Results 3,421-3,440 of 6,188 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies he is putting in place for ensuring that educational disadvantage is not exacerbated during this time. [10184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to, and his views on a document (details supplied); if he will be in a position to provide additional funding to the third-level sector; if this will include additional funding to ensure places through SUSI, HEAR and DARE spaces; and if it will increase the number of university places overall and increase...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which may otherwise have been available; if he is considering income supports for such students; and if he has had discussions with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in connection with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is examining the abolition of the direct provision system and the replacement of same with a form of international protection and reception which can better respect human rights and dignity and to ensure own door accommodation for asylum seekers; and if an improved system of decision making in relation to applications...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the steps he is taking to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) and its clubs are sustainable. [10187/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the fact that schools may now be running out of budget for school meals for the final month of the primary school year; and if she will consider examining the extension of budgets for schools that are affected in this manner to ensure that no child loses out on nutrition that their families might also rely...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider taking action to ensure that children receive adequate nutrition during the summer months; and if she will consider a holiday hunger scheme. [10179/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that exist for persons whose jobs are reopening as their workplaces reopen but that are medically vulnerable or need to cocoon and as a result, do not feel able to retake these jobs; and the appropriate payment, that is, the pandemic unemployment payment, illness benefit or other payment available in such...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which may otherwise have been available; if she is considering income supports for such students; and if she has had discussions with the Minister for Education and Skills in connection with this...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is all very well but some communication should have been possible since 12 March. Schools deserve some kind of communication or indication. They should have gotten that and they still have not, as far as I am aware. Staying with the-----

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: No school I have spoken to has had direct contact from the Department about reopening. They may have had some in the last four or five days, but up until then they had not received any contact. That is a fact based on all the schools I have spoken to, which is around 20. Staying with the reopening-----

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is quite reasonable for the Department to go back to schools and explain the process, where we are, what we are waiting for and the criteria involved. There are messages and preparations that could have happened-----

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am unfortunately going to have to truncate the rest of my contribution, though I was going to come in on a few issues. First, I refer to calculated grades. Parliamentary questions that I got back today tell me two things quite clearly. If one cannot get a calculated grade, there is no other option and there is not going to be a written leaving certificate before third level admissions....

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá mé ag roinnt le Deputies Cullinane agus Funchion. I will begin my contribution on the same subject I commenced my contribution to the previous debate we had on this area a little under two weeks ago. At that stage, I told the Minister that I felt it was not good enough that schools had had no communication on reopening from 12 March until that date. Since then, while there has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work undertaken after 12 March 2020 can be taken into consideration in the calculation of calculated grades. [9301/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that would have sat the leaving certificate this summer that will now not be entitled to a calculated grades due to a lack of evidence or lack of access to a registered teacher for a given subject or several subjects [9297/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider arranging an alternative examination for potential leaving certificate students that will now not receive a calculated grade such as, for example, an online oral [9298/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it will be possible to arrange a written leaving certificate examination [9299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact statistical methods which will be used for the standardisation of results submitted by schools in the context of the calculation of grades within the leaving certificate. [9296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage junior certificate will be factored in view of his comments that junior certificate results can be used as a safeguard to protect a strong cohort from suffering under the standardisation part of the calculated grades model; and the role it plays in the statistical model being used for standardisation [9302/20]