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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have appealed their special needs assistant and special education teaching allocations by county. [22966/20]

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The word "cancer" strikes fear into many people. Cancer is not just a single illness, it is a series of illnesses. Sometimes our understanding of these illnesses can be simplified by treating them all as one. Nonetheless, cancer is a series of illnesses that has affected so many people. I would say almost everyone in this Chamber has had a loved one or relative who has died as a result of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This section is on the way out of the Minister's Department and perhaps he will give us a timescale on it because I am not sure. In the meantime, the Minister has an opportunity to shape it. I have a view that there is a cohort of students who could and should have benefited from access to the school completion programme and particularly from access to the home school liaison scheme in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I understood the point on redeployment. Is it with regard to this particular return exercise that is being worked on? Perhaps it is additional work. In general, I am in favour of the expansion of the home school liaison scheme and school completion programme. The expansion of DEIS to another cohort of schools is an important part of this, not just DEIS band 1, which is important, but also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to re-engage students with education including students with special educational needs and other vulnerable categories; and if there will be increased investment in home school community liaison officers and school completion programmes to help ease this transition back to school buildings. [19305/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This question is peculiar in that I submitted it to the Minister for Education and Skills and it was referred to the Minister present but were I to submit it to him in a few weeks' time, it would be transferred across to the Department of Education and Skills. The primary concerns involved are educational and I have listened to a lot of discussion on very legitimate concerns about the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a map of the rent pressure zones in Cork city and county. [21258/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary teachers, respectively on secondment from their teaching posts to positions within her Department or Department-funded bodies; and her plans to release some of these teachers to ensure greater numbers of teachers in the classroom. [21798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools that have returned for the 2020/2021 academic year with classes of 30 or more by county in tabular form and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22391/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I now have only have three minutes to contribute so, unfortunately, I will not be ceding time to the Minister. While it is probably a crossover issue between the Minister and the Minister, Deputy Foley, CAO applicants from 2019 or earlier are seeking to access higher and further education and a solution needs to be found. I firmly believe that solutions can be found. It is about...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá mé ag roinnt mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Conway-Walsh. There have been many happy scenes throughout the State of children returning to school and it is a positive thing. We had our own return to school with our nine year old last Thursday and I must give a lot of credit to the school. It has been excellent so far. I acknowledged yesterday, agus d'aithin mé ar maidin sa...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Go raibh maith agat to all of our guests for being here today. I thank them for their work and that of the members of their unions in the past couple of weeks because I know the effort has been phenomenal and major sacrifices have been made for the benefit of the children of this country. I think I speak for many people when I say that we are grateful. Perhaps it is time for those media...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Ms Magner. I take it that we will have to wait to see whether the process is adequate. The message I hear is that it is something that needs to be kept under review. My next question is for Mr. Pike of Fórsa. I welcome the fact that representatives from Fórsa are present. It is regrettable that they were not before the committee previously, particularly as that the staff...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Mr. Pike has made a very important point. Many issues relating to special education needs are still to be clarified, one of which relates to face coverings. I have a question for the representatives of the TUI on face coverings. Principals who have contacted me are concerned that it is not clear what evidence they should rely on where a child is seeking exemption. There are many justified...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The ASTI has expressed a number of concerns about some of the precautions that need to be taken on an ongoing basis. Parents are concerned that it is not clear that every child in a class will be treated as a close contact even though that is what ECDC guidelines require. Is the ASTI concerned that that is the case? Should every child in a class be treated as a close contact?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Mr. Christie. I think my time is up but as a final point - I do not require a response - it is crazy that so many schools do not have access to hot water. That needs to be addressed urgently.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: As I have five minutes, I will do this in two parts if that is okay. First, I will address Inclusion Ireland. It seems to me, and the previous survey presented to the committee demonstrated this, that children with special educational needs and intellectual disabilities were among those who suffered most due to the schools being closed, despite the best efforts of everyone. From talking to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate all that and those issues have been well flagged. I have some questions for the National Parents Council. Parents are not totally clear as to when they should keep their children home. They also have concern over income support. If they do the right thing by keeping their children out when they display symptoms or if there is a positive case in the school, they are worried...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I, along with my colleague, Deputy Conway-Walsh, who will flesh this out, want to flag with the Minister the issue of calculated grades. I do not need a response now and I may raise the issue with her on another occasion. Students who sat the leaving certificate in 2019 are concerned about the implications for their college places. I believe solutions can be found and I will write to the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I apologise. I do not mean to be disruptive but I have limitations on my time.