Parliamentary questions

1239. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will ensure that a permanent appointment will be made at an early date in respect of a position (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1845/26]

1240. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of the application by a school (details supplied) under the additional accommodation scheme; when a decision will issue; if it can proceed to the next stage, as the works are urgently needed by the school and its pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1849/26]

1241. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of the multiple applications by a school (details supplied) under the emergency works scheme; when decisions will be issued in each case as the works are urgently needed by the school and its pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1850/26]

1242. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a school (details supplied) will be permitted to progress from stage 2b of the additional accommodation scheme for a new building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1851/26]

1243. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding an extension for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1865/26]

1244. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount of the special education budget used for reading recovery, expressed as a value and as a proportion of the special education budget, in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [1877/26]

1245. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by her Department in 2025, broken down by description and amount paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1978/26]

1246. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer by a court or tribunal, the legal costs of any current or concluded litigation taken by an employee or former employee against that Department or body, in each of the past five years; if s…

1247. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the basis on which her Department, or a body under its aegis, may fund the legal costs of an employee or former employee in litigation where that employee is in dispute with, or taking proceedings against, the same body; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2036/26]

1248. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the funding of employee legal costs in disputes against her Department, or a body under its aegis, is standard practice; if not, the circumstances in which such funding may be permitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2054/26]

1249. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline the guidance, codes, circulars or directions that govern the payment of legal costs by her Department, and bodies under its aegis, in employment-related disputes, including any requirements under the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies or Departmental sanction arrangements; and if she will make a statem…

1250. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the funding of employee legal costs in litigation against the employing body could give rise to governance, accountability, or value for money concerns; whether her Department has issued any guidance in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2090/26]

1251. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has reviewed, or intends to review, the practice of Departments, and bodies under their aegis, funding legal costs in employment disputes involving those same bodies; and if so, the outcome or timeline for such a review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2108/26]

1252. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether arrangements to fund legal costs in employment disputes involving her Department, or bodies under its aegis, require the prior approval of her Department or the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2126/26]

1253. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department is aware of pressures for first year school placements in the areas surrounding Newcastle, County Dublin; her plans to ensure placements are increased given some children have been placed on several school waiting lists due to oversubscription and due to criteria relating to location, or current school, restrict…

1254. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason proposals for a new secondary school for Newcastle, County Dublin have been refused up to this point; if her Department will reconsider this decision given secondary school students must travel to neighbouring towns to avail of education at this school level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2166/26]

1255. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a breakdown of the capital allocated to the EU presidency in the Revised Estimates 2026 for her Department. [2167/26]

1256. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the figures of attrition rates in Ireland for both male and female primary school teachers for each of the years 2010 to 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2168/26]

1257. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she believes that acknowledging teaching service for teachers who teach in a jurisdiction outside of the EU and recognising this previous service on the teacher salary scale would help to alleviate the teacher recruitment and retention crisis in this state; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2169/26]

1258. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether qualified secondary school teachers can do substitute work in primary schools; if individual primary schools have the right to refuse such qualified teachers substitute work solely on the grounds that they are qualified in secondary rather than primary education. [2198/26]

1259. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of education welfare officers employed in Dublin south central; if that constitutes a full complement of staff; the number of vacancies, if any; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2208/26]

1260. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of the new shared service employment framework for the school completion programme; and the expected timeline of completion. [2209/26]

1261. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on a transport-related issue (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2234/26]

1262. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and, if so, to outline which projects or units of the Department are affected. [2244/26]

1263. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether any agencies or other bodies under her remit are using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and if so, to outline which projects or units of the organisation are affected. [2262/26]