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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: There is a section of the population who just cannot afford to buy a home in Ireland today. This cohort, often called the squeezed middle, would say they pay for everything and are entitled to nothing, but house prices continue to spiral upwards. The CSO residential property price index report for February 2022 shows that house prices across the State have risen by 13.5% and the median...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidelines have been issued to schools with regard to the summer (July) provision scheme 2023; if not, the reason therefor; the timeframe for issuing guidelines to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22813/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the payment of teachers participating in the school-based summer (July) provision scheme 2023; the timeframe for the payment of teachers participating in the home-based summer (July) provision scheme 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been allocated for the summer (July) provision scheme 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if enhanced measures have been put in place to encourage schools to offer the summer (July) provision scheme in 2023; the details of these enhanced measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special schools here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; the names and locations of these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22814/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mainstream schools with an ASD unit here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; the names and locations of these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22815/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special schools to participate in the summer (July) provision scheme here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of pupils with additional needs that participated in the summer (July) provision scheme here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22816/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mainstream schools with ASD units to participate in the summer (July) provision scheme here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of pupils attending an ASD Unit in a mainstream school that participated in the summer (July) provision scheme here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of teachers to participate in the summer (July) provision scheme in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the total number of special needs assistants to participate in the summer (July) provision scheme in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22823/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to the summer (July) provision scheme in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the funding allocated to the school-based scheme in each of these years; the funding allocated to the home-based scheme in these years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22824/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils attending a special school here in each of the years 2017 to 2021; the number of pupils who attend a special school that participated in the school-based summer July provision scheme here in the same period in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22985/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of students with a disability, including those attending special schools and mainstream schools with ASD units, to participate in the summer (July) provision scheme here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of these pupils to participate in the school based scheme in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of students without a disability to participate in the summer (July) provision scheme here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of these pupils to participate in the school-based scheme in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of these pupils to participate in the home-based scheme in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of children attending the school-based summer July provision scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2021 who had a disability and did not have a disability, respectively; the percentage of children attending the home-based summer July provision scheme in the same period who had a disability and did not have a disability,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils attending a special school in 2022 that participated in the school-based summer July provision scheme for 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of funding spent on the summer July provision scheme 2022 which was initially allocated €40 million; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person who is working and paying PRSI and who is also in receipt of the widow’s, widower’s or surviving partner’s pension is not entitled to illness benefit when they are unable to work due to being sick or ill; her views on whether it is fair for a person to have to pay PRSI but not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the School Meals Programme will be extended to the summer (July) provision scheme 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22811/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the student grant scheme to offset the rise in living costs that are being experienced by students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22812/22]