Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

280. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be additional funding allocated to fully take account of additional hygiene and refuse costs incurred by schools upon their return; and if the schools will not have to meet the additional cost. [12624/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

281. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that children or teachers with low immune systems will be nervous returning to school; and if provision has been put in place to address these concerns. [12625/20]

Special Educational Needs Staff

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

282. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers and schools that have signed up to the July provision scheme to date; and the number of teachers that will be required to meet the needs of the 20,000 children he has committed to providing summer tuition for. [12626/20]

Special Educational Needs

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

283. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the capacity planning done in advance of the July provision scheme being announced; and the way in which social distancing, handwashing practices and the use of PPE will be implemented during the July provision scheme. [12627/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

284. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be provided to ensure that schools are deep cleaned before children return for the July provision and that staff are properly equipped with PPE. [12628/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

285. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills if additional staff will be employed to provide support in view of the social distancing and hygiene measures required; and if staff will be provided with training on the way in which to properly use PPE. [12629/20]

Special Educational Needs Staff

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

286. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that teachers and SNAs who sign up to deliver the July provision will not be paid for their work until November 2020; if he will rectify the current payment system to incentivise teachers to take on this role; and if substitute teachers who are delivering the July provision can receive the pandemic payment at the same time. [12621/20]

Special Educational Needs

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

287. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions made through the July provision programme to reintroduce children to social activities and the school environment in view of the fact that many have been isolating at home since March 2020. [12622/20]

School Transport

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

288. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that will be allocated on school transport grants for students taking part in the July provision; the provision put in place to ensure social distancing is maintained on the transport; and if additional funding will be allocated to ensure that buses and so on will be cleaned each day. [12623/20]

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]