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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We want to see the raw data. It is a bit like the situation with insurance companies. The data can mean anything one wants it to mean. We need to know the raw data to ensure the health, safety and well-being of everybody operating in our schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will go back to what I was asking the Minister a few days ago regarding close contacts and the burden that is placed on principals in not being to be able to tell people whether they are a close contact or not. My question is this: what is the point of telling principals, if they are then told that they cannot tell anybody or share that information with other teachers within in the school;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Ms Gildernew. I am delighted to welcome Mr. Hannigan and Professor Ó Néill to this meeting. I thank them for their contributions and for keeping us up to date. I welcome the physical presence of my colleague, Mr. John Finucane. This is the first meeting he has attended in Dublin since the commencement of the new term. What has been presented to us today and the ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Labour Court (18 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 37. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment when the employment regulation order on the remuneration of security officers will be signed into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37230/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if flexibility can be shown in the case of a family (details provided) that missed the deadline for the application for the remote area transport grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37151/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the role of managing authorities for the 2021-27 European regional development funds operational programmes; when the Crowe review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36706/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I too acknowledge the great work being done in schools by teachers, school leaders, boards of management and everybody involved. I wish to discuss the testing and tracing. Can the Minister confirm that the school principals are being told not to tell anybody when somebody tests positive, including the teacher who is teaching that child? Teachers tell me they are being told to switch off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are principals being told not to tell the teachers, including the teacher who is teaching the child in the class? Is the Minister concerned that it is creating an ethos of secrecy not only in the school but also in the community, where there are vacuums of information that are then being filled by untruths or inaccurate information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister does not see it as a problem in the school where all the responsibility is left on the shoulders of the principal being told to keep it secret and not to tell even the teacher involved. Obviously the teacher involved would be a close contact of the student. What if that teacher shared a household with high-risk family members? Is it right that they are not told they are a close...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the Minister therefore think it is right that teachers are told to switch off their phones? Who is telling them to switch off their phones so that they are not continuously bleeping if there are students within the school with confirmed cases? Neither I nor the Minister would be told to switch off our apps. Is it right they are being told to switch them off, that they are not a close...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How quickly then, are teachers being told of close contacts within the school?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: However it is only the principal who is told. He or she is then told not to tell the teacher who is the person in closest contact. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I just want to get clarity, that is all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Thus the Minister agreed to that, as Minister for Education. She agreed that teachers would not be told.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The ethos of secrecy within the schools is putting principals, parents and teachers in an impossible situation. I ask that the Minister look at that to see if there is a better way of doing it, notwithstanding data protection and the protection of the individual students involved. We need to look again at how it is done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am saying it is a huge burden on principals-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: First, I welcome the fact that the Minister has stated today that there will be an accommodation made for students. I ask that she takes a few minutes to tease out what that accommodation will be for 2021. How much have we spent so far on the legal cases? Are the legal cases being contested individually? Will the expenditure on the legal cases, both in terms of what is spent on the legal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: So it is being done as we speak?