Parliamentary questions

411. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige cén fáth nach bhfuil an méadú ar an gcóimheas idir daltaí agus múinteoirí a cuireadh i bhfeidhm i nGaelscoileanna in 2012 ar chúiseanna déine aisiompaithe ó shin, go háirithe anois agus an liúntas do mhúinteoirí bunscoile i nGaelscoileanna a baineadh ag an am sin curtha ar fáil arís; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. …

412. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of primary schools which currently have enrolments in excess of 750 pupils or more; if the address of each will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49757/26]

413. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will assign a full-time junior infants teacher to a school (details supplied), considering the Department has requested that the school enrol an extra junior infant class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49759/26]

414. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education and Youth if it is standard practice for her Department to allocate a teacher to a particular class, if that was a class requested by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49760/26]

415. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to ensure the inclusion of persons who are nonverbal in redress schemes run by her Department and intended to compensate and give justice to survivors of institutional abuse. [49777/26]

416. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the provision of a special class for a school in County Kildare (details supplied). [49798/26]

417. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the construction of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49799/26]

418. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the construction of a new special school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49800/26]

419. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been brought to a policy in place in some schools regarding the rental of spaces outside of school hours (details supplied); if consideration has been given to the impact of the policy on local sports clubs and other organisations who rent the spaces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49826/26]

420. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures her Department has put in place to evaluate the effectiveness of the Bí Cineálta anti-bullying policy framework; whether data is being collected for this purpose; and if so, if she will outline the data being collected, and any plans to publish the results. [49827/26]

421. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Youth when the next formal review of the Bí Cineálte policy framework is scheduled; and whether submissions from students, parents, schools and representative organisations will be accepted as part of that review. [49828/26]

422. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education and Youth the overall sum paid for prefab accommodation in a school (details supplied) in the past five years. [49832/26]

423. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the additional accommodation project for a school (details supplied). [49833/26]

424. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department or NEPS has sought any change to the current accreditation or training standards for educational psychologists, including any change from a requirement for experience across mental health, disability and education settings; the rationale for any such change; whether an organisations relevant professional divi…

425. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether NEPS is currently supporting, funding or facilitating educational psychology doctorate placements that are primarily or exclusively school-based; whether such placements meet existing PSI accreditation standards; whether any concerns have been raised by PSI, CORU, universities, the HSE or other child health services; and if…

426. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of educational psychology trainees currently funded or sponsored by NEPS, the HSE or other agencies; the contractual obligations attached to such funding; the number of trainees who have sought to withdraw from NEPS-funded arrangements or repay funding in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on t…

427. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of NEPS psychologists that are currently employed; the number of whole-time equivalent vacancies; and the turnover rate in each of the past five years. [49872/26]

428. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the assessment that has been carried out on whether educational psychology training delivered largely through NEPS placements would equip graduates to work with children under five, non-verbal children, children with acquired brain injury, children with significant mental health needs, children requiring autism diagnostic assessmen…

429. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether NEPS has engaged with the Higher Education Authority in relation to increasing the number of educational psychology doctorate trainees; whether NEPS has proposed to act as the principal placement provider for such trainees; whether the HSE, CHI, CDNTs, CAMHS and primary care psychology services were consulted; and if she wi…

430. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has examined the implications of training a significantly increased number of psychologists through school-based placements when major psychology shortages exist in CDNTs, CAMHS, primary care psychology, CHI and assessment of need services; whether there is a risk that public funding will produce graduates wh…

431. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether graduates of educational psychology programmes with placements largely or exclusively in NEPS settings would be eligible and considered competent to work outside NEPS, including in HSE child psychology posts, CDNTs, primary care psychology, CAMHS, CAMHS-ID, CHI and assessment of need services; the discussions that have take…

432. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the role additional NEPS-supported educational psychology trainees are expected to play in reducing assessment of need waiting lists, supporting implementation of the Autism Assessment Protocol and meeting the needs of children under five or children with complex disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49878/…

433. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth when the terms governing the campus arrangements for the new school buildings in Saggart will be finalised (details supplied). [49908/26]

273. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth for a detailed response to the issues raised in relation to the agreed supports package for the survivors of Ireland’s industrial and reformatory schools (details supplied). [48589/26]

274. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will engage with the mother of a five-year-old child (details supplied), who has no school place for this September, despite his mother applying to 23 schools so far. [48360/26]