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TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work

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Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
321. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional nurture room to every DEIS school with a special educational class. [40347/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
322. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional nurture room in one school. [40348/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
323. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of nurture rooms there are in schools across the State. [40349/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
324. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS primary schools that do not currently have one. [40350/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
325. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS secondary schools that do not currently have one. [40351/25]
Paul Nicholas Gogarty Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
330. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of detailed correspondence received from a school (details supplied) regarding the need for DEIS status to be formally reviewed under the current DEIS identification model, using anonymised, PPSN-linked data already available to her Department, or an equivalent emergency assessment-based provision amounting to same that will …
Albert Dolan Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
331. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the proposal to introduce an additional secondary school bus service for students attending a school (details supplied); if the current capacity has been reviewed; and the timeline for when a decision on additional transport provision will be made, in light of ongoing demand in the area. [40383/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 16 Jul 2025 · to Education
87. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of teachers working in the State across both primary and secondary schools. [39773/25]
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Education
471. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth the names, locations, enrolments, teaching staff numbers and ancillary staff numbers for all primary schools having between 750 and 1000 pupils on the roll book, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39151/25]
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Education
472. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a list of the names, locations, enrolments, teaching staff numbers, and ancillary staff numbers for all primary schools having more than 1,000 pupils on the roll book, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39160/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Education
495. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of opening an additional 20 naíonraí across the State. [39394/25]
Barry Heneghan Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Education
347. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students taught Braille by the Visiting Teacher Service in each of the past ten years, broken down by primary and post-primary level and by year of education, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35387/25]
Eoghan Kenny Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Education
394. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the current situation at school (details supplied); if so, the details she is aware of; the total amount spent by her Department to date for the school to operate over the past nine years; the definite timeframe on the release of a tender for the school building project, considering planning was received in April 2024 and the urgen…
Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
381. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost to expand the in-school therapy programme by a factor of 100%, doubling, in effect, the number of permanent expert therapists operating under ETSS. [33597/25]
Naoise Ó Muirí Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
421. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an outline of the revised divestment process; when it will commence; the targets for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33957/25]
Emer Currie Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
424. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a timeline as to when she expects her Department to conduct a survey of primary school parents and guardians on their preferences on important aspects of school provision and choice; when she expects the results of this survey to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34082/25]
Brendan Smith Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
437. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 12 June 2025, if she will outline how the ancillary grant is calculated for each school, the total funding provided for this scheme in 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34222/25]
Holly Cairns Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
438. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 11 June 2025, to provide the requested email and phone lines available for Oireachtas members to raise queries in her Department and the bodies under its aegis, in tabular form. [34225/25]
Joe Cooney Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
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]
Réada Cronin Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
456. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education and Youth the breakdown of resources provided to schools in north Kildare to accommodate children with mild general learning disabilities in mainstream schools; the number of children in those classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34443/25]
Noel McCarthy Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
459. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth when schools that underwent a REPowerEU Energy Inventory Profile Survey as part of the second phase of the REPowerEU Pathfinder Programme will be notified as to whether they will be included in the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34501/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
460. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 17 June 2025, to examine the response from the school (details supplied) to her reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34524/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 18 Jun 2025 · to Education
83. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has carried out any research or analysis in the past twelve months on the increasing costs impacting primary and post-primary schools. [33082/25]
Jen Cummins Written 17 Jun 2025 · to Education
446. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12, in tabular form. [32564/25]
Maeve O'Connell Written 12 Jun 2025 · to Education
318. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools taking part in the pilot of in-school therapy. [31668/25]