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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new permanent building for a school (details supplied); her views on the tender process for same; the current intended timelines for delivery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34792/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the space constraints faced by a school (details supplied) in future school years; if contingency planning will be required in order to accommodate future student cohorts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34793/20]

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students sitting Irish in the leaving certificate in November 2020 can be accommodated with an aural and-or an oral examination in order to ensure equity with students that have been assessed and provided with a calculated grade based on aural and oral proficiency; if not, if the students will be credited a 100% award for the oral portion...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if derogations are available to allow retired teachers return to substitute teaching for the period of the Covid-19 pandemic to assist in cases in which they otherwise would not be allowed do so under the terms of their retirement agreement as in cases such as that of a teacher (details supplied); if so, if consideration will be given to...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the witnesses. It is no secret the Labour Party did not support the cancellation of the exams when the announcement was made on 8 May. We felt the written exams should have gone ahead. I will go through the timeline. On 8 May, the announcement was made and there was a school profiling element for the calculated grades. The delay to leaving certificate results was announced 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)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That was in mid-August.

Education (Admission to Schools) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I wish to state genuinely my appreciation to my colleagues from Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats who have attended this evening for taking part in the debate and, indeed, my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, who proposed the Bill. It is gratifying to know that people feel similarly across the Opposition benches about an issue of equality and of education. I very much appreciate the...

Education (Admission to Schools) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate very much Deputy Ó Laoghaire's accommodation. I appreciate very much the opportunity to propose this Private Members' Bill. It is good that Opposition Members get an opportunity to bring forward legislation on this matter and to engage with the Minister on this basis. The Labour Party feels very strongly about this Bill. We feel very strongly about education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (5 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the certification that was accepted, provided or process undergone to allow the education sector procurement agreement on each of the products now withdrawn from the agreement by the circular on 29 October 2020 (details supplied); the tests that have been carried out on each of the products withdrawn to identify if any of the products is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (5 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reopen the education sector PPE procurement agreement to additional products and suppliers following the removal of a number of unregistered products from the list. [34369/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (5 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been reports of shortages in supply to schools or difficulties in providing adequate PPE and associated products due to the removal of a number of unregistered products from the approved list. [34368/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools: Discussion (5 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The witnesses mentioned Finland. I am always interested when people mention that country, which is very different from Ireland. It has a different education system, fundamentally underpinned by the radical idea of equality. It does not have the multitude of patrons that we have here. When the relevant legislation was introduced in 2013, it was considered slightly controversial because we...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am asking on the basis of the kind of operation he runs - his close advisers, his circle, the one or two people he has had around him for years and years. Has a confidential document been sent in a manner which was not best practice, either with or without his knowledge?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We are getting a "to the best of my knowledge" answer again, whereas the Tánaiste previously stated "No" and the Taoiseach previously stated "No".

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: As has been outlined, the former Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, was asked for this document and he basically said "No". Why does the Tánaiste think the Minister for Health said "No"? Why did he say "Yes"? Why did Dr. Ó Tuathail write, "To be fair. Leo always delivers"?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There are a million and one holes in that tale. The NAGP was a basket case. It was not a credible organisation at that stage. The previous year, its entire council had resigned. Within weeks of the Tánaiste giving it this document, it had collapsed in on top of itself. Its motivation in getting this document was not to promote the document. That is obvious because it did not...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Again, the Labour Party finds utterly incredible the Tánaiste's explanation to this House and the Irish people that what he was trying to do was to promote the agreement, an agreement the NAGP did not promote among its members and which some of the NAGP members were saying it would use against the IMO. There are references in the text messages to what it was going to do with the 17...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is something sadly inevitable about this debate and the controversy in which the Tánaiste finds himself. I was hoping that today he would stop treating those in the political system and the people of Ireland like fools. He has chosen not to stop. His explanation is just not credible. He waltzed in here this evening and to the cheers of his party colleagues equated giving this...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It would not be too much of a jump to suggest that either in the Tánaiste's mind or in Dr. Ó Tuathail's mind, or from the point of view of people hearing what the Tánaiste has just said, statements coming from the Tánaiste and Dr. Ó Tuathail were co-ordinated over the weekend. The Tánaiste sent out his statement after a full day of putting it together. Dr....

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Tánaiste's judgment is really being called into question here. He is in the middle of a huge controversy about inappropriately handing someone a document that he should not have had, and he is chatting to him about it.