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Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for being here. Like others, I have not been impressed by the level of communication on the part of his Department and on that of sections of this Oireachtas. I wrote to the Minister on 12 March suggesting a collegiate, collaborative partnership approach across the Chamber. We have had one meeting in the past six weeks, on 1 April. The Minister has said much about the...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I look forward to the Minister's responses to the issues I am going to raise. Nobody needs to be reminded that we are in the middle of a pandemic. It is a national crisis and the health concerns are foremost in our minds. However, the ability of people to respond to the crisis is hugely impacted by how and where they live. One is more likely to survive this crisis if one has a better...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for his responses to others. He has already responded to many of the issues I wished to raise. I want him to publish the public health advice he has received in respect of cancelling the leaving certificate. I appreciate it was a difficult decision and I know it was not taken lightly. The Minister stated in his he got advice from NPHET which he has published, but I...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I know. I taught them.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is not.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Do not point a finger at me then.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Sorry, hold on. On a point of order-----

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----there is no point in the Minister telling me he will not get into a row with me, pointing a finger at me and calling me a disgrace. I am calling the Minister's process, not the Minister, a disgrace.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Expected distribution.

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister back to the House. He will be aware of the Labour Party position on the issue of assessed grading and school profiling. We are very much against school profiling. I have written to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, to seek its viewpoint. The equivalent body in the United Kingdom has issued guidelines to the UK education department relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he plans to take to facilitate external students such as mature students taking the leaving certificate to allow them access to primary school teaching or students whose first language is not taught in their school taking a language exam in their mother tongue or students self-studying mathematics to satisfy career or study...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the serious disruption to research activity due to Covid-19; if his attention has further been drawn to the requirement for additional investment to allow research programmes to be extended; if his attention has been drawn to the proposal for a research and innovation fund with €80 million per year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the proposal by an association (details supplied) for the establishment of a transformation fund to support an enhanced skills development programme to provide sustained investment in digital infrastructure and to provide capacity for the known demographic growth in student numbers over the next decade; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the proposal by an association (details supplied) for a stability fund to provide targeted support for students and their families in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis focused on enhanced access programmes, improved SUSI grants and well-being supports; and his views on establishing such a fund. [6010/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken or procedures investigated to support the resumption of home tuition for students whose needs are best served in person rather than by remote learning. [6067/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken or procedures investigated to support the resumption of home tuition for students whose needs are best served by in person rather than through remote learning. [6479/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding steps being taken to ensure students applying for third-level through the CAO with leaving certificate results from different years are not advantaged or disadvantaged compared to students with predictive results from 2020. [6482/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request QQI, CORU and other relevant bodies to review the requirement for 800 hours of unpaid placement to be completed by social care work students before graduation in view of the exceptional circumstances surrounding Covid-19; if alternative mechanisms can be found to allow sufficiently competent students to graduate and progress...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a recent survey and report (details supplied); and his views on the recommendations of same. [6734/20]