• Education and Training Boards
  478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the newly appointed general secretary of Education and Training Board Ireland has accepted the permanent post while maintaining their previous...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to ensure that applicants to the PEMP that had registered for qualifying exams which were cancelled due to the...
• Home Schooling
  480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home tutors will be entitled to an insurable status and entitled to pensionability for their work; and if she will make a statement on the...
• School Transport
  481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the payment system for school transport will reopen to allow students to purchase school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on...
• Schools Building Projects
  483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of the amalgamated community school in Ennistymon, County Clare (details supplied); and if she will make a...
• Pupil-Teacher Ratio
  484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if changes will be made to the teacher-pupil ratio or resources allocated to allow schools to recruit additional teachers beyond that ratio on...
• Special Educational Needs
  485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue (details supplied) with regard to home tutor hours for children with special needs will be addressed; and if the directive will be...
• Education and Training Boards
  486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 3 June 2020, the date of each meeting held during 2019 and to date in 2020 between officials from...
• State Examinations
  489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken and the arrangements put in place for the 900 students that have been schooled entirely at home by a parent for the...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for teachers that are in a shared teacher role when they return to school in August 2020 in the context of Covid-19 and the return to...
• Special Educational Needs Staff
  491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protections there will be for SNAs when schools reopen; if there will be specific training provided to same; if SNAs will be required to stay...
• Schools Building Projects
  493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to build a new secondary school in Glanmire, County Cork in view of the increasing population and the existing shortage of school...
• Bus Éireann
  494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 250 of 18 September 2013, 405 of 26 April 2016 and 262 of 9 June 2020, if he will provide the information...
• Education Policy
  495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the introduction of free, safe and adequate period products for publicly funded educational spaces; and if she will make a...
• School Accommodation
  496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure a school (details supplied) has a school building in the area for reopening in September 2020. [21256/20]
• School Transport
  497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the decision of Dublin Bus to not renew the contracts for school bus services across Dublin and to cut the school transport services...
• School Accommodation
  498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent site will be sourced for a school (details supplied) within the assigned catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Special Educational Needs Staff
  499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the use of special education teachers as substitute cover; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21270/20]
• Education Policy
  500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider introducing essential life skills such as personal financial management, nutrition and basic meal preparation as mandatory...
• Schools Amalgamation
  501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a communication will be provided from her Department or the NCSE in relation to the case of a school (details supplied) which was offered...
• Education Policy
  502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a diagnosis of giftedness in the criteria for receipt of appropriate educational supports. [21309/20]
• School Funding
  503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the significant gap in funding between voluntary secondary schools and those which are run by the ETB sector;...
• Educational Disadvantage
  504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that many schools in disadvantaged inner city areas do not get the sort of supports needed to even up educational...
• Supervision and Substitution Scheme
  505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a relaxation of the criteria to take up employment as a substitute teacher for those with a relevant...
• Schools Building Projects
  506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a planning application will be lodged for a school (details supplied); and the person or body that will make the application. [21371/20]
• Special Educational Needs
  507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a mainstream school place with the assistance of a special needs assistant will be put in place for a person (details supplied). [21434/20]
• School Staff
  508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21518/20]
• School Playgrounds
  509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied) regarding emergency issues at a playground; if advice will be provided to the school; and if she...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the school appealed the decision; if the concerns of parents and teachers will be...
• School Transport
  511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of children that were unsuccessful in the lottery for concessionary places on school transport in 2019 and again in the 2020-2021...
• Schools Building Projects
  512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a tender has been issued and funds ring-fenced for the construction of a new school (details supplied). [21587/20]
• School Staff
  513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the appointment of a fifth senior infants teacher in a school (details supplied) will be supported for the 2020-2021 academic year in view of...
• Teaching Council of Ireland
  514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a Teaching Council number for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21610/20]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provisions have been or are being made to provide PPE for persons returning to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21617/20]
• School Accommodation
  518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied). [21637/20]
• Teaching Qualifications
  519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers that studied abroad can complete an online course (details supplied) in lieu of attending the Gaeltacht course in order to obtain...
• School Transport
  520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that will be made for private bus operators that convey secondary school pupils and now will be operating at 50% capacity but...
