Parliamentary questions

513. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of additional special classes that will be sanctioned from the SEN allocation of Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55326/25]

514. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the proportion of the €69 million of the additional funding for school transport announced for 2026 that will be used for ELS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55327/25]

515. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the proportion of the €69 million of the additional funding for school transport announced for 2026 that will be used for children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55328/25]

516. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a case (details supplied) of a local school can be reviewed; if she will review the issues highlighted with regard to eligibility for DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55334/25]

517. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where these Section 1.5 disclosures are set out…

518. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the breakdown of the 2025 carryover in the Budget 2026 measures. [55385/25]

519. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the financial breakdown of the key policy adjustments and expansion of services in Budget 2026. [55386/25]

520. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of suspensions and expulsions in special schools in the Cork area in each of the years 2023, 2024 and in 2025 to date. [55419/25]

521. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of suspensions and expulsions in special schools in the Waterford area in each of the years 2023, 2024 and in 2025 to date. [55420/25]

522. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will support the local version of the National Youth Council of Ireland's All Ages for Youth Work campaign by providing increased funding to County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55421/25]

523. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the work of the commission into historical sexual abuse in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55427/25]

524. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of staff in full time positions that left their employment in a school in Cork (details supplied) between September 2021 and August 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55430/25]

525. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department's Circular 0046/2025 still applies and remains relevant to the storage system to be used by schools for mobile phones; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55434/25]

526. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth if schools that do not wish to avail of pouches for phone storage purposes can secure any other security devices/methods now available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55435/25]

527. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that a device (details supplied) in presently in over 50 schools in Ireland, the UK and the EU; her views on whether these systems constitute a more cost-effective method of securing students phones; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55436/25]

528. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider and respond to concerns regarding an aspect of design for a new school building (details supplied). [55440/25]

529. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 515 of 30 September 2025, if she will consider a request for a Remote Area Grant based on (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55444/25]

530. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students in Irish medium schools in the Gaeltacht regions in Donegal who did the Junior Cycle Irish exam (T1 exam); to provide a breakdown of the number of students which received a result of distinction, higher merit, merit, achieved and partially achieved; and the number of students in these schools who took the…

531. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students in Irish medium schools in Donegal outside of the Gaeltacht areas which did the Junior Cycle Irish exam (T1 exam); to provide a breakdown of the number of students which received a result of distinction, higher merit, merit, achieved and partially achieved; and the number of students in these schools who …

532. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students in non-Irish medium or Gaeltacht schools in Donegal who did the Junior Cycle Irish exam (T2 exam); to provide a breakdown of the number of students who received a result of distinction, higher merit, merit, achieved and partially achieved; and the number of students in these schools who took the Irish exa…

533. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there is a higher marking criteria for students who take the Junior Cycle Irish T1 exam than the T2 exam. [55455/25]

534. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware there appears to be a higher standard of marking for Junior Cycle students taking the Irish T1 exam than those taking the Irish T2 exam; and her views on whether this will influence parent’s decisions to send their children to an Irish medium school or if they will be more likely to attend an English speaking sc…

535. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that only 7% of students in Irish medium schools and schools in the Gaeltacht received a distinction in the Junior Cycle Irish exam; and the measures she is taking to improve these numbers. [55457/25]

536. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a list of all grants currently available to schools for capital works, equipment, or storage facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55474/25]

182. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 24 September 2025, the estimated savings to the Exchequer given that these teaching posts were budgeted for with specific reference to schools in the DEIS scheme. [54252/25]