Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been in contact with a union (details supplied) in relation to planned strike action by school secretaries and caretakers beginning on 28 August 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45264/25]

Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take action to recognise school secretaries as public servants to ensure that they have access to the public service pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45385/25]

Michael Cahill (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deliver pension parity for school secretaries (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45771/25]

Michael Cahill (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently engage with Forsa to advert strike action and allow for school secretaries/caretakers to have access to pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45795/25]

Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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883. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement she has had with unions representing school secretaries and caretakers regarding their planned industrial action over pension parity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45988/25]

Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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899. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that all school secretaries and caretakers are provided with a public service pension and public sector terms of employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46097/25]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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978. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46648/25]

Michael Cahill (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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979. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give favourable consideration to pension parity, critical illness leave and bereavement leave in respect of school secretaries and caretakers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46649/25]

John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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981. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline her position on the school secretaries dispute; how she intends to resolve this dispute, if she will examine correspondence on the matter as sent to this Deputy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46651/25]

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department will immediately take to resolve the current dispute involving school secretaries and caretakers; if she accepts that some of these critical workers are in an invidious position vis-a-vis their education and training board counterparts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46763/25]

Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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1003. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will initiate meaningful discussions with an organisation (details supplied) and other representatives to negotiate an agreed resolution to the school secretaries and caretakers dispute. [46991/25]

Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent)
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1004. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she has taken to end the strike action by school secretaries and caretakers; the steps she will take to improve the pension and leave entitlements of secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47019/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 802, 815, 840, 843, 883, 899, 978, 979, 981, 989, 1003 and 1004 together.

Recognising the vitally important role of secretaries and caretakers within school communities, my officials have been working intensively with stakeholders and with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to establish a platform for meaningful discussion and resolution. On Friday 5th September, following constructive engagement under the auspices of the WRC, the parties have agreed to participate in a process to resolve the issues in dispute. I very much welcome Fórsa’s agreement to withdraw strike action and enter discussions in the WRC. I also want to acknowledge the resilience and extensive effort of our school communities to keep schools open for children and young people over the course of the strike action, and the assistance provided by school management bodies in advising and supporting schools.

I believe that all parties have a responsibility to make sure that these talks succeed and that both sides must come together with an open mind without preconditions or pre-conceived ideas of a final outcome. Parties will commence engagement this week under the auspices of the WRC.