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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This is probably highly irregular and old fashioned but I wonder if Ms Feeney will circulate the paper she read from if she does not have additional notes on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am happy to carry on without it but if we have a piece of paper it is no harm for it to go around. The other members might want to read the statement while I am asking questions. As a result of the situation, can Ms Feeney repeat some details? I think she said it was the pressure of the number of papers and so on that caused a negative experience. Did I understand that correctly?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Unfortunately it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation, similar to how one might attract nurses into a healthcare system that is on the point of collapse. Their experience of it is bad. More nurses are needed to improve it and, somewhat like that, we have a circular situation here as far as I can see. While it is welcome that we have a date now for the junior cycle results, the delay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This could continue. The challenges could continue if generally speaking we have something of a challenge in the next few years in regard to ensuring that the leaving certificate has adequate integrity which I believe it has. That could continue while we ensure that forthcoming cohorts doing the leaving certificate are not disadvantaged compared with the others. I have spoken to people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Specific to the timing issue, is it something that we can foresee that, if there are additional course-marking adjustments it could potentially contribute to further delays in the leaving certificate results?

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The word "debilitating" has been used in a few speeches. From the few people I have known, both through my office and in the community generally, who have suffered from long Covid, that is precisely the word. It has laid them completely low. It is quite a serious illness. Previously very energetic, active people who were very involved in the community struggle to get out of bed or maybe...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Skehard Road.

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will make a start, a Cheann Comhairle.

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh agus má thagann an Teachta Paul Donnelly, ligfidh mé isteach dó. It is good to see you back, a Cheann Comhairle back. Fáilte romhat ar ais. Tá sé go maith tú a fheiceáil i mbarr do shláinte agus do bheatha arís. On Irish Water, I might surprise the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, by starting out with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I echo the call from Deputy Bacik on a debate on the abuse in Blackrock College and the Spiritans. The revelations over the course of the past week have been absolutely horrifying. It is clear that there will need to be a response from the State that will need to be thoughtful, considered and in line with the needs and wishes of the survivors and those who have bravely come forward. That...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Mar is eol don Taoiseach, bhí scéal ann i dtaobh míle leanbh i gConamara a chaill amach ar bhéilí scoile de bharr gur tharraing an comhlacht a bhí ag soláthar na mbéilí amach. The Taoiseach may be aware that in Connemara recently, 1,000 children lost their school meals because the provider ceased to provide them, citing financial pressures. This...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá mé ag roinnt ama leis an Teachta O’Rourke. I thank everyone involved in and taking part in Science Week. It is an important initiative that gives us an opportunity to platform science and how it affects and shapes our everyday lives. The pandemic, perhaps more than other times, brought the role of science and scientists centre stage and into everyday conversation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas le gach duine as teacht os ár gcomhair agus fianaise a thabhairt. Tá sé an-tromchúiseach agus is léir go bhfuil go leor constaicí ann chun é a réiteach do na scoláirí go léir. I agree very much with what Mr. Power said about schools being well placed. Not all of the issues facing young people are related to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I hope Mr. Chambers does not mind me interrupting. I am under time constraints. To drill down into it, obviously there has to be a triaging when resources are short but am I right in saying that, at the moment, a child who is self-harming but not considered to be suicidal would not necessarily be able to access CAMHS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will rephrase the question. Self-harm alone is not adequate to ensure access to CAMHS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I acknowledge that there is complexity to this but my understanding of the situation on the ground is that the under-resourcing is so severe – I know Mr. Chambers is one of the people trying to resolve that and it is not necessarily his fault or anything like that; it is people working with him – that children and others in serious circumstances are referred to primary care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Mr. Smyth said there approximately 100 students in training programmes every year but far more than that come through psychology degrees. Obviously, there is a significant difference but it seems that between the two stages, we are losing a lot of people who might be fit to help. What is the reason for this? Where are these people going? What are they doing if they are not going into...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing "ESD to 2030: Second National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development"; the amount that has been spent on this to date; and the estimated cost to fully implement this in each year and cumulatively. [56393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56392/22]