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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (18 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils, who had direct involvement with psychologists of the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) in the school years 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021 and 2019/2020, in tabular form. [45516/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (18 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the pilot counselling programmes in primary schools in terms of pupils directly engaged, per year, in tabular form. [45517/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 231. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding announced as part of Budget 2024 under Programme D - An Equal and Inclusive Society which states "Funding will primarily focus on additional therapy assistant posts, additional supports across a number of targeted children's services and on the expansion of educational programmes in this area" if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding announced as part of Budget 2024 under Programme D - An Equal and Inclusive Society which states "Funding will primarily focus on additional therapy assistant posts, additional supports across a number of targeted children's services and on the expansion of educational programmes in this area" to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2024 (18 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 263. To ask the Minister for Health what funding his Department will allocate to the National Educational Psychological Service as part of Budget 2024. [45499/23]

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Each and every one of the letters I hold today has come from a user of the services of the Irish Wheelchair Association in Mullingar. They were dropped into my office yesterday by somebody who works with them. I will use their words to describe how they are feeling. The first letter states: I am a person with a disability and rely heavily on my personal assistant from the Irish...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister outline to the House where the counselling and well-being service ceases and NEPS steps in? There seems to be a level of confusion, particularly if we look at the budget for 2024. The budget for NEPS last year was €33 million, while this year, in the Minister's budget, it is €9.7 million. That is a considerable drop. Will the Minister outline the impact or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: We could almost set our watches at this point for when the phones will start ringing and the emails will start coming in with school transport queries. This year was no different. In many ways, it is becoming Groundhog Day. Year in and year out, there are issues with the school transport scheme. While the €50 million is welcome, as would be any investment in school transport, we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: That has not been my experience. I have a case where one brother got a ticket and the other did not. Their mother told me she would be driving behind the school bus. That is not an unusual or unique situation. When parents contact Bus Éireann, they are met by a disregard almost for the query they have and the pressure this scheme puts them under. While I acknowledge the funding...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Everybody wants to see those ended but it means proper resourcing for schools.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Additional, from January.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Permanent.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Permanent.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the Budget 2024 allocation of €50 million for the school transport scheme between capital and revenue; and the details of additional capacity this will cater for and the priority for spending. [45122/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Can the Minister provide a breakdown to the House of the budget 2024 allocation of €50 million for the school transport scheme between capital and revenue, the details of additional capacity this will cater for, and the priority for spending?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the budget 2024 allocation of €7 million in additional capitation grants for schools; and detail the analysis that was undertaken by her Department regarding sufficiency of this amount. [45121/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister provide a breakdown of the budget 2024 allocation of €7 million in additional capitation grants for schools and detail the analysis undertaken by her Department regarding the sufficiency of this amount?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Does the Minister acknowledge and understand the level of dismay with which this announcement was received by those who are charged with delivering education through our school system? The €60 million she referenced is not a permanent measure; it is a once-off measure. Relying on once-off measures of a precarious nature, and precarious funding, is categorically not what teachers'...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Of that €81 million, the amount of temporary funding is three times as much as the permanent funding. It is no secret and will come as no surprise to anybody that schools as much as households are struggling with their energy and electricity bills. Schools are telling me that where they may want to end the practice of being reliant on fund-raising and voluntary contributions, and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister for the update. It is becoming somewhat rare that everybody in the House agrees on something when it is a good idea. I think everybody in this House agrees that PV solar panels on schools are an exceptionally good idea, particularly given the level of increase that we have seen in electricity costs and the financial pressures that has placed on schools over the past 12...