Results 181-200 of 392 for speaker:Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Yes, I understand. Go raibh maith agat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Are there cases of SENOs not granting letters of eligibility?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans in terms of the EPSEN report recommendation to bring forward legislation to change the present situation wherein students in special schools cannot legally continue education after their eighteenth birthday; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38537/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to scrap the means test for foster children being included in the back-to-school clothing and footwear scheme. [38335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 298. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will advocate for an increase in the fostering allowance in line with the cost of living for budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38336/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 300. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of crèches, by county, in tabular form. [38376/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 301. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has any plans to reduce crèche fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Children in Care (10 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to allow foster children to be included in the dental scheme beyond primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to respond to reports of children with a diagnosis of autism who, in their autism report, it is stated that they need SNA support, and it is recommended by the SENO, in some cases, and then it is being denied by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to review SNA allocation criteria to include the sensory and emotional regulation needs of children with autism which is crucial to their learning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional GPs, per county, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37982/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); if it will be ready to accept students in September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37664/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Gabhaim buíochas ar fad le gach duine. I will be quick because I want to hear from the witnesses. I will start on SNA allocation and go to the parents first. At the moment SNAs are allocated solely on the basis of on what we consider primary care needs, but we know that secondary needs being adequately met is crucially important for the success of children in our schools. Sensory and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: I agree. I am curious about the opinions of Mr. Clerkin and Ms Quinn on IEPs. The Department says they are impractical due to the high administrative burden they place on school staff. Others have called out the Government on this, saying that scrapping IEPs is a means of limiting the support the State is obliged to provide. If this proposal is fully implemented, where will this work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Míle buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht a bheith anseo inniu. I will jump straight in. I want to ask about specific speech and language disorder classes. The criteria for accessing these classes are discriminatory as they deny access if a child has a disability. A working group was established last June by the previous Minister for disability to revise Circular 38/2007 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: It is still extremely discriminatory. For example, children with Down's syndrome are invisible in this conversation. For some children with Down's syndrome, their IQ may be over the level where they are not entitled to be given these supports but they have a speech impediment. They are left out because it is not of an unknown origin. We need to do more. My next question is about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans in relation to educational assessments; specifically, if she intends to review the use of standardised tests in light of evidence demonstrating their significant limitations in accurately assessing children with complex needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36244/25]

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: No one said that.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: The Minister of State said that.