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Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, I have moved amendment No. 2. The purpose of the amendment is fairly straightforward. It is a concern that has been relayed to me by a number of students. A commitment was previously made that the collective junior certificate data of the cohort or year group would be used to determine the accredited grade, not any individual's performance. This is possible and as I understand it, it...

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am not pressing the amendment. I appreciate the Minister's response. Overall, I am broadly reassured by it that the results of the cohort will be used rather than the results of individuals. I am not entirely convinced that it makes sense for an individual student who is an out-of-school learner and who is not part of a cohort to have his or her junior certificate results used. I...

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "(iv) be set out in writing and published by or on behalf of the Commission prior to the issuing of results to each candidate;". I will be pressing this amendment. It is an important amendment. There was an awful lot of controversy last year and much of the discussion was about standardisation. We...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: As Deputy Burke outlined, nursing home care and care homes will become a more considerable issue politically and socially in the years to come, undoubtedly because of our growing and ageing population. The Deputy outlined that there are challenges in this regard. Undoubtedly, there are but it is important that we acknowledge that it is good that people are living longer. What is important...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school staff can expect to be paid for their work facilitating the supplementary programme. [26750/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the justification for the delay in payment of school staff for their work facilitating the supplementary programme earlier in 2021. [26751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work is underway to bring rural DEIS school funding in line with urban DEIS funding. [26854/21]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I hear Deputies on the other side of the House talk about opposition for opposition's sake. It is such nonsense. There are very few Opposition spokespersons who have produced work of the same quality and detail as that of Deputy Ó Broin, with its constructive, realistic and costed alternatives, including in this motion, many policy documents and legislation. The fact is that where...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport was provided to all children taking part in schools-based summer provision programmes in 2020. [25635/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on transport costs for the summer provision programme 2020. [25636/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the significant inequalities in pay, conditions and pension and other entitlements facing many school cleaners. [25662/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ongoing discussions between her Department and relevant bodies to discuss issues of pay, conditions and pension entitlements of school staff include school cleaners; and if not, the reason. [25665/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of a permanent site and building for a school (details supplied). [25670/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 728. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding schemes available to community organisations that are also companies limited by guarantee in the context of Covid-19. [25522/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The past couple of weeks during which we have been examining this issue have been fascinating but upsetting and very worrying. There is no doubt but that the impact of bullying on so many families and individuals, children and adults, can be really profound. It is appropriate that we reflect here that a lot of discussion has concerned the bullying of children and rightly so, but we also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes - my question was directed at Mr. Duffy and Ms Piggott.

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: May I raise a point of order?

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is important that my position is not misrepresented.

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will be brief.

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I simply want to clarify that I am not, in any way, tolerant of canvassing, in the event that it is being implied that is the case. I am simply suggesting an alternative means of sanction.