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Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I stepped out between rounds earlier. SpunOut is over in Buswells. It has a number of specific asks for the budget cycle. I will list a couple of them because they are relevant to the Minister and I told SpunOut' representatives that I would do so. They are seeking €60 million to develop six youth hubs throughout the country or the State; investment of €21.3 million in youth...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Detention Centres (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 178. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality what measures she is taking to support workers at Oberstown Detention Centre in light of recent incidents (details supplied); the measures she is taking to prevent similar incidents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34922/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the design manual for urban roads and streets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33555/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to address bus no-shows, delays, and punctuality in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33554/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 355. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will take to improve the consumer protections of home buyers arising from a case in County Meath (details supplied) and others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 12 June 2025 (details supplied), the number of children that account for the 92% of allocations receiving a place in a special class/school, by county. [33621/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to ensure reasonable accommodations for standardised testing in primary schools, such as increased time for dyslexic children is taking place at the moment. [34145/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options open to apartment owners experiencing the effects of pyrite but whose neighbours, also affected by the same problem, do not want to take any action via the Pyrite Remediation Board or other means; if this issue is acknowledged and if possible solutions via the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; if not, if other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which she will meet with a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34064/25]

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State for being here. Last week and the week before, the Minister, Deputy McEntee, indicated that 92% of the 3,275 children who notified the NCSE had an offer. Does the Minister of State have an updated figure, either in numbers or percentage terms? I personally know children who have had offers in the past number of days.

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister of State is not giving me figures and we had the same experience the last time. He made a specific statement and the Minister pointed to it as well, so will he give some indication? Dublin seems to be a particular issue. What does that mean?

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Is Dublin 80%, or 50%, or 20% of the remainder? Will the Minister of State give us some indication?

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I have that now. There is language about there being a pathway. For the overall, or the 92% who are accommodated, is there an indication as to how many of those children will have a place on the last week in August or the first week in September? I think in terms of new builds and SET and SNA allocations. How many will have a physical place? Has that number been identified? The Minister...

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State, but I am conscious of the clock. Picking up on the point about SNA allocations, I want to reflect on some of the experience, and I raised this with the Minister last week and am not entirely satisfied the response she gave me was accurate. A number of principals have contacted me to say that the appeals mechanism has been removed from the NCSE website. I can...

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I presume a lot of those appeals are on allocations that have been sanctioned but have not materialised. We have a number of cases-----

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I encourage the Minister of State to engage with the school community. I know we are running to the end of the year, but it was a disappointing move to withdraw that appeal mechanism at short notice just as schools were coming towards the end of the year. There is a lot of uncertainty for schools as they head into the new year. I encourage the Minister of State to continue engaging on that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 57. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the follow-up for hip dysplasia patients at CHI arising out of the recently published review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33556/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 71. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to increase in-patient bed capacity in Louth Meath mental health services in view of the fact that the area has the lowest number of beds per head of population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33557/25]