Parliamentary questions

1502. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the rationale for choosing schools for inclusion under DEIS Plus and HSCL. [26588/26]

1503. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason the Bus Éireann school transport fee was increased by 100% (details supplied) in a cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26590/26]

1504. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Education and Youth the options or assistance available to a school (details supplied) to ensure that all pupils interested in participating in transition year can be accommodated. [26629/26]

1505. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of WTE senior quantity surveyor grade 1 that is employed within the Department as of 7 April 2026, in tabular form. [26652/26]

1506. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider an extension to the route 3 Teaching Council registration from the current three year time limit to get a PME; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26667/26]

1507. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider the creation of supports to ensure that those people who are registered with Teaching Council through a route 3 to be able to access a PME; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26668/26]

1508. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the average age of school buses that have been part of the Bus Éireann fleet in each of the past three years, in tabular form. [26678/26]

1509. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a DEIS school (details supplied) was not included in a recently published programme of expanded home school community liaison allocations, retaining a very low allocation of HSCL roles despite the school's student population rising significantly since that allocation was originally calculated. [26682/26]

1510. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to not proceed with the school bus fees increase for 2026-2027 with the current financial pressure on families with the fuel crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26698/26]

1511. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a schedule of all studies and reports commissioned by her Department in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, that were composed and delivered by third parties (details supplied); the title and final cost of same; and whether the report is published and or laid in the Houses of the Oireacht…

1512. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a schedule of all studies and reports commissioned by her in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, that were composed and delivered by her officials; the title and final cost of same, if applicable; to provide a breakdown of where costs were incurred; and whether the report is published and…

1513. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the web link to her Department’s Q1 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; to confirm the date on which this report was published; and, if it has not yet been published, to state the planned publication date. [26906/26]

1514. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a person (details supplied) will be facilitated to sit their State examinations; if she has discussed the matter with the Minister for Justice, Migration and Home Affairs, as it pertains to the individual concerned and more generally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26935/26]

1515. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason the Department has not published the disaggregated results for parents from the survey on school patronage and ethos of pre-school children, given that the survey explicitly included parents of children aged 0-12, including those not yet in the school system; and whether this omission risks undermining the survey's stat…

1516. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide details on the application process for the new special school in Balbriggan; and when applications will open. [26966/26]

1517. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of maths teaching posts that are vacant in post-primary schools across the State; if there is a disproportionate number of vacancies in this subject; if she is considering reviewing Teaching Council registration rules to facilitate the supply of maths teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. …

1518. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether a review of a school's SET hours is being considered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26970/26]

1519. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps her Department is taking to broaden the Teaching Council of Ireland's registration requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26997/26]

1520. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children who will not have an appropriate school place for September 2026 due to the shortage of places in special schools and ASD classes. [27034/26]

1521. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she plans to fight legal cases against the parents of children who had to go to court to obtain a school placement for September 2025. [27035/26]

1522. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on whether it is acceptable that 14 year old child (details supplied) has been without any educational provision since December 2025; her further views on whether denying this child private tuition due to the fact that they did not meet the attendance threshold requirement when it clearly was not the child's fault is…

1523. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason for the delay in progressing to phases two, three and four of a planned project (details supplied); when such works are likely to commence in whatever revised format; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27102/26]

1524. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth when she will publish the full results of the parental survey. [27104/26]

1525. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the process that will be put in place to support schools to divest. [27105/26]

1526. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the way in which schools will be identified for divestment. [27106/26]