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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]

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Regardless of which sector or group comes into Leinster House, when they come back six years later to say that not only does the problem remain, it has actually got worse, any Minister worth their salt would sit up and pay attention to what these people are saying because that is exactly what happened last week. It does not need to be like this. This is the real irritation and the crux of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of students at primary, post-primary and in other organisations that were provided with free hot school meals in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated average cost of providing hot school meals per child in primary school; the cost per child in post primary schools the cost per child in other organisations respectively, in the 2022-2023 and to date in 2023-2024, academic years in tabular form. [27483/24]