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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (Resumed) (7 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have two main questions, the first of which relates to second level and is something that I raise as often as possible. School principals of disadvantaged schools say that they are concerned about a lost generation of young people who are now over 16 years of age, have no legal requirement to be in school and, therefore, might not return in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I would like to add to what others have said. The school experience of young people is not just about dealing with teachers. We need to hear the voices of school wardens, special needs assistants, caretakers and secretaries. They are all worried about going back in September, what it will mean for them, how they are going to be trained and how they will do their jobs. I ask the...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais: Tairiscint - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (27 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It feels almost as though a wartime Government has just been assembled. We meet here because 1,700 people have lost their lives as a result of a virus that has hit our country. That should remind us all of our collective endeavour to beat this virus and return the country to some level of normality. Politics can be a harsh business, it can be quite personal at times, and in that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Needs Education: Impact of Covid-19 (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can the witnesses put in context the school lives that children with additional needs lead? There is a tendency to assume that everything is working well and that this July provision debate comes in an extreme circumstance, which is why we are discussing it. Can the witnesses speak to the reality experienced by parents who cannot find a school place? Can they speak to the waiting lists...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Needs Education: Impact of Covid-19 (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I accept that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Needs Education: Impact of Covid-19 (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That is fine. I will bring it back to that context so. Given the context of the deficiency of services and of State provision for children with additional needs, how do the witnesses reflect on how these issues can be addressed in the long term in terms of the July provision and of schools returning in September?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. My first question is about the summer programme. A principal contacted me to say that she was under the impression or she was told that the pupil-teacher ratio for the summer programme would 6:1. On that basis she encouraged four teachers from her staff to sign up to the programme, which they did. Then she got an official notification from the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am referring to the DEIS programme.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is it the case that at no stage should any school have been under the impression that the ratio was 6:1?

Reopening of Schools and Summer Provision 2020: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Tá dhá cheist agam don Aire. Tá sé ríthábhachtach do Theachta McHugh mar Aire, mar pholaiteoir agus mar dhuine go n-osclódh na scoileanna ar fad i mí Mheán Fómhair. Tá sé tábhachtach dúinne, do pháistí agus tuismitheoirí na tíre agus d'achan duine ar fud na tíre. Cén sórt ciste...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I congratulate the Minister on the announcement on the investment in the arts. I also congratulate the campaigners from the National Campaign for the Arts who were making the case. The arts are extremely important to this country. This area is often one of the only avenues where people from disadvantaged or diverse backgrounds can give voice to their experience. It is a very welcome...

Supporting Inclusion and Combating Racism in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: In Ireland we are in a unique position, in between Brexit and Trump, to give a different view to the world of the nature of discrimination and of our own experience because of our own history. We are the people of Famine ships, who have gone to every corner of world. We understand the immigrant experience like no other. That is why it is deeply disappointing when people in this House use...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for the work he has done on issues I raised last week. The safe pass issue has been resolved, and I thank the Minister for that. I thank him also for his work on July provision because I understand that he has demanded, against the advice of his officials, a more expansive and more inclusive July provision and that might be the reason for the mixed messages in that the...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister is aware that the world is saying with one voice that black lives matter. I raise this issue because it appears to me we should be cognisant of the fact that we stand in probably the whitest parliament in the world, and that our teaching profession should reflect the students they teach. We have been remiss in trying to get a teaching profession or role models in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the persons appointed to the 2018 Irish Aid election observation roster. [8573/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the exclusion of persons and businesses (details supplied) from the temporary wage subsidy scheme due to administrative errors caused by staff turnover in cases in which the payment dates of wages would otherwise have fallen within the remit of the scheme. [8580/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to difficulties for professional masters of education in primary school teaching students of a college (details supplied) in completing an alternative Gaeltacht placement due to the prevalence of mature students with families, the Covid-19 pandemic and the coinciding requirements to complete academic work in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of CPD completion by teachers on the recent changes at junior cycle; and when he plans to formally dissolve the junior cycle for teachers. [8432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the NCCA designed senior cycle physical education application will be made available to schools, teachers and students to commence teaching the new senior cycle physical education curriculum; and if the new cycle is scheduled to commence in September 2020. [8433/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidance school principals can expect on processes and procedures to deal with anticipated increased need for substitute teachers due to ongoing self-isolation protocols associated with respiratory symptoms or close contacts with Covid-19 cases. [8574/20]