Written answers
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her Department’s rollout of reading classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8475/25] - Schools Building Projects
12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the move of school building for children in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6634/25] - After-School Support Services
16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures are being taken to identify primary schools for after-school childcare services; the up-to-date position on review of the guidelines... - School Transport
18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider examining a joint scheme with the Minister for Transport for safety works outside of schools, to make them safe, to lessen... - School Enrolments
19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the implementation of a common application process for secondary schools in Dublin 15. [8503/25] - Schools Building Projects
21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a request for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Special Educational Needs
22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deliver on the Programme for Government objective to hire additional special education teachers and special needs assistants, to... - School Textbooks
23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the post-primary schoolbooks scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8597/25] - Special Educational Needs
24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline plans for the creation of additional autism places at primary and secondary schools in County Louth for the next academic year, 25/26;... - School Enrolments
25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the need to address long waiting lists for students and the stress they cause for families in securing places in secondary... - Curaclam Scoile
26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aici moltaí na tuarascála a rinne Comhchoiste Oireachtais na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na... - Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills Chun a fhiafraí den Aire Oideachais an bhfuil sé i gceist aici a chinntiú go gcloífear leis an ngeallúint do dhaltaí... - School Facilities
28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children within the education system on a waiting list for vital therapies. [7725/25] - Schools Building Projects
29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a progress report on the school campus promised at a location (details supplied); and if she will confirm all the schools that... - Special Educational Needs
30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what steps have been taken to address the shortage of additional need services at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - School Enrolments
31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the issue of the shortage of school places in Kildare. [6505/25] - School Costs
32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to help primary and secondary school parents to cope with school costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8427/25] - Educational Disadvantage
33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the concerns of staff and the local community will be listened to; if she will reverse the decision to relocate the Donegal Education Centre... - School Curriculum
34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she has met with organisations (details supplied) to discuss the concerns of teachers regarding the proposed Leaving Certificate Senior... - Schools Building Projects
35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on extensions to schools in Kerry. [8645/25] - Special Educational Needs
36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals she has to roll out a national therapy service in education for special schools and special classes; and if she will make a... - School Staff
37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a review of the incremental credit award to teachers returning to Ireland who have gained experience working in... - Schools Building Projects
38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the summer works scheme 2025 will be open for applications; whether the categories of works covered in previous years will continue to be... - School Transport
39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school transport scheme in County Mayo; if the service from Derryfadda and Boleyglass to Crossmolina, which... - School Curriculum
40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will cease the promotion of transgender ideology in primary and secondary school curricula, given the extensive research from comprehensive... - School Staff
41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the counselling in primary schools pilot; the counselling hours delivered to date and the number of children to benefit;... - Special Educational Needs
42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what resources are allocated to ensure that teachers working in special schools are adequately trained; if there are professional learning... - School Accommodation
43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to address the concerns of the management of a school (details supplied) regarding their existing prefab accommodation... - School Transport
45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to introduce changes to the school transport scheme in advance of the next school year. [5749/25] - School Enrolments
46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure every child and young person seeking a school place in County Kildare will be offered same in 2025/2026 and 2026/2027 academic... - School Patronage
47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that there is provision of a multigendered and multidenominational secondary school in the Ashtown and Pelletstown areas of... - Schools Building Projects
48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be included in the school capital buildings programme, considering its seriously inadequate school... - Special Educational Needs
51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposed school for special education in County Monaghan; the number of children that are expected to be enrolled upon the... - School Transport
52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures to improve access to school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8534/25] - Special Educational Needs
53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her efforts to accommodate students with special educational needs in Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8533/25] - Educational Disadvantage
55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce an enhanced "DEIS Plus" programme for schools in areas of high deprivation. [8371/25] - Special Educational Needs
56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans for a special school in the Youghal and wider east Cork area to alleviate the long waiting lists; if her Department... - School Transport
59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her Department's report "School Transport 2030"; the number of pilot bus schemes now in operation; and if she will make a... - Special Educational Needs
60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase the number of special education teachers, special needs assistants, and special classes to ensure that every child with... - School Enrolments
63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had any discussion on the need for a secondary school in Newcastle, County Dublin, given the enrolment pressure in the surrounding... - School Curriculum
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to increase access to, and participation in, transition year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8489/25] - School Funding
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase investment in education per student to at least a level equal to OECD average; and if she will make a statement on the... - School Staff
66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what engagement she has had with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in relation to pensions for... - Schools Building Projects
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new school building will be provided for a school (details supplied); what stage of the development process the project is at; when... - State Examinations
68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is planning to introduce extra time in examinations for Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate students with dyslexia; and... - School Accommodation
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the expected timeline for delivery of the additional school accommodation scheme project and the review of the... - Teacher Training
70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the level of training which teachers in mainstream classes receive in the Junior Cycle Level 2 Learning program... - Schools Building Projects
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the extent to which defective concrete blocks were used in the construction of school buildings across the State; the impact of... - School Staff
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant teaching posts that exist within the primary school system and in the Gaelscoil sector. [7724/25] - Irish Language
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow a school (details supplied) to adopt a blended Irish-English approach instead of a solely Irish-language approach, enabling the... - Schools Building Projects
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to re-introduce the summer works scheme in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5538/25] - Special Educational Needs
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress of the Dublin 15 taskforce on special education places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8536/25] - School Transport
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will authorise a school bus service for children in the Rathcore area of County Meath attending second level schools in Trim, in accordance...
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