Results 21-40 of 194 for speaker:Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

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

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the discrepancy between the proportion of general learning disability classes and ASD special classes; if she will make public the data used to make these allocations; and the reasons for this discrepancy. [35080/25]

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?

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: 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;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the concerns raised by schools that they are unable to plan for the coming academic year due to delays in allocation of resources by the NCSE; her further views on the stress caused by the same delay on SNAs who have finished work for the year without knowledge of whether they will be coming back in September; if she is aware of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the under-provision of adequate specialist places for children with Down's syndrome in County Kildare and throughout the State more broadly; if she will consider collecting data on Down's syndrome children in the education system with a view to create targeted placements; and if she will consider reviewing the diagnostic criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (12 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén beartas atá i bhfeidhm chun a chinntiú go bhfuil deis ag dalta freastal ar scoil lán-Ghaeilge sa chás ina bhfuil an scoil lán-Ghaeilge is gaire dóibh lán. [31339/25]

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: It is only a fortnight since Sinn Féin introduced the Israeli genocide bonds Bill. In voting against that Bill, the Government squandered an opportunity to stand on the right side of what will, no doubt, be remembered as a decisive moment in history. I thank the Social Democrats for returning to this issue and giving the Government a second chance to make good on its supposed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (11 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if measures are being considered and taken to review the criteria that determine the access of adults with spinal muscular atrophy to approved treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30765/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: This week I spoke to a woman in Kildare town who is facing the prospect of homelessness. She told me, "I have done everything right, and now the State is slowly killing me." The pain and dread she is feeling as the clock runs down is absolutely crippling. Her landlord is selling up and she simply cannot afford to re-enter the private rental market. Just a few weeks ago in this Chamber, we...