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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 875. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing hot free school meals to all children currently availing of free school meals. [31170/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing free hot school meals to all children attending DEIS schools. [31171/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1067. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the CAO to ensure that the HPAT results are released before the CAO course change option is closed or alternatively that the course change option is extended to at least 48 hours after the HPAT results are released. [31635/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1086. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 659 of 24 February, if he will provide assurances that the delay in issuing of the 2021 leaving certificate results will not disadvantage students in Northern Ireland from accessing third-level places here; if he has met his counterparts in Northern Ireland to discuss this; and the ongoing engagement...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Leaving certificate students are preparing for their written examinations next week. They have been through a very difficult year or so, and have lost an awful lot of time, but have borne it with much dignity and commitment. I know from my experience of talking to them that they would have been very frustrated and disappointed by yesterday's news that the results will be out late, on 3...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports he has put in place to counter the impact of Covid-19 and the public health restrictions on the pub and restaurant sector; and if he will continue the employment wage subsidy scheme and other supports to ensure workers on limited hours in this sector continue to be supported. [30183/21]

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is much in this plan that Sinn Féin would have looked for and which is welcome. I acknowledge the investment in rail in Cork, although it is just one part of the jigsaw. We need to be closer to the city centre and ensure that light rail on the east-west and north-south links is expedited. These would serve some of the inner suburbs, as well as potentially the airport. We need...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is much talk at present about things reopening, and rightly so. It is very welcome. I do not oppose it. However, with all these areas reopening, maternity hospitals are still denying access to partners. One can go to shopping centres and, from next Monday, one can have a meal outdoors or go to a museum, yet a partner cannot be present with a woman during the labour and when she is...

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: When we talk to people about the insurance industry and how it has conducted itself in recent years, they have many things to say. Comments that are made regularly to me are that it is a law onto itself, it is beyond reach, reproach and sanction, and it is unaccountable. Who pays the price for that? It is paid by the businesses struggling to find any kind of affordable insurance cover at a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet received a tax disc. [29159/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the email addresses of his Department are being manned; and if so, when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a reply to their query. [29160/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of posts of responsibility that would be needed in primary schools to restore posts at the level which pertained prior to the moratorium; the estimated number of posts which were lost through the moratorium; the number that have been restored to date; and the estimated cost of full restoration to the pre-moratorium level for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to restore the standard capitation rate for pupils in primary schools to €200 which was the rate in 2010 prior to cuts; and her views on whether this is a diminishing cost in view of the falling enrolments in primary schools. [29658/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are or have ever been plans for a primary school on or adjacent to the site known as Abeline Lodge, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin; and the details of any investigatory work, including exploratory documents, drawings or meetings undertaken by her Department in this regard. [29794/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it was the intention of her Department to award land on or adjacent to the site known as Abeline Lodge, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin to the winner of the 2018 primary school plebiscite; if that site was offered for this purpose; if that intention has since changed or such offer retracted; and the grounds upon which such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if lands on or adjacent to the site known as Abeline Lodge, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin have been deemed unsuitable for the building of a primary school; and if so, if there are no current or future plans for a primary school to be built on the lands. [29796/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for joining us and for their compelling submissions. We have been dealing with this issue for a couple of weeks now. It is always worth remembering as we get into the thickets of the different approaches and so on the weight and seriousness of this issue and the damage it can do for a long time into people's lives, not only students but staff, because school is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I would expect so. I am certainly very persuaded by it. I have two more questions which I might direct to Mr. White or to Ms O'Connor or to both of them. They relate to proposals that came forward at recent committee hearings. The first concerns the links between the school and the wider community in terms of staff. I think specifically of home school community liaison staff but also, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (27 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether sites that were formerly locations of mother and baby homes need to be carefully investigated in advance of any potential uses of such sites; and if he has had discussions with survivor groups regarding the matter with specific reference but not limited to Bessborough in Cork city. [45023/20]