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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Staff (28 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Paddy Burke: ...a loan and buy a house, so it has very serious consequences for people who are highly educated and have gone to secondary school and third level and gotten their degrees. In some cases they are more than adequately educated and have more degrees than are necessary for the profession they are carrying out. Even so, in many cases they find that being on a five-year contract, they cannot...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Funding (28 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Robbie Gallagher: ...holidays were a time of regression and difficulty. The much-welcomed expansion of the programme in 2021, post the Covid pandemic, has been remarkable, with a much wider cohort of children involved and a more holistic experience for pupils to help them keep the connection with schools and their peers. This year, the programme also includes a post-primary scheme, a home-based programme and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (28 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Malcolm Byrne: ...Wicklow. The school has 279 students. It was established in 1998. It operates now, for the most part, out of a series of prefabs dotted around a soccer pitch. We have a school here that has been in place for more than a quarter of a century. In 2017-18, in discussions between the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, the Gaelscoil and Gaelcholaiste na Mara, the second...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Help Service (28 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Tim Lombard: I thank the Acting Chair. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is more than welcome. It is always a pleasure to have her before us. Her Cork roots always come out in the responses. In that context, I am looking forward to her response. There is a need for the Minister for Health to review the recent changes that have been made with regard to home support services in Cork county. In...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Paddy Burke: ...see a lot of small businesses closing and changing for one reason or another. Those business support schemes will give small businesses that bit of respite, as I have said. The 9% VAT rate is a more solid issue for them going into the future. The business support schemes are a once-off payment, whereas I hope the Government continues with the 9% rate for the years ahead. They are big...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...about. It is important that we do not see a pattern of abuse of seasonal work permits where workers are left in a situation of constant precarity and insecurity. I emphasise that employment is more than just a source of income. It is the basis on which people build their lives. It is the space in which they form relationships and community ties. It is a key, main opportunity for...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (28 May 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...Bill before Seanad Éireann. I have been very encouraged by the support it has received from across the political spectrum and from stakeholders. Auto-enrolment, AE, has been talked about for more than 25 years in this country. There was a major straw man public consultation on it in 2018. This was followed by a series of Government decisions between 2019 and this year that settled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024) See 15 other results from this debate

Christopher O'Sullivan: Deputy Whitmore has one more minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024) See 28 other results from this debate

...the committee on its progress in the new leaving certificate course on climate action and sustainable development. We wish to express our opinions about how the climate crisis can be resolved much more efficiently through education in the areas of innovation, adaptation and implementation. I will be covering the topic of innovation, Ms Adhikari will cover adaptation and Ms Doyle will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Jim O'Callaghan: ...and young men of the dangers of carrying knives. Nonetheless, as legislators, we are entitled to send out the message that we do regard the carrying of knives and the conviction for offences under subsections (4) and (5) as a more serious matter. The increase in the penalty should reflect our concern about the increase in seizures and the increasing instances of knife crimes. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...provide essential supports to children with special educational needs and allow for the opening of up to 400 new special classes in mainstream schools and 300 additional special school places. So far more than 320 new special classes have been sanctioned by the NCSE nationwide for the 2024/25 school year. Of these, 36 are in Dublin of which 23 are at primary level and 13 at post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks to every single student enrolled primary schools and special schools. This has also been expanded to all Junior Cycle students in second-level schools. More than 555,000 pupils enrolled in approximately 3,229 primary schools, including 138 special schools, will benefit from this measure in the 2024/25 school year. I know that families can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...for existing schools in 2023. This investment included expenditure of €5 million on the provision of furniture and equipment for children with special education needs. In addition to this, schools received more than €4.2 million in 2023 through the Assistive Technology Scheme to support individual pupils who needed essential specialist equipment to access the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...and ongoing capital investment has had a significant impact in providing additional school places across Dublin Fingal. Across schools in the relevant School Planning Areas, there are over 300 more Junior Infants places available for 2024/25 than Junior Infants enrolled in 2023/24. At post primary level in Dublin Fingal, there are over 100 more First Year places available for 2024/25...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...collaborate and identify common challenges and trial innovative solutions. New ideas are being trialled to determine whether these might help to make the role of a teaching principal and small schools more sustainable The project has shown that small schools collaborating and working together offers promise for the future . The schools participating across the six clusters in this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...and ongoing capital investment has had a significant impact in providing additional school places across Dublin Fingal. Across schools in the relevant School Planning Areas, there are over 300 more Junior Infants places available for 2024/25 than Junior Infants enrolled in 2023/24. At post primary level in Dublin Fingal, there are over 100 more First Year places available for 2024/25...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...existing spare classroom capacity prior to establishing a special class that may require additional accommodation e.g., modular accommodation. This approach enables special classes to be established more quickly and means that the educational needs of children who require a specialist placement can be met more easily. Since 2020, the government has invested in the region of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...of same and to propose special classes be established in other schools in the area. Over the last two years, the department and the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) have worked closely on a more streamlined and joined up planning process for the provision of special classes. Overall demographics are continuing to decrease at primary level and it is important to maximise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...only one component of support for children in mainstream, but the most important support is the mainstream class teacher. The pupil teacher ratio at primary level is now 23:1 which means there are more mainstream teachers than ever before in our educational system. There will be in excess of 14,600 Special Education Teachers supporting mainstream classes in the 2024/25 school year,...