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Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister of State is probably familiar with the TV programme "Breaking Bad". The Minister of State may recall that around the time it was first broadcast, a meme was doing the rounds known as "Breaking Bad UK edition". It showed the character Walter, having been diagnosed with incurable lung cancer, asking "This will bankrupt me, how will I pay my bills?" The doctor replied, "The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (2 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical report required for the national driving licence could be included in the medical card scheme. [5303/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the arrangements that will be made for the junior certificate 2022 that recognise the disruption that students have faced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4822/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The other element of today's considerations relates to the junior certificate. Junior certificate students feel rather forgotten by the Department. Today's announcement barely made reference to them. The Minister's statement this afternoon referenced that junior cycle exams would run in June as normal. She has already acknowledged that the situation has been anything but normal for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree with having the examinations. That was my position any time I was asked but if everything had moved up a division, the approach taken for the leaving certificate would have been an appropriate solution to the junior certificate. It is very disappointing that no further adjustments have been made to the junior certificate papers. Leaving certificate students have understandably been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am aware of the changes to the CBAs but I do not see the consistency. I am disappointed that the Minister has not gone further in respect of the leaving certificate but, if we are to be consistent and we are acknowledging that the time lost to leaving certificate students was such that it required adjustments to the papers, why is it not the case that the time lost requires changes to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We will take it that the Minister agreed that it was warranted to look at the hybrid model. I will take that at face value given that the Minister had meetings around it and she explored it. The reasons that have been advanced against the hybrid model first assume that the leaving certificate is itself equitable in a given year, but that is not true. It is not entirely without merits but...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Standardisation applies to the class cohort when you are trying to fill in a gap to achieve a baseline. It is not that the lack of individual results for that student, if it can be filled in, affects that individual student, but the Minister knows that. The point I am making on grade inflation is that until today the Government was presenting grade inflation as a reason not to do it,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Is it finalised?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will secure a choice for the leaving certificate 2022 between calculated grades and written exams to ensure fairness for the class of 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4818/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tonight leaving certificate students and their families are hurt, frustrated and angry. I have received many emails, phone calls and messages and, to be honest, many students are absolutely gutted. They made it very clear the disruption to learning, the stress and anxiety, and the challenges in covering the course have been so significant that a hybrid model was the only way to ensure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roll-out of the expansion of delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, as committed to in budget 2022. [4817/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The expansion of DEIS and the additional funding in 2022 was welcome. We have heard little about it or how the review or expansion are progressing since. I have written to the Minister's Department six times since last summer, looking for a meeting to discuss this, and have raised it at the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister. Will she confirm that this will happen in September 2022? This is around the time that schools traditionally prepare their staff and schedules. They need this information quickly if they are going to benefit from a DEIS designation. I have raised this matter in the past. In the previous DEIS allocation around, there was a significant missed opportunity for DEIS band...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I welcome that. I received that communication today. I hope that happens. The basis on which that engagement will happen depends on where the process is. Are the criteria finalised? Can the Minister tell me that? That would have been an area that the Opposition might have hoped to offer constructive thoughts on. I am not sure I can think of a single Deputy who does not want to see DEIS...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I commend the motion and the work of Deputy Ward, who has been an excellent advocate in terms of the issues around mental health. I echo his point that a 12% increase over the lifetime of the Government is quite ambitious. Sinn Féin's policies and this motion in terms of tackling some of these issues are also ambitious. The report in regard to what was happening in south Kerry is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister has received them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister has received them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister has them.