Dáil debates

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  Note: Ministerial and Departmental titles have been updated in the Question text in anticipation of the relevant Government orders to give legal effect to the Taoiseach’s announcement in...
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • School Staff (7 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the significant inequalities in pay, conditions and pension and other entitlements facing many school secretaries. [30312/20]
  • State Examinations (7 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will constitute an independent inquiry into the 2020 leaving certificate which would examine the circumstances leading to the cancellation...
  • Special Educational Needs (7 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of clear guidelines on when and the manner in which children with special educational needs can integrate within...
  • Special Educational Needs (8 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to cater for the increasing numbers of special needs pupils at primary level; if she has assessed the impact of the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic (7 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details of the guidance for those at high risk; if schoolchildren who have medically vulnerable parents will be facilitated with remote...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • State Examinations (11 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the steps she will take to ensure that there is a leaving certificate examination in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Schools Building Projects (7 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the analysis undertaken in relation to the need for school capacity further to an application for a school extension at a school...
  • State Examinations (8 speeches)
    9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the State Examination Commission will stand over the leaving certificate results of students that sit these exams in November 2020; her views on...
  • School Staff (6 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the upcoming loss of a teacher in a school (details supplied) and the progress or lack thereof in reducing class sizes in view of the...
  • School Staff (5 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure reduced class sizes in schools, particularly in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • School Enrolments (5 speeches)
    12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the recent change in enrolment policies issued by a religious organisation (details supplied) and the impact it...
  • Special Educational Needs (11 speeches)
    14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to cater for the increasing numbers of special needs pupils at primary level; if she has assessed the impact of the...
  • School Staff (8 speeches)
    15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the feasibility of pairing students of very high-risk families to very high risk teachers via an online learning platform will be examined; and...
  • School Staff (5 speeches)
    16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that school secretaries employed by schools are properly remunerated for their work. [29972/20]
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (34 speeches)
  What happened to women and children behind the high walls of Ireland's mother and baby homes casts a long and a dark shadow. For decades, these homes were shrouded in secrecy and the awful abuse...
• Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (87 speeches)
  Debate resumed on the following Financial Resolution: -(Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation)
• Estimates for Public Services 2020: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of Vote 42 for the year ending 31 December 2020.