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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That concludes Question Time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We have no time left, I am sorry to say, but we have covered the widest spectrum of questions during the course of the debate.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We have an unusual situation. There are two Deputies with two questions each. One Deputy was not in the House at the time the first question came up. I propose to take them all, if possible. Deputy Canney was here on time for his questions. Is it agreed that we take his questions now? Agreed. We will then follow up with the ones that were not asked at the time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It is about temporary accommodation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Question No. 32 is in the name of the same Deputy. There might be a difficulty with the answer but we did not anticipate being so far advanced at this stage. The Minister is so efficient she is ahead of herself.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she and her Department expect to be in a position to improve school transport serving primary and second level schools throughout north Kildare and countrywide in line with the enrolment requirements and admissions for September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23854/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to alert the Minister of the need to deal with the issue of school transport. Difficulties have arisen in relation to the availability of school places. It has become necessary for some parents to drop their children to school and pick them up. This involves four trips for parents in the day and in some cases, to more than one school, which makes life extremely...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her reply. I know she has made huge efforts to try to improve the school transport system where voids occur. Given the information the Minister has given to the House might it be possible, in the circumstances likely to emerge in the not-too-distant future, to introduce a little bit of flexibility into the system in order to ensure the various dots are joined up?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her helpful reply and I acknowledge the tremendous investment in education in County Kildare in school buildings in particular and in improving standards generally. We all came through the time when it was not so. We are anxious to ascertain certain things. For instance, Mercy Convent in Naas appears to be completed in terms of building works, but is not. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I agree the Minister has given much time to ensuring the fastest possible delivery takes place and that accommodation needs and the needs of children in education are kept to the fore. St. Farnan's Post Primary School in Prosperous is another one we all thought would be well advanced by now but it is not. I reiterate the point I made on the climate element. This is a red herring that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Minister have information on the number of post-primary schools which do not deliver the social and political curriculum?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is the Minister satisfied all schools are participating equally or is there a variation between different areas, particularly disadvantaged areas? Can she evaluate the extent to which that is happening? For example, is there a known situation whereby particular schools invariably do not participate or do not participate fully?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Would it be possible to get information from the inspectorate on the level to which it has witnessed the participation that is expected and which would provide invaluable educational support to children, particularly in areas of DEIS schools and where there is obvious social deprivation?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she remains confident she and her Department will be in a position to meet the full requirement of school places at primary and second level throughout Kildare North and the rest of the country on time for September 2024 enrolment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23853/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain from the Minister the extent to which she remains satisfied she can accommodate primary and secondary level schoolchildren throughout County Kildare and throughout the country in time for the enrolment next September. This is a very important time for children, and the indecision or doubt we had last September would not be a help if it were to reoccur.

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak in this very important debate. While many people in the House have said that this has come too late and should have come earlier, the fact is that it has come. It is the right decision and it had to be taken now, in view of the happenings over the past six or seven months. The situation was not started by the Israelis but it was continued by the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will be issued in the case of a person (details supplied), given the passport was supposed to issue on 24 April 2024; if every effort can be made to ensure that this passport is expedited given its now one month since the processing target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23829/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an ASD school place will be provided for the daughter of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23732/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if every effort can be made to ensure a school place in a local Gaelscoil is accommodated and confirmed for September 2024 in the case of the daughter of a person (details supplied) who has completed two years of an ECCE programme, and whose teachers have advised they are ready to proceed to primary school education; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in recent months in respect of the provision of extra classroom accommodation/spaces at a school (details supplied), with particular reference to the time by which she can anticipate the completion of the school in line with specification; and when she expects this accommodation to be completed and made available. [24112/24]