Written answers

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

  • National Council for Special Education
    531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National Council for Special Education will complete and submit its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special...
  • School Transport
    532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the 20% discount for transport has not been passed on to the children and students using the school transport system given the...
  • Special Educational Needs
    533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for the special needs transport grant (details supplied). [37032/22]
  • National Council for Special Education
    535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a suitable school place will be made available for a child (details attached); if the National Council for Special Education will support...
  • School Curriculum
    536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether there should be an inclusion of trade union history and the role of trade unions in student and pupil learning (details...
  • School Transport
    537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of school bus drivers whereby once they reach 70 years of age, they are no longer allowed to be...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue a school (details supplied) with a thorough report outlining the reason for the refusal by her Department to award DEIS status...
  • School Staff
    541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider changing the rules around career breaks for teachers as teachers who move home within the country and wish to work in a new...
  • Special Educational Needs
    542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the National Council for Special Education to ensure that it has adequate capacity to cater for training courses for...
  • School Accommodation
    544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Contracts
    545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department have engaged the services of two organisations (details supplied) at any point...
  • School Staff
    546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the requirement for a teacher to have an international police clearance certificate does not apply in cases in which a person resided in a...
  • Special Educational Needs
    547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special class will be approved for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37332/22]
  • Disadvantaged Status
    548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 579 of 21 June 2022, when schools will be informed of the decision on appeals for DEIS status; and if she...
  • School Uniforms
    549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans regarding schools that do not allow generic options for uniforms in contravention of Circular 0032/2017; and if she will make a...
  • School Facilities
    550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials in her Department, particularly REALT and uSupport, have considered correspondence from a school administrator (details supplied) in...
  • Schools Building Projects
    551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application submitted from an organisation (details supplied) to the planning and buildings unit of her Department will remain open and be...
  • School Staff
    553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the number of primary schools that have been provisionally informed that they are due to lose a mainstream...
  • School Transport
    554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a late school transport application will be accepted from a student (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
  • School Enrolments
    555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of refugee children enrolled in Irish primary and secondary schools per school year and per county in tabular form; and if she will...
  • Special Educational Needs
    556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the indicators that her Department will be considering when identifying schools for opening special education classes; and if she will make a...
  • School Transport
    557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a late school transport application will be accepted from a student (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Special Educational Needs
    559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that children who attend an independent, co-educational, multi-denominational primary school will be discriminated against when it...
  • School Transport
    560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will extend eligibility for school transport to the second nearest post-primary school to primary school students; and if she will make...
  • School Textbooks
    564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the system under which licences are granted for online books (details supplied) with a view to having no time limits placed...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, median, maximum and minimum primary school class sizes for each council area in the State from 2017 to date in 2022, in tabular...
  • School Transport
    566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the application for the backdating of the remote area grant for persons (details supplied); when a decision will be made;...
  • Schools Building Projects
    567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location and the timeline for the delivery of a new and permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • State Examinations
    568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made for Leaving Certificate students who plan to study abroad in 2022 and who require their exam results for their chosen...
  • School Transport
    569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a family can be paid the remote area transport grant retrospectively for the 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2020/2021 school years having already...
  • Special Educational Needs
    572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to invest money to create a space in which non-mainstream qualifications for special skills can be developed for students; and...
  • Schools Refurbishment
    576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is dealing with a funding application for works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Special Educational Needs
    577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a detailed update on any audits carried out by the National Council for Special Education of all schools in the Dún...

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