76. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of available places in special schools for 13-15 year-olds across west Dublin and Kildare; the schools in which these places are available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40351/26]
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77. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of available places in special schools for 16-18 year-olds within the Lucan school planning area; the schools in which these places are available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40352/26]
78. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of available places in special schools for 16-18 year-olds across west Dublin and Kildare; the schools in which these places are available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40353/26]
79. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has assessed the number of teachers who remain in fixed-term employment contracts for five years or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40359/26]
80. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has assessed whether current CID and panel rules are limiting access to permanency for long-serving teachers; if there has been a review of how continuity rules across multiple schools operate in practice; if reforms are being considered to ensure more transparent and accessible pathways to permanency for experienced teachers; if her…
81. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of applications received for the school transport scheme for the 2026-2027 school year for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40370/26]
82. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Education and Youth following the recent survey conducted by her Department, the percentage of parents of preschool children that stated they would prefer a non-denominational school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40371/26]
83. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Education and Youth following the recent survey conducted by her Department, the percentage of parents of children currently in a non-denominational school that stated they are happy with their school being non-denominational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40372/26]
84. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider and respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding their request for consideration for a standalone secondary school for Newcastle, County Dublin. [40373/26]
85. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) for additional school accommodation; the timeline for same; if it can be prioritised given the current conditions in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40379/26]
86. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department is committed to ensuring low student-teacher ratios for DEIS and DEIS Plus schools; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) is due to lose a mainstream class teacher as their pupil numbers on 30 September were 165 and not 166; if she will engage with the school to ensure that their student-tea…
87. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if representations have been made by retired teachers’ organisations regarding the importance of maintaining parity between pension increases for retired teachers, pay increases awarded to serving teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40403/26]
88. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a schedule of contracts will be provided that her Department and bodies under her aegis have had with an organisation (details supplied) and/or its subsidiaries; the value of each; the type and/or name of each project; if any project has been abandoned, paused, put on hold and completed; if any projects over ran on cost and delivery; and if so, t…
89. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the cost on many families of purchasing tablets and notebooks outside of the free book scheme; the reason many schools are dictating to families that the new Leaving Certificate syllabus demands such technology; the steps she will take to bring in any support for hard pressed families to support such purchases; and if s…
90. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will remediate the reduction in teaching resources allocated to a DEIS plus school (details supplied) given the significant need in the area and the tiny reduction in enrolment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40487/26]
91. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of general learning disability special classes in the school system; the plans to expand the number; and her views on whether the lack of sufficient general learning disability special classes is facilitating social exclusion of children. [40509/26]
92. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding the mechanisms in place for schools to seek funding for a large scale communication board (details supplied) to support students, particularly those with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40510/26]
93. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of concerns regarding the DEIS plus appeals process in which the process established has no facility for schools that were excluded from the scheme to submit additional important information regarding specific challenges in their school communities; and if she will address these concerns. [40513/26]
94. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth when schools will be permitted to recruit for additional SNA posts allocated following the recent reviews, including in the case of a school (details supplied); the measures being taken to avoid further delays in filling these posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40532/26]
95. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the concerns of a school (details supplied) regarding their teaching allocation for the 2026-2027 school year; if her Department understands the high level of need amongst infant classes, and the possible consequence of split classes for the children, their peers and staff in the school; if her Department accepts that the allocation…
96. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a primary school (details supplied) has not been designated DEIS given the school is a feeder school to the DEIS post primary in the locality, and is part of the school completion programme; if her Department accepts the school is operating as a DEIS school due to the high level of social, emotional and behavioural need, without any extra r…
97. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to urgently increase capitation funding for primary schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40655/26]
98. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a child in County Kerry (details supplied) will receive an educational placement along with the level of consistent therapeutic and medical support that is urgently needed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40670/26]
99. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 20 May 2026, the property management division’s reasoning behind retaining this land (details supplied) for future educational provision considering a high-pressure gas pipe runs directly under the land in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40689/26]
100. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 25 March 2026, the position regarding the status of this project (details supplied) that has been extensively delayed; the timeline for commencement and completion; confirmation that phases following phase one will be delivered as initially agreed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40706/26]