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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider changing the criteria of the capitation grant for special schools to consider all school staff or the square meter area of the school premises, in order to provide special school to receive a greater amount under the grant to meet their day-to-day costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36883/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the €74 per-pupil allocation under the minor works grant in special schools to also take account of teacher and SNA numbers, in order to better reflect the resource needs of special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36884/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide funding to a school (details supplied) to provide for a sunken trampoline that was recommended by the occupational therapist and physiotherapist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36885/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing an assistant principal 1 to all special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider renaming the leave of absence following assault scheme to more appropriately reflect the complex and unintentional nature of incidents in special education settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for special school staff such as caretakers, cleaners and bus escorts to be paid under the online claims system, in order to reduce the administrative burden on schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36888/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for special schools to receive a substitute teacher when a teacher takes self-certified sick leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36889/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I very much welcome the Irish Road Haulage Association here today. I appreciate their opening statement, which was very thorough. When I read their opening statement, it brought home to me the challenges that they is facing, that they are at the coalface of a changing and turbulent world, that they have such a pivotal role in the unsustainable global supply chains that are impacting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: It was the HGV levy. What other barriers need to be on our agenda to support the all-island economy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: Okay. So the witnesses still are seeing the repercussions of Brexit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I did not think he liked port.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: It was porter. Okay, that makes sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: How many of the association's drivers would be island based versus going the land bridge direction, or do they all cover everything?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: Community childcare not-for-profit operations led by the community for the community stand out in a sector dominated by private provision as an alternative, often part of a wider network of early intervention and family support services. Availability varies wildly across the country, from over 60% of services in Monaghan and Leitrim to just 6% of less in my own county of Fingal. It is 13%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I am sorry for arriving late, but I had another meeting this morning. I do not want to be one of those people who asks the witnesses things they have already been asked. I completely agree with our witnesses that secretaries and caretakers, by the very nature of the work they do, do not want to be in this position or to put parents or schools in this position. Like many parents, I am on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank Mr. Pike.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. They have covered everything in depth. I will raise the matter with the Minister and look for action on their behalf.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is he has considered the need to include commercial operators in the planned expansion of free travel or children under nine years old later this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department have carried out an assessment on the number of children under nine years old who use commercial operators on a daily basis as a means of school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38003/25]