Parliamentary questions

505. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children have been referred for a NEPS assessment who are currently enrolled in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48241/25]

506. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding the delivery of autism classes in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48246/25]

507. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the plans in place to accommodate children with special educational needs within the community (details supplied) in view of the fact this area is a school district and has no post primary autism classes in the district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48247/25]

508. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children enrolled currently in autism classes in primary schools in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48248/25]

509. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children enrolled in autism classes in primary schools in an area (details supplied) who are due to transition to post primary schools in September 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48249/25]

510. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children that have been referred for a NEPS assessment who are currently enrolled in primary schools in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48250/25]

511. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children that have been referred for a NEPS assessment who are currently enrolled in primary schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48251/25]

512. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children that have been referred for a NEPS assessment who are currently enrolled in primary schools in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48252/25]

513. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the timeline for the delivery of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48270/25]

514. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will implement criteria that acknowledges the service of those teaching abroad if they return to Ireland and teach here; and if, the service spent abroad will be recognised on the point scale for teachers salary, rather than being put on point 1 of the scale, disregarding their experience in a different jurisdiction. [48…

515. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that teachers who return to Ireland from teaching abroad find that there is no scheme for repaying public sector pension contributions (details supplied); and the steps she will take to review the situation ensuring that teachers returning from abroad have the ability to contribute to their Irish pension. [48286…

516. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding incremental credit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48290/25]

517. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Youth to recognise school assistance dogs within the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People’s implementation framework; and to support the expansion of this evidence-based pilot to more schools nationwide. [48311/25]

518. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider the development of a pilot school bus scheme linking Ferns, County Wexford with Bunclody County Wexford, in view of the fact this is a traditional school route and the majority of children from this area attend school in Bunclody; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48331/25]

519. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to amend teacher allocation rules in order that the numbers allocated are not simply determined on enrolment returns from October of the previous year, particularly in areas of rapid population growth. [48332/25]

520. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the final number of tickets issued under the school transport scheme, by category, and by county, for each of the school years from 2015-2016 to 2024-2025. [48333/25]

521. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number and name of schools in the Dublin 1, Dublin 3, Dublin 7 and Dublin 9 catchment area that have applied for upgrades to their school buildings, including the amount spent since 2019, in tabular form. [48334/25]

522. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of the masterplan to be developed for the new educational campus to include a school (details supplied). [48335/25]

523. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth when the tender process for the appointment of the multidisciplinary design team consultants was completed, relating to the new educational campus to include a school (details supplied). [48336/25]

524. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of school age children, of whom her Department is aware, who are seeking a school place and have yet to receive one, as of September 2025. [48343/25]

525. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of school age children who are receiving home based tuition, and the associated reason, as of September 2025. [48344/25]

526. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students who sat each subject in the Leaving Certificate, at each of higher and ordinary level, from 2016 to 2025, in tabular form. [48371/25]

527. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students who sat each subject in the Junior Certificate, at higher and ordinary level, by year from 2016 to 2025, in tabular form. [48372/25]

528. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Youth to recognise school assistance dogs within the National Human Rights Strategy For Disabled People’s implementation framework; and to support the expansion of this evidence-based pilot to more schools nationwide. [48421/25]

529. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 974 of 8 September 2025, if delivery of the permanent school building is due later in the calendar year or the academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48443/25]