Results 3,141-3,160 of 6,137 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the HPAT results from 2020 will carry over to 2021 for leaving certificate 2020 students reapplying to medicine courses for entry in 2021 that are resitting some of their leaving certificate exams in November 2020. [25282/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students whose calculated leaving certificate grades increase on appeal will be guaranteed a place on their desired course that they had missed out on. [25286/20]

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: For many years, taxi drivers have felt they have not been listened to, and that they have been the last to be listened to when it comes to transport. Yesterday, they came out to say they will not take that any more. There are 22,000 taxis on the road. There are between 1,000 and 1,500 in my county, County Cork, and the drivers' families rely on them. They face enormous uncertainty and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a limited number of spectators will be allowed at sporting events in line with local evaluation of the number who can be safely allowed to attend including for games involving children and young persons. [24257/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: First I wish to correct the Taoiseach. He stated earlier that Sinn Féin had not acknowledged the fact that the schools-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is not actually what he said, in fairness and it has been acknowledged by many Deputies from my party. It is welcome but as I have said to the Department and the Minister, we must ensure that our schools stay open, which is as great a challenge. On Friday and again yesterday many students found out that the leaving certificate results given by their school had been adjusted...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We did not support-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is incorrect-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It has been acknowledged several times by the Opposition-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We did acknowledge it-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----on the floor of the Dáil and at committee. We have acknowledged it.

Mental Health and Older People: Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This is my first opportunity to engage with the Minister of State in this brief. I believe her to be a decent person and I wish her the best of luck in what is a challenging brief. I hope she will use all her energy to try to change things. It will not be easy but it is vitally important she do so. I wish to raise with the Minister of State two issues, the first of which I suppose has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have appealed their special needs assistant and special education teaching allocations by county. [22966/20]

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The word "cancer" strikes fear into many people. Cancer is not just a single illness, it is a series of illnesses. Sometimes our understanding of these illnesses can be simplified by treating them all as one. Nonetheless, cancer is a series of illnesses that has affected so many people. I would say almost everyone in this Chamber has had a loved one or relative who has died as a result of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This section is on the way out of the Minister's Department and perhaps he will give us a timescale on it because I am not sure. In the meantime, the Minister has an opportunity to shape it. I have a view that there is a cohort of students who could and should have benefited from access to the school completion programme and particularly from access to the home school liaison scheme in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I understood the point on redeployment. Is it with regard to this particular return exercise that is being worked on? Perhaps it is additional work. In general, I am in favour of the expansion of the home school liaison scheme and school completion programme. The expansion of DEIS to another cohort of schools is an important part of this, not just DEIS band 1, which is important, but also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to re-engage students with education including students with special educational needs and other vulnerable categories; and if there will be increased investment in home school community liaison officers and school completion programmes to help ease this transition back to school buildings. [19305/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This question is peculiar in that I submitted it to the Minister for Education and Skills and it was referred to the Minister present but were I to submit it to him in a few weeks' time, it would be transferred across to the Department of Education and Skills. The primary concerns involved are educational and I have listened to a lot of discussion on very legitimate concerns about the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a map of the rent pressure zones in Cork city and county. [21258/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary teachers, respectively on secondment from their teaching posts to positions within her Department or Department-funded bodies; and her plans to release some of these teachers to ensure greater numbers of teachers in the classroom. [21798/20]