Results 161-180 of 6,781 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I raise the research published today or yesterday by the ESRI, which shows the crucial role of the school completion programme in supporting student attendance and engagement and highlights staffing and funding challenges. Among the major issues highlighted is the lack of referral pathways into therapies. Will that be looked at with a view to potentially delivering school-based therapies?...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 34. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [8320/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Anyone interested in the issue will have heard the Taoiseach's previous answer in regard to SOSAD Ireland, which the Minister of State handed to him, ten times over. That reply does not answer the question he was asked. I will ask it again. The question relates to interim funding to keep the doors open on these vital services between now and when SOSAD Ireland can continue to engage in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on fare restructuring; when the new structure will be finally implemented following the delay since autumn 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9241/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on Bus Éireann driver and mechanic recruitment in the past six months, particularly as it relates to services in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9243/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Navan rail project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9240/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 301. To ask the Minister for Finance when the residential zoned land tax maps will be finalised; when the tax will be levied; the rate at which it will be levied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9250/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which revised salary and annual leave entitlements for school caretakers will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9136/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school secretaries and caretakers will be included in the public service pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9137/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 611. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will identify the posts in children’s disability network teams in Meath; the posts filled and vacant at 25 February 2025; the length of time the vacant posts have been vacant, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9309/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 631. To ask the Minister for Health if she will identify the posts in children’s primary care disability services in Meath; the posts filled and vacant at 25 February 2025; the length of time the vacant posts have been vacant, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9308/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Policy (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she intends to deliver on the programme for Government commitment to expand opportunities for students to attend Gaelscoileanna and Gaelcholáistí; if it is her commitment, as it was her predecessor’s, to “work towards doubling the number of young people currently in Irish-medium schools” (details supplied); and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Policy (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: How does the Minister intend to deliver on the programme for Government commitment to expand opportunities for students to attend Gaelscoileanna and Gaelcholáistí? Is it her commitment, as it was her predecessor's, to work towards increasing the number of young people currently in Irish-medium schools, as was committed to in the previous programme for Government but is not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Policy (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: What is needed is action. I appreciate the action plan and the survey have roles in that regard. I emphasised in my question a number of pieces that were included in the previous programme for Government but are not included in the current one, including increasing the emphasis on spoken Irish in the classroom, working towards the doubling of the number of young people currently in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Policy (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. It is all about action on this issue. In the area the Minister and I represent, there is appetite for this. In south Meath are Gaelscoil na Rithe, Gaelscoil Thulach na nÓg, Gaelscoil na Mí and Gaelscoil na Cille. There is a thriving Irish-language community at primary level and yet while we repeatedly built secondary schools in that area, none of them have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Welfare Service (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of full-time equivalent educational welfare officer positions across Ireland, by county, in tabular form; the number of these positions currently vacant; the timeline for filling these vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8491/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Welfare Service (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: What is the current number of full-time equivalent educational welfare officer positions across Ireland, by county? How many of these are currently vacant? What is the timeline for filling the vacancies? Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Welfare Service (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. She mentioned the rate of chronic absence from schools has more than doubled after Covid. More than a quarter of primary schoolchildren and more than a fifth of secondary school students missed at least a month of school days during the 2022–23 school year. As the Minister said, the figure is even higher in disadvantaged areas, with 42% of children attending...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Welfare Service (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. I believe she will be providing me with the figures. I realise providing figures in tabular form does not always work well when taking oral questions. I am also hearing from school leaders that there has been a shift in protocol in terms of the expectations and demands of schools before Tusla educational welfare officers are engaged. From some of my engagement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Will the Minister outline her assessment of the teacher recruitment and retention emergency at primary and secondary levels and the measures she intends to take to address it?