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Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I would greatly appreciate seeing more posts of responsibility and I hope that we will see that in the time to come. Those developments are to support the schools generally and are not particular to the Irish language. One point I wished to pick up on statistically was where Ms Mannion said that at post-primary level the position has remained static, by and large. The number of...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My final question for the Department is the point I raised previously, which is that in any arena we need to look at international best practice. Obviously, other jurisdictions are different and there are probably limits on the comparators we have in the cases of the majority language and minority language dynamic. Having said that, a child is the same in every country, as is their ability....

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Is léir go bhfuil an-dúil ag daoine ina bheith ag úsáid iompair phoiblí ach caithfidh an t-infheistiú a bheith ann chun gur féidir le daoine a bheith ag súil leis go rithfidh seirbhísí in am agus go mbeidh na feithiclí sábháilte agus glan. I commend the work my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, has done in this area. The motion...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There are two very different things at issue here. On the one hand, where a school believes a child might need additional support or may have an additional need, it will talk to the HSE and the NCSE about how that child can be supported. Schools have a role undoubtedly in that and principals and teachers are well-placed to identify somebody who potentially may need additional support. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The whole area of assessments of need has, unfortunately, moved from crisis to crisis and rushed solution to rushed solution. A series of court cases has been taken in the past year or so. These found that the approach being taken to the assessment of needs model that was in place was inconsistent with the Disabilities Act. Children were not getting adequate assessment of their needs. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the review into the health service's response to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53443/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis na finnéithe. Táimid an-bhuíoch as an deis caint leo. Is fíor go bhfuil géarchéim inár gcuid scoileanna ó thaobh an brú atá ar ár ndaoine óga. The mental health pressures faced by young people cannot be dealt with in schools alone. There is no question of that. The pressures they face come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This is probably highly irregular and old fashioned but I wonder if Ms Feeney will circulate the paper she read from if she does not have additional notes on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am happy to carry on without it but if we have a piece of paper it is no harm for it to go around. The other members might want to read the statement while I am asking questions. As a result of the situation, can Ms Feeney repeat some details? I think she said it was the pressure of the number of papers and so on that caused a negative experience. Did I understand that correctly?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Unfortunately it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation, similar to how one might attract nurses into a healthcare system that is on the point of collapse. Their experience of it is bad. More nurses are needed to improve it and, somewhat like that, we have a circular situation here as far as I can see. While it is welcome that we have a date now for the junior cycle results, the delay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This could continue. The challenges could continue if generally speaking we have something of a challenge in the next few years in regard to ensuring that the leaving certificate has adequate integrity which I believe it has. That could continue while we ensure that forthcoming cohorts doing the leaving certificate are not disadvantaged compared with the others. I have spoken to people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Specific to the timing issue, is it something that we can foresee that, if there are additional course-marking adjustments it could potentially contribute to further delays in the leaving certificate results?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scrúduithe Stáit (18 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad uimhreacha rolla agus ainmneacha na scoileanna sin a raibh scoláirí iontu a rinne scrúdú T1 Gaeilge an Teastais Shóisearaigh in 2022; agus an féidir leis an Aire líon na ndaltaí a rinne an scrúdú sin i ngach ceann de na scoileanna sin in 2022 a sholáthar. [51939/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 575. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the admissions policies of early years providers; if he has plans to put in place a legal basis for the parameters that an early years' provider may have placed upon them in drafting admissions policies; and the recourse that parents have if they are dissatisfied at the manner of implementation of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (18 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 884. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to ensure that any funding streams available for community organisations to assist with increased energy costs will also be available to community organisations that are companies limited by guarantee. [51919/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is now nine months since the pandemic bonus for front-line workers was announced. HSE workers were paid quite quickly after that but there are other workers across the State and in every community in Ireland, who would have worked extremely hard during that period and exposed themselves to Covid, whether they were in the fire service, cleaners in our hospitals and healthcare providers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I believe Senator Mullen is ahead of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I had my homework done for once. My first question seeks to build on what was said by Deputy O'Callaghan. I agree in principle with the idea of students being assessed in fifth yea,r but some reservations have been expressed about the modality of the approach that has been taken regarding paper 1. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to provide a comprehensive policy for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Where does the approach that has been taken to paper 1 fit with the commitment to draft a comprehensive policy that covers early years to third level? What is the Minister doing about the comprehensive policy and when will we see it?