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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 26 June 2024, to outline the estimated number of SEN pupils that would be integrated into mainstream school transport services in each of the years 2024 to 2030 respectively, in tabular form. [29549/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 26 June 2024, the forecasted changes to the eligibility criteria for the school transport scheme as phased in each of the years 2024 to 2030, including a breakdown of phased changes to distance criteria each year, and the associated additional pupils transported under the scheme in each year. [29550/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the current budget allocations for each programme under subhead A9 of the revised estimates for 2023 and 2024 respectively, in tabular form. [29580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special school in Monaghan will be established. [29923/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses from the Teaching Council for coming in this afternoon. They are most welcome and their time is appreciated. I have some very specific questions but I will start off with a comment. Hands down, the biggest question that I get asked is from those who want to do their induction here but have done their degree in Britain. Without a shadow of a doubt, it makes up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Dr. Ramsey mentioned a review of that process. Can she speak a bit more to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I do not think we will ever forget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: What is the timeline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I accept that. Dr. Ramsey stated that 123,500 are on the register. How many of them are not teaching? Does the council keep data such as that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Will the council consider, as part of the renewal process and the payment of fees, asking whether teachers are currently in a teaching position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: On the same theme, if a post-primary teacher has qualified for certain subjects and then adds another subject, does the council keep track of that as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Dr. Ramsey mentioned home economics as an area of need when it comes to teachers. Are there any other areas the council is noticing emerging as an area of teacher need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: On that issue, Dr. Ramsey mentioned Athlone TUS, which is in my constituency and is a very impressive institute. The proposal is that a centre of excellence is required to allow the TUs to deliver initial teacher education and postgraduate education in one specific TU, with shared staff and resources. What engagements does the council have on this? One issue that frequently arises for me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: A course was removed as a recognised course to register as a teacher under route 4. It relates to Montessori education. Will Dr. Ramsey speak to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I see an emerging trend of a desire being expressed by people who may already have a career path, that is, those who are not directly out of school, going in through the traditional route to education. One issue I recently came across, which goes somewhat towards that recognition of prior learning, is that some professional institutes have not aligned with QQI in having their professional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Has the council had any engagement with the higher education institutes about issues such as this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: No, I mean colleges where somebody had passed professional examinations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: It remains, however, at the discretion of the professional body to align its qualifications with QQI. My understanding is there is nothing graduates can do because they cannot align their qualification to QQI. It is the professional body that needs to do that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a revised completion date for a school (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that there will be no further delays to the building of a school (details supplied); if the project will be expedited as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27768/24]