Parliamentary questions

Special Educational Needs

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

289. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider allowing retired teachers and student teachers to provide the July provision. [12630/20]

School Staff

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

290. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the situation in a school (details supplied) that will soon lose a teacher, leaving three classes to be taught in one classroom; and if he will consider maintaining the current number of teachers in the school in view of the pressures that will be on schools when they return and the need to maintain social distancing within classrooms. [12632/20]

Special Educational Needs

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

401. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health if he will provide further details on the HSE-led July programme, including when this programme will take place; the timeframe of the programme; and the person or body that will be given priority in the allocation of a place on the programme. [12631/20]

Health Screening Programmes

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

564. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health the reason HSE cervical screening services remain paused (details supplied); when he plans to resume essential cervical screening appointments. [12605/20]

School Meals Programme

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

860. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the school meals programme per annum; and the amount this equates to per child. [12633/20]

School Meals Programme

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

861. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the school meals programme over the summer months. [12634/20]

Ministerial Communications

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

24. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has or will communicate to the President of the United States of America the alarm and anger regarding incidents of racist police brutality and killings, the use of violent force and plastic bullets against protesters, threats to use the military against protestors and at the use of force against members of the press; and his views on whether several fundamental human rights have been and are being broken by the actions of the US. [10117/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

170. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be an additional budget provided for schools to ensure that the increased hygiene needs of schools when they reopen will be met, including greater cleaning, sanitiser and so on; and if he will provide for the deep cleaning of schools. [10182/20]

School Curriculum

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

171. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills if additional provision will be made for online access and access to devices for teachers and students; if an element of schooling will take place remotely after September 2020; and the strategies he has for tackling the digital divide beyond the additional funding already provided (details supplied). [10183/20]

Education Policy

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

172. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies he is putting in place for ensuring that educational disadvantage is not exacerbated during this time. [10184/20]

Third Level Education

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

173. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to, and his views on a document (details supplied); if he will be in a position to provide additional funding to the third-level sector; if this will include additional funding to ensure places through SUSI, HEAR and DARE spaces; and if it will increase the number of university places overall and increase funding to ensure that sustainability and innovation within the sector is safeguarded. [10185/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

174. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which may otherwise have been available; if he is considering income supports for such students; and if he has had discussions with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in connection with the issue. [10186/20]

Direct Provision System

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

236. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the 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 will be ensured. [10176/20]

Sports Organisations

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

581. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the steps he is taking to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) and its clubs are sustainable. [10187/20]

School Meals Programme

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

667. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Employment 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]

School Meals Programme

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

668. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider taking action to ensure that children receive adequate nutrition during the summer months; and if she will consider a holiday hunger scheme. [10179/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

669. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that exist for persons whose jobs are reopening as their workplaces reopen but that are medically vulnerable or need to cocoon and as a result, do not feel able to retake these jobs; and the appropriate payment, that is, the pandemic unemployment payment, illness benefit or other payment available in such circumstances. [10180/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

670. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which may otherwise have been available; if she is considering income supports for such students; and if she has had discussions with the Minister for Education and Skills in connection with this issue. [10181/20]

State Examinations

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

278. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the exact statistical methods which will be used for the standardisation of results submitted by schools in the context of the calculation of grades within the leaving certificate. [9296/20]

State Examinations

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

279. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who would have sat the leaving certificate this summer who will now not be entitled to a calculated grades due to a lack of evidence or lack of access to a registered teacher for a given subject or several subjects [9297/20]