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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Which month?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the additional schools added to the DEIS programme will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4712/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: In my own constituency and especially in west Donegal, I regularly engage with principals and boards of management of schools in the DEIS scheme. Despite being an area of deprivation by all accounts and statistics, the 2017 DEIS review excluded some primary and post-primary schools in my area that should not have been excluded. As part of the budget, the Minister announced a 20% increase in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: My question is quite simple. When are the schools going to know whether they are in or out of the expanded DEIS programme? That is what principals are asking me. Principals in secondary schools are saying they need to do workforce planning and look at what we are offering schools. They cannot be told in July or August whether they are in a DEIS category or not. I have been raising the...
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Last week, I said that there should be a step change in Government policy around how we deal with children and adolescents in the context of mental health. This should be a watershed. It should be a moment in time when we say we can no longer allow our services to be so depleted and exhausted that so many people go without and those to whom services are provided receive, in some cases,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I would like clarity on whether the Taoiseach is going facilitate the Minister coming to the Chamber or not, because he avoided the question.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: On the same point, has the Taoiseach agreed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs coming in to answer questions on his role?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister will not come to the Chamber to answer questions.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It is not about the report. Will the Taoiseach facilitate the Minister coming to answer questions in this House, which he said on "Morning Ireland" he would do?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister coming to the House?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: How long is the Ceann Comhairle going to give him to respond? He has not responded. He is talking about the funeral of somebody who passed away two years ago.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: No. The Taoiseach actually took plenty of joy in that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach does not care that there is a grieving family in the middle of this.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach's attempt to compare a champagne party with the funeral of a friend is disgraceful.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It is.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Can we get an answer to the question?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: -----will the Minister come to the House to answer questions? This is the House that keeps the Minister accountable.