201. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to urgently address the disparity in salary for special needs assistants (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53378/25]
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202. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider providing access to a HAA medical card and a full pension to industrial school survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53385/25]
203. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to urgently address the underinvestment in schools, the overcrowded classrooms, the stretched resources and the growing demands on staff (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53401/25]
204. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to alter the status of tutors working under the home tuition scheme in terms of their recognition and inclusion within the broader education system, and their entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53432/25]
205. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 30 September 2025, the plans to allow private independent music schools access to funding for the delivery of subsidised music lessons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53434/25]
206. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth to clarify growing concerns among school bus escorts around their payment; if it is the case that school bus escorts are only paid from the minute a child gets on the school bus until they get off, despite many escorts spending up to an hour on the bus before a child gets on; and if Circular 0085/2024 can provide clarity to school boards of manage…
207. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a school bus service will return for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53532/25]
208. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive an assessment for dyslexia, given they are not meeting developmental milestones; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53538/25]
209. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if funding is available to support a child (details supplied) in accessing a private assessment for dyslexia, given that they are not meeting developmental milestones and face long delays in the public system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53539/25]
210. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the average waiting time for a child to receive an assessment for dyslexia where they are not meeting developmental milestones; the steps being taken to ensure timely access to such assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53556/25]
211. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth to clarify the amount of the €450,000 total Education for Sustainable Development Fund available for schools that has been drawn down; and the amount of the fund that is remaining for schools to apply for. [53561/25]
212. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider establishing an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53562/25]
213. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider designating a Department between her Department and the Department of Children, Disability and Equality that can establish an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53565/25]
214. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update regarding a request for additional accommodation for a school in Cork city (details supplied) to provide appropriate and urgently needed teaching and support space for children who have received a diagnosis of autism. [53581/25]
215. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount of capital funding her Department provided to a school (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [53617/25]
216. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures her Department is taking to address the rise in absenteeism in Cork secondary schools, where the percentage of school days lost has increased from 8% in 2019/2020 to 11.8% in 2023/2024. [53657/25]
217. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a county-by-county breakdown of secondary school absenteeism levels for each of the past five years, including the percentage of students missing more than 20 days per year. [53658/25]
218. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth the supports that are being put in place for schools to tackle the issue of unexplained absences, which accounted for 43% of recorded absences in Cork secondary schools in 2023/2024. [53659/25]
219. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will report on the outcomes of the multimedia campaign on school attendance launched with Tusla Education Support Service, and whether her Department has set attendance targets to measure its effectiveness. [53660/25]
220. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if Tusla will expand resources for its Education Support Service in Cork, in view of the increase in secondary school absenteeism reported in the agency's own data. [53661/25]
221. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth how Tusla categorises and verifies "unexplained absences" in school attendance data, and what proportion of these cases receive follow-up engagement with families. [53662/25]
222. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the number of children from the Donabate and Portrane area travelling to primary and secondary school outside of the area in the 2024 school year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53671/25]
223. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline the details of the schools included in the national development plan in the Donabate area; to confirm if funding has been secured for these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53672/25]
224. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 23 September 2025, if she will confirm the length of time families ordinarily expect to wait before receiving an update following an inspector’s review; if she will clarity the process and time frame for assessment of school transport pick-up points by local Bus Éireann inspectors; the appropriate channels …
225. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline the number of skills assessment tests (textiles, fashion and design skills for home economics) that have been requested by the Teaching Council, and that have been completed, for the years 2020 to date inclusive, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53698/25]