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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Fiona O'Loughlin: That is completely fine. My apologies. I had the opportunity to listen to the opening statements. I was quite surprised when I saw the figure of 38,055 Irish young people under the age of 19 who have some type of visual impairment. That is significant. It is quite high. Obviously, we need to do all we can to try to ensure that they can reach their potential in education, socialisation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Could the witnesses comment on the geographical disparity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I appreciate him accommodating me because I have a Commencement matter to raise at 1 p.m. I thank Mr. Doody for that comprehensive report. I was struck by the great work done in Drumcondra with the 63 students there. We were told that 16 visiting teachers are looking after 1,379 students, which is in stark contrast to the figure we got of 38,055 young people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Fiona O'Loughlin: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I must go to the Seanad Chamber for a Commencement matter.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputies Ó Cathasaigh and O'Rourke for their contributions. It is important to reflect on Deputy O'Rourke's comments. The retrofit plan is ambitious. We have a serious ambition here. It is also realistic. I absolutely agree with Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. We are not signing up to 220 years but we have been building capacity. In my opening remarks, I referred to the extra...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Debate adjourned.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister of State and I thank all three Deputies for contributing. As someone who, at the Business Committee, has to manage competing demands for additional time to talk on important matters, I have to say it is profoundly disappointing to come in here tonight to have a topic of enormous importance before us and, apart from Deputy Ó Cathasaigh as Leas-Chathaoirleach and the...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 6.09 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 15 Deireadh Fómhair 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 6.09 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 October 2024.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are back to the Minister of State and Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. Do they want a second go at it or do they want to share their time? There are ten minutes available to each of them.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is the proposer so he is first up.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State and Deputy O'Rourke for their contributions on the report. I will not go back into the detail but I will attempt to address some of the comments that were made. We have to distinguish between what we are trying to do in the short term, the medium term and the long term. In the long term, the goal is to retrofit all of our housing stock so that people will...