Results 2,601-2,620 of 6,188 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of changing all teaching principals of mainstream primary schools with two or more special classes to administrative status. [31164/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of changing teaching principals of mainstream primary schools with one special class to a job share leadership arrangement. [31165/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can be provided with information on the outcome of their appeal for their child to be provided with school transport. [31322/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully implementing the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 in today’s terms in a similar timeframe adjusting for inflation and accounting for the €397 million figure over five years outlined within the NCSE 2006 implementation report (details supplied). [31418/21]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to ensure that students in Northern Ireland are not disadvantaged from accessing third-level places here due to the delay in leaving certificate results in 2021 given that the UCAS offers will be released a number of weeks before the CAO; if she has met with her counterpart in Northern Ireland to discuss this; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined permitting primary school teachers to transfer panel rights between counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31968/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (15 Jun 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided for the school meals programme for the 2020-2021 academic year. [30540/21]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that receive child benefit payments; and the number of children these are in respect of. [31166/21]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of making a one-off annual double payment of child benefit to all recipients in September 2021. [31167/21]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the school meals programme budget by 5%, 10%, 20% and 25%, respectively; and the estimated cost of extending the programme budget to include provision for breakfast in addition to lunch. [31168/21]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children availing of free hot school meals; the cost of same; and the cost per child and school of delivering same. [31169/21]

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...