Results 221-240 of 392 for speaker:Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to provide for specialised support for students with speech and sound disorders of a known origin, given that these children are currently excluded from enrolling in DLD/SSD special classes, and that no alternative supports are available to them, despite their needs being no less significant than those of children currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, before issuing 0039/2025, she has considered the unique and complex situation of the cohort of students that currently benefit from the specialised education provided at MGLD special schools across the country; if her Department is aware of the potential negative impacts of a forced redesignation on these students, as expressed by parents,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to deliver pension parity for school secretaries and caretakers to remedy the current situation of unfair situation under which different rights are extended to different types of employees with the same employer; if he will engage with the trade unions on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40219/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (17 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 481. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of crèches, by county, over the past five years, in tabular form. [40294/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (17 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 483. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of crèche facilities in Kildare that have expanded their capacity in the past five years and in the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40329/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 484. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of changes in the number of preschools every year for the past ten years, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40344/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe. Táimid an-bhuíoch. I have a question about a particular condition of the school transport scheme. A parent in my constituency of Kildare South emailed me. I have sent on the emails to the Department but have yet to receive an answer. She is in a particular situation where her two children are going to two separate schools, and one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: We are aware of that. When the children are not accepted into the same school and cannot get a place in the nearest school, can they then apply for the next closest school, even if it is outside the criteria?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: That is brilliant. I have emailed a few times but have not had any answer. Tá ceist agam maidir leis na páistí atá ag freastal ar scoileanna T1. I am looking for clarification. As we are aware, the demand for Irish language-medium schools is increasing. I know of situations where children have not been accepted into their closest Gaelscoil, although I understand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Is there an update regarding the progress on the programme for Government commitment to remove the age requirement for bus drivers? Is that part of the work agenda of the transport task force? Can we expect the findings of the task force on driver recruitment to be published?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 177. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications with addresses in Kildare that are being processed by the Passport Office as of 7 July 2025. [38819/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount his Department paid towards cost of living allowance and local post allowance to his Departmental officials posted at the Irish Embassy in Washington DC and to each consulate general office based within the US in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her rationale for limiting eligibility for entry into DLD/SSD special classes Circular 00024/25 to students with conditions of an unknown origin when students with similar symptoms with a known cause would also benefit from the targeted support provided in such classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38913/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to develop alternative educational supports and classes for children with SSD of known origin to make up for the gap in provision created by circulars determining access criteria for DLD/SSD classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38914/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of concessionary places that are occupied in DLD/SSD special classes at the moment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38916/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the contractual deployment of speech and language therapists in the DLD/SSD special classes and how duties are split between her Department and the Department of Health; the number of such posts vacant at the moment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38915/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if she has plans to put together a successor to the Youth Homelessness Strategy that expires in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39306/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardai by rank attached to community policing unit in each Garda district within Kildare-Carlow division as of 7 July 2025. [38822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 806. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of speech and language therapists student placements that were offered for south Kildare-west Wicklow children's disability network team in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38821/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 874. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant anaesthetists based at Tallaght University Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38816/25]