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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of leaving certificate 2021 students who had not sat junior certificate exams. [6113/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for being here. I do not have many questions but I have some observations. My degree was in law and I learned some of the rules of interpretation. One of them is called the mischief rule of interpretation, which is the idea that one is trying to interpret something on the basis of the mischief it is trying to achieve or the problem it is trying to resolve. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of his plans to reduce the cost of childcare for ordinary families. [5365/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether children and young persons are one of the cohorts most impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic given the loss of social outlets during lockdowns; and the funding he will provide to ensure a fair and equitable recovery for children and young persons including but not limited to the Tusla family...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she plans to take to ensure the delays in processing enhanced illness benefit are resolved. [5497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (3 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her long-term plans to ensure school meals are available in as many schools across Ireland as possible. [5498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (3 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if absences from school due to self-isolation from having either contracted Covid-19 or having been listed as a close contact count towards the 20-day Tusla rule on absence. [5601/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have three minutes and about 3 million things I want to say. I begin by picking up where Deputy McGuinness left off, with MTU. The raising of the flag over the rebranded MTU was a very positive day for education in Cork, Kerry and the whole region. I acknowledge there are still issues that need to be resolved with the transition. It is important the Minister is aware of that and keeps...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister of State is probably familiar with the TV programme "Breaking Bad". The Minister of State may recall that around the time it was first broadcast, a meme was doing the rounds known as "Breaking Bad UK edition". It showed the character Walter, having been diagnosed with incurable lung cancer, asking "This will bankrupt me, how will I pay my bills?" The doctor replied, "The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (2 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical report required for the national driving licence could be included in the medical card scheme. [5303/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the arrangements that will be made for the junior certificate 2022 that recognise the disruption that students have faced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4822/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The other element of today's considerations relates to the junior certificate. Junior certificate students feel rather forgotten by the Department. Today's announcement barely made reference to them. The Minister's statement this afternoon referenced that junior cycle exams would run in June as normal. She has already acknowledged that the situation has been anything but normal for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree with having the examinations. That was my position any time I was asked but if everything had moved up a division, the approach taken for the leaving certificate would have been an appropriate solution to the junior certificate. It is very disappointing that no further adjustments have been made to the junior certificate papers. Leaving certificate students have understandably been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am aware of the changes to the CBAs but I do not see the consistency. I am disappointed that the Minister has not gone further in respect of the leaving certificate but, if we are to be consistent and we are acknowledging that the time lost to leaving certificate students was such that it required adjustments to the papers, why is it not the case that the time lost requires changes to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We will take it that the Minister agreed that it was warranted to look at the hybrid model. I will take that at face value given that the Minister had meetings around it and she explored it. The reasons that have been advanced against the hybrid model first assume that the leaving certificate is itself equitable in a given year, but that is not true. It is not entirely without merits but...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Standardisation applies to the class cohort when you are trying to fill in a gap to achieve a baseline. It is not that the lack of individual results for that student, if it can be filled in, affects that individual student, but the Minister knows that. The point I am making on grade inflation is that until today the Government was presenting grade inflation as a reason not to do it,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Is it finalised?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will secure a choice for the leaving certificate 2022 between calculated grades and written exams to ensure fairness for the class of 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4818/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tonight leaving certificate students and their families are hurt, frustrated and angry. I have received many emails, phone calls and messages and, to be honest, many students are absolutely gutted. They made it very clear the disruption to learning, the stress and anxiety, and the challenges in covering the course have been so significant that a hybrid model was the only way to ensure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roll-out of the expansion of delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, as committed to in budget 2022. [4817/22]