Written answers

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

  • Public Sector Pay
    504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views in relation to Haddington Road hours (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54601/22]
  • Child and Family Agency
    505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish the Tusla’s first quarter 2022 reduced day outcome report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54786/22]
  • Budget 2023
    506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the funding allocated to educational psychologists in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55573/22]
  • School Transport
    507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to alleviate the issue of overcrowding on school buses from Kinlough and Bundoran to Ballyshannon, given that...
  • School Facilities
    509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the repair of the wheelchair lift at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54147/22]
  • Schools Building Projects
    510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available for a school (details supplied) to install solar panels on the roof of its building; and if she will make a...
  • School Transport
    511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to a student (details supplied) in County Mayo. [54163/22]
  • Departmental Funding
    512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to make funding available to trainee educational and child psychologists in 2023/2024, as is available to such trainees in...
  • School Enrolments
    513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist a school (details supplied) with a matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54208/22]
  • Mental Health Services
    514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a school (details supplied) for a pilot programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54209/22]
  • Ukraine War
    515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and all bodies under her Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying...
  • Departmental Properties
    516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies under his...
  • School Staff
    517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any analysis of shortages in second level teachers, specifically in geography and by subject; and if she will provide the...
  • Teacher Training
    518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures, if any, that are being taken to identify and address obstacles to training and recruiting second level teachers. [54256/22]
  • School Transport
    519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received for the academic year for transport for children with additional needs; and the number that have been...
  • Education Policy
    522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if gambling awareness workshops have been rolled-out in secondary schools in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54275/22]
  • School Transport
    523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to a person (details supplied) who contacted this Deputy regarding school transport needs; and if she will make a statement...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1169 of 26 July 2022, if she recognises that her Department’s reliance on the Pobal HP deprivation...
  • Teacher Training
    525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1134 of 26 July 2022, when arrangements for next year’s supplementary panel, as referred to in her...
  • Broadband Infrastructure
    526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 5 October 2022, if her Department's broadband technical team has been able to resolve the problems...
  • School Transport
    527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be given a school bus ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54376/22]
  • State Examinations
    528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Leaving Certificate exam will be available in Ukrainian language for students to sit the Leaving Certificate in June 2023 (details...
  • Special Educational Needs
    529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54383/22]
  • Departmental Data
    530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of fee-paying primary schools in Ireland by county; the number of children in fee-paying primary schools; and if she will make a...
  • Education Schemes
    531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated cost per child of the proposed extension of the free book scheme as in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • School Transport
    533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for wheelchair-accessible school transport for a pupil (details supplied) will be reviewed and a decision issued on same; and...
  • Special Educational Needs
    536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 25 May 2022, if she will provide an update on a student struggling (details supplied); and if she...
  • Schools Building Projects
    538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the expansion of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54406/22]
  • Disadvantaged Status
    539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will undertake a review of the assessment for DEIS to take into account demographic changes, particularly changes in areas...
  • Schools Administration
    540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department intends to provide administrative support to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54421/22]
  • Teacher Training
    541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the MA programme for teachers was increased to two years; if this is having an impact on recruitment of teachers; and if she will...
  • Education Policy
    542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a limit on the number of educational assessments made available to students in schools on an annual basis; and if so, the way in...
  • Special Educational Needs
    545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the funding request for an autism unit for a school (details supplied). [54426/22]
  • Schools Building Projects
    546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of a capital project for a school (details supplied); and if she will provide a timeline for the...
  • Special Educational Needs
    547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be provided to schools following the recent announcement that the NCSE would be nominating an 'appropriate...
  • Schools Building Projects
    549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the land next to Clongriffin DART station, which is earmarked as a school site; and the current plans, if any, for a school at that...
  • Grant Payments
    550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a remote area grant application of a family (details supplied) outstanding for the past two years; and if she will make a statement...
  • School Transport
    552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alternative bus transport services that are available for pupils (details supplied) who have been left without a bus service to their school...
  • School Staff
    553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 11 October 2022, the number of teaching posts that are vacant as of today's date (details supplied)....
  • Special Educational Needs
    554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the roles that SENO and NEPS have regarding the new guidelines for assessments of needs. [54526/22]
  • School Transport
    559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an appeal made by a person (details supplied) in County Louth against the decision not to provide a school bus...
  • Special Educational Needs
    560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools accept and comply with a new direction issued from the NCSE and her Department, concerning children with additional needs (details...
  • School Costs
    562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the information or circulars that have been provided to schools in relation to voluntary contributions, and the advice that the schools should...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54660/22]
  • School Transport
    564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the bus service that served schools (details supplied) can be reinstated to a two-bus service, with one for each school; and if she will make...
  • Special Educational Needs
    565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to have teachers carry-out assessment of need plans for children with disabilities rather than the NEPS service; the way in which a...
  • Departmental Data
    566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new ASD units for schools in Rathangan (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54712/22]
  • School Transport
    567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children that were accommodated on the school transport scheme for this academic year; the number that was accommodated last year;...
