18. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the twenty-one students who attend a school (details supplied) and applied and paid for school transport through Bus Éireann can instead be accommodated on existing routes from Westport and Castlebar, following their own application being declined after all students were assessed as concessionary; and if she will make a statement on the matter…
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46. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on progress for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54124/26]
386. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if officials from her Department will contact school management at a school (details supplied) to endeavour to find a way to allow the school keep their ancillary grant used to employ a caretaker; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49311/26]
880. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of teachers on the supplementary panel list in County Mayo broken down by the number of months they are on this list, in tabular form. [42856/26]
90. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a school (details supplied) has been excluded from DEIS and DEIS plus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40726/26]
101. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will consider retrospective payments of transport support grants approved for children attending special education schools, where families ordinarily would have qualified but were not made aware of supports available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40727/26]
96. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current school transport funding provisions for special schools in County Mayo; if she will conduct a funding review to identify any gaps that require schools to fundraise themselves for essential services, such as school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29126/26]
475. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools (primary and post-primary) in Mayo that currently have autism classes; the number of schools (primary and post-primary) in Mayo that applied to her Department for funding in the past year to open an autism classroom; the number of these applications that were successful; the number of additional autism classes and places in…
476. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the planning in place in Mayo to ensure children in an autism class at primary school have a smooth transition into an appropriate autism class at post-primary level;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21561/26]
764. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with a school (details supplied); the measures she is putting in place to boost enrolment numbers and to prevent the closure of this recently developed school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19286/26]
861. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding avenues (grants, departmental supports, pilot schemes, discretionary or otherwise) that are available to a school (details supplied) for the provision of a small greenhouse and outdoor classroom on the school's grounds; if she will ask her Department to liaise with the school's management to investigate if funding such a project is p…
76. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will intervene in the unsustainable situation currently facing school management at a school (details supplied) with regard to resourcing and provide interim supports for the remainder of the current academic year while we await the publication of the new DEIS Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12994/26]
706. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will intervene to increase the cap imposed on incoming first year students at a school (details supplied) in order that they can be offered an enrolment place for the academic year 2026-2027 along with their current friends and classmates from national school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12871/26]
160. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on her Department’s engagement with a school (details supplied); if progress has been made in the allocation of additional supports and resources for the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11074/26]
168. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will report on the decision to transition post-primary schools in Westport from single-sex to co-educational schools; if any adjustments to the subject offering and extracurricular activities have been considered at the post-primary schools in the town for incoming students in the new academic year; and if she will make a statement on the…
386. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on her Department’s progress in establishing a school (details supplied) whose application was lodged in November 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69118/25]
455. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to clarify whether a school (details supplied) will be assessed under the forthcoming DEIS Plus process; the emergency interim measures, financial or otherwise, that will be made available by her Department to support the school in the meantime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63091/25]
29. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will recognise a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59737/25]
85. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will ask her Department to urgently liaise with Bus Éireann to approve the extension of a school bus route (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59738/25]
325. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that many schools are in need of a grant calendar to ensure they can budget for upcoming expenses and not have to rely on the financial support services unit or parents for guidance or financial assistance due to delays in grant payments or reductions in grant amounts; the timeframe for a full implementation of these scheduled gr…
326. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures she is taking to ensure schools have sufficient knowledge of when they will receive a grant, and how much the grant amounts to, in order to budget throughout the year as a school (details supplied) cannot budget for the year ahead or carry out the accounting requests from the FSSU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5…
1041. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if consideration will be given to amending a school bus route to accommodate a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41308/25]
120. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a list of schools in Mayo which are due to open autism classes in September 2025; the names of schools which were due to open autism classes but which are not now proceeding; to provide the reasons scheduled autism classes may not be opening in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39774/25]
136. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children that will be affected by the decision not to open autism classes in Mayo which had been scheduled to open in September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39775/25]
307. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has reviewed international models of one-stop-shop State run support services tailored to young people; if so, how these insights have informed policy development in Ireland; if not, if she intends to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40244/25]