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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Will that be published?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I appreciate that is very important. Plan B needs to be as nailed down as plan A because things could move quickly. I have been lobbied by many students who are either living with somebody who might be vulnerable or who are worried that they might be displaying symptoms. If that was to happen at the time of the exams, what provision would be made?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will not take up any more time by seeking answers but I appreciate that. We need clarity on that very soon. I would also say, and I do not want the Minister to respond now because it would be taking from my colleague's time, that people doing construction studies and project works need certainty also.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will break my contribution into two parts: leaving certificate and other issues and I have allowed about a minute and half after each for the Minister to respond, if that is alright. Some of what I say will be critical so I want to preface it by saying that I understand the Minister and the Department are in a very difficult situation, that all the options were difficult and the decisions...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister and appreciate his making himself and his officials available for engagement on an ongoing basis. I am running tight on time but wish to flag something to which the Minister can respond in writing, rather than eating into Deputies Tully and Clarke's time. The pressure the parents of special needs children are under cannot be understated. The children's lives and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (13 May 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 476. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the number of cranial facial specialists for adolescents here; his plans to recruit additional specialists; and his views on whether the matter needs further consideration. [4065/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will begin with the issue that has featured most in the public domain in recent days, namely, the return of building based schooling. I say it in this way because schools are still working. I know teachers have gone to extraordinary lengths and I give Deputy Cathal Crowe an A plus for managing to get in as many constituency schools into his contribution as he did.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am sure he does but he is not getting my time for them. Teachers have gone to extraordinary lengths and it is fair to recognise that others have also made a contribution, such as "Cúla4 ar Scoil" on TG4 and "Home School Hub" on RTÉ. While they are not as good as the ordinary school experience, they have helped put shape on the day for parents and children, including my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Mental Health Strategies (20 May 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of specific counselling and mental health supports for leaving certificate students. [6409/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approach his Department is expecting to take to provide calculated grades for students that are repeating the leaving certificate or a particular subject or that are taking a subject outside a traditional school setting in view of the fact that there may not be the same knowledge of the student or may not be the same evidence basis; and...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if those that are home schooled will get a calculated grade. [6401/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (20 May 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidance which will be given to teachers regarding the evidence they are expected to use in the calculation of grades; and the extent to which discretion will be given. [6396/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (20 May 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if mock exams, junior certificate and Christmas exams will be included to be taken account of for calculated grades; and if so, the weighting of each. [6397/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (20 May 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the same guidance will be provided for teachers that are teaching leaving certificate applied students as to students generally; and if not, the nature of this guidance. [6404/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards which will be put in place to minimise the impact of school profiling; and if it is the case that school results will be adjusted upwards or downwards depending on said profile. [6398/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the need for school profiling in view of the fact that it has a potentially harmful effect on schools with a lower profile of results and other safeguards are in place and can be put in place. [6402/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that will be used to decide whether or not to sit the leaving certificate in the coming months; the circumstances in which he will be satisfied that it is safe to run this; and his plans to ensure that some notice is given to allow for study. [6400/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is now taking to ensure that students that have received a conditional offer of a place at a university in Britain or Northern Ireland through the UCAS system will not lose that place and that offers will still stand; and the way in which he plans to achieve this outcome. [6403/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the situation facing persons that are seeking to become teachers and further to this have repeated subjects such as, for example, Irish, having completed the remainder of the leaving certificate in another year; and if the calculation of their grade will be considered acceptable to admit students to teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the situation that applies to students that are not classed as independent and whose parents are currently temporarily unemployed due to Covid-19 related circumstances but do not know if they will be taken on again such as, for example, in the bar or retail trade; and if persons in these circumstances will qualify for the change of...