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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are 7,000 to 8,000 students who were wrongly upgraded, a number of students who were downgraded and, in particular, a number of students who feel disadvantaged and that their education was sabotaged because there was such a differentiation between the teacher's assessment and the school's assessment and the grade they ended up getting. If any of the court cases impact that, what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The evidence that teachers and schools had in terms of testing that had been done previously to substantiate the grades they had given was not considered. The students in respect of whom I have seen testing over two years and the results they had achieved feel that they have not been taken into account. I expect that those issues will be tested within the court cases. In regard to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why was it not done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What was done to address severe underestimation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there any hope for the students still left with severe underestimation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Was that through the appeals process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will Mr. Tattan acknowledge that many students are still in a limbo situation having been downgraded and with their marks bearing no relation to the assessment of their teachers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is Mr. Tattan saying he does not acknowledge that many students have been severely disadvantaged because they have been downgraded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is the underestimation I really want to get at. I am happy regarding the overestimation aspect, but I want to see if Mr. Tattan can give any hope to those students affected by underestimation. Will they have to wait for the end of the legal process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are not going to agree on this issue. I refer to the correspondence we get from so many students and parents concerning the impact on mental health. They give us all the documentation they have from their tests and everything else from within the schools, and their teachers' marks bear no relation to their final results. If Mr. Tattan cannot acknowledge that, we cannot make progress on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the issue of stakeholders, what contact has the Department had with the Irish Second-Level Students Union, ISSU? What contact does the Department plan to have with it in the future to get its opinion on things? Many of the students who are sitting the November examinations feel aggrieved because they were given 100% in respect of oral examinations in March but now they are being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will it form part of the review and be central to it?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (5 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 20. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding provided for new LEADER projects for 2021; the funding identified for the delivery and administration of the LEADER programme for 2021; the reason no interim national rural development plan has been announced for the period 2021 to 2023 as was committed to in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (5 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 33. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the breakdown of the €44 million announced for LEADER in the 2021 budget; the amount that will be directed for payment on allocations up to the end of December 2020; the amount that will be used for payments on allocation to be made in 2021; the amount envisaged to be directed to new projects commencing in 2021; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (5 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students that have received or been approved for financial support from the student support scheme for accommodation purposes can use this for expenses related to remote working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34415/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools: Discussion (5 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a subject I know quite a bit about because I worked on papers before. I published a paper with Dr. Stephen Minton and did a lot of work with Trinity College Dublin's anti-bullying centre going back years. My greatest frustration is that the subject keeps being analysed and talked about but there is a lack of mainstreaming or implementation of models of very good practice. I was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools: Discussion (5 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would the witnesses say we have failed as a State to invest in tackling bullying within both our schools and our communities when Finland is considered? I am very familiar with the models used there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools: Discussion (5 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important to acknowledge all the teachers who are doing a fantastic job and all the schools that have created an ethos of zero tolerance to bullying. I return to the community approach, which is very important and works. Baseline studies, measurements and so on were carried out ten years ago and the evidence is there. We need to listen to teachers to determine what resources they...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Like the budget, this Bill is most notable for its lack of vision. It largely ignores the fact that 637,000 people in Ireland are living in poverty and 193,000 of those are children. Some of the contributions from the Government show that trickle-down economics are still in vogue. That is not how things should be. I will focus on what is missing from this and why I believe the Government...