Written answers
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Department of Education and Skills
- State Examinations
698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the possible challenges facing leaving certificate students in accessing entry to universities outside of... - School Transport
699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transportation will be approved for a student (details supplied). [31912/21] - School Enrolments
700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that the second-level schools in the Midleton and Carrigtwohill school planning area will be able to cater for the demand for... - School Funding
702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school libraries grant will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30479/21] - School Textbooks
703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will audit all school textbooks to ensure inclusivity and visibility of breastfeeding families from preschool onwards; the way in which... - Library Services
704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether access to books and reading is important for young children particularly those who might not have other means to access a... - Schools Building Projects
706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will commence on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30536/21] - Departmental Staff
707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home school community liaison officers currently employed; the number of schools they work in; and the current cost of employing... - School Staff
708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education teachers employed in schools; and the cost of employing these teachers. [30539/21] - Special Educational Needs
709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken towards providing an autism unit and special class in a school (details supplied); when the unit will be... - Schools Building Projects
710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); if the school will be ready by the beginning of August 2021 in order to prepare... - School Enrolments
711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected enrolments at primary and secondary level for the 2021-2022 academic year. [30555/21] - School Transport
712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport support will be secured for a child (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - School Staff
713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school secretaries and caretakers pay conditions and salaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30608/21] - Educational Reform
714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for the leaving certificate 2022; if the exam will consist of a combination of accredited grades and modified papers; and if... - School Accommodation
716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on the arrangements in relation to the contingency arrangements for a school (details supplied) to be located in interim... - Special Educational Needs
718. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional two areas in which the school inclusion model is being piloted in 2021; and if there are plans to extend the scheme for the... - Schools Building Projects
719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; the estimated cost of same. [30725/21] - School Staff
720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the loss of six jobs in a school (details supplied) following a National Council for Special Education review;... - Education Schemes
721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the summer provision is available to childcare providers and preschool students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30771/21] - Special Educational Needs
724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a primary school (details supplied) will be provided with the full-time SNA and SET support required for the students with special needs in... - Public Sector Pay
725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to provide pay parity between teachers who qualified pre-2011 and post-2011; and if she will make a statement on the... - School Accommodation
726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress being made with the new school buildings for a school (details supplied). [30852/21] - Departmental Expenditure
728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in her Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to date; and... - Departmental Reviews
729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were incurred;... - School Costs
730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a mechanism through which the State can assist parents with fees in circumstances (details supplied). [30894/21] - Special Educational Needs
731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the Government’s approval for the July provision for pupils with complex special educational needs and those at greatest risk... - Covid-19 Pandemic
732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the requirements for teachers to wear masks in a primary school setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30944/21] - Teacher Training
735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and her officials will intervene in cases in which teachers who previously qualified with the HDip are now returning to teaching and being... - Schools Building Projects
736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) will lose all access to green space through planned works; if she... - Departmental Staff
738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of workers employed by her Department and in each office or agency under the aegis of her Department that earn less than the living... - Special Educational Needs
739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pathway in education for children with special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31005/21] - State Examinations
741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the leaving certificate results date has been announced as 3 September 2021 and not in August 2021 as per usual (details supplied).... - Teaching Qualifications
742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes planned in terms of the new recognition of overseas teaching qualifications. [31126/21] - School Admissions
743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the struggle to get a school placement for a student (details supplied); and if her Department can guarantee a... - State Examinations
744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alterative that has been set up to allow a person (details supplied) to sit all the leaving certificate examinations in 2021 if they have a... - School Funding
746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget for information technology equipment for both primary and secondary schools; the number of devices purchased from this per... - Pupil-Teacher Ratio
747. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classes at primary school level with 30 pupils or above by county in tabular form. [31139/21] - Education Costs
752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost per additional classroom provided at primary and post-primary level. [31144/21] - Pupil-Teacher Ratio
759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio in DEIS schools by one point; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31151/21] - Education Costs
760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to designate an additional 10 schools as DEIS band 2; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31152/21] - School Facilities
762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools participating in the school meals programme that do not have a canteen. [31154/21] - Special Educational Needs
766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special educational teachers that have been hired this academic year; and the number of additional special educational... - School Accommodation
774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on the ownership of the former site of a school (details supplied) and whether she has information for plans for... - State Examinations
775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the decision to publish the leaving certificate results on 3 September 2021 and publish them in mid-August to allow... - School Transport
777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing 1,000 additional places in the school transport system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31254/21] - State Examinations
