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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of investment in new bus routes versus existing services from 2020 to 2025 for Dublin, in tabular form. [36968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the funding that has been invested in new bus routes versus existing services from 2020 to 2025 in Dublin, by year, in tabular form. [36969/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider expanding the criteria for help-to-buy in order for more essential workers to have access to the scheme and to settle in the areas they work in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36882/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Promotion (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 197. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a graveyard (details supplied) will be added to Ireland’s Ancient East website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are any funding streams available for the Carlingford Lough Commission for the maintenance of navigational equipment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36685/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will make it mandatory for those training to become a primary or secondary school teacher to complete one work placement in a special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing a new Teaching Council registration pathway to allow Montessori-trained teachers and those who hold recognised qualifications and have strong experience in child-centred education to gain registration, in order to address the shortage of teachers in special education; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider changing the criteria of the capitation grant for special schools to consider all school staff or the square meter area of the school premises, in order to provide special school to receive a greater amount under the grant to meet their day-to-day costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36883/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the €74 per-pupil allocation under the minor works grant in special schools to also take account of teacher and SNA numbers, in order to better reflect the resource needs of special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36884/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide funding to a school (details supplied) to provide for a sunken trampoline that was recommended by the occupational therapist and physiotherapist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36885/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing an assistant principal 1 to all special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider renaming the leave of absence following assault scheme to more appropriately reflect the complex and unintentional nature of incidents in special education settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for special school staff such as caretakers, cleaners and bus escorts to be paid under the online claims system, in order to reduce the administrative burden on schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36888/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for special schools to receive a substitute teacher when a teacher takes self-certified sick leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36889/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the witnesses very much for being here. This is a really important session. Some of them might be aware that yesterday was a very important day for us in Dublin 15, in that the report of the Dublin 15 task force for the forward planning of special education provision was finalised with different stakeholders, including the Department, the NCSE, patrons and some of the people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: We need a Government of Ireland campaign. Does anyone else want to come in quickly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I just want to know if Mr. Kearney knows the Dublin 15 number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I am just looking for a number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: So Mr. Kearney knows the number but he will not tell me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I just wanted to know the number. I do not know why there is a lack of transparency about local representatives knowing the status on the ground.