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Marie Sherlock Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
818. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the report on alterative education has been completed; if she will publish the report and the recommendations she plans to implement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59150/25]
Pa Daly Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
819. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the report on alterative education has been completed, if she will publish the report, and the recommendations she plans to implement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59151/25]
Louise O'Reilly Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
820. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will address safety concerns regarding the transportation of children from a particular location to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59177/25]
Michael Cahill Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
821. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to examine the case in correspondence (details supplied) to urgently intervene and bring an end to the hunger strike by representatives of the industrial schools and reformatory schools survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59190/25]
John Paul O'Shea Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
822. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the development of a construction project of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59201/25]
Jen Cummins Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
823. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she aware of the hunger strikers outside Leinster House who are seeking support from her Department regarding the abuse they suffered in educational institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59275/25]
Jen Cummins Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
824. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Department will engage with the survivors on hunger strike; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59276/25]
Jen Cummins Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
825. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will grant survivors a Health Amendment Act medical card and full State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59277/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
826. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on a school project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59291/25]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
827. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will address the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59340/25]
Emer Currie Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
828. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth if additional supports will be provided to special schools to assist with the day-to-day running costs, similar to supports provided in Budget 2024 and Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59342/25]
Emer Currie Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
829. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of changing the criteria of the capitation grant for special schools to consider all school staff or the square meter area of the school premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59343/25]
Emer Currie Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
830. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider providing all special schools with an additional AP1 post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59344/25]
Mattie McGrath Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
831. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the new regulations recognising teachers who trained abroad, will recognise the cohort of Irish teachers with teacher training abroad whose qualifications up to now were considered inadequate to qualify for Irish teaching entry; if Irish teachers overseas will be able to use their qualifications from overseas to join up to this new programme; th…
Mattie McGrath Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
832. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a school bus ticket will be awarded to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59392/25]
Mattie McGrath Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
833. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a school bus ticket will be awarded to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59393/25]
John Connolly Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
834. D'fhiafraigh Deputy John Connolly den Aire Oideachais agus Óige faoin iarrachtaí atá déanta ina Roinn chun cuir leis an méid Gaelscoileanna sá tír; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [59402/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
835. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there will be a re-instatement of Junior- and Leaving Certificate fees for the academic year 2026-2027; and her plans to ensure that these fees are covered by her Department, as they were last year. [59411/25]
Robert O'Donoghue Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
836. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the survivors of industrial schools who are on hunger strike outside Leinster House; if she is aware that they have passed their 30th day of hunger strike; if she has met with this group about their demands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59412/25]
Liam Quaide Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
837. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide any documents outlining the agreed selection process with Bus Éireann that is used to determine who is deemed concessionary when it comes to school bus selections. [59414/25]
John Lahart Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
838. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of new primary school projects commenced and completed between 2016 and 2020; between 2020 and 2024; the number which have been granted planning permission and are ready to commence in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59415/25]
Brendan Smith Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
839. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of State property under the remit of her Department (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59425/25]
Emer Currie Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
840. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth where parents can find guidance on the structure for children opted out of religion under the new primary school curriculum; if her Department plans to review of these guidelines within the lifetime of this Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59459/25]
Roderic O'Gorman Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
841. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth her Department's policy in relation to supplementing above SERC SNA allocation with hours from mainstream SNA's; her views on whether it is acceptable to undermine mainstream provision to fill gaps in above SERC allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59461/25]
Roderic O'Gorman Written 4 Nov 2025 · to Education
842. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth her Department's policy in relation to above SERC SNA allocations; and to provide copies of any circulars and policy documents relating to this. [59462/25]