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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Strategies (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on implementation of the youth work strategy, opportunities for youth. [39687/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Strategies (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: The opportunities for youth strategy for the period 2024 to 2028 outlines 18 priority actions to be delivered by the end of 2026, including the establishment of an interdepartmental group and a review of the Youth Work Act 2021. Will the Minister provide an update on the implementation of the strategy?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Strategies (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: Youth work is indeed fundamental to our society. I stand here as a TD who came through youth work and youth theatre. I was a youth worker for a very long time. I see in my community the importance of youth work. Responsibility for youth has come within the remit of the Department. We very much need to keep it as a priority. There is a lot in education, and I would not like youth work,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Strategies (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: When we know how well youth work works, we can see what happens when it is absent. In my community in Dublin South Central the Donore Avenue community centre burnt down four years ago. A number of voluntary and paid youth work services were based there. Their absence has meant more young people do not have constructive things to do, and this has led to antisocial behaviour and challenges....

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me sit in for Deputy Rice, who is normally on the committee. I am not. I am just covering for him today. A little background about me is that I was a school completion co-ordinator for 18 years and my doctoral research was about trauma and early school leaving. I have worked with a lot of children and young people from the Traveller community...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: It works differently in different committees. Should I speak fast or slow? I was delighted to see in the briefing document that Traveller culture will be discussed and learned about in schools. That is important. It was one of the points raised in my research by a young person who said she would love to see that in school because it had been difficult for her to even say she was from the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: The reduced timetable for medical reasons is excellent. I know of a child who had a very serious injury when she was very small. She benefited from the reduced timetable, which was great because she would not have been able to manage otherwise. This part is really important but I am hearing that the initiative is being used for behaviour management. I realise reporting involves a...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I hope that the witnesses can attend the Joint Committee on Education and Youth because this issue is really important. I am struck by how not everyone who sits on the education committee comes from an education background. I am saying this as if I were the Chairperson of that committee, which I am not, but it would be great to have the witnesses in so that could hear about that lens. ...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: We can see how well young people benefited, be they Traveller children or settled children. I know from my own experience that we put great emphasis on mainstream education, but we should be putting emphasis on Youthreach, community training centres and other places that provide an excellent level of education in a way that is appropriate for each person, with care and kindness. We should...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for reconfiguration numbers at the end of the 2025 academic year. [39684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to pause the reconfiguration of MGLD schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39685/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure schools that are operating via Windows 10 are supported to upgrade all ICT infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39683/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work that has been undertaken since youth work came under her remit. [39686/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work undertaken since youth work came under her remit. [40608/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Inflation Rate (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 265. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives in place to monitor supermarket price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40315/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the new doctorate in educational psychology at Maynooth University, scheduled to commence in September 2025, includes mandatory placements in health and social care settings, including primary care, disability services and CAMHS, in line with current Psychological Society of Ireland accreditation standards and expected CORU...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new doctorate in educational psychology at Maynooth University is structured to ensure that graduates are eligible to practice across all public psychology services, and not solely within the National Educational Psychological Service. [40302/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any assessment has been carried out on the implications of limiting public funding for professional training to psychologists who may be qualified for only one employment context. [40303/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new doctorate in educational psychology at Maynooth University has received formal approval from PSI and confirmation from CORU that it will meet professional training and registration standards within 18 months. [40304/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to reviewing public funding of educational psychology training to ensure that future cohorts are equipped to work across the full range of educational, health and social care settings, in line with the Taoiseach’s stated objective to break down silos in children’s disability services. [40305/25]