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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (24 Feb 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional choice will be provided on the written leaving certificate examination papers in June 2021 to take into account the significant loss of learning time encountered by this cohort of students. [10444/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (24 Feb 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who opt for State Examinations Commission-accredited grades in language subjects and not to sit a written exam but who excel in the oral component of this subject can be afforded the option of taking an informal oral exam with their teacher which will help form the basis of this SEC-accredited grade. [10437/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Examinations (13 Jan 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when candidates who sat the leaving certificate examinations in November and December 2020 will receive their results. [1384/21]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Equipment (1 Dec 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ..., by protecting them from Covid and other types of illness. I will take it from her answer that the Minister is not ruling such measures out but I ask her to go back to the HPSC and to continue to examine this. Air monitors would be of value and the perfect opportunity is there over the Christmas break for people to go into the schools and install them. I have raised my final point...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...programme running in that university for some years. He has met resistance and would love to bring it on because the skills involved would be very particular and diverse. That issue needs to be examined in public bodies, including universities.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason those sitting the November 2020 leaving certificate examinations in language subjects will not be marked on an oral component or, alternatively, will not receive full marks in the oral component as was announced in March 2020. [34808/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned that the leaving certificate examinations will go ahead as planned in November 2020. [34870/20]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...was meant to have been reviewed and tested. Before Mr. Tattan answers, it is important we acknowledge that two Departments and multiple agencies were involved with last year's leaving certificate examinations and the fallout from that process. I hope, therefore, that Mr. Tattan will acknowledge in his answers that there is still a responsibility on the Department of Education to make...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...by Senator Seery Kearney regarding the HPAT, I do not think it should be that conditional, given the year it has been. Students should just be allowed to carry the HPAT forward. On the November examinations, there are a few difficulties with them that I do not quite understand. Question choice has been expanded for those who will sit the leaving certificate in 2021. Given that the...

Education (Admission to Schools) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Nov 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...where they are not going to go to school. They will be lower down the food chain if the nearby school is oversubscribed, which I very much expect. Children will very likely be denied the opportunity to go to a school that is less than 1 km away. That is not good enough but it can be solved. It means that the Department needs to examine the concept of school planning areas and engage in...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...are impossibly upset and grieving during severe bullying episodes. It can be absolutely appalling. To speak frankly, I feel lucky in some respects. I turned 18 and did my leaving certificate examinations in 2007 so I was the last to get through the gap before social media and video phones became prevalent. While I had difficult episodes at various stages during my lifetime, at least...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...disadvantaged by the error. Objectively, therefore, an injustice will have been done to them. Can any of us be surprised if a court decides they should be awarded deferred places? We need to examine this. Perhaps there is some opportunity in the places that will be offered to students who sit the exams in two months. I do not know whether some kind of mathematical exercise can be done...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The leaving certificate class of 2020 has endured an extremely difficult year. "Endured" is the only word for it. Three months before the examinations the schools were shut due to the public health emergency. As weeks passed, students faced the uncertainty of whether they would even sit the leaving certificate examination this year. There was postponement, cancellation and then...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: .... Many people who made major sacrifices over the course of 12 months are deeply disappointed and are frustrated by the fact that the recourse open to them is very limited. I ask the Taoiseach to examine the possibility of making a more substantial appeals process available to students. I also ask him to make a final and concerted effort to expand the number of third level places in view...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Jul 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...that school is being forced to move all the way to Citywest, a choice that is not sustainable for many parents. People are concerned about the sustainability of the school. I ask the Minister to examine the position of that particular school. I take note of the final part of the Minister's answer that additional teachers and space will be provided. I would like her to tell me more...

Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...be addressed. There is also an issue concerning special needs assistants, SNAs. The Minister of State said she will cover the absence of SNAs. There are no SNA substitute panels. That needs to be examined and rectified. The Minister of State can take that as a constructive proposal. We have substitute panels for primary schools and secondary schools and there is a need for panels...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (16 Jul 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: .... We need additional release days for teaching principals to allow them to focus on making their school safe. We need more secretarial supports and schools need return-to-school aides, similar to examination aides. The Department is way behind the curve on all of these badly needed actions. In regard to online learning and the digital divide, the Government spent €60 million on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Marine Casualty Investigations Board (14 Jul 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...referred to enhancing the organisational independence of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board. I hope that happens. Perhaps it needs to be entirely reconstituted. There may be a need to re-examine some of the cases it has dealt with or, at the very least, its approach in recent years. The State has incurred costs and it needs to accept that it is in the wrong and that there is a...

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 Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...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 upon. [10178/20]