Results 181-200 of 7,549 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional 100 special educational needs school transport places if contract rates remain the same as they currently are and there is no spare capacity. [44209/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 981. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS plus schools. [40749/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 982. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS school that do not currently have one, but have ASD classes. [40750/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 983. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of providing one nurture room to a school. [40751/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 984. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS urban band 1 schools. [40752/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 985. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of retrofitting science labs in one and up to a maximum of 20 DEIS secondary schools. [40753/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 986. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of re-introducing the allowance at the same rate for teachers teaching in Irish in Irish medium education schools to pre 2012. [40754/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 987. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of additional NEPS educational psychologists needed for 2025-2026 to keep pace with public need. [40755/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 988. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing ten, up to a maximum of 100, additional NEPS educational psychologists to the system. [40756/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of educational psychologists working in NEPS to date. [42507/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional NEPS educational psychologists that are needed for 2025/2026 to keep up with public need. [42513/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1027. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the FASD Ireland pilot project in secondary schools in County Clare; and if she would expand this pilot project elsewhere. [41077/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1028. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will roll out a classroom based programme that raises awareness of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in every secondary school across the State for students in transition year. [41078/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1029. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to ensure people are educated about foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in post primary schools. [41079/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1072. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards that are in place to ensure that redeployment does not result in SNAs repeatedly being treated as the “last in” in every new post under the SNA redeployment scheme. [41692/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1073. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a cap on the number of redeployments an SNA can undergo, or a time limit on their probationary status in a new school. [41693/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1074. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the maximum distance an SNA may be required to travel if redeployed to a different school under the redeployment scheme for SNAs. [41694/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1075. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what happens in a situation where a SNA cannot realistically travel to the new school offered under the SNA redeployment scheme; and if they cannot travel, whether they remain in their current school. [41695/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1076. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in circumstances where an SNA with ten years’ service in a school and is redeployed to a different school with SNAs who have less than ten years’ service built up, whether the transferee will have seniority. [41696/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: 1127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, primary and secondary schools, respectively, that require students to have an iPad for learning instead of traditional textbooks. [42504/25]