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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the bonus for completing leaving certificate exams through Irish was taken into consideration not just by teachers when providing the teachers’ grades, but specifically by the algorithm as it was applied to give calculated grades to students from Gaelscoileanna. [34921/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a sample sanitiser from a company (details supplied) was assessed and evaluated by a team with the necessary technical competencies and cross-sectoral knowledge; the outcome of the process; and if issues were flagged with the product. [34931/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 664. To ask the Minister for Health if businesses providing elective aesthetic treatments under certain circumstances (details supplied) fall under essential services with respect of the level 5 Covid-19 restrictions. [34602/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 665. To ask the Minister for Health the meaning of specialist medical practice activities under human health and social work activities in the list of essential services for level 5 Covid-19 restrictions. [34616/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for attending this afternoon. We all know the Department was left in an invidious position earlier in the year regarding the public health crisis and the exams. It has been my view, and I communicated this to the former Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, that using calculated grades was not the right approach. Unfortunately, students who worked extremely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will clarify that what I have in mind is something to the effect of establishing the points that would have existed without the error. The students who achieved those points could then be allocated those courses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If the points which would have existed without the error could be established, the students who achieved those points could be allocated places on courses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If it is the case that there is no adjustment whatsoever after that, I will be happy but I want to clarify that is what Ms Feeney is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On the point raised by Senator Seery Kearney regarding the HPAT, I do not think it should be that conditional, given the year it has been. Students should just be allowed to carry the HPAT forward. On the November examinations, there are a few difficulties with them that I do not quite understand. Question choice has been expanded for those who will sit the leaving certificate in 2021....

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I welcome this motion. It is timely and valuable. I have been raising concerns about Cork Airport for several months now and the Minister has said that he will happily sit down with anyone to discuss them. I would certainly take up that opportunity because there are many issues regarding Cork Airport and transport in Cork generally that I would like to discuss with him. There are about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (11 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the funding allocation for her Department for 2021, by project. [35687/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of the Cork metropolitan area transport strategy, CMATS, and the need for a bus rapid transit system in Cork. [29627/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: During the term of the previous Dáil, I was very anxious to push the Cork metropolitan area transport strategy, particularly the light rail element. I was glad that it was included in the strategy in the end. We are all very aware that it will not happen overnight, although I would like it to happen sooner than is scheduled. In the meantime, is there scope for bus rapid transit along...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is significant appetite for this. There is a widespread acceptance in the city and the surrounding areas that to achieve the population growth we want in the city and the region, we cannot just keep piling more cars into the south link road and into the city centre. It will not work and it will not be able to develop in the way we want it to. Bus rapid transit is not an immediate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree with the point the Minister makes on the north side and on the more traditional rail connections that will exist but none of that takes into account the fact that not as far out as Carrigaline, Passage or some of the commuter areas, there is a significant population that cannot walk to that or easily reach that corridor in Douglas, Togher, Ballyphehane and Greenmount. I have to say I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We need a delivery office in Cork.

Regulation of Private Security Firms Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is unacceptable that there is no regulation governing the activities of the personnel who enforce court orders, including orders for eviction. That lack of regulation is hard to fathom and comprehend. This legislation came about in response to the shocking scenes we have seen at evictions in recent years. I instance, in particular, the...

Regulation of Private Security Firms Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister of State, the Ceann Comhairle and all the Deputies who spoke on this Bill. The Minister of State made a point about pressure. That is important. We identified this loophole in September 2018 and called on the then Minister to act on it. At that point, the then Minister said he would. In the absence of anything happening, however, we published a Bill in early 2019....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need for support and clarity on an ongoing basis for Cork Airport; and the way in which he plans to safeguard the employment of workers connected to the airport directly, indirectly and in the wider local economy. [29626/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax amnesty in respect of accumulated holiday pay can be granted to essential workers who had no opportunity to take holidays due to Covid-19. [35937/20]