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Reopening of Schools and Summer Provision 2020: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá, leis na Teachtaí Martin Browne agus Patricia Ryan.

Reopening of Schools and Summer Provision 2020: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes. I will speak in one passage and the Minister can then respond. Before I begin on my main topics of the reopening of schools and provision, I want to touch briefly on two other issues. The first is external candidates. I have written to the Minister in the past week giving him two very tough examples of students who will likely not get calculated grades. I echo Deputy McAuliffe's...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I note the Minister did not contradict me. My understanding is that only five or six schools have signed up at this stage. More may come forward but I have similar concerns in respect of teachers. I have spoken to some who ordinarily participate but who are not prepared to do so now because they are unhappy about the lack of detail and feel uncertain. Another issue for schools is that...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I was vocal previously on the issue of planning for the reopening of the schools and wish to comment briefly on it again. It occurred to me when the Minister was speaking earlier about dates that it is three months since the schools closed. In all that time, as I said on the last occasion, schools have not had any direct communication from the Department on what they should be doing to...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: A dollar short. Bhíos ag caint le príomhoide le linn na seachtaine, and they asked me why children with special educational needs are never the highest priority for the Department, which is a fair point. If ever there was a time for them to be the priority, it is now. Children with special educational needs and those suffering educational disadvantage are those who have lost...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be aware of the Sinn Féin policy document on forestry published last year. It was based on viewing forestry not only as a commercial enterprise, but as a way to ensure biodiversity and provide an amenity for communities. I have written to Coillte regarding Oldcourt woods at Garryduff in Rochestown. It is an area of considerable biodiversity in spite of its relatively...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Communications (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has or will communicate to the President of the United States of America the alarm and anger regarding incidents of racist police brutality and killings, the use of violent force and plastic bullets against protesters, threats to use the military against protestors and at the use of force against members of the press; and his views...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be an additional budget provided for schools to ensure that the increased hygiene needs of schools when they reopen will be met, including greater cleaning, sanitiser and so on; and if he will provide for the deep cleaning of schools. [10182/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional provision will be made for online access and access to devices for teachers and students; if an element of schooling will take place remotely after September 2020; and the strategies he has for tackling the digital divide beyond the additional funding already provided (details supplied). [10183/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies he is putting in place for ensuring that educational disadvantage is not exacerbated during this time. [10184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to, and his views on a document (details supplied); if he will be in a position to provide additional funding to the third-level sector; if this will include additional funding to ensure places through SUSI, HEAR and DARE spaces; and if it will increase the number of university places overall and increase...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which may otherwise have been available; if he is considering income supports for such students; and if he has had discussions with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in connection with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is examining the abolition of the direct provision system and the replacement of same with a form of international protection and reception which can better respect human rights and dignity and to ensure own door accommodation for asylum seekers; and if an improved system of decision making in relation to applications...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the steps he is taking to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) and its clubs are sustainable. [10187/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the fact that schools may now be running out of budget for school meals for the final month of the primary school year; and if she will consider examining the extension of budgets for schools that are affected in this manner to ensure that no child loses out on nutrition that their families might also rely...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider taking action to ensure that children receive adequate nutrition during the summer months; and if she will consider a holiday hunger scheme. [10179/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that exist for persons whose jobs are reopening as their workplaces reopen but that are medically vulnerable or need to cocoon and as a result, do not feel able to retake these jobs; and the appropriate payment, that is, the pandemic unemployment payment, illness benefit or other payment available in such...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which may otherwise have been available; if she is considering income supports for such students; and if she has had discussions with the Minister for Education and Skills in connection with this...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is all very well but some communication should have been possible since 12 March. Schools deserve some kind of communication or indication. They should have gotten that and they still have not, as far as I am aware. Staying with the-----

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: No school I have spoken to has had direct contact from the Department about reopening. They may have had some in the last four or five days, but up until then they had not received any contact. That is a fact based on all the schools I have spoken to, which is around 20. Staying with the reopening-----