Written answers

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  • School Admissions
    149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second level school place might be secured for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37262/24]
  • School Staff
    150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to move school cleaners/janitors onto public sector pay scales, as was done with school secretaries and school caretakers; and...
  • School Facilities
    151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the delays experienced with the implementation of an ASD unit in a school (details supplied); the reasons for...
  • Child Abuse
    152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Government plans to fully implement the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case taken by a person (details supplied),...
  • Schools Administration
    154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has been told she may not be paid for six weeks; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Special Educational Needs
    155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants to the Educational Therapy Support Service, and what areas are they in. [37338/24]
  • School Facilities
    156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider incorporating an all-weather, multi-use sports pitch in conjunction with their new build for a school build...
  • Education and Training Boards
    157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost for the establishment of a separate ETB with a remit for the national schools and second level colleges under the patronage of...
  • School Staff
    158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a special needs assistant (details supplied) is not on a permanent contract despite being the school’s sole special needs...
  • School Textbooks
    159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if free schoolbooks for primary age children are available for students using home tuition grants, many of whom do not have an appropriate school...
  • Public Sector Pay
    160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will engage with a person (details supplied) regarding pay scale concerns and queries; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • School Transport
    161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the school transport pilot projects; the budget for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37426/24]
  • Schools Building Projects
    162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37427/24]
  • School Transport
    164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate school bus tickets to siblings (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • School Funding
    167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the capitation grant for both primary and secondary schools; the last time they were reviewed by her Department; if her...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
    169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the average primary school class size in County Wicklow; the way it compares to the national average; the efforts that are...
  • Irish Language
    171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will take the first step towards the commitment from the current Programme for Government to develop an Irish language policy in the...
  • School Staff
    172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will authorise payments to a school (details supplied). [37499/24]
  • Departmental Priorities
    173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is making any contingency plans for the possibility of having to provide school places for a wave of refugees coming to Europe and Ireland...
  • Child Abuse
    174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, given recent reports of historical sexual abuse in primary and secondary schools, what course of action can be taken by victims of...
  • School Transport
    175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to escalate a new school bus route (details supplied) and grant approval for same. [37545/24]
  • Special Educational Needs
    176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of a special needs school for County Monaghan, following her recent meeting with parents. [37549/24]
  • Departmental Correspondence
    177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a situation in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37552/24]
  • Gender Recognition
    178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for her views that gender transitions "have to be medically led", as mentioned in an article (details supplied); and if she will make...
  • School Staff
    179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the restoration of posts of responsibility in primary schools, as called for by an organisation (details supplied); and if...
  • Special Educational Needs
    180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of principals in special educational needs primary schools (details supplied); if this is under...
  • Disadvantaged Status
    181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school in County Louth (details supplied) will be granted DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37578/24]
  • School Transport
    182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate a school bus ticket to a pupil (details supplied), given the upheaval that will be forced upon...
  • Freedom of Information
    184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of freedom of information requests submitted to her Department in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the total number of such...
  • Special Educational Needs
    185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for the secondary school education of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37639/24]
  • Schools Building Projects
    186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application by a school (details supplied) for a new building, having witnessed its seriously inadequate school facilities and...
  • School Funding
    187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to primary schools across the State to provide important life skills such as swimming lessons. [37641/24]
  • School Transport
    188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the correct school bus ticket will be provided to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37642/24]
  • School Facilities
    189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when modular classrooms will be installed at a school (details supplied) in Limerick city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37649/24]
  • Child Abuse
    190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received the correspondence from a family (details supplied), which has been sent on seven separate occasions since August 2021,...
  • Schools Building Projects
    191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the three proposed schools, one secondary and two primary, in a location identified in the Donabate local area plan (details...
  • EU Funding
    192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects and programmes with her Department which have been allocated funding under the EU's Recovery and Resilience Programme; the funds...
  • State Examinations
    193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the review of the reasonable accommodation policy for exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37804/24]
  • Departmental Policies
    194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the announcement that she is planning on banning mobile phones from all second-level schools, if she has considered the financial costs...
  • School Staff
    195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home school liaison support workers in Donegal in 2024; and the number in 2020, in tabular form. [37841/24]
  • School Enrolments
    196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post primary schools that have an enrolment figure of 500 students or more. [37842/24]
  • School Staff
    197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers on the substitute supply panel in Kerry at present; and the number in 2020, in tabular form. [37843/24]
  • Schools Building Projects
    198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the school building programme in Louth. [37844/24]
  • Special Educational Needs
    199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism and special education class spaces currently in County Leitrim. [37845/24]
  • School Staff
    200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE special educational needs organisers currently in place in County Wexford. [37846/24]
  • Departmental Data
    201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of schools in County Laois that applied for STEM grants in 2023. [37847/24]
  • Special Educational Needs
    202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD classrooms available to children with special needs attending national schools in the Dublin 4 area; and if she will make a...
  • School Enrolments
    203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the optimal figure of enrolment her Department has in place for second-level schools in the State; and if she will make a statement on the...

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