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the solar schools' initiative announced in Budget 2023; the number of schools that will have solar panels...
  • Education Policy
    569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the Government intends to further promote education on climate change and climate action in primary and post primary schools; and if...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54724/22]
  • Schools Building Projects
    571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned extension for a national school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54772/22]
  • Education Policy
    572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish research into the use of a reduced school day conducted under the schools' inspectorate; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Traveller Education
    573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will launch the consultation on the Traveller Education Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54788/22]
  • Mental Health Services
    575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department intends to provide additional counselling supports to schools, given the increase in young person's experiencing difficulties...
  • School Staff
    576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SNA allocation will be increased for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54827/22]
  • Departmental Reviews
    578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 is likely to be completed; when the review will be...
  • Departmental Properties
    579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the future educational needs of children in Newcastle, County Dublin, will be catered for; if a post-primary school could be...
  • School Enrolments
    580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54892/22]
  • Departmental Funding
    581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concerns regarding funding provided to a school (details supplied) for summer projects to improve its exterior environment can be resolved to...
  • Disability Services
    582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of the autism unit at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54922/22]
  • Departmental Reviews
    583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the results of the school transport scheme review that closed on 10 February 2022 will be published; the way in which the results of the...
  • Departmental Data
    584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have received disability intervention programmes for students and are expected to run such programme without...
  • Departmental Funding
    587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will make family-tracing funds available to survivors of industrial schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Psychological Assessments
    588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be seen to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55060/22]
  • School Transport
    589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an application by a person (details supplied) for the special education school grant; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Funding
    590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of approved funding for capital works that has been made available to a school (details supplied) over the past five...
  • School Transport
    592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special transport grant rate was last increased; the details of such an increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55170/22]
  • School Staff
    593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that her Department is taking to address the shortage of primary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Data
    594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the staffing complement at primary schools in County Meath; for the number of schools days lost in Meath primary schools as a...
  • School Staff
    595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that her Department is taking to address the shortage of primary school teachers at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and...
  • School Enrolments
    596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special educational needs places at a school can be allocated to pupils (details supplied). [55194/22]
  • School Staff
    598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55212/22]
  • Disadvantaged Status
    599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to award DEIS status to a school (details supplied) given that all three other schools in the same town have...
  • Schools Building Projects
    600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of building underway at a school (details supplied); and the timelines in place for opening to students. [55247/22]
  • School Transport
    602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be facilitated in the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55255/22]
  • School Facilities
    603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the proposed car-park lease in respect of a school (details supplied); when the lease will be issued; and if she...
  • School Staff
    604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure that replacement teachers and SNAs are available for schools where staff are out on sick leave; and if...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of teachers and the special leave with pay for Covid-19 payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Services
    607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for an ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Funding
    608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to educational psychologist trainees, if her attention has been drawn to concerns raised by students in relation to the working group...
  • Special Educational Needs
    609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to recent instructions to teachers and principals to conduct...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria which apply for a primary school to meet DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55373/22]
  • School Discipline
    612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarity on the extent of section 29 appeals during and since Covid in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
  • Special Educational Needs
    613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposal from the NCSE that school principals and or teachers would carry out assessments of the needs of students. [55428/22]
  • Schools Refurbishment
    614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; the estimated cost of this project; and if she will make a statement...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review the decision to deny the DEIS appeal from a school (details supplied) despite the school being located beside three...
  • Departmental Staff
    617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of officials in her Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the...
  • School Funding
    618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific budgetary measures which she has put in place to provide for the increased energy costs for recognised schools in the free education...
  • School Enrolments
    619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide for the immediate provision of additional post-primary schools in the Dublin 8 planning zone given that figures supplied by...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital expenditure on schools in each of the constituencies in County Cork in each of the past ten years in tabular form. [55538/22]
  • Schools Amalgamation
    621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the proposed amalgamation of two schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Teaching Qualifications
    622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that teachers who qualified abroad have access to the Droichead framework, in order that they can register with the Teaching...
  • Special Educational Needs
    623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future planned ASD unit additions in north County Dublin by school, number of places expected; the year of opening; and if she will make a...
  • School Curriculum
    624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the organisations that participated in the consultation process for the reviewed RSE programme; when she expects to complete the review of the...
  • School Enrolments
    626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current steps being taken to increase the availability of multi or non-denominational secondary school places in Dublin 9 and 11; and if she...
  • School Transport
    627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied), who is currently eligible for school transport, can be accommodated on the 2pm school transport service being...
  • Special Educational Needs
    628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the situation of a student (details supplied) who requires an SNA. [55652/22]

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