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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take on board all that and do not seek a dispute with the Minister. My point is that it may become the case that it can be demonstrated that students were disadvantaged by the error. However it came to be, there was an error and it is probably the case that some students were disadvantaged. We do not seek to run the CAO competition again but will it be possible, when places are offered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----but perhaps there is some way it can be found out. My final question, on apprenticeships, is open to either the Minister or the Minister of State. I raised this matter with SOLAS previously. Much of what has been said about apprenticeships is very welcome. It is about culture change but also investment. By the same token that perhaps higher education did not get the focus it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I want to first pick up the Minister briefly on his constructive responses earlier but his last contribution suggests that he will be contacting the Minister for education in regard to this but I remind him that the allocation of third level places is his gig, so the observations I have made are primarily for him to consider. I know it is complex and that there are all sorts of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (6 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible within current legislation to resolve issues in which local electoral areas are partially within rent pressure zones, and partially without, due to redraws of boundaries. [28286/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the future progress of fabric replacement schemes; and the way in which it can be expanded within Cork city to take in greater numbers of houses and flats. [28287/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (6 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams within her Department that provide for the construction of school sports halls; and the process by which the school applies for same. [28282/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (6 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of increasing the capitation grant for post-primary schools by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%, respectively in tabular form. [28538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (6 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of increasing the capitation grant for primary schools by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%, respectively in tabular form. [28539/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 29 September 2020, if she will provide the total amount of additional Covid-19 related Exchequer expenditure for 2021 for her Department and a breakdown by line items of this additional expenditure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28683/20]

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There are two issues I want to raise with the Minister. I will be as brief as I can. The first is in relation to Cork. There is little other talk than concern around the potential move to level 3. There is also the very serious situation in hospitals. Dr. Ronan Boland told Claire Byrne's show on Tuesday that there were just three acute beds left between the Mercy University Hospital and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Much of the frustration of students and families is about the lack of transparency and the fact that they have been kept in the dark for a week, much as the Minister disputes that. As I said, the Opposition and the Cabinet were kept in the dark as well. The Minster still has not told us why he did not insist this issue be discussed at Cabinet and that his Cabinet colleagues knew. The other...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: How could they do that without the HEA?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister talks about four characters. I have heard the Ministers, Deputies Foley and Harris, talk about them. This is not abstract stuff. Four characters represent hundreds of students and the futures and dreams they have for their courses. This is not academic, it has real implications. What might seem small on a spreadsheet is very significant in terms of the error that was made....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The leaving certificate class of 2020 has endured an extremely difficult year. "Endured" is the only word for it. Three months before the examinations the schools were shut due to the public health emergency. As weeks passed, students faced the uncertainty of whether they would even sit the leaving certificate examination this year. There was postponement, cancellation and then...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a standardisation process will be applied to the marking of the small group of students sitting the leaving certificate exams in November 2020; and if so, the details of the standardisation process given that it will be an atypical cohort which is unlikely to fit with the patterns of an ordinary summer leaving certificate. [28076/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of calculated grades about two weeks ago and I have to say he was somewhat dismissive. The news this afternoon is absolutely extraordinary. I am astounded, but the ones who will be even more astounded are the many students who worked extremely hard and had their grades downgraded. For them, there are countless questions. One of the main ones is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools with access to hot running water; and the number of schools which have gained access to hot water in recent months. [27418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of ensuring that all 2011-14 entrants into teaching will be paid on equal pay scales to their colleagues who joined the teaching profession before and after them. [27487/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions taken to implement the aviation recovery task force report; the actions from this document he plans to implement; and the timeframe in which they will be implemented. [26578/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to progress recommendation 6of the aviation recovery task force report in which the State should directly provide the airports with a common fixed sum per passenger which will be used by the airports with the aim of protecting the viability of the airports and protect air connectivity nationally. [26579/20]