201. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education the schools in Dublin west that are opening new special classes for September 2025 to cope with levels of demand. [6928/25]
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202. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education if the National Council for Special Education and the Department of Education building unit are aware of the number of children in Dublin 15 who require a school place for September 2025; and whether they have a plan in place to deliver on this demand.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6929/25]
203. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Education the exact location of the new special school in Cork which is due to open in September 2025 for the 2025-2026 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6969/25]
204. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education for an update on additional class space for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7006/25]
205. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on her Department's work to develop a roadmap for inclusive education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7009/25]
206. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Education if she will make funding available to remove dangerous trees from school grounds, considering the damage that has been caused recently by Storm Éowyn many trees are damaged and potentially very dangerous. [7012/25]
207. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the procedure for forward planning and identifying the number, type and location of special classes in mainstream primary and post-primary schools for 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7014/25]
208. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Education if there will be a change in rules in the two-year induction period that newly qualified teachers from the UK must do before they can transfer to teach in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7015/25]
209. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Education if her Department will liaise with the KWETB to provide a timeline for the provision of additional classroom resources to a school (details supplied). [7019/25]
210. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the number of children with special educational needs accessing the home tuition grant scheme currently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7025/25]
211. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education if the National Council for Special Education and her Department have a plan for all the children who need a special class or special school place for September 2025 in Dublin 15; and if so, if she will share the details of same. [7027/25]
212. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education the actions expected from the Dublin 15 taskforce; and when a report or interim report is due. [7028/25]
213. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education if more schools in the Crowenstown, Delvin, Collinstown, Castlepollard and Fore areas of Westmeath have been sanctioned to open an ASD class for 2025/2026. [7046/25]
214. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education the current status of an additional accommodation project application by a school (details supplied); when they can proceed to the next phase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7060/25]
215. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education the steps her Department will take to ensure that a child (details supplied), who is on a waiting list for their local special school will be able access an appropriate special school space this coming September. [7079/25]
216. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if incremental credit will be given to secondary school teachers with teaching experience abroad; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7086/25]
217. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if the capitation grant will be extended to special schools that do not have a sufficient number of recognised pupils enrolled to qualify for funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7088/25]
218. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the status of the pilot scheme that provides additional speech and language therapy and occupational therapy supports, based on need, to children attending special schools; if the scheme will be extended to north Kildare in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7089/25]
219. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the funding given to special schools in north Kildare in the years 2019 to 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7090/25]
220. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Education to review the case of a child (details supplied) needing a primary school place; the measures being taken to address the shortage of special school places in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7095/25]
221. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Education when a child (details supplied) will receive school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7096/25]
222. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 5 February 2025, if the ‘further analysis’ specified will be provided; if she will identify the date this further analysis commenced and was completed; if she will clarify that this further analysis was determinative of the Department’s satisfaction that existing demand can be accommodated in the school planning …
223. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Education if he would examine the delays in implementing the new model of front-loading SNA support which was announced back in 2020; the reason it has not been implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7119/25]
224. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Education to lay out a timeline for the construction of a new school building at a school (details supplied). [7120/25]
225. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will undertake to work with Údarás na Gaeltachta to enable that body to provide support and incentives to ensure post office services can be provided sustainably in the Gaeltacht, particularly in the case where such a service would be the only public service within that community. [6959/25]