Questions

60. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of a school's additional school accommodation application (details supplied); the reason for the delay in progressing the application; and the expected timeline for a decision, subject to approval and the provision of funding for the proposed extension. [74679/26]

315. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on an Emergency Works Grant application for a school (details supplied). [67687/26]

528. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the stage 2A review of a school accommodation project at a school (details supplied); if she will include the project for priority consideration in the next tranche of the school building programme; to provide a clear and realistic timeline to tender and construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64747/26]

553. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the stage 2A review of a school accommodation project (details supplied); whether she will include the project for priority consideration in the next tranche of the schools building programme; to provide a clear and realistic timeline to tender and construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [64981/26]

612. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth to confirm when special schools will receive formal approval to appoint the additional Senior Cycle Level 1 and Level 2 Learning Programmes Co-ordinator post of responsibility provided for under Circular 0038/2026; to outline the reason for the delay in providing this confirmation to special schools, particularly given that mainstream post-primary sc…

301. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the guidance and supports that are available for groups looking to start an after-school programme including regulations, funding, and the way to apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54272/26]

392. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51689/26]

399. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that a school (details supplied) has been forced to withdraw its summer programme due to her Department’s failure to sanction the necessary staffing levels, leaving children with special educational needs without vital supports over the summer; whether she intends on rectifying this so that the school’s summer programme can proceed; a…

368. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will intervene to prevent the loss of a teaching post at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47534/26]

436. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will support the appeal for DEIS plus status from a DEIS Band 1 school (details supplied) in Dublin South West; if she is satisfied that her Department's data-driven DEIS plus identification model fully captures the lived reality, complexity and concentration of disadvantage experienced within individual school communities; if she will reveal …

570. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will review the payment process for State examination fees; the reason the fees are not collected through schools as part of existing school payment systems; the reason parents are required to use a separate SEC portal with separate log-in details; the reason parents are required to manage a process that schools are structurally closer to; and…

432. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the grants available for scouting organisations from her Department; whether any of these can be used for international trips; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32976/26]

287. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 509 of 21 April 2026, if the school-level data to be released in May will include school-level data for all multi-denominational schools as well as denominational schools; whether the full percentage response from all parents, including parents of preschool children and parents of children in multi-denominational…

288. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 509 of 21 April 2026, the reason responses from the parents of preschool children and the parents of children in multi-denominational schools were excluded from the publication of preliminary results of the Parental Survey; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31535/26]

289. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 509 of 21 April 2026, and given parents were not asked to identify whether their children attended denominational or multi-denominational schools in the survey, if her Department manually removed the responses of parents with children in multi-denominational schools (details supplied); if so, the reason the infor…

572. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the grants available to parents for the purchase of laptops for students given the increasing adoption of modern technologies in teaching methods; whether funding is being made available to schools for the purchase of laptops; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30286/26]

509. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number and percentage of parents of pre-school children that expressed support for multi-denominational education in the recent primary school survey carried out by her Department; the number and percentage of parents of children currently attending multi-denominational schools expressed support for multi-denominational education; the reason the …

618. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on an Emergency Works Grant application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18336/26]

726. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 25 September 2025, whether the Department has completed its review of the requirement to establish a new school at a site (details supplied) following the granting of planning permission for a large residential development in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19042/26]

115. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide details of all occasions in which she or her predecessors exercised the power conferred on them under Section 15(3) of the Climate Action & Low Carbon Development Act (2015), which states that ‘the relevant Minister may, from time to time, give a direction to a relevant body requiring it to adopt such measures as are specified in the d…

346. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to improve access to special reading schools for children with significant dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13651/26]

374. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the statutory basis permits non-registered healthcare staff in schools to undertake clinical interventions ordinarily carried out by regulated professionals; whether responsibility for clinical risk in such cases rests with the Department, the HSE, or the individual board of management; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13932/26]

375. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether she is aware of reported needle-stick injuries sustained by school staff in a school (details supplied) arising from invasive diabetic care procedures and the schools repeated requests for nursing support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13933/26]

376. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount of funding provided to a school (details supplied) that is separate from and not tied to the standard capitation grant and is specifically ring-fenced for essential and mandatory emergency administration of medication; the details of any such funding available to special schools to cover required training in areas including the administrat…

586. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department provides grants to schools engaging in nature-based education for the purchase of necessary equipment such as waterproof clothing, gardening tools, storage equipment and materials for outdoor activities;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11608/26]