Darren O'Rourke

741. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if he is aware of the variation in compensation levels for Board members (details supplied); and if he intends to ensure pay equality for board members sitting on these interview panels. [46479/25]

823. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Department expects a school (details supplied) to move to construction phase of works. [45521/25]

824. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to visit the United Arab Emirates to attract Irish trained teachers to return home and work in the Irish Educational System. [45522/25]

825. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [45523/25]

826. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of primary and post primary schools in County Offaly that received funding for works under emergency works scheme in the 2023 to 2024 and the 2024 to 2025 school term, in tabular form. [45524/25]

827. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the capital funding her Department provided to a school (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [45525/25]

828. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of teachers on the substitute supply panel in Carlow at present and the number in 2020, in tabular form. [45526/25]

954. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she intends to increase the compensation of LMETB board members sitting on interview panels from €130 to €260, in line with those sitting on community school interview boards. [46480/25]

956. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if newly qualified teachers are entitled to payment during the school holidays if they are covering a teacher on sick leave indefinitely and employed on a year-by-year basis. [46484/25]

957. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if teachers who are employed on a year-by-year basis, or a fixed contract, to cover a teacher who is on sick leave have to sign on for jobseeker's benefit during the holidays. [46485/25]

958. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to change the interview process for permanent posts in schools to an independent public appointment board or service. [46486/25]

963. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children who left school without a junior certificate in each of the years between 2019 and 2024, inclusive and as a percentage of total number of students sitting and eligible for the junior certificate, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46561/25]

964. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children who left school with a junior certificate but without a leaving certificate in each of the years between 2019 and 2024 inclusive and as a percentage of total number of students sitting and eligible for the leaving certificate, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46562/25]

1079. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when he last met with the director general of TG4; the issues discussed; when is he next scheduled to meet the director general of TG4. [45528/25]

1163. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide clarity for local councils on the issue of self-employed people wishing to put their name on the social housing list in relation to the discretionary requirement from individual councils to request a minimum of two years' accounts with an auditor’s report and a notice of assessment and/or self-assessment acknowledgement letter for the preceding 12-months; and the reason the decision is left up to the discretion of individual councils. [45271/25]

1164. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason Meath County Council is permitted the use of its own discretion when requesting a self-employed person, seeking to apply to join the social housing list to provide a submission of two years' accounts with an auditor’s report and a notice of assessment and/or self-assessment acknowledgement for the preceding 12-months, instead of his Department laying out clear guidelines on whether it is legally required for county councils to request said documents. [45272/25]

1165. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce legislation compelling county councils to request self-employed individuals seeking to join the social housing list to provide minimum of two years’ accounts with an auditor’s report and a notice of assessment and/or self-assessment acknowledgement letter for the preceding 12-months. [45273/25]

1341. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason widows who work full-time and are in receipt of a widow's pension and pay PRSI and all other taxes are not eligible for normal illness benefit. [44954/25]

1348. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the contributory widows pension is taken into consideration as an criteria for eligibility for widows seeking a social benefit such as illness benefit; and if there are plans to remove the contributory pension from being considered when seeking said benefits. [45069/25]

1349. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the contributory widows pension is taken into consideration as an criteria for eligibility for widows seeking back to school clothing and footwear allowance; and if there are plans to remove the contributory pension from being considered when seeking said benefits. [45070/25]

1362. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of whole time equivalent network cyber security ICT specialists at the grade of executive officer working within his Department as of 18 August 2025, in tabular form. [45527/25]

1399. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the responsibility that is on his Department to ensure that citizens are appropriately educated and informed about the terms of individual social welfare payments and the potential implications of availing or not availing of a particular payment, for example that some count as credits for a State pension and others do not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46574/25]

2306. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting surgical removal of their wisdom teeth in CHO8, in tabular form. [45529/25]

2307. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the full year cost to fully staff three extra perinatal mental health teams. [45530/25]

2308. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent staff by job title in HSE adult safeguarding teams within CHO8; and the timeframe for filling each of the vacancies, in tabular form. [45538/25]