Written answers
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Department of Education and Skills
- School Management
221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the rationale for the exclusion of a special needs assistant representative on boards of management (BOMs) at primary school... - School Transport
222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in providing transport to a pupil attending an ASD unit (details supplied); if she will expedite this transport... - Special Educational Needs
223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures are in place to assist mainstream schools who are catering for children with additional educational needs, to ensure that these... - School Staff
227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to recruit 42 additional WTE guidance posts in schools for the 2024-2025 school year. [53230/23] - Schools Building Projects
230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new secondary school in Rush will be given the go ahead to start building works. [53256/23] - School Staff
231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the ongoing issue to source home economics teachers; if there are any plans to fund this course the same as maths and Spanish... - School Admissions
232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) is not being facilitated to attend a school; the method of appeal; and if she will make a statement on the... - Renewable Energy Generation
233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has communicated directly with schools in relation to newly announced plans on solar panels, of 23 November 2023; and if not,... - School Staff
234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the payments for teachers and SNAs who provided the July Provision Programme; and if she will make a statement on the... - School Transport
235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to past Parliamentary Questions of 26 November 2013, 3 December 2019 and 17 December 2019, if she will outline her plans to conduct a... - School Funding
236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will permit schools to retain unspent Covid grants in order to put these funds towards the ongoing upkeep and maintenance of these... - Schools Refurbishment
239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Summer Works Programme is currently open for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53355/23] - School Staff
240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) which has currently more than 300 pupils and is likely to increase to 350 pupils in the next two years is entitled... - Educational Disadvantage
241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the current policy of withdrawing DEIS status to amalgamated schools where all schools do not have DEIS status prior to... - School Funding
242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for funding for emergency works submitted by a school (details supplied) has been approved. [53383/23] - School Staff
243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider initiating a campaign to attract qualified Irish primary and secondary school teachers working overseas to return to... - School Funding
244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if IT grants will be allocated to primary schools this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53428/23] - School Accommodation
245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 regarding an urgent structural issue facing them; and if she will make a... - School Funding
246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 28 November 2023, to detail the amount of funding provided to each individual national school in... - School Staff
247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress her Department has made regarding redeployment facilities for post-primary teachers, which are necessary to develop a system which... - Schools Building Projects
248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a review being undertaken by her Department in respect of a Stage 2B submission will be finalised (details supplied); and when the school... - Departmental Communications
250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department operates an X account (formerly Twitter) or any other social media account, and if such accounts are verified through a... - School Funding
251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with schools on the return of unspent Covid grants to the FSSU; whether this return can be reconsidered in some cases (details... - School Transport
252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with Bus Éireann to address the situation where a child whose application has been sanctioned is still waiting to be... - School Staff
253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any intention of improving access to guidance counselling in second level schools and colleges of further education as the current... - Schools Building Projects
254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new classroom which was to be ready in October for a school in Maynooth (details supplied) will be ready, in January 2024; if the school... - Special Educational Needs
255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) has been refused SNA support despite the recommendations of their teacher; if this decision will be... - Disabilities Assessments
256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she has taken, or if she has plans to initiate a review of the practice of principals and teachers filling in the educational section... - School Staff
258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53761/23] - School Accommodation
259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the board of management of a primary school (details supplied) will have a decision on an application for a much-needed extension; and if... - School Funding
260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why there has been no new Summer Works Scheme since 2019; the number of Summer Works Schemes applications received in 2019 and since 2019 which... - Departmental Advertising
261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how much her Department has spent on advertising on a website (details supplied) for each of the years 2019 to 2022 and to date 2023, in tabular... - School Funding
262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional supports and funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) in an effort to allow the school to increase the student... - School Staff
263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school caretakers will be afforded a new agreement for revised salary and annual leave entitlements similar to the agreement recently put in... - Teagasc na Gaeilge
264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills briseadh síos a thabhairt ar an líon daoine a raibh díolúine acu ó fhoghlaim na Gaeilge sna blianta acadúla... - Departmental Properties
267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of all properties and lands in her estates portfolio in Wicklow; and if she will indicate the status of the... - Special Educational Needs
268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look at a case (details supplied) whereby a child who is starting primary school in September may have to travel from the Raheny area... - School Accommodation
269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many schools currently utilise temporary prefab accommodation for classrooms; how much was spent on leasing or rental of such buildings in...
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