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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?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is a much more satisfactory answer.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Will there be a public consultation on the comprehensive all-inclusive strategy within the next month?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Very good.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I want to discuss the Cork Life Centre. Did the Department was approached by the centre in the context of correcting some statistics contained in the review that were believed to be erroneous? Is it true that the Department accepted the centre's view and has corrected those statistics in the report?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Does that include the number of people who were in a position to sit the leaving certificate?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Am I correct in saying that the conclusions contained in the report were not amended, despite the fact that the evidence upon which they were based was considerably different?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The review has some shortcomings. It is strange to have an out-of-school review that did not take into account Youthreach given that it is the largest element of what we typically associate with being the non-traditional school sector. Is it true that among the out-of-school education providers, which were part of the review, several have full-time teachers working full-time hours?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take the Minister's reply to mean yes.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, and that is why there was a review.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Am I correct in saying that the staff in the life centre are on co-operation hours?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes.