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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Could the Minister outline to the House her plans to tackle the oversubscription of secondary schools across the country?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The question I have for the Minister is quite straightforward. She speaks of the demographic analyses of her Department to project enrolment but I do not believe the basis of the calculations is correct. It needs to be adjusted. The Minister spoke about child benefit. This will still be paid regardless of whether a child lives in Wexford and then moves to Sligo. Therefore, it does not...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I understand the financials that the Minister has issued and has spoken about, but I still do not hear a definitive number for what the increase in capacity will be. People, particularly those outside urban areas, are choosing to come to live in smaller towns and villages. They are most welcome to leave the bigger cities, set up in those towns and villages, make them their homes and work...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that no child is left without an appropriate school place. [16257/24]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister outline her plans to ensure that no child is left without an appropriate school place for the coming September?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Any parent with a child with special educational needs will say that when their child's need is met it comes as the result of a struggle, fight or battle of some degree. To date the Government has reacted to a series of crises rather than adequately planning out the future. Some very welcome changes were made in this regard but, despite the energy and effort at the time, we still see...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister. This is not just about navigating the system so that we do not have parents such as Sarah Dooley, about whom I have spoken to the Minister previously. She applied to 20 schools before her little boys were offered a place. This will mean a 90-minute round trip for those children to get to school in September. This is not inclusivity. They are literally excluded from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to remove the Catholic certificate that is required to teach in most schools in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16253/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I ask the Minister if she plans to remove the Catholic certificate that some schools require of teachers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I do not want to look at this from the perspective of multidenominational schools. That is a very valid conversation for another day. However, teachers should be hired on their skills, their ability, their experience and their qualifications to actually impart learning to the students in their classrooms. As there is a constitutional right for a learner to opt out of religion, why is this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements her Department has had with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in relation to the school transport scheme. [16339/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the latest update on the pay negotiations deal between her Department and a union (details supplied) in respect of increased salaries and additional leave entitlements for school caretakers; when her Department will publish the study her Department had committed to as a means to understanding the current working patterns as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements her Department has had with the Department of Transport in relation to the safe routes to school programme. [16254/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the staffing crisis within the National Educational Psychological Service. [16338/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Programmes (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the proportion of the funding allocated to the safe routes to school programme that has been expended for the purposes of improving walking and cycling infrastructure in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and to provide a breakdown of the projects funded to date and the nature of works carried out. [15977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the first- and full-year current cost of increasing capacity on school transport by 1,000 places, in tabular form. [15978/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the capital cost of increasing capacity on school transport by 1,000 places. [15979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the total projected demand for mainstream transport services and the additional demand for services compared to the as-is scenario respectively in each of the school years 2024/2025 to 2029/2030, in tabular form, if recommendation 4.1a of the phase 3 report of the review of the school transport scheme is implemented...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the total current cost to meet the additional demand for mainstream transport services and the total projected demand for services, respectively in each of the school years 2024/2025 to 2029/2030, in tabular form, if recommendation 4.1a of the phase 3 report of the review of the school transport scheme is implemented...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the total capital cost to meet the additional demand for mainstream transport services and the total projected demand for services, respectively in each of the school years 2024/2025 to 2029/2030, in tabular form, if recommendation 4.1a of the phase 3 report of the review of the school transport scheme is implemented...