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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the provision of an assessment tool (details supplied) in Irish schools; if so, the extent of this examination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47763/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Oct 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [47780/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in July 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Cork by area; and the positions recruited since January 2021 in County Cork in these sectors. [48387/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 712. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for CAMHS services in County Cork by area; the average waiting time; and his plans to address this. [48388/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young people on the CAMHS waiting list in Cork city for less than three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 18 months, 18 to 24 months, and over 24 months, respectively in tabular form. [48389/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Chairman. It has become clear not just in the past two years, but through several years, that the leaving certificate is in need of radical transformation. I know the arguments that are made in respect of State certification. That is an issue to which we can return. However, it is true that too much rides on the terminal examination and that one day. It has too many...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the amendments to the Household Means Policy of March 2021 allow for recent changes in circumstance to be taken into account; his views on whether these amendments mean that persons with significant time on the housing list are being struck-off the list entirely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46425/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have discretion in their application of the recent changes to the household means policy issued in March 2021. [46426/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [45973/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (28 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details suppled) will be in a position to draw down its physical education equipment grant; and if this will be paid directly to the school and then vouched or whether the school spends and then recoups the funds. [46350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (28 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an asylum case (details supplied). [46572/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I support what Deputies Carthy and Kerrane have said. It is very clear and the inconsistencies in my constituency are very frustrating for people. Most students who travel to school will do so on public transport where if they get a bus, they will travel on 100% capacity. However, for the minority of cases in my constituency and probably for the majority overall, they are on 50% capacity....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is no doubt but that this has dragged on for far too long. I welcome the progress that has been made. I appreciate that the Minister is working on this and that negotiations are continuing. I urge her to continue to engage and try to ensure a fair and equitable solution. The fact is that schools would come to a halt without caretakers and secretaries. It is vital that caretakers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I know the Minister is passionate about this issue and that there is a cross-party desire to resolve these matters. The criteria are dated. I can think of numerous examples of schools affected. Two that occur to me immediately are Togher boys and girls schools. They are in a RAPID area. Around 200 additional units of additional social housing have been built there in the last three...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Deputy Calleary is right that having a focus on the whole strategy, from infants classes right through to third level, is key. That should come before the proposals regarding the leaving certificate. The problem with what is on the table in regard to the leaving certificate examination is relatively easily to comprehend. If we are going to put in place a more challenging course that is not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will raise the matter with the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. It is cross-departmental and does not belong exclusively to her. The Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, should be concerned about it and I urge her to speak to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, as well and find out if this is happening in special schools. That is a key element of the Minister of State's portfolio...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: What about the interpreters?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the significant impact of school closures on children with special educational needs; the steps she has taken to ensure that every child with special educational needs can catch up after these closures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45808/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The cohort comprising children with special educational needs is the cohort most affected when school buildings are closed, along with those who suffer educational disadvantage. These children were among the greatest victims of the lockdown. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in March, I raised with the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister of State. Much of her answer is irrelevant to this topic. While much of what she has laid out is good, the answer does not address the key point I raised which was that, from my contact with schools, it seems to be the case that the elements of the progressing disability model which we had understood to be paused have now resumed and that in-school supports for children...