Results 161-180 of 194 for speaker:Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I want to ask about the mild special schools. The Minister told us not to worry and said the children in these schools will not be losing places. These schools provide a unique and valuable service. My worry is not that the children will lose that but that in diversifying the learning profile of these schools, we will crowd out students with mild learning disabilities. I want to know what...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Can the Minister speak to the progress on teacher recruitment and retention? She said a lot is being done. In particular, can she speak to the workforce plan to deal with the recruitment and retention crisis, go háirithe múinteoirí Gaeilge? Bhí liúntas ar fáil don mhúineadh trí mheán na Gaeilge nuair a bhí mé mar mhúinteoir....

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Will the Minister consider returning that payment?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: A lot of the questions have already been asked but I have two quick ones. Irish Sign Language has been an official language of Ireland since 2017 but has yet to be introduced as a leaving certificate subject. I know it is an optional module within the LCA, but it has not been added as a subject yet. Are there any plans for that? I have also heard from some schools in my dáilcheantar...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Sorry. There will be separate Irish papers for scoileanna T1, a school where your first language is Gaeilge, and for a school where your second language is Gaeilge; T1 agus T2. There would be separate papers and many students and teachers say that would not be fair.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she plans to reform admission criteria for entry into specific speech and language disorder special classes attached to primary schools given that the criteria for eligibility has proven to be discriminatory towards children with disabilities and therefore in contravention with equality clauses of numerous Bills legislating this area;...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: More than a decade ago, a citizens' assembly gave a clear recommendation to change the Constitution to give citizens outside the State the right to vote in presidential elections. Tugadh comhartha soiléir. Vótáil 78% de bhaill an choinbhinsiúin ar son cearta a thabhairt d'Éireannaigh atá ina gcónaí lasmuigh den Sé Chontae is Fiche. Sinn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as a bheith os ár gcomhair agus as an gcur i láthair cuimsitheach sin. Léimfidh mé díreach isteach i gceist na tithíochta. Ionas go mbeadh tionsclaíocht agus fiontar ann, teastaíonn tithe. Teastaíonn áit chónaithe ón aos óg na Gaeltachta, rud nach bhfuil ann faoi láthair. Is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to expand the in-school therapy programme by a factor of 100%, doubling, in effect, the number of permanent expert therapists operating under ETSS. [33597/25]

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)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I wish to focus on the situation of children with Down's syndrome in the education system in Ireland. The debate on special education puts a lot of attention on ASD, which is great, but what I hear from families and advocacy organisations is that they feel ignored in this conversation. They feel that their needs, which are just as important and urgent, are not being taken into consideration...

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)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: We can easily collect data. Is there anything in the-----

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)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: The assessments involving IQ tests do not seem to be suitable for children with Down's syndrome.

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)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I have a quick question on SNA allocation. This year schools did not receive their allocations from the NCSE before the end of the school year, which created considerable pressure. Many schools had finished and SNAs had finished without knowing if they were due to come back. Can the Minister of State commit to getting the NCSE to issue allocations before the end of the school year for 2026-27?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the results of the EPSEN review will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35032/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's official policy position with respect to the redesignation of mild special schools; if it is the Department's intention to redesignate all mild special schools and the timeline for same; to list all redesignations sanctioned to date and planned redesignations; the evidence base and policy rationale for the same; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, under her plans to redesignate mild special school as the catch all for special schools, children with mild general learning disability will be moved to a mainstream setting in the short-term; if children with mild general learning disability being moved to mainstream is a reasonable outcome to expect from this redesignation in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether mild special schools have a place in our educational mix; and her further views on whether mild special schools provide a tailored service and added value that justifies their continued existence as such. [35079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, under her plans to redesignate mild special school as catch all special schools, the specific resources and training that will be provided to mainstream teachers to effectively accommodate mild students in mainstream before 2026-2027. [35081/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, under her plans to redesignate mild special school as catch all special schools, the means by which, and the pool whence, the many therapists needed to support mainstream and special schools with this action by 2026-2027 will be recruited. [35082/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills under her plans to redesignate mild special school as catch-all special schools, the number of pupils with mild learning disabilities that will be moved to a mainstream setting for the 2026-2027 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35084/25]