ms McNally said that forward...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: The local authority did see it. There is a planning process there. There are population targets laid down. It saw it. There was a real failure here to plan properly, both by the Department and the local authority. There was no joined-up thinking. Education is one area but there are other areas which have failed here in terms of amenities. Pupils should have a basic and fundamental...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Clearly, in this case, the Department is not working closely enough. I want to move on to another area, namely, the use of prefabs. Again, there has been a failure to put in place the school builds in a timely and efficient manner. I have to hand the figures from 2022. The cost of providing prefabs or temporary modular accommodation for schools was €28.1 million. Do we have the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Do we have a figure for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: I apologise but did Ms McNally say the figure was €43 million in 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: There has been a significant increase, therefore. Was that for rental?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: What was the figure for the purchasing of modular units?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: In the context of the renting of spaces and other types of properties for temporary provision for educational purposes, do we have figures for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Do we have a figure for how much it has cost to purchase those modular units?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: €281.9 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Do we have a figure for the renting of land and premises on which to put these modular units in 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: I do not mean to go back to asking about Wicklow all the time, but those modular units are predominantly being put onto land not owned by the Department. Again, therefore, how much is it costing to rent spaces in which to put those modular units? Ms McNally is saying it is permanent but in many cases it is of a temporary nature in terms of the location.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: If I could go back to the Wicklow situation, land is being rented from a rugby club, a GAA club and a tennis club-----