Results 81-100 of 243 for speaker:Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: A lot of the questions have already been asked but I have two quick ones. Irish Sign Language has been an official language of Ireland since 2017 but has yet to be introduced as a leaving certificate subject. I know it is an optional module within the LCA, but it has not been added as a subject yet. Are there any plans for that? I have also heard from some schools in my dáilcheantar...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Sorry. There will be separate Irish papers for scoileanna T1, a school where your first language is Gaeilge, and for a school where your second language is Gaeilge; T1 agus T2. There would be separate papers and many students and teachers say that would not be fair.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she plans to reform admission criteria for entry into specific speech and language disorder special classes attached to primary schools given that the criteria for eligibility has proven to be discriminatory towards children with disabilities and therefore in contravention with equality clauses of numerous Bills legislating this area;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the concerns raised by schools that they are unable to plan for the coming academic year due to delays in allocation of resources by the NCSE; her further views on the stress caused by the same delay on SNAs who have finished work for the year without knowledge of whether they will be coming back in September; if she is aware of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the under-provision of adequate specialist places for children with Down's syndrome in County Kildare and throughout the State more broadly; if she will consider collecting data on Down's syndrome children in the education system with a view to create targeted placements; and if she will consider reviewing the diagnostic criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (12 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén beartas atá i bhfeidhm chun a chinntiú go bhfuil deis ag dalta freastal ar scoil lán-Ghaeilge sa chás ina bhfuil an scoil lán-Ghaeilge is gaire dóibh lán. [31339/25]

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: It is only a fortnight since Sinn Féin introduced the Israeli genocide bonds Bill. In voting against that Bill, the Government squandered an opportunity to stand on the right side of what will, no doubt, be remembered as a decisive moment in history. I thank the Social Democrats for returning to this issue and giving the Government a second chance to make good on its supposed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (11 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if measures are being considered and taken to review the criteria that determine the access of adults with spinal muscular atrophy to approved treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30765/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: This week I spoke to a woman in Kildare town who is facing the prospect of homelessness. She told me, "I have done everything right, and now the State is slowly killing me." The pain and dread she is feeling as the clock runs down is absolutely crippling. Her landlord is selling up and she simply cannot afford to re-enter the private rental market. Just a few weeks ago in this Chamber, we...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: No, the Deputy's colleagues kept talking.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: An estimated 90% of Travellers report ongoing mental health difficulties while 11% die by suicide, which is over seven times the national average. Four out of five Travellers say they have been directly affected by suicide, with nearly half losing someone in their own family. These are not just shocking statistics; these are families devastated, communities grieving and lives lost far too...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: An Plean Náisiúnta um Sheirbhísí Poiblí Gaeilge 2024-2030: An Roinn Forbartha Pobail agus Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach. Cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le riachtanais éigeantacha eile faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2021 maidir le foirmeacha, lógónna agus mar sin? Tá sé tábhachtach go bhfeictear an tAcht ag obair san iomlán. Céard iad na céimeanna a mbeidh...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: Mo chombhrón leis An Garda chomh maith. In the aftermath of the Mothers Against Genocide protest at the Dáil, it was reported that the Commissioner said he was going to write to the Ceann Comhairle to state the complaints were inaccurate and that such a letter was later issued. The Minister later stated the footage of the incident in question would be examined. Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the scheduling of the minor works grant; the reasons for its delay this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the scheduling of the payment of the ICT grant; the reasons for its delay this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress of the timebound provision for teachers who qualify outside of the Republic of Ireland; her views with respect to the delay in the opening of applications which was forecast to happen in quarter 1 of 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29137/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary schools of which her Department is aware that have existing premises that can accommodate additional special classes but were not sanctioned for opening of same in the 2025-2026 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29686/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected number of special school places in both primary and post primary required for the 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028, and 2027-2028 school years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29688/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of recommendations made by the NCSE for special classes for the 2025-2026 school year, broken down according to type (autism spectrum disorder, general learning disability, and so on); the number of the recommendations that were not sanctioned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29689/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools adding modular accommodation to their existing premises to open new special classes in the (2025-2026, 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 school years), by county, in tabular form. [29710/25]