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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Sep 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of buses within the school transport fleet by bus capacity, under the categories of large bus (35+ seats), medium bus (19 to 34 seats), minibus (19 to 18 seats) and taxi (up to 8 seats), in tabular form. [37968/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Sep 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the median and mean average size of bus within the school transport scheme, by county, in tabular form. [37969/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the ASD unit at a school (details supplied). [38427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special needs who are yet to secure a school place for the school year 2024-2025, per county. [38771/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (1 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the scoping inquiry into sexual abuse in schools, if she will provide a list of organisations that offer support to survivors, per county. [38708/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commissions of Investigation (1 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the establishment of the commission of investigation into historical sexual abuse in schools. [38711/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: From speaking with principals and school leaders, to say they are disappointed would be one of the greatest understatements. It is a sentiment also expressed by representative groups and parents. I note that the Minister, Deputy Foley, has left the Chamber. That Minister was told, heard and ignored what was being outlined in detail by school leaders. A few months ago, principals from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Hear, hear.

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: It beggars belief that at a time when schools and school leaders are pleading for additional resources but are still reliant on voluntary contributions from parents, this Government chooses to allocate €9 million to phone pouches. It is despicable that the Government then attempts to hide behind the cloak of mental health to justify its decision, particularly when we look at its track...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (8 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the effects that the free schoolbooks scheme will have on small retailers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40005/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (8 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider an extension to the slurry dates for this year. [39765/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (15 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total additional cost, per year, of the City Connects pilot programme in Dublin's northeast inner-city in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [41210/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (15 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of annual funding allocated to the ten DEIS band 1 schools participating in the NEIC City Connects project in each of the years since the programme's launch (details supplied). [41399/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next round of DEIS for schools is being allocated. [41520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (15 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the summer works scheme will reopen this year for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41521/24]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Almost two years ago, I stood in this House and said that housing was the real test for this Government and that it had failed and failed spectacularly, undermining our health and education systems and businesses while pushing another generation to emigrate. The only thing that has changed in the interim is that it has managed to get worse under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The Sinn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I nominate Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Financial Supports for Tertiary Level Students: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming and apologise for the delay, which was entirely on the committee's side and not theirs. I want USI's opinion on the assessment of income of parents of a learner. There was a very unusual circumstance that first brought this to my attention a number of years ago and it involved twins who were learners heading off to college. They had not lived with their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Financial Supports for Tertiary Level Students: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to ask a subsequent question. A considerable number of years ago, another circumstance presented to me, where the step-parent income was not taken into account. Is that still the case and how common is it? If that is the case, then it is not being assessed on household income. The income of the mother of the child was taken into the account but the mother’s husband’s...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister and I welcome her and her officials. My questions cover a number of different areas, so I do not know if she wants to take them as a block or one by one. Will the Minister outline to the committee what impact, if any, the Supplementary Estimate will have on the pay and conditions of school secretaries and caretakers? Will she also outline what, if any, impact the...