Results 3,021-3,040 of 6,188 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken regarding recommendation 3 of the aviation recovery task force report; his views on whether a comprehensive testing, tracking and tracing regime is essential to ensure that travel risks associated with international travel and aviation are minimised; the discussions he has had with the Minister for Health...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of ensuring that teaching principals have one release day per week. [26377/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring assistant principal posts to pre-2008 levels. [26378/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on assistant principal posts in the past 12 years, in tabular form. [26379/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the budget for assistant principal posts by 5%, 10% and 20%, respectively. [26380/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing capitation funding of €208 per pupil for the 2020-2021 academic year. [26381/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of when a new school (details supplied) can be expected to be delivered or construction commence. [27275/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the English language education sector falls under his remit or that of the Department of Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht; if the sector should follow the reopening guidelines for tourism or for the higher and further education; and the body responsible for inspecting such schools to ensure compliance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dates she expects the next two cohorts of trained Garda recruits or probationers to pass through Templemore Garda College and to be allocated to Garda districts. [26483/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 974. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a scoliosis surgeon in Cork University Hospital; if not, the reason for this; and if there are plans to recruit one. [27243/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of calculated grades about two weeks ago and I have to say he was somewhat dismissive. The news this afternoon is absolutely extraordinary. I am astounded, but the ones who will be even more astounded are the many students who worked extremely hard and had their grades downgraded. For them, there are countless questions. One of the main ones is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools with access to hot running water; and the number of schools which have gained access to hot water in recent months. [27418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of ensuring that all 2011-14 entrants into teaching will be paid on equal pay scales to their colleagues who joined the teaching profession before and after them. [27487/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The leaving certificate class of 2020 has endured an extremely difficult year. "Endured" is the only word for it. Three months before the examinations the schools were shut due to the public health emergency. As weeks passed, students faced the uncertainty of whether they would even sit the leaving certificate examination this year. There was postponement, cancellation and then...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister talks about four characters. I have heard the Ministers, Deputies Foley and Harris, talk about them. This is not abstract stuff. Four characters represent hundreds of students and the futures and dreams they have for their courses. This is not academic, it has real implications. What might seem small on a spreadsheet is very significant in terms of the error that was made....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Much of the frustration of students and families is about the lack of transparency and the fact that they have been kept in the dark for a week, much as the Minister disputes that. As I said, the Opposition and the Cabinet were kept in the dark as well. The Minster still has not told us why he did not insist this issue be discussed at Cabinet and that his Cabinet colleagues knew. The other...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: How could they do that without the HEA?

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There are two issues I want to raise with the Minister. I will be as brief as I can. The first is in relation to Cork. There is little other talk than concern around the potential move to level 3. There is also the very serious situation in hospitals. Dr. Ronan Boland told Claire Byrne's show on Tuesday that there were just three acute beds left between the Mercy University Hospital and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a standardisation process will be applied to the marking of the small group of students sitting the leaving certificate exams in November 2020; and if so, the details of the standardisation process given that it will be an atypical cohort which is unlikely to fit with the patterns of an ordinary summer leaving certificate. [28076/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (6 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible within current legislation to resolve issues in which local electoral areas are partially within rent pressure zones, and partially without, due to redraws of boundaries. [28286/20]