Results 7,001-7,020 of 7,192 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending DEIS supports to an additional 50 schools. [31574/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding being provided to Traveller/Roma/refugee supports in schools. [31576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding provided, per pupil, for technological devices for school use in DEIS schools across the State. [31577/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided for the HSCL scheme to schools currently and the estimated cost of a 5%, 10% and 20% increase in this funding, in tabular form. [31578/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna DEIS (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing trauma-informed care training to teachers in DEIS schools and then an overall cost for all teachers. [31579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of nurture rooms open and active in schools across the State. [31580/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has any intention to remove the Irish language requirement for SET’s, particularly when some SET teachers are already working in a classroom without the Irish language for a year or two before they are required to return to studies to meet the Irish language criteria. [31605/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a full review of the PME. [31649/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of holding a citizens’ assembly on education. [31650/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of providing enough staff to reduce assessment of need waiting times to six months. [31575/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: My question is about CERN AI. Mariana Mazzucato talks about the innovative state and state investment in pharma, for example, so we end up with commercialised products. It is based on huge state investment initially. Perhaps we are in a different place in the tech sector. A lot of this is tech-led and the question is how we try to influence that. Where is the idea of CERN AI and is it a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: It is better than actual CERN.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 358. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a detailed statement on the pre-launch testing and validation process for the new online work permit application system, specifically addressing whether the system was tested under real-world load conditions; and if a parallel run was considered to mitigate risks, given the widespread login and access failures...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 359. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific measures identified and implemented to resolve the root causes of the persistent login and access failures experienced by users of the new online work permit application system since its launch on 28 April 2025; and when a stable and fully functional system is expected to be operational for all users. [32201/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 360. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of individuals that have lost their legal status or experienced employment disruption as a direct result of the system failures with the new online work permit application system since its launch on 28 April 2025; and what immediate steps are being taken by the Department to support and provide remedies for those...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 361. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current average response time for technical support queries related to the new online work permit application system; and what steps the Department is taking to ensure accountability and improve the timeliness of responses to user complaints and technical issues. [32203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 362. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will publish up-to-date statistics regarding the application backlogs, new applications lodged, and the number of complaints received and resolved concerning the new online work permit application system since its launch on 28 April 2025. [32204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 363. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason agents and users were not consulted prior to the roll out of the new online work permit application system; and the specific actions being taken to rebuild trust and improve stakeholder engagement in future digital transformations within the Department. [32205/25]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will stop all payslips being sent out to SNA’s and school staff as they can be received online and reassign the funds of sending them via post to school facilities and classrooms. [32003/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans to provide more clarity on the syllabus provided to English teachers for Junior Cycle exams; if there are plans to remove teachers freedom to choose specific examples of topics to cover, for example a short story; and if she plans to review the marking scheme for this year’s Junior Cycle exam. [32407/25]