Results 521-540 of 7,163 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the impact of the EWSS on the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme in preventing applicants from drawing down their mortgage if their employer is availing of EWSS to pay them; the steps he will take to address this and ensure that those approved for a loan will be able to draw down funds;...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Honours (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 674. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if medals will be awarded to the surviving soldiers from the siege of Jadotville; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32545/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 675. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the complex legal, operational and management questions posed by membership of a union (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32546/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make available the data set used to calculate the final results for 2020 leaving certificate students, in anonymised form, to the public domain and provide a clear statement of the algorithm and a worked example based on the data set. [32365/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarification on the planned investment of €5 million in DEIS schools; the rationale for limiting planned class reductions to DEIS band 1 senior schools only; if she will provide additional resources, including staffing resources to all DEIS band one schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32693/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students sitting the leaving certificate examinations will be awarded 100% in their oral examinations as promised in March 2020. [32694/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure sufficient cover for absences to maintain class bubbles and pods intact; the steps she will take to ensure priority testing for staff in schools for Covid-19 testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32695/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if increased levels of supports, resources and access to assessment of need will be made available immediately to children in disadvantaged situations and to those with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to improve the pupil-teacher ratio in line with the European average. [32697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure supports are in place and available to students who need them as they transition from DEIS 1 to DEIS 2 or other schools. [32698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the dates for exams will be announced for the June 2021 leaving certificate; the plans in place for the exams to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32851/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the request for additional classroom allocation at a school (details supplied) to address a waiting list of approximately 100 students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33375/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction on permanent buildings will commence at a school (details supplied). [33376/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Land Issues (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1041. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a land price register similar to the property price register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32543/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person has been absent from the State for more than six weeks in a year, if the six weeks absences are deducted in their entirety from the reckonable residency calculation; if it is just the excess days over six weeks deducted from reckonable residency calculation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33213/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1183. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Valproate Response Report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32547/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1184. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); if so, if he has considered the findings of the report; if similar measures are being considered here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32548/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for homecare packages by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32550/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1283. To ask the Minister for Health if agency staff working for a State agency (details supplied) have been provided with the same level of Covid-19 protections as permanent staff, including the option to work from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32919/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the representatives of Home for Good for attending. I appreciate all the work that has been done on this issue to date. The Social Democrats have been very supportive of a constitutional right to housing. It is good to see near cross-party consensus on this. According to research carried out by the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, approximately 13 different Bills could not...