• Scoileanna Oileáin
  521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aici stádas scoileanna beaga a bhronnadh ar na meánscoileanna ar na hoileáin; mura bhfuil, cén...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans that have been put in place for structured online education for students including personalised feedback of first and...
• Teaching Qualifications
  523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) with teaching qualifications from abroad will be allowed to apply for employment here; and if she will make a...
• School Transport
  524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the hiring of extra school buses by her Department due to Covid-19 will be under the same terms and conditions including payment as applies to...
• School Accommodation
  525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21752/20]
• State Examinations
  526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns regarding predicated grades; the method used to calculate the grades; and if the release of predicted grades by...
• School Staff
  527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she has put in place to fund the salaries of ancillary staff for schools that were subject to the independent arbitration process...
• School Transport
  528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated in relation to school transport for their child; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Schools Site Acquisitions
  529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the need for a primary and or post-primary school in Meakstown (details supplied) will be addressed; if a site will be considered; and if she...
• Special Educational Needs
  530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue to persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21796/20]
• School Staff
  531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary teachers, respectively on secondment from their teaching posts to positions within her Department or...
• School Accommodation
  532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for an extension to a school (details supplied). [21806/20]
• Schools Building Projects
  535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied); if the site for the new school has been secured; if not, the stage at...
• School Transport
  537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue to persons (details supplied) on school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21832/20]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools will be encouraged to continue to make space available to sporting clubs and organisations during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she...
• School Funding
  539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be provided on an appeal by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21840/20]
• Special Educational Needs
  540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an ASD unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21841/20]
• State Examinations
  541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the gap between the publication of the leaving certificate results and the publication of the predicted grades by teachers; if the...
• Home Schooling
  544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the parents of a child with autism and respiratory issues who is enrolled for third class in a primary school has the option of taking the...
• School Accommodation
  545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of planning applications made by or on behalf of her Department for the installation of prefabs; the reason for each application in...
• School Transport
  547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school transport application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21862/20]
• School Accommodation
  549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a design team will be appointed for a new national school campus for Tuam, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• General Data Protection Regulation
  551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policies and guidelines developed for schools in respect of online teaching of minors with due consideration to GDPR. [21892/20]
• Supervision and Substitution Scheme
  552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will arrange to have substitute supply panels made available to four schools (details supplied) to enable them to function during the...
• State Examinations
  553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests made to sit formal leaving certificate examinations by county in tabular form. [21932/20]
• Special Educational Needs
  554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of exceptional reviews of mainstream special needs assistants allocation applications submitted to the NCSE by 22 May 2020; the number...
• Schools Building Projects
  555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school project (details supplied). [21943/20]
• Special Educational Needs Staff
  557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a further SNA allocation will be facilitated in the case of a school (details supplied) in view of the fact the current allocation is...
• School Accommodation
  558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter regarding accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21964/20]
• School Staff
  559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter regarding a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21970/20]
• School Transport
  560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extra buses will be allocated for school transport in the north and east Cork area in view of the demographic demands and the capacity...
• Schools Building Projects
  563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has ring-fenced tender costs for a building (details supplied). [21978/20]
• State Examinations
  565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the leaving certificate grades by teachers will be released before round 1 CAO offers and the appeal process commences (details supplied); and...
• Summer Works Scheme
  566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a summer works grant for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22002/20]
• School Transport
  567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional resources to enable Bus Éireann to provide extra school transport to accommodate the new rules in relation...
• State Examinations
  568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the formula for the leaving certificate 2020 examinations will be made public in full detail (details supplied); and if she will make a...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clear guidelines will be issued for primary and secondary schools on drop off and collection of students in view of the significant issues...
• School Accommodation
  570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a deadline by which infrastructural works in schools are to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22019/20]
• School Transport
  571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has issued instructions to Bus Éireann to reject late payments from parents of eligible applicants under the school...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the necessary support will be provided to allow a school (details supplied) to open safely in view of the issues raised by the board of...
• State Examinations
  574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ranking system which teachers needed to provide for leaving certificate students for the predictive grade system will be made public; if...
• School Staff
  575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if progress has been made on improving the working conditions for school secretaries who are not employed by her Department; the timeframe if...
• Special Educational Needs
  576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures her Department has taken to engage with families of children with disabilities; and the provisions in place to allow these families...
