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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students sitting the leaving certificate examinations will be awarded 100% in their oral examinations as promised in March 2020. [32694/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure sufficient cover for absences to maintain class bubbles and pods intact; the steps she will take to ensure priority testing for staff in schools for Covid-19 testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32695/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if increased levels of supports, resources and access to assessment of need will be made available immediately to children in disadvantaged situations and to those with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to improve the pupil-teacher ratio in line with the European average. [32697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure supports are in place and available to students who need them as they transition from DEIS 1 to DEIS 2 or other schools. [32698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the dates for exams will be announced for the June 2021 leaving certificate; the plans in place for the exams to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32851/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the request for additional classroom allocation at a school (details supplied) to address a waiting list of approximately 100 students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33375/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction on permanent buildings will commence at a school (details supplied). [33376/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Land Issues (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1041. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a land price register similar to the property price register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32543/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person has been absent from the State for more than six weeks in a year, if the six weeks absences are deducted in their entirety from the reckonable residency calculation; if it is just the excess days over six weeks deducted from reckonable residency calculation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33213/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1183. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Valproate Response Report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32547/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1184. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); if so, if he has considered the findings of the report; if similar measures are being considered here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32548/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for homecare packages by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32550/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1283. To ask the Minister for Health if agency staff working for a State agency (details supplied) have been provided with the same level of Covid-19 protections as permanent staff, including the option to work from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32919/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the representatives of Home for Good for attending. I appreciate all the work that has been done on this issue to date. The Social Democrats have been very supportive of a constitutional right to housing. It is good to see near cross-party consensus on this. According to research carried out by the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, approximately 13 different Bills could not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: We do not know whether the Constitution is actually a barrier or whether it is a matter of political will and the Constitution is used as a cover. If this is brought in, we would have clarity as to how far the Oireachtas wants to go or not when it comes to housing initiatives. It would remove the constitutional argument as a barrier and something that is used to delay progress. It would be...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 10 o’clock I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: "2.(1) An emergency period for the purpose of this section shall be deemed to exist for a period of at least six months after the enactment of this Act.".

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: On that very point, the thing about the Attorney General's advice, which is well written up by good legal scholars, is that the Government is not under obligation to follow his advice. The obligation is to listen to it and consider it but the Government can then make a decision as to what course of action it wants to take. As Deputy Ó Broin has been saying, there is now a growing...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I strongly agree with Deputy O'Dowd's comments, which were spot on. I ask the Minister to listen to them and to consider this point. The Social Democrats will support the legislation but it does not go anywhere near far enough. The reason it is being introduced is because we are in the middle of a pandemic. The people most effected by and at risk from the pandemic are people who are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Regarding the legislation that will come up later on the ban on evictions, we know from research from Harvard University that there is a direct link between evictions and the spread of Covid-19. We know if we evict people into homelessness and into congregated settings, there is a higher risk of contracting Covid-19. We also know we are out of line with most EU member states in that it...