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Michael Healy-Rae Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
276. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a school (details supplied) is not being included in the DEIS scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68634/25]
Sinéad Gibney Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
277. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps her Department is taking to ensure there is adequate school provision in Dublin Rathdown, particularly in areas where the population has grown significantly in recent years, and local school places have not kept pace with population growth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68637/25]
Sinéad Gibney Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
278. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department is aware of significant numbers of children being left without an offer of a primary school place in Kilternan school planning area; the steps her Department has taken to address the shortfall of school places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68638/25]
Sinéad Gibney Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
279. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of new school places her Department plans to create in Kilternan school planning area annually for the next five years, by year; and if they represent a new school or an expansion of existing schools, in tabular form. [68639/25]
Sinéad Gibney Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
280. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of new school places her Department plans to create in Ballinteer Stepaside school planning area annually for the next five years, by year; and if they represent a new school or an expansion of existing schools, in tabular form. [68640/25]
Eoin Hayes Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
281. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Department will undertake an inspection of a school in Ringsend (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68647/25]
Carol Nolan Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
282. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth 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 over 100 children awaiting such placement offers in the county; the steps she is taking to address these concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68657/25]
Aisling Dempsey Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
283. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Education and Youth when funding will be available to physically amalgamate two schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68664/25]
Aisling Dempsey Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
284. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Education and Youth when school projects (details supplied) will progress. [68665/25]
Aisling Dempsey Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
285. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount of funding her Department has allocated to drug addiction prevention initiatives in 2024, and to date in 2025. [68682/25]
Michael Healy-Rae Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
286. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth 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]
Matt Carthy Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
287. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 25 November 2025, the timeframe in which the application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied) will be decided; if she will expedite this process considering the severe pressure on the school at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68696/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
288. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she has obtained legal advice on the compatibility of Bí Cineálta and related SPHE requirements with Articles 41 and 42 of the Constitution and section 9 of the Education Act, if so, to outline the key considerations that informed her Department's position, and the statutory basis relied upon to require whole-school implementation where parents do …
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
289. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth the safeguarding assessment undertaken by her Department before finalising Bí Cineálta, including the methodology used, the evidence sources reviewed, and whether recent reports such as the Cass Review and the HSS evidence review were examined, and if she will publish the assessment or its summary findings. [68834/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
290. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth to set out the procedures that schools are required to follow when a parent withholds consent from specific elements of Bí Cineálta or SPHE content, including the recording of non-consent, the supervision or alternative learning arrangements to be provided, and the instructions issued to schools to ensure that such pupils are not identified or stigmat…
Conor Sheehan Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
291. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Education and Youth 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]
Conor Sheehan Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
292. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools where asbestos was found to be present, and the amount spent on the management and removal of asbestos in schools, between 2020 and 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68864/25]
Michael Cahill Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
293. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth if urgent assistance will be provided to a school in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68887/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
294. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the interest her Department has in the building that formerly housed a school (details supplied). [68952/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
295. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department requires a minimal life expectancy for any modular building provided for schools; the nature of that requirement; and the average life expectancy of school modular buildings. [68953/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
296. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures in place to reduce the administrative burden on school principals and deputy principals to allow them to focus more on the educational needs of their school community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68954/25]
Brendan Smith Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
297. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to resolve outstanding issues in respect of pension parity for school caretakers and secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68988/25]
Barry Ward Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
298. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth 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 make a statement on the matter. [68992/25]
Barry Ward Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
299. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the timeline for the completion of a permanent school project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68993/25]
Barry Ward Written 4 Dec 2025 · to Education
300. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding the permanent school project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68994/25]