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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Norma Foley: Requirements for school places are kept under ongoing review in the context of available information on population, enrolments and residential development activity. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, the Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas. A geographical information system is used to analyse data drawn from a range of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank both Deputies. The NCSE has confirmed the need for special classes in the area, and it is working with Department to identify suitable locations. There are 14 special classes in Ballincollig already. I very much welcome and think it is really positive that the schools want to provide these services for children in the area. We are open to more coming into it, and how that is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Education Schemes

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will come back to the Minister on the three-school campus on another day. In respect of the issue before us, she mentioned the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, but she is the Minister for Education. I want to be clear. Is she saying that in the days ahead, her Department is going to issue a letter of intent to the proposed contractor? Will that be followed very quickly by the signing of a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (16 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. As she knows, the works that can be undertaken under the minor works scheme include maintenance and small-scale improvements to school buildings and grounds. However, many schools are finding that the costs have risen substantially and they are seeing a huge shortfall. The Minister has seen in areas such as housing, and in regard to all grants, that the costs of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (16 Apr 2024)

School Admissions

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Sorca Clarke: I understand the financials that the Minister has issued and has spoken about, but I still do not hear a definitive number for what the increase in capacity will be. People, particularly those outside urban areas, are choosing to come to live in smaller towns and villages. They are most welcome to leave the bigger cities, set up in those towns and villages, make them their homes and work...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

School Staff

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (16 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for her kind words. It is very much appreciated by my family, to whom education means the world, that the Minister for Education mentioned my daughter on the floor of the House. Her sister Anna is very excited. On the matter at hand, the INTO has spoken at its recent conference about 2,000 long-term vacancies within the primary school sector, as the Minister knows....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Examinations (16 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Norma Foley: Senior cycle redevelopment is an ambitious programme of work that aims to ensure students experience senior cycle in a way that reflects who they are and the world they live in now and in which they will live in the future. I acknowledge that with the introduction of curricular change, teachers and school leaders want support in order to give their students the best possible experience. As...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024) See 55 other results from this debate

Rose Conway-Walsh: First, I want to acknowledge the brilliant work of the world-class surgeons, clinicians, consultants, oncology nurses and palliative care staff we have across this island. The cancer expertise we have on this island is absolutely remarkable. I also want to commend the work of the All-Island Cancer Research Institute and wish its representatives well in the high-level joint Euro-American...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Apr 2024)

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024) See 35 other results from this debate

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are out of time, so I have to ask the Deputy to propose the adjournment. She will have six-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024) See 22 other results from this debate

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024) See 19 other results from this debate

Mick Barry: We are told that we are living in the bright, shiny Ireland of the 2020s. Turn on many a tap in Cork city today and you might think that you had been transported back to the 1920s. Why? It is because of what is coming out of those taps. It is brown water, orange water, dirty and discoloured with sediment from the inside of water pipes that are more than 100 years old in some cases. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024) See 21 other results from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not aware until a bus driver who works for Dublin Bus contacted me that a major transport conference is taking place in Dublin this week. It is the Transport Research Arena conference, which I believe the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, are at to discuss sustainable transport. The driver asked me why there are no bus drivers at the...

Commission on the Future of the Family Farm Bill 2024: First Stage (16 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: Is the Bill opposed?

EU Regulations on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Referral to Joint Committee (16 Apr 2024)