910. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will publish the list of schools in County Clare awaiting major works approval from her Department, in tabular form. [59929/25]
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226. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the progress of a development at a secondary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56102/25]
306. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the budget allocation for the local youth club grant scheme in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [50017/25]
742. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth to accept the valid claim for parity that school secretaries and caretakers have for public sector pay, pension and leave entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46970/25]
1005. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the consideration her Department is giving to the establishment of a fully independent second level Gaelcholáiste in county Clare. [47023/25]
113. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth if, following the recent newspaper editorial (details supplied) that claimed "almost all primary schools, for example, had to employ unqualified individuals without teaching qualifications as substitutes in the past year", her Department will recognise early childhood care and education graduates as being a viable workforce for the junior classes of pr…
473. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated full-year costs if the ancillary services grant increased to €190 per pupil in primary schools and increased to €245 per pupil in post primary schools. [39191/25]
455. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number and names of single teacher schools in County Clare in each of the years 2019 to 2025, in tabular form; the current teacher/pupil ratio in 2025 in these schools in County Clare; her plans to close any of them; if so, the location of the schools and number of pupils in them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34427/25]
345. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 20 May 2025, if she will outline when the outcomes of the now completed review into the upper age limit of drivers, as it relates to larger vehicles-school buses, will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28486/25]
486. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to give public sector status for all secretaries and caretakers working in schools, to be given access to the same rights, the same certainty of a pension on retirement and salaries as the teachers and SNAs that they work alongside; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25844/25]
487. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline, given the recognised shortage of school bus drivers, if she has any plans to extend the retirement age for school bus drivers past the age of 70; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25845/25]
200. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth if, following her recent statements in relation newly qualified teachers being fast tracked to permanency after a one year period, she will clarify whether the same rights will be afforded to teachers who have been in temporary or substitute contracts for a number years and are still awaiting permanency; if teachers who were previously permanent but re…
801. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education her plans to increase the provision of classes for dyslexia in Clare, Limerick and north Tipperary; to outline waiting lists for classes for dyslexia in Clare, Limerick and north Tipperary, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18903/25]
270. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education the number of pupils enrolled in junior infants in existing primary schools in County Clare in tabular form for the school years 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10296/25]
271. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education if she will consider the introduction of a basic cookery skills program at national school level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10297/25]
369. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 250 additional special needs assistant posts. [9181/25]