Questions

328. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding bid her Department submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation in advance of budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40963/26]

334. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a detailed breakdown by county of children without an appropriate school place for September 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41082/26]

335. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a timeline as to when the promised SNA circular which will replace 30/2014 will be released; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41083/26]

336. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a timeline as to when the promised SNA redeployment circular will be released; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41084/26]

337. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a detailed breakdown, by county and primary/post primary of the number of schools have signed up to the school-based summer programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41085/26]

338. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a detailed breakdown, by county of the number of families have registered for the home-based summer programme; if she can detail the supports that will be made available to those who missed the deadline or who cannot find teachers and SNAs to provide the programme, due to the new portal system and the late release of information; and i…

339. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to detail the reasoning for the difference in pay for teachers and SNAs when providing the same work during home-based summer programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41087/26]

340. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department will publish a non-technical methodology note explaining how school-place demand is projected using child benefit data, school enrolments, census data, residential development information and GIS analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41088/26]

341. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth when school-level data from the 2025 Primary School Survey will be published; the format it will take; the way in which this data will feed into local and national primary school planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41089/26]

342. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the national school capacity/accommodation inventory referred to by the Comptroller and Auditor General; whether it is fully integrated into the Department GIS system; the way in which it is used to decide between expanding existing school capacity and providing new schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. …

343. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department provides formal observations or aggregated school-capacity evidence to local authorities when major rezoning proposals or development plan variations could substantially increase child population in a school planning area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41091/26]

344. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding streams available for schools to implement universal design for learning; the amount of funding that was provided in the past five years; if she can confirm what that funding was spent on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41092/26]

345. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to introduce changes to the assessment of needs process to access special education places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41093/26]

346. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to use section 37A of the Education Act 1998 to progress new special education classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41094/26]

347. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number schools which have applied to open new special classes for the 2026-2027 school year; the number of these applications that have been refused;the number of applications that do not yet have a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41095/26]

348. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she plans to roll out the D15 pilot programme to other areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41096/26]

349. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to examine the possibility of expanding the schoolbooks scheme to include instruments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41097/26]

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…

540. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide confirmation that the summer programme will be going ahead this year at a school (details supplied); the number of places the school can offer for the summer programme; if there is an outcome of the school's SNA review conducted earlier this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38851/26]

541. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if tenders have been returned for the new school building project (details supplied); if the project will commence construction in Q3 of 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38860/26]

89. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps her Department have taken to address concerns raised by parents regarding recent reports at (details supplied); if her Department will commit to engaging with the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board to address these concerns; if she will commit to meeting with the parents concerned; and if she will make a statement on t…

131. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she can confirm that the addendum has been added to the invitation to tender for the new school building project for (details supplied); to confirm a date for when tenders have to be returned by; to confirm that the project remains on schedule to commence construction in Q2 of 2026, as confirmed by the former Minister for Education and Youth, …

616. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the criteria and policy basis used by her Department when sanctioning autism classes in schools; whether the age of a school building is considered as part of this decision making process; if so, to specify the minimum age a school building must reach before it is deemed eligible for the sanctioning of autism classes; and if she will make a state…

617. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the rationale for a decision communicated to a school (details supplied), where it has been indicated by her Department to the NCSE that the school is ‘too new’ to be sanctioned additional autism classes, despite confirmation from the NCSE that there is an identified need for special education in the local area; and if she will make a statement o…

109. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will take steps to ensure that a school (details supplied) is provided with the funding needed for additional autism classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28753/26]