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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am glad to hear it is the Minister of State's firm belief that children with special educational needs should not be denied the opportunity to be part of the mainstream class and to have the associated interaction. My concern is not that it is the Department's intention that it should be otherwise; it is that what I describe is happening. Not every parent is necessarily willing to bring...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1. 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 secretaries. [30312/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá ról ríthábhachtach ag rúnaithe scoile i gcomhthéacs feidhmiú na scoileanna. School secretaries are the backbone of a school. They keep them going, doing a number of jobs. They do not want to be in this situation where they are looking at industrial action, but that is the situation they are in, and one which has dragged on for too long. We heard from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The work school secretaries did was crucial in getting schools open, and they are playing an enormous role in keeping schools open. We all know from our school communities about the diverse work they do - for example, they take care of a child who is hurt, they deal with queries from parents, they organise the menu choices of a child for school lunches and so on - but, to be honest, they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The school secretaries have had plenty of acknowledgement. However, it is not acknowledgement that they are looking for - it is pay equality, decent pay, pension entitlements and improved conditions. They want to return to the WRC, and I believe that they are willing to do so. However, that must be on the basis of addressing the real issues they face. It is not enough to go into the WRC...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the work carried out by a company (details supplied) on behalf of her Department regarding the calculated grades model was appropriately certified as in compliance with the standards expected by her Department; and if she plans to recoup payment on foot of the very significant errors which were made. [30280/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport and the progress that is being made to ensure the same number of children who were carried in 2019 will be carried again in 2020. [30276/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of a new building for a school (details supplied). [30278/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers who received a notification from the Covid-19 tracker app indicating they must isolate because they were a close contact of a confirmed case were then told by the Department of Health that they did not need to isolate; and the reason the notifications do not apply to the teaching profession. [30279/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (14 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the significant issues facing schools that have lost teachers due to the school census and having reduced numbers at the time of the census relative to 2019; and if she will ensure schools do not lose teachers, potentially undermining their ability to achieve social distancing. [30277/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who sits the leaving certificate in November can elect to sit the exams in a school or educational setting in their area that are facilitating the November exams but are not the schools that the students attended. [29688/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date the lines of code containing the error in the context of the leaving certificate calculated grades model were last edited; and if further oversight and tests were carried out by the national standardisation group after the most recent changes were made to the code. [29827/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of lines of original code, excluding code contained within imported libraries, written by a company (details supplied); if all code was written uniquely for her Department or formed part of a pre-existing product; and if so, the title of the base product. [29828/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the programming languages used by a company (details supplied) in developing the system used for calculated grades. [29829/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the leaving certificate calculated grades code was written entirely by a person (details supplied); and if there was an oversight of their work within the company. [29830/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location the servers that hosted data relating to leaving certificate calculated grades is or are based; the company that hosts same; and if the site portal had an up-to-date SSL certificate at all times that Irish student data was hosted on such a server. [29831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) retired from an organisation or associated third party institute or foundation; and her views on whether it is proper in view of the person's close relationship with the organisation and that the organisation was chosen to complete the independent review of the calculated grades model and work, including that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the positive factors which led to the choosing of a company (details supplied) to supply the leaving certificate calculated grading model; and if there was work of a similar purpose, or with a similar level and skill required, undertaken by the company previously. [29833/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of oversight applied over the calculated grading formula; if all previous testing was replicated after it was amended to remove any aspect of school profiling in the days before the results were released. [29834/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the bonus for completing leaving certificate exams through Irish was taken into consideration when the algorithm was being applied to give calculated grades to students from Gaelscoileanna; and if these students received the bonus for 2020. [29838/20]