Results 141-160 of 193 for speaker:Jen Cummins

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 1055. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the voluntary licensee register for students attending third level institutions. [16594/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people who have voluntarily registered with the voluntary licensees register. [16595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for undergraduate fees and student contribution fees in the past 15 years, in tabular form. [16598/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: My question is similar to that of the previous speaker with regard to parental choice. I was very disappointed to see Government backbenches expressing what is maybe a U-turn in what the programme for Government was talking about in 2020 on school patronage. It does not seem to appear in the current programme for Government, which I am a little bit concerned about. With 94% of primary...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank the Labour Party for its motion on special education. I have heard so much pain, frustration and determination from families throughout my constituency and many constituencies in this country. I have travelled to different places to hear from families. In my constituency of Dublin South-Central, from Ballyfermot to Drimnagh, Inchicore and Crumlin, there are parents who at crisis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify on reports that SENOs are approving an increase in allocations of SNAs in principle, but these supports cannot be put in place due to an insufficient budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21507/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for clarification on whether geographical areas have a quota in terms of SNA allocations in tabular form. [21508/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 May 2025)

Jen Cummins: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the leave that teachers can avail of for reproductive matters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21979/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am delighted to support Sinn Féin’s motion this evening. My constituency is Dublin South Central. Like many here, I have received many emails from parents which outline the prohibitive cost of childcare. I have had emails from people in Ballyfermot, Drimnagh and around Dublin 8 from people who are paying more than €1,000 a month per child. For anyone with more than...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Jen Cummins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — more than 90 per cent of Irish primary schools are under religious patronage, while only 5 per cent are multi-denominational; — a survey by the Irish National Teachers' Organisation found that just 4 per cent of teachers think preparing students for sacraments should be the responsibility of primary schools, while more...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank everybody who participated in today's debate. More importantly, I thank all those parents, educators and campaigners across the country who continue to fight not for privilege but for parity and not for special treatment but for choice. This has been going on for 50 years. I have been a campaigner for multidenominational schools since 2007. As a family of a minority religion as...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 446. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of schools, broken down by local authority, that have been supported to introduce the safe routes to school programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 447. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the safe routes to school programme was suspended at any stage; and if it has, when it will be reopened for applications. [19867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 584. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed schedule for each Ireland strategic investment fund-loan to Higher Education Authority-funded higher education institutions, including the name of the project, institution, value, and date of approval. [19514/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 710. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to ensure possible tariffs don't impact the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland. [19362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for additional resources for a school (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of special needs assistants, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, and psychology supports in a school (details supplied). [19057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support more girls to take STEM subjects in school. [19357/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 879. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support more students to enter STEM subjects in school. [19359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Apr 2025)

Jen Cummins: 880. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students taking biology, chemistry and physics, by gender, in tabular form. [19360/25]