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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jul 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a county breakdown of the average class size in primary schools for the 2022/2023 school year. [34114/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jul 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a county breakdown of the average class size in secondary schools for the 2022/2023 school year. [34115/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Jul 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which organisation will be responsible for operating the Leaving Certificate helpline this year; and the estimated cost of same. [34302/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Jul 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where the equity and fairness is for the young Irish students in the North of Ireland who are not able to avail of the same postmarking adjustments of final year exams that apply in the South. [35181/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Jul 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make adjustments to ensure that final-year students in the North of Ireland will benefit from postmarking of exams in the same way students in the 26 counties do to ensure equity for all students on the island of Ireland. [35182/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I have raised the issue of the school transport system and the ongoing review previously in this House. Today, I raise the issue of the emerging exceptional no-service interim grant payment, what appears to be yet another sticking plaster on what is rapidly becoming a broken school transport system. These children have applied, have been approved and have paid for a seat on a bus, only for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: They need those places.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when route B1762 to a school (details supplied) will recommence. [39993/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an alternative school bus route for a school (details supplied) will be put in place, given parents were informed only two days before children were due back in school that their usual bus provider would no longer provide this service for the coming school year. [40005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications by schools, per county, to change from providing a cold lunch to students to the provision of another meal, in tabular form; what the process for this change is; and what funding is available for these schools who wish to change from cold food provision to hot food provision. [40101/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Regulation (21 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the increasing number of popular cultural, agricultural and sporting events becoming cashless/card-only entry events, which is impacting particularly older people and new Irish arrivals, he will consider introducing regulations to ensure that these events are accessible to those who wish to pay with cash. [40883/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (26 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of contracts containing confidentiality clauses of non-disclosure agreements that Waterways Ireland have entered into in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 by county, in tabular form. [41534/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (26 Sep 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the current Board of Waterways Ireland, and where that information is publicly available for members of the public. [41535/23]

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: These statements could not come at a more fitting time. The Minister has come to this House and detailed the review that is ongoing and the communication and conversations that have taken place. Two and a half years after that review started it is not the success the Minister seems to think it is and neither is trying to say that while routes have not been cancelled, children are not on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank our guests this morning for coming in and giving their time to the committee. It is hugely beneficial. Something that struck me in the appendix was that, when it comes to physical education, 95% of post-primary schools have or have access to a hall. Some 72.5% of primary schools have or have access to a general purpose, GP, space. What percentage of schools have access to nurture...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I call on Deputy Costello to finish as he has had way more time than the previous Chair had indicated. I call Deputy Whitmore to speak now and I ask her to keep her contribution to three minutes, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Deputy and call on Mr. Loftus to respond, please.