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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.

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

Emer Currie: Have admissions been completed across the new primary school classes for September? We have 12 new primary special classes across Dublin West and 11 in Dublin 15.

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

Emer Currie: How many schools in Dublin 15 do not have their finalised lists for new students?

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

Emer Currie: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I hope it is the first of many engagements with them. How many students who live in Dublin 15 still do not have a confirmed special education placement for September 2025? I am including in that children who have been referred to as being on a pathway to a place. How many do not have a confirmed placement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I very much welcome the Irish Road Haulage Association here today. I appreciate their opening statement, which was very thorough. When I read their opening statement, it brought home to me the challenges that they is facing, that they are at the coalface of a changing and turbulent world, that they have such a pivotal role in the unsustainable global supply chains that are impacting...