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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The issue of lower levels of pay for SNAs, and their significant disparity, has been raised on several occasions. I urge the Minister to look at that because SNAs are very often crucial in providing the programme. A significant issue raised each year is that of the late payment of staff who volunteer their time to facilitate summer provision. This comes in the context of many schools and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of her plans to encourage as many schools, teachers and special needs assistants as possible to facilitate the summer provision programme in 2022; if the early payment of all staff involved will be guaranteed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23692/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The summer provision programme is vitally important. Eight weeks and more is an incredibly long time for children who are autistic or have profound intellectual disabilities or other special needs not to have any contact with education. That is why the programme is so crucial. Very often, parents find that the programme does not last long enough or that they are unable to find a tutor or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I welcome the review of the programme. Some of the measures outlined will indeed assist. Last year, a significant number of schools contacted me about delays in providing details of the summer provision programme, which prevented them from being able to provide the programme to students. The timeframe meant they did not have time to prepare and organise summer provision. I wrote to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Costs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she will take to reduce back-to-school costs for parents including the cost of schoolbooks, uniforms and voluntary contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23688/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Costs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Parents will be very much starting to worry about how they will pay for the next school year. It is always an enormous expense of several hundred euro and often more than €1,000 for families that have multiple children in school, for books, uniforms and voluntary contributions. We are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis that families are grappling with, so what will the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Costs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: People across the State are doing all they can to keep up with sky-high bills and runaway price increases. The cost-of-living crisis is not new and it has been going on in education for some time. The idea that we have a free education system at primary- and post-primary levels is a myth. The Department of Education is one of the only Departments that has not put forward any serious...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Costs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister said I must take a more holistic view. I very much welcome the expansion in DEIS. While I would have appreciated more engagement at the time, I very much welcomed it. It is very beneficial, but it is focused on tackling disadvantage and ensuring that every student has the same opportunity to progress. It is not focused on reducing costs, which affect every family across the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that lodged an appeal to be reconsidered for DEIS status; and when schools will find out whether their appeal has been successful. [23700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of her plans to ensure that there is uniform, comprehensive and inclusive relationship and sexuality education in all schools; and if she will provide an update on the review by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment of the relationships and sex education curriculum. [23698/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of forward planning undertaken by her Department to ensure that all children with special educational needs receive a suitable school place in their local area. [23697/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roll-out of the front-loading allocation model of special needs assistants; and if she will publish the criteria used to determine this allocation. [23696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ability to bank special education teaching hours has been removed from schools; and if so, if this decision will be reversed given the ongoing teacher supply crisis. [23767/22]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tacaím leis an moladh ón Teachta Ó Broin. Is léir nach bhfuil na spriocanna atá ag an Roinn dóthanach go leor agus ní chuireann siad os ár gcomhair go leor tithe inacmhainne. Tá an ghéarchéim tithíochta ag éirí níos measa ar go slite, go mór mór le roinnt míonna anuas. As previous speakers have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in the past three years who previously were on the Cork City Council housing list and were removed due to the fact that they had exceeded the income threshold; the average number of years for each of the applicants who were removed from the list. [22677/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in the past three years who previously were on the Cork County Council housing list and were removed because they had exceeded the income threshold; and the average number of years for each of these applicants removed from the list. [22678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the factors that will be taken into account when allocating SNAs to schools under the new frontloading allocation model; and when schools will receive their allocation for the 2022-2023 school year. [23123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 570. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of childcare services in Cork city and county in each of the past five years in tabular form. [22674/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 571. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of childcare services in Cork city and county which have permanently closed down in each of the past five years in tabular form. [22675/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 May 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 572. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of childcare places in Cork city and county broken down by age category, including after-school places and excluding after-school places in each of the past five years in tabular form; and the number of baby places in baby rooms in the same period. [22676/22]