• Scéimeanna Tacaíochta
  577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a cheadófar Deontas Lóistín na gCeantar Iargúlta do scoláire (sonraí tugtha); cén fáth a...
• School Transport
  578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22076/20]
• State Examinations
  579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions made and supports available to teachers and students who will sit their leaving certificate exams in 2021 in view of the fact that...
• Schools Building Projects
  580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22092/20]
• School Funding
  581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application under the assistive technology scheme by a school (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [22097/20]
• School Transport
  582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding school transport and private bus operators; and if she will...
• Departmental Correspondence
  583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter raised in correspondence regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Child Abuse
  584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding abuse survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22143/20]
• School Staff
  585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools (details supplied) will be approved for teaching principals; if outstanding issues will be resolved; and if she will make a statement...
• School Transport
  586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be reinstated in respect of a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22180/20]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the guidelines will be clarified regarding the wearing of face masks in secondary schools for students with health issues such as asthma...
• School Transport
  588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be reinstated for a family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22182/20]
• Ministerial Correspondence
  589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason correspondence (details supplied) has not been replied to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22185/20]
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the impact of ventilation capacity of classrooms on Covid-19 risk; if this has informed Departmental advice to...
• Special Educational Needs
  592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision being made for pupils with special needs in order that they can continue their learning when schools close and they do not have...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for the reopening of schools drawn down in each county to date; the funding drawn down for primary and secondary schools,...
• School Accommodation
  595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time pupils will be in the temporary accommodation in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Schools Site Acquisitions
  597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has formally prioritised the purchase of zoned land in a school (details supplied); the additional steps taken to expedite the...
• School Transport
  598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be reinstated for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22209/20]
• School Accommodation
  599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if vacant buildings will be refurbished and retrofitted in order that they can be used by a school (details supplied) to provide extra space and...
• School Transport
  600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if late applications for school transport will be accepted from a family (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of preparations to reopen a school (details supplied); the status of preparations for permanent facilities; and if she will make a...
• Schools Building Projects
  605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress for the new schools in Carrigtohill campus, County Cork. [22259/20]
• School Transport
  606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions being made for families nationwide who have not found a place for their child on a school bus in 2020; and if she will make a...
• School Accommodation
  607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made in respect of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo for additional accommodation; and if she...
• Schools Building Projects
  609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress of a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22313/20]
• School Accommodation
  610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the proposal to provide additional permanent accommodation at a school (details supplied) will be advanced to the next stage at an early date;...
• Schools Building Projects
  613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22349/20]
• School Enrolments
  614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools that have returned for the 2020/2021 academic year with classes of 30 or more by county in tabular form and if she will make a...
• Covid-19 Pandemic
  615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools have the right to exclude or prohibit students from attending post-primary schools due to the fact that they cannot wear a face...
• Special Educational Needs
  617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for an extension to a school (details supplied) which will provide for an ASD unit. [22396/20]
• School Transport
  618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €25.50 grant will be extended for driving a child to school to parents in rural areas in which no bus service is available. [22411/20]
• Supervision and Substitution Scheme
  619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some schools are not part of a cluster to provide substitute supply panels (details supplied); if the criteria which determines if a...
• State Examinations
  620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school profiling based on the performance of previous years will now not proceed for fear it could discriminate against high performance...
• Special Educational Needs
  621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the educational access difficulties for a child (details supplied) [22429/20]
• Departmental Offices
  623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to her Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and...
• Schools Building Projects
  624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress on a building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22496/20]
• Special Educational Needs
  625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 18 December 2019, the provisions over and above that are available to children with hearing loss...
• Schools Building Projects
  626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 30 July 2020, the expected date of publication of the tender and appointment of a contractor for the...
• Ministerial Advisers
  627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants working in her Department appointed and or recruited and...
• Summer Works Scheme
  628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to completely replace a roof on a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that its summer works scheme application...
• School Transport
  629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that the bus service is only being...
• Teacher Training
  633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teacher placement as part of teacher training courses will proceed in 2020 in primary and post-primary schools; if health and safety plans are...
• Special Educational Needs
  634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to instances in which children with ASD are unable to be excused from doing core subjects in primary schools in...
• Ministerial Advisers
  637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special advisers that will be hired by her Department. [22772/20]

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