778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reasonable accommodations for students who have an epileptic seizure immediately before or during a State exam allowing them... - School Staff
779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher transferring from one Gaelscoil to another Gaelscoil via the temporary reassignment scheme is entitled to continue to receive a... - Departmental Websites
780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their websites... - School Transport
782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can be provided with information on the outcome of their appeal for their child to be provided with school... - Special Educational Needs
783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that a person with special needs (details supplied) is provided with an appropriate school place; and if she will make a... - Covid-19 Pandemic
784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to make provision in the context of Covid-19 for online learning in exceptional cases of children living with vulnerable family members... - Special Educational Needs
785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home-based July provision will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the... - School Transport
786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places available under the school transport scheme in the academic year 2020-2021; and the share of capacity under the scheme... - Special Educational Needs
788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully implementing the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 in today’s terms in a similar... - State Examinations
789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if date for the issuing of the leaving certificate results (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Schools Building Projects
790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will approve the tender for a school (details supplied) which was first initiated in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the... - Special Educational Needs
792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully implementing the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 cost in today's terms in a similar... - State Examinations
793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for reasonable accommodation in cases in which students who experience a medical emergency immediately before or during an... - Special Educational Needs
794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated additional cost of increasing funding for the school-based summer July provision programme of education for children with complex... - Schools Building Projects
796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress regarding the development of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31590/21] - School Transport
797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the qualifying conditions for the school transport scheme will be reviewed to reduce the current radius of 4.8 kilometres as the qualification... - Covid-19 Pandemic
798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post-primary schools currently using their gym facilities to accommodate students given Covid-19 social distancing; and the number... - School Staff
799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will adhere strictly to the staffing ratios announced for DEIS schools given the extra difficulties faced by such schools... - Special Educational Needs
800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is set to lose one teacher and five SNAs from its allocation for the 2021-2022 school year; if this... - Schools Building Projects
801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed tender for a campus (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31641/21] - School Attendance
802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to restore the school completion programme to 2010 levels. [31671/21] - Departmental Properties
803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has conducted a valuation for the land at Harold’s Cross bought by her Department from the Irish Greyhound Board; the... - School Curriculum
804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours per week of physical education class should secondary school children participate in under the curriculums for junior cycle... - School Admissions
805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) who cannot find a place in a special school for their child will receive a... - State Examinations
806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided in relation to the case of a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31722/21] - School Facilities
807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in respect of the provision of replacement new school facilities at a school (details supplied); the next stages in the... - Schools Building Projects
808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 13 January 2021, the extent to which the various projects referred to therein have progressed in the... - School Curriculum
814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Irish sign language has not been included as a curricular subject (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Third Level Admissions
817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to ensure that students in Northern Ireland are not disadvantaged from accessing third-level places here due to the delay... - School Discipline
818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of expulsions that have been recorded from special schools in each of the past five years by county in tabular form; and if she will... - Special Educational Needs
819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements her Department has in place to assist the seamless transfer of a child expelled from a special needs school to another; and if... - State Examinations
821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if alternative arrangements are being put in place for leaving certificate students who miss exams due to a positive test for Covid-19; and the... - Special Educational Needs
822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 18 May 2021, when the NCSE policy advice on education provision in special classes and special... - School Staff
828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined permitting primary school teachers to transfer panel rights between counties; and if she will make a statement on... - School Admissions
829. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of admissions for the recently announced additional needs school in Cork; the number who applied for a place; the number of... - Schools Building Projects
830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a construction date has been identified for a project (details supplied). [31977/21] - School Transport
832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received by her Department in each administrative area for school transport for the coming academic school year; the... - Teacher Training
833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish Sign Language trained teachers currently working in schools controlled by her Department. [31980/21] - School Attendance
834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Wexford who failed to complete the junior certificate cycle in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in... - School Enrolments
835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will permit a school (details supplied) to enrol additional pupils given that it has the spare capacity; if she has received a request... - Schools Building Projects
836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 343 of 15 December 2020, the status of the capital appraisal process; the estimated timelines for... - School Staff
837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the developing post application by a school (details supplied) for an additional mainstream post; and if she will make a statement... - School Accommodation
839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the establishment of permanent premises for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32060/21] - School Management
840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the serious concerns raised by a school (details supplied) in respect of implementing the recommendations as stated in a... - School Transport
841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the eligibility criteria for availing of school transport with particular emphasis on concessionary transport pupils who have to...
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