Questions asked 15 total

• Education 3 questions

  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education her views on the requirement that a minimum requisite base-level gender-knowledge and gender-sensitive teaching methods skillset be mandatory for all educators in order to register as a post-primary teacher with the Teaching Council, regardless of their chosen subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24241/22]
  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education her views on the requirement that a minimum requisite base-level gender-knowledge and gender-sensitive teaching methods skillset be mandatory for all educators in order to register as a post-primary teacher with the Teaching Council, regardless of their chosen subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24242/22]
  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education the details of her Department’s policy toward single-sex primary and post-primary schools; if it is the intention of her Department to phase out the use of single-sex schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24243/22]
• Further and Higher Education 3 questions

  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the details of the higher education bodies that have been awarded funding under the gender equality enhancement fund in 2020-2021 to advance gender equality initiatives in Irish higher education; the amount received by each of these bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24239/22]
  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the funding that has been provided to date by his Department or any bodies under the aegis of his Department to support the national gender equality dashboard for higher education institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24240/22]
  • 2022-05-18 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide the uptake levels and the progress of efforts to address issues involving consent and sexual harassment as referenced in his remarks to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality on 5 May 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25001/22]
• Housing 2 questions

  • 2022-05-18 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will request the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority to conduct a value-for-money assessment of the approved housing bodies sector, given that there were 495 approved housing bodies listed in his Department’s register as of March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24995/22]
  • 2022-05-18 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding that has been provided to each approved housing body in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24996/22]
• Taoiseach 1 question

  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Taoiseach the amounts paid, either on the basis of a contract or as gratuities or expenses to each of the chairpersons, speakers, facilitators, researchers or other persons in respect of the Constitutional Convention in 2012 and all citizens assemblies that were held from 2012 to date. [23976/22]
• Enterprise 1 question

  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 4 May 2022, the number of work permits granted to chefs and to each other category which applies to the restaurant sector in each of the years from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24142/22]
• Transport 1 question

  • 2022-05-17 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport if he will address the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the decision to exclude private bus companies from the 20% fare reduction on State-funded public transport services; if he will address the concern that there is preferential treatment of State services over commercial entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24244/22]
• Tourism 1 question

  • 2022-05-18 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will investigate the possibility of categorising turf-cutting and turf use as protected cultural practices under such instruments as the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, otherwise known as the Faro Convention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24997/22]
• Health 1 question

  • 2022-05-18 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will make available the correspondence that he received from the 52 senior National Maternity Hospital clinicians in February 2022. [25329/22]
• Foreign 1 question

  • 2022-05-19 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will raise concerns with the Chinese authorities following the recent arrest of a person (details supplied) in Hong Kong under national security laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25548/22]
• Justice 1 question

  • 2022-05-19 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice if Ireland has yet to ratify the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25546/22]