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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she intends to bring the school transport review to Cabinet. [6708/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the school transport review. [6205/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The Minister answered this question to a degree in one of her earlier replies. Will she please provide an update on the school transport review?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The Minister is correct that the review has been extensive. That is one way to describe it. It has been going on since February 2021. The Minister said earlier that she would have the review published by the end of March. Does she envisage the report, and the review in its entirety, being published at that time? The school transport system is quite unique in that parents, students and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: As I said, we all want this to work and to work effectively. I again ask the Minister what impact she sees this review, to be published by the end of the first quarter of this year, having on applications for school students for the 2024-25 school year. The significant reduction in the number of vehicles on the road will not be lost on anybody who has been in a car during the mid-term...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: According to a poll by the National Principals Forum, 76.4% of primary school principals say the SET allocations for 2024-25 do not meet the needs of children with additional needs and that the allocation for the academic year is wholly inadequate. Three pillars are identified in the circular that was put out, that is, the enrolment allocation, the educational teaching profile, which is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what engagements she has had with the State Examinations Commission with regard to the oral examinations due to take place over the Easter break. [6202/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Many parents and teachers have raised with me very valid concerns about the oral examinations due to take place over the Easter break. Will the Minister outline what engagements she has had with the State Examinations Commission, SEC, on those oral examinations due to take place over the Easter break?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The Minister said there is the extra payment to examiners. I spoke to a principal of a school with three autism classes where five students are due to sit their leaving certificate this year. When that principal spoke to the SEC oral section to inquire as to what supports would be available for those students in terms of an SNA, the principal was told that nothing would be made available....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: What can be put in place this year for the students with special educational needs to receive the necessary accommodations for the oral exams? It seems to me that instead of creating a system that tailors oral examinations to meet the needs of students and actually caters towards their need regardless of their educational ability, this scheme does the exact opposite. When I asked a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: We all recognise that movement is needed here. I do not for a moment underestimate the impact these escorts have in allowing children to access education, as is their constitutional right, where they present with that level of need. Will the Minister confirm what I think I heard her say, which is that the school transport review is now complete? I am talking about the school transport...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will carry out a full and comprehensive review of the pay and working conditions of school bus escorts. [6201/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to ask the Minister for Education if she will carry out a full and comprehensive review of the pay and working conditions of school bus escorts.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I note that the first part of the Minister's response was, essentially, verbatim to a parliamentary question reply given to my colleague, Deputy Mac Lochlainn, last November. I welcome what the Minister mentioned about the SNA reviews and, let us be honest, an awful lot of school escorts are also SNAs but not all. I wish to draw the attention of the House to the reality. The education...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: There is no doubt that the financial scandals in RTÉ have rocked people's trust and confidence in both the national broadcaster and the television licence system. The drip-feed of information from RTÉ has caused huge reputational damage and displayed a level of abuse of the trust taxpayers placed in it from which it will take a long time, if ever, to recover. From the Toy Show The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The Department of Education has reduced the criteria for the allocation of special education teacher hours and removed the complex needs criteria from the calculation. Some 76% of principals of primary schools say the 2024-25 allocation does not meet the needs of children for the upcoming academic year and is wholly inadequate, while 37% reported a decrease in their allocations despite...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests to the financial support services unit by primary schools in 2023 for additional funding; and the value of the funding. provided. [6206/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to invite his Swedish counterpart to Dublin in 2024. [6225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 182. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of qualified avionics technicians and cadet pilots in training currently within the Air Corps. [6213/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism and special education class spaces currently in Kilkenny; and the number of spaces expected to be in place in Kilkenny in August 2024. [6216/24]