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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On Tuesday, more than 100 people, many of whom were elderly and vulnerable, were on trolleys in Cork hospitals, between Mercy University Hospital and Cork University Hospital, CUH. That occurred on 25 October, with the worst of the winter yet to come. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, is looking for a number of measures to ensure the situation in CUH does not deteriorate in...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The situation that we face this winter has the potential to be severe. Regrettably, there is a need for urgent action, including additional generation of power. For that reason, we do not oppose the legislation, but we have some concerns about the manner in which it is being processed. I accept that it is frustrating when we see the situation, we are in. It is due to Government policy in...

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: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht teacht os ár gcomhair. Ní baill den choiste mé ach tá suim agam san ábhar seo. Tá dhá chuspóir tábhachtach á bplé againn anseo; ar an gcéad dul síos, go mbeadh leanaí le riachtanais speisialta oideachais in ann páirt chomh iomlán is gur féidir leo a ghlacadh i...

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: Ceart go leor. Is cóir dúinn a bheith ag smaoineamh ar na catagóirí éagsúla i measc leanaí le riachtanais speisialta. Tá leanaí ann nach bhfuil muinín acu nó nach féidir staidéar a dhéanamh ar an nGaeilge, tá dream eile gur féidir, agus tá dream eile arís a mbeadh ag iarraidh staidéar a...

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: Ceart go leor. Tuigim é sin agus bhí a fhios agam go raibh dlínsí eile ina bhfuil a leithéid de dhíolúintí ann. Táimid tar éis cuid mhaith athbhreithnithe a dhéanamh ar ár gcóras le blianta beaga anuas agus bheinn ag súil gur bhunaíomar na hathruithe sin ar an gcleachtas is fearr idirnáisiúnta. An cheist...

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: Aontaím le sin go léir agus is cinnte gur cás uathúil é seo atá an-dhifriúil ó chúrsaí i Sasana agus sna Stáit Aontaithe. Tá sé sin fíor cinnte. Is teanga mionlaigh í an Ghaeilge ach tá ról lárnach aici in oideachas an Stáit. É sin ráite, tá intinn an linbh mar an gcéanna i...

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: Sin an méid uaimse. Is ábhar deacair agus casta é ach tá sé tábhachtach go mbeadh an t-eolas idirnáisiúnta is fearr againn nuair atá cinntí cosúil leis an gceann seo á dhéanamh.

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: Gabhaim buíochas leis na haíonna as a bheith anseo. Tá cúpla ceist agam dóibh. Ar an gcéad dul síos, dírím ar NEPS agus ar an Roinn. D’éist mé leis an bpíosa deireanach agus is fíor go bhféadfaí go mbeadh deacrachtaí ann do leanaí atá ag foghlaim Béarla don chéad uair. Ó thaobh...

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: Aontaím le gach rud ansin. The only thing I would say is that one would have hoped that we are more aware of and that there is much more investment in this area but one would have also hoped that that would have helped lift the load and that would have made it easier for children who in the past may have had to do Irish with no additional support. Perhaps, it should be easier for those...

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...