Results 221-240 of 7,546 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional school completion project to cover the remaining DEIS schools without one, in tabular form. [44213/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional guidance counsellor in a DEIS post primary school. [44214/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional guidance counsellor in a post primary school. [44215/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional home school completion officer to a DEIS school. [44216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS schools that currently do not have a HSCL officer or do not have sufficient HSCL officers. [44217/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding amount provided to special schools which cater for children with MGLD and other learning disabilities. [44218/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Airport Policy (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to request from An Coimisiún Pleanála a copy of any submissions received from national or regional health authorities regarding the recent decision permitting continued night flights at Dublin Airport, specifically addressing public health and sleep disruption risks for surrounding communities; if he will confirm...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of primary and post primary DEIS schools that currently do not offer a breakfast club, and to provide the estimated cost of providing breakfast club in these schools regardless of whether the request to offer the service. [44210/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1746. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated average cost of a DEIS primary and secondary school offering a breakfast club respectively, in tabular form. [44211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1954. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the interim report of the Garda Recruitment and Training Capacity Group; the date on which the full report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41223/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2328. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a second additional year of ECCE will be made available to a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2551. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the assessment, funding and use, including early use through an early access scheme, of givinostat for muscular dystrophy patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40811/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister and I share a constituency. She must be aware of what is happening and she must have been contacted. Earlier, she referenced a school that is moving to digital. I have been contacted by parents with children in that school and by parents across the State who have been part of a consultation but whose opinion is not reflected in the policy of the school. They simply cannot...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she recognises that the introduction of one-to-one digital policies in schools can put an impossible financial burden on some parents; the measures she is taking to support parents and students who are unable to afford digital devices in one-to-one digital schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40113/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I have heard the response repeatedly. There needs to be an acknowledgement by the Minister and within the Department that there are two things happening here. The first is a funding crisis in our schools overall. There is a massive shortfall. There is an expectation, because the Government is saying it will not bring in a cost-of-living package, that next year will be worse than this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: We waited a long time for the review. To be clear, it stated that reducing the distance criteria would enable more children to be eligible for transport, increasing uptake and thus facilitating greater access to the labour market for working parents. This is mainly women. There are obvious benefits in terms of the environment, socialisation and meeting our climate action targets. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister will guess what my supplementary question is going to be. It will be the same as my initial question. It will be the same question that was put to John Kearney, the head of the NCSE, at the committee's meeting on 2 July, to the Minister of State at the committee's meeting on 18 June and to the Minister at the committee's meeting on 12 June and in the Dáil on the same day...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I am frustrated on my behalf, as a public representative, and on behalf of parents who are waiting to places for their children. They feel like they are being gaslit because the figures are not being spelled out. They do not know where they stand in terms of the system. It feels like a co-ordinated omertà in the context of the failure to release those figures. There are a number of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who applied and paid on time who were refused places on school transport in September 2024; the specific changes that will be made to the school transport system in the 2025-26 school year, in comparison with 2024-25, to ensure that all children who want to avail of the scheme are accommodated; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Will the Minister indicate the number of children who applied and paid on time who were refused places on school transport in September 2024? Will she outline the specific changes that will be made to the school transport for the 2025-26 school year, in comparison with 2024-25, to ensure that all children who want to avail of the scheme will be accommodated?