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

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are 7,000 to 8,000 students who were wrongly upgraded, a number of students who were downgraded and, in particular, a number of students who feel disadvantaged and that their education was sabotaged because there was such a differentiation between the teacher's assessment and the school's assessment and the grade they ended up getting. If any of the court cases impact that, what...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The evidence that teachers and schools had in terms of testing that had been done previously to substantiate the grades they had given was not considered. The students in respect of whom I have seen testing over two years and the results they had achieved feel that they have not been taken into account. I expect that those issues will be tested within the court cases. In regard to the...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why was it not done?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: What was done to address severe underestimation?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there any hope for the students still left with severe underestimation?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Was that through the appeals process?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will Mr. Tattan acknowledge that many students are still in a limbo situation having been downgraded and with their marks bearing no relation to the assessment of their teachers?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is Mr. Tattan saying he does not acknowledge that many students have been severely disadvantaged because they have been downgraded?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is the underestimation I really want to get at. I am happy regarding the overestimation aspect, but I want to see if Mr. Tattan can give any hope to those students affected by underestimation. Will they have to wait for the end of the legal process?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are not going to agree on this issue. I refer to the correspondence we get from so many students and parents concerning the impact on mental health. They give us all the documentation they have from their tests and everything else from within the schools, and their teachers' marks bear no relation to their final results. If Mr. Tattan cannot acknowledge that, we cannot make progress on...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the issue of stakeholders, what contact has the Department had with the Irish Second-Level Students Union, ISSU? What contact does the Department plan to have with it in the future to get its opinion on things? Many of the students who are sitting the November examinations feel aggrieved because they were given 100% in respect of oral examinations in March but now they are being...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will it form part of the review and be central to it?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the announcement of the financial support package and I look forward to having the opportunity to analyse the detail of it in the coming days. I thank Deputy McNamara and the Independent Group for tabling this motion, which we will support. I hope they will take cognisance of the amendments. I also welcome that the Government is looking at approaches to air travel that are more...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I commend the work that has been done and acknowledge the complexities that have faced us in terms of Brexit. I assure the Minister that we will continue to work with him in every way possible to ensure the outstanding elements that need to be addressed are addressed, as we have done from the beginning. I will raise two matters with the Minister. The first relates...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the funding allocation for his Department for 2021, by project and initiative. [35501/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (11 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his plans to amend the Industrial Training Act 1967 to cover certain areas of activity currently excluded from the development of apprenticeships as laid out in the legislative programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35633/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (11 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 5 November 2020, the reason a student (details supplied) has been granted financial support from the student support scheme that specifies that it must be used for accommodation purposes; if she will assure students that this funding can be used for other purposes given the Covid-19 restrictions;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (11 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned primary care centre, Bangor Erris, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35464/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme (11 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to issues with the online application system for the BEEP (details supplied); the steps being taken to assess the situation and make necessary changes and help disadvantaged applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35467/20]