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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: There were two questions we did not get to the last time and I have a third one now. Will the exams for students now be shortened because there is a 40% component? Will there therefore be able to be an extended period of time for those exams? The second question we did not get to the last time was on the resourcing of schools, particularly for science. The third question is: when will all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: A school has to be super-resourced when the same resourcing is not coming from home. I appreciate that. I am happy to see that there will be more resources. Will schools be fully resourced before the implementation of the leaving certificate reforms in those areas, particularly science?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: For those students who will be doing the 40% AACs, when will that be implemented? When will we see the leaving certificate changed in the sense that this is what is being taught, studied for and examined? When will that be fully implemented? I know the reviews and all that will happen, but-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Training Centres (16 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to bring community training centre staff into public sector pay grades and pay and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55973/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (16 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of his Department’s research budget which is allocated for new research versus earmarked or pre-committed to existing programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55974/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (15 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if patronage will feature as part of the national convention on education. [55967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (15 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the terms of reference for the national convention on education will be published. [55968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (15 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if reconfiguration will be part of the national convention on education. [55970/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (15 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of people and organisations that will be invited to the national convention on education. [55971/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Surveys (15 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the parental survey on patronage will be published. [55969/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (14 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines for children who are opted out of religious instruction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54564/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plan to increase capacity of Dublin City Council to address their housing list, homelessness and those at risk of homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53295/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: Education is the foundation of every society, and education has been spoken about in this Chamber and in committee rooms on numerous occasions. Ireland should have an education system that is inclusive, equitable and accessible to every child and young person regardless of his or her postcode, income, ability or background, yet day after day and week after week, the truth of the poor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an stádas reatha chun foirgneamh buan a thógáil do scoil (sonraí curtha ar fáil) i gContae Bhaile Átha Cliath; cad í an chúis leis an moill; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [53230/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to keep teachers who return home from abroad up to date with the new curriculum. [53277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plan to ensure that people living here on stamp 3 visas are supported to go to university; access work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53199/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ensure international students on stamp 3 visas can work to support themselves during university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53587/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 520. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when an organisation (details supplied) will be receiving their contacts for the building blocks grant scheme. [53276/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 615. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to families with adult children with mental health difficulties that are at risk of homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53278/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Oct 2025)

Jen Cummins: 617. To ask the Minister for Health if supports will be made available to move people with dementia to nursing homes closer to their families; even if it is outside their catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53289/25]