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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the rate of payment for the primary inclusion scheme and the post-primary inclusion scheme from €30 to €45 per week. [25727/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who availed of the home-based summer programme in 2023 and expected to avail of it in 2024; and the number of children who were eligible for the programme in each of these years. [25728/24]

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Every child has the right to an education. That right needs to be universally applied regardless of any child's additional need for support. I will go back to the Minister of State's opening contribution to this debate. She said there was a 386% increase in the number of special classes and went on to say that "While the capitation rate in mainstream schools was raised to €45 in...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — every child has the right to education; — this time of the year is characterised by stress and panic for many parents as they fight to secure an appropriate school place for their child next September; — the battle to secure an appropriate school place is too often followed by further battles to secure the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. They are, as always, most welcome. I want to follow up on a point made by Ms Rush on the background paper. She said that the council had visited four schools. What is the profile of those schools? I am not looking for their location or anything that would make them identifiable but for a profile of the schools involved in that development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Can Ms Doyle give us an idea of the top three requests from schools? What have they identified as needs that must be met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The four specific schools that Ms Rush mentioned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: That would be useful information to have. Reference was made to continuing professional development. I acknowledge that the subject is available now but I am interested in how connectivity is developed between the most junior learners in the education system right up into third level. Connections need to be made by the Department and by the schools. How do we make it relevant for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: TUS Athlone is one of my local third level institutions. It had a transition year programme this year, part of which was a module on sustainability in engineering, which was really welcome to see. This is my final question. In terms of primary school, will Ms O'Connor talk about the hours per week that will be spent under the redesign model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Ms O'Connor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The reason I ask is that primary schools only have a set number of hours per week. It is in that context that I ask the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: This is an area where teachers have been particularly to the fore over the last ten or 15 years. The nature table is almost a thing of the past. Pupils now go out into nature and see it for themselves. I am very fortunate to live in an area where we have good biodiversity. There are many bogs around the area. These are wonderful places. It is good to see the younger children in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I want to go back to the STEM implementation plan. When is the next review of that due?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I refer just to the implementation plan. When is the next review due?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: When will the next one be published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: That is the next progress report, but what about the annual review of the plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: But Ms O'Connor said there was an annual -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: When is the next one due?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Later this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to follow up on the response by Ms Hope to the question on student accommodation posed by the Chairman. My colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, has been very active on this issue over recent months. I wonder how effective the Department will be, given that the vast majority of student accommodation is privately owned. Last February, Trinity, DCU and UCD combined had 5,600 units...