Written answers
Thursday, 4 December 2025
Department of Education and Skills
- Disadvantaged Status
270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently consider expanding the criteria for DEIS, in view of the unprecedented situation some schools (details supplied); and if she will... - School Admissions
275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied) and if she will ensure that the child in question is able to attend a school in... - School Inspections
281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will undertake an inspection of a school in Ringsend (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - School Admissions
282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will secure a place for a child in a main stream post-primary class in County Offaly (details supplied); if she is aware that there are... - Schools Building Projects
283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be available to physically amalgamate two schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68664/25] - Adoption Services
285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding her Department has allocated to drug addiction prevention initiatives in 2024, and to date in 2025. [68682/25] - Disadvantaged Status
286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied) to be included in the DEIS Plus scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68691/25] - Schools Building Projects
287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 25 November 2025, the timeframe in which the application for additional accommodation by a school... - School Curriculum
288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has obtained legal advice on the compatibility of Bí Cineálta and related SPHE requirements with Articles 41 and 42 of the... - School Accommodation
291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent in the years 2020 to 2025 on prefabricated classrooms, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68863/25] - State Properties
294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the interest her Department has in the building that formerly housed a school (details supplied). [68952/25] - School Accommodation
295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department requires a minimal life expectancy for any modular building provided for schools; the nature of that requirement; and the... - School Staff
296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to reduce the administrative burden on school principals and deputy principals to allow them to focus more on the... - Pension Provisions
297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to resolve outstanding issues in respect of pension parity for school caretakers and secretaries; and if she will make a statement on... - Schools Building Projects
298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that a permanent school project (details supplied) will proceed to tendering as planned in the last quarter of 2025; and if she will... - Social Welfare Eligibility
301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to address an anomaly related to Circular 54/2019; if a teacher has moved schools in the past 12-months, regardless of... - School Transport
302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the Department’s estimate of the current national shortfall in buses required to meet contractual and public-